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on the Wisconsin Badgers. The number nine Cougars three and

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one overall are taking it too, taking them to the

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woodshed right now. The Wisconsin Badgers number twenty three in

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the country four thus far the season.

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Speaker 3: They're going to take their first loss at the Delta.

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Speaker 2: Center at the Bad Boy Moeers Series in Salt Lake City,

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eighty seven to fifty eight with about three fifty two

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left in the second half. Richie Saunders leads all scores

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of twenty six the Tater Todd King ten to sixteen

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from the field, five to nine from the three point line,

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at one for three from the charity stripe. He's got

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three rebounds, two assists, one turnover, two steals and Apartrid

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jennipear Tree only fouled twice as well.

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Speaker 3: Shout out to Richie rich Richie Saunders.

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Speaker 2: AJ with eighteen Dawson the bucket Getner Baker at eleven

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points as well. So you want to get into a

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comment from Joe Klatt. Now, Joe Clatt has not been

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overly friendly to BYU this season. He has doubted BYU

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at every turn. He only recently started to put BYU

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at his top ten. And this is what he had

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to say about the BYU Cincinnati game. Obviously BYUS light

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favorite in this game, but they're going on the road

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versus a team that has a prolific scoring offense, a

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great quarterback and a wide receiver running back that are

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returning into the rotation and starting lineup. This is Joe

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Klatt discussing on his show the BYU Cincinnati matchup.

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Speaker 4: All right, next one BYU at Cincinnati. BYU is ranked

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number eleven in the country. Cincinnati is looked great as

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of late, and this line is only two and a

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half towards BYU. What what what I'm sorry, I saw that.

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So just so you know, and I think I've said

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this before in the show. I always kind of think

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about the game. I talk about the game with Steve

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and Steve and I and He'll be like, well, what

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do you think the score is?

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Speaker 3: And I was like, fourteen.

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Speaker 4: I think that BYU wins it by twelve or fourteen,

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was two and a half? I was like, what what

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am I missing? What is happening right now? I feel

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like I'm taking crazy pills. I feel like Mugatu just

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ran into the room by you looked great last week.

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They control their own destiny for the playoff. They continue

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to win, they win the Big twelve Championship, They're in

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the CFP. They were balanced last week against TCU. I

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know they've been better at home than they have been

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on the road. They had a tight game against Colorado

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on the road, but one. They had a tight game

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against Arizona on the road, but one. They played really

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well against Iowa State and then got beat by Texas Tech.

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Speaker 3: Two and a half? What are we doing?

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Speaker 4: I've got to give Kilanie Sataki a lot of credit.

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He's twenty and three, twenty and three since the start

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of last season. We talk about Kurt Signety and his record,

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Speaker 3: Twenty and three.

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Speaker 4: Only three teams with a better record at Ohio State,

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Speaker 3: That's the only three in all of college football. This

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Speaker 4: I was so impressed with what they did against TCU

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because of the balanced nature that they did it. They

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were able to throw it with Bachmeyer on some series.

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Speaker 4: Martin is outstanding. Their defense is aggressive, they are physical,

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They're old. They're old BYU is always old. This is

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the same team as Utah and beat Utah. They have

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the same philosophy, they have the same players. Klanie Sataki

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Kyle Whittingham at Utah. And you know what Utah did

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the cincinnat just a couple of weeks ago, back to

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back losses. They were blown out at Utah by what

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was it thirty Then they lost at home to Arizona

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Speaker 3: I know that they want to run the ball.

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Speaker 4: Cincinnati and Soresby has been good, and I think it's

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been a solid season, But like, come on, two and

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a half, what are we talking to the line? That

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what am I missing? BYU? I like them winning this game.

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I think Bachmeyer is getting better as the season goes along.

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He does not play like a true freshman. He didn't

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play like a true freshman last week. That was a

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tremendous bounce back after the loss of Texas Tech. And

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you see the nature and the character of a team

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with how they play when they come back and play

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the next week. Bachmeyer was terrific. The run game was terrific,

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the pass game was terrific, the defense was terrific. He

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was twenty three or thirty three for three hundred and

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Speaker 3: Yards and two total touchdowns.

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Speaker 4: Like you know, I can't do it. Cincinnati loses to

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Arizona at home, and I just like BYU in this

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one at thirty one to twenty four, I'm coming back

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to you seven points there.

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Speaker 3: I thought it was gonna be fourteen.

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Speaker 4: I will come towards the line seven and I'm still

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covering the two and a half, Like, come on, b YU,

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thirty one Cincinnati twenty four. BYU is giving two and

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a half. I still I don't understand that. I don't

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understand that at all. Absolutely give the two and a half.

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Speaker 2: By the way, pulling the spread numbers b YU against

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the spread seven and three this season, so they've been

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pretty gosh day good good teams cover or good teams win.

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Great teams cover, and BYU has has been covering one

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of the best teams in the in the college football

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world this season. They're like top I think they're top

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fifteen versus the spread. All right, let's get out to

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the hot line. Welcome and former BA quarterback get a

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little scattering report on the Cincinnati Bearcats.

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Speaker 3: See what he see?

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Speaker 2: What he's got cooking up for these Cougars for a

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Saturday matchup versus Well, we got bear versus the Bearcats.

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Speaker 3: Steve Clements on the Live Steve, how you living?

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Speaker 5: What's up?

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Speaker 3: Brother?

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Speaker 5: How are you living?

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Speaker 3: The dream?

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Speaker 2: Man?

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Speaker 3: Living the dream?

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Speaker 2: The BWA you Cougar basketball team dominating the Badgers? Now

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I need the BWA Cougar football team to dominate the

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Bearcats to have a complete weekend.

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Speaker 3: How do you see this game? Steve?

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Speaker 5: Uh boy? After last week boy, and when you go

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from Texas Tech who where they really struggled offensive laser

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move the ball to really not having an issue with TCU.

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carbon coffey of the TCU game, but I see I

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see him kind of hit a stride here late in

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the season, which is good I think for Cougar Nation.

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And I see it win him by ten points over

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there in Cincinnati, I really do.

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Speaker 2: It would be nice, right, we were just here from

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Joe Clad and he feels like BYU's been disrespected with

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that two and a half line. See he says a

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seven point victory, but it almost seems like he's leaning

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towards a big scoring output because he kind of feels like,

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maybe I don't know something. Well, Cincinnati does return a

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really good running back and a really good wide receiver

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from their from their their injury report, and BYU does

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lose a few guys to Whalen Laa who that's a

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loss for BYU along the offensive line, uh as far

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as the injury report is concerned, but overall by is

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pretty healthy. H Are you are you all worried that?

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Look at top ten quarterback in college football, Brendan Soorsby

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per pff Uh, he's been very productive.

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Speaker 3: He he's a little bit inged up. He's got a

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little ankle injury right now he's dealing with. Uh.

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Speaker 2: He gets two stars back in his lineup. Can they

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Speaker 3: Maybe? Can they score a few more points than than TCU.

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Speaker 2: Did being at home and having some more firepower behind

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I think playing at home that might give him

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another touchdown. But again, defense, this is gonna win championships

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all the time, and with Jay Hill calling our defense,

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I don't. I don't know if it will be the

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blowout that maybe Joel said it might be. That would

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be great if it was. But you know, ten points

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is that's a pretty good spread. I really do think

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that we're gonna hit a hit a high here and

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go on a little run to finish the season out

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and to make the see if he playoffs.

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Speaker 2: So I love it, man, I feel like by us

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in the in the in the driver'sy right.

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Speaker 3: They're the master of their own destiny.

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Speaker 2: They can clinch right now, they can clinch if a

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few things happen as far as UH their side of things.

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Texas Texas Tech can also clinch too. B WA clinches

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with a win over Cincinnati and losses by Arizona State

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and Houston, or with a win over Cincinnati and Arizona

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Speaker 3: And Utah win.

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Speaker 2: This maybe the first time BYU roots on a Utah

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football team when there when they're kind of separated, right,

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So this could be a clinching weekend for BUYU. How

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great would that be to head into UCF week? Is

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that a good thing or a bad thing to be

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able to clinch this weekend? Do they let their guard

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down versus UCF at home, et cetera.

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Speaker 3: Give me your analysis on that now.

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Speaker 5: I don't think. I think there's team's manufactured a little

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bit differently than those in the past, as we've talked

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about really the last couple of weeks, as far as

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the maturity of the ball club, the experience in both coordinators,

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and then Klonnie's tenth year, I think this team just

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feels way different than it has before, and so I

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have every bit of confidence in these guys. I don't

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think it would be a detriment UH for their you know,

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their psyche to win and clinch. I think they're gonna

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go ahead and take care of business at home and provo,

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but obviously that all starts with tomorrow's game in Cincinnati

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and focusing on that first and foremost, and being one

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to oh coming out of the weekend and on to

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see what happens and what the ramifications are and a

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BYU win and whoever loses. I don't think they're going

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care about that. It's, you know, focusing on what they

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need to do to beat a really good Cincinnati team

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on the road, and then chips fall wherever they may

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Speaker 2: So yeah, well I'm optimistic about the future here. Getting

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over the hub would be tremendous, and getting over a

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hump with a true freshman quarterback something that's quite novel.

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Bear Bachmeyer's doing something that pretty much no other college

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football players have done, even like the you know, we

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were compared to trasting other true freshman quarterbacks that have

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gone undefeated, et cetera. But I don't think they started

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as the starting quarterback at the beginning of the season,

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whereas Bear has. If BYU gets to the college football

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playoff being led by Bear Bachmeyer. This would be something

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that is transcended, something that rarely, if ever, happens in

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college football. Assess you know the gravity of that situation

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for me? And why maybe Bear is built for these moments?

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Speaker 5: Well, well, obviously he's extremely smart, he's extremely talented with

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the ball in his hands, and to put a lot

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of trust in all was he the uniniteeen.

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Speaker 3: Eighteen, nineteen year old man.

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Speaker 5: Nineteen year old? I mean, that's kind of extraordinary. I

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don't think it's it's foreign to the BYU football program, because,

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let's face it, BYU is known for the quarterbacks and

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have been for fifty sixty seventy years. So that in

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and of itself is not so much a surprise or

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a shock that BYU has another really really good quarterback.

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Now this one just happens to be a true freshman,

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and he's putting kind of the at least the offensive

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side of the ball on his shoulders and we go

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as he goes, which is fine. Obviously he's been able

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to do this and do it very successfully. It's fun

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Washington play. It's fun for Cougarnation. I'm sure to rattle

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off all these wins and for this season. And I

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really do think that this is a different team this

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year than in the past because of their mentality and

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their psyche. And that's a testament to Kilani and the

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way he's being able to focus these guys. After a

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win win against our rival Utah and pro bo beat

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Ahawa State, and then turn around and lose to Texas Tech,

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but then flip that and be able to beat a

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decent TCU team at home. I just I keep going

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back to mentality. It was really important, especially this late

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in the season, to be playing as well as we're playing. Yes,

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we're a freshman quarterback at the helm, but I really

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think it speaks to Kalani's masterclass of coaching the game

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of football and teaching these kids that you cannot rest

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on your laurels, you can't get down when times are hard.

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It's all about being in the present and playing the

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next play and then move on to the next and

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step by step, play by play, series by series. That's

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how this team has gone. And it's just a testament

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to Kwani and really how well he's put this team together,

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kept them together and then being successful on the field

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and performing at a high level week in and week out.

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Speaker 3: Let me ask you this question.

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Speaker 2: So, if b what you get to the Big Fuel

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Championship game and they go up against Texas Tech, which

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head coach deserves Big Twelve Coach of the Year honors?

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Is it Texas Tech coach McGuire or BYU's coach Kalate Satake.

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Speaker 5: Well, we're all biased and Sugar Nations, So I obviously

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I'm gonna say Kilani because Texas Tech beat US at

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home with College Game Day and and all the hype

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and all of that stuff. If they were to beat

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if they would have beaten us in provo, yeah, he's

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coach of the Year. But like they beat us in Loving,

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so they were supposed to. And so I think whoever, yeah,

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whoever wins the Big Twelve Championship game deserves to be

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Coach of the Year in the Big Twelve Conference. So yeah,

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that's my opinion.

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Speaker 3: Well, I'm right there with you. Look, this is the thing.

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Speaker 2: The argument would be centered around losing your starting quarterback,

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you know, two weeks before like Paul Camp or two

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months before Paul Camp or whatever it was, and having

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to go out into the portal and get a true

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freshman quarterback that hasn't played a lick of college football

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and put him into your starting role at quarterback. I

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don't care how many stars he has, and he leads

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you to a nine in one season. So I think

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that just that alone, getting to the Big Twelve championship

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game and not having the same nil offering, is that

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of Texas Tech that merits the Big Ten or Big

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twelve head.

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Speaker 3: Coaching I guess head coaching job of the.

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Speaker 5: Year certainly, And again we go back to what you

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and I have talked about the last couple of weeks.

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Is the big for this team to rebound, Well, that's

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I'm sorry, that's because of.

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Speaker 3: The head coach.

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Speaker 5: They were able to go beat a state in Iowa

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after being in their arrival because of CLONEE. They were

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able to rebound from a loss at Texas Tech and

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beat a TCU gay Or team and really blow him

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out of the water the very next week. So those

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two instances right there, obviously he would have my vote.

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And because I see it a little bit different having coach,

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even though it was high school, it's a there's something

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to be said about the head coach and their ability

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to influence kids and get them back to living and

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playing in the present, whether that's a play or a

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game or whatever. And Clonnie has now mastered that, and

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I think he deserves to be Big twelve Coach of

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the Year and have recognition or at least gives some

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love for National Coach of the Year. I mean, goodness, Grace,

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you want to just get through with Bear alone? Like

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you said, the merits would favor that because.

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Speaker 2: I think if they get to the colleg football playoff,

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if they if they somehow somebody favorite to be Texas

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Tech in the the Big Tell Championship game, he would

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definitely merit that.

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Speaker 3: I mean, kidn me, I mean the over under like.

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Speaker 2: The last two years, the total win prognosticators, okay, Vegas

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and all the analytical gurus that think they know something

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about ball that they think they know something about Brigham

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they don't know, but they're about to find out right

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that they built different with Kilanie at the helm. The

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total wind like mark was four and a half I

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believe last year, and this year is six and a half.

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Speaker 3: So they're twenty and three right now.

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Speaker 2: They could end up by the end of the season

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twenty two and three. If they get to twenty three

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and three, I mean, look at that. I mean that

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is significantly overachieving versus the expectation. And you lost your

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starting quarterback right before this lesson. I mean, to me,

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it's not even close. To me, it's not un close.

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Now Signetti is right there with Indiana, right, he's gonna

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get it. He's gonna get it because he's in the

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Big Ten. But goodness graces me o mi versus the expectation,

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I mean, Kilani deserves it.

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Speaker 3: Kilani's right there.

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Speaker 5: Sure, And I mean do the math. That's what ten

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wins they were supposed to have only the last two

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years to a potential twenty two maybe twenty three wins. Yeah,

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that's that's quite significant. And you're right, Indiana's Big ten

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conference and they're gonna give it to one of those

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cats over there.

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Speaker 3: And they're falling here they are.

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Speaker 5: They're good. He's great, cool, Yes, he really is. I

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tell you what that Bachmer kid, I ever tell you,

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who're reminded me of Kenna? Reminds me of right handed throwing,

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better throwing Tim Tebow? I ever tell you that just

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saying that's just me. I don't know, that's just what

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I I see.

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Speaker 2: It's any hate mail by the way for that, you

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get some DMS.

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Speaker 3: I know, I you know.

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Speaker 2: See this's why I love Steve because like he's not

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gonna we we took that quote, ran with it, and

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he got all the bitchrial right, all the hate and.

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Speaker 3: Howbody's been validating and indicated.

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Speaker 2: Right, You're sitting at the top of your mountain and

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you're like, hey, who knows ball?

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Speaker 3: Who is a ball Nober? My name is Steve Clements,

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the ball noer.

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Speaker 5: I don't know about that. But that was fun. It's

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it's continued to be fun. Yeah, I got I got

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a few dms, but you just breathe in, breathe out,

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move on. It's kind of fun and then chuckle at

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the same time.

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Speaker 3: So yes, a good yes, indeed.

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Speaker 2: Steve Clements here on ESPN the Fan talking to BYU

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Football as we get prep get ready for the Cincinnati

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Bearcat matchup on Saturday. B YU was never lost to

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the Bearcats, big new kickoff will be there.

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Speaker 3: But uh, you know, I just I wonder if if.

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Speaker 2: This team is built different, you know what I mean,

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if what would the lessons learn in Lubbock that propelled

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them to greatness versus TCU, And do those translate over

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to the Cincinnati game, of your opinion, But I.

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Speaker 5: Think again, it all starts from Monday to Thursday during

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their practice and the mentality that Klannie's allowed put them

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in between or really in the locker room and in

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their meetings and staying sharp and being focused. And you know,

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I don't know if we ever talked about this, but

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it seems as though it seems this year was different.

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When I watched them early in the fall, this is

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before the season started actually out there. Back then it

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was late mid to late August, and I'm watching practice,

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and really in the past, honestly, Ben, I would go, Okay,

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these guys play their first game in four months or

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three months. Just the sense of urgency it did seemed

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like it was there. To now, it's every practice from

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August to even a couple of weeks ago when I

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went down there, they're getting ready to play the National

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Championship in three or four days. And that's the difference.

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I think, not just well in the past that I've

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seen practices, whether that's spring or just before fall season, well,

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that's Clinie, that's coaching, that's j and that's a Rod

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and the entire staff putting way more focus on this

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program to be where it used to be, which was

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naturally ranked and recognized. And I think we're really honestly

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seeing a change in a consistently that what puts us

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back in the top ten, top fifteen every single year,

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and we're we're on the inside looking out rather than

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outside looking in.

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Speaker 3: Now. Great day to be a Cougar, no doubt.

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Speaker 2: Hopefully they can continue to win when their way through

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the schedule and find ways to get w's. Hopefully it

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happens again this Saturday versus Cincinnati. APPRECIATEHS Steve always appreciate

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our time, great insight, great commentary today on a keeping

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up with the Cougar segment.

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Speaker 5: All right, buddy, go coog, All.

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Speaker 3: Right, we'll catch up in the end next week.

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