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Coast to Coast podcast ever and here's
your host, Jason Tylers. All Right,

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welcome in Florida Football Insiders podcast host
Jason down in Tampa. We are

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here for week number six of the
college football season. Hard to believe we

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are almost at the halfway point of
the regular season. Got a lot of

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big doings here in the state of
Florida. Got several State of Florida teams

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doing very well. Couple on the
rise Miami, Florida State have opportunities if

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they keep progressing to potentially be in
a national college football playoff chatter here as

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we get through the midpoint month of
the month of October. We've got USF

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that's doing some good things. UCF
with a rough rough loss, FIU and

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FAU getting their feet wet here in
their season as well. So lots of

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stuff going on here in the state
of Florida, and we are gonna talk

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recap it all for you here this
week, and we're gonna have two good

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guests. We're gonna talk to Joey
Johnston, sideline reporter for the USF Bulls

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Radio Network, talking about the very
surprising rise of the Bulls in year wonder

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under Alex Golis, got their first
road win since two thousand and nineteen at

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Navy at three and two on the
year and got real opportunity to get Bowl

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eligible here in the month of October. We're also going to talk to Matt

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Murchell from The Orlando Sentinel. We're
going to talk about the devastating loss UCF

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suffered over the weekend, h squandering
a thirty five to seven lead against Baylor

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and their home opener of the big
of their Big twelve endeavor. So we're

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gonna talk to Matt about the turning
points of that game, what the quarterback

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situation looked like, and what the
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So two good guests for you.
Before we get to Joe and Matt,

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just to a quick recap of last
week, several teams were all Florida

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State had a bye week. Fau
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as well. You had the kind
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involving the state of Florida was the
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beat by Ray Davis and the Cats. Ray Davis, the running back for

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Kentucky, ran for like about two
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the Florida defense. The Florida offense, it's a really struggle to get going

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with Graham Mertz again, full credit
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Always a tough place to play up
in Lexington. The Gators go down,

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I believe it was thirty three sixteen. Was the final? Thirty three fourteen,

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I believe it was the final.
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transfer running back, was the star
for the Kentucky Wildcats, just again gashing

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runs. Again. It ran for
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hundred and ninety yards like two minutes
into the second quarter. The Gator defense

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just did not perform well against the
run. Devin Larry, the quarterback for

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Kentucky, who we thought was going
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game, did not really have much
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and he didn't really play very well. But Ray Davis was the story here

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as the Gators now followed three and
two. They will host Vanderbilt on Saturday

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in the Swamp try to get to
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just think it's going to be one
of those it's just gonna be a year

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where if you can get to seven
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it'd be a good year. Uh, still not quite there from a talent

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perspective, especially on the offensive side
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you know, other than you know, spurts against Tennessee, they've just

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really labored to score with any kind
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three and two and the Gators dropped
to three and two with Vanderbilt coming to

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town. FIU the Panthers they play
on Wednesday night this week at New at

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New Mexico State. That'll be a
TV game, So they kind of had

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a mini by this last week,
and then they'll have another mini buy if

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going into next a week from Saturday. So again, head out to Las

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Crucis. Mike McIntyre three and two
so we'll see if if if the Panthers

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can keep it going out at in
Mexico State, that should be a decent

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matchup. As as far as the
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on Saturday night on the a SEC
Network. This is a big, big

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month for the Hurricanes after this Georgia
Tech game, which they should win the

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game. Remember, Georgia Tech lost
to Bowling Green over the weekend at home,

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so this is a game Miami will
be heavily favored in and should win

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comfortably. But following Georgia Tech,
they go to North Carolina and they go

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to Clemson. We will know a
lot more about the Hurricanes after in the

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next three weeks, and if the
Hurricanes can split one of those split those

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two games, at worst win one
of those two, they will be in

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a great position to go to Tallahassee
in early November for a showdown with the

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Seminoles again Christa Ball, Tyler Van
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The defense is playing better, So
we will know much more about the

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Hurricanes and we will get you some
Hurricane chatter in the next either next week

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or the week after on this podcast
leading into the Carolina and Clemson games.

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So but again a huge next three
weeks for the Hurricanes that could set up

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up potentially a monster game in early
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So at North Carolina, at Clemson
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home against Georgia Tech. So lots
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future here for Miami the next three
weeks, So USF with a nice win.

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Again, We're gonna talk to Joey
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They go to UAB on Saturday.
That will be on ESPN two, so

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good, good opportunity to get some
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well. UCF. We're gonna talk
to Mike, to Matt Michelle. They

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go to Kansas and again we're gonna
detail what happened over the weekend in Orlando

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with UCF blowing the huge lead against
Baylor as well and then Florida State.

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They run into a little bit of
a softer part of their schedule. Got

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three straight home games, beginning with
Virginia Tech on Saturday. Then they will

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see Syracuse and then Duke and Duke. We don't know the status at the

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quarter back at Duke after he injured
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it could be an opportunity for the
Seminoles to kind of get primed for a

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November run here in the month of
October. A bunch of home games in

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October in Dope Campbell. So we
will see if the Seminoles can keep it

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roll in which they are top you
know, and most everybody's pulled their top

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three in the country and have a
great opportunity to get to November in that

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Miami game undefeated and top two or
three in the country. So there's your

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there's your recap for the week again. You we'll have it. We'll talk

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h We're talking USF football. Joey
Johnson, the great turnaround Alex goals she's

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got going on. He gives you
some great stories about his trip to Annapolis,

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Maryland and are the can the book? Could the Bulls be Bowl eligible

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by the end of October a real
possibility when you look at their schedule.

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And then Matt Mischelle or Orlando Sentinel
about the first ever Big twelve home game

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the Baylor UCF wild finished the best
finish the weekend as far as game goes,

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and then the prospects of what the
quarterback situation looks like with John Rys

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Plumbley and Timmy McClain. So enjoy
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enjoyed the recap of the week's State
of Florida teams. Several teams are on

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bye week, and then obviously we
talked about a couple of games that were

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of a note in the state.
Now we're gonna talk all things us F

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Bulls. The Bulls have shown some
very very good improvement since the beginning of

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the year under year one under Alex
Golish, and we're gonna chat with Joey

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Johnston, who's the sideline reporter.
It's part of the Bulls, the radio

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network and a longtime media member in
the state of Florida here in the Tampa

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Areas. We welcome back mister Joey. Thank you. Jason. Great to

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be here. It's nice you got
a good team to cover. It looks

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like this year I got some bast
improvement. Yeah, we're gonna talk about

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the year up to date. The
Bulls coming coming to UH this week at

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three and two. A nice road
win, the first road win they've had

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in conference, the first road winning
period since twenty nineteen at East Carolina.

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They had lost nineteen straight road games, thirteen in the conference. And nice

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place to break a losing stream up
in Annapolis, Maryland. Yeah. Absolutely,

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And you know I travel with the
team, so I come back with

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him on the charter. And you
know, you talk to anybody in sports,

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they say one of the greatest,
most fun things in sports is when

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you win on the road and travel
home. I haven't had this in a

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long time. Jason has spent four
years since we've had a fight like this

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home. So it was great to
see for the coaches and the kids to

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have that kind of enjoyment. It
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far too long, but it certainly
looks like with the way they're playing,

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this will not be the last time
they went on the road. They're gonna

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do it regularly. Talk about Yeah, I saw the pictures on social media,

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talk about the joy for some of
these kids that have been here for

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in five years that it maybe had
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I saw one of the linemen was
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That have joy, you know.
To talk about the feeling of this program

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and these kids who've been here for
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uptick, they see something better.
That's that they see the results or their

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hard work and all the perseverance a
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through here usf Yeah. I think
most of all, it's it's a reminder

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of just how how much they've gone
through and how much they've suffered for four

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years to not have this This isn't. This isn't isn't normal to go this

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long. So the pro to say
the program has been down as a massive

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understatement, and certainly they're not all
the way back yet, but but they

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are having great success. And not
only that, they're fun to watch on

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offense and defense. That's the that's
the really cool thing is they're they're an

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easy team to watch, a easy
team to root for, and it certainly

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looks like they're going to be able
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rest of the way, which would
put them in a Bowl game, which

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to me would be a massive,
massive win for Alex scoliss first year.

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into the year, coming off of
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there probably weren't many many people that
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best, and if we'll get and
we'll get to the schedule here in a

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little bit. But they've got a
very good opportunity here in the next three

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weeks to get Bowl eligible here in
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the way. But I mean,
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back at the let's start back in
week one at Western Kentucky. Most people

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that you know, they're heavy underdogs. They played really well, turned the

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ball over a little bit too much
Byron Brown, didn't play great, but

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they were in the game middle of
the fourth quarter, ended up losing by

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ten eleven points or whatever it ended
up being. But they were in the

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game, and a game most people
thought they would get beat pretty soundly,

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come back beat Florida and m and
then to me the big moment, and

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you know big moments, they play
Alabama really well. They didn't get manhandled

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physically. To me that I was
at the game, they didn't get man

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handled physically, which most people thought
they would. They were very competitive with

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Alabama. Obviously Alabama's quarterback situation,
you can bait that all you want,

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played Alabama pretty even. Yeah, very

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representative effort, could have easily won
the game. I had some issues on

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offense, obviously moving the ball,
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really well and held Alabama down.
Alabama did get a nice drive at the

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end of the game to put it
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the defense could have gotten off the
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shot to tie it. But you
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it has in many many years.
The offense just couldn't get anything going.

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Got a field goal on the board
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really wasn't It wasn't much a factor. And the one time they moved it

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late in the second half Byron Brown
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just wouldn't allow to hang your hat
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to win that game and they just
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I think all saw sad. They've
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had all last year. What is
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or is it just coaching up the
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are you seeing on defense that's making
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it's all of that. First of
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a good job going to the transfer
portal to kind of solidify some of their

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positions and beef up physically across the
front line. First of all, their

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secondary has really played great most of
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team All a Conference player, maybe
even mentioned for an All American if he

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continues to have the season he's having. The schemes certainly are a factor.

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Alex Goulish said the reason he hired
Todd Orlando was they went up against each

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other so many times in the Big
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one game he hated preparing for it
because he knew Todd Orlando was such a

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chore to prepare for by the way
he changed things up. And certainly he's

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doing that. I mean, we
heard Nick Saban say he thought USF had

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some of the most exotic blitzes that
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from an opponent. He's putting the
right guys in the right places. Certainly,

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they're they're shuttling in and out,
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and they are finding a way to
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is the players, but part of
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his way to getting the guys in
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one of the impressive things but following
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I mean the media to be able
to recover physically the next week and

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come back and beat Rice in your
conference opener, and you always hear that

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the theory of the Alabama effect after
you play Alabama, the beat you know,

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just being beat up in all that
the following weekend for them to come

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back at home to beat Rice,
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come back and win a game again, a home conference opener, home opener

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following the emotional Alabama loss. Talk
about the just the and that's where the

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offense started to really get back into
the flow of things. Talk about what

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you're seeing on offense. Yeah,
that that Rice USF game was was incredibly

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exciting of ends with JT. Daniels
the quarterback for Rice, and Byron Brown,

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both of them were slinging it all
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Daniels actually got hurt late in the
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a big thing for USF. And
I have to deal with him because he

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had four and three two yards passing
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in the game, who knows what
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was sensational with the deep ball in
this game. And Naim Simmons, the

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wide receiver they have the transfer from
an FCS school, end up setting it

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not only a USF record, but
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those of us who have been around
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have been been some decent receivers in
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set a record like that is pretty
incredible. So was the yard What was

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the yardage? Joey two seventy two. I didn't even know that. I

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did not know that eight catches,
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yards. As Joel Ward in the
offensive coordinator said, you know, honestly,

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he said, I don't see how
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he played. Every time we threw
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he said, a state record.
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you know, the the final score
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nine. But really, to me, the most impressive part of the game

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was USF was in a position in
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touchdowns and Nickquon right from the two
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the ball, Rice recovered it for
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the next play, Rice hit and
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an assignment was missed, so now
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is a huge swing and really the
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from in previous seasons. But they
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command of the game. And that's
probably the the most notable thing I've seen

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from this team is their ability to
overcome adversity and their ability to play the

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next play. Has Alex golisch al
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next play. He is a next
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this, he is not a big
picture guy. Do not ask him big

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picture questions to get going on to
day. What about what's the meaning of

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breaking this nineteen game? Losing Street
could speak to, you know, not

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going to do it. It's a
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next game. He is not going
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really, with the way they're playing, you kind of like that attitude because

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he is as focused as you will
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the next game, and so far
from what we've seen in the last few

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weeks, can't argue with the method. It seems to be working. Sounds

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like a guy up in New England
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that dry, but the same.
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big game twenty six to thirty four, three thirty eight, three touchdowns against

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Navy again, another impressive job on
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a little bit, talking about the
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at the Service Academy up in Annapolis. You've never been there. I've never

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been there. You have the audience
a little sense of just the pageantry of

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a game at one of the Service
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first of all, you walk into
the stadium and you know, we've

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all been to stadiums around the country, including Raymond James, where you have

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the Ring of Honor with the names
of the players and the coaches and Raymond

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James, Warren Sapp, John Lynch, Ronde Barber, Derek Brooks, etcetera,

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etcetera. You know, a pretty
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have a Ring of Honor. Two. But it says you Wojima, Guadalcanal,

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the Aleutian Islands. That's pretty that's
pretty awesome. All the great battles

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at the United States has been in
over the years. That will get your

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attention. And then when when all
the midshipmen march in information uh and then

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take their place on the field,
and then up in the stands with the

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just the sea of white uh,
just the spirit that they have. And

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then the way they closed the game, and it was really touching to see

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the Navy players and the USF players
together as the album mater was sung,

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and of course it ends with beat
Army and it's it's it's really it's really

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a throwback to kind of just the
pure spirit and competition and and the meaning

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of much more than a game.
So it's a it's a pretty special place

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to be. Yeah, and again
USF comes back from fourteen down wins,

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the game goes to two and Ozero
in the conference. Let's look at the

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schedule a little bit move forward.
Then we'll talk about a couple of big

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picture things. I don't mind.
I don't mind talking big picture after I'm

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good with it. But I just
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That's right, that's right. So
the next three are all games. If

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you look at the schedu very winnable. At UAB. We get to see

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our old buddy Trent Dilfer, who
had who's made a lot of news in

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the last few days with his meltdown
on the on his own coaching staff at

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Julane FAU at home, which would
be a good in state rivalry game,

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uh, which FA used down lit
bit, but they got a new coach,

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Tom Herman, we know about.
And then they go to Yukon,

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who's struggling. Great opportunity here,
you could buy by the middle of October,

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late octobers, third week in October, you could be Bowl eligible in

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six and two. You could.
But again and the and Alex Scholis will

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caution you that you can't. You
can't look that far ahead. That it's

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all about uh, you know,
winning on the road at UAB again.

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USF just won on the road for
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you can't assume anything. UAB is
one and four, but they appear to

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better than that. This matters.
Their record indicates it's gonna be a really

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cool kind of game for me because
I grew up in Tampa on USF and

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the Sun Belt Conference. When you
he was a big rivalry in men's basketball

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and was in football for a short
time before USF moved on to the Big

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East. So USF has not played
UAB since two thousand and four in football,

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but USFUAB a lot of commonality to
major Southern cities, two peer sort

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of institutions. I think it's a
it's a great conference rival for USF,

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and I'm really excited to hopefully get
a chance to see Trent Dilfer. I

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really enjoy being around him with the
Bucks, and we'll always remember being at

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that super Bowl when he won with
the Ravens in Tampa, which was just

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one of the more incredible stories I've
ever been around. He's, you know,

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obviously, and nothing he ever does
is boring. He's whether he's been

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the broadcaster or the player, he
always as a flair for the dramatic.

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And it's interesting too that here's a
guy that was, you know, primarily

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a broadcaster than a high school coach
and now he's a Division one college coach.

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Uh So, trying to make the
best of that opportunity, and you

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know, so I'm looking forward to
it, and it's a it's a great

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opportunity for USP, but also a
great one for UAB. So the one

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good thing about it. I think
in town a lot of people have noticed

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this and they're curious. And I
think USF is gonna start to get a

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lot more viewers and fans in the
stadium, and they would have had their

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people are starting to jump on the
train a little bit. And yeah,

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you may be close to my heart
where I went to school, my Alma

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Monter. I played there, so
I've got some ties there too. And

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good to see the program. You
know, obviously the Cloak program got shut

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down a few years ago and reborn, and I think Trent's gonna do a

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good job. He may not,
you know, record wise this year,

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but he's a good coach and he'll
get some players there and all that stuff,

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so you'll enjoy. I know you
probably haven't been to Birmingham in a

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while, but they've done a lot
of stuff down town. In Birmingham.

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They've got a beautiful new stadium a
couple of years old, so you'll look

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that and it'll be a good trip
up there for for the weekend. So

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all right, let's talk about a
couple of position group. Give me a

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position group or two that you really
have seen gotten better since week one at

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Western Kentucky or maybe a group that's
maybe surprised you about. Well, I

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didn't really think this group maybe would
be as productive as they've been through five

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games. Yeah, I am surprised
by the secondary how well it's played with

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Daquan Evans and Jalen Stokes and uh, several guys in that secondary that that

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that is really the maybe the strongest
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Uh, they continue to produce and
not only defending the pass, but

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they have guys that are getting in
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Very aggressive. Really really pleased with
with the physical play from that unit.

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One of the units that's that's come
on from week one to now to

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me is the wide receivers. And
I thought there was talent there, but

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it was it was not showing up
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And Navy we really got a lot
of diversity. It's it's uh,

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you know, four or five guys
touching the ball and looking like, uh,

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you know they can they can make
some plays with it. They've got

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a really really some depth there and
that helps to explain Byron Brown's numbers.

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He's got a lot of great targets
to go to, and we started to

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see that at Navy. There's they
can shuttle it guys in and out and

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create some problems for the opponent.
A couple of stats that I think of

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an interesting ill looking to the stat
before we started talking, they've made all

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their field goals five or five kicking
the ball, which is important as we

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move through the season. You're gonna
need to make those kicks. Time of

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possession twenty nine minutes. Most times
you think of the Ax at Tennessee kind

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of offense, you think not as
much time of possession. They're basically dead

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even in time of possession through five
games, which is a good sign.

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You're keeping that defense off the field
a little bit. The drives are a

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little bit longer. Those kind of
things are important as you when death might

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be an issuees you move later in
the year, those kind of things staying

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off the field as on defense are
critical items. YEA, here's here's something

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that just came on my mind and
it it maybe it's a little bit off

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topic, but it struck me as
as interesting. In the Navy game,

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USFUH goes up by two touchdowns in
the fourth quarter with the ball what does

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that tell you? Take the air
out of the ball, run some clock

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right ice the game away. USF
did the opposite. They went full ultra

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fast UH seven play drive and just
under three minutes to score a touchdown.

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The Navy defense had to be saying, what and the world is this?

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I mean, they were gassed and
then they had to deal with that.

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So to me, that that shows
how dangerous the Goalish offense can be because

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that was not something Navy was expecting
and they just they just got run out

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of their own stadium. And that
was the ball game. And I was

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gonna lead to my next question about
to coach. About coach Golish, you

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know, you would look back at
the Alabama game. There were a couple

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decisions on fourth down that could have
been questioned, do you punt? Do

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you go for it? Based on
the style of the game, and he

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came out of it, you could
have questioned, uh, there was a

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Sean Atkins fumbled the punt after the
defense has stopped Navy on the first possession.

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He lost to fumble. Navy picked
it up and then scored on a

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drive, a short drive. So
USF gets the ball on offense for the

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first time they have a fourth and
one at their own thirty and they go

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for it and they don't get it, okay, and then Navy scores to

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go up fourteen. Nothing. You
certainly can question that. But the one

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thing that is clear to me,
Alex Golish is not questioning himself on these

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He goes for them with no hesitation. He wants the upside. He's prepared

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to take the consequences. Fortunately it
didn't hurt the Bulls this time, but

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there were a lot of people questioning
that call. But this guy is unafraid.

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00:28:53,400 --> 00:28:57,920
Agressive, Aggressive is a fearless play
caller, and he knows what he

407
00:28:57,960 --> 00:29:00,440
wants and he goes and gets it, and if he doesn't get it,

408
00:29:00,519 --> 00:29:04,359
he'll take the blame. Then that's
what you want to That's that's the respect

409
00:29:04,359 --> 00:29:07,200
you try to earn with your guys. At least the guys in that locker

410
00:29:07,279 --> 00:29:11,920
room know that they're gonna they got
a guy that's that's that's behind him.

411
00:29:11,920 --> 00:29:14,799
Talk about how you think Alex is
growing into the job of being the head

412
00:29:14,799 --> 00:29:18,519
coach. Obviously things are going,
they're going better than most people thought they

413
00:29:18,519 --> 00:29:22,519
would be after five games. But
like you mentioned, he's a one game

414
00:29:22,559 --> 00:29:25,400
at a time. Guy, what
have you seen out of him? Talking

415
00:29:25,440 --> 00:29:27,039
to him behind the scenes, and
just like you talking about end game,

416
00:29:27,200 --> 00:29:30,200
do you think the endgame stuff will
get a better, he'll get more.

417
00:29:30,880 --> 00:29:33,519
You think this is gonna be the
way it's gonna be from now until he's

418
00:29:33,519 --> 00:29:36,839
done, or do you think he's
gonna I think he's good end game.

419
00:29:36,880 --> 00:29:40,920
I do. I you know,
the only thing that people might raise an

420
00:29:40,920 --> 00:29:45,160
eyebrow is the fourth down calls and
and going for it. But you know,

421
00:29:45,279 --> 00:29:48,039
and most people's heart of hearts.
You like a coach that's a little

422
00:29:48,039 --> 00:29:51,839
fearless. Yeah, I think he's
a very good head coach for a first

423
00:29:51,880 --> 00:29:55,000
time head coach. He's he's been
far better than I would have imagined.

424
00:29:55,720 --> 00:29:59,839
Uh, there's no question he's ready
for this, and there's no question that

425
00:30:00,599 --> 00:30:03,119
USF may not be his last stop. I mean, I know us hands

426
00:30:03,119 --> 00:30:06,920
want to hold him forever. But
yeah, it's it's clear to me that

427
00:30:06,920 --> 00:30:11,920
this guy was gonna be on somebody's
radar. If it wasn't USF, he

428
00:30:11,000 --> 00:30:15,799
was going to land somewhere because he
does have the right stuff. He knows

429
00:30:15,799 --> 00:30:18,519
how to get the locker room behind
him and make the players play for him.

430
00:30:18,680 --> 00:30:25,119
He has surrounded himself with some really
good coaches, and he is marching

431
00:30:25,160 --> 00:30:26,599
to a great beat right now.
He really is, and he's got this

432
00:30:26,640 --> 00:30:30,519
program on the move. And I
think, actually too, he's one of

433
00:30:30,559 --> 00:30:33,680
the best interviews that I've been around. He is great on the podium,

434
00:30:33,759 --> 00:30:37,759
He's great answering questions and explaining things. He has a really dry sense of

435
00:30:37,839 --> 00:30:41,640
humor. Sometimes it goes over the
heads of people like myself. Gott gotta

436
00:30:41,960 --> 00:30:48,240
pay attention so you get the jokes. But I like the personality. I

437
00:30:48,279 --> 00:30:52,920
like the approach and the the you
know. Of course I had questions,

438
00:30:52,920 --> 00:30:56,440
like anyone would do. Is first
time head coach, Okay, what's this

439
00:30:56,480 --> 00:30:59,400
gonna be? But so far,
so good. I think I think he's

440
00:30:59,400 --> 00:31:02,000
done a great job. I do
last question, I'll get you out to

441
00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:04,519
talk about the USF community, the
fan base. You know, there were

442
00:31:04,559 --> 00:31:07,240
some you know, obviously they didn't
sell out the Alabama game, which to

443
00:31:07,240 --> 00:31:11,039
me was a little disappointing. I
figured, if you're gonna ever sell out

444
00:31:11,079 --> 00:31:12,920
a game, that's the one,
and you got Bama coming to town.

445
00:31:14,400 --> 00:31:17,880
Talk about what is the excitement level
on campus, in the in the in

446
00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:23,119
Tampa Rising obviously, especially now we're
getting some results and winning results. Yeah,

447
00:31:23,160 --> 00:31:26,039
I could definitely see it. There
was a nice, nice crowd on

448
00:31:26,079 --> 00:31:32,240
the road at Navy one hundred or
some of them were Byron Brown family and

449
00:31:32,279 --> 00:31:36,359
friends. We're in the number seventeen
Jersey. But it was, it was

450
00:31:36,519 --> 00:31:40,079
it was a pretty nice representation on
the road. Uh. You know,

451
00:31:40,119 --> 00:31:42,519
I think I think some people will
make the track to UAB and the week

452
00:31:42,559 --> 00:31:47,480
after that's home coming with Florida Atlantic. I would be shocked if it wasn't

453
00:31:47,480 --> 00:31:52,119
a great crowd for that game.
You can again, it's you have your

454
00:31:52,160 --> 00:31:56,279
diehards and then you have your casual
fans. The casual fans are noticing what's

455
00:31:56,279 --> 00:31:57,920
going on and they're you know,
some of them are saying, you know,

456
00:31:59,160 --> 00:32:00,880
maybe I should go to that game. I'd like to watch this team,

457
00:32:00,920 --> 00:32:05,839
and I will promise you this.
Uh, it's a fun team to

458
00:32:05,839 --> 00:32:08,039
watch. I would you know.
I've seen a lot of football, as

459
00:32:08,079 --> 00:32:14,440
have you, and I know what
I like and I have enjoyed watching this

460
00:32:14,519 --> 00:32:16,759
team a lot, and I could
not say that the last few years so

461
00:32:16,880 --> 00:32:22,559
much. But it's very entertaining,
even when when loser draw, it has

462
00:32:22,640 --> 00:32:28,000
been an entertaining brand of football in
the last two weeks have been tremendous,

463
00:32:28,519 --> 00:32:32,240
not only entertaining, but great wins
in the conference. So I think,

464
00:32:34,079 --> 00:32:37,200
uh, you know, Tampa is
sort of a bandwagon city, even with

465
00:32:37,279 --> 00:32:39,359
its professional teams. We've seen the
Bucks be down and then when they come

466
00:32:39,359 --> 00:32:43,279
back, people rise up. I
think the same thing is going to happen

467
00:32:43,319 --> 00:32:45,440
with USF. And I will say
this and again, I've seen it happen

468
00:32:45,480 --> 00:32:49,279
with the Bucks, the raising,
the lightning. When you have that that

469
00:32:49,400 --> 00:32:53,880
year where it starts to turn where
everything's roses, where it's like beautiful.

470
00:32:54,599 --> 00:32:58,920
Uh, that's the great year,
you know, where there's no expectations.

471
00:32:59,440 --> 00:33:01,960
You know, if USF goes out
and win, wins a bunch of games

472
00:33:01,960 --> 00:33:06,680
and gets into a bowl game next
year, they've got the expectation thing.

473
00:33:07,160 --> 00:33:09,160
It's it still could be good,
but it's not gonna be the same as

474
00:33:09,240 --> 00:33:15,960
this kind of honeymoon season where everything
is just turning around and everybody's just jubilant

475
00:33:15,039 --> 00:33:19,119
with what they're seeing. Now.
In the same thing with the Buccaneers.

476
00:33:19,200 --> 00:33:21,480
You and I are following the Buccaneers. Nobody thought the Bucks would be three

477
00:33:21,480 --> 00:33:24,559
and one after four games. And
remember you remember, yeah, this year

478
00:33:24,640 --> 00:33:29,359
for sure. But I remember talking
about Trent Dilfer in the nineteen ninety seven

479
00:33:29,400 --> 00:33:35,039
season, after fourteenth straight losing seasons, that thing was just magic all year

480
00:33:36,000 --> 00:33:37,839
and they got in the playoffs.
But that after that it was still good,

481
00:33:37,839 --> 00:33:44,319
but it was always the massive expectation
of Super Bowl or bust. And

482
00:33:44,799 --> 00:33:47,119
you know, certainly the Bulls could
have the same kind of thing. And

483
00:33:47,440 --> 00:33:52,240
I, you know, could we
be looking at a conference championship this year

484
00:33:52,240 --> 00:33:57,079
for Alex Golisch? Is that possible? I think it is possible. It's

485
00:33:57,160 --> 00:34:00,920
likely, but it's possible, and
I certainly would thinking it was possible.

486
00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:04,400
For the season. You got Memphis
in early November at Memphis, that could

487
00:34:04,400 --> 00:34:06,559
be the big kind of the big
one. They'd be the one, right

488
00:34:06,559 --> 00:34:09,760
there, could be the one.
And then and then the UTSA Texas San

489
00:34:09,800 --> 00:34:14,639
Antonio on the road on a Friday
night late in the season again could be.

490
00:34:14,960 --> 00:34:17,360
Those are the two games I have
on my schedule that that really could

491
00:34:17,920 --> 00:34:22,440
could be the biggest challenges. Two
things more that you gonna just came to

492
00:34:22,559 --> 00:34:24,880
mind. Have you ever been at
a game like at UCF up twenty eight

493
00:34:24,920 --> 00:34:29,199
to seven or thirty five seven with
four mints left in the third quarter and

494
00:34:29,239 --> 00:34:30,679
the team come all the way back
and beat them. Have you ever been

495
00:34:30,719 --> 00:34:34,960
in attendance in a game like that
to come back us. I'll have a

496
00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:38,159
story on this. Two thousand and
three, the Bucks and the Colts on

497
00:34:38,239 --> 00:34:44,800
Monday night from coached by Tony Dungee. It was his birthday. I was

498
00:34:44,840 --> 00:34:49,480
writing for the Tampa Tribune, and
uh, it was a night game,

499
00:34:49,559 --> 00:34:52,800
the dead Nay Monday nighter. It
was so you you know, you don't

500
00:34:52,800 --> 00:34:57,639
have a lot of time to write. So I was writing. My assignment

501
00:34:57,719 --> 00:35:01,920
was right about the Colts, and
so of course with the Bucks up thirty

502
00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:07,079
five fourteen with four minutes to go, I'm thinking that's pretty safe, right.

503
00:35:07,079 --> 00:35:10,760
So I have written my column on
the disappointing night for the Colts.

504
00:35:10,760 --> 00:35:15,800
Tony DUNGEI didn't have a happy birthday. I sent it in and I went

505
00:35:15,400 --> 00:35:19,920
to the field to watch the rest
of the game, and I saw the

506
00:35:19,960 --> 00:35:24,320
comeback from field level went right through
the overtime. I went to the Colts

507
00:35:24,360 --> 00:35:30,320
locker room, where one hour after
the game, Peyton Manning was still in

508
00:35:30,400 --> 00:35:36,000
full uniform with his shoulder pads.
He was talking to anybody who would talk

509
00:35:36,079 --> 00:35:38,079
to him. He was so excited. It was the most amazing thing I've

510
00:35:38,119 --> 00:35:44,639
seen. So I then went back
up to the press box and wrote an

511
00:35:45,159 --> 00:35:49,639
an online column. The next day, I realized that, you know,

512
00:35:49,719 --> 00:35:54,440
that first column I sent in got
into the first edition because people called me

513
00:35:54,480 --> 00:35:57,840
and said, did you watch the
game? And I go, yeah,

514
00:35:57,840 --> 00:36:00,119
I was at the game. Why
did you think the Colts last? Oh

515
00:36:00,280 --> 00:36:05,360
my gosh, my column that said
the Colts loss actually got into the newspaper.

516
00:36:05,880 --> 00:36:10,920
So I've never seen anything quite like
that, but it so, yes,

517
00:36:12,039 --> 00:36:15,840
I've seen I've seen similar. I
was at Navy. I did not

518
00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:21,159
watch the UCF game. All I
heard was UCF was up big, and

519
00:36:21,199 --> 00:36:24,840
the next thing I heard was UCF
lost. So I can only imagine what

520
00:36:24,920 --> 00:36:30,920
a catastrophic feeling that must be for
USF and and it spans, and that's

521
00:36:30,960 --> 00:36:34,039
that's a tough thing to come back
from. That's the kind of thing you've

522
00:36:34,119 --> 00:36:37,599
got to really be tough minded,
or else that the season could get away.

523
00:36:37,679 --> 00:36:40,280
So it's it's gonna be a big
challenge for UCF to come back and

524
00:36:40,639 --> 00:36:44,360
get it going in the right way. And we're gonna talk to Matt Michelle

525
00:36:44,400 --> 00:36:46,559
from The Orlando Sentinel here right in
a couple of minutes about that game and

526
00:36:46,599 --> 00:36:50,000
the meltdown and all that he was
at the game, so we will get

527
00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:53,480
his perspective on that last thing.
On the state of Florida, Florida State

528
00:36:53,519 --> 00:36:58,960
Miami seemed to be the obviously the
two best teams. Obviously, give me

529
00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:02,760
a thought on both teams through five
weeks. I think they're both going in

530
00:37:02,800 --> 00:37:07,440
a great direction. Miami I still
need to see a little bit more before

531
00:37:07,480 --> 00:37:13,400
I'm convinced they're, you know,
legitimate big time championship contender. Florida State

532
00:37:13,440 --> 00:37:17,840
I think is I think Florida State
could very well be a playoff team this

533
00:37:17,920 --> 00:37:22,719
year. Obviously some tough tests down
the road, one of which will be

534
00:37:22,760 --> 00:37:28,639
against Miami. I I you know, you play these games before the season

535
00:37:28,719 --> 00:37:32,119
with people, and you go through
a schedule. I looked at Florida State

536
00:37:32,199 --> 00:37:35,679
schedule. I thought there was a
chance they could run it out if they

537
00:37:35,760 --> 00:37:39,000
beat LSU, and so I'm thinking
they can run it out. Miami still

538
00:37:39,039 --> 00:37:45,039
maybe another year away before they're,
you know, legitimately all the way back,

539
00:37:45,159 --> 00:37:52,000
But it looks like Marie crystal Ball
is going to continue to stack this

540
00:37:52,039 --> 00:37:54,239
team in the right direction. And
uh and get back to where they once

541
00:37:54,280 --> 00:37:59,039
were. Miami has Clemson North Carolina
in the month of October. If they

542
00:37:59,079 --> 00:38:02,159
can get through that those two with
one loss, that sets up a showdown

543
00:38:02,239 --> 00:38:07,000
in Tallahassee and early November. And
you've been I'm sure you've covered many of

544
00:38:07,079 --> 00:38:09,039
them, but how cool would that
be for that game? We best have

545
00:38:09,320 --> 00:38:15,079
a bunch of meeting early November.
Yeah, I love I have loved covering

546
00:38:15,119 --> 00:38:19,719
the Floor's State Miami game when it's
a big game, just like the Florida

547
00:38:19,719 --> 00:38:22,320
State Florida game when it's a big
game there. There are a few things

548
00:38:22,400 --> 00:38:28,199
finer than those those matchups when when
they matter, and a Florida's State Miami

549
00:38:28,280 --> 00:38:32,119
matters. We really haven't seen it
matter matter in a long time. I

550
00:38:32,239 --> 00:38:36,039
like it used to. It used
to matter every single year. So if

551
00:38:36,039 --> 00:38:38,400
it matters this year, sign me
up. I hope I can get in

552
00:38:38,400 --> 00:38:42,400
front of a television to watch it
because I will enjoy that kind of watching

553
00:38:42,400 --> 00:38:45,519
that. Well. Joey, great
commentary on the Bulls. Keep up the

554
00:38:45,519 --> 00:38:47,880
great work as part of the Bulls
Radio Network. Tell the audience where they

555
00:38:47,920 --> 00:38:51,440
can find the game you're locally or
if they're or if they're not in the

556
00:38:51,440 --> 00:38:53,920
Tampa Barry where they can find the
game. Games moving forward, well,

557
00:38:54,039 --> 00:39:00,199
we do our games on one H
two point five The Bone FM, and

558
00:39:00,280 --> 00:39:04,480
also all the games are streamed on
Bulls Unlimited. You can get it anywhere

559
00:39:04,480 --> 00:39:08,400
in the world and it will be
as clear as the game was happening right

560
00:39:08,400 --> 00:39:13,920
outside your doorstep. So Bulls Unlimited
or one h two point five FM The

561
00:39:13,960 --> 00:39:16,280
Bone, and you will get some
great nuggets from Joey on the sidelines throughout

562
00:39:16,320 --> 00:39:19,760
the game. I'm sure pre game
and post game he's involved as well.

563
00:39:19,800 --> 00:39:22,039
So good luck, keep it up. Let's get your bowl eligible by the

564
00:39:22,079 --> 00:39:28,280
next time we talk. Get you
cool, Enjoy, Enjoy Birmingham. Maybe

565
00:39:28,440 --> 00:39:32,039
get some some ribs or something,
some barbecue up in Birmingham. There's there's

566
00:39:32,239 --> 00:39:37,440
kind of a Dreamland knockoff, I
think in downtown Birmingham. And I just

567
00:39:37,119 --> 00:39:40,960
you gotta show where is the Jason
Power statue? Do you ever seen?

568
00:39:42,000 --> 00:39:45,320
It? Doesn't exist? Somewhere right
down the UB campus right by the right.

569
00:39:46,480 --> 00:39:51,639
I will take a selfie and send
it to that great But enjoy your

570
00:39:51,679 --> 00:39:53,159
trip, Joey, have a great
week, and let's go Bulls. Let's

571
00:39:53,159 --> 00:39:59,199
get to four and two. Thanks
Jason and now a word from Titan Home

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All right, Welcome back Florida Football
Insiders podcast. Hopefully enjoyed our chat

601
00:42:21,440 --> 00:42:23,840
with Joey Johnston talking a little USF
and their resurgence, and now we have

602
00:42:24,000 --> 00:42:28,840
to unfortunately go to the other side
of the ledger in one of the most

603
00:42:28,920 --> 00:42:32,199
dramatic games that we've seen in a
very long time in college football, and

604
00:42:32,239 --> 00:42:37,119
obviously at Central Florida, probably the
maybe the toughest loss in their program history.

605
00:42:37,800 --> 00:42:42,199
We're gonna bring in Matt Michelle,
the beat writer for The Orlando Sentinel

606
00:42:42,239 --> 00:42:45,760
covers all Things You seef as well
as all things Orlando Sports. Welcome back,

607
00:42:45,800 --> 00:42:50,519
Matt. How are you doing this
morning? I'm well, I'm well.

608
00:42:50,519 --> 00:42:55,519
You were. You were in the
building saturday well as the devastating comeback

609
00:42:55,880 --> 00:43:00,440
win for the Baylor Bears unfolded there
in the fourth quarter. If fans,

610
00:43:00,679 --> 00:43:05,920
if you didn't weren't paying attention a
whole lot middle of late third quarter,

611
00:43:05,920 --> 00:43:07,800
about four minutes to go on the
third quarter, UCF is up thirty five

612
00:43:07,840 --> 00:43:12,400
to seven on Baylor, who's had
a little bit of a down year so

613
00:43:12,480 --> 00:43:15,840
far this year, and low and
behold, as I'm watching I'm watching the

614
00:43:15,960 --> 00:43:20,320
updates throughout the fourth quarter, I
just see it getting a little close,

615
00:43:20,360 --> 00:43:22,679
and all of a sudden, I
look up and I see the Baylor kicker

616
00:43:22,760 --> 00:43:24,960
coming out late in the fourth quarter
and I'm thinking to myself, they're not

617
00:43:25,079 --> 00:43:28,880
kicking a field goal here unless it's
to win the game. Where to tie

618
00:43:28,920 --> 00:43:32,119
the game? What has happened here? You were in the building, give

619
00:43:32,199 --> 00:43:37,960
us a little sense of obviously at
thirty five to seven the night you're playing

620
00:43:37,000 --> 00:43:42,679
great, Timmy McLean is doing his
thing. Talk to me about the momentum

621
00:43:42,719 --> 00:43:46,119
of that building. About what point
you started to think, oh, we

622
00:43:46,159 --> 00:43:51,280
could have something going on here.
Well, you know what's interesting about that

623
00:43:51,320 --> 00:43:53,360
game is, you know, UCF
came out really kind of on fired.

624
00:43:53,480 --> 00:43:58,000
You know, they scored twenty one
points in the first eight minutes, including

625
00:43:58,039 --> 00:44:01,880
like Johnny Richardson's seventy r yard touchdown
run with twelve took about twelve seconds to

626
00:44:01,880 --> 00:44:05,840
get on you know, the touchdown
that was their first touchdown and their big

627
00:44:05,840 --> 00:44:08,599
twelve home opener. You know,
everything looked to be going well. They

628
00:44:08,679 --> 00:44:13,400
jumped out to a thirty five seven
lead, offense was doing well, defense

629
00:44:13,519 --> 00:44:15,440
was containing Baylor. You know,
about middle of the third quarter, all

630
00:44:15,480 --> 00:44:19,679
of a sudden, things just kind
of stalled. Offense couldn't find a way

631
00:44:19,760 --> 00:44:22,000
to get itself moving. Baylor started
to get some some plays here or there,

632
00:44:22,000 --> 00:44:25,159
and they started to chip away at
it and you just kept you got

633
00:44:25,159 --> 00:44:29,239
this feeling all of a sudden that
this game momentum was shifting. And I

634
00:44:29,239 --> 00:44:31,360
think it was probably about the fourth
quarter when you know, R J.

635
00:44:31,519 --> 00:44:37,239
Harvey, Uff running back fumbled a
snap and a wildcat formation and Baylor's defensive

636
00:44:37,079 --> 00:44:40,199
quarterback picks it up and runs it
back seventy two yards for a touchdown,

637
00:44:40,519 --> 00:44:43,440
and all of a sudden, the
wind just went out of the sales for

638
00:44:43,559 --> 00:44:45,440
UCF. And that was kind of
the moment that Gus Mason told us that

639
00:44:45,480 --> 00:44:49,480
he felt like it was really the
backbreaker. You know, they really felt

640
00:44:49,480 --> 00:44:52,159
like they could still find a way
to win this game. They were driving

641
00:44:52,199 --> 00:44:54,719
deep in Baylor territory. They felt
like they could kick a field goal at

642
00:44:54,719 --> 00:44:58,599
the least or maybe get a touchdown
and I would put the game away.

643
00:44:58,599 --> 00:45:01,400
But instead Baylor takes advance. UCF
never was able over to cover, and

644
00:45:01,880 --> 00:45:06,960
Baylor comes down and scores the kicks
the field goal to go up thirty six

645
00:45:07,039 --> 00:45:10,559
thirty five. UCF has one final
chance and Colton Bloomer missus a think fifty

646
00:45:10,599 --> 00:45:14,679
nine yard field goal which really never
had a chance, uh, you know,

647
00:45:14,719 --> 00:45:17,320
and and UCF suffers it's largest comeback
loss, you know, and they

648
00:45:17,360 --> 00:45:22,199
just they couldn't find a way to
finish this game. And that's been kind

649
00:45:22,199 --> 00:45:24,599
of the story for this program this
year, is they haven't been able to

650
00:45:24,599 --> 00:45:28,480
finish some of these games. They
couldn't finish against Kansas State. They were

651
00:45:28,559 --> 00:45:30,199
in it in the late in the
third quarter in that game as well,

652
00:45:30,559 --> 00:45:34,719
couldn't find a way to win it
as well. So now they're going they

653
00:45:34,760 --> 00:45:37,280
gotta move forward. They gotta go
on the road again this week to play

654
00:45:37,360 --> 00:45:42,239
Kansas So there's a lot of I
think post game Saturday and on Monday,

655
00:45:42,239 --> 00:45:44,559
there was a lot of just kind
of bewilderment and how this kind of got

656
00:45:44,559 --> 00:45:47,599
away from him so quickly. And
give David Randa credit. At thirty five

657
00:45:47,639 --> 00:45:52,000
to seven, he actually kicked a
field goal in the third quarter where most

658
00:45:52,039 --> 00:45:54,760
teams coaches would have probably gone for
it try to get the seven points.

659
00:45:54,800 --> 00:45:58,679
Give him credit. He kicked a
field goal to make it thirty five to

660
00:45:58,760 --> 00:46:01,119
ten, and then you and then
Baylor goes on a twenty six zero run

661
00:46:01,159 --> 00:46:05,519
in the fourth quarter from a scoring
perspective, to obviously they win the game

662
00:46:05,599 --> 00:46:07,760
twenty thirty six. But give a
Rando credit not of coaches wouldn't kick that

663
00:46:07,800 --> 00:46:13,559
field goal in the third quarter,
even though when you're down by four touchdowns,

664
00:46:13,760 --> 00:46:15,159
knowing you still have to score four
more touchdowns to win the game.

665
00:46:15,199 --> 00:46:21,000
So give a Randa some credit for
Baylor. You see, I gives up

666
00:46:21,000 --> 00:46:22,960
one hundred and ninety two yards of
offense in the fourth quarter, which is

667
00:46:23,559 --> 00:46:27,599
I mean, it's just hard to
believe. Obviously they get out scored twenty

668
00:46:27,599 --> 00:46:32,079
six. Nothing you mentioned kind of
the offense got stagnant. What did gust

669
00:46:32,159 --> 00:46:36,199
Malson at some point in the fourth
quarter take a time out to try to

670
00:46:36,239 --> 00:46:39,199
calm everybody down or to just let
the game keep keep flowing like it was

671
00:46:39,280 --> 00:46:43,400
and just hope to God you can
hang on. Well, you know,

672
00:46:43,840 --> 00:46:45,719
he kind of let the game flows
as it was. I mean, he

673
00:46:45,719 --> 00:46:47,199
took time outs later in the fourth, but you know, I mean,

674
00:46:47,440 --> 00:46:51,639
it just it was kind of the
same some of the same storylines they've experienced,

675
00:46:51,679 --> 00:46:53,639
especially in the Kansas State laws.
You know, Timmy mcclan is doing

676
00:46:53,679 --> 00:46:58,760
well and then he gets to a
point where he's got a he's scrambling around

677
00:46:58,800 --> 00:47:00,440
and he throws an interception where he
had a guy Randy Pitt in the tight

678
00:47:00,519 --> 00:47:04,519
end was wide open, he underthrows
the ball and Baylor gets to pick.

679
00:47:04,559 --> 00:47:07,639
This is another example of where UCF
was in the was it basically you know,

680
00:47:07,719 --> 00:47:10,920
inside their opponents forty and had an
opportunity to work. They just kind

681
00:47:10,960 --> 00:47:15,199
of kepta care of the football.
They could score there maybe you know,

682
00:47:15,199 --> 00:47:16,079
I mean, and that would have
kind of salved maybe could have put the

683
00:47:16,119 --> 00:47:19,679
end of this game as well.
But you know, that's been kind of

684
00:47:19,679 --> 00:47:22,920
the m O for their quarterbacks is
a lot of their turnovers have occurred inside

685
00:47:22,960 --> 00:47:27,119
their opponents, you know, inside
the quarts forty and you know, when

686
00:47:27,159 --> 00:47:29,559
you turn the ball over like that, uh, and you don't and you

687
00:47:29,679 --> 00:47:31,880
limit yourself through ability to maybe the
score that kind of heard other well,

688
00:47:31,920 --> 00:47:34,960
and then you got, like I
said, then you got the fumble that

689
00:47:35,000 --> 00:47:37,360
happened with R. J. Harvey, where was a bad snap. He

690
00:47:37,440 --> 00:47:39,880
was in a wildcat and he fumbled
the ball and Baylor takes advantage of it.

691
00:47:40,039 --> 00:47:43,880
I mean, again, those are
some of the mistakes that UCF has

692
00:47:43,920 --> 00:47:45,639
had over the last couple of weeks. They've been trying to find a way

693
00:47:45,679 --> 00:47:49,639
to fix this. They they've got
to limit these turnovers. They've got to

694
00:47:49,679 --> 00:47:52,760
find a way to you know,
defensively stop some teams. I mean,

695
00:47:52,239 --> 00:47:55,000
I mean teams have owned them in
the fourth quarter, especially for the last

696
00:47:55,000 --> 00:47:59,320
three, last two or three games, I think they've been outscored like thirty

697
00:47:59,400 --> 00:48:04,000
seven to seven in the fourth quarter. What's even better, even worse stat

698
00:48:04,079 --> 00:48:07,760
is that the teams are converting third
downs in the fourth quarters seventy percent rate,

699
00:48:08,079 --> 00:48:12,559
where meanwhile UCUP is only converting two
of ten over the last two fourth

700
00:48:12,639 --> 00:48:15,320
quarters. So they're struggling in some
ways to try to finish these games,

701
00:48:15,360 --> 00:48:17,800
as I mentioned, and if they
can do that, you know, they

702
00:48:17,840 --> 00:48:20,920
feel like they're right there. And
if you look at some of the things,

703
00:48:20,920 --> 00:48:22,920
they are right in those games.
But what happens is teams just wanting

704
00:48:22,920 --> 00:48:25,199
to take advantage of the fourth quarter
and they weren't him down. Some of

705
00:48:25,239 --> 00:48:29,639
that could be symptomatic of you're playing
in a league it's the Big twelve.

706
00:48:29,679 --> 00:48:32,320
Now you've got bigger, better,
stronger players. Coaches don't want to admit

707
00:48:32,360 --> 00:48:35,679
that. Players don't want to admit
that, but you guys wanted. That's

708
00:48:35,719 --> 00:48:38,039
partly what some of what's going on
in the last two weeks tall out the

709
00:48:38,119 --> 00:48:42,199
quarterback situation. Obviously, Timmy McClain
has played the last couple of weeks.

710
00:48:42,199 --> 00:48:45,920
They've scored a bunch of points,
he's had some turnovers. Is what is

711
00:48:45,960 --> 00:48:50,679
the John Rice plumb Lee situation as
far as moving forward? And is Timmy

712
00:48:50,760 --> 00:48:53,880
McClain aren't played enough, played well
enough to still get some opportunities to play

713
00:48:53,880 --> 00:48:58,599
even if plumb Lee is healthy.
Yeah, John Race Plumber was cleared on

714
00:48:58,599 --> 00:49:01,039
Friday. Was gust balls On told
us he did suit up for the Baylor

715
00:49:01,079 --> 00:49:04,880
game but did not. I wasn't
going to play, but Gus said that

716
00:49:05,079 --> 00:49:07,239
he was the emergency quarterback. You
know, he hadn't had a chance to

717
00:49:07,280 --> 00:49:09,920
practice all week. They didn't want
to throw him out there and have something

718
00:49:09,960 --> 00:49:14,800
bad happen. They said going into
this week that Plumbley was going to practice

719
00:49:15,199 --> 00:49:19,000
along with Timmy and they would make
a decision probably on Wednesday or how they

720
00:49:19,039 --> 00:49:22,360
were going to move forward with this. I asked Gus specifically, could you

721
00:49:22,440 --> 00:49:24,039
see a situation where he could go
a two quarterback system for a while,

722
00:49:24,320 --> 00:49:28,239
just to let maybe get John Rice
a little bit And he said, I'm

723
00:49:28,239 --> 00:49:30,880
not really to talk about that yet
or decide that yet. We're gonna wait

724
00:49:30,920 --> 00:49:34,559
till Wednesday and see how things go. I'm not sure. You know,

725
00:49:34,599 --> 00:49:37,000
Timmy has played well, relatively well. I mean he talked about it.

726
00:49:37,079 --> 00:49:38,360
There are times he does some things
that the coach is kind of cringe.

727
00:49:38,440 --> 00:49:40,800
Yet he's a little freestyle, which
they'd like him to kind of stay in

728
00:49:40,840 --> 00:49:45,320
the system. But they understand that
John Rice Plumber is the guy, and

729
00:49:45,320 --> 00:49:47,480
they really they'd like to get him
back. They would love to not have

730
00:49:47,519 --> 00:49:51,559
to use him this week, believe
me, because they get a bye week

731
00:49:51,599 --> 00:49:54,000
next week and then they go into
Oklahoma. So and in mind, my

732
00:49:54,079 --> 00:49:58,079
guess is they would love to have
him rest another week and then get the

733
00:49:58,079 --> 00:50:00,480
bye week and then have him come
back for the Oklahom him the game,

734
00:50:00,519 --> 00:50:02,719
But that situation kind of went to
out the window with the Bailo loss.

735
00:50:02,880 --> 00:50:05,639
Now all of a sudden, you
got to figure out what's going on.

736
00:50:06,320 --> 00:50:09,400
I'm not they haven't leaned either way. It wouldn't shock me if Timmy starts

737
00:50:09,440 --> 00:50:15,000
the game and they see how things
go offensively and he struggles a little bit,

738
00:50:15,079 --> 00:50:17,239
or the offense falls behind a little
maybe they bring in John Rice plumbly.

739
00:50:17,239 --> 00:50:20,400
I mean, again, this is
a knee is supposed to a knee

740
00:50:20,400 --> 00:50:22,719
injury. You know that he suffered
in the Boise State game. I'm sure

741
00:50:22,719 --> 00:50:25,119
they'd love to let him get a
little more opportunities to heal that and be

742
00:50:25,119 --> 00:50:29,400
one hundred percent. But we'll see
what happens. I mean, I think

743
00:50:29,480 --> 00:50:31,599
this is a point where Gus realizes, if John Rice is healthy, they're

744
00:50:31,599 --> 00:50:36,239
gonna probably put him out there.
Gets Kansas and Timmy McClain, if those

745
00:50:36,320 --> 00:50:39,280
in the here listening in the state
of Florida, the former USF quarterback,

746
00:50:39,320 --> 00:50:43,679
it was a big good recruit.
He's I think he's from the Orlando area.

747
00:50:43,679 --> 00:50:46,280
I believe he's from kind of in
that in the Orlando area. Transferred

748
00:50:46,280 --> 00:50:51,199
after you know, he lost a
job to the former Baylor quarterback Gary Bohannan

749
00:50:51,239 --> 00:50:54,880
who went to USF. Timmy McClain
left USF went to UCF is getting some

750
00:50:54,880 --> 00:50:58,800
oppors and he saw if you,
if you were on social media, saw

751
00:50:58,800 --> 00:51:01,360
the highlight play he made on fourth
down on the last drive where he ran

752
00:51:01,400 --> 00:51:05,599
about a one hundred and fifty yards
in the backfield and completed a pass.

753
00:51:05,639 --> 00:51:09,039
And you know, he's an electric
athlete. But the consistency of Willie stay

754
00:51:09,039 --> 00:51:13,519
in the offense, and like you
mentioned, we don't want so much free

755
00:51:13,559 --> 00:51:17,440
flow out of him at a little
too much of that is cannot can be

756
00:51:17,639 --> 00:51:21,920
detrimental sometimes, but we know he's
an athlete, he's a you know,

757
00:51:21,960 --> 00:51:23,719
he kind of reminds me of Michael
Vick kind of guy. Could run around

758
00:51:23,719 --> 00:51:27,840
and left handed guy, got a
big arm. And uh, you mentioned

759
00:51:27,840 --> 00:51:30,519
going to Kansas this week, an
interesting interstring matchup there, UCFO and two.

760
00:51:30,880 --> 00:51:35,800
Kansas coming off losing to Texas.
You know, Jaylen Daniels didn't play

761
00:51:35,920 --> 00:51:38,280
last week at Texas with some back
issues. You would think he would be

762
00:51:38,280 --> 00:51:43,239
back to play this week, but
a tricky spot going to Lawrence. Yeah,

763
00:51:43,440 --> 00:51:45,559
very much so. And I know
that Lance Lampold, the chanceas coach

764
00:51:45,599 --> 00:51:50,599
shut on Monday that Jaylen Daniels didn't
practice on Monday. They're still dealing with

765
00:51:50,599 --> 00:51:52,760
what those issues are with his back. There's a possibility he may not play

766
00:51:52,760 --> 00:51:57,480
either. So there's a little bit
of a coach sportsmanship going on here where

767
00:51:57,599 --> 00:52:00,480
some speak where you know, I
think Gus doesn't want to let him know

768
00:52:00,480 --> 00:52:02,079
what they're going to throw out there, and I think Kansas doesn't want to

769
00:52:02,119 --> 00:52:05,519
let me know who's gonna be out
there as well. So it's it's gonna

770
00:52:05,519 --> 00:52:08,000
be interesting. It's and you're right
about Timmy. Timmy went to Seminle High

771
00:52:08,039 --> 00:52:12,119
here locally, guy who's got a
lot of ability to kind of move around

772
00:52:12,119 --> 00:52:15,239
the pocket. I think he started
a little bit at times in the mid

773
00:52:15,360 --> 00:52:16,960
range throws, you know, I
mean he could, but he also adds

774
00:52:16,960 --> 00:52:20,599
an extra dimension of when things break
down, he could take off running,

775
00:52:20,679 --> 00:52:22,880
much like John Rice can do as
well. But the thing that coaches kind

776
00:52:22,880 --> 00:52:27,119
of stressed to us is that they'd
like him to stay within the system,

777
00:52:27,199 --> 00:52:30,440
not freestop so much because I think
that's where he gets into trouble. And

778
00:52:30,519 --> 00:52:32,360
John Rice just has more experience,
you know, it's been in this offense

779
00:52:32,360 --> 00:52:36,920
and understands exactly what they're trying to
do. And you know, so we'll

780
00:52:37,079 --> 00:52:38,800
we'll see how that goes going to
Kansas. I mean they've struggled on the

781
00:52:38,880 --> 00:52:42,480
road. Even the boys he State
win, which was on the road,

782
00:52:42,599 --> 00:52:44,639
they had to remember they had to
come back to win that game. They

783
00:52:44,679 --> 00:52:46,920
did play very well, they needed
a last minute field goal to win that

784
00:52:46,960 --> 00:52:50,079
game. So they've got to find
a way to get on the road.

785
00:52:50,239 --> 00:52:52,719
This is a banged up team,
Gus said this today. I mean they've

786
00:52:52,920 --> 00:52:57,159
they've had eight different offensive linemen who
had had to step in and start a

787
00:52:57,159 --> 00:52:59,760
game this year. You know that
Lyric, Ricky Barb and the top one

788
00:52:59,760 --> 00:53:01,880
of their top defensive guy line guys
has been out in and out of the

789
00:53:01,880 --> 00:53:06,159
lineup for the last couple of weeks. You know, the center spot's been

790
00:53:06,239 --> 00:53:09,239
been banged up. They've had to
They've lost Walter Yates, their linebacker went

791
00:53:09,239 --> 00:53:13,239
out in the game against Baylor.
So Gus is saying, listen, we're

792
00:53:13,280 --> 00:53:15,920
trying to get as healthy as we
can. They love to get that bye

793
00:53:15,920 --> 00:53:17,119
week. They want to try to
get everyone back before they go take on

794
00:53:17,199 --> 00:53:21,480
Oklahoma, and so it's it's it's
going to be a challenge that way.

795
00:53:21,480 --> 00:53:23,679
They've got to understand. But but
the Gusts isn't making any excuses. The

796
00:53:23,760 --> 00:53:27,400
understands that they're gonna have. That
was their the role they were kind of

797
00:53:27,599 --> 00:53:30,199
handed to in the car they were
handed So they're gonna have to find a

798
00:53:30,199 --> 00:53:32,639
way to win somebody's games. What's
the what's the one position group that really

799
00:53:32,719 --> 00:53:36,119
needs to step up there? Step
up a little bit. It sounds like

800
00:53:36,159 --> 00:53:39,199
defensively they've struggled in the second half
of games. What's the one Is it

801
00:53:39,280 --> 00:53:45,079
a defensive line is it secondary or
just maybe the inability of the offense to

802
00:53:45,119 --> 00:53:47,840
maintain what they've been doing. What's
the one group that Gus or you have

803
00:53:47,960 --> 00:53:52,159
noticed that the heat they think really
needs to play a little bit better here

804
00:53:52,280 --> 00:53:54,480
the second half of the year.
I think two groups in my mind.

805
00:53:54,519 --> 00:53:57,599
One of them is the defensive line. And I mean, again I mentioned

806
00:53:57,679 --> 00:54:00,360
Ricky Barber being banged up, and
that's hasn't helped them. But you know,

807
00:54:00,400 --> 00:54:02,159
they came out and they had four
sacks against Baylor, but all that

808
00:54:02,280 --> 00:54:05,559
damage it was done early on in
the game. You know, once they

809
00:54:05,599 --> 00:54:07,639
got in that fourth, like I
said, the late third quarter, fourth

810
00:54:07,719 --> 00:54:09,119
quarter, they didn't really get much
of a push. And I think that's

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something that they're gonna have to do. They're gonna have to be the rotated,

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more guys or whatever it takes to
get better pressure. Because when they

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get pressure on the quarterback, they're
you know, they're able to kind of

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create some turnovers and things like that. They haven't been able to do that

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latent game, So they've got to
find a way step up and do that

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late in the game. And I
think running, I think the running game,

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you know, I mean, listen, you know a lot the first

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three weeks, they led the country
and rushing, and you know, they've

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got kind of away from it a
little bit. Some of that's because their

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offensive line has been banged up,
but some of it also is the fact

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that you know, they're just once
they get behind in some of these games,

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they have to find a way to
kind of they get away from it

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a little bit. So they need
R. J. Harvey to who's been

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kind of their workhorse. He needs
to have a big game. Johnny Richardson,

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who had explosive runs the last two
weeks but doesn't get utilized as much

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later in the games. I think
they need to continue to get him out

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there as well. And then I
think the quarterback too. You know,

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they're so trying to protect the quarterback
position that I think they've gotten away at

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times for where they could use the
running game to maybe kind of open some

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things up as well. So I
think if they run the football like they've

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done in the first two or three
weeks, I think they'll they'll be fine.

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But you know, we'll see what
happens in the game against Kansas,

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And that's the core of what Gus
Gus really wants to do. If I

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thinks Gus is wide open, but
he's really not. He's a running he

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likes to run the ball with a
running quarterback, with plumlee, and back

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to his Auburn days, that's when
he's had his most success with his with

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a running quarterback and that kind of
thing as far as in the running game.

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So well, Matt Michelle, you're
a great follow up Twitter. I

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know you've showed you You've posted some
great stuff on your different road trips restaurants

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and such, and you you've been
in Boys and you've been in Manhattan,

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Kansas. Now you go to Lawrence, Kansas. I've actually played in Lawrence,

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Kansas that way back in the day
when I've played at UAB, so

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I've I've actually played in that stadium. And uh, Lawrence is your typical

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college town obviously with the Jayhawks and
and fall Gallen Field House and all that

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stuff. So I don't know if
you've ever been before, but you'll probably

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enjoy that, and uh, that'll
be a fun little trip for you,

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and that we look forward to all
your great little your Twitter Twitter pictures and

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of the dining experiences and such.
And I know you're you know you enjoy

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you can find Matt at the online
at on x at os Matt murshell and

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00:56:17,519 --> 00:56:21,079
tell all the great fans where they
can find out your great work with Orlando

851
00:56:21,159 --> 00:56:23,079
Sentinel. Yeah, they can go
to Orlando Sentinel dot com to catch up

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00:56:23,159 --> 00:56:27,159
everything's going on, or as you
said, following me on x that's where

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I usually post everything. And I'm
looking forward to it. This has been

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00:56:29,639 --> 00:56:31,679
a fun being in the Big twelve
for the first time and checking out some

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00:56:31,719 --> 00:56:36,039
of these college towns for the first
and it's been and fans have really embraced

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00:56:36,079 --> 00:56:37,679
it as well. They're they're they're
coming out and traveling and so it's gonna

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00:56:37,679 --> 00:56:40,320
be interesting and they're gonna need that
kind of support over the next couple of

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00:56:40,360 --> 00:56:44,639
weeks. Now it's Oklahoma coming to
it coming to Orlando is at a home

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00:56:44,719 --> 00:56:47,559
Goo. No, it's Norman and
Norman, So it's gonna be a challenge

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00:56:47,559 --> 00:56:51,559
for them and they and they've got
to obviously No Almost playing really well so

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00:56:52,320 --> 00:56:54,960
and Dylan Gabriel, obviously former US
A quarterbacks is having a big year.

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So it's gonna be kind of extra
incentive when they go to Oklahoma about a

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00:57:00,239 --> 00:57:01,599
couple of weeks. We'll keep up
the great work, Matt, and we'll

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00:57:01,599 --> 00:57:05,000
definitely check in as we get towards
the end of the year. Here.

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All right, sounds good, Thanks
a lot. All right, Thanks for

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