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Speaker 1: Need to get your football fix on all things Army,

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Navy and Air Force. This is Yards and Stripes Service

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Academy Football.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: Here are your hosts, Pryce Atkinson and Steve Carney.

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Speaker 3: Here we go, Here we go, Here we go, twoenty

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twenty five edition of Yards and Stripes. It has arrived,

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and so has Stephen Carney, and so have I on

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Pryce Atkinson, we appreciate you for tuning in to episode one.

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I can't even remember what season we're on now because

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it has been many, many seasons since we've been doing this.

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But this is your home for Yards and Stripes, Army, Navy,

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Air Force, service academies. That is what we do here

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on Yards and Stripes. Welcome in. We have got your

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preview addition here as we are going to kind of

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recap an offseason. Beget into all three of these teams.

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We got three games kicking off this weekend, actually starting

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Friday night with Army and Action and then Navy and

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Air Force and Action on Saturday. But the twenty twenty

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five college football season is here. Steven, the weight is

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over before we get into it, brother, how the heck

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are you? Man?

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Speaker 4: It has been quite the amazing off season of college football,

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and for me, like the sports year never ends, because

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it seems like as soon as I get done doing

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college football, I'm stuck right smack dab in the middle

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of hockey season. Hockey seasons turns right into baseball season,

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and baseball season turns right back into college football season,

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and I'm back here with you on Yards and Stripes

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for another year.

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Speaker 2: I believe this is our fourth year.

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Speaker 4: Together together, miss yep so, and then of course you've

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had this this baby for another decade before that.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, I want to say it's year nine. If

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I remember right, I will go back and double check it.

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I think it's year nine, but we're getting close to ten.

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But it is definitely a year four for you and I, yes,

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because it has been four joyful years. As we were

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just talking, I love the games, but believe it or not, folks,

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my favorite part about the fall. Yes, I love the

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cooler weather. Yes, I enjoy the games, but it's having

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fun with Steven for an hour every single week. And

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we hope you have fun with us, because we like

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to have a lot of damn fun here talking about Army, Navy,

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and Air Force. Steven and I also like to have

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a lot of fun by getting a Papion's Pizza report

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from you, because if our listeners is if this is

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your first time tuning in Steven, typically we're usually recording

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this late at night, not late late, but usually after

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the kids have gone to bed, and you know, we're

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usually you know, eating a late dinner and we're multitasking

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by eating and recording and talking college football. So Papa

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Yon's does not pay us to say this. I just

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like to get a Papion's Pizza report because oftentimes Steven

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is eating said pizza. What do we got tonight on

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the menu, Stephen?

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Speaker 4: Usually it is a pizza night whenever I do Yards

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and Stripes, but not tonight.

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Speaker 2: There is no Papa Yans tonight.

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Speaker 4: And that is because I was supposed to be at

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a minor league baseball game for Major League Baseball in Duneden,

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a Florida State League matchup between the dun Eden Blue

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Jays and the Fort Myers Mining Mighty Muscles. Very you

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gotta love some of these names in minor league baseball. Yeah,

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the Blue Jays and the Mighty Muscles were supposed to

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be going at it. Unfortunately, we've had so much rain

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here in the Tampa Bay region that some of these

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fields they're not really good to play on. And so

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tonight's game was actually postponed due to unplayable field conditions.

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But that meant that I had stopped to get food

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to go to the ballpark, and then I had to

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come home, so I just ate the food that I

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was gonna I had a pub sub you know, shout

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out to publics, and some snacks that went with it.

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And so the Papa Yon's pizza will have to wait

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for next week.

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Speaker 2: Sorry, Papa Yon's all right.

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Speaker 3: We will get the Pabian's Pizza report next week. But

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what we won't get next week, we will get it

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this week. And that is a guest interview that Steven

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had with the new athletic director at the Naval Academy,

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Michael Kelly, coming from Steve's neck of the woods right

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there in Tampa as he comes from USF back to

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Annapolis where he's got some roots Steve with family, and

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you know, it's really going home for Michael Kelly. So

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the listeners a little bit of a taste on what

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all you guys talked about. I know you talked with

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him about how he found out, like when he got

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, I've known Michael Kelly now for probably

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close to a decade. Not only has he been the

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athletic director or what they would call the vice president

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of athletics here at the University of South Florida, MI

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alma mater for the last seven years, but before that

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he was the CEO of the College Football Playoff And

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so that's where I first met Michael was when he

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was with the CFP getting the playoff going in college football.

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Speaker 2: And you know, this is a guy that.

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Speaker 4: Has really turned around athletics here at the University of

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South Florida. It's definitely in a much better direction than

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it was when he came aboard. And now with check

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Gladchuk retiring in Annapolis after twenty four years, he gets

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an opportunity to go back to the Naval Academy where

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basically he remembers being young because his father was a

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graduate of the Naval Academy in nineteen sixty seven, and

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so he's got many friends and colleagues and some great

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memories of being around Annapolis. And then his father was

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back in Annapolis as his career wound down in the military,

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so he certainly has plenty of great memories already in Annapolis.

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Speaker 2: And I certainly feel that.

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Speaker 4: And I said this to him, and you'll hear me

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say this to him in the.

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Speaker 2: Interview.

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Speaker 4: I'm sure that Navy had plenty of good choices to

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replace check lad Chuck, and they picked a great one instead.

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Speaker 3: All right, well, I can't wait for that interview, Steve,

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with Michael Kelly and here and everything he had to say.

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Like you said, you guys go back a long way,

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so I'm sure you were able to prize some good

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stuff out of him. Maybe not even pride. I'm sure

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he's probably giddy in the excitement of his first college

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football season ahead at the head of the midshipman. But

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of course that's Brian Newberry and Brian Newberry the head coach.

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Let's get into these three teams, Steve, and let's start

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with Navy, not just because you talked with Michael Kelly,

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but I think because they're the reigning CIC champions, they're

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the ones that took home the Commander in Chief Trophy

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last year. And Navy also is probably the one if

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we're gonna look at all three of these teams, and

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you're gonna pick a favorite to win the CIC. I

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don't think there's much doubt in anybody's mind. Navy is

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that betting choice this year, especially with all the pieces

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to the puzzle that they have back. I mean, Blake Corvath,

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Eli Heidenreich, Landon Robinson, The list goes on and on,

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playmakers on the offensive side of the ball, Alex Tesca,

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so many guys back on defense. A team that won

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that went ten and three last year mentioned the c

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I C Trophy. Of course that's always the name of

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the game for these three teams. But maybe Caps with

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a Bowl win over Oklahoma, Boy, the pieces are there.

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Boise State the massive favorite in the group of five,

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steve to find a way into the playoff, but maybe

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maybe could be that dark horse because there is an

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awful lot to light this year.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the.

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Speaker 4: College Football Playoff Group of five pick is a little tough.

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I think that the back end of Navy's schedule is

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going to really do that because, I mean, they have

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to go to Memphis, they have to go to Notre Dame,

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and then of course they have the two c C games.

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But I certainly feel that you know early on, you

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look at what NABE has got early on in their schedule,

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and the fact is that you could say that, especially

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on offense, they are improved over a ten win team

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last year. I think their offensive line this year is

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so much better than what they had last year. And

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I think all that can do is help the premiere playmakers,

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whether it's Blake Corvath, you know, coming off of a

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season where he was only the third quarterback ever at

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maybe to rush for twelve hundred yards and throw for

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twelve hundred yards in the same season, I think that really,

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you know you're looking at I would say the odds

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on favorite right now for the American Conference Player of

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the Year right now, I would say he's probably the

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betting favorite, at least I would say that I would

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put money on Blake Corvath if I did that sort

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of betting. But I certainly feel like with him. You know,

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Eli Heidenreich was named to the Senior Bowl three hundred

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watch list. Corvath was one of the top one hundred

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college players in the game this year according to a

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preseason poll.

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Speaker 2: You mentioned alec Tesco.

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Speaker 4: I really do think that it all starts, though, with

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the front five and when they and they're better this

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year than they were last year, I would think that

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Navy is a very scary appointed for anybody on this schedule.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, without a doubt, I certainly think you're spot on.

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the American Conference. You know, so many players on this team,

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Steve that are. You know these preseason watch lists, I'm

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not going to go through them. All Armies got several,

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air Force has got a couple, Navies got a ton,

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and there's just too many to probably name to get

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out of the gate here, which you're gonna hear a

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lot of these names that we talked about, but one

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of them is Landon Robinson. On the defensive side of

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the football. You know we're talking offense. You know when

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you usually talk service academies boy defense. Last year, Navy

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played some pretty darn good defense last year, especially with

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the takeaways. You know, it all starts up front in

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college football, at any level of football. But when you've

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got a guy in the middle of that defense and

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a guy named Landon Robinson who was a first team

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All Conference guy, First team All East recognition sixty one tackles,

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five and a half for a lost, four sacks, two poorts.

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I mean, he was I think he was one of

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the MVPs. He shared MVP honors with Blake Cormath at

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the Army Navy game last year. You know, having such

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a big game there with career high thirteen tackles and

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forcing that fumble, including nobody will ever forget, especially if

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you're a Navy fan, the twenty nine yards on that

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fake punt. He's back and he is going to be,

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without a doubt, the unquestioned leader on the defensive front

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for Navy, because that was a side of the football

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that was vastly, vastly improved last year for Brian Newberry.

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Of course, we know the head coach and Naval academy

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has his roots on the fensive side of the ball,

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but there's so much to like. You know, losing a

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couple of linebackers never helps, but by large, you know,

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on this Navy defense, they've got most of the guys

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returning that you want to see. And again, Landon Robinson

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is going to be the first name out of most

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everybody's mouth.

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Speaker 4: Oh absolutely, The big question mark for Navy on defense

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is going to be the defensive secondary. You know, you

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don't have Raywan Lane, you don't have Sean Peel.

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Speaker 2: I think that's going to be big for them.

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Speaker 4: I think that you have to figure out early on

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who your playmakers are in the secondary and make sure

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that they are put in the position to make those plays.

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You know, not having Colin Ramos is also another piece.

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the one that the other ten guys on the field

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always looked toward. H And so I think have not

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having Lane or Peel a Ramos, I think our big

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question marks and really the secondary is what I'm looking at.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and the big the one thing that both lines

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have in common is the strength of both the offense

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and defensive line is in the middle of those lines,

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center and guard. You know, while Navy's you know, looking

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to kind of you know, get a couple of tackles

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anchoring down the offensive line. You know, on defense, it's

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kind of the same thing with Landon Robinson and Griffin willis,

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you know, anchoring that middle of the defensive line. So

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you know, certainly there's questions for every football team, but

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maybe He's got a lot less of those questions. Going

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into the season. You mentioned the schedule Steve certainly very

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very manageable for the midshipman. You know, I want to say,

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I don't want to call it, you know, back heavy

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if you will, but maybe could be out of this gate,

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you know pretty quickly. You know, you've got the Air

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Force game that's gonna be the fifth game of the season, uh,

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coming up on Saturday, October the fourth. But by and large,

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you get through that game, you could possibly be sailing

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into that Notre Dame game sitting at what eight to

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no potentially before they play the Fight and Irish in

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South Bend on Saturday, November the eighth. And to me,

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that's the toughest part of the stretch of the schedule

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is those last four games at Notre Dame, then you're

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home against South Florida. Then of course going to Memphis

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is always going to be one of the toughest games

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on your entire schedule when it comes to the American Conference,

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and then of course Army to finish the season. So

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at the end of that schedule, basically the month of November,

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you know, having to go to North Texas in the

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four I just reeled off. Yeah, that without a doubt

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it's going to be a tough closing for the midshipman.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's the big thing.

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Speaker 4: And I mentioned this with Michael Kelly that you know,

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there's gonna be a lot of whispers of three little

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initials that people are going to have every time that

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Navy wins a game and that c FP. Now it

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starts this week with vm I. You know, you make

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a statement there. You've got Ua B at home. You

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can make a statement there. Tulsa is certainly a place

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where you can have a lot of success. You're at

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home against both Rice and for the Air Force game,

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you're not having to go out west, they're having to

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come east. I think that is a big advantage for

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the midshipman at Temple. Temple does not really have a

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quarterback to speak of this year, so I think that's

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really going to be a struggle for the Owls. Florida

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Atlantic is another team that is looking to try and rebound.

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at really seven extremely winnable games on their schedule, and

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so as you said, you could be seven and er

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at that point. But then November comes around and that's

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when things get really difficult. Having to go to Denton,

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Texas to play North Texas. That's a really tough ass.

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couple of years. Notre Dame obviously that that speaks for itself.

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Then you have the Michael Kelly Bowl on November fifteenth

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in Annapolis, as as the Bulls come up to Navy

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after Navy came down last year and beat up South

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Florida here at Raymond James Stadium and then at Memphis.

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determine whether or not Navy has a shot at the

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American Championship Game. Yep, because at that point you're probably

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looking at maybe having two one loss teams there and

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one of them being Memphis. And if Memphis then beats

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Navy for their one loss or for their second loss

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of the year, that that could be the end of

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end of it. And then of course the Army Navy Game,

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the one and twenty sixth Army Navy Game on December thirteenth.

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Speaker 3: Can Navy improve on that bounce back that they had

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last year ten and three last season six and two

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in the American again won the CIC Trophy, outscoring Army

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and Air Force by a combined score sixty five to

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twenty and then knocked off Oklahoma out of the SEC

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in the bowl game to close out the year. All right,

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let's pivot to the Army Black Night, ste because we

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can't forget at the Black Knights last year at twelve

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and two eight in oh a perfect American Athletic Conference

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record in their first year in the league. And then

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of course they beat Tulane at home in the American

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Athletic Conference Championship Game. A heck of a season led

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by the Bryson Daily Show all year, those only two

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losses forty nine to fourteen to numbered six Notre Dame

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and then obviously thirty one to thirteen to the Naval

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Academy at the end of the season. But Jeb Munkin,

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you know, his team is chomping at the bit to

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get back on the field. You know, one of the

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most fiery head coaches you're gonna find in all the

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college football. They're going to be opening the season against

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Tarleton State this Friday. We'll preview that game here in

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a little bit. But as I mentioned, look, Steve, the

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Bryson Daily show. Not only Bryson Daily, he's gone. Kanye

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Udo transfers to Arizona State, Elo Medozi, the outstanding linebacker,

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he transferred to the University of Georgia is gonna be

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playing big minutes there. Army took a massive hit in

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terms of some of their top guys that were you know,

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could have been returning. But Bryson Daily graduates, he's gone.

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You know this is going to be a different looking

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Army team this year. We know that they're going to

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be running right, you know that run first, you know,

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triple option, especially with a guy in Dwayne Coleman, the

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senior quarterback who got to play I believe it was

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seven games last year. Jeff Munkin officially naming him the

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starter last week. But you know he comes in and

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will be taken over for Bryson Daily. Those shoes are mighty,

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mighty big who had one of the greatest seasons ever

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when it comes to Black Night football under center.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and you look at what Army did last year,

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leading the nation in rushing by more than forty five

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yards a game. I mean you think about that number

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like you know, when you think of you know, total rushing,

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you know, between between teams.

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Speaker 2: You know, you you don't see.

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Speaker 4: That big of a gap between the number one and

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the number two Russian teams in the country. Forty five yards.

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That's what Bryson Daily did for the Black Knights. And

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I don't know about you, I was very surprised to

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not see an NFL team take a take a chance

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on Bryson Daily in on the third day of the draft.

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You look at you know sometime in in rounds, you know,

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four through seven that you would and you know, could

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could somebody have given a seventh round pick for Bryson Daly.

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Speaker 2: I certainly think so.

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Speaker 4: I I personally was when I was looking through the draft,

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I was like, you know, this is a He's a

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sixth round guy to me, and I think that that

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some I think he deserved to have someone take a

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look at him, uh, you know, specifically with a with

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a draft pick. But he does not get a draft pick.

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He goes on to his uh, to his career in

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the military, and we wish him the best, uh going forward.

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Speaker 2: You know, it's funny.

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Speaker 4: I was looking at Army schedule and it's all almost

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it's almost completely the opposite of Navy schedule.

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Speaker 2: Theirs is very heavily front loaded.

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Speaker 4: After this week, you know, they're gonna go on the

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road to Kansas State, who obviously played in Week zero

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in what we like to call Farmageddon out in Ireland,

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Againsa Iowa State. They come up just a just a

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hair short in that game. And then they have North

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Texas at home, but still North Texas a very very

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formidable opponent in conference. And then they have two on

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the road against East Carolina, who you know obviously is

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a team that you can certainly handle. The same with UAB,

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but those are both on the road. So I think

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that their toughest stretch comes early and then and then

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they come home at the middle of October to take

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on the Charlotte forty nine ers, and that's what I

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think their their road gets a lot easier at that point. Yes,

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they have Tulane the following week, and they're on the

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road for air Force, but really the back end of

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their schedule Tulane, Tulsa, UTSA, Charlotte, I certainly think that

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that's a much more manageable second half of the schedule

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as opposed to their first half. The complete opposite of Army.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, one big note about Army and their schedule only

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five games they're being played at Mikey Stadium there at

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West Point. They're gonna have to go on the road

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for six true road games, and that first one as

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you mentioned at Kansas State, you know who lost the

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farm again in game against Iowa State last weekend in

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week zero, if you will. So the schedule is gonna

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be a little bit a little bit more difficult, only

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in the fact that they're not gonna be playing at

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home as much. But still, jub Munkin poised to have

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the Black Knights bounce back. And you just cannot forget

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when you have to say, because you you know, twenty

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twenty four as champions, they did it in the very

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first try coming back into the league one heck heck

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of a season. I remember watching that game against Tulane

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that Friday night when it was freezing cold there at

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Less Point, just watching Army dominate both sides of the football.

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Can they do it again? I think Jeb Munkin's team

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is going to bounce back in a big way. And

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by the way, for those you know, Dwayne Coleman fans

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out there, they remember if you remember his big moment

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last year. Of course, it was the Bryson Daily Show

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all season long. But as we all remember, you know,

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right before that Air Force game, it wasn't until just

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minutes before kickoff that we're finding out Bryson Daily injured.

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It's going to be Dwayne Coleman, and he takes over

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as the starting quarterback and he leads Army in a

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very tough situation to that win over the Falcons there

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and that Commander Chief Trophy game. So Army Black Knights

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once again twelve and two last year, eight to no,

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and the American is gonna be hard to top that. Man.

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They beat Louisiana Tech twenty seven to six in the

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ind and excuse me, in the Independence Bowl, what does

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twenty twenty five having store We'll find out. All right,

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let's shift to the Air Force Academy, Steve, because as

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we all know last year, if you listen to this podcast,

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you know that this was a mighty mighty difficult season

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for the Black or for the Falcons. They start with

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a win, Steve, but then they reloft seven straight losses

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before they closed the season on a four game win streak.

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They just could not get any continuity going under center

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at quarterback. Right now, as we're sitting here talking, we're

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still unsure technically, surprise surprise when it comes to Troy

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calhoun team, who will be the starting quarterback this year?

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Will it be Josh Johnson or Liam Sarka. But what

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we do know is that this is a team that's

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got to fined a way to run the football, especially

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after the loss of Quentin Hayes at quarterback, who stepped

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up at the end of last season and really you

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came on to take hold of that quarterback job. Well,

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unfortunately he graduates, he's done. Who's it going to be?

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But what we do know is that Troy Calhoun's team

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has got to run the football better than they did

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last year, one of the two worst seasons ever under

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Calhoun since he got there and took over.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, only two and twenty four rushing yards per game

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last year. That still his tenth best in the country.

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But for a for a club and for a squad

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that is known for putting up big time rushing yards

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in a in a game, two hundred and twenty four

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is not nearly enough or for a vic for a

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get wins if you are a Service Academy team and

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Trey Calloun figured that one out you mentioned Quenton Hayes.

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Speaker 2: Boy, I'll tell you what.

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Speaker 4: When they put Quentin Hayes in under center to end

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the season and he reeled off those four straight wins,

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I was like.

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Speaker 2: It took him.

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Speaker 4: It took him long enough to get to get to

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get a decision to put the guy who I thought

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was being who was the best suited to run the

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football out there in Colorado Springs. You know, for air

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Force again, we don't know who the quarterback is going

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to be coming up on Saturday when the Falcons take

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on buck Nell. And I really do think that this

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this team, you know, it's kind of funny. I look

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at what their schedule looks like. It is very strange

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to me to see what their what their schedule looks like,

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because it's very reminiscent of what they did last year.

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You know, you've got a one double a school in

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Bucknell to start the year, and then you dive right

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into the Mountain West.

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Speaker 2: You know season.

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Speaker 4: You know you're gonna go on the road to Utah State,

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that's always uh. You know you're gonna go to Logan,

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That's that's not an easy place h to play.

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Speaker 2: You're gonna welcome in Boise State.

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Speaker 4: Obviously the odds on favorite to once again be the

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group of five selection to the College Football Playoff. We'll

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see what happens there on this Thursday when Boise State

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is here in town taking on the University of South Florida,

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who I like as the group of five, but that's

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a that's a another story for another time. And then

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having Hawaii, which is always you know if with Hawaii,

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if you know they're gonna throw the football, that's going

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to be a real test of the secondary. You got

477
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to go to Navy, as we mentioned that, I think

478
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is going to be a very difficult road to hoe.

479
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Even if Navy wasn't as good as they are this year,

480
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just the time difference is going to be really tough.

481
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You come back another game on the road at UNLV.

482
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Wyoming is the game that really sticks out to me

483
00:25:31,720 --> 00:25:34,119
when it comes to Air Force. You know, they've really

484
00:25:34,200 --> 00:25:38,079
had problems going to Laramie. This game thankfully is in

485
00:25:38,119 --> 00:25:40,519
Colorado Springs, but I think Wyoming is a much better

486
00:25:40,519 --> 00:25:45,440
team this year than what we saw last year. Obviously,

487
00:25:45,839 --> 00:25:49,960
after the matchup against Army, it really gets crazy because

488
00:25:49,960 --> 00:25:53,400
then after Army they got to go see coach Kenny Ken,

489
00:25:53,400 --> 00:25:57,160
Neo Matallo and San Jose State out in California, and

490
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then travel across the country to take on the Universe

491
00:26:00,119 --> 00:26:04,240
City of Connecticut. I think that's that's not fare if

492
00:26:04,279 --> 00:26:07,920
you're asking yeah, and then Yeah, and then New Mexico

493
00:26:07,960 --> 00:26:10,200
and Colorado State to end the year. So three of

494
00:26:10,240 --> 00:26:14,160
your last four on the road, including back to back games,

495
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when you're going from coast to coast, that stinks. If

496
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you're a Falcons fan, you're not looking.

497
00:26:19,039 --> 00:26:19,519
Speaker 2: Forward to that.

498
00:26:20,240 --> 00:26:23,880
Speaker 3: Yeah, that that the schedule, certainly without a doubt. You know,

499
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after Bucking Hill and then at Utah State, those next

500
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four games against Boise, against Hawaii, at Navy, at UNLV Boy.

501
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I mean, worst case scenario. I think you're looking at

502
00:26:34,559 --> 00:26:37,359
one in five, maybe two and four for air Force,

503
00:26:37,400 --> 00:26:39,920
that having to dig themselves out of a hole halfway

504
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through the season. But you know, you never know. We

505
00:26:42,880 --> 00:26:45,039
obviously play the games for a reason. One thing I

506
00:26:45,079 --> 00:26:48,519
love about air Force's schedules. I love seeing that Colorado

507
00:26:48,599 --> 00:26:51,799
State game being played on rivalry weekend at the end

508
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of the season, where in the in the past, you

509
00:26:54,480 --> 00:26:56,680
know it'd been kind of in the middle. One of

510
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the last times I've been to, uh, the Falcon Stadium

511
00:27:00,359 --> 00:27:04,119
was a Black Friday affair actually, when Colorado State and

512
00:27:04,200 --> 00:27:06,119
Air Force did do battle at the very end of

513
00:27:06,160 --> 00:27:08,839
the season with Jim mckawain's last game when he had

514
00:27:08,839 --> 00:27:11,319
Colorado State. What was that ten and two season, God,

515
00:27:11,359 --> 00:27:14,720
I came remember the year was a two seventeen maybe

516
00:27:14,720 --> 00:27:15,640
twenty eighteen?

517
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Speaker 2: This yea, I say it was.

518
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Speaker 4: I thought it was twenty sixteen or seventeen. That was

519
00:27:20,160 --> 00:27:23,160
right before he left to come coach the University of Florida.

520
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Speaker 3: Correctly, that's exactly right. But we will see about the

521
00:27:27,920 --> 00:27:30,200
Air Force Falcons coming back. They're going to be opening

522
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against Bucknell and kind of weird that, you know, I

523
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think Navy had this happened a couple of seasons ago.

524
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But you know, after air Force opens with Bucknell, they're

525
00:27:38,599 --> 00:27:41,400
going to have a bye weekend on the very second

526
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weekend of the season. So not something that you really

527
00:27:43,839 --> 00:27:45,759
want to have right away is have one of your

528
00:27:45,799 --> 00:27:49,119
bye weeks come right after you play, you know, an

529
00:27:49,319 --> 00:27:51,920
FCS team and Bucknell out of the Patriot League. So

530
00:27:52,680 --> 00:27:55,440
Air Force Falcons they are trying to bounce back once again.

531
00:27:55,519 --> 00:27:57,680
Last year five and seven, three and four, in the

532
00:27:57,720 --> 00:28:01,359
Mountain West. Can they get back they become Bowl eligible,

533
00:28:01,559 --> 00:28:04,720
which has been a you know, an expectation if you

534
00:28:04,759 --> 00:28:07,000
will for for Troy Calhoun's team. I believe they are

535
00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:09,680
what four for four bowl games against Power five teams

536
00:28:09,720 --> 00:28:13,279
the last several years before obviously that straight street came

537
00:28:13,319 --> 00:28:16,400
to an end last year, Steven, So we will find out.

538
00:28:16,400 --> 00:28:19,039
But that's a little bit about Air Force, Army and

539
00:28:19,200 --> 00:28:22,319
Navy as we get ready for the twenty twenty five

540
00:28:22,319 --> 00:28:24,359
college football season this weekend. As we are part of

541
00:28:24,359 --> 00:28:27,079
the College grid Our Coast to Coast podcast network, and

542
00:28:27,160 --> 00:28:30,839
you can find us on last Word on sports dot Com. Steven,

543
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tell everybody else you know where else you know you

544
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can find the podcast because we come out once a week. Spotify, What,

545
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Apple Podcasts, wherever it is you get your.

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Speaker 4: Podcast Absolutely anywhere you get your podcasts, you just want

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to search for College Gridiron Coast to Coast. We are

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great shows on the College grid Iron Coast to Coast

550
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podcast network. This week in the ACC obviously covering the

551
00:29:00,079 --> 00:29:03,680
East Coast, we've got Noah Drury now hosting the Big

552
00:29:03,720 --> 00:29:07,759
Ten Paradigm Show this year. He is a young man

553
00:29:07,839 --> 00:29:12,359
out of out of Michigan who is certainly looking to

554
00:29:12,720 --> 00:29:15,960
make his name in the world of college football, where

555
00:29:15,960 --> 00:29:19,119
we're definitely glad to have him aboard. Obviously, get off

556
00:29:19,200 --> 00:29:23,240
my Pylon and the Big twelve sec a breakdown looking

557
00:29:23,319 --> 00:29:28,079
out at the West Coast, and also Florida Football Insiders

558
00:29:28,160 --> 00:29:30,960
Jason Powers back for another year, taking a look at

559
00:29:30,960 --> 00:29:33,680
everything here in the Sunshine State where I live.

560
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Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely and can't wait for you know, next week,

561
00:29:39,839 --> 00:29:42,279
we'll obviously have games to talk about, Steve, because, as

562
00:29:42,279 --> 00:29:46,720
I mentioned, talking season is almost over, thank the Lord,

563
00:29:46,839 --> 00:29:49,920
because it has been a long summer waiting for kickoff.

564
00:29:50,400 --> 00:29:53,319
I mean I think I speak everybody. Yeah, yeah, without

565
00:29:53,319 --> 00:29:55,799
a doubt. So when we come back, we're gonna hear

566
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from new athletic director from the Naval Academy, Michael Kelly.

567
00:29:59,240 --> 00:30:01,880
Steve caught with him earlier this week. You don't want

568
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to miss that interview. Then we'll come back and preview

569
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all three games. We got the Travis Mannin Foundation on

570
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a roll. We'll tell you about that coming up as

571
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we like to end the podcast with that and it

572
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we'll make some picks here on the opening episode, episode

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Speaker 1: The latest with Navy, Army and Air Force on Yards

604
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and Stripes Service Academy Football.

605
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Speaker 4: We welcome you back to Yards and Stripes. You're home

606
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for Service Academy Football. I'm Steve Carney and we welcome

607
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you in as our twenty twenty five season debut is here.

608
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I can't believe all three service academies get ready for

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action this week now. For Navy, twenty twenty four could

610
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not have ended on a better note and had a

611
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thirty one to thirteen statement victory over Army in the

612
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one hundred and twenty fifth Army Navy Game, and that

613
00:32:20,559 --> 00:32:23,119
was followed by a twenty one to twenty come from

614
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behind and then hold on for Dear life went over

615
00:32:25,960 --> 00:32:30,000
Oklahoma in the Lockheed Martin Armed Forces Pool, But then

616
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came a period of transition for the entire athletics department

617
00:32:33,480 --> 00:32:36,440
at the Naval Academy, as check glad Chuck announced in

618
00:32:36,480 --> 00:32:39,160
March she was retiring after twenty four years at the

619
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Helm and being a Navy veteran, I know that there

620
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is nothing that the Navy does better than a change

621
00:32:44,720 --> 00:32:47,720
in command ceremony and the brass and Annapolis. I'm sure

622
00:32:47,759 --> 00:32:50,960
had quite a few choices that they would feel that

623
00:32:51,039 --> 00:32:54,200
were good, but I'm glad they went with a great

624
00:32:54,319 --> 00:32:57,839
one to replace chet as they hired the longtime vice

625
00:32:57,839 --> 00:33:00,680
president of athletics at my alma mater, the University of

626
00:33:00,759 --> 00:33:03,440
South Florida, to lead the way. And I guess that's

627
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just my long winded way of welcoming new director of

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Athletics at the Naval Academy, Michael Kelly to Yards and Stripes.

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Speaker 2: Michael, it is great to see you. Thank you so

630
00:33:12,559 --> 00:33:13,319
much for doing this.

631
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Speaker 5: Hey, thanks for having me. Great to be with you.

632
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I can imagine leading an apartment with an incredible

633
00:33:19,440 --> 00:33:23,359
history like you have there at Navy being that once

634
00:33:23,440 --> 00:33:25,799
in a lifetime opportunity. Can you as much as you're

635
00:33:25,799 --> 00:33:27,839
able to give us a little bit of insight on

636
00:33:27,880 --> 00:33:32,119
how that conversation came to be, and especially when you

637
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got to break the news to your family that you

638
00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:37,000
were going to get this opportunity to lead the way

639
00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:37,440
at Navy.

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00:33:38,759 --> 00:33:42,200
Speaker 5: Yeah, well the process was, you know, an ardoist one.

641
00:33:42,319 --> 00:33:45,119
Speaker 6: This is a job that many people would like and

642
00:33:45,160 --> 00:33:49,720
for many good reasons. It's an amazing historic institution in

643
00:33:49,839 --> 00:33:51,559
term of being around to eighteen forty five.

644
00:33:51,599 --> 00:33:53,920
Speaker 5: Obviously what it means and serves.

645
00:33:53,559 --> 00:33:56,119
Speaker 6: To the country islands, to the mitchitvnsity loan, but really

646
00:33:56,160 --> 00:33:58,279
to the fleet and the corp as a whole, and

647
00:33:58,279 --> 00:34:01,119
then what it does for the c and for me personally,

648
00:34:01,160 --> 00:34:04,319
having being the son of a Naval camgrad in nineteen

649
00:34:04,359 --> 00:34:07,480
sixty seven when he was stationed here near the end

650
00:34:07,480 --> 00:34:10,719
of his military career, that I kind of ran around

651
00:34:10,800 --> 00:34:14,800
the yard here as a really young person and came

652
00:34:14,840 --> 00:34:15,559
back in many.

653
00:34:15,480 --> 00:34:18,480
Speaker 5: Times living here in the DMV area.

654
00:34:18,599 --> 00:34:22,559
Speaker 6: So it was personally interesting to be in relevant for

655
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all those reasons, and.

656
00:34:23,480 --> 00:34:26,880
Speaker 5: Then just a chance to serve these people eats and

657
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every day.

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Speaker 6: This was it's really really special. We've got a neat

659
00:34:31,400 --> 00:34:34,000
situation with the thirty six different varsity sports, which makes

660
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us the time of the largest I play.

661
00:34:35,840 --> 00:34:38,440
Speaker 5: The department in the country. So everything else happening.

662
00:34:38,119 --> 00:34:42,199
Speaker 6: In the industry where you've got, you know, maybe sports

663
00:34:42,199 --> 00:34:44,880
being cut or the emphasized. And this is all part

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because of commission here to develop built officers for the

665
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Navy and the Marine Corps and nothing.

666
00:34:51,199 --> 00:34:52,159
Speaker 5: Is really better than that.

667
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Speaker 6: And then to have a vision one level competition all

668
00:34:55,079 --> 00:34:57,599
these inferge sports to have those kind of tests day in,

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00:34:57,719 --> 00:35:00,360
day out, so able to do that, and then you'll

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also this strictly from a football standpoint, to be able

671
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to really pull into that.

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Speaker 5: That's the one league that we're in, the American in

673
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one sport. We're in the American in.

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Speaker 6: And yeah, I have that kind of chance to still play,

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00:35:13,360 --> 00:35:15,320
still play Army, still play in our day, have a

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00:35:15,400 --> 00:35:18,920
chance to win a conference championship and have that we're

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out potential route to the CFP. So all the States

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considered great place to be, a great place to live,

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and I'm early on at the DA.

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Speaker 2: I can't I can't be happier for you.

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Speaker 4: I know that I'm sad as a as a USF guy,

682
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not with you not being here, but there could be

683
00:35:34,599 --> 00:35:37,159
no better landing spot for you. But I am curious,

684
00:35:37,199 --> 00:35:38,960
now that you're a couple of months into the job,

685
00:35:39,559 --> 00:35:42,679
have you had that moment like I know that football

686
00:35:42,719 --> 00:35:45,199
players say they have that welcome to the NFL moment

687
00:35:45,960 --> 00:35:48,800
when when you go, oh, I'm not in college anymore.

688
00:35:49,400 --> 00:35:51,880
Have you had that moment yet where you're like, oh, wait,

689
00:35:52,039 --> 00:35:54,159
that's right, this isn't Fowler Avenue anymore.

690
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Speaker 2: I'm at the Naval Academy.

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Speaker 4: Like, you haven't been running out, run down by a

692
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group of fourth classes yet trying to get across grounds

693
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between classes yet, have you?

694
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Speaker 3: No?

695
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Speaker 6: I mean, obviously you have a lot of the pride

696
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and respect for for what we did at South Florida,

697
00:36:10,000 --> 00:36:12,039
and that's that certainly wasn't anything that I was.

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Speaker 5: Running away from.

699
00:36:12,760 --> 00:36:15,280
Speaker 6: I'm very proud of what has been will continue to

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be accomplished at us there on great momentum, and really

701
00:36:19,800 --> 00:36:21,840
proud of the way the teams were born.

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Speaker 5: The way that they won the American by leaps and.

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Speaker 6: Bounds related to the Learfield Cups was kind of just

704
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shows the comprehensive nature of the pleatic department that's been

705
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built there at USF.

706
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Speaker 5: And football there.

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Speaker 6: With back to back ball wins on the fifteen teams

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in the country have done that, and USF's on the

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00:36:39,360 --> 00:36:41,920
way there, not to mention the new stadium and new.

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Speaker 5: Operations building that's being built.

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Speaker 6: So prideful that And this was just as I was

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saying in the intro, it's just personally and press was

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significant to me.

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Speaker 5: They had, you know, the previous athletic director, check Lash.

715
00:36:53,840 --> 00:36:55,840
I've been over twenty four years, you know, so this

716
00:36:56,800 --> 00:36:57,559
doesn't open much.

717
00:36:57,559 --> 00:36:59,800
Speaker 6: I knew that if I had a chance at this position,

718
00:36:59,800 --> 00:37:02,280
it was this is probably my last shot at it,

719
00:37:02,280 --> 00:37:04,559
so it meant to upcoming here.

720
00:37:04,639 --> 00:37:06,360
Speaker 5: I guess the thing that kind of struck me already

721
00:37:06,559 --> 00:37:08,199
from my first week on the job.

722
00:37:08,239 --> 00:37:11,480
Speaker 6: I mean, you speak to the importance that they place

723
00:37:11,599 --> 00:37:14,360
on the role of death by director at a place

724
00:37:14,400 --> 00:37:16,599
like the old Academy. I mean, the superintendents runs the

725
00:37:16,599 --> 00:37:19,719
show around here, and then there's the provost, the commandant,

726
00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:25,480
and the end let director and then they're started the mental, moral,

727
00:37:25,519 --> 00:37:29,599
and physical mission. And so really that's why they're somewhat

728
00:37:29,920 --> 00:37:33,079
more than just the typical A D job to run

729
00:37:33,159 --> 00:37:34,039
the sports programs.

730
00:37:34,039 --> 00:37:35,480
Speaker 5: But in this case you're also kind.

731
00:37:35,320 --> 00:37:39,480
Speaker 6: Of coordinating with the different dead teachers and lit them

732
00:37:39,559 --> 00:37:40,559
make sure all of our.

733
00:37:40,639 --> 00:37:43,400
Speaker 5: Mission and are living up to their physical requirements as well.

734
00:37:43,440 --> 00:37:46,760
Speaker 6: So it's it's a fascinating job one that so so

735
00:37:46,800 --> 00:37:48,679
I think my moment was there the first day in

736
00:37:48,719 --> 00:37:51,320
the job, speaking in front of all the plead parents

737
00:37:51,320 --> 00:37:54,159
that you're in an arena, you know, four thousand parents

738
00:37:54,280 --> 00:37:56,360
kind of talent then and how the physical mission comes

739
00:37:56,360 --> 00:37:59,400
to be. And then that next day when they're taking

740
00:37:59,400 --> 00:38:01,960
the oath of the office, if you will, going into

741
00:38:02,000 --> 00:38:05,840
the military area, sitting right next to the superintendent, I'm like, man,

742
00:38:05,880 --> 00:38:09,440
what I just came from h civilian life, different things

743
00:38:09,440 --> 00:38:12,719
that now being right next to something that's very h

744
00:38:13,079 --> 00:38:14,920
you know, very very important from from.

745
00:38:14,719 --> 00:38:17,360
Speaker 5: The standpoint of the of the sisticationen so lots of.

746
00:38:17,400 --> 00:38:19,360
Speaker 6: Just need things for that and just the difference in

747
00:38:19,400 --> 00:38:22,000
structure in terms of the of all boards to the

748
00:38:22,119 --> 00:38:23,840
entire student body have here.

749
00:38:24,559 --> 00:38:26,559
Speaker 4: Is it Is it weird that you don't have to

750
00:38:26,639 --> 00:38:30,079
deal with things like at USF. I I know that

751
00:38:30,239 --> 00:38:33,320
it seems like every year you hear about the transfer

752
00:38:33,360 --> 00:38:37,280
portal and n I l uh and you as at

753
00:38:37,320 --> 00:38:40,000
the Naval Academy. Now that that's two things you really

754
00:38:40,039 --> 00:38:43,320
don't have to worry about it anymore. Have have you

755
00:38:43,360 --> 00:38:46,239
been able to kind of be like, Okay, that's that's

756
00:38:46,320 --> 00:38:49,199
one side of the of the coin that I'm glad

757
00:38:49,199 --> 00:38:51,360
that I don't have to deal with anymore, because it

758
00:38:51,480 --> 00:38:54,639
just seems like on the outside looking in, it looks

759
00:38:54,719 --> 00:38:58,119
like it can be a real headache sometimes.

760
00:38:58,480 --> 00:39:01,000
Speaker 6: Well, I mean, I think people even having to play

761
00:39:01,039 --> 00:39:02,880
to the strengths of wherever you are, and I think

762
00:39:02,920 --> 00:39:05,920
we were doing that at USF and you know, we

763
00:39:05,920 --> 00:39:08,000
were adapting to the times. I kept saying, we were

764
00:39:08,000 --> 00:39:10,920
building a model at the department for modern times, and

765
00:39:11,000 --> 00:39:14,159
whether it's building new facilities at a new sports I

766
00:39:14,320 --> 00:39:17,840
was adjusting wealthy anal landscape. And now US this positioned

767
00:39:18,719 --> 00:39:21,159
certainly at the top of the American conference that relates

768
00:39:21,199 --> 00:39:23,159
to this type of thing, and that's going to serve

769
00:39:23,199 --> 00:39:26,000
them well. Here it is just something that's not permissible

770
00:39:26,039 --> 00:39:28,639
in terms of all of our student athletes. And you

771
00:39:28,679 --> 00:39:32,119
know it's the spedable legislation again against that they've got different.

772
00:39:32,079 --> 00:39:32,920
Speaker 5: Orders, if you will.

773
00:39:33,559 --> 00:39:35,920
Speaker 6: Uh And as coach Newberry lands to say, like you

774
00:39:35,960 --> 00:39:38,800
get your annial here on the back end, you get

775
00:39:38,840 --> 00:39:40,480
to that, you know you're going to have that guarantee

776
00:39:40,559 --> 00:39:42,840
job for five years, and then on the back end

777
00:39:42,920 --> 00:39:45,119
usually had a very high pay. We're a kind of

778
00:39:45,159 --> 00:39:48,199
skills you acquired here, and it's something that you're not

779
00:39:48,360 --> 00:39:51,400
just doing a sacrifice for four years or five years.

780
00:39:51,400 --> 00:39:55,239
It's one that's going to benefit armanshipment for a lifetime.

781
00:39:55,320 --> 00:39:57,719
Speaker 5: And that's that's the way we've got to kind of

782
00:39:57,760 --> 00:39:58,239
position it.

783
00:39:58,679 --> 00:40:01,679
Speaker 6: And I feel that, you know, again, you try to

784
00:40:01,679 --> 00:40:03,679
play your strengths on that, you gear up front about

785
00:40:04,000 --> 00:40:07,280
what the opportunity is, which there are many, but then

786
00:40:07,320 --> 00:40:09,599
you look at it in terms of a you know,

787
00:40:09,639 --> 00:40:11,719
it's also pretty special here that you know, a lot

788
00:40:11,719 --> 00:40:13,840
of schools I'll say, and let's say the Power for

789
00:40:14,039 --> 00:40:18,519
Conferences are self admittedly don't even recruit high school as

790
00:40:18,599 --> 00:40:22,519
much anymore, you know, And as a result, schools like

791
00:40:22,679 --> 00:40:26,320
USF and Navy are probably getting higher rated high school

792
00:40:26,360 --> 00:40:31,280
players because they're that's the landing spot for them. And

793
00:40:31,320 --> 00:40:33,639
then in the case of USF, they have to worry

794
00:40:33,719 --> 00:40:37,199
even more about the retention aspect of that because I'm

795
00:40:37,239 --> 00:40:39,800
saying IO might be able to come in strong wars

796
00:40:39,880 --> 00:40:42,719
US hopefully by the time you've made a commitment here,

797
00:40:43,000 --> 00:40:45,920
invested in your body into police summer and been a

798
00:40:45,960 --> 00:40:48,760
part of buying into what you're doing the certain country,

799
00:40:48,760 --> 00:40:52,920
we tend to have very few with any departure student

800
00:40:52,960 --> 00:40:56,039
transfer fort So as a result, Coach Newbery from a

801
00:40:56,039 --> 00:40:58,559
football standpoint and all of our coach just kind of

802
00:40:58,559 --> 00:41:01,679
look at it as it's a chance to be truly

803
00:41:01,719 --> 00:41:04,920
a developmental program. Right, So even if you're good enough

804
00:41:04,920 --> 00:41:07,280
to play as a freshman, great, you'll have that chance.

805
00:41:07,320 --> 00:41:10,000
But more realistically, as you get to be sophomore and

806
00:41:10,119 --> 00:41:12,400
jor senior, you're going to be able to develop in

807
00:41:12,559 --> 00:41:16,960
learn the system heat and then probably not have as

808
00:41:17,039 --> 00:41:21,199
much risk of being brought in by some mercenary kind

809
00:41:21,239 --> 00:41:24,480
of person from another school at the last minute that

810
00:41:24,599 --> 00:41:25,880
might take away.

811
00:41:25,719 --> 00:41:27,960
Speaker 5: Your junior or senior year of being a loser.

812
00:41:28,079 --> 00:41:29,880
Speaker 6: So it's just a different way that you have to

813
00:41:29,880 --> 00:41:33,199
recruit toward. But we've got to do that here for

814
00:41:33,199 --> 00:41:35,199
a long time. It's a special person that wants to

815
00:41:35,239 --> 00:41:36,639
come and be a part of that. They see the

816
00:41:37,679 --> 00:41:40,480
great opportunity here and then you have a chance to

817
00:41:40,519 --> 00:41:42,880
do all that and play Division one athletics, which is

818
00:41:43,119 --> 00:41:45,800
a really special thing, and do it right here in Annapolis,

819
00:41:45,840 --> 00:41:47,280
which is a very very special.

820
00:41:46,960 --> 00:41:50,519
Speaker 4: City to do it in, oh absolutely, and special players,

821
00:41:50,559 --> 00:41:53,199
a special team last year as we turned toward football.

822
00:41:53,239 --> 00:41:55,119
You got a chance to see the twenty twenty four

823
00:41:55,559 --> 00:41:57,679
version of the midship and I'm close and personal. I

824
00:41:57,719 --> 00:42:01,480
saw you at Raymond James Stadium and Navy beat South

825
00:42:01,519 --> 00:42:05,000
Florida twenty eight seven on November ninth. I'm sure you've

826
00:42:05,119 --> 00:42:09,400
had had plenty of, you know, conversations, you know, informally

827
00:42:09,480 --> 00:42:13,320
with Coach Newberry. You know, during the times when either

828
00:42:13,840 --> 00:42:17,039
you would travel with USF up to Annapolis or when

829
00:42:17,119 --> 00:42:20,280
they came down last year. You know, I'm curious of

830
00:42:20,360 --> 00:42:23,280
what you saw and what you noticed about Brian Newberry's

831
00:42:23,320 --> 00:42:26,840
coach has a growth between you know, his first season

832
00:42:26,880 --> 00:42:29,440
and his second season. Now that you're there in Annapolis,

833
00:42:30,000 --> 00:42:33,239
the conversations that you're having with him, and how you

834
00:42:33,400 --> 00:42:35,840
can see how this team is growing out of the

835
00:42:35,880 --> 00:42:37,480
experience from last year's group.

836
00:42:38,559 --> 00:42:40,239
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm a huge Coach Newberry fan.

837
00:42:40,920 --> 00:42:43,679
Speaker 6: What you know special about him is because not only

838
00:42:44,079 --> 00:42:46,199
do I admire him from what I observed from AFAR,

839
00:42:46,360 --> 00:42:49,199
but it's even more so a chance to work with

840
00:42:49,239 --> 00:42:51,159
him day and day out. And I also know from

841
00:42:51,440 --> 00:42:54,639
observing them from the seed at USF and working with

842
00:42:54,679 --> 00:42:58,079
post bullis others like all the coaches respect and like

843
00:42:58,119 --> 00:43:00,719
Brian Newberry too, So he just treats everybody he really will.

844
00:43:00,719 --> 00:43:03,840
He's got a lot of respect and you know where

845
00:43:03,840 --> 00:43:06,039
he's standing with them. But I think players like playing

846
00:43:06,039 --> 00:43:08,880
with him, people like being around him. He speaks to

847
00:43:08,920 --> 00:43:12,320
the vision and treats his staff and players with great

848
00:43:12,360 --> 00:43:16,679
respect and does it his way. So I think he

849
00:43:16,760 --> 00:43:19,840
is now settling in as a third year head coach.

850
00:43:19,960 --> 00:43:22,360
I think he's even more confident before in his routine

851
00:43:22,400 --> 00:43:25,119
and how he uh, you know, how how he handles

852
00:43:25,119 --> 00:43:27,199
his staff and how he handles his a baks And

853
00:43:27,239 --> 00:43:29,679
you could say we had zero departures from our staff

854
00:43:29,760 --> 00:43:32,599
last year at Navy and at again, that just speaks

855
00:43:32,760 --> 00:43:35,360
volumes dominated that that means, you know, kind of good

856
00:43:35,360 --> 00:43:37,480
situation here and they were really like working with their

857
00:43:37,519 --> 00:43:40,719
head coach and that that kind of speaks volume.

858
00:43:40,760 --> 00:43:42,320
Speaker 5: So I'm excited about what's What's a hit.

859
00:43:43,320 --> 00:43:46,119
Speaker 6: I think you've got a lot of returning production, which

860
00:43:46,159 --> 00:43:50,119
is encouraging and we're excited about and see if you

861
00:43:50,119 --> 00:43:51,119
get started a Saturday.

862
00:43:51,440 --> 00:43:54,400
Speaker 4: Yeah, definitely going to talk about some of that returning

863
00:43:54,760 --> 00:43:56,599
production that's coming here in just a moment.

864
00:43:56,599 --> 00:43:57,280
Speaker 2: But I'm curious.

865
00:43:58,039 --> 00:43:59,559
Speaker 4: You know, I heard coach you Berry say on the

866
00:43:59,599 --> 00:44:02,239
radio Life this week he feels that, based on what

867
00:44:02,360 --> 00:44:05,079
happened last year, he knows that Navy's not going to

868
00:44:05,119 --> 00:44:07,920
sneak up on anybody on their schedule. How much pride

869
00:44:07,960 --> 00:44:09,800
you personally, and do you see the team take in

870
00:44:09,920 --> 00:44:12,440
knowing that there isn't a team in the country if

871
00:44:12,440 --> 00:44:14,800
they saw Navy on their schedule, they're going, Ah, that's

872
00:44:14,840 --> 00:44:15,480
gonna be nothing.

873
00:44:15,519 --> 00:44:21,880
Speaker 2: They know they're in for. To put it kindly a fight, yeah,

874
00:44:21,920 --> 00:44:22,480
I mean I've been.

875
00:44:22,440 --> 00:44:22,960
Speaker 3: In that one.

876
00:44:23,000 --> 00:44:25,079
Speaker 6: I worked it way four certainly at us I obviously

877
00:44:25,199 --> 00:44:28,000
I've had a lifelong relationship with the Naval Academy.

878
00:44:28,039 --> 00:44:30,400
Speaker 5: I mean, you always know that the midship are going

879
00:44:30,480 --> 00:44:32,639
to give you all they've got. It's part of their DNA,

880
00:44:32,719 --> 00:44:35,599
it's part of their training. So you know you're in

881
00:44:35,639 --> 00:44:37,000
for a battle in that regard.

882
00:44:37,000 --> 00:44:39,719
Speaker 6: And now when you've got a situation where the staff

883
00:44:39,800 --> 00:44:41,840
is put together a very talented bunch and one that

884
00:44:41,920 --> 00:44:44,360
is sitting back too. I've spoken of before playing together.

885
00:44:45,639 --> 00:44:47,679
When you've got a situation with the rest of the country,

886
00:44:48,360 --> 00:44:48,960
you know, it's.

887
00:44:48,800 --> 00:44:52,159
Speaker 5: Hard for teams, no matter how talented they are, if you've.

888
00:44:52,000 --> 00:44:55,440
Speaker 6: Got fifty sixty seventy new players on a roster, and

889
00:44:55,599 --> 00:44:58,039
especially in the sport football, that's hard to put that together.

890
00:44:58,079 --> 00:44:59,599
Speaker 5: It might take a couple of weeks or months to

891
00:44:59,599 --> 00:45:00,519
get that together.

892
00:45:00,639 --> 00:45:03,599
Speaker 6: So, you know, we like the experiment of being able

893
00:45:03,639 --> 00:45:05,519
to be with the folks that have had a chance

894
00:45:05,559 --> 00:45:08,920
to play together for quite some time. And but yeah,

895
00:45:08,960 --> 00:45:11,239
that's that's what we're prime flow. We hope that our

896
00:45:11,639 --> 00:45:15,239
teamwork and our ability to developed together is one that

897
00:45:15,280 --> 00:45:16,760
will pay off for us more times than that.

898
00:45:17,440 --> 00:45:19,480
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'd love to hear your thoughts about getting to

899
00:45:19,480 --> 00:45:21,920
do Blake Horbath and what you see about his leadership

900
00:45:22,079 --> 00:45:24,039
with his teammates. I know he grew into that leader

901
00:45:24,119 --> 00:45:26,920
last year with a with a great season, and he

902
00:45:27,039 --> 00:45:30,119
was rewarded this year named to the Maxwell Award preseason

903
00:45:30,159 --> 00:45:32,800
watch list being named as one of the preseason top

904
00:45:32,800 --> 00:45:34,719
one hundred players in college football this year. How have

905
00:45:34,760 --> 00:45:37,559
you seen Blake continue to grow not only as as

906
00:45:37,599 --> 00:45:40,360
a football player, but as a as a midshipman and

907
00:45:40,400 --> 00:45:40,960
as a person.

908
00:45:41,920 --> 00:45:43,880
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, even watching him from a party just

909
00:45:43,960 --> 00:45:46,800
s he's kind of one of those unique and rare

910
00:45:46,920 --> 00:45:49,639
figures that has that if factor, right, I mean someone

911
00:45:49,639 --> 00:45:52,480
that's obviously very talented, but you can just kind of

912
00:45:52,519 --> 00:45:57,079
sense his his confidence, knock cockiness, his confidence and ability

913
00:45:57,119 --> 00:45:59,960
to perform at his best and to lean his team

914
00:46:00,280 --> 00:46:01,800
and put his team first.

915
00:46:01,840 --> 00:46:03,800
Speaker 5: I mean he you know, you know, as he comes

916
00:46:03,800 --> 00:46:04,400
from a.

917
00:46:04,199 --> 00:46:08,559
Speaker 6: Long tradition of great naming quarterbacks and he humbly doesn't

918
00:46:08,559 --> 00:46:12,199
even consider him amongst those, amongst those greats, but his

919
00:46:12,199 --> 00:46:13,639
his production last year, which is just.

920
00:46:14,199 --> 00:46:15,960
Speaker 5: Otherwise, he's he's very very special.

921
00:46:15,960 --> 00:46:18,320
Speaker 6: And when you get to have a captain like himself

922
00:46:18,400 --> 00:46:22,880
and Landon Robinson as well, I mean, we've just got

923
00:46:22,920 --> 00:46:26,800
some great, great leaders here that you know, make you

924
00:46:26,960 --> 00:46:29,000
very very proud and the team.

925
00:46:29,199 --> 00:46:30,360
Speaker 5: According with Yeah.

926
00:46:30,360 --> 00:46:32,519
Speaker 4: And I saw Eli Hide and Rate named the Senior

927
00:46:32,519 --> 00:46:34,360
Bowl three hundred. I excited you for him.

928
00:46:34,519 --> 00:46:39,679
Speaker 6: And then that opportunity, oh, Eli and Alex Texas guys

929
00:46:39,719 --> 00:46:42,599
from the same negh of the woods in Pennsylvania coming

930
00:46:42,639 --> 00:46:45,800
together to I mean, some of these relationships go go deep, right,

931
00:46:45,840 --> 00:46:49,440
and to say, to see great great people, great folks

932
00:46:49,440 --> 00:46:52,920
that have played together and you know, obviously stars and

933
00:46:52,960 --> 00:46:55,719
aren right to hopefully give us a lot of different

934
00:46:55,800 --> 00:46:58,920
options to to score with and to be hard to

935
00:46:59,159 --> 00:47:02,880
prepare for I think that's what's special and coach, you know,

936
00:47:03,199 --> 00:47:05,440
the staffed being able to do some things that are

937
00:47:06,320 --> 00:47:08,599
you know a lot of reasons compared to what maybe

938
00:47:08,719 --> 00:47:11,440
might have done for years before that.

939
00:47:11,760 --> 00:47:14,079
Speaker 5: This keep showing your toes and that's a certain way.

940
00:47:14,599 --> 00:47:19,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's gonna be it's gonna be fun to watch them.

941
00:47:19,440 --> 00:47:23,199
Speaker 4: I just want to have one final thing for you, Michael,

942
00:47:23,400 --> 00:47:27,239
after what pundits saw last year from Navy, you get

943
00:47:27,239 --> 00:47:29,880
these three little initials that get whispered around a little

944
00:47:29,880 --> 00:47:32,400
bit when they're talking about the midshipman and you hear

945
00:47:33,000 --> 00:47:36,920
c FP and I can hear Coach Newberry right now,

946
00:47:37,400 --> 00:47:38,199
don't think about it.

947
00:47:38,480 --> 00:47:40,760
Speaker 2: I can't talk about it. You can't think about it.

948
00:47:41,119 --> 00:47:43,679
Speaker 4: So how do you I'm sure that in the room

949
00:47:44,159 --> 00:47:47,920
that that that's a lot easier said than done. But

950
00:47:48,039 --> 00:47:51,159
when you're outside of the locker room, you you get

951
00:47:51,159 --> 00:47:52,639
that all the whispers all the time.

952
00:47:53,079 --> 00:47:55,519
Speaker 2: How do you? How do you? How do you handle that? Like?

953
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Speaker 4: Because I'm sure people are coming up to you going, look,

954
00:47:57,960 --> 00:48:01,000
you got vm I this week, you got AB after that,

955
00:48:01,519 --> 00:48:03,599
and then all of a sudden, you know you've got

956
00:48:03,639 --> 00:48:05,880
to You've got a tough second half. You can you

957
00:48:05,920 --> 00:48:08,559
can start out six and oh or seven and oh,

958
00:48:08,719 --> 00:48:10,480
and then you're gonna get into that tough stretch you've

959
00:48:10,519 --> 00:48:12,920
got I know you have at Memphis, You're at.

960
00:48:12,840 --> 00:48:14,039
Speaker 2: Notre Dame this year.

961
00:48:14,559 --> 00:48:17,000
Speaker 4: Uh, you know, how do you keep you know that

962
00:48:17,400 --> 00:48:20,960
little hey, you know, we'll keep the keep the schedule

963
00:48:21,039 --> 00:48:24,119
watch on you out of your mind. I'm sure having

964
00:48:24,719 --> 00:48:27,840
you know, eighteen other fall sports will probably help.

965
00:48:29,159 --> 00:48:31,360
Speaker 5: Yeah, there's enough to look after eats and every day.

966
00:48:31,400 --> 00:48:34,280
Speaker 6: No, I mean, obviously, anytime you can be thought of

967
00:48:34,320 --> 00:48:36,920
as a contender in the American and looked at as

968
00:48:37,039 --> 00:48:40,000
a as a you know what they call G six

969
00:48:40,119 --> 00:48:43,960
or whatever, as a possible candidate to be thought of

970
00:48:44,119 --> 00:48:45,320
four let CFP spot.

971
00:48:45,360 --> 00:48:46,760
Speaker 5: I mean, you appreciate that.

972
00:48:46,760 --> 00:48:48,559
Speaker 6: It's a recognition of the hard work of the people

973
00:48:48,559 --> 00:48:50,880
that have been here and working really hard.

974
00:48:50,960 --> 00:48:53,119
Speaker 5: But like coach Whoberry.

975
00:48:52,760 --> 00:48:54,880
Speaker 6: Says, and might so many coaches say, you truly have

976
00:48:54,920 --> 00:48:56,199
to take it one step at a time.

977
00:48:56,360 --> 00:48:58,559
Speaker 5: I'm blessed the time of.

978
00:48:58,800 --> 00:49:02,199
Speaker 6: Amra of Dirty who said, you know, headphones on and

979
00:49:02,280 --> 00:49:04,880
make sure that you're not you're ground at all all

980
00:49:04,880 --> 00:49:07,639
always and really concent trade a game the game, because again,

981
00:49:07,960 --> 00:49:11,000
you have you one step at a time.

982
00:49:11,039 --> 00:49:11,320
Speaker 5: You can.

983
00:49:11,360 --> 00:49:14,360
Speaker 6: You can blow all those opportunities on one given Saturday.

984
00:49:14,440 --> 00:49:15,159
Speaker 5: If you don't give it.

985
00:49:15,199 --> 00:49:17,880
Speaker 6: You're all and you want to make sure that you're focused,

986
00:49:17,960 --> 00:49:18,559
ready to roll.

987
00:49:18,639 --> 00:49:20,639
Speaker 5: And so again you're.

988
00:49:20,480 --> 00:49:23,079
Speaker 6: Grateful to be in that conversation, and they are, you know,

989
00:49:23,119 --> 00:49:25,800
I mentioned being here earn that way to do so,

990
00:49:25,920 --> 00:49:27,639
and now it's a matter of than locking in starting

991
00:49:27,679 --> 00:49:29,920
a Saturday and taking it a week by a week

992
00:49:29,960 --> 00:49:33,719
to a standpoint, and first the first focusing on the

993
00:49:33,760 --> 00:49:36,880
American Conference, then focusing on when the man in chief,

994
00:49:36,920 --> 00:49:39,559
and then you take care of those things, and good

995
00:49:39,599 --> 00:49:41,400
things should happen on the national level as well.

996
00:49:41,880 --> 00:49:45,639
Speaker 4: I certainly am hoping for all the best for Navy

997
00:49:45,679 --> 00:49:49,119
this year. Of course, being a Navy veteran, I always

998
00:49:49,199 --> 00:49:52,159
root for Navy first, uh, and then the the other

999
00:49:52,280 --> 00:49:55,599
service academies when they're not playing Navy, UH, they also

1000
00:49:55,639 --> 00:49:59,199
get the support from me at at that point.

1001
00:49:59,239 --> 00:50:02,920
Speaker 2: But Michael, I wish you all the best. Congratulations on

1002
00:50:02,960 --> 00:50:03,320
the move.

1003
00:50:03,599 --> 00:50:06,559
Speaker 4: It looks like you're settling in quite well, and I

1004
00:50:06,599 --> 00:50:08,920
hope to catch you down the road some time here

1005
00:50:09,000 --> 00:50:11,480
later this year. And we're talking a little more about

1006
00:50:11,599 --> 00:50:12,639
the possibility of.

1007
00:50:12,599 --> 00:50:14,519
Speaker 2: That CF people. We won't talk about it right now.

1008
00:50:14,599 --> 00:50:15,760
Thank you again, Michael.

1009
00:50:15,480 --> 00:50:16,480
Speaker 5: I appreciate it well.

1010
00:50:16,480 --> 00:50:18,639
Speaker 6: Thanks for having me and pillowed all our friends back

1011
00:50:18,639 --> 00:50:22,400
in Tampa and the reporter saying the seeing them on

1012
00:50:22,480 --> 00:50:23,719
the USF comes up here in.

1013
00:50:23,679 --> 00:50:29,239
Speaker 4: The NOVM Absolutely, Thanks again, Michael, my thanks again to

1014
00:50:29,599 --> 00:50:34,079
Navy Athletic Director Michael Kelly for joining us. Stay tuned

1015
00:50:34,119 --> 00:50:38,000
as we will preview week one with all three service

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Academies in action that is coming up next with Price

1017
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Atkinson and myself Steve Carney here on Yards and Stripes.

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Speaker 1: Org the latest with Navy, Army and Air Force on

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1031
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Speaker 3: All right, welcome back in as we continue along on

1032
00:51:27,960 --> 00:51:30,679
episode one of Yards and Stripes the twenty twenty five

1033
00:51:30,760 --> 00:51:33,800
college football season. He is Steve Carneiro and Price Hackinson,

1034
00:51:33,840 --> 00:51:36,840
and we appreciate Michael Kelly, the new ad from the

1035
00:51:36,920 --> 00:51:39,599
Naval Academy joining us there with Steve in that last segment,

1036
00:51:39,679 --> 00:51:43,960
Steve great interview. Man. He is quite the personality. I

1037
00:51:44,000 --> 00:51:46,159
can't wait to meet him in person, hopefully one day soon.

1038
00:51:46,519 --> 00:51:51,960
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's absolutely fantastic. Loved being around him here in

1039
00:51:52,039 --> 00:51:54,639
Tampa at USF for the last seven years. You know,

1040
00:51:55,119 --> 00:52:00,719
full disclosure, I have produced USF football broadcast last four years,

1041
00:52:00,760 --> 00:52:04,000
so I've gotten to be around Michael Kelly quite a bit.

1042
00:52:04,559 --> 00:52:07,639
I was joking with him that the one thing that

1043
00:52:08,039 --> 00:52:10,880
we miss most about him is the fact that on

1044
00:52:11,039 --> 00:52:16,679
road games, our our pregame and postgame show hosts used

1045
00:52:16,719 --> 00:52:20,199
to sit in his office to do the to do

1046
00:52:20,239 --> 00:52:21,679
the pregame. In the post game, he used to raid

1047
00:52:21,719 --> 00:52:25,480
his fridge and and they were like, They're like, the

1048
00:52:25,519 --> 00:52:28,000
one thing we miss is we don't have Michael Kelly's

1049
00:52:28,000 --> 00:52:31,360
Fridge to Rade this year, which made him laugh and

1050
00:52:31,360 --> 00:52:34,639
and I'm sure we'll make my my my cohorts with

1051
00:52:34,679 --> 00:52:38,519
the USF Football Radio Network laugh as well. But yes,

1052
00:52:38,599 --> 00:52:43,079
we we are very happy for Michael and we wish

1053
00:52:43,159 --> 00:52:46,519
him all the success in the world at Navy. For

1054
00:52:46,559 --> 00:52:49,719
those of us at USF, we may not, we may

1055
00:52:49,719 --> 00:52:52,280
not wish it so much when he plays USF, but

1056
00:52:52,599 --> 00:52:56,360
we certainly love the fact that he is able to

1057
00:52:56,400 --> 00:53:00,119
go home to a place he's very familiar with and

1058
00:53:00,559 --> 00:53:05,280
take over, you know, a brand with such historic significance.

1059
00:53:05,719 --> 00:53:08,320
I think that a lot of a lot of people

1060
00:53:08,719 --> 00:53:11,960
will tell you the once in a lifetime opportunities that

1061
00:53:12,000 --> 00:53:15,000
you could have. You know, I'm sure you know some

1062
00:53:15,079 --> 00:53:18,599
of these coaches. You know if they go to Alabama

1063
00:53:18,800 --> 00:53:23,519
or they go to USC or Ohio State, you know

1064
00:53:23,719 --> 00:53:28,039
that those are once in a lifetime opportunities for coaches.

1065
00:53:28,079 --> 00:53:31,440
For athletic directors, it can be totally different. You look

1066
00:53:31,480 --> 00:53:35,599
at the historic significance. You know, Notre Dame is one

1067
00:53:35,599 --> 00:53:38,239
of those that I would say, you know, if the

1068
00:53:38,519 --> 00:53:41,760
ad job at Notre Dame goes up, comes up and

1069
00:53:41,840 --> 00:53:44,559
you don't want that job, maybe you don't want to

1070
00:53:44,559 --> 00:53:45,159
be an ad.

1071
00:53:45,719 --> 00:53:45,840
Speaker 8: Uh.

1072
00:53:46,320 --> 00:53:50,000
Speaker 4: So, you know, it's it's a it's a lot of pressure,

1073
00:53:50,400 --> 00:53:53,920
but it's it's a huge uh, it's a huge boost.

1074
00:53:53,960 --> 00:53:56,880
And I think that Navy is right up there with that.

1075
00:53:57,079 --> 00:54:02,519
The historical significance of name athletics, especially Navy football, which

1076
00:54:02,559 --> 00:54:06,719
is now going into its one hundred and thirty sixth season,

1077
00:54:07,880 --> 00:54:11,039
I think, you know, you certainly have to love the

1078
00:54:11,079 --> 00:54:13,159
fact that you've got a guy like Michael Kelly at

1079
00:54:13,159 --> 00:54:13,719
the helm.

1080
00:54:14,000 --> 00:54:16,840
Speaker 3: Well, I think, and you mentioned it kind of alluding

1081
00:54:16,880 --> 00:54:19,239
to it, without a doubt, all three of these or

1082
00:54:19,360 --> 00:54:23,960
worldwide brands, you know, most of these other programs in

1083
00:54:24,000 --> 00:54:27,159
college football, with the exception of obviously Notre Dame Alabama,

1084
00:54:27,519 --> 00:54:31,039
and you throw in a few others there, they're they

1085
00:54:31,199 --> 00:54:34,400
just most of these schools and programs they don't have

1086
00:54:34,440 --> 00:54:38,719
that worldwide, you know brand. And it's because of our

1087
00:54:38,760 --> 00:54:42,079
servicemen and women. It's because they're tied, you know, to

1088
00:54:42,079 --> 00:54:45,639
to the Air Force, to the Navy, into the you know,

1089
00:54:45,679 --> 00:54:49,719
the United States military. So you know, having those ties

1090
00:54:49,880 --> 00:54:52,360
is why so many people identify with Army, Navy, and

1091
00:54:52,400 --> 00:54:54,519
Air Force football. Whether you went to the academy, you're

1092
00:54:54,559 --> 00:54:57,719
a parent, whether you're somebody enlisted, active duty, you know,

1093
00:54:57,960 --> 00:55:03,400
former member, reserve, everybody. There's so many different, you know,

1094
00:55:03,559 --> 00:55:06,519
swaths of life that it kind of crosses over. And

1095
00:55:06,559 --> 00:55:08,760
so that's one of the things that I personally, and

1096
00:55:08,840 --> 00:55:11,000
I think you do too. I speak for myself. I

1097
00:55:11,039 --> 00:55:13,000
love about you know, all three of these teams that

1098
00:55:13,079 --> 00:55:15,599
you have people around the world that follow them, you know,

1099
00:55:15,679 --> 00:55:19,400
especially these big games, you know, Commandery Chief Trophy games

1100
00:55:19,440 --> 00:55:22,199
when bracking rights are on the line between the three teams.

1101
00:55:22,199 --> 00:55:25,280
So it's just something unique and what makes Service Academy

1102
00:55:25,280 --> 00:55:27,960
Football so unique and special Steve, and you know, like

1103
00:55:28,000 --> 00:55:30,400
you said, certainly happy for Michael Kelly. When you get

1104
00:55:30,400 --> 00:55:31,960
the chance to go home in a place that you

1105
00:55:32,039 --> 00:55:36,079
grew up, it's always, you know, it's always very special.

1106
00:55:36,760 --> 00:55:39,320
But it's gonna be special this weekend because we have

1107
00:55:39,440 --> 00:55:43,360
got kickoff, Steve, finally once and for all talking season.

1108
00:55:43,800 --> 00:55:47,079
It be over, man, it is here, and it starts

1109
00:55:47,079 --> 00:55:49,960
on Friday night. Let's start at West Point because I

1110
00:55:50,000 --> 00:55:51,559
think that when we do our picks here in the

1111
00:55:51,599 --> 00:55:53,599
last segment, we're probably going to be a clean sweep

1112
00:55:53,719 --> 00:55:56,239
with the type of opponents that all three of these

1113
00:55:56,239 --> 00:55:58,440
teams are going to be facing. But we'll start with

1114
00:55:58,559 --> 00:56:02,800
Army and Tarlatan hosting Tarleton State on Friday night, six

1115
00:56:02,800 --> 00:56:06,440
o'clock kickoff Eastern Standard Time on the CBS Sports Network.

1116
00:56:06,480 --> 00:56:09,360
It's a tripleheader on Friday and Saturday with all three

1117
00:56:09,360 --> 00:56:13,199
of our teams on CBS Sports Network. But Army right

1118
00:56:13,239 --> 00:56:15,880
now a big favorite, and I don't think they're gonna

1119
00:56:15,920 --> 00:56:18,639
have any kind of problems here with Tarleton State playing

1120
00:56:18,679 --> 00:56:20,320
one of their five home games this year.

1121
00:56:20,360 --> 00:56:22,519
Speaker 2: Steve No, You're absolutely right.

1122
00:56:22,639 --> 00:56:25,960
Speaker 4: I think that you know, as as much as Charlton

1123
00:56:26,119 --> 00:56:32,000
State is going to love the pageantry of Opening week

1124
00:56:32,519 --> 00:56:36,519
at Mikey Stadium, I certainly feel that this is going

1125
00:56:36,639 --> 00:56:39,519
to be the Dwayne Coleman show. I think this is

1126
00:56:39,599 --> 00:56:43,920
the opportunity that Dwayne Coleman has to put his name

1127
00:56:44,519 --> 00:56:48,440
on the ledger. I think that you know, after you know,

1128
00:56:48,599 --> 00:56:52,159
forty one total touchdowns last year from the quarterback position

1129
00:56:52,239 --> 00:56:56,480
with Bryson Daily, you know that you're not Bryce. If

1130
00:56:56,519 --> 00:56:59,480
you're Dwayne Coleman, you have to understand you're not Bryson Daily.

1131
00:57:00,119 --> 00:57:03,920
You don't don't try to be Bryson Daily. B Dwayne

1132
00:57:03,920 --> 00:57:08,079
Coleman and and guys will follow you and there and

1133
00:57:08,159 --> 00:57:11,519
so I really think that you look at with with

1134
00:57:11,679 --> 00:57:14,559
him uh. And then the fact of the matter been

1135
00:57:14,920 --> 00:57:18,480
not having Kanye Udo. As you mentioned earlier in the show,

1136
00:57:18,880 --> 00:57:21,840
he has been he has transferred out West, He's at

1137
00:57:21,840 --> 00:57:25,400
Arizona State. Now this is going to be about Noah Short.

1138
00:57:25,519 --> 00:57:28,320
For me, I think that this is another guy that

1139
00:57:28,360 --> 00:57:30,400
you that you want to keep an eye on. You know,

1140
00:57:30,480 --> 00:57:33,840
eight hundred and eighty seven all purpose yards, five touchdowns

1141
00:57:34,280 --> 00:57:34,880
last year.

1142
00:57:35,480 --> 00:57:35,679
Speaker 2: You know.

1143
00:57:35,960 --> 00:57:38,360
Speaker 4: I think he's going to be the guy that Dwayne

1144
00:57:38,400 --> 00:57:42,559
Coleman's gonna have to lean on. Uh and and especially

1145
00:57:42,760 --> 00:57:45,320
late and late in the game. You want to see

1146
00:57:45,400 --> 00:57:49,079
him uh being able at before they because I think

1147
00:57:49,079 --> 00:57:51,760
at some point this is the game where Jeff Funkin

1148
00:57:51,880 --> 00:57:54,519
is going to be able to get his second third

1149
00:57:54,639 --> 00:57:58,239
string guys uh some time, get them some playing time.

1150
00:57:58,360 --> 00:58:01,639
Especially if this becomes a laugh like we expect it's

1151
00:58:01,679 --> 00:58:04,920
going to be late. I think that no is short

1152
00:58:04,960 --> 00:58:06,679
It's going to be a big reason why it becomes

1153
00:58:06,679 --> 00:58:07,320
a laugh for late.

1154
00:58:08,199 --> 00:58:11,280
Speaker 3: Yeah. Look, it's worth pointing out. And while I do

1155
00:58:11,360 --> 00:58:13,400
think that Army will win the football game, we'll get

1156
00:58:13,400 --> 00:58:16,199
the picks in a little bit. This is probably, in

1157
00:58:16,239 --> 00:58:18,199
my opinion, you're going to be the closest of all

1158
00:58:18,280 --> 00:58:20,880
three of the games. Because you know, Charloton State was

1159
00:58:21,079 --> 00:58:23,559
pretty during good last year. You know, obviously they're one

1160
00:58:23,599 --> 00:58:25,639
to zero to start in the season right now. They

1161
00:58:25,800 --> 00:58:29,679
hammered Portland State last weekend forty two to zero. Were

1162
00:58:29,719 --> 00:58:32,039
dominant on both sides of the football. But you know

1163
00:58:32,079 --> 00:58:34,400
they were a top ten FCS team last year. Steve

1164
00:58:34,480 --> 00:58:36,480
made it to the second round of the playoffs. So

1165
00:58:36,920 --> 00:58:39,880
the Texans aren't a team that's going to go quietly

1166
00:58:40,000 --> 00:58:42,840
into the night. You know, the biggest thing when it

1167
00:58:42,920 --> 00:58:45,840
comes to FCS teams is you just don't know how

1168
00:58:45,920 --> 00:58:48,199
much they got hammered and poached when it comes to

1169
00:58:48,239 --> 00:58:50,360
the transfer portal, because when you have success in a

1170
00:58:50,400 --> 00:58:53,639
place like Charlton, the bigger programs they're going to start

1171
00:58:53,719 --> 00:58:55,800
knocking on your door. How many of those guys did

1172
00:58:55,840 --> 00:58:58,679
they retain? I personally don't know, But what I do

1173
00:58:58,800 --> 00:59:01,480
know is it's a team of Texans is going to

1174
00:59:01,559 --> 00:59:04,199
come in and not back down at Army. But I

1175
00:59:04,320 --> 00:59:06,119
still like Army in a close one to get it

1176
00:59:06,119 --> 00:59:06,719
done at home.

1177
00:59:07,039 --> 00:59:10,519
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think you're absolutely right in that in that vein.

1178
00:59:10,639 --> 00:59:14,039
I think that for Charlton State to have any sort

1179
00:59:14,079 --> 00:59:17,599
of chance to try and you know, even have an

1180
00:59:17,639 --> 00:59:20,800
opportunity to win this game. You say, maybe close, but

1181
00:59:20,960 --> 00:59:24,159
for them to maybe come out with a victory, they've

1182
00:59:24,159 --> 00:59:25,639
got to have everything go right.

1183
00:59:25,880 --> 00:59:27,960
Speaker 2: They've got to have Army make mistakes.

1184
00:59:27,960 --> 00:59:32,039
Speaker 4: And you know what Jeff Bunkin led team, especially after

1185
00:59:32,079 --> 00:59:36,079
what happened last year with the Army Navy game. You know,

1186
00:59:36,280 --> 00:59:39,800
you and I have seen this. You know, Army players

1187
00:59:40,079 --> 00:59:44,960
have all had twelve thirteen twenty five put on all

1188
00:59:45,000 --> 00:59:47,639
of their gear this year. Of course that is the

1189
00:59:47,679 --> 00:59:50,679
next time Army plays Navy, and it is and they

1190
00:59:50,719 --> 00:59:55,719
have been working so hard this offseason, through the spring

1191
00:59:56,079 --> 00:59:58,599
and even through the summer to make sure that they're

1192
00:59:58,639 --> 01:00:02,519
ready to try and make that run at twelve thirteen

1193
01:00:02,519 --> 01:00:07,800
to twenty five. Tarlton State's running back Trey Page the

1194
01:00:07,840 --> 01:00:10,000
third had a big day against Portland State.

1195
01:00:10,480 --> 01:00:13,360
Speaker 2: As you mentioned, they win forty two to nothing in

1196
01:00:13,400 --> 01:00:13,920
that game.

1197
01:00:14,559 --> 01:00:17,960
Speaker 4: You know, I think that Tarlton, you know, if they're

1198
01:00:17,960 --> 01:00:21,360
gonna have any sort of success, they've got to command

1199
01:00:21,519 --> 01:00:22,440
the line of scrimmage.

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01:00:22,599 --> 01:00:23,920
Speaker 2: I think that's gonna be very.

1201
01:00:23,760 --> 01:00:24,480
Speaker 4: Tough for them.

1202
01:00:24,679 --> 01:00:29,559
Speaker 3: Yep, once again, Friday night six o'clock kickoff Tarleton State

1203
01:00:29,599 --> 01:00:33,400
and Army on the CBS Sports Network. Army a big

1204
01:00:33,480 --> 01:00:35,840
sixteen and a half point favorite, the one line we've

1205
01:00:35,880 --> 01:00:39,119
seen all right. Moving into Saturday VMI at the Naval Academy,

1206
01:00:39,119 --> 01:00:42,440
this one from Navy Marine Corps Memorial Stadium, twelve noon

1207
01:00:42,519 --> 01:00:45,840
kickoff on the CBS Sports Network. Sure, maybe gonna be

1208
01:00:45,880 --> 01:00:49,000
a massive favorite against a vm I team. They only

1209
01:00:49,039 --> 01:00:51,599
won one game last year and has only won six

1210
01:00:51,679 --> 01:00:55,639
games the last what three years combined, So it's a

1211
01:00:55,719 --> 01:01:00,000
team that has continuously struggled out of the Southern Conference.

1212
01:01:00,119 --> 01:01:03,639
It's at the FCS level. And then you know, of

1213
01:01:03,679 --> 01:01:07,480
course taking that step up against you know, not a

1214
01:01:07,559 --> 01:01:12,760
fellow academy but a fellow military school, this is going

1215
01:01:12,840 --> 01:01:15,719
to be just quite in the tall order. If this

1216
01:01:15,840 --> 01:01:18,679
sing it and over at halftime, I'll be utterly shocked.

1217
01:01:18,800 --> 01:01:20,800
I mean, I think Navy hangs at least forty on

1218
01:01:20,880 --> 01:01:23,079
them in the first half. But you know, again, first

1219
01:01:23,119 --> 01:01:25,119
game of the season, but with Navy having so many

1220
01:01:25,159 --> 01:01:27,000
guys back, I would expect them to come out of

1221
01:01:27,000 --> 01:01:29,679
the gates firing and not have a lot of trouble

1222
01:01:30,239 --> 01:01:33,039
before being able to play. Basically everybody else on the

1223
01:01:33,159 --> 01:01:35,079
on the bench and then start pulling people out of

1224
01:01:35,079 --> 01:01:37,079
the student body there late in the fourth.

1225
01:01:37,760 --> 01:01:39,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, it certainly seems that way.

1226
01:01:39,559 --> 01:01:42,360
Speaker 4: I mean, this is the eleventh time that that Navy

1227
01:01:42,400 --> 01:01:44,719
and VMI will meet, going all the way back to

1228
01:01:44,800 --> 01:01:49,280
eighteen ninety eight, and eight of those the previous ten

1229
01:01:49,360 --> 01:01:53,320
meetings have taken place in Annapolis, the last one coming

1230
01:01:53,400 --> 01:01:57,440
in twenty fourteen, so it's been eleven years since Navy

1231
01:01:57,480 --> 01:02:00,280
and vm I have squared off. That game is a

1232
01:02:00,440 --> 01:02:04,559
fifty one to fourteen, uh decision, and I certainly feel

1233
01:02:04,559 --> 01:02:08,679
like it's going to end up being something very similar

1234
01:02:09,519 --> 01:02:13,960
because you know, I Navy is the cream of of

1235
01:02:14,000 --> 01:02:15,519
the crop in my opinion, in.

1236
01:02:15,480 --> 01:02:16,960
Speaker 2: The American Athletic Conference.

1237
01:02:16,960 --> 01:02:19,480
Speaker 4: All right, say the American Conference this year, Yeah, there's

1238
01:02:19,480 --> 01:02:23,119
no there's no athletic They've they've scratched the athletic out

1239
01:02:23,119 --> 01:02:26,400
of It is just the American that's gonna take some

1240
01:02:26,519 --> 01:02:27,679
getting used to, for sure.

1241
01:02:28,039 --> 01:02:31,119
Speaker 2: But Uh, I look at where Navy is.

1242
01:02:32,000 --> 01:02:34,320
Speaker 3: They have a mascot too, Steven, not to interrupt you,

1243
01:02:34,400 --> 01:02:36,920
how about them being the only conference that has a mascot?

1244
01:02:37,000 --> 01:02:42,800
Speaker 4: Now, seriously, you think I'm getting I know, I know

1245
01:02:43,039 --> 01:02:46,920
it's let's let's let's not uh, let's let's not get

1246
01:02:46,960 --> 01:02:47,719
into it now.

1247
01:02:47,840 --> 01:02:49,639
Speaker 2: I really kind of.

1248
01:02:49,840 --> 01:02:52,840
Speaker 3: Soar the eagle, all right, keep continue on. I'm sorry,

1249
01:02:52,880 --> 01:02:54,760
I just had to throw that in there, not to

1250
01:02:54,800 --> 01:02:57,719
make fun of the AAC excuse me, the American Conference,

1251
01:02:57,760 --> 01:02:59,119
and soar violay.

1252
01:02:59,639 --> 01:02:59,840
Speaker 2: Yes.

1253
01:03:00,280 --> 01:03:02,679
Speaker 4: So here's here's the thing that you want to look

1254
01:03:02,719 --> 01:03:06,199
for with Navy getting not not just getting the win,

1255
01:03:06,280 --> 01:03:08,480
but getting the statement. When you look at it, the

1256
01:03:08,559 --> 01:03:11,760
last five times the Navy that Navy is won its

1257
01:03:11,840 --> 01:03:13,840
season opener, it's gone on to playing a ball game.

1258
01:03:13,880 --> 01:03:16,119
That's always a very very good sign. So you want

1259
01:03:16,199 --> 01:03:19,199
you want to be able to do that, you know, obviously,

1260
01:03:19,239 --> 01:03:21,840
I think that there's going to be uh, it's going

1261
01:03:21,880 --> 01:03:24,119
to be one of those laughers like we were talking

1262
01:03:24,119 --> 01:03:26,639
about last time was fifty one to fourteen. Would not

1263
01:03:26,719 --> 01:03:30,039
be surprised to see something very similar this year.

1264
01:03:30,559 --> 01:03:32,559
Speaker 3: Yep, totally agoring. I think this one is going to

1265
01:03:32,599 --> 01:03:35,519
be over before the key debts and get off the

1266
01:03:35,559 --> 01:03:39,599
bus again. Twelve noon kickoff from a Navy Marine Corps

1267
01:03:39,639 --> 01:03:43,000
Memorial Stadium on the CBS Sports Network VM Navy and

1268
01:03:43,000 --> 01:03:46,400
then finally the Air Force Academy. They will be kicking

1269
01:03:46,440 --> 01:03:50,679
off a at three thirty Eastern three thirty pm Eastern

1270
01:03:50,679 --> 01:03:53,920
Standard time, a one thirty kick there locally on the

1271
01:03:53,960 --> 01:03:58,599
CBS Sports Network as the Falcons hosting Buttnell and Troy

1272
01:03:58,639 --> 01:04:01,320
Calhoun over the years, and he's and openers, he's about

1273
01:04:01,360 --> 01:04:04,360
as good as it gets there, but especially open against

1274
01:04:04,440 --> 01:04:06,519
the Bison out of the Patriot League. I think this

1275
01:04:06,519 --> 01:04:09,239
one's gonna be a whole lot like v M I

1276
01:04:09,360 --> 01:04:11,760
and Navy, where this one's pretty much over from the

1277
01:04:11,760 --> 01:04:15,480
get go. However, you know, coming into this this season,

1278
01:04:15,519 --> 01:04:17,800
in this game, a lot of question marks for a

1279
01:04:17,840 --> 01:04:20,559
Falcon team that you know needs to rise to the

1280
01:04:20,559 --> 01:04:22,599
occasion this year and get back to playing that type

1281
01:04:22,639 --> 01:04:25,519
of air force football that we were accustomed to seeing.

1282
01:04:25,920 --> 01:04:29,039
Who will it be? Will it be Josh Johnson under center?

1283
01:04:29,519 --> 01:04:31,679
I personally think that's who will be the guy because

1284
01:04:31,719 --> 01:04:34,480
he got some had some experience last year. Or will

1285
01:04:34,599 --> 01:04:38,119
be Liam Sarko, You know, they both they both obviously

1286
01:04:38,159 --> 01:04:40,679
have things that are they're going for him. But I

1287
01:04:40,760 --> 01:04:43,119
really think that Johnson, you know, the size and able

1288
01:04:43,159 --> 01:04:45,800
to run the football and maybe be able to throw

1289
01:04:45,840 --> 01:04:47,920
it a little bit. This year, I think Johnson is

1290
01:04:47,960 --> 01:04:49,719
going to be the guy. But they've got to find

1291
01:04:49,719 --> 01:04:51,960
a way to run the football. Look for Air Force

1292
01:04:52,000 --> 01:04:53,880
to try to establish that ground game early.

1293
01:04:54,480 --> 01:04:59,039
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think that if they can't, If they can't

1294
01:04:59,079 --> 01:05:01,760
do that, I think they're in They're in big They're

1295
01:05:01,800 --> 01:05:02,559
in big trouble.

1296
01:05:02,960 --> 01:05:03,199
Speaker 2: Uh.

1297
01:05:03,280 --> 01:05:06,079
Speaker 4: You know, I I do agree Josh Johnson makes the

1298
01:05:06,119 --> 01:05:08,679
most sense uh to get the start.

1299
01:05:09,039 --> 01:05:09,159
Speaker 3: Uh.

1300
01:05:09,400 --> 01:05:11,679
Speaker 4: You know, it would not surprise me if this does

1301
01:05:11,719 --> 01:05:14,199
become a laugher to see Sarka at some point in

1302
01:05:14,239 --> 01:05:14,880
the second half.

1303
01:05:15,440 --> 01:05:15,719
Speaker 2: Uh.

1304
01:05:15,760 --> 01:05:20,000
Speaker 4: Maybe, especially if they get out to you know, if

1305
01:05:20,320 --> 01:05:23,519
it's forty two seven at halftime, you could see Sarka

1306
01:05:23,519 --> 01:05:26,360
play the entire second half. If not, I certainly could

1307
01:05:26,360 --> 01:05:29,840
see Sarka playing the entire fourth quarter of this game,

1308
01:05:30,239 --> 01:05:32,679
especially if they get out to a big, a big

1309
01:05:32,719 --> 01:05:37,000
stretch early. I think that, you know, with the the

1310
01:05:37,039 --> 01:05:40,440
way that they were unable to run the football last

1311
01:05:40,519 --> 01:05:44,239
year as opposed two years past. I mean, the Air

1312
01:05:44,280 --> 01:05:47,400
Force has always been one of those teams you expect

1313
01:05:47,400 --> 01:05:49,800
to see them in the two hundred and eighty to

1314
01:05:49,840 --> 01:05:53,239
two hundred and ninety yards of rushing, not the two

1315
01:05:53,320 --> 01:05:56,400
hundred and twenty yards that we saw a lot last year.

1316
01:05:56,440 --> 01:05:57,679
Speaker 2: If they're if they're at.

1317
01:05:57,960 --> 01:05:59,800
Speaker 4: If they're at one hundred and ninety or two hundred

1318
01:05:59,840 --> 01:06:03,440
yard at the half, things are gonna go well. If

1319
01:06:03,480 --> 01:06:06,320
they're at one hundred or one hundred and ten yards rushing.

1320
01:06:07,039 --> 01:06:10,360
This could definitely be kind of a scary proposition, but

1321
01:06:10,400 --> 01:06:11,960
I think it's gonna be a lot more of the

1322
01:06:12,000 --> 01:06:12,960
former than.

1323
01:06:12,840 --> 01:06:13,559
Speaker 2: It is the latter.

1324
01:06:14,440 --> 01:06:18,679
Speaker 3: All right. That is Bucknell and Air Force, Saturday, three

1325
01:06:18,840 --> 01:06:24,199
thirty Eastern Standard time on the CBS Sports Network. That's

1326
01:06:24,239 --> 01:06:26,880
our previews of all three of our games. We'll pick

1327
01:06:26,920 --> 01:06:28,719
our games here coming up when we come back to

1328
01:06:28,800 --> 01:06:32,239
wrap up this edition of the season opening Yards and

1329
01:06:32,280 --> 01:06:35,639
Stripes episode, we got our Travis Man Foundation Honorall segment

1330
01:06:35,639 --> 01:06:38,199
that will tell you about which will start next week.

1331
01:06:38,239 --> 01:06:40,159
So if you're new to the podcast, we'll we'll let

1332
01:06:40,159 --> 01:06:42,639
you know about the TMF hon Roll and we'll pick

1333
01:06:42,679 --> 01:06:44,599
some games coming up here on Yards and Stripes with

1334
01:06:44,639 --> 01:06:47,599
Steve Carney on Price Atkinson as we roll along here

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01:06:47,599 --> 01:06:50,840
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01:06:50,880 --> 01:06:53,320
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01:06:53,320 --> 01:06:56,599
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Speaker 1: The latest with Navy, Army and Air Force on Yards

1347
01:07:25,880 --> 01:07:28,239
and Stripes Service Academy Football.

1348
01:07:28,960 --> 01:07:31,119
Speaker 3: All right, we're headed for home here on Yards and Stripes.

1349
01:07:31,119 --> 01:07:35,719
See Steve Farney on Price Atkinson final segment of the

1350
01:07:35,920 --> 01:07:39,320
very first episode of the twenty twenty five college football season.

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01:07:39,760 --> 01:07:44,079
Again part of the College Gridiron Coast to Coast podcast Network.

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01:07:44,400 --> 01:07:48,880
Subscribe wherever it is you get your podcasts, Apple Podcasts, Spotify,

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just to name a few. As week will come to

1354
01:07:51,599 --> 01:07:54,320
you every single week during the college football season. Army, Navy,

1355
01:07:54,320 --> 01:07:56,320
and Air Force. That is what we do here, and

1356
01:07:56,360 --> 01:07:58,000
what we're going to do now is we are going

1357
01:07:58,000 --> 01:08:01,159
to pick some games, Steve, because we got three of them.

1358
01:08:01,760 --> 01:08:04,760
Let's start with the first one. Tarleton State and Army

1359
01:08:05,239 --> 01:08:08,719
on Friday night at six PM. I told you in

1360
01:08:08,719 --> 01:08:10,719
that last segment, I think this is probably gonna be

1361
01:08:10,719 --> 01:08:15,480
the closest game of all three of our games. What

1362
01:08:15,800 --> 01:08:17,039
say ye on this one?

1363
01:08:17,560 --> 01:08:17,800
Speaker 2: Yeah?

1364
01:08:17,840 --> 01:08:20,119
Speaker 4: I tend to agree that this is going to be

1365
01:08:20,199 --> 01:08:22,439
the closest, but it's still, in.

1366
01:08:22,359 --> 01:08:23,840
Speaker 2: My mind not going to be that close.

1367
01:08:24,920 --> 01:08:29,800
Speaker 4: So I think that at least Charlton State will be

1368
01:08:29,840 --> 01:08:33,119
the only one of these teams to get more than

1369
01:08:33,520 --> 01:08:36,680
one score on a team out. I'm going to put

1370
01:08:36,760 --> 01:08:41,159
that out there that they're the only Service Academy opponent

1371
01:08:41,520 --> 01:08:44,000
that's going to get more than one score. I actually

1372
01:08:44,079 --> 01:08:46,960
think that they're going to end up with somewhere in

1373
01:08:47,000 --> 01:08:50,680
the vicinity of fourteen to seventeen points. So I'm going

1374
01:08:50,760 --> 01:08:54,319
to say it's going to be it's going to be

1375
01:08:54,479 --> 01:08:58,600
Army thirty three Carlton State fourteen.

1376
01:08:59,359 --> 01:09:04,079
Speaker 3: Okay, three to fourteen. I think Army. It's gonna We're

1377
01:09:04,119 --> 01:09:06,319
pretty close on Army's score, but I think it's gonna

1378
01:09:06,359 --> 01:09:09,319
be much closer. I've got Army winning thirty to twenty four.

1379
01:09:09,359 --> 01:09:13,920
And I think Tarlton State building off last season especially

1380
01:09:14,319 --> 01:09:15,800
one of the things they get when you get to

1381
01:09:15,800 --> 01:09:17,680
play Week zero, you get to find out a little

1382
01:09:17,680 --> 01:09:21,039
bit about your team a week before everybody else. I

1383
01:09:21,079 --> 01:09:22,680
know they're gonna go on the road, have to leave

1384
01:09:22,720 --> 01:09:25,039
the state of Texas and go up to go up

1385
01:09:25,039 --> 01:09:27,199
to Mikey. But I think they're gonna put a scare

1386
01:09:27,279 --> 01:09:29,760
into Army. I think Army is gonna pull away, but

1387
01:09:29,800 --> 01:09:32,119
I think Tarleton's gonna hang around, maybe get a late

1388
01:09:32,199 --> 01:09:35,520
score to make it look maybe a little bit closer

1389
01:09:35,560 --> 01:09:37,399
than what the score is, but I think it's gonna

1390
01:09:37,439 --> 01:09:38,920
be closer. I think a lot of people are gonna

1391
01:09:38,920 --> 01:09:40,520
be turning their heads to see whoa this was a

1392
01:09:40,600 --> 01:09:43,119
less than a ten point game. Just my opinion. So

1393
01:09:43,119 --> 01:09:45,720
I've got Army thirty to twenty four, all right. In

1394
01:09:45,720 --> 01:09:49,920
the Naval Academy, they're opening up against vm MY at Saturday,

1395
01:09:50,000 --> 01:09:53,600
Saturday at twelve noon at Navy Marine Corps Memorial Stadium.

1396
01:09:53,840 --> 01:09:55,920
I don't think there's any doubt we've you know, we

1397
01:09:56,079 --> 01:09:59,199
like both Navy over VMI a lot to a little.

1398
01:09:59,479 --> 01:10:02,359
I'll fire a I've got Navy fifty four to nine.

1399
01:10:02,640 --> 01:10:04,960
I think they're gonna run wild in the first half

1400
01:10:05,000 --> 01:10:07,199
and then shut her down when they come out in

1401
01:10:07,239 --> 01:10:08,079
the second half.

1402
01:10:08,239 --> 01:10:11,479
Speaker 4: Yeah, you and I certainly have very very close when

1403
01:10:11,479 --> 01:10:14,119
it comes to this, I have Navy fifty five v.

1404
01:10:14,399 --> 01:10:15,159
Speaker 2: I seven.

1405
01:10:16,039 --> 01:10:18,680
Speaker 4: I think that you're gonna you're gonna be seeing second

1406
01:10:18,680 --> 01:10:22,880
and third stringers early, and I think that this is

1407
01:10:22,920 --> 01:10:25,319
gonna be a shutter down session here as you as

1408
01:10:25,359 --> 01:10:29,199
you said, uh, second half, I would I would not

1409
01:10:29,279 --> 01:10:31,720
be surprised, like if this was high school, there would

1410
01:10:31,720 --> 01:10:34,159
be a running clock early early on in this game.

1411
01:10:34,199 --> 01:10:34,680
Speaker 3: Yeah.

1412
01:10:34,720 --> 01:10:37,239
Speaker 2: So, but yeah, I said, I have fifty five seven.

1413
01:10:38,000 --> 01:10:42,079
Speaker 3: All right. Finally, air Force and Bucknell three thirty on Saturday,

1414
01:10:42,119 --> 01:10:45,840
three thirty Eastern Standard time. You know, Troy Calhoun usually

1415
01:10:45,880 --> 01:10:48,680
not having trouble with those openers, especially when they're playing

1416
01:10:48,720 --> 01:10:50,680
them in the springs. I don't think they're gonna have

1417
01:10:50,680 --> 01:10:52,840
trouble in this one. Although I don't think it's gonna

1418
01:10:52,840 --> 01:10:55,520
be a runaway blowout. I think it's gonna be air

1419
01:10:55,560 --> 01:10:57,760
Force to something around the tune of twenty eight to

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ten win comfortably, not to blowing anybody, you know, blowing

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01:11:03,039 --> 01:11:05,640
the doors off anybody. But I do think they're going

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01:11:05,680 --> 01:11:07,680
to get back to their winning lays and get off

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01:11:07,680 --> 01:11:09,560
to a good start. What's going to be a difficult

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01:11:09,600 --> 01:11:11,920
opening first half of the season for the Falcons.

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Speaker 4: Absolutely but I certainly think that they're going to grind

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01:11:16,000 --> 01:11:19,560
down Bucknell in this game, and I think they get

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01:11:19,560 --> 01:11:22,600
a late score in this game to make it look

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01:11:22,640 --> 01:11:25,479
a little look a little better. I have air Force

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01:11:25,600 --> 01:11:28,840
thy one buck Nell three in this game. But like

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01:11:28,880 --> 01:11:30,960
I said, you get a late score, you know, you

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01:11:31,000 --> 01:11:33,520
go from a three touchdown to a four touchdown game.

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01:11:33,800 --> 01:11:36,600
In that sense, you probably feel a lot better about yourself.

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01:11:37,039 --> 01:11:39,359
Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, all right, before we get out the door,

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01:11:39,479 --> 01:11:41,399
I want to tell you about the Travis Mannion Foundation

1435
01:11:41,479 --> 01:11:44,039
because we like to end the podcast or wrap up

1436
01:11:44,039 --> 01:11:46,880
the podcast with the Travis Manning Foundation Honorall segment where

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01:11:46,880 --> 01:11:49,800
you honor remember a fallen hero that has given the

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01:11:49,880 --> 01:11:53,159
ultimate sacrifice. And you know, in the words that Travis

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01:11:53,199 --> 01:11:56,520
spoke before leaving on his final deployment, if not me,

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01:11:56,640 --> 01:12:00,600
then who? And the Travis Manning Foundation is uniting communities

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01:12:00,640 --> 01:12:04,399
to strengthen our country by empowering, you know, veterans and

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01:12:04,479 --> 01:12:08,279
families of fallen heroes to develop character in future generations.

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01:12:08,319 --> 01:12:11,520
And so right now they have their heroes nine to

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01:12:11,520 --> 01:12:14,439
eleven heroes run that's going on that you can sign

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01:12:14,520 --> 01:12:17,039
up to participate virtually or at a race near you.

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01:12:18,079 --> 01:12:20,720
They have events going on all through the season. You

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01:12:20,760 --> 01:12:25,079
can find out a lot more online at Travismanion dot org.

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01:12:25,720 --> 01:12:29,319
But once again, you know, TMF empowering these families that

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01:12:29,359 --> 01:12:32,560
have lost loved ones to help develop character in these

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01:12:32,600 --> 01:12:35,600
future generations that are coming up. And so there's just

1451
01:12:35,640 --> 01:12:39,960
a myriad of programs that TMF is engaged with with

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01:12:40,039 --> 01:12:43,079
the with the families you know, and these grieving families

1453
01:12:43,119 --> 01:12:45,439
at that too. So if you'd like to find out

1454
01:12:45,479 --> 01:12:48,239
how you can get involved in TMF, just go online

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01:12:48,279 --> 01:12:52,159
at Travismanian dot org. We will begin our Travismanian Foundation

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01:12:52,239 --> 01:12:55,760
honorall segments honoring those fallen heroes. We will do one,

1457
01:12:55,880 --> 01:12:57,720
you know, at the end of the podcast every single week,

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01:12:57,840 --> 01:12:59,560
so those will begin next week, so be on the

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01:12:59,600 --> 01:13:02,039
lookout to me. Is one of the special things that

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01:13:02,079 --> 01:13:04,680
we do because, as we all know, Steve, our freedom

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01:13:04,760 --> 01:13:07,359
is not free. You were a veteran, you served, and

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01:13:07,479 --> 01:13:10,359
so many I think people right now listening to us

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01:13:10,840 --> 01:13:13,760
serving or did serve. So we cannot say thank you

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01:13:13,880 --> 01:13:17,079
enough to them, and certainly people like you, Steve, who

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01:13:18,000 --> 01:13:21,279
have just given so much to our country. So we

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01:13:21,319 --> 01:13:23,760
say thank you, and it's just one of those ways

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01:13:23,800 --> 01:13:26,039
we honor those heroes, Steve, that means so much to us.

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01:13:26,279 --> 01:13:26,960
Speaker 2: Absolutely.

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01:13:27,239 --> 01:13:31,479
Speaker 4: And you mentioned the foundation, Travis Manian Foundation so great

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01:13:31,720 --> 01:13:34,960
and they have a number of amazing stories. As you mentioned,

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you go to Travismanion dot org. Not only can you

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01:13:37,520 --> 01:13:39,359
find out how to sign up for your nine to

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01:13:39,359 --> 01:13:42,960
eleven Heroes run and find out how you can donate,

1474
01:13:43,319 --> 01:13:47,159
not just your money if you have the money to spare,

1475
01:13:47,239 --> 01:13:50,680
but donate your time in the local areas. But they

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01:13:50,720 --> 01:13:54,840
have a ton of stories about the families who have

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01:13:55,399 --> 01:13:59,319
suffered the law sees of a service member giving milkit

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01:13:59,399 --> 01:14:03,399
sacrifice and what they've been able to do to not

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01:14:03,880 --> 01:14:07,439
so much recover, but be able to help other families

1480
01:14:07,439 --> 01:14:11,520
who are going on they're going through this situation. It's

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01:14:11,560 --> 01:14:16,520
an incredible it's an incredible organization to help out and

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01:14:16,560 --> 01:14:18,760
I'm so glad that we get an opportunity every week

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01:14:18,760 --> 01:14:20,039
to do so well.

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01:14:20,079 --> 01:14:22,119
Speaker 3: I'm glad that we get a chance every week to

1485
01:14:22,159 --> 01:14:23,920
do this. You and me, Steve, it's it's a lot

1486
01:14:23,920 --> 01:14:27,119
of fun to get the band back together. Awesome interview

1487
01:14:27,159 --> 01:14:29,840
with Michael Kelly. We appreciate him for joining us. Great

1488
01:14:29,920 --> 01:14:32,880
job with that interview, Steve. I hope everybody enjoyed that one.

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01:14:33,239 --> 01:14:35,279
We'll have more guests that join us, you know, here

1490
01:14:35,319 --> 01:14:38,439
and there throughout the season. All right, Steve, we will

1491
01:14:38,720 --> 01:14:41,880
wrap this thing up. I hope everybody enjoys the games.

1492
01:14:41,920 --> 01:14:45,680
I know everybody's been counting down to kick off Friday night,

1493
01:14:45,800 --> 01:14:48,760
at least in our World Service Academy World Thursday night,

1494
01:14:48,840 --> 01:14:52,079
you're gonna have games, certainly Friday night, Army, Tarlatan State,

1495
01:14:52,119 --> 01:14:55,560
and then boy Saturday. If you're gonna do anything else

1496
01:14:56,079 --> 01:14:58,520
except burn up batteries and you're remote, that's what I'm

1497
01:14:58,720 --> 01:15:01,960
spend all afternoon. Hopefully I'll go to at least a

1498
01:15:02,000 --> 01:15:04,159
couple of sets by the time we turned the clock

1499
01:15:04,199 --> 01:15:07,119
to Sunday. But I just can't wait for these games, Steve,

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01:15:08,079 --> 01:15:10,960
you know, real quick, I've you're miss I know he

1501
01:15:11,479 --> 01:15:13,680
passed away last year, but this will be the first

1502
01:15:13,720 --> 01:15:17,960
full season. Pete Medhurst not in the booth for the

1503
01:15:18,039 --> 01:15:21,000
Naval Academy, certainly somebody that was a friend of ours.

1504
01:15:21,319 --> 01:15:25,000
I just wanted to make mention really quickly on the

1505
01:15:25,039 --> 01:15:27,640
way out the door. Mike James and Keenan Reynolds, they're

1506
01:15:27,640 --> 01:15:30,319
gonna be joining the Navy Radio Network. Joe Miller will

1507
01:15:30,560 --> 01:15:33,399
officially or now has officially moved into that play by

1508
01:15:33,439 --> 01:15:36,479
play chair that Pete served for so long as one

1509
01:15:36,520 --> 01:15:38,720
of the greatest play by play voices, maybe the greatest

1510
01:15:38,760 --> 01:15:43,319
ever Navy history. But want to wish you know, Joe Miller,

1511
01:15:43,399 --> 01:15:45,760
somebody that's a good friend, wish him luck as he

1512
01:15:45,800 --> 01:15:48,399
moves into that chair, and certainly Mike James and Keena

1513
01:15:48,399 --> 01:15:51,239
Reynolds joining the Navy Radio network. So I just wanted

1514
01:15:51,279 --> 01:15:53,520
to mention that on the way out the door, Steve.

1515
01:15:53,560 --> 01:15:56,359
But once again, we will be with you once a

1516
01:15:56,359 --> 01:15:59,159
week all season here on the College Gridiron Coast to

1517
01:15:59,199 --> 01:16:01,720
Coast podcast at work, check us out on last Word

1518
01:16:01,760 --> 01:16:05,680
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1519
01:16:05,800 --> 01:16:09,600
Apple Podcasts, just search Yards and Stripes. You will get

1520
01:16:09,600 --> 01:16:11,880
it delivered right to you. Steve. I hope I got

1521
01:16:11,880 --> 01:16:13,279
everything on the way out of the door. If I

1522
01:16:13,319 --> 01:16:14,319
didn't let me know.

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01:16:14,319 --> 01:16:17,199
Speaker 2: My man, Absolutely, I think you got everything.

1524
01:16:17,920 --> 01:16:21,319
Speaker 4: Definitely, you know, I definitely have to echo the sentiments

1525
01:16:21,319 --> 01:16:24,760
about about Med. You know, he is a good friend

1526
01:16:24,760 --> 01:16:27,720
for both of both of ours, and our thoughts go

1527
01:16:27,760 --> 01:16:30,920
out to Brenda, his wife, who you know. I'm sure

1528
01:16:30,960 --> 01:16:32,520
this is going to be a very tough week for

1529
01:16:32,920 --> 01:16:35,680
you know, the first week that you know he's not

1530
01:16:35,760 --> 01:16:38,319
going to be there to start a season. And I'm

1531
01:16:38,359 --> 01:16:41,039
sure this has definitely been a very very tough time

1532
01:16:41,119 --> 01:16:43,520
for her, but definitely want to send a love out

1533
01:16:43,520 --> 01:16:44,439
to Brenda as well.

1534
01:16:45,119 --> 01:16:48,039
Speaker 3: Absolutely, we'll be back next week here on Yards and Stripes.

1535
01:16:48,079 --> 01:16:49,840
We've got game balls to give out. We will do

1536
01:16:49,920 --> 01:16:52,760
that next week here on Yards and Stripes, your home

1537
01:16:52,800 --> 01:16:55,239
for Service Academy Football. Thanks for listening. We'll see you

1538
01:16:55,319 --> 01:16:55,800
next week.

1539
01:16:56,920 --> 01:17:00,800
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1540
01:17:00,840 --> 01:17:04,560
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