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the Oklahoma State Cowboys, a revamp, remodeled and I think

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improved Oklahomas eight team then from last year. They're fifteen

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and six on the season, three and five and Big

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twelve play. BAU is favored in this game. They are

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favored in nine of their last ten games and it's

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only by five and.

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Speaker 1: A half points. Though this could be a formidable foe.

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out to the hotline. Welcome in Oklahoma State Insider representing

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the Oklahoma We got Scott right on the line.

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Speaker 1: Scott Hey, you.

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Speaker 3: Living, Hey, doing fine out here. Hope you all are

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well out there too.

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Speaker 2: Living the dream, talking ball living right. Uh, Oklahoma State Man.

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I feel like, uh, this is a better team than

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what many people thought they would be.

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Speaker 1: This season.

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Speaker 2: Give me your synopsis. Who is this team and are

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they improved from last year?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I definitely think they're a better team than they

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were a year ago. Uh, you know, nobody really knew

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what they were. They went out and uh you know

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last year's team, Uh, well, offensively very deficient. They went

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out and got a lot of scorers. Now the defense

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is kind of slipped off a little bit, but they

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have the ability to score with anybody in in the conference.

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So you know, that's the the big key for them.

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They've got to be shooting the ball well and and

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go in and score it and then playing a little

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bit of defense when they can. That's the That's the

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thing that's a little bit scary, uh, for for this

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matchup here is I you know you mentioned that point spread.

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Uh that that surprised me a little bit. And obviously,

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you know, popan road is obviously a big difference in

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in this league. But I look at I look at

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the Oklahoma State team and I worry about how they're

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going to be able to defend in this matchup. And uh,

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that's that's the the the area of this team that

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that's uh, it's been a storyline all year and I

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think will continue to be as we get down the

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stretch the Big twelve season, as they're trying to get

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back into the NCAA tournament, you know, or at least

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get themselves on the bubble. They're gonna have to go

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and defend some some good offenses and keep themselves in

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some games that we maybe don't expect them to be

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And so we'll see what happens in this one.

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Speaker 2: Though, Ken Palm has Oklahoma State is the fifty seventh

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best team. They're sixty second in offensive efficiency, eighty fourth

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Speaker 1: What's up with the defense right now?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, they just the pendulum swung just a

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little too much the other way. They had some guys

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who could play a little bit of defense last year,

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and in trying to boost the offense, they they ended

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up with some guys that are just not as not

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as strong, not as consistent on that side of the ball.

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the three point line. You'll you'll see some some teams

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going and easily shoot you know, forty to fifty in

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a game, if not better against this defense. So that's

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been a major hang up this for the squad this year.

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with some really talented to three point shooters of their own,

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but they're not when they just can't even keep up

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with with with what they're giving up.

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Speaker 1: So you know, their.

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have expected. Parcefala has been a really consistent force down there.

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and hold their own a little bit and have, particularly

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with Falla, he's been great when guys get beat off

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the bounce on the perimeter at at being kind of

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a backstop to catch some things that maybe would have

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led to two easy buckets otherwise. So that's kind of

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perimeter one way or another, and that's going to be

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them out out of the tournament this year.

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Speaker 2: Steve Lutz is in his second year at the helmet

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for the Cowboys basketball squad.

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Speaker 1: He worked under Greg McDermott Matt Painter.

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Speaker 2: He's he's got a nice trajectory going for himself, I

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would say, as the head coach of Oklahoma State, now, what.

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Speaker 1: Would you how would you describe the culture what he's

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Speaker 2: Build, his brand, if you will, of basketball now that

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he's in year two of Oklahoma State.

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Speaker 3: Hoops, Yeah, this seem certainly looks more like the type

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of team that he wants to have. You know, he

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is he is a fast, offensive pace type of guy.

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to Oklahoma State led the nation in offensive pace on

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Kim Palm. That's the type of of offense he wants

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to run. But for him, it's based in defense. And

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that's why the pace comes in. I think he said,

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sixty two is what it's at right now. That's why

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they're coming in so low is because they're you know,

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they don't get the stops, they don't get the rebounds

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that they need all the time on the defensive end

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to run at the pace that he would like to.

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pace when you're catching the ball out of the net

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every time down the floor. So that's that's the key

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for for him that I think he will see as

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as he turns the page into next season, you're going

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to see the offensive pace stay similar to what this

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team does and and then you're going to see the

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defensive end start to be more like what what we've

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seen from him in the past. So you know, his

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his approach is intense but effective. He's uh, you know,

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he's got some hints of old school in him, but

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but he is a modern style of coach in terms

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of how he relates to his players. So I think

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he's I think he's exactly what they needed here at

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Oklahoma State for for this job, coming off of Mike Boynton,

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who was you know, a little maybe a little two

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lacks as a players coach at times and uh and

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and not as structured as maybe the program needed at

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all times. So you know, structure is very important to Lutz,

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and that's what he has really built this program on

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in terms of how he approaches every little thing that

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why he's been a successful coach, and he's learned from

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some great ones that you mentioned. So you know, I

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know that Oklahoma State fans would like to see them

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in more games right now, but man, the Big Cub's

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really tough, and this is just how it's gonna gonna

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be as you try to rebuild a program.

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Speaker 2: Key players to get to know, obviously, Anthony Roy, Parsafalla,

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Kanye Clary give us a little breakdown of the personnel

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and what by U fans need to look out for

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in their scattering report.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, Anthony Roy is the is the guy

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who can who can shoot from anywhere in the gym,

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and he's got great range, great consistency. But when he's off,

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he's he's way off. So that'll be something to watch

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early in this game. If he hits a couple early,

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you can usually tell it's going to be a pretty

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solid night for him. Kanye Clary and Jalen Curry both

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you know, both point guards. Sometimes they'll both play together

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on the floor at the same time. Clary has been

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playing really well during Big twelve Player at least the

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last few weeks here, and is an important piece because

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he's not the first guy or even the second guy

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that defenses are looking to as a scoring option. He's

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and or Victorious Miller on the perimeter, who have both

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been shooting the ball really well from outside, and Parsifala

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inside who is really kind of a of a traditional

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big man, which we just don't see a whole lot

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of these days and in any level of basketball anymore,

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it seems like. But he's the guy who's got good

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footwork on the block and can can score and rebound

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and do a lot of things. A big, physical guy

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who can play some good defense down inside as well.

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both ends to to solidify Samarias for this team. So yeah,

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you get you get the inside and outside game going

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for the soffense, and they can be really scary. They

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can put up some big numbers. So it's the it's

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the team with a good amount of weapons, but they

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don't uh you know, they're just nights when when shots

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aren't falling and and and things go south.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we're getting to know the faux Oklahoma State Cowboys

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talking some basketball right now as we uh uh you know,

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we're we're just about what almost uh you know about

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twenty four hours four tip off is concerned b YU basketball.

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Speaker 1: Uh.

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Speaker 2: They they they've been competitive this year.

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Speaker 1: They're a great and talented team.

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Speaker 2: What is it that the coaching staff has maybe told

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the local media as they prep for the BYU Cougars.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, obviously immensely talented got you know, individually immensely talented

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and as a team immensely talented. So you know, uh,

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it gets to be a little bit of of a

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broken record for for Steve what's talking about, uh, the

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great teams that you face in this league, but but

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just another one on the list right now, and you know,

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getting them, getting them at home is obviously a huge

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benefit for Oklahoma State. A lot of a lot of

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the the tough opponents that they're facing this year are

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coming to Gallagher I Arena, so that gives them a

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chance a little bit of an edge and trying to

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pull off one of those upsets. But you know, that's

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gonna be the important fact factor for Oklahoma State. You know,

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you look at the individual talent that that this team

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 3: Obviously with us having the uh Oklahoma City Thunder around

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lot of people are paying more attention to uh, you know,

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lottery picks and uh and and early draft picks because

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it's under have a whole salew of draft picks that

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they're going to have to use at some point and

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uh and so the buzz around around some of these

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to still Water rather than than just the Oklahoma State

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fans going to check this one out.

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Speaker 2: Give me a little prognostication, how do you think this

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game plays out? And uh, you know what would have

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to happen for Oklahoma State to get the dub.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's gonna obviously for them, they've got to be

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shooting the ball. Well, they've got to. They've got to

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and and Jalen Curry can create out of the punt

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guard position and get some some points for themselves or

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some easy shots for other guys, that'll be uh.

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Speaker 1: That'll be huge.

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Speaker 3: And part the follow just has to do what he's

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been doing, being a solid force inside. But but ultimately

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it's gonna come down to, uh, you know, whether the

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Cowboys can defend and they can can contain a little

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bit of what By was trying to do. That they

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give themselves a shot and then they can, like I said,

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they can score with anybody when they're on. So you

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know that's gonna be the key and keep themselves in

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the game with some some defense, uh you know, get

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some some key stops, some rebounds. They've they've really got

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to win the rebounding battle because that's not gonna be

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an easy one and that could be a major factor

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in the game. So that's I think some of the

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keys for them to try to keep themselves in this one.

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But you know, ultimately I've seen them, you know, have

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some really good offensive nights and not be able to

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contain on the defensive end. And it feels like that's

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the direction this game is gonna head.

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Speaker 2: Let's take a let's put basketball in the backburn here

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for a minute.

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Speaker 1: Football. What's the state of the.

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Speaker 2: Program in still Water right now? Is there some optimism?

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Is there reinvigoration? Is their hope in still Water for

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uprighter future? Give us a breakdown.

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Speaker 3: My phone cut out for just a second, did you

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ask my football?

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Speaker 1: We're talking?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I wanted to kind of let I wanted to

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just put basketball aside here for a minute and talk

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some football.

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Speaker 1: What's going on in still Water?

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Speaker 2: New coaching staff, new players, are completely revamped roster. It

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seems the the transfer portal has been good. I think

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to Oklahoma State is the future bright and Stillwater is

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Are the donors backing the decisions of the ad Are

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they rallying? Is everyone in Stillwater optimistic about the future

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of football?

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Speaker 1: Oh? Absolutely.

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Speaker 3: I think that between the firing of Mike Gunny, which

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was obviously painful and and the fan base and donors

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were kind of split on how that needed to go

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down to the hiring of Eric Morris, which I think

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was the key piece in sort of bringing everybody back together.

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You know, for the most part, it was it was

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a which like him that they really felt they needed

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to get. And as the search really wore down to

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the last the last couple of weeks, it really seemed

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like he was the perfect guy, the culture fit for

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still Water, you know, which obviously is different than some places.

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And you know, you look at at the type of

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programs that he has built, what he's done as a

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head coach, as an offensive coordinator. You really like how

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he fits at Oklahoma State. Then you see what they

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did in a transfer portal. Obviously nineteen yards seven seventeen

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guys from from North Texas, which you know a year

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ago you might have freaked out about that. But after

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what Kurt Signetti just did with with with a bunch

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of James Madison guys up at Indiana, maybe you don't

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panic about that quite so much now. But overall, fifty

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five guys brought in through the transfer portal, you know,

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a top top ten class based on you know where

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you where you get your recruiting rankings from. But you

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know a lot of big names, a lot of guys

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who've been productive, a lot of guys that understand what

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Eric Morris wants to do on both sides of the ball.

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So yeah, there's a lot of excitement about where this

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team in this program are right now based on what

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Eric Morris is bringing in both as culture and on

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the field talent.

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Speaker 2: Great breakdown, Excited to see what I mean. Look, this

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an era has ended in Stillwater, which can be difficult,

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right the transition can be a little bit bumpy, But

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I guess this day and age. You look at what

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Kirk Signetti did at Indiana, the losing his college football program,

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it seems in college football history, and he just won

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a national championship.

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Speaker 1: So it sounds like hope springs eternal in Stillwater.

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Speaker 2: What's the nil offering looking like right now in order

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to acquire and retain talent there in Stillwater?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that has definitely increased. There were some financial people

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who at the end of the you know, the year

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or so of Mike Gunney's tenure, had decided that they

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were closing the wallet for a while until they saw

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the program heading in a different direction. And once there

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Morris got in the fold, those those wallets start opening

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back up. You know, hard to put an exact number

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on it, but it's they certainly expected to have the

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full They're getting around sixteen million out of the revenue

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share budget out of the twenty point five million, and

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then they've it certainly appears they've gone beyond that. I've

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been a guess that they're in the twenty to twenty

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two million dollar range for what they've put together with

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this roster right now, So definitely spending more than we've

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seen from Oklahoma State. You know in the in the

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nil era, and I would say significantly morey maybe even

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double what they had on last year's roster. So that's

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a very important piece unifying the donor base and generating

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the type of excitement that you need in that realm

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to go and be competitive in college football.

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