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The following is a presentation of play
Fly Sports properties. Welcome everybody, This

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is Sparta. I'm your host Jason
Strayhorn, along with my co hosts Otis

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Wiley and Jayu to to culprit and
everybody. You know what this is something

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that we just had to do breaking
news is the Hypocrisy edition of This is

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Sparta because we just felt that it
was something so agreeious that we could not

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wait till next week to bringing the
news and what we know and the updates

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that we have thus far. Obviously
we all know what happened at the Michigan

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game and the tunnel incident, and
you know, we had to literally drag

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Otis Wiley on this call because he
didn't want to do it. He wants

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to turn the page and move on, but it's hard to move on when

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hypocrisies happened. And hypocrisy has definitely
occurred in ann Arbor, as we find

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out yesterday that Mozzi Smith had been
charged with felony weapons charge and this happened.

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You know, we're going through a
timeline of this. There is an

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incident that happened on October seventh in
the morning. Now, now if you

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look at that date. Michigan played
at Indiana on October eighth, So he

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was arrested in the morning on a
Friday morning, going like Thursday night,

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going to Friday morning, and got
was able to come out of jail and

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get on the team playing go down
to Indiana, and no one heard a

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peek. Guys, what say about
the news that has come out? Yeah,

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I think the biggest thing, I
think you hit it on the head

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about the hypocrisy there. If that
was something that happened to a player in

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East Lanson, if it was a
Michigan State player, that would have been

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front page in center, it would
have been on ESPN, some other stories

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would have been tied into it.
It would have been based on the culture

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in East Lanson these you know.
So I think it's absolutely ridiculous that this

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kid was arrested and had the opportunity
to play, you know, to fly

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with the team that same day and
play without anything being said. But when

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we talked about the tunnel incident,
you know, you have Ward Manual,

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the ad at Michigan and Jim Harbaugh
sitting there talking about how outrageous this is

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and how you know these guys have
to be charged to the furthest extent of

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the law. An apology won't do
it. You know, they have to

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be suspended now and everything. You
know, I get it. People will

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say, you know, let it's
innocent til proven guilty. Michigan State players

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were not, you know, provided
that same goodwill of innocent til proven guilty

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even though but you know, I
get there was video. But just like

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this, you want the due process
to play out. But you can't be

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sitting there in a press conference,
living in a glass house and throwing stones

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at the same time, because you
know, what you do in the dark

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will come out in the light one
hundred percent, said Otis. I had

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a thought and I had a comment, But Jay, you just did it

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so elegantly, like just verbal like
he verbalized what I was obviously trying to

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put together in my own my own
head of like the gall the audacity to

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put our guys up on the chopping
block immediately. And this goes from internally

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all the way to their entire fan
base. And I'm not saying entire fan

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base, because I have friends who
are are fans there, and you know,

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have talked to me about this,
and we've had conversations about the tunnel

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but when your house, your own
house is not clean, but then you

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go to somebody else's house and you
condemn them because they're messy or they don't

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they're not organized. This is just
the absolutely positively disgrace on the situation of

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keeping the same energy that you had
for us internally for them. And this

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also has to be discussed about,
you know, the conference and the amount

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of energy that they put forth to
condemn us from how we manage this.

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And you know, we were all
working cohesively with them to discuss you know,

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the parameters even without the investigation.
But then this is happening and meaning

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that these guys are winning at all
costs, and Jim Harball and and the

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athletic director are collectively saying, hey, we know the character of this guy

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on our student athlete. He is
he's a kind human being. It just

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makes absolutely no sense. And I
love that we're addressing it right now because

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no one is fully coming out there
discussing this public and this is what we're

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about. Uh is discussing this right
right head on? Yeah, absolutely otics

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And you know, sticking to that
theme there, and you talked about,

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you know, you have a messy
house and going to someone else's house.

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And it's for the same things for
those people that when we came here and

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we talked about, you know,
the tunnel incident, and we said,

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you know, that should not have
happened, but this, that and other,

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and people were firing at us,
sending us messages, sending messages to

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the football department, Coach Tucker's you
know place have to be under you know,

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police security, all those things,
putting families in jeopardy because of what

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these fans are saying there, saying
it's a cultural problem at East Lanson.

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The head coach does not have the
programming order. These guys are a bunch

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of thugs attacking their families, attacking
kids who were not even in Michigan State

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yet but committed to Michigan State attacking
their families. And then this is happening,

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and everyone wants to keep quiet.
Everyone wants to keep quiet from the

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top down, from ward Manual,
Jim Harball, the entire Michigan football program,

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the deep, deep fan base that
you know spew that hate. Shame

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on you with our question. Oh
hey, listen, but guys, you

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don't understand like I understand the emotions
that are coming from both of you guys,

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and you guys are holding together pretty
good because I know this really ticks

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you off to the core. I
mean when you look at the timeline of

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events, we talked about Misi Smith. I don't really know Misi Smith.

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This is nothing against Missie Smith.
This is totally for the machine that is

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Michigan, the blue wall that everybody
talks about. They act like it doesn't

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exist, but something it absolutely exists, and this is a prime example of

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it. You going back to a
couple of days before the Michigan Michigan State

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game. God by the name of
Donovan Edwards. I don't know if you

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guys know who that is. You
know he absolutely crushed it against Ohio State

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this this past week. Great kid, love him. Noah's family been knowing

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MC was yay, high kid.
Okay, talk to his father yesterday for

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over an hour. Great family.
Nothing against him, but he has a

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slip of the finger or whatever it
was with Twitter and retweeted some Kanye West's

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anti Semitism things that we've seen guys
like Kyrie and Irvin get destroyed for absolutely

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destroyed, and so did Kanye himself, rightfully so. And there wasn't even

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a sense. There wasn't even a
half, not a quarter, no,

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not a thought that he would miss
any time playing the game of football.

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Okay, So if that's the way
we're going to do it, then I

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just say keep that same energy with
everything else. Isn't that what we do

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when we sign up to be coaches, when we sign up to be in

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public institutions like the University of Michigan, like Warden Emmanuel, like a guy

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like him, you know, a
former athlete, a guy like you know,

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Jim Harbaugh who played the game.
He protects his players. But you

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want to bury enough. I don't
think that that's at all, right,

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You can't this This stuff will define
that program. These things are coming out

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and they're gonna try to say,
well, this was on video and that

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wasn't The facts are the facts,
guys, you know, and this is

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something that you just cannot change.
You cannot turn a blind eye to gun

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possession and you know, anti semitism
and all those things. And then because

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the other the team, because the
guys are wearing a different color than you,

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then we bury them. But let's
go to the news today. The

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kids, a lot of a couple
of players from Michigan say, were arraigned

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today, and during the arraignment,
the judge basically says that they're not allowed

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to have any contact with the University
of Michigan, no players, no coaches,

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or they can't go to Ann Arbor. And you know, one of

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the attorneys, Wade Think, did
bring up the fact that he objected to

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it and was allowed to talk on
the record, and he basically pointed to

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the fact that I didn't don't recall
other coaches, you know, being able

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to be being censored from going to
Wisconsin. You know, he brought up

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again the basketball coach from Michigan in
the fight that had that happened last year,

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that they can't ban him from going
to an entire university from what happened

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in an emotionally charged environment, right, And that's what they chose to do

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with Michigan State players as it stands
right now. You know, there was

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also a push to get all the
players that have been charged michign State drug

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tested, not allowed to leave the
state, things like that. But the

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timing of this, when the charges
were dropped was conveniently after Harball had his

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press conference. Now you will not
speak to Jim Harbaugh until after the Big

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Ten Championship game. Guys, how
do you think about that? How do

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you feel about that? Like there's
no consequence right now they're down in Indianapolis

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preparing for the Big Ten Championship game
with no consequence whatsoever. Oh my gosh,

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man, is it is? It's
frustrating. And you try to get

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this, you try to have the
same level of justice, right we will.

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We want fair fair shot, fair
chance, and how things get handled.

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You mentioned it stray about you know, just the it all stemmed from

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them. It all stinned from them
down the road of understanding that if they

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were just took responsibility, uh,
and then obviously figured out a way to

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protect everyone involved. I feel like
the rivalry played so much bad blood into

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this rivalty play so much into this, you know, gang war against us

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on the criminal justice piece of it
is, it's nonsense, man, like,

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it's it is a I'm just I'm
speechless when it comes to it,

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because it is truly we're talking tampering. We're talking like, hey, hey,

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we're gonna we'll bail you out and
you play. You hop on this

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plane right away, go play Indiana. Oh you know what, you're good

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man, Just take that tweet down
you play against us in in uh in

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our rivalry with the battle of Paul
Bunyan, Like truly, what is that?

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What is that message into people that
are are watching this and following and

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more so with their their recruits and
and families coming in, like, you

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know, no matter what happens,
We're gonna take care of you from all

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all facets of your life. You
know you get in trouble. No,

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let's let's talk about focus on a
mile across the street with Imani Bates,

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same jurisdysic jurisdiction, same situation.
We want to just knock this dude off

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the planet and put him out of
his his dream of playing basketball and without

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even truly doing Like if he if
he was in if he was a Michigan

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overring, none of this would have
happened. That's extremely the story and conclusion

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on the same situation that happened with
him. Imani Bates was suspended one day

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after his arrest, suspended, no
questions asked. You know, I've seen

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people in the media absolutely killing the
guy, saying and you know, he's

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a thug, he's this, he's
that, he's everything wrong with basketball and

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turns out. It wasn't his.
It wasn't it. He was part on

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someone else's car, you know.
And and I know, I know the

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Michigan fan base is gonna say,
oh, but this situation was different.

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He didn't have serial numbers and this
kid like had applied for his license.

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I mean, like save it like
that that right there, Like, it's

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not about the difference in cases.
It's about the difference in energy that you

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put out there. That is what
the issue is. And then let's talk

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about the Washington County Prosecutor Eli Sovia. We were talking about a University of

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Michigan grad law school. Now,
you know, this is a guy who

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went to Anabra Pioneer. You know, he was an eighth grade teacher.

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Started his career as an eighth grade
teacher. I would think that this guy

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has a heart. It's special education
teacher. Like, this is a guy

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in the public school system coming out
of it looks like Kalamazoo College. You

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know, this is a guy that
you would think is going to have a

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heart for what's right and what's good. That he wouldn't look at colors,

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you know, That's what I'm saying, Like blue versus green, like that

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right there. That's a prejudice for
what why is it different? He knew

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that this kid was arrested in charge
when he came with the Chargers on the

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seven out of eight players from Michigan
State, all those players missed. Seven

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out of eight players missed four games. Mozzie has missed zero. One of

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the Michigan State players will be out
for twelve games in total as he continues

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to go through his legal process.
There is no real legal process, there's

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no there is no punishment, there's
no consequence for the others. That's he

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didn't you know? This is the
Seeli Sabac goes on to law school at

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the University of Michigan. He currently
is a lecturer for the Law School of

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the University of Michigan. And I
know that there's been reporters that have reached

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out to the University of Michigan regents
for comment. There's been no comment.

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No one knows when they knew anything
about this. But guys, I find

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it very coincidental that as soon as
the charges were dropped, statements were already

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teed up and ready to hand out
to the media from both Ward Manuel and

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Jim Harbaugh. How about that written
statements were already cooked up ready to go

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as they got on the plane to
go to Indy. Yeah, you know,

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Jason, that's that's a good point. You know, if the whole

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thing with that is just like you
talked about it at the beginning, it's

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just hypocrisy, hypocrisy, hypocrisy,
that's all it is. And you can't

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have this. You know, Michigan
State players. Once that happened, it

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was automatically guilty until proven innocent.
And now with this everyone's trying to be

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like innocent or proven guilty, let
the due process play out. You know,

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those same people are saying that,
and you talked about it otis you

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know about keeping that same energy.
And you can't sit here and tell me

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that that prosecutor is sitting there and
he can look himself in the mirror and

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say, I'm doing everything by the
book, I'm doing everything fair because at

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the end of the day, I'm
not stupid. You're not stupid. So

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don't piss in my boot and tell
me it's raining outside because it's a grandpapy

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that that that's definitely you know,
we had a comment just here like he

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this is you cannot be a part
of something any investigations. Yes, like

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that that's basically water, that's blood
in the water. You already have a

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positive, I say, your majority
of on the wrong side already, like

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you're already leaning towards UH, a
prejudice or something of bias with this coming.

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You know this deal, right,
So he gets paid from the institution.

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Yeah, man's he works there,
He went there, he works there,

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And I just give us, hey, give us a little doubt,

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give us our hundred thousand dollars back
from the penalty that we got from the

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from the network or the conference.
And you need to go and and go

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get that from them too, because
like this is even in that whole situation,

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we get a public repormand and then
we got to pay one hundred thousand

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dollars Like that don't even sound completely
because it should have been all like the

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incident of the tunnel should never happen. Why aren't they paying dollars? You

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know, it's even that as a
difference in the issues of our ore,

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you know, our issues with the
conference. And so there's no one publicly

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out here discussing it uh and being
outlanders, because I think people are like,

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you know what we've already did what
we had to do and now we're

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focused on the future. But this
stuff is gonna keep coming up, and

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there's gonna be future issues with this
playing us and you know for next season

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and then we still got to play
in basketball. So there's gonna be some

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thanks right here, man, of
like, how is this gonna fold?

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How is it gonna unfold? As
we continuous to do this, and then

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I better see some press or some
timelines on Saturday tomorrow or there's big championship

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game talking about these these players and
the issues that's going on on that team

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down the road. I get it
guaranteed the media is going to try to

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clean that up too, and and
it up like you know, this is

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the Purdue versus Michigan on and we
need to focus on some of this stuff

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too. Yeah. National media isn't
even really talking about it, guys.

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National media isn't picking it up.
Just you know who controls the national media.

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They're not bringing anything up about this. And as you said, something

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needs to be done at the big
ten level. Oh that's you said that

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perfectly. I mean there has to
be a common you know, Commissioner Warren

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has to weigh in on this.
He's got a weigh in on this because

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he was there at the Michigan Michigan
State game. He was there at present

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and he saw the post fight stuff. He was in the tunnel, he

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was assessing the damages and he did
the best he could and to come out

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with a decision that he thought levy
a level decision from up top. But

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this right here, with this information, to turn the blind eye to it,

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to not censor them or find them
or what that that would be a

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huge black eye to the to the
conference, be a huge black guy to

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Michigan State. Because I'm gonna tell
you what. You know, we've been

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covering. We're going into recruiting season, We're going into transfer portal season right

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with How is this fair? How
can you have competitive balance? You know

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obviously we have nil and all these
things going on where this guy can pay

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for this. But we're talking on
basis hey is the society that the two

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schools traffic in, that they are, that they that they exist in.

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Is the government entity for you or
against you? Are they like Lady justice

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supposed to have a blind eye and
and the scales of justice is blind?

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Is that what it's really about?
Or if I'm a recruits mom or father

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dad looking at this saying hey,
if I'm ana recruit myself, I'm like,

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whoa man like I'm afraid to go
to East landsing right now? Like

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think about that, guys, This
ways, this is much bigger than Mindzi

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Smith. This is bigger than this. This is an overreaching situation that has

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to be stopped because it will have
a ripple effect that will go decades into

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this society. I'm telling for what
goes on in these Lancing versus ann Arbor

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if somebody doesn't do something about it, Yeah, you're right, you know,

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something has to be done about it. You know, there has to

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be a balance. There has to
be you know, the same thing for

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each school all through the conference,
not even just each Lands and ann Arbor.

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It has to be what happens at
this school is going to happen at

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that school and the other school.
It can't be you know, different circumstances

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for different schools. So you know, those guys down the road, they

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feel, like I always say,
they feel they invented the game of football.

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They have that sense of arrogance to
them that they can get away with

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whatever, and you know it will
just be swept under the rug and it's

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going to be you know, okay
after that. But you know it's starting

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to come out and more and more
people need to be able to, you

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know, speak up on it.
And uh, you know, I think

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I'm just carring. You know,
it's this guy gonna play tomorrow. No,

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there's no question he's gonna play.
I think he does. I don't.

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I don't see you after all this, now, after all this,

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now you know it's coming out,
do you say, hey, you're still

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playing or are you gonna say you're
suspended? Tell you know things smooth over?

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Like what why he's gonna play?
You know why he's gonna play?

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Like this is I like this tweet
here from a peach James at the peach

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of the President, when he asked, I want you to imagine if the

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takes if mel Tucker and Allen Howard
said anything close to the two statements that

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came from the athletic director Ward Manuel
or head football coach Jim Harbaugh. If

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you read these, I mean,
it's it's pretty egregious. You know,

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I don't know I have respect for
judicial process. Of course you do.

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You have confidence because it's on your
side, you push, you do.

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Mozzie's character right, like saying that
the eight players that he tried to burn

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at the State from Michigan State didn't
have good character. Those guys are great

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character kids. There's no hope prior
history of violence. Okay, we have

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of course they've played tomorrow. They're
hypocrites. Johnny Costanza says, right there,

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he's gonna play. You know why
he's gonna play, guys, You

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know why? Not only is he
a team captain, now only is her

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first team? All Big Ten coaches
and media. Did you see him perform

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in in Columbus? He he was
flushing c. J. Stroud out of

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the pocket, the thing he got
to him a couple of times, and

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the and the money that's involved with
that game that comes up tomorrow is way

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too big for them to pass up. Brother, I'm gonna tell you right

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now, he's playing. They don't
have the guts to not play them.

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They don't have the guts to not
play because he's too good on the field

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for them. And that's all they
really care about, really know, as

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you know who cares about it too, is uh his commissioned warringt coming out

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there talking like, hey, you
know, Ohio State should be Ohio State

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should be in the college football playoffs. You know, even if that loss

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happened, right like, that was
the immediate response to you know, getting

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too big ten teams in there.
I mean, yeah, Harbo got exactly

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what he wanted to tate our program
because you know, Tuck was coming.

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You know, we had our we
had our average year, but we we

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mount holding up baby Warreant regulators mounting
up, and he's trying to put it

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down and trying to push our program
down. This is one way to do

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it. It's sad. Let us
go back, and I'm not wanting us

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to join the big ten back in
the older days. Man, this is

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real and it still carries on,
it still exists today. Yeah, and

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uh, you know if this is
you know, just this whole thing here,

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when if we said it, when
the tunnel incidents happened, Harbos's up

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there just fanning the fire, making
that flame bigger and bigger. And then

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this happens, and Coach d said
it best. I don't care what anyone

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says. You know, hey,
let's move on from this, let's do

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that. This rivalry it's never gonna
be over, you know, coach d

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said it best. It's just getting
started. And especially with all these things

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that's coming up now, the difference, the way that the programs are treated

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differently. It's not over, it's
never gonna be over. It's just getting

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started. Hey did you did you
did you read Harball's response to uh,

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you know, disciplining his players with
playing the flag in the horseshoe. Yeah,

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he says he I'm gonna take that
flag and frame it and put in

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our museum. And who's who's in
the middle of that flag? Square?

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Square? Of course I wish oh, good, look, this is not

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a good look at all. This
is I read this too. I had

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a great article. It was the
Free Press. Mitch is a great writer.

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Obviously everyone knows this, but he
talked about the hypocrisy here. It's

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not a good look, admit that
much. Even if you're amazing blue maniac,

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you're a star football co captain.
Being arrested on gun possession, felling

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me in early October, being allowed
to play for Michigan the very next day,

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not being charged for seven weeks,
and continues to play Saturday after Saturday,

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and his school says nothing, and
after the Oh House, they game

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oh now, let's talk about it
right before the Big ten championship game.

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And they just dismiss everything like it's
a big deal. It's unremarkable. That's

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crazy in of itself. I mean
they want us to, you know,

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just there's a lot of things you
want to say here that you just have

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to hold your tongue a little bit, right, guys. I mean there's

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things that I know you say off
there that you just can't say right now

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because it does chat areas that we
don't want to unmentionables. Unmentionables. Yeah,

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pray to the Big Man himself man
for just please teach me Lord in

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the conviction that I go through daily
on this understanding what we have to deal

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with day to day weekly with this
type of stuff. With one I wish,

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I mean seeing them think about what's
going through our guys head, who

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had to go through what they just
went through. Just to see someone legitimately

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skim through the process continuously playing like
we've probably been about eligible far some of

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our guys would playing Jakobe winning.
We would think about the the think about

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the production that you took away from
these kids put film on paper for their

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future careers of the next level if
they, you know, have aspirations for

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that. This is a lot of
stuff they robbed from these kids that no

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one's coming out and publicly saying,
hey, my apologies for sorry, none

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of that. This is this is
on them for for forever. And I

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just my heart goes out to them, because these guys are looking down the

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road and it's like, man,
we only forty five forty five fifty minutes

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away, and I need to go
living in Arbory so I can get I

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got the protection for law enforcement behind
me. That's that's really the message is

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being said. These guys missed four
games of their career. They'll never get

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that back. And meanwhile, you
know, Michigan players missed zero time.

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So I question, so question for
this, Okay, your NFL scouts.

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So these guys, the Michigan State
players missed four games. They couldn't put

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that body of work on film,
all right, they couldn't you know,

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show off for the scouts. And
you go to the combine, NFL scout

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will talk about, you know,
hey, what happened in that fight,

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everything like that, and all this
tiff. I've been through the Combine process.

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I've been through you know, the
questioning from GMS, different questionables and

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everything like that. What do you
think a guy will will be You're talking

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about character? Okay, Hey,
after a rivory game, you got in

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a fight in a tunnel, okay, Or hey, the night before a

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game you were arrested with a gun. Character issues like which one if you're

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a GM of a team, would
you lean towards saying, Okay, this

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guy has better character than this guy, the guy who got in a fight

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in the tunnel while being taunted by
his opponent after a rivory game, or

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a guy in the early morning of
the you know, day of the morning

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karen a gun. I'm just saying, well, if the NFL looks at

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it, they would take the fighter
over the gun charge because charge you can't

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do anything about exactly. So that's
that's all I'm saying to all these people

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that are out there saying Michigan State
players are thugs, it's a bad culture

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and everything like that. These guys
got in a fight after a rivaly game.

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This other guy's carrying a gun.
Yeah, I mean, we've seen

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players in the NFL. We talked
about it at nauseam. What are you

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carrying a gun for a Broa,
Why are you carrying a gun around driving?

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Ryan? Arbor City is Yo city? Are you like? You like?

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What do you what? Are you
scared that he's only six three seven

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Yeah, one of the most Don't
get me wrong. The only time I've

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been to ann Arbor is for to
play there or when we broadcasting for games.

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But I thought ann Arbor was peace, love, tranquility, eating grass

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and yogurts and stuff like that.
And what kind of grass you're talking about,

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don't know, whatever kind of grass
you know? You know, John

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Lennon, imagine all the people you
know. But speaking of eating, you

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We're going to see what happens tomorrow. We're going to see if the

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that we know from our side of
things. Guys, thank you for joining

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Oldis. I know it's tough for
you. You don't like talking about this

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stuff and rehashing it, but hey, I never said that. I just

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feel like it just he's getting brought
up. I feel that. I feel

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that way. I don't like talking
about I don't like talking about those guys.

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Hey, but we have to gotta
do it, and I appreciate you.

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Thanks to you, to Choo as
well everybody in my production behind the

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scenes, Pete Minez, Tony Costella, at Last stray On, everyone that's

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involved. Hey, for everybody,
guys, We'll see you guys on Tuesday.

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Have a good night, God blessing, Go Breen, go a