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I need to get your football fix
on all things Army, Navy and Air

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Force. This is Yards and Stripes
Service Academy Football. Now Here are your

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hosts, Price Atkinson, Steve Carney
and Mike love All for the final time

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this season. Welcome into Yards and
Stripes as we will dissect the Air Force's

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big win in the lockeed Martin Armed
Forces Bowl and prepare for the long off

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season and offseason. I know that
college football fans listening are not excited about,

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but we do wish you happy holidays, hoping you all had a merry

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Christmas and holiday season. We have
got a lot to do here on episode

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eighteen of Yards and Stripes is your
home for Service Academy Football, joined as

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always by my outstanding co host Mike
love All, Steve Carney, and I'm

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Bryce Atkinson and appreciate you guys stopping
in and besting some time with us after

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the holiday. As we get ready
to turn the page two twenty three,

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we are going to talk about Air
Forces win over Baylor and Armed Forces Bowl.

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We were going to give out our
game balls. Hazy Daniels entering the

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transfer portal. What NFL rule chains
to allow current service academy players the chance

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to play in the National Football League. We got our Travis Mannion Foundation on

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a role segment, and then we
will close it up with our highlights of

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the two thousand and twenty two season
as well as give you our Yards and

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Stripes two thousand and twenty two most
Outstanding Player from the Service Academies. But

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before we get into any of it, Happy holidays, Steve, Mike.

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I hope Santa treated you guys both
very very well. Marry Christmas, Happy

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New Year. Do you have two
price? Everything was good over here at

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our residents, Steve, what about
what about your Christmas Day? Yeah?

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Christmas was good to me. Right
before Christmas, maybe a little less,

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so I showed the guys here before
we got started. On the Friday before

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Christmas, I was going to a
Christmas party being held by a former colleague

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and I stepped in a hole and
gave myself a high ankle sprain. So

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I'm actually out for the next four
games. But thankfully it's fine enough now

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that I can walk on. It's
just, you know, the color of

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Barney the Dinosaur, and it does
hurt like the Dickens, but it's still

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The pain is tolerable. So there's
no New Year's running resolutions in the Steve

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Carney forecast for twenty three right now, this fatass doesn't normally run anyway,

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so but I do have to walk
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Tampa Bay lightning, so that could
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Thankfully it's cold in that arena.
Well, do wish you guys happy holidays.

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Hope your families had a great holiday
season as well as as well as

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all our listeners. I know Air
Force fans had a rate pre Christmas gift

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to unwrap in a very frigid Fort
Worth and Amon G. Carter Stadium.

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we're gonna lift off here on this episode.

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Air Force in the Lockeed Martin Arm
Forces Bowl in Fort Worth, a

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thirty to fifteen winner over the Baylor
Bears five straight now over power five opponents

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for Troy Calhoun's team, as it
was a frigid, cold evening in Fort

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where thirteen degrees at kickoff minus four
windshill, but the Air Force Falcons easily

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handling the Baylor Bears thirty to fifteen
in route to their fourth straight Bowl win,

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and they closed the season on a
five game winning streak, bringing the

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Falcons record to ten and three overall
now ten wins for the third straight full

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season for the Falcons two thousand,
nineteen, two twenty one, and two

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thousand and twenty two, and we
all, you know, we all obviously

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picked Air Force to win the football
game. And you know, while it

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was cold, you know, the
Falcons came out, you know, pretty

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strong, nine nine nothing, you
know, after one quarter before Baylor got

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on the board, just before the
end of the first half. The trail

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nine to seven a halftime, and
then the Falcons came out really to start

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that third quarter, took control on
that eighty three yard drive. Five plays

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capped by Daniels two yard touchdown run, a beautiful throw and catched by Daniels

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to find a streaking Amari Terry down
the left sideline for a sixty eight yard

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completion inside the Baylor five. And
you know, another touchdown late in the

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third quarter to tight end Caleb Relos
his first catch of the season. Ironically,

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his first catch of his career came
in the First Responders Bowl last year.

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His first catch of this season came
in the bowl game, and it

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was a big one, a touchdown, and that put Air Force up big

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and they never looked back en route
to the win over Baylor. And you

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know, We thought it was going
to come down to the running game,

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and that's certainly what it did.
Gentlemen. Yeah, I don't get to

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say this very often, but this
one went pretty much exactly how we thought

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it was gonna go. The Air
Force defense stepped up and they shut down

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Richard Reese, a Big twelve freshman
of the year. Baylor wasn't able to

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get anything going in the run game. Everything fell on Shaping's shoulders. Shaping

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was not sharp, missing on several
key third down passes in the first half.

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Air Force was able to do just
enough in the first half and then

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come out and just absolutely dominate in
the second half. We'll talk about his

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Zee Daniels a little bit more,
but man key completions at critical moments.

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Had to pass on a fourth down
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That drive led to a touchdown.
And then you mentioned that sixty eight

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yard pass on the first drives the
second half to put them inside the five

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and set up set up, set
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Brad Roberts's rushing touchdown. That pretty
much once they were able to do that,

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they just ran the ball. And
you know, I always used the

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Python analogy for the Service Academy football
teams. Once they got that double digit

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lead, they just started choking the
life out of Baylor. Baylor at six

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and six with a fire defensive coordinator, another fired defensive coach, and in

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minus four degree Winschill wasn't too interested
in fighting that Python and that was pretty

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much the end of that game.
And Steve Yeah Hazy Daniels doing a great

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job directing the option, you know, kept a lot of plays alive with

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his legs, ends up running for
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know, four to seven for one
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you know in the third quarter,
who was you know, Daniels named the

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MVP of the Armed Forces Bowl.
But it all started with him. I

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mean that's where the the the attack
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ended as they ran up two hundred
and seventy six yards on the ground,

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a little bit shy their three hundred
and thirty one they averaged per game,

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but it was enough to do the
job. Yeah. Absolutely, And you

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look at that first drive that Mike
mentioned where Daniels had the pass on fourth

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and five to continue He also ran
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earlier in that drive to keep it
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Bears defense got subjected to that right
out the game, I mean, you're

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talking about a fifteen play drive that
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You knew that they were going to
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certainly did not help them because you
look at it. They their first three

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possessions, the Baylor's first three possessions
punt, punt, punt, Then they

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had the missed field goal. They
finally get on the board at the right

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near the end of the half.
But I really think that when when the

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Baylor offense can't bail out the defense, you're gonna find yourself in big trouble

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if you're the Bears. And that's
exactly what happened, is Mike said,

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it went exactly the way all three
of us predicted it would. Yeah,

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Yeah, And the Air Force defense
set the tone like you mentioned, from

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the start, and then they forced
Baylor to three and outs on their first

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two possessions of the game. Then
in the second half, Baylor's first three

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possessions or drives were you know,
a punt I believe it was seven yards

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punt and then turnover on downs after
four plays on two straight possessions. And

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you know the other thing that was
a big story in the game. You

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know, obviously, you know when
Baylor cannot continue to put a drive together.

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You know, third down was a
big story of the game. Baylor

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was oh of eleven on third down. Air Force was eight to sixteen.

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That's a big difference, and that's
what allowed air Force to control the ball

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for forty minutes and three seconds compared
to just nineteen fifty seven for the Bears.

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I mean the Baylor had to go
for it on fourth down several times.

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That was more late in the game
and in the second half where they

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were three to six and air Force
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But you know, air Force defense
again just sets a tone. And again

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we knew the team that, especially
defensively, that was going to come out

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and could could keep the other from
being able to run the football was going

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to be the difference. Yeah.
Well, and Price, you mentioned Baylor

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going forward on fourth down several times
in the second half. They they ended

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up going forward on fourth down on
their third possession, third drive of the

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game. So you can tell immediately
that Baylor's already starting to feel the effect

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of the Air Force attack. And
they knew coming into this game, but

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they really couldn't get behind because if
they did, Air Force, which just

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used that dominating Russian attack, So
you could you could see that the air

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Force mentality, just the toughness of
that Air Force team was already playing with

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the decision making of the Baylor coaching
staff already early in the first half of

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that game. Yeah, and another
story Steve Brad Roberts. I mean,

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you know, we talked about two
hundred and seventy six on the ground,

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you know, two seventy six hard
fought yards, but Roberts really was,

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you know, grinding it out.
He carried it thirty seven times for one

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hundred and sixteen yards, just barely
three yards to carry. And those were

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one hundred and sixteen really tough yards
for Roberts. As you know, Baylor

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just forty two yards on the ground. They were anemic. They basically had

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to go through the air, and
with the wind the way it was,

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you know, playing Havoc, it
was obviously one of those games where the

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win was so strong, you know, the team that had it in their

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direction. It certainly was going to
favor them. Oh, it certainly was.

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And you I thought what interested me
was the fact that Air Force did

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get seventy four offensive plays off.
Uh. You know, this is a

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team that you know, if you're
going to get uh, if you're going

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to play against them, you know, you're probably not going to have as

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many They're not going to have as
many drives because they're gonna try and grind

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things out. To get seventy four
plays off, that shows that you know,

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they they did their job and it
for the for the offense, it

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kept them warm and kept the defense
going back on its heels. So everything

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that you could do, right,
I think Air Force did. And they

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got seven passes and completed four of
them to even give Baylor that other peace

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in their mind that they had to
think about as well. Yeah, Baylor

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said some postseason success lately, but
there wasn't. They didn't have much success

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in this football game at all.
Again, thirty to fifteen is the Air

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Force gets the win, improving to
ten and three to finish with ten wins

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and Baylor, you know that loss. They have a losing season at six

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and seven overall, and the four
kick it over to Mike here real quick,

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because we do have to give out
our game balls here in just a

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second. Congratulations go out to Air
Forces. John Lee Eldridge the third since

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August had been planning to propose to
his girlfriend after a Bowl win. Well,

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moments after the Falcons knocked all Baylor, Eldridge dropped to one knee on

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a frozen in frigid tunger there at
Amon G. Carter Skate Stadium. He

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popped the question, and we're happy
to report that this Beyonce Shanie said yes,

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so they will be tying the not. Congratulations to John Lee Eldridge the

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Third and his Beyonce Chanie. Gotta
gotta canonize her for standing out there on

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that frigid turf. Well, I
mean, at least you know, Eldridge

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had been running around all day,
so he was racing warm. She was

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knocked, so so good on her
for being able to say yes and not

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going. Can we please take it
inside? That's right, Mike Price,

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quick question for you. You mentioned
this is Air Force's third straight ten win

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season. I believe it's the fifth
ten win season under Calhoun, fifth or

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six so with air Force in the
Mountain West, three straight ten win seasons

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five under Calhoun. You gotta think
that Calhoun's probably done about as much as

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he can do at Air Force.
Uh you know, at what point does

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another school or you know start looking
at Calhoun? Who has his team ready

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to play? You mentioned five straight
wins against power of five. He can

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certainly, he can certainly do that. He can recruit, he can build

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a consistent winning program in the era
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I mean, what's next for Calhoun? Is is he a lifer Air

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Force academy or will he get a
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think at some point, you know, it does it does come to the

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time where you got to ask yourself, do I want to be challenged somewhere

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else? You know? For Calhoun's
so you know, I know he's had

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opportunities, you know, over the
years, you know, to leave,

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but he's continued to want to stay. You know, obviously an Air Force

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graduate. But you know, another
place that he has been mentioned before has

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been the National Football League and there
is an opening right up the road with

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the Denver Broncos. Now I'm not
saying that he is he is the guy

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and the best fit there. I
can tell you that you know it does.

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From what I see, there are
issues on the sideline and within the

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organization. A guy like Troy Calhoun
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the locker room could probably benefit from. But that's the Denver Broncos. I

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think the more obvious would be,
you know, would there be a college

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spot that would be, you know, a good fit somewhere he would think

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as a challenge. I agree with
you. You know, the landscape of

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college football changing again with teams moving
conferences. He's done everything that he can

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do. The only thing he hasn't
done basically in Colorado Springs is go the

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Mountain West Conference championship game and when
the championship game, that's the only thing

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I think that he has not done
obviously, besides make a college football playoff,

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which was would be even more of
a rarity. Do you think he

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looks at what happened to Kashya Mattololu
a Navy and is that kind of that

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kind of shapes his perspective on staying
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time, you gotta think you will
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don't know. I think they.
I think there's just things at air Force

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that are so different than they are
at Army and Navy where they can have

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a little bit more sustained success winning
was things in place that are more football

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academically friendly at air Force that are
not in place, say it maybe air

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Force or at Navy and Army.
Um, I just think you're the opportunity

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where he's at. Um, you
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I don't know. I you know, you got to think at some

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point he wants to take the shot. But when will that be? Where

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will that be? Um? You
know, he's done everything that he can

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do. I think there's just gonna
come a time where you know, you're

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just not going to be there for
twenty five or thirty years. Coaches just

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don't you know, in the age
of college football now, as long as

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he's been there, he's exceeded pretty
much, you know, the lifespan most

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any coach has at their current job. Already, Just wondering, these are

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the things I think about him.
I commute all the time of the game.

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Balls All right, well, let's
let's give out our game balls,

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Mike. Once you fireaway, brother, I'm going with Zeke Daniels. Not

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a super big stat line for seven
hundred three yards in the air with one

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touchdown, fifteen rushes for ady one
yards. I mean, that's not Bryce

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Young, it's not hitting Hooker,
it's not CJ. Stroud numbers. But

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it was exactly what air Force needed
in that game in those critical moments,

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the key completions and critical moments,
the fourth down pass on the first drive

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of the game, the sixty eight
yard We've already talked about. Zeke Daniels

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took the Baylor's focus on Brad Roberts, changed the dynamic of how Bayler's defense

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was calling the game got air Force
ahead. When Baylor's defense changed their scheme,

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then air Force was able to leverage
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And it was because Daniels was able
to outmatch the Baylor defense. He

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gets my game ball for the ball
game, Steve faraway, I'm gonna head

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to do the defenses side price and
mentioned safety jail Jayden Goodwin, who was

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up in the box for a big
majority of that game trying to stop Baylor's

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rushing attack and helping them do so. As we mentioned, Baylor only had

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forty six yards on the ground,
Goodwin had nine tackles, six of them

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solo, and also had a pass
defense over the middle as well, leading

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the Falcons defense to the victory.
So I'm gonna go with Jayden Goodwin.

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All right, I'm going to go
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go with the man, the myth, the Air Force running back legend Brad

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Roberts, who went for one hundred
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He's now finishing the season with that
one touchdown the game, as now seventeen

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touchdowns, seventh most in a season, most by a fullback, and he

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has thirty five career touchdowns, third
most in Air Force program history, and

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finishing the season with one thousand,
seven hundred twenty eight yards on three hundred

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and forty five carries. That three
thousand, five hundred forty one career rushing

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yards ranks third all time in Air
Force school history, while his seven hundred

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and seven carries is a school record. So my game ball goes to Brad

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Roberts. All right, we got
more to do here. We're gonna come

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back. We're gonna talk about the
transfer portal and isn't rearing its head at

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one of our service academies. We'll
talk about that. We'll also talk about

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the NFL rule change that has now
been grandfathered in for service academy athletes to

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make a run at the National Football
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a roll segment. We got a
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Something that popped that caught my attention
and I'm sure it caught yours as

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well. As the day after the
Lockeyed Martin Armforce's Bowl, the Athletic reports

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that Air Force senior Hazy Daniels had
entered the transfer portal the day after the

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win. Daniel said immediately after the
game and interviews with the media that he

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hoped it wasn't his last college football
game, saying, quote, We'll see

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what plans God has for me.
Hopefully it's not the end. Will see

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end quote. Well, that report
was confirmed by Brent Brighaman with the Colorado

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Springs Gazette, and it raised an
eyebrow, because entering the transfer portal is

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a senior is you know, our
listeners know or may not know, cadets

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cannot transfer out of the out of
the academy following the start of classes of

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their junior year. That's the point
which they've commit become committed to finishing their

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four years of schooling and the active
duty that follows graduation. So you ask,

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why would Hazeque Daniels enter the transfer
portal when he is locked in at

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the Air Force Academy. Well,
it's a procedural move just to give himself

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more options because there's really, you
know, two options. You know,

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he's got two technical years of eligibility
left, gentleman to play another season,

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it would require require a turnback or
graduate school. Mike, So your thoughts

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when you saw this, Yeah,
I think I think a lot of people,

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particularly Army Navy fans, don't really
in the Air Force Academy, it's

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a little bit different. They have
a little bit more opportunities to go to

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graduate school immediately upon graduation, a
little bit more so than Army or Navy.

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West Point at Annapolis were very few
people unless you're a Rhodes scholar Marshall

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scholar or maybe two or three or
four Meds school people. Most everybody else

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commissions media upon graduation, so you
know this is not new. Isaiah Sanders,

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a previous quarterback, did this.
Went to Stanford. He was a

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Rhodes scholar candidate. I believe,
I don't believe he was awarded the scholarship

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and that I think he as a
matter of fact, I think Sanders went

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on to win the Warful Trophy in
college football after his season at Stanford.

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And then he had Charlie Scott,
who was a punter. He played at

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Alabama just as recently as two seasons
ago. So those guys, they will

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go on, they will leave the
academy. They'll be commissioned, and they'll

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they'll enroll in a Masterress program and
they'll they'll be expected to earn those Masterress

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degree. He's as well as playing
football. My question for his zee Daniels,

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is you know, if you're gonna
do that, you want to go

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to a solid graduate school. And
if you're I just I don't know where

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he's gonna land. He's a he's
a good dual threat quarterback. He's good

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for air Force. He's not a
strong passer. If you look at his

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accuracy rating and it's not it's not
um, you know, it's probably not

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power five level. He doesn't he
doesn't have the throwing capabilities to go somewhere,

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I think and start at power five
levels. So my question him is

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is where to you know, where
is the best fit for both his post

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graduate Air Force commitment and playing football. And I'm having a hard time seeing

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where he lands out best for him. It's just kind of a you know,

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it's just kind of a kind of
kind of unique deal. Yeah.

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Yeah. My thought, my thought
on that is that if if he's gonna

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transfer somewhere, my my guess is
because he is not, you know,

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the passing quarterback that most UH teams, especially at the at the one A

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FBS level, are looking for.
My guests, as he goes to the

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IVY League, I mean, I
could certainly see has Ze Daniels going to

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Yale or going to Harvard, you
know, and having that opportunity. That's

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probably the best chance that he has
if he is looking to become a road

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scholar. That's gonna be his best
chances to is go to the IVY League

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and play IVY League football. You're
gonna take a step down in competition,

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so you're probably going to have much
better stats if you're if you're if your

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stats oriented football wise, I could
see him going to the IVY League,

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playing and playing in fcs UH football
for a chance to maybe get that uh

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that postgraduate scholarship to study outside of
the United States before starting his military commitment.

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Yeah, Steve, I don't think
he's trying to get a road or

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a true or a marshal Um.
You know, he'll get us if he

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goes to the IVY League, he'll
get a solid degree. But the vast

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majority of those candidates applied for that
while they're in their last year or two

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of their undergraduate experience, and then
they usually that usually you're you're East West,

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Marshall, Truman and Rhodes. Usually
that's not your second master's program.

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So I think he's just looking to
get a solid masters degree and play football.

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I don't. I think it's a
RhoD scholarship thing. But well,

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but then you could go to an
IVY League and get and get one of

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those top top tier absolute graduate degrees. Yeah, you know you've got a

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Harvard Business School or something like that. Yeah, that point still stands.

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I'm just to your comment. I
don't think he's posturing to be a Rood

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scholar. But but if you're looking
to play, if you're looking to play

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football, um, you know,
him not being the prototypical FBS quarterback leads

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you could lead you to think that
he's probably uh maybe considering taking a step

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down in um at the football level
and maybe playing in an f for sure

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for the love of the game.
Yeah, I mean, he could end

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up at a one double a you
know FCS school. Um, you know,

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could end up you know, let's
say, backup quarterback at a like

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a two lane somewhere like that.
Could he end up with a position change,

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you know, if he had an
opportunity to I don't say fullback.

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Could it be as a tight end? I don't know, but it could

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be at a position change to go
play it like a a Nebraska, a

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cow wherever it may be. Might
that be something he's thinking? Obviously we

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don't know. But um, if
he's going to want to continue on playing

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because the transfer portal, you know, if he wanted to come back to

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the Air Force Academy, I don't
to me, the transfer portal isn't you

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know, the option. Um,
I don't know if you would have to

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even enter it. Why would you
even enter the transfer portal? Because you

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know, to to do a turnback
it requires approval from the academy, which

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you know is they're granted in times
of hardship in the the thirty thirty plus

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thirty five plus, you know Air
Force Academy football players, they were granted

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turnback year. So they basically went
home for the spring um and then came

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back. And so he could take
the spring semester off and then come back

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at the fall in the fall and
finish his degree at air Force. It's

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not unheard of. I mean,
he does have the eligibility to do it.

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You know. The other one,
like you said, is you know

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is graduate school and there's you know, Mike articulated pretty well that you know,

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the Air Force has been you know, civilian schools has been relationship that's

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you know, I guess far stronger
or far more, far more frequent.

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Um. You know, Isaiah Sanders, who was you know, Rhodes scholar

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candidate, went to Stanford, played
you know, two seasons. You know,

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they had some other players that were
academic standouts. But I'm not going

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to speculate. I don't know what
Hazy Daniel's academic record is. I mean,

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hope he graduates. That's all I
care about UM, and that he

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stays in good standing. But his
you know, it's going to be interesting

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to see what happens. And the
other one is Brad Roberts. Because Brad

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Roberts hasn't mentioned anything, or at
least we haven't seen any kind of public

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reports about Brad Roberts. One thing
I thought was interesting in the postgame notes

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that Troy Garnhardt, the sid sent
out for the Air Force Academy after the

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Bowl game, you know, did
mention anything about you know, Brad Roberts,

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quote finishing his career, or anything
about Daniels you know, last career

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game. It did mention Vince Stamford
that it said in Vin Stamford he had

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a sack in the Armed Forces Bowl
and it said, quote caps his career

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with sixteen sacks. Is it speculatory? Is there a reason for that?

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I don't know, but I do
know that Brad Roberts did not play in

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two thousand nineteen. He really didn't
even come on to the end of that

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two thousand and twenty season. During
his sophomore year, so he's really you

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know, two and a half years
is really what he's played so far,

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because he didn't play at all is
a fresh Could we end up seeing Hasye

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Daniels, Brad Roberts back in an
Air Force uniform or somewhere else next season.

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I mean, certainly they have the
eligibility. You know, I think

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if you see that, I think
as the as the national media and as

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the visibility of academy football grows and
the college football community is more interconnected,

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my fear is that if you see
this, there will be people both in

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the leadership of the Department of Defense
and in political leadership that sees this and

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00:31:33,880 --> 00:31:40,400
they realize that it's not just guys
going pro taking people away from their commissioning

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obligations. But but these guys are, you know, leveraging the college football

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system that we have now and taking
them away from their a service academy commissioning

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obligations. And I know we'll talk
about Andre Carter in the NFL thing next

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in our next segment, but but
this is kind of parallel to that.

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And I'm just afraid that if you
start seeing multiple players exercise the Master's option

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and play football as well. There
are going to be people, there are

446
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definitely going to be people who are
not going to be a big fan of

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that. From an optics and a
commissioning responsibility perspective, one hundred percent agree

448
00:32:15,279 --> 00:32:16,880
with you, Michael. All right, let's move on and talk about the

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National Football League, because we did
talk about Andre Carter the second his potential

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roadblock that all of a sudden came
up in front of him. Well,

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that is no longer there as there
was a provision instituted or inserted in the

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Omnimus Spending Bill that was filed and
passed before Christmas, and that would allow

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players to defer their service in order
to pursue professional sports opportunities. And it

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says quote and again this is a
grant. This is being grandfathered in at

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00:32:51,799 --> 00:32:58,599
the academy's right now. According to
the text in the Senate Appropriations Committee where

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the provision was fild it says,
quote shall only apply with respect to a

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cadet or midshipman who first enrolls in
the United States Military Academy, United States

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Naval Academy, or the United States
Air Force Academy on or after June one,

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two thousand and twenty one. So
basically, academy athletes that began at

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their respective institution after June one of
two twenty one, they would be able

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to do this or before, I
should say before it's it's fine for Andre

462
00:33:30,880 --> 00:33:37,319
Carter the second, but I still
think that the problem will still linger here

463
00:33:37,640 --> 00:33:40,680
a price. And I'm sure Mike
agrees with you with me about this.

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You know, we're going to come
to a point. You know, there

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are going to be players at Army, at Navy, at air Force that

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are going to be I don't know
if they're going to be fringe NFL or

467
00:33:54,480 --> 00:34:00,599
if they're going to be you know, legit first round type players like Andrea

468
00:34:00,599 --> 00:34:05,599
Carter the second, But there are
going to be cadets. There are going

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to be midshipmen. There are going
to be you know, folks at the

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Air Force Academy, Air Force cadets
that are going to have an opportunity to

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play football at the next level in
years to come, and this bill is

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00:34:22,559 --> 00:34:24,159
going to say no, no,
no, you're not going to be allowed

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00:34:24,159 --> 00:34:30,320
to play football at the next level
until you finish your military commitment. Now

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00:34:30,360 --> 00:34:36,559
that number is not is not anywhere, it's it's infantesimal almost when you look

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00:34:36,599 --> 00:34:44,679
at the percentage of you know,
the the student body at these three academies.

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You know, we're talking about what
one in all three academies over the

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00:34:51,039 --> 00:34:54,440
course of four seasons, you know, so you're looking at it, it

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00:34:54,519 --> 00:35:00,719
is a very very small percentage.
And I think that you should be able

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00:35:00,199 --> 00:35:04,679
to appeal that, and it should
and those appeals should be heard on a

480
00:35:04,719 --> 00:35:08,119
case by case basis. But this, this skill and this and this law

481
00:35:08,199 --> 00:35:13,840
that that's uh, you know that's
going to be signed, is not allowing

482
00:35:13,960 --> 00:35:16,400
for that. And I think that
that's that's a mistake. Yeah, Steve's

483
00:35:16,400 --> 00:35:20,360
absolutely right. They fixed it for
the one guy who's very deserving. But

484
00:35:20,440 --> 00:35:23,239
going forward, and here here again, everybody heard my rant last show.

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00:35:23,239 --> 00:35:27,800
It's it's so simple. I don't
don't understand how we can mess this up.

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00:35:27,920 --> 00:35:31,159
But here's the other thing. Here's
the other thing. Of all the

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00:35:31,199 --> 00:35:37,320
professional entities that exist in this nation, in this country, in this society,

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00:35:37,119 --> 00:35:44,199
Congress is the most unpopular institution in
the entire United States of America.

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00:35:44,280 --> 00:35:50,719
Right, what's the most popular institution
in the United States of America Probably the

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00:35:50,719 --> 00:35:55,400
institution of football. So you have
the most unpopular institution going against the most

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00:35:55,400 --> 00:35:59,719
popularity. Is there not a pr
person in Congress? Is there not a

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00:36:00,280 --> 00:36:02,840
person in Congress go into this guy, this this congressman from Wisconsin and saying,

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00:36:02,880 --> 00:36:07,840
hey, this is not a good
idea. Millions, tens hundreds of

494
00:36:07,840 --> 00:36:12,639
millions of Americans love football, they
love college football, they love pro football.

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00:36:12,960 --> 00:36:17,079
And you're you're fighting this one man
battle to keep one or two guys

496
00:36:17,199 --> 00:36:23,679
every four years from continuing to play
football at places that need positive visibility.

497
00:36:24,000 --> 00:36:27,599
It's just it's it's it's mind boggling
to me. I know, I went

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00:36:27,639 --> 00:36:29,519
on a rant last week. I'm
not gonna go on a rent this week.

499
00:36:29,559 --> 00:36:32,760
But it's just mind boggling to me
how institutions with such low approval ratings

500
00:36:32,760 --> 00:36:37,679
want to go after people who are
trying to get out to institutions with such

501
00:36:37,760 --> 00:36:39,360
high approval rings. And if they
go there, that can help out,

502
00:36:39,400 --> 00:36:42,920
That can help everyone out. They
can help the service academies out, it

503
00:36:42,960 --> 00:36:45,719
can help the government out. Just
free publicity is it's a win all around.

504
00:36:45,880 --> 00:36:50,079
And I don't know why we're fighting
something that's a win for everybody.

505
00:36:50,119 --> 00:36:52,960
I don't get it. And it's
not like and it's not like the player

506
00:36:53,280 --> 00:37:00,760
can't perform a military commitment in a
reserve fashion. We talk about this last

507
00:37:00,760 --> 00:37:06,199
week. You can still make your
military commitment while being able to play in

508
00:37:06,280 --> 00:37:09,599
the National Football League. You're not
playing fifty two weeks out of the year,

509
00:37:10,199 --> 00:37:13,679
you're still going to get you can
still get your pound of flesh after

510
00:37:13,719 --> 00:37:17,639
they're playing. Career is over exactly. And the number of stories earned media,

511
00:37:17,840 --> 00:37:23,840
stories, television, print, the
amount of earned media you're gonna gets

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00:37:23,920 --> 00:37:28,800
a player. Let's take Andre Carter
for example, who is going to get

513
00:37:28,880 --> 00:37:32,880
drafted, go into camp. Those
stories are going to be in every newspaper

514
00:37:34,079 --> 00:37:39,960
that whatever team drafts him in their
paper, and then every opponent's newspaper because

515
00:37:39,960 --> 00:37:45,480
they're going to highlight him before every
game and tell his story. So that's

516
00:37:45,519 --> 00:37:50,400
about at least sixteen seventeen opportunities right
there he's going to get, you know,

517
00:37:50,480 --> 00:37:53,880
to have that publicity, really good
publicity by the way, that's spread

518
00:37:53,920 --> 00:37:58,119
all over the country for what he's
doing playing football during the year, but

519
00:37:58,159 --> 00:38:01,480
then doing his serve duty in time. You know, in the off season,

520
00:38:02,159 --> 00:38:07,719
a fifth or sixth or seventh round
draft pick to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers,

521
00:38:07,760 --> 00:38:14,559
the Denver Broncos, Cincinnati Bengals Phoenix. Uh, they still got a

522
00:38:14,559 --> 00:38:20,360
team in Phoenix Cardinals that they just
a fifth, sixth, seventh round pick

523
00:38:20,679 --> 00:38:27,360
will get you more earned publicity and
more results than the entire recruiting budget of

524
00:38:27,519 --> 00:38:32,480
the entire budget of the entire recruiting
Army recruiting enterprise in that metropolitan area.

525
00:38:32,679 --> 00:38:37,599
I guess, I guarantee yeah,
exactly, it's free, and I guarantee

526
00:38:37,599 --> 00:38:42,480
you that the numbers, the ROI
numbers will support that. I just don't

527
00:38:42,519 --> 00:38:45,800
get how we mess up something that's
a win for everybody, and it's so

528
00:38:45,920 --> 00:38:51,360
simple. It's a temporary fix,
and it's an issue that's going to come

529
00:38:51,440 --> 00:38:54,320
up again. It's not going away, because there will be another Andre Carter,

530
00:38:54,480 --> 00:38:58,320
whether he's at West Point, whether
he's an Air Force, it's going

531
00:38:58,360 --> 00:39:00,920
to come up again. It's not
even a fix. It's just kicking the

532
00:39:00,960 --> 00:39:02,679
can down the road. And that's
the problem. It's it's not a fix,

533
00:39:02,880 --> 00:39:07,119
kicking the can. It's kicking the
problem down the road two or three

534
00:39:07,199 --> 00:39:09,239
years. For the next guy that
comes to West Point, not recruited by

535
00:39:09,239 --> 00:39:13,960
anybody, no stars, turns out
to be a really good athlete, really

536
00:39:13,960 --> 00:39:16,599
good student athlete, does well in
the classroom, just like Andrea Carter.

537
00:39:16,920 --> 00:39:22,320
It grows to be six six,
two seventy with a wingspan of Chilean and

538
00:39:22,480 --> 00:39:27,280
door and then the NFL says,
the NFL says, Hey, we'd like

539
00:39:27,320 --> 00:39:30,480
to take a flyer on this guy. This guy's athletic ability is worth a

540
00:39:30,559 --> 00:39:32,280
third round draft pick. And then
we're just gonna be talking about this all

541
00:39:32,280 --> 00:39:36,920
over again in two years. Kid
Andre Carter didn't go to the West Point

542
00:39:37,199 --> 00:39:39,039
to pursue an NFL dream. He
went there because he wanted to be He

543
00:39:39,079 --> 00:39:42,920
wanted to go to the United States
Military Academy. He turned out to have

544
00:39:42,920 --> 00:39:46,480
the ability to be an NFL talent. And you know there there's there are

545
00:39:46,519 --> 00:39:50,880
kids on each one of these rosters
who could potentially have that. And then

546
00:39:50,920 --> 00:39:53,480
we're just we're gonna kick this kick
this can down the road another two years.

547
00:39:53,320 --> 00:40:00,079
It's maddening frustrating. What's the Princess
Bride line? In good CBA ball?

548
00:40:00,800 --> 00:40:05,280
I can see he routes, he
spouts off like three words in a

549
00:40:05,400 --> 00:40:07,360
row when he gets off frustrated.
I'm at that point I just can't remember

550
00:40:07,360 --> 00:40:12,239
the line. It's gonna come up
again. There's no question about it,

551
00:40:12,280 --> 00:40:15,280
all right, let's step away because
we got our Travis Manion Foundation on a

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roll segment when we come back,
and then we'll close it up with a

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few news and notes in our highlights
of the twenty twenty two season as well

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as our most outstanding player. Will
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partnering with us again this season to
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that have given that ultimate sacrifice and
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year, led by Ryan Mannion,
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deploying for the final time. If
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so grateful for the Travis Manion Foundation
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In this week on our final episode
of the season, we were on

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to remember Navy Seal Brian R.
Brill. He was a native of Stamford,

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Connecticut. It was among thirty US
service members killed on August the six,

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twenty eleven, when their CH forty
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Province of Afghanistan. Special warfare operator
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supporting operation and during freedom in Afghanistan. And he was born on August of

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School in ninety seven and then he
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one. He became a Navy Seal
in two and three and deployed in Iraq

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on four occasions in Afghanistan four times. He was awarded three Bronze Stars with

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Valor, a Joint Service Commendation Medal
with Valor, a Navy and Marine Corps

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Accommodation Medal, a Navy and Marine
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and more. And Brian survived by
his parents, doctor Michael and Patricia

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Perry, his father Scott Bill,
and brothers Christian and Morgan, and sisters

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Amy and Andrea. And the Brian
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with the help of his family,
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Special Operations Forces, active duty veterans
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nine to eleven and as a result
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traumatic stress in chronic pain, and
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ww dot Brian Bill Foundation dot org
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and Navy seals Adam Brown and Mark
Lee, along with the twenty nine others

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who died on their helicopter on August
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honored through the Travis mean and Foundations
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students excuse me. Forty three students
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in Middlebury, Connecticut on February the
eighteenth, twenty thirteen, and the girls

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there were challenged to learn the stories
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of service within their own communities.
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a lot more about the Travis Manion
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Academy Football. All right, final segment

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00:44:54,760 --> 00:45:01,360
here on our final episode of two
thousand and twenty two Arts and Stripes your

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home for Army, Navy, and
Air Force. And we got a few

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00:45:05,480 --> 00:45:07,559
news and notes to pass along real
quickly before we get into some of our

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00:45:07,840 --> 00:45:14,360
two twenty two superlatives that Mike,
Steve and myself we're going to go through.

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But before we get to those,
want to talk about the Air Force

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Academy in the Naval Academy. They
are two US seven schools that will share

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00:45:22,519 --> 00:45:29,719
the American Football Coaches Association twenty twenty
two Academic Achievement Award presented by the Memphis

616
00:45:29,800 --> 00:45:35,800
Touchdown Club. Seven schools sharing that
award recorded a one percent graduation rate for

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00:45:35,920 --> 00:45:42,280
members of their twenty fifteen freshman football
student athlete class. Air Force receives the

618
00:45:42,320 --> 00:45:45,960
award for the second time, while
this is the Navy, while the Naval

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Academy's first time receiving the award.
That from a press release from the AFCA,

620
00:45:53,039 --> 00:45:57,000
which I'm not sure why. It
goes back to twenty fifteen, because

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that's quite a ways back. Navy
linebacker coach PJ. Vulker promoted to defensive

622
00:46:01,440 --> 00:46:06,320
coordinator under new head coach Brian Newberry. Obviously, like I mentioned, he

623
00:46:06,360 --> 00:46:10,800
was a linebacker coach. Now he
will be the defensive coordinator under Brian Newberry.

624
00:46:12,079 --> 00:46:17,119
Question in Monks everybody, in terms
of midshipman fans is what is the

625
00:46:17,119 --> 00:46:20,920
offensive staff going to look like?
Well, we don't know just yet because

626
00:46:20,920 --> 00:46:24,039
there is no official word or reports
out about that, at least that I've

627
00:46:24,039 --> 00:46:29,760
seen, and just after finishing our
last episode, it did become official the

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00:46:29,760 --> 00:46:34,519
next day that Drew Thatcher announces the
new offensive coordinator at Army and additionally the

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00:46:34,679 --> 00:46:38,679
Black Knights promoting three other coaches on
staff. Matt Drinkle to co offensive coordinator

630
00:46:38,719 --> 00:46:45,519
which we talked about, Mike VD
to assistant head coach for offense offensive line,

631
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and then Cody Worley to the run
game coordinator and quarterback coach. So

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that is just a couple of things
as we get ready to close up here

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00:46:53,800 --> 00:47:00,599
on the twenty twenty two seasons.
Also want to congratulate my friend Tys O'Neil,

634
00:47:00,800 --> 00:47:07,199
WWE wrestler superstar and he was the
Grand Marshal for the Military Bowl going

635
00:47:07,239 --> 00:47:13,199
on today as we're taping this between
Duke and UCF at Navy Marine Corps Memorial

636
00:47:13,239 --> 00:47:16,159
Stadium in Annapolis. H Titus O'Neil, who's real name is Dad Bullard,

637
00:47:16,800 --> 00:47:22,760
played college football at the University of
Florida. His son TJ is a freshman

638
00:47:22,800 --> 00:47:27,800
at UCF, so he's getting the
uh the look, the up close and

639
00:47:27,880 --> 00:47:34,079
personal look at Navy Marine Corps Memorial
Stadium here today as UCF takes on Duke.

640
00:47:34,199 --> 00:47:38,400
So congratulations to Titus. A great
humanitarian and I can't think of a

641
00:47:38,440 --> 00:47:42,599
better Grand Marshal for the Military Bowl
than him. Price. That's one of

642
00:47:42,599 --> 00:47:45,159
the other things you missed by not
being down here in Tampa with Steve and

643
00:47:45,159 --> 00:47:47,840
I is all the WWE wrestlers that
live here. Hey, I'm going I'm

644
00:47:47,840 --> 00:47:53,360
going to SmackDown on Friday, So
uh here at Amily Arena. I used

645
00:47:53,400 --> 00:47:59,960
to go, actually used to go
in DC because our wrestling coach, Joe

646
00:48:00,000 --> 00:48:05,000
will share it. He wrestled with
Kurt Angle in college and so whenever there,

647
00:48:05,800 --> 00:48:08,840
yeah, yeah, whenever they would
come to DC, he'd always hit

648
00:48:08,920 --> 00:48:14,960
up all Angle and I drugged Joel
with me one time he couldn't take it.

649
00:48:14,960 --> 00:48:16,559
He was ready to leave about not
even halfway through it, just because

650
00:48:16,559 --> 00:48:20,159
it was such a joke. But
it was fun just to go with him,

651
00:48:20,800 --> 00:48:23,800
all right. Highlights of the twenty
and twenty two season before we give

652
00:48:23,800 --> 00:48:29,320
out our Yards and Stripes twenty twenty
two most Outstanding Player, which I don't

653
00:48:29,320 --> 00:48:31,079
think that's going to be too big
of a secret. But what do you

654
00:48:31,119 --> 00:48:35,159
think? What was the highlight of
the season or highlights of the season for

655
00:48:35,199 --> 00:48:37,519
you guys? What do you think, Mike? I think I think for

656
00:48:37,599 --> 00:48:43,519
me, it was the second half
of the Army Navy game, the overtime,

657
00:48:43,599 --> 00:48:45,639
the key of the tying field goal, Murrizky's tying field goal and the

658
00:48:46,519 --> 00:48:51,039
Force fumble and in second overtime,
and then Murritzky hitting that game winner,

659
00:48:51,199 --> 00:48:52,480
and then going back to the end
of the first half the block punt.

660
00:48:52,559 --> 00:48:57,079
Army's season didn't start out the way
it wanted to, too close losses Coastal

661
00:48:57,119 --> 00:49:00,840
and UTSA. Then they dropped another
game and they're not going to be Bowl

662
00:49:00,880 --> 00:49:04,400
eligible, but they wrapped it up
the best way they could with a with

663
00:49:04,440 --> 00:49:09,480
a thrilling two OT win over Navy
and some dramatic special teams played in that

664
00:49:09,719 --> 00:49:15,199
punching the ball out inches from the
goal line. Having Ben Chase, who's

665
00:49:15,239 --> 00:49:17,239
setting the record for number of games
having yards and Stripes, being able to

666
00:49:17,280 --> 00:49:21,719
host him for that game, and
for him to witness Army Navy for the

667
00:49:21,760 --> 00:49:24,440
first time with us, that that
was really you know, it's hard to

668
00:49:24,480 --> 00:49:30,000
have a better highlight than a two
overtime Army Navy game. Uh So,

669
00:49:30,039 --> 00:49:34,280
I know I'm captain obvious here,
but for me, it was was that

670
00:49:34,360 --> 00:49:37,920
block punt and then uh, you
know, the over to the last minute

671
00:49:37,920 --> 00:49:42,719
field goal in the overtime dramatics of
another classic Army Navy game, one of

672
00:49:42,719 --> 00:49:49,920
the few rivalries that just never really
disappoints. Steve. Yeah. For me,

673
00:49:50,280 --> 00:49:54,280
uh, it's really the back end
of Navy's season, the last the

674
00:49:54,360 --> 00:49:58,960
last quarter of Navy's season. I
mean, you remember when they got started

675
00:49:58,960 --> 00:50:01,519
and they lost to Delaware in the
first week of the season. We all

676
00:50:01,599 --> 00:50:06,039
know, Jesus, here we go, this is gonna be another awful ride.

677
00:50:06,599 --> 00:50:08,960
But then to see what they did
in a loss to Notre Dame.

678
00:50:09,639 --> 00:50:14,280
Uh, you know, even though
that was in Annapolis. Uh, you

679
00:50:14,320 --> 00:50:16,719
know the fact that they were able
to come back and and really put a

680
00:50:16,840 --> 00:50:23,639
scare into the fighting Irish and then
to go to Orlando and beat UCF on

681
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the road, and then what happened
with with the double overtime game against Army.

682
00:50:29,360 --> 00:50:31,119
Yes, I know they finished the
final quarter of the season one and

683
00:50:31,159 --> 00:50:35,280
two, but I really thought that
they showed a hell of a lot of

684
00:50:35,320 --> 00:50:38,119
fight, uh in that in a
team that you know, could have rolled

685
00:50:38,119 --> 00:50:40,800
over and said, you know,
what the hell with it? And they

686
00:50:40,840 --> 00:50:45,719
certainly did not. They had I
thought, a fantastic finish, even though

687
00:50:46,079 --> 00:50:50,400
a couple of the results weren't the
way that they wanted to go. Uh,

688
00:50:50,440 --> 00:50:53,599
they definitely showed themselves. Well,
yeah, I thought, um,

689
00:50:53,800 --> 00:50:58,360
there were several for me, uh, you know Air Force certainly as a

690
00:50:58,400 --> 00:51:00,960
Commander in Chief trophy winners. You
know, I was trying to think back

691
00:51:00,960 --> 00:51:04,920
of a moment if there was like
a specific moment, and I couldn't think

692
00:51:04,920 --> 00:51:09,360
of one. Uh for Air Force's
season, you know that their closest wins

693
00:51:09,400 --> 00:51:15,079
were you know, over the Service
Academy Team's Army in Navy. So probably

694
00:51:15,199 --> 00:51:17,199
just you know, I think overall
for you know, some of the eye

695
00:51:17,199 --> 00:51:22,840
popping numbers that Brad Roberts put up, you know, along the way,

696
00:51:22,119 --> 00:51:25,840
that was one of them, um, you know, because he won the

697
00:51:25,840 --> 00:51:30,079
Commander Chief Trope and doing it,
you know against Army, you know,

698
00:51:30,119 --> 00:51:32,480
by six thirteen to seven in November, in the game that Mike was at.

699
00:51:32,719 --> 00:51:37,199
I think another one was you know, there are certainly moments for all,

700
00:51:37,400 --> 00:51:39,639
you know, for Air Force and
mentioned I think maybe for Navy was

701
00:51:39,719 --> 00:51:45,679
probably you know, the Daniel Davies
field goal in for in double overtime,

702
00:51:45,199 --> 00:51:49,039
you know, the game winner,
because he hit one to put it what

703
00:51:49,199 --> 00:51:52,880
in to send it to overtime?
Then he hit what want did he hit

704
00:51:52,880 --> 00:51:54,800
one in the first overtime? I
can't remember, but they get a turnover

705
00:51:54,840 --> 00:51:59,039
and he kicks that field goal in
the second overtime and he was a guy

706
00:51:59,079 --> 00:52:02,039
that hadn't even played because bj and
Nichols was hurt. So he comes out

707
00:52:02,039 --> 00:52:06,280
of nowhere and saves the day in
a game that we all were like,

708
00:52:06,320 --> 00:52:08,119
well, how bad is Navy gonna
get beat? That's basically the only question

709
00:52:08,159 --> 00:52:10,719
we had, you know. And
then certainly for Army. You know,

710
00:52:10,719 --> 00:52:15,880
the lasting memory is you know,
the ball coming out at the goal line

711
00:52:15,920 --> 00:52:20,360
by Anton Hall junior Navy. It's
punched out literally at the goal line and

712
00:52:20,679 --> 00:52:23,440
Army recovers in Bam kicking that field
goal game set match to win the Army

713
00:52:23,519 --> 00:52:27,920
Navy game. I mean, there
were moments by all three teams, but

714
00:52:28,000 --> 00:52:30,880
you know, I think probably Rice
I got your air Force moment for you.

715
00:52:31,119 --> 00:52:36,400
How about that just drubbing of Colorado
at the Air Force Academy in that

716
00:52:36,519 --> 00:52:39,360
weather after what, you know,
after the bad blood left by Colorado several

717
00:52:39,440 --> 00:52:44,079
years ago. That was big,
just air Force, you know, just

718
00:52:44,079 --> 00:52:49,360
putting their foot down on Colorado and
just stopping them and kind of exacting a

719
00:52:49,400 --> 00:52:52,039
little bit of revenge. And then
I think for air Force also the win

720
00:52:52,119 --> 00:52:54,199
over San Diego State kind of exercise
a little bit of a demon there.

721
00:52:54,239 --> 00:53:00,199
But for me, for air Force, really that's just thumping of Colorado.

722
00:53:00,599 --> 00:53:04,679
Bad weather. You could tell Colorado
who whined no part of that air Force

723
00:53:04,719 --> 00:53:08,800
team and it was probably brought beyond
Sanders to Boulder. Well, Carl Darell

724
00:53:08,920 --> 00:53:14,159
was going anyway that that was That
was by far the worst POWERFI program in

725
00:53:14,239 --> 00:53:16,920
all of the United States. They
were just awful. And that's saying something

726
00:53:17,000 --> 00:53:22,280
seeing as you and I are both
in Tampa, yea, and and I

727
00:53:22,320 --> 00:53:23,599
grew up you know, I was
in I grew up in Nashville too,

728
00:53:23,599 --> 00:53:30,079
so I spent Vanilt watching Vanderbilt play, uh you know, in the hours

729
00:53:30,079 --> 00:53:31,800
where I wasn't watching Tennessee. But
yeah, Carl Darell was going anyway.

730
00:53:31,840 --> 00:53:35,719
But yeah, but for me,
for price to going back to air Force,

731
00:53:35,800 --> 00:53:37,800
I think that that thumping of Colorado
at air Force, that was just

732
00:53:37,840 --> 00:53:43,119
a that was a football players game
right there, where they just dominated another

733
00:53:43,159 --> 00:53:45,480
team, just imposed their will on
them. Yeah. They owned the state

734
00:53:45,559 --> 00:53:50,280
this year too. I mean they
they literally own the state of Colorado.

735
00:53:50,320 --> 00:53:52,880
And there's no question best team in
the state of Colorado. I think they

736
00:53:52,960 --> 00:53:57,599
might want to have a little bit
of a bite of the apple for the

737
00:53:58,119 --> 00:54:00,960
Denver Broncos. Not that they could
beat them, but that's how high the

738
00:54:01,000 --> 00:54:05,280
Falcons are flying right now. It's
the winners of the Commander in Chief Trophy,

739
00:54:05,320 --> 00:54:08,760
all right, twenty twenty two most
outstanding player from US here at Yards

740
00:54:08,760 --> 00:54:12,519
and Stripes. Is there really any
debate? Is there really any question?

741
00:54:12,679 --> 00:54:17,719
Is there really any conversation outside of
the winner who It's about as obvious as

742
00:54:17,760 --> 00:54:21,559
you can get. Yeah, I
was gonna say we should all say who

743
00:54:21,559 --> 00:54:29,800
the winner is. On the count
of three, one, two, three,

744
00:54:28,639 --> 00:54:35,199
Yeah, what congratulations. Yeah,
yeah, there's no doubt about it.

745
00:54:35,239 --> 00:54:40,480
Brad Roberts, the senior from Arvoda, calif Arvoda, Colorado, product

746
00:54:40,519 --> 00:54:46,119
of Ralston Valley High School, as
mentioned, just what an outstanding season he's

747
00:54:46,159 --> 00:54:52,039
had, caring for over seventeen hundred
yards this season. And you know,

748
00:54:52,480 --> 00:54:55,239
I talked about it a little bit
earlier in the season, Mike. If

749
00:54:55,239 --> 00:55:00,239
I had the vote now and you
could vote at the very end to the

750
00:55:00,280 --> 00:55:01,960
season, which is way I think, you know, the Heisman should be

751
00:55:01,960 --> 00:55:05,119
done. This is why I think
all Americans should be I don't think he

752
00:55:05,119 --> 00:55:08,639
should be voting while their games going
on. I would put Brad Roberts on

753
00:55:08,679 --> 00:55:13,880
a second team All American ballot at
this point. Yeah. I mean,

754
00:55:15,239 --> 00:55:17,519
there's a lot of good running backs
this year. The fact that he didn't

755
00:55:17,519 --> 00:55:22,639
show up on any ballot, not
even a couple of the awardees that do

756
00:55:22,760 --> 00:55:25,239
third team ballots, to me is
criminal. I'm shot. Yeah, I'm

757
00:55:25,280 --> 00:55:29,039
sure. I under the kid at
Illinois had a really good season. I

758
00:55:29,079 --> 00:55:32,320
know Abraheim at Minnesota had a really
good season. But what Roberts has done

759
00:55:32,360 --> 00:55:35,760
this year, and I get it. He plays in the Mountain West,

760
00:55:36,199 --> 00:55:38,239
so you got the competition angle,
you got the time zone angle. You

761
00:55:38,239 --> 00:55:40,480
know, a lot of not a
lot of people watching what he's done.

762
00:55:40,679 --> 00:55:44,400
You got the offensive angle. Yeah, you get the all you know,

763
00:55:44,440 --> 00:55:46,599
the by product a system running back, you know, if there is a

764
00:55:46,639 --> 00:55:51,280
such thing, right, But yeah, I think it's I think it's borderline

765
00:55:51,280 --> 00:55:54,840
criminal h that he wouldn't at least
on a third team All American ballot because

766
00:55:54,840 --> 00:55:58,519
he just had a tremendous season.
If you watch, it's one of those

767
00:55:58,519 --> 00:56:02,440
things where if you just watch the
film, you'll just watch him just crush

768
00:56:02,599 --> 00:56:07,360
defensive lineman and linebackers over and over
and over and over again. It's it's

769
00:56:07,400 --> 00:56:10,800
really it's one of those things where
it's kind of like the Mona Lisa.

770
00:56:10,840 --> 00:56:14,719
The more you look at it,
the more impressive it becomes. If you

771
00:56:14,800 --> 00:56:15,920
just walk right past it, you're
just like, oh, it's just another

772
00:56:15,920 --> 00:56:19,719
pretty late on a painting. But
if you stand there and stare at it

773
00:56:19,760 --> 00:56:22,400
for thirty minutes or an hour,
you see the beauty in it. It

774
00:56:22,519 --> 00:56:27,440
takes you, it just takes you
in to appreciate it. Yeah, it

775
00:56:27,480 --> 00:56:30,320
was incredible. I mean, Brad
Roberts has just you know, had a

776
00:56:30,440 --> 00:56:34,159
season unlike uh, I mean really, I guess maybe the numbers would be,

777
00:56:34,400 --> 00:56:36,840
you know, like a Malcolm Perry, you know kind of type,

778
00:56:37,199 --> 00:56:42,000
or Keenan Reynolds you know from from
Navy. Different being a running back versus

779
00:56:42,000 --> 00:56:45,719
a quarterback because a quarterback has the
ball in their hands every time. Yeah,

780
00:56:45,760 --> 00:56:50,440
you got you gotta go back to
like Napoleon McCallum to be honest,

781
00:56:50,519 --> 00:56:52,880
to find a running back. I'll
push back a little bit. I mean,

782
00:56:52,960 --> 00:56:58,119
Kenyan Riynolds set the NC DOUBA record
for touchdowns, right, yeah,

783
00:56:58,119 --> 00:57:00,840
I mean it's a little bit again, that's different Ronal Still. I mean

784
00:57:00,840 --> 00:57:04,079
that's a guy, you know,
literally that was on Heisman ballots and should

785
00:57:04,079 --> 00:57:06,960
have been in New York. I
mean, he'd been absolutely criminal that he

786
00:57:07,079 --> 00:57:09,719
was not in New York for that
agreed because they had a helicopter ready to

787
00:57:09,719 --> 00:57:13,679
take him from the Army Navy game
to New York. That that you know,

788
00:57:14,239 --> 00:57:17,159
you know, Stone's throw from Philadelphia
to Update. That's that's coming from

789
00:57:17,159 --> 00:57:20,920
a guy who's as big of an
Army fan as anybody that kids should have

790
00:57:20,920 --> 00:57:22,920
been in New York. That was
that was criminal. Yeah yeah, not

791
00:57:22,920 --> 00:57:28,760
not Peyton Manning criminal, but uh
pretty close. But without a doubt Roberts.

792
00:57:28,840 --> 00:57:31,880
I'm shocked he didn't show up on
some All American ballots, especially like

793
00:57:31,960 --> 00:57:36,519
as a third team at worst.
All right, before we get out of

794
00:57:36,559 --> 00:57:39,320
here, guys, anything else,
I know that we're gonna close up shop

795
00:57:39,360 --> 00:57:45,119
on twenty twenty two. Wish all
our listeners a very happy twenty twenty three.

796
00:57:45,239 --> 00:57:50,480
Thank everybody that is journeyed with us
through this this college football season with

797
00:57:50,599 --> 00:57:52,599
Army, Navy and Air Force.
It's had a lot of incredible moments.

798
00:57:52,639 --> 00:57:59,239
We had some great times on the
show. Cannot thank you Mike enough for

799
00:57:59,440 --> 00:58:02,320
joining on this year and Steve same
thing with you. Guys are the best

800
00:58:02,320 --> 00:58:07,239
co host that I could find.
Especially Steve too for putting together every episode.

801
00:58:07,360 --> 00:58:13,159
Is the producer extraordinaire of not just
Yards and Stripes, but other podcasts

802
00:58:13,199 --> 00:58:17,199
here on the College Gridiron Coast to
Coast podcast network. Thank you guys immensely

803
00:58:17,880 --> 00:58:22,159
from the bottom of my heart.
It's been a blast. Mike Price,

804
00:58:22,199 --> 00:58:24,199
I would just like to recognize our
listeners and I would just encourage our listeners

805
00:58:24,239 --> 00:58:28,559
to reach out to us. We're
listener friendly. Reach out to us on

806
00:58:28,599 --> 00:58:31,119
our on our Twitter account. Uh
you know, I'm at Mike l Underscore,

807
00:58:31,199 --> 00:58:36,639
LWS Price, Well, what's can
you can you give? And the

808
00:58:36,719 --> 00:58:39,679
Yards and Stripes account at yards and
Stripes on Twitter and you can follow us

809
00:58:39,679 --> 00:58:45,880
on Facebook Steve yep and I am
at Steve Carney and you can reach out

810
00:58:45,920 --> 00:58:52,119
to all of the podcasts on the
college Gridiron Coast to Coast podcast network at

811
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Gridiron Coast. Also, I want
to thank our sponsors here uh this year,

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Ticket Smarter and BetUS dot com for
all the the in the belief in

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us in getting getting this up podcast
out to as many of our listeners as

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we can and as many college service
academy football fans that are out there.

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Yeah, as I mentioned during the
TMF segment, you know, once again

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thanks to the Travis Manion Foundation for
you know, being with us yet again

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this season on Yards and Stripes.
But that will do it for us in

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twenty twenty two, you know,
once again, Happy new year to all

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our listeners. But thank you to
every single person that's invested time listening,

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whether it's one episode, every episode, every single week. It's just been

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a blast to do this with all
our listeners because they're the ones that we

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do this one four So thank you
to everybody that has tuned in and taking

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time to listen to us as offer
feedback that's tweeted us during the season,

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send us messages what you like,
what you don't like, with everything across

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our fingers and hope we will be
able to be back and do this with

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you again next season, because I
know it's something that I look forward to

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and hopefully I will be able to
have my two guys, Mike love All

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and Steve Carney with me once again
next season. For Mike and Steve,

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we will talk to you next year. In the meantime, have a happy

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new year. We'll talk soon.
Join us again next time for Yards and

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