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October 14, 2026 (Hour 1) · Zone 1150 - Chip Howard's SportsTalk

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  Speaker 1: Family owned and operated since 1972. Sevchak Service Center, 2200 Longmire,
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  Speaker 1: just down from the post office in College Station.
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  Speaker 2: to the Physician Center.
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  Speaker 3: Whiskey River, take my mind.
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  Speaker 1: Don't let a memory torture me.
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  Speaker 3: Whiskey River, don't run dry Ah-ah It.
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  Speaker 4: Is Old Willie Wednesday.
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  Speaker 1: We thank you for being with us. Coming up, we're
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  Speaker 1: going to hear from Bucky. Scott Clendenin is in. We'll
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  Speaker 1: have some topics. Mallory is here with some entertainment news
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  Speaker 1: and a couple of guests to talk about upcoming. We'll
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  Speaker 1: be doing that. SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey at Basketball Media
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  Speaker 1: Days in Birmingham keeps getting asked about LSU. Sankey says
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  Speaker 1: somebody who enrolls in college and then chooses to depart
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  Speaker 1: is where we draw the line. We'll continue to draw
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  Speaker 1: that line. The notion we had players coming back from
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  Speaker 1: a professional level has been dealt with. We're trying to
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  Speaker 1: find as much clarity as we can given the circumstance. Asked.
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  Speaker 1: What he'd like to see from LSU to feel better
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  Speaker 1: about their standing within the conference, he said, I'd like
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  Speaker 1: to not be in court. But as I said, those
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  Speaker 1: legal filings are speaking for themselves. In their latest filing
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  Speaker 1: against LSU, the SEC reemphasizes that the case should not
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  Speaker 1: be dismissed as LSU's threat to interference with the league's
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  Speaker 1: First Amendment rights. If we're going to expect an experience
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  Speaker 1: like Final Fours, College World Series, college football playoffs, we
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  Speaker 1: have to have national standards, said Sankey. We'll continue to
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  Speaker 1: work at the congressional level. There will be more conversation
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  Speaker 1: about how we as a conference function. We've had rules
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  Speaker 1: in the past that restrict what we do as a conference.
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  Speaker 1: We'll wait and see what happens on the congressional level.
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  Speaker 1: In the briefings, it's not good for LSU. They asked
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  Speaker 1: the court to find that no live dispute exists while
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  Speaker 1: keeping the door wide open for LSU to continue defying
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  Speaker 1: the professionalism rules and violating principles of institutional control without
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  Speaker 1: risking termination. None of the defendant's arguments support that outcome.
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  Speaker 1: They are reemphasizing that, hey, We're serious about this. It
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  Speaker 1: sounds a little bit like when SMU got the death penalty.
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  Speaker 1: They kept telling them to stop. They wouldn't stop. We'll
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  Speaker 1: see what happens. Michigan, and I didn't even know this
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  Speaker 1: were possible. It's like picking up players from the waiver
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  Speaker 1: wire in the NFL. Michigan's getting reinforcements. The Wolverines are
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  Speaker 1: adding former Miami tight end Alex Baumann and former Boise
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  Speaker 1: State cornerback Jeremiah Irby via the transfer portal. This according
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  Speaker 1: to CBS Sports. Both players recently granted TROs, giving them
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  Speaker 1: an extra year of eligibility, and they've enrolled at Michigan.
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  Speaker 1: They both played key roles for their teams a year ago.
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  Speaker 1: Bauman worked out at Miami's Pro Day but didn't secure
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  Speaker 1: an NFL roster spot. Irby played two years at Cal,
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  Speaker 1: transferred to Boise State, was a cog in the Broncos'
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  Speaker 1: defense last fall. More college football tonight. Kennesaw State, Missouri State,
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  Speaker 1: Western Kentucky, Sam Houston. The Bearcats are on ESPN tonight.
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  Speaker 1: Last night, in case you missed it, Middle Tennessee beat
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  Speaker 1: Delaware 33-30 and Jacksonville State over Florida International 27-24. The
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  Speaker 1: Astros are not renewing Joe Espada's contract. He was the
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  Speaker 1: Astros' bench coach from 2018 to 2023 and has been
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  Speaker 1: their manager for the last three seasons with a one-loss
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  Speaker 1: record of. 256 and. 229. including two postseason wildcard experiences.
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  Speaker 1: They announced that pitching coach Josh Miller, first base coach
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  Speaker 1: Dave Clark, field coordinator Jason Bell, hitting coach Victor Rodriguez,
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  Speaker 1: longtime bullpen catcher Javier Bracamonte, and bench coach Omar Lopez
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  Speaker 1: will all be offered opportunities within the So we'll see
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  Speaker 1: what happens with that. Don Mattingly, who took the Phillies
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  Speaker 1: to the postseason after taking over 28 games into the season,
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  Speaker 1: will return to manage the Phillies after signing a two-year
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  Speaker 1: deal today. Mattingly took the reins from Rob Thompson, who
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  Speaker 1: was fired in April. The Phillies forced a Game 3
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  Speaker 1: in the NL Wild Card Series against the Braves before
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  Speaker 1: losing 6-2. They've moved up the start of tomorrow's ALCS
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  Speaker 1: game by five hours because of weather. Major League Baseball
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  Speaker 1: announced the game would start originally at 5 o'clock, now noon.
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  Speaker 1: The Rays' Guardians were off after opening the series at Tropicana. Again,
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  Speaker 1: rain is forecast in Northeast Ohio for tomorrow night, so
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  Speaker 1: they've moved the game to a noon start tomorrow. Tonight, Brewers-Dodgers.
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  Speaker 1: The Brewers have won the first two games of the series.
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  Speaker 1: Blake Snell on the mound for tonight for the Dodgers.
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  Speaker 1: Otani is in the lineup. Finalists for the Gold Glove.
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  Speaker 1: In the American League, Jacob deGrom, Rangers, one of three finalists.
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  Speaker 1: Christian Walker, Astros, first base, one of three finalists. Wyatt Lankford, Rangers,
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  Speaker 1: left field. Evan Carter, Rangers, center field. Utility, Ezekiel Durant, Rangers.
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  Speaker 1: For a team with so many Gold Glove finalists, they
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  Speaker 1: were terrible on defense this year. Cam Smith of the
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  Speaker 1: Astros in right field, also a finalist. The only one
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  Speaker 1: that deserves it is Ezekiel Durant. He played second base,
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  Speaker 1: third base, shortstop in all three outfield positions and racked
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  Speaker 1: up a 4.4 war, tying for sixth in MLB with
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  Speaker 1: plus 17, plus 11 at shortstop. Ezekiel Duran was the
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  Speaker 1: MVP of the Rangers this year and deserves a gold glove.
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  Speaker 1: Texas head basketball coach Sean Miller, media days on Jordan
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  Speaker 1: Pope ending up at Texas A & M. Said Miller,
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  Speaker 1: I'm quoting here, Jordan Pope was at the forefront of
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  Speaker 1: our team being resilient and at our best in March.
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  Speaker 1: His performance was Leadership and belief grew as the year
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  Speaker 1: went on. He played with a broken foot in the
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  Speaker 1: Sweet 16. He had no reason to do it, and
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  Speaker 1: he played. When somebody does that for you, that's unforgettable.
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  Speaker 1: I have more respect and love for him than just
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  Speaker 1: about any player I've coached. I respect his move. If
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  Speaker 1: I would have known he could come back, maybe he
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  Speaker 1: would still be here. I would have loved to welcome
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  Speaker 1: him back, but we didn't have that option. It will
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  Speaker 1: be awkward to play against him, but I wish him
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  Speaker 1: nothing but the best. I want nothing but the best
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  Speaker 1: for him. And part two, Stars Avalanche tonight in Denver
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  Speaker 1: on TNT. Last night was classic. I'm telling you, it
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  Speaker 1: was a playoff game tonight. six games into the season.
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  Speaker 1: And Nate McKinnon got his nose broken by Ropey Hintz
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  Speaker 1: in one of two fights in the game. It was
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  Speaker 1: McKinnon who put Hintz out of the playoffs last year
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  Speaker 1: or late in the season. They don't like each other.
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  Speaker 1: They played last year. night. It was chippy. They play
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  Speaker 1: again tonight. You need to watch. It was a great
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  Speaker 1: regular season game last night. There aren't many of those,
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  Speaker 1: but I'll be watching tonight. Stars, Avalanche, 730 on TNT
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  Speaker 1: and True TV. Game two of their back-to-back. What a
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  Speaker 1: game last night. Ropey Hintz broke Nate McKinnon's face shield
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  Speaker 1: and smashed his nose. Left him bloody. We may have
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  Speaker 1: lost the game, but we won the fight. And after all,
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  Speaker 1: isn't that the most important thing? So we'll see what
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  Speaker 1: happens tonight. It was fun. So a couple of things.
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  Speaker 1: Tomorrow on the Clark Eisenhower Outdoor Edition, Captain Dano Wise
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  Speaker 1: joins us. He is an artist, a photographer, an outdoor writer,
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  Speaker 1: a guide. I have followed his career for a long time,
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  Speaker 1: but we'll have him on the show tomorrow as part
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  Speaker 1: of the Clark Eisenhower Outdoor Edition. We'll have a high
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  Speaker 1: school report. with Caleb tomorrow. We'll hear from Bucky and
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  Speaker 1: his time at Media Days today. Today we're going to
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  Speaker 1: hear from Bucky as he met with the local media
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  Speaker 1: yesterday before they went to Birmingham today. Friday, Caleb is in.
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  Speaker 1: Ryan is out. But Kurt Bowles will be with me.
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  Speaker 1: Tony Catalina will be with me on Friday's program. Next week, Tuesday,
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  Speaker 1: Scott Clendenin will join us here in about 15 minutes
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  Speaker 1: or so. Mallory is here with some entertainment news in
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  Speaker 1: the second hour of the program. Right now, we want
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  Speaker 1: to hear from Bucky. He met with local media yesterday.
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  Speaker 10: Mikey, what do you feel like were the big takeaways
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  Speaker 10: from the scrimmage?
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  Speaker 11: It was good. I mean, it's always good to play
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  Speaker 11: somebody different. I think the team we played gave us
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  Speaker 11: a great look. You know, we treat these scrimmages just
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  Speaker 11: to get a look for kind of finding rotations, and
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  Speaker 11: so we played guys in different spots, and, you know,
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  Speaker 11: that's what the point of these things are. But overall,
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  Speaker 11: we're probably headed where we were this time last year,
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  Speaker 11: which is good to see. Players I thought would play
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  Speaker 11: well played well, and, you know, Had a couple guys
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  Speaker 11: I thought, you know, really kind of took it to
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  Speaker 11: another level, which was good to see. Who were maybe
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  Speaker 11: some of those.
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  Speaker 12: Guys you felt like took it to another level that.
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  Speaker 4: You were really impressed with?
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  Speaker 11: Yeah, you know, and Cade Phillips, he'd come back from injury,
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  Speaker 11: and so he's gradually getting there. And, you know, the
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  Speaker 11: first time the lights come on, you could just see
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  Speaker 11: his competitive will, you know, really shine through. And I
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  Speaker 11: thought that was really good to see. You know, obviously P.J.
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  Speaker 11: is going to get to the line at will. Pope
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  Speaker 11: was able to really play well. But our role players,
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  Speaker 11: you know, and I say role players, guys just like
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  Speaker 11: Lucas Walls and Nico, you know, guys that their first
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  Speaker 11: year kind of in this level of basketball, they did
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  Speaker 11: what they do well, and I thought that's most important.
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  Speaker 10: We talked to PJ, and he kind of described your
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  Speaker 10: style and saying that it's got him tired, and he
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  Speaker 10: said it laughing. So have you seen the new guys
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  Speaker 10: kind of acclimate to what you're looking for at this point?
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  Speaker 11: Yeah, we're in better shape. Last year we weren't in
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  Speaker 11: great shape early. We've had more practices and been able
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  Speaker 11: to play more five-on-five because we're further along. But, you know,
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  Speaker 11: like I thought that we weren't in great shape until
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  Speaker 11: about eight games in last year, and so one of
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  Speaker 11: our goals this year above all else, by the time
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  Speaker 11: we get to game one, we're going to get in shape.
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  Speaker 11: Even if practice is going to be sloppier because we're
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  Speaker 11: going longer with no breaks, we're in better shape right now.
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  Speaker 1: When you're kind of installing your system, especially with a
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  Speaker 1: bunch of new guys.
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  Speaker 4: Is the defense the thing that takes.
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  Speaker 1: The longest or the offense?
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  Speaker 10: What's kind of the more labor-intensive side of the ball?
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  Speaker 11: Good question. I think that it's just making quick decisions.
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  Speaker 11: That's both sides of the ball because there is no
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  Speaker 11: because we're going to pick up on a made shot
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  Speaker 11: or a missed shot on defense or we're going to
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  Speaker 11: push it on a made shot or a missed shot
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  Speaker 11: on offense. So there is no getting stuck in the
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  Speaker 11: last play. So we always say when we're recruiting, I
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  Speaker 11: really want to have guys that can process quickly. I mean,
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  Speaker 11: I run a 40 in seven seconds, and you look
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  Speaker 11: like you're running in four seconds. Yes. Okay. But if
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  Speaker 11: you have a delay when that ball is passed, and
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  Speaker 11: I don't have a delay, I may actually be faster
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  Speaker 11: than you, as crazy as that sounds. And so we've
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  Speaker 11: got to have guys who can process quickly. PJ had mentioned.
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  Speaker 13: That this system helps him the most improve his defense.
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  Speaker 12: I'm curious just what improvements you've seen from him defensively
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  Speaker 12: compared to.
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  Speaker 11: When he first arrived? P.J. is a super smart player.
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  Speaker 11: I don't really buy it. People can have different opinions
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  Speaker 11: of different players, positive and negative, in the recruiting process.
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  Speaker 11: I kind of go with my eyes a lot. And
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  Speaker 11: what I can tell you is P.J. knows how to
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  Speaker 11: play basketball. So he sees rotations. He makes the right pass.
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  Speaker 11: He's elite at getting fouled. I'm just very impressed with
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  Speaker 11: him coaching him, just overall. The pace he plays at
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  Speaker 11: is a unique pace. On offense, he's not even trying,
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  Speaker 11: but he's just at that controlled pace. For the old-school ballers,
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  Speaker 11: he's like a 1980s player. He gets in the lane,
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  Speaker 11: slows down, has every kind of shot. He can float
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  Speaker 11: it up 10 feet in the air. He can just
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  Speaker 11: hit stepbacks. He's got all kinds of weird stuff to
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  Speaker 11: his game, and that's what makes it hard to stop.
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  Speaker 11: It's unique. But he's been a joy to coach because
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  Speaker 11: he's playing winning basketball. Like, he's doing the things that
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  Speaker 11: will equate to winning.
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  Speaker 1: Do you like him kind of initiating?
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  Speaker 14: I know there's not, like, always a set point guard,
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  Speaker 14: but do you like him.
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  Speaker 11: Being the key initiator?
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  Speaker 8: And how much on-ball do you like him having?
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  Speaker 11: Yeah, I think it's got to be a variety, you know.
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  Speaker 11: I think, you know, in transition, he's a lead. If
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  Speaker 11: you can pitch it up to him in transition, great
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  Speaker 11: things are going to happen. But he's also a guy
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  Speaker 11: that when he's initiating the offense and he's in the
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  Speaker 11: middle thirds of the court, he's a problem. And he's
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  Speaker 11: a problem because he'll give it up to– You know,
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  Speaker 11: but great scorers can get to the free throw line, and, like,
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  Speaker 11: he's able to get to the free throw line consistently.
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  Speaker 12: What have you seen from just McKenzie these last couple
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  Speaker 12: of months, especially as he's really maybe kind of hitting
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  Speaker 12: his stride back fully at 100%?
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  Speaker 11: Yeah, he's going to have a good year, really good year. Like,
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  Speaker 11: he's improved on a lot of things. His body's great.
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  Speaker 11: He's powerful. He shoots at will. He's making good decisions. Like,
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  Speaker 11: he's not trying to get outside of his bubble, and
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  Speaker 11: he's too good a player to need to get outside
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  Speaker 11: of his bubble. You know what I mean? And so
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  Speaker 11: he's just kind of... staying with what he does well.
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  Speaker 11: And the game's easy for him right now because of that.
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  Speaker 11: So I think he'll have a really good year.
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  Speaker 12: What was the biggest thing he had to do to,
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  Speaker 12: you know, trust himself again and get back into a
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  Speaker 12: flow of where he was maybe?
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  Speaker 11: I think it was just getting in physical good shape.
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  Speaker 11: You know, like when you're in really good shape everything
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  Speaker 11: else is not as hard. So I think that was
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  Speaker 11: probably the thing there. He's able to play through fatigue now,
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  Speaker 11: and that's when he's playing his best.
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  Speaker 4: You told us a lot last year that this could
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  Speaker 4: be a tournament team. This could be a tournament team.
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  Speaker 1: Watch.
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  Speaker 10: What do you feel like the ceiling is of this team,
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  Speaker 10: and or where do you think, where would you like
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  Speaker 10: the program to be in year two after the year
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  Speaker 10: that y'all had last year?
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  Speaker 11: Yeah, you know, what you want to be doing is
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  Speaker 11: with any team you have, you want to reach their potential.
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  Speaker 11: You know, what does your potential mean, right? You know, and, like,
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  Speaker 11: I think that if you can compete in our league,
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  Speaker 11: you can compete versus anybody, right? Now, you know when
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  Speaker 11: you get to the NCAA tournament, if you battle hard
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  Speaker 11: to get there, you know your route, you know, you
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  Speaker 11: have your route. You've got to put together your best
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  Speaker 11: games there at the end of the season. And hopefully
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  Speaker 11: we find out that if we're playing really good basketball
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  Speaker 11: and we can play A-plus basketball, it means we can
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  Speaker 11: compete versus anybody. And that's what you hope to find out. But,
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  Speaker 11: you know, look, the reality of basketball is different than
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  Speaker 11: a lot of sports. And you play nearly 40 games
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  Speaker 11: over the course of the season. Look, you can lose
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  Speaker 11: three games in a row. In other sports, the season's over.
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  Speaker 11: You lose five games in a row and win the
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  Speaker 11: national championship. And so I think that you're going to
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  Speaker 11: find out a lot about your team, their resiliency as
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  Speaker 11: this goes along, because you're going to play the gauntlet
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  Speaker 11: of the SEC. which will be the best league in
• 21:34
  Speaker 11: the history of college basketball this year. And we have
• 21:37
  Speaker 11: the second-hardest schedule. So, like, you're going to find out about, like,
• 21:42
  Speaker 11: can we stay together and everybody stay together to keep
• 21:44
  Speaker 11: trucking forward so we're our best version of ourselves at
• 21:46
  Speaker 11: the end of the year.
• 21:47
  Speaker 15: How have you seen McKenzie's kind of mentality and energy
• 21:51
  Speaker 15: kind of shift headed into this year?
• 21:54
  Speaker 11: He's just– he's always been really focused, but I just
• 21:56
  Speaker 11: think the game slowed down for him, right? It's like,
• 22:00
  Speaker 11: you know– He's not having to go to the game
• 22:02
  Speaker 11: just lets the game come to him. The really good players,
• 22:04
  Speaker 11: they can do that. I think defensively he's gotten better.
• 22:10
  Speaker 11: When the game slows down for great players, they're dangerous.
• 22:13
  Speaker 12: He had said that rebounding was something in particular that
• 22:16
  Speaker 12: he's really focused on. Have you seen him maybe get
• 22:19
  Speaker 12: better in that area? Do you match him up with
• 22:22
  Speaker 12: a guy like Cade to maybe try to build something
• 22:24
  Speaker 12: like that during practice?
• 22:25
  Speaker 11: Well, he's tough. It's like see ball, get ball. There's
• 22:31
  Speaker 11: no great rebounders that are soft. You don't want guys
• 22:36
  Speaker 11: who are afraid of getting their sweat on somebody. You
• 22:40
  Speaker 11: want guys that seek out contact. He'll go through players
• 22:43
  Speaker 11: to get the ball. And our team this year will
• 22:46
  Speaker 11: be a better rebounding team for sure. We're longer. We're stronger.
• 22:49
  Speaker 11: We'll be better attacking the basket, and we'll be better
• 22:52
  Speaker 11: finishing at the rim, right? So I think all those
• 22:55
  Speaker 11: things can help you in late-season basketball because one of
• 22:58
  Speaker 11: the most important things in late-season basketball is being able
• 23:02
  Speaker 11: to clean the glass and get to the free-throw line.
• 23:05
  Speaker 11: And if you can't slash, you're not getting the free-throw line.
• 23:07
  Speaker 11: The other thing that great slashing will do is free
• 23:09
  Speaker 11: up three-point shooters because the defense is going to have
• 23:11
  Speaker 11: to collapse and make a decision.
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: We've asked about P.J.
• 23:14
  Speaker 16: Haggerty.
• 23:14
  Speaker 10: Is that kind of the difference, and not taking away
• 23:16
  Speaker 10: anything that you guys had last year, but is that
• 23:19
  Speaker 10: ability for him to get inside and make plays like
• 23:22
  Speaker 10: that different than maybe what you had last year and
• 23:24
  Speaker 10: how he'd be able to elevate.
• 23:26
  Speaker 11: This offensive attack? Yeah, I mean, well, last year we
• 23:29
  Speaker 11: were one of the smallest teams in Power 4 basketball,
• 23:31
  Speaker 11: the players that played consistently. We were not a great
• 23:35
  Speaker 11: slashing team at guard. Marcus Hill was a slasher. Rashawn
• 23:38
  Speaker 11: Agee was a post player. But other than that, there
• 23:41
  Speaker 11: was not a guy you just give it to and say,
• 23:43
  Speaker 11: go get a bucket. This team has several guys that
• 23:46
  Speaker 11: can beat their man, several guys. I've mentioned this before.
• 23:51
  Speaker 11: Last year, that group was such a fun group that
• 23:54
  Speaker 11: I'll always admire because they were an overachieving group in
• 24:00
  Speaker 11: a lot of ways. First, defensively, to be that small,
• 24:03
  Speaker 11: they had to really scrap it out. But offensively, this
• 24:07
  Speaker 11: is how that group had to score. Drive creates some
• 24:10
  Speaker 11: type of help. 25 drives later and 25 passes with
• 24:15
  Speaker 11: somebody sitting just like this ready to make a three,
• 24:18
  Speaker 11: we can get there and we might score that basket.
• 24:20
  Speaker 11: That's just kind of what it was. And it was
• 24:22
  Speaker 11: great because they bought into that and they were unselfish
• 24:24
  Speaker 11: enough to do that. Now, you know, we'll have some
• 24:27
  Speaker 11: of those possessions, but we'll also have someone just go
• 24:29
  Speaker 11: beat their man and go dunk it or get fouled.
• 24:32
  Speaker 11: And the later the season goes, you got to have that, right?
• 24:36
  Speaker 11: I mean, you just got to have that. And that's
• 24:38
  Speaker 11: kind of one of the strengths of some of the
• 24:40
  Speaker 11: strengths of these players is their ability to live in
• 24:42
  Speaker 11: the paint.
• 24:44
  Speaker 4: So PJ said that he expects us to be a team.
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: That's going to have a lot of guys shooting 35
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: to 40 plus percent from three. How, what is your
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: sort of expectation for this team's ability.
• 24:53
  Speaker 11: To hit from deep?
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 24:54
  Speaker 11: If we take the right shots, we should be above 35.
• 24:57
  Speaker 11: You know, I mean, that's shootings about two things, ability
• 25:00
  Speaker 11: and then decision-making right. Like me, the best shooter in
• 25:04
  Speaker 11: the world. But if you do a bad decision maker,
• 25:05
  Speaker 11: when to shoot, it's not very good. I think that we'll,
• 25:09
  Speaker 11: They're unselfish enough to make the right decisions. We'll keep
• 25:12
  Speaker 11: playing like us and all the skill work we do
• 25:14
  Speaker 11: and the number threes I make these guys shoot a week.
• 25:16
  Speaker 11: It should be like breathing when we get out there.
• 25:19
  Speaker 11: Last season, because we didn't have a lot of slashing,
• 25:22
  Speaker 11: they were able to hug shooters late in the season,
• 25:24
  Speaker 11: knowing that the only guy that really created an advantage
• 25:26
  Speaker 11: was Marcus and Rashawn. Everybody else was like, just hug them.
• 25:30
  Speaker 11: This year, if they want to hug shooters, we're going
• 25:32
  Speaker 11: to go rack it. And so the defense will collapse,
• 25:34
  Speaker 11: which is going to lead to more shooting. But, you know...
• 25:36
  Speaker 11: All these guys, we track every shot they've ever took
• 25:39
  Speaker 11: since they've been here when they got here June 1st, literally. Like,
• 25:41
  Speaker 11: every shot's tracked. When they're in here, we're tracking it.
• 25:45
  Speaker 11: We have every stat, every deal, and their numbers are
• 25:47
  Speaker 11: going up a lot right now. Do you expect there
• 25:50
  Speaker 11: to be more rim protection this year?
• 25:52
  Speaker 4: Like, how confident are you in these bigs, McKenzie, Jammies?
• 25:55
  Speaker 11: Well, I mean, it couldn't be worse. I mean, so,
• 26:00
  Speaker 11: I mean, I love Ruben Dominguez, but, I mean, when
• 26:03
  Speaker 11: Ruben Dominguez is your forward, I mean– I haven't seen
• 26:05
  Speaker 11: him touch the net recently. No, I like our guys.
• 26:10
  Speaker 11: They're long. They can play above the rim. I've seen
• 26:13
  Speaker 11: more shots blocked in warm-ups than I saw the entire
• 26:16
  Speaker 11: season last year. So we'll be better around the rim,
• 26:20
  Speaker 11: and we're better keeping teams from scoring at the rim
• 26:23
  Speaker 11: on us for sure.
• 26:24
  Speaker 14: Having that offensive creation, does it help you and your
• 26:27
  Speaker 14: coaching staff maybe focus a little bit more on the
• 26:29
  Speaker 14: offseason to get everybody honed in defensively, or is it
• 26:32
  Speaker 14: still spending just as much time to work on that.
• 26:34
  Speaker 11: Offense and get it ready for the regular season? Yeah,
• 26:35
  Speaker 11: it's about the same. We just had more time with it,
• 26:37
  Speaker 11: you know? Like, we just had more time. I mean,
• 26:39
  Speaker 11: I think our biggest challenge is going to be combination
• 26:42
  Speaker 11: of players who are going to play. This season, you know,
• 26:44
  Speaker 11: we're waiting on a couple of situations to know what
• 26:46
  Speaker 11: our full roster is going to look like, like a
• 26:48
  Speaker 11: lot of teams are. But I think that my biggest
• 26:53
  Speaker 11: challenge is going to be what players. You know, you're
• 26:56
  Speaker 11: simply not going to play 17 guys every night. We've
• 26:59
  Speaker 11: always gone 10 deep, right? Sometimes we'll go more than that.
• 27:03
  Speaker 11: And trust me, y'all know me, I'm not married to anybody.
• 27:06
  Speaker 11: I mean, you know, I've had players, people like this guy.
• 27:09
  Speaker 11: I'm not married to someone not just game to game,
• 27:12
  Speaker 11: media timeout to media timeout. I'm going to roll with
• 27:14
  Speaker 11: the guys that are going to lay it down for us.
• 27:16
  Speaker 11: And I think that's going to be the thing is, like,
• 27:18
  Speaker 11: who earns those minutes? Because it's not going to be given,
• 27:23
  Speaker 11: you know, and it's not going to be given. We've
• 27:24
  Speaker 11: got a bunch of good players, which is a good
• 27:25
  Speaker 11: problem to have. And then those guys, maybe they're not
• 27:29
  Speaker 11: playing as much as they like. Can they stay the course?
• 27:32
  Speaker 11: so that they can be the best version of themselves.
• 27:36
  Speaker 11: Because who knows, they can roll right back in and
• 27:38
  Speaker 11: be playing back to playing more and more minutes. But
• 27:41
  Speaker 11: that's the way that I think that's going to be
• 27:43
  Speaker 11: our biggest challenge.
• 27:44
  Speaker 12: What's the latest with Ryland and Pope and just.
• 27:46
  Speaker 11: Kind of where they're at? I can't comment on it, but,
• 27:49
  Speaker 11: you know, there's no something here in the next couple weeks, hopefully.
• 27:51
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 27:52
  Speaker 12: Did Ryland play in the scrimmage.
• 27:53
  Speaker 11: The other day? He didn't. He's got a hand issue
• 27:57
  Speaker 11: going on right now. He'll be back soon, though. Yeah.
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: That's Bucky. We found out that Ryland's got an injury.
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: He said he'll be back soon. Did not play. Pope
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: did not play. They're still working on eligibility. Pop Isaacs,
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: if you didn't know, is in Oklahoma. I think this
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: is his 17th year. But he said today at media
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: days how much he liked Bucky, liked the team, liked
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: playing for Bucky. said, I wish, uh, they're, they're here
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: at a different time than we are. I wish they
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: were here so we could, you know, I could say
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: hello and see him. Um, I think Bucky likes this team. Um,
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: you know, if, if Ryland Griffin and Jordan Pope are
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: eligible to play just more firepower, more guys that can
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: hit shots, more experience, um, So we'll see how all
• 29:03
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• 29:09
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• 29:15
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• 29:23
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• 29:26
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• 29:31
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• 29:36
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• 29:39
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• 34:49
  Speaker 1: for a manager.
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  Speaker 4: Hi, Chip.
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: Who's number one on your list?
• 34:55
  Speaker 4: Oh, who's number one on my list?
• 34:57
  Speaker 11: Yep.
• 34:58
  Speaker 4: Do I get to hire a GM first? No, no,
• 35:01
  Speaker 4: I do not.
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: No. You already have a GM.
• 35:08
  Speaker 4: Who's that?
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: Jeff Bagwell.
• 35:10
  Speaker 4: Oh, well, if it's Jeff Bagwell, then the coach is
• 35:13
  Speaker 4: Brad Ausmus.
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: You think he'll come? Or you think he's going to
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: wait and take Aaron Boone's spot?
• 35:20
  Speaker 4: I think Brad Osmus is going to be the general
• 35:22
  Speaker 4: manager of the Astros.
• 35:24
  Speaker 8: Really?
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: Yes. Okay.
• 35:26
  Speaker 4: So the list that the Chronicle had, I will tell
• 35:29
  Speaker 4: you two no's that are on the list.
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 35:33
  Speaker 4: They had Alex Cora and Carlos Beltran on the list. Really?
• 35:38
  Speaker 4: And neither of them are getting the Astros job.
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: I don't know. They were pretty instrumental in that World
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: Series run.
• 35:47
  Speaker 4: Yeah, they were. I like Rocco Baldelli.
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: Really? Yes. Where is he?
• 35:54
  Speaker 4: He is with the special assistant for the Los Angeles Dodgers.
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: Okay. You can't go wrong hiring a Dodger.
• 36:08
  Speaker 4: I like, speaking of Dodgers... I like Danny Lehman, the
• 36:13
  Speaker 4: Dodgers bench coach. Is he on that list you have?
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: He is not.
• 36:18
  Speaker 4: Okay. 40 years old.
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 36:21
  Speaker 14: Younger.
• 36:22
  Speaker 17: Younger.
• 36:22
  Speaker 4: From the Woodlands. Played at Rice. Played for the Twins.
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 36:27
  Speaker 4: Went as high as AAA as a catcher. Like catchers.
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 36:31
  Speaker 4: Like catchers that become managers.
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: Yep. A lot of catchers become managers. Yep.
• 36:36
  Speaker 4: So those are my two picks. Picks. Isn't it crazy
• 36:39
  Speaker 4: they have twins backgrounds?
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: How about Jeff Bannister, former Rangers manager?
• 36:48
  Speaker 11: No?
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: Is that a no?
• 36:49
  Speaker 4: It's a no.
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: Okay. Just saying. He played at U of H.
• 36:54
  Speaker 4: Did he win anything?
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: Won two AL West titles with the Rangers.
• 36:59
  Speaker 11: Yeah?
• 37:00
  Speaker 4: Win a World Series?
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: Didn't win a World Series.
• 37:03
  Speaker 4: Win playoff games?
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 37:06
  Speaker 4: Well, that's better than my last manager.
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: Exactly. Morgan Innsburg.
• 37:11
  Speaker 4: Morgan Innsburg was on the Chronicle list.
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 37:14
  Speaker 4: I want somebody that's.
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: Hey, anybody from the Durham Bulls, you've got to look at.
• 37:20
  Speaker 11: Well.
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: He managed the Durham Bulls. You've got to look at him.
• 37:23
  Speaker 4: Well, I mean, I just was in Durham this last spring.
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: I went to the stadium.
• 37:27
  Speaker 11: And?
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: Was the moose shooting out smoke?
• 37:30
  Speaker 4: The bull, you mean?
• 37:31
  Speaker 13: The bull?
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 37:32
  Speaker 11: No.
• 37:32
  Speaker 3: No.
• 37:33
  Speaker 4: It was in the afternoon.
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: Oh, okay. Yeah. Well, just in the evening?
• 37:37
  Speaker 4: Well, they weren't playing a game.
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: John Gibbons.
• 37:41
  Speaker 11: Who?
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: Binge coach of the Mets.
• 37:44
  Speaker 16: No.
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: Two stints in Toronto.
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: No.
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: Okay. Brandon Hyde, AL Manager of the Year with the
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: Orioles just three years ago.
• 37:56
  Speaker 4: And they got fired.
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: Got fired.
• 37:59
  Speaker 4: I like him.
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: He's an advisor with the Rays.
• 38:02
  Speaker 4: I thought the Orioles were going to be better.
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: Me too.
• 38:05
  Speaker 4: Orioles in Detroit, I thought were about to have a run.
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: Me too. You mentioned Danny Lehman.
• 38:10
  Speaker 4: Yep. I like Danny Lehman.
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: How about Martin Maldonado? Another catcher.
• 38:17
  Speaker 11: No.
• 38:18
  Speaker 14: No?
• 38:20
  Speaker 4: Go from being a player right to being a manager?
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: No.
• 38:22
  Speaker 4: You've got to put in some time.
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: Albert Pujols.
• 38:29
  Speaker 4: Albert Pujols would be interesting. Albert Pujols has been doing
• 38:33
  Speaker 4: the Winter Leagues.
• 38:34
  Speaker 16: Yep.
• 38:35
  Speaker 4: And who's he been working with during the regular season?
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: Let's see. Leonis, Dominican Republic, World Baseball Classic. I don't
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: know if he's been working with anybody. Doesn't say.
• 38:46
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: Rodney Linares. Linares.
• 38:49
  Speaker 4: Bench coach for the Rays.
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: How about that? Another Rays organization guy.
• 38:53
  Speaker 4: Well, look at it from the.
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: He's already managed Carlos Correa and Jose Altuve.
• 39:00
  Speaker 10: Yes.
• 39:02
  Speaker 4: But look at it from what Crane said.
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: I don't know what Crane said.
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  Speaker 4: Crane said, I look at the teams that are doing
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  Speaker 4: the best without a lot of money, and that's something
• 39:14
  Speaker 4: that I want to emulate.
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  Speaker 11: Rays?
• 39:16
  Speaker 4: The Rays are one of those teams.
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  Speaker 1: They're certainly one of those teams.
• 39:19
  Speaker 4: The Twins have certainly been one of those teams.
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  Speaker 8: Yep.
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  Speaker 4: So....
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  Speaker 1: David Ross.
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  Speaker 4: I don't think he did any with the Cubs worth anything.
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: He didn't. He was 262 and 284 as manager of
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: the Cubs.
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  Speaker 4: Coming off when the Cubs had talent. But I think
• 39:38
  Speaker 4: he'd be perfect for Houston. When the Cubs had talent.
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they did have talent. No doubt.
• 39:45
  Speaker 4: Because they fired, what's his name, who had been good
• 39:48
  Speaker 4: with the Rays.
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: So if Ausmus is the GM, who will he bring in?
• 39:55
  Speaker 4: Well, he has no power.
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: Well, that's true.
• 39:59
  Speaker 4: Bagwell has the power.
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: That's true. But they are buddies. Oh, yeah, they're best buddies.
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: He may listen.
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  Speaker 4: Well, that's why I think he's going to be the
• 40:07
  Speaker 4: general manager.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 40:10
  Speaker 4: Because I think he understands this is like the Dallas Cowboys.
• 40:16
  Speaker 4: He understands that there is somebody that you have to
• 40:20
  Speaker 4: keep on your good side. Okay? With the Dallas Cowboys,
• 40:25
  Speaker 4: you have to keep Stephen Jones on your good side.
• 40:29
  Speaker 4: It's not Jerry you have to worry about. It's the
• 40:32
  Speaker 4: person who actually talks to Jerry that he listens to.
• 40:35
  Speaker 4: And the only one that is now is Stephen Jones.
• 40:39
  Speaker 4: So who does Crane listen to? He listens to Bagwell.
• 40:44
  Speaker 4: So if you keep Bagwell on your good side, then
• 40:48
  Speaker 4: you're in a great spot.
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: Okay. We've got more lists today.
• 40:56
  Speaker 4: Who are the Rangers going to hire as manager?
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: I don't think they're firing their manager. Because if you
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: fire a manager... I believe he still has a contract.
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: You have to pay that off. You have to pay
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: somebody new. They're not going to spend that kind of money.
• 41:15
  Speaker 4: They're not going to spend any money?
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: No. I mean, they're going to spend whatever they need.
• 41:20
  Speaker 4: Are they going to pay the light bill when the
• 41:22
  Speaker 4: stadium's closed next year?
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: You know, that's a good question. I don't know who
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: has to pay that bill. Is it the city or
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: is it the Rangers?
• 41:32
  Speaker 4: I bet it's the city.
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: It's probably the city. We're going to take a break.
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  Speaker 6: The Texans are looking to build some momentum on their
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  Speaker 6: might not be the best measuring tool considering their contention
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• 42:24
  Speaker 6: Casario joined Texans radio yesterday to discuss how no matter
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  Speaker 6: the opponent, playing complimentary football was a big step forward.
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  Speaker 4: He overall played pretty good team football.
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  Speaker 14: We talked about going into the week, you know, being
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  Speaker 14: able to kind of finish games, play complimentary football, had
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  Speaker 6: Casario also spoke on the addition of wide receiver Marvin
• 42:57
  Speaker 6: Harrison Jr. saying that his expectations won't be unreasonable. as
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so Halloween morning, 11 a.m., that's a Saturday morning.
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: Jim Henson's Fraggle Rock at Rudder Auditorium. Still some tickets
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  Speaker 19: Many's the time I've been mistaken Many times confused Yes,
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  Speaker 19: and I've often felt forsaken And certainly misused.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, but I'm all right. I'm all right.
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  Speaker 19: I'm just weary.
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: To my bones.
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  Speaker 19: Still, you don't expect to be bright and bondy.
• 46:35
  Speaker 4: So far away.
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: This is a Paul Simon song. Paul Simon turned 85
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: years young yesterday and still performing.
• 46:48
  Speaker 4: So he's still crazy after all these years?
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: He is still crazy after all these years. And Edie Burkell,
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  Speaker 1: his wife, has a brand new group she's fronting.
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  Speaker 4: I don't like that.
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: I'm just telling you. It's not New Bohemians anymore.
• 47:03
  Speaker 4: I saw New Bohemians before Edie Burkell was with them.
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: The Athletic has ranked... College football's biggest underachievers of all time. Okay?
• 47:17
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: Here are the parameters. You ready? Yes. Two sets of numbers. Finances.
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: Two decades of athletic revenues reported by the U.S. Department
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: of Education. Proximity of talent. How many NFL players were
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: born in this state? Talent acquisition. How many NFL draft
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: picks a school has produced in the common era? Fan
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: base size. Stadium capacity. Then they weighed those factors against
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: the program's success. Winning percentage. conference championships, top 25 finishes
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: and national titles in the AP press poll era since 1936.
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: And how many times a program went from top 25
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: to unranked at the end of the season. Also, This
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: is important because this ain't rocket science. It's just opinion.
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: We massage the math using a proprietary blend of vibes
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: and common sense to account for context and statistical oddities,
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: like a dearth of conference titles for historical independence. Okay?
• 48:55
  Speaker 20: Whatever.
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: Honorable mention. Memphis... among the group of six leaders in
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: athletic revenue, has produced more NFL picks than Boise State,
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: but with a 5-10 winning percentage overall. South Florida, the
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: money and the location, with zero conference championships, but the
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: Bulls get a pass because they only started playing in 1990.
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: in 1997. The only program to have more seasons that
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: started in the top 25 and finished unranked than Michigan
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: State 20 times was USC. But the Trojans had almost
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: twice as many preseason ranking appearances. So the Spartans don't
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: have that excuse. Okay, we ready?
• 49:45
  Speaker 11: Sure.
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: Number 10, Rice. The Owls. Wait a minute.
• 49:50
  Speaker 4: It's a bad list.
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: Listen to me. It's a bad list. One of the
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: best recruiting cities in the same athletic revenue tier as
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: Boise State, Colorado State, and Fresno State. The university has
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: an $ 8 billion endowment. They haven't appeared in the AP
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: rankings in more than 60 years. In three decades since
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: the Southwest Conference split, Rice has won conference title. That's it.
• 50:20
  Speaker 4: Do they not have the University of Chicago there? Final thought.
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: They have a final thought. It's unfair to expect Rice
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: to be like Texas A & M or Houston. It
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: is fair to expect Rice to be much closer than
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: a perennial group of six loser.
• 50:36
  Speaker 4: Not if they don't care about football.
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: That's not the point.
• 50:41
  Speaker 4: The proprietary, let me massage this. When they worry more
• 50:46
  Speaker 4: about yards passing than grade point average, then Rice can
• 50:51
  Speaker 4: do something in football.
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: Maybe, but they haven't. That's the point. Number nine.
• 50:57
  Speaker 4: Because they don't care.
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: UCLA.
• 50:59
  Speaker 11: UCLA.
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: The best recruiting spot in a top-tier recruiting state have
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: produced almost as many draft picks since 1970 as Texas.
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: Add in a giant home stadium, and the numbers view
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: UCLA as a strong underachiever. They're probably a top-25 program historically,
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: but the Bruins haven't been to a major bowl game
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: this century. have been too inconsistent since 1989. UCLA has
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: been ranked in the preseason 14 times, finished unranked 10
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: of those years. Wisconsin. This isn't about Luke Fickle. All
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: 12 programs that have reported more athletic revenue than Wisconsin
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: have won at least two national titles. That's an interesting
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: stat right there. Most of Wisconsin's Midwest peers, Minnesota, Michigan,
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: Michigan State, Iowa, have won national championships. Obviously, some of
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: those have been a long, long time ago, which makes
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: the Badgers' drought more notable and slots them ahead of UCLA. Virginia,
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: the Cavaliers have a strong recruiting footprint, rank among the
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: top 40 in stadium capacity and money, which is hard
• 52:17
  Speaker 1: to believe. The potential is there for the program to
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: aim higher than being the top of our previous list
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: of the nation's most mediocre programs. Virginia consistently ranks near
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: the top of all sports rankings. National titles in six sports,
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: including men's basketball and baseball, since 2014. If the Cavaliers
• 52:38
  Speaker 1: can win at that level in other sports, they should
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: have more than two conference titles in football over the
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: last century.
• 52:45
  Speaker 4: Don't disagree with that one.
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 52:48
  Speaker 4: But I also think they're still behind Virginia Tech in state.
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: North Carolina. Tar Heels have many of the same advantages
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: as Virginia, 40 more draft picks, three coaches in the
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: College Football Hall of Fame. All of them won national
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: titles after leaving North Carolina. 30 schools have started in
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: the preseason ranks at least 20 times, according to the
• 53:15
  Speaker 1: College Poll Archive. The Tar Heels have the highest bus
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: percentage of them all, going from ranked to unranked 15
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: out of 20 times, 71%. Illinois, in a state ranked
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: among top six producing all-time and current NFL players, according
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: to Pro Football Reference. The Illini haven't done enough to
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: capitalize on local talent. With all due respect to Red
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: Grange and their triumphs before the age of color television,
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: Illinois has underachieved only seven top 25 finishes the last
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: 50 years, less than Mississippi State. Duke, and Navy.
• 53:57
  Speaker 17: Wow.
• 53:58
  Speaker 4: That's low.
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: That is low.
• 54:00
  Speaker 11: Florida.
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: Hear me out.
• 54:03
  Speaker 16: No.
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: The only schools in the top 11 in all of
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: our potential related categories were Florida, Ohio State, Michigan, Texas, Alabama,
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: and Georgia. The Gators had seven fewer conference titles than
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: the next lowest, Georgia. ranked last in finishes while losing
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: 5% more of their games. Florida has top seven potential,
• 54:29
  Speaker 1: but it's historically produced results outside the top 15. Yes,
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: they won national titles, three of them, from 96 to 08.
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: It was the toughest calls because Florida's highs are so high,
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: but the Gators are the flagship university of the state,
• 54:48
  Speaker 1: top-tier recruiting, have Clemson-like results, especially when not led by
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: Spurrier or Urban Meyer. Their spikes have been an exception,
• 54:59
  Speaker 1: not the rule, for a program that's never made the
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: CFP and hasn't won an SEC title since 08. Stanford
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: is number three because of Money, background, the rest of
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: the sports, gold standard for all-around athletic football is the outlier.
• 55:21
  Speaker 4: So I have a question for you.
• 55:22
  Speaker 1: Hold on. I'm against the clock. We'll cut off and
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: then come back. The Cardinals should not have a worse
• 55:31
  Speaker 1: winning percentage than Boston College, Troy, or San Diego State.
• 55:37
  Speaker 1: I do agree with that statement.
• 55:38
  Speaker 4: Yes, but Stanford cares about football and Rice doesn't.
• 55:42
  Speaker 1: Fair enough. All right, we need to take a break.
• 55:46
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