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Speaker 2: Going to get to know the TCU horn Frogs via
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Speaker 2: Guys, Number eleven, bo of your returns to the friendly
conference tonight of the Marriage Center on a beautiful evening.
Hopefully we're getting the muck out of the air. Need
a little bit of moisture, but they host TCU tip
off is a late one nine pm mount time and
if you don't want to head out there and watch
the game at the Marriage Say if you don't have tickets,
you can watch it on ESPN two. Dave Fleming and
Sean Farnham are going to be on the call. Wednesday
will be the twenty fifth all time meeting between the
Cougars and the horn Frogs and the twelfth in provo
BYU holds a twenty to four advantage in the series
pretty lopsided, not all that competitive, including seven straight wins
at the Marriott Center dating back to their days in
the Mountain West Conference the Mountain West Conference era and
their only other meeting at the Marriott Center as Big
twelve O's bway overcame a seventeen point halftime deficit to
defeat the horn Frogs eighty seven to seventy five on
March second, twenty twenty four. Richie that Todd King Sanders
Saunders is the only remedding Cougar that played in that game,
as the Riverton native and the Washsatch Academy product finished
with eleven points in twenty four minutes of action, going
four to five from the field and one to one
from the three point line and three for four from
the free throw line to the charity stride. He also
had seven rebounds in two assists as the Cougars outscored
the TCU horn Frogs fifty eight to twenty nine after halftime.
They did a nice job there, and so did Richie.
BYU's back and ready to defend it's eleven game home
win streak versus the TCU Horned Frogs tonight that began
with that eighty to sixty five victory over Kansas State
on February fifteenth. Though twenty five, their current home win
streak is tied for the twenty second longest in the
NC DOUBLEA Division One men's basketball. Okay, that's an impressive run,
ladies and gentlemen, Boys and girls. The Cougars are seven
to zero at home this season, including eclipsing the century
mark in back to back games in the same season
for the first time since December.
Speaker 3: Nineteen ninety two.
Speaker 2: They are one of the top offensive teams in the
country when playing at the Marriott Center, ranking second in
net ratings right now, second and two point field goal
percentage and fourth and offensive rating, fourth in true shooting
percentage and fourth in effective field goal percentage, sixth in
field goal percentage in the seventh and fast breakpoints.
Speaker 3: So I believe Ken Palm has him.
Speaker 2: As the eighth overall best offensive team in college basketball
and eighteenth on the defensive side of the ball.
Speaker 3: And they have tremendous talent.
Speaker 2: But let's get to know the foe ladies and gentlemen
that are tuning into the show as we prep get
ready for this BYUTCU.
Speaker 3: Match up a late tip off.
Speaker 2: Let's welcome in Brian Astridge, the voice of the TCU
Hornfrogs of the show.
Speaker 3: Brian, how are you, Ben?
Speaker 4: I'm doing great? Man? Ready for little conversation going on here?
Speaker 2: Yes, indeed, I was breaking down BYU side of the
ball man.
Speaker 4: You had the numbers down, dude, Yeah, we got it.
Speaker 2: We got to get into all the knicks and crannies,
all the metrics, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: And I've been looking at TCU as well.
Speaker 2: This is a team that's trying to find its groove
offensively defensively though they're a top twenty five program right now.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think the offense has really come on, and
Jamie Dixon has been pleased with how they've handled himselves.
He wasn't exactly totally pleased with what they did defensively
to start the ball game against Arizona, but you and
I both know Arizona's a freaking basketball team, and then
the defense let him down in the end at Kansas
score one hundred points, you would think that that should
be enough at Allen Field House to come away with
the victory. So he's actually been pleased with the way
his offenses are spawned in the last couple of games,
but wants to see that intensity continue on the defensive side.
That's kind of what Jamie Dixon's teams have hung their
hat on over the years, and he wants to happen
again this year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, even when you know this TCU team hasn't been
producing a lot of points, they were winning. They had
a nice winning Street North Texas Incarnate Word or a
Roberts Florida and m Jackson State, and you got to
win versus Baylor.
Speaker 3: Not the most arduous stretch.
Speaker 2: Of games, but it looked like you guys were finding
ways to win outside of just getting buckets.
Speaker 4: Well, some of that, obviously, you know, is dictated by
the opponents. Too. Many of those teams started to slow
it down, you know, Incarnate worders, so those guys didn't
want to necessarily run as much for TCUs as you
were thinking. And then and then the Baylor game was
you know, that was just a testament to Big twelve basketball.
You know, both teams had come in thrown up big
numbers offensively. I think Baylor had scored one hundred and
three straight games, and that just felt like, all of
a sudden, you put on the brakes because big twelve
plays started, every be every possession mattered. Uh, and so
I think that's what led to that.
Speaker 2: I'm looking at these games in which, like, for instance,
the Michigan game, the number one team per Ken Palm,
sixty seven to sixty three. That was a tough loss,
but you guys stayed competitive. I look at the Notre
Dame game, that was a tough loss. Florida, you gotta win, though,
Wisconsin got to win.
Speaker 3: This is a this is.
Speaker 2: A good TCU team, a very competitive versus Kansas, very
competitive versus you of a. I don't know if the
record necessarily or even the Ken Palm ranking necessarily depicts
an accurate kind of a truth serum of who TCU is.
Speaker 4: What do you have? What do you have? What's Ken Palm?
Gunna man you're tracking that for you? Yeah?
Speaker 2: So TCU right now is uh let me pull this
up really quick.
Speaker 3: Uh, there they are. Let's see here, tc where you at,
where you're at?
Speaker 4: Like they were right on the bubble.
Speaker 2: Fifty second right now, So they're ninety ninth in off
it's the efficiency twenty fourth in defensive efficiency for fifty second.
Speaker 4: That's pretty I'd say that's pretty accurate. I mean, you know,
nobody up until Wisconsin meeting Michigan, nobody had played Michigan
as tight as TCU had, and you said hung with him.
I mean, actually TCU led for late in that ballgame
and Michigan came back. Had Notre Dame beat You're up
double digits on Notre Dame in the second half. Let
that one slip away. That was a tough one. We
talked about Kansas and overtime. Arizona's a really good basketball team.
So that's that's four of your five right there. The
one that hurts is New Orleans to start the year.
But you're a basketball guy, you know that. I mean
New Orleans walked in the arena with Master p as
their GM, and he had gone out and signed two
guys nobody knew was on the roster. You know that
could actually play. And so and now I'm not saying
that the team you should lose to you shouldn't, but
I think it probably caught TCU off guard a little bit.
With that being said, you know that there were some
wins in there. You could have stole them, There's no
question about it. But I think at this point, when
when you see how much money you spent in college basketball,
especially on the Big twelve side, you guys know about
it here at YU better than anybody. With the dollars
that TCU has allotted for basketball and the production that
they're getting out of the players that they got out
of the portal, I think folks should be fairly satisfied.
Speaker 2: I had no idea that master P was the president
of basketball operations for the University.
Speaker 4: Of New Orleans. Isn't they crazy? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Because where we are, man, I feel like we got
to get some music going here at the end of
the at the end of the interview, just to highlight MASTERP.
Shout out to master P, a part of my childhood,
my young adulthood.
Speaker 3: All Right, So you.
Speaker 2: Mentioned per dollar spent, you feel like TCU is in
a good spot. What type of NIL support is TCU's
basketball program getting right now?
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's like in three and a half million, So
compare that to be my use.
Speaker 3: Yeah, where does that stack up?
Speaker 2: Do you think that what do you think three and
a half million has the payroll? What do you think
that stacks up? Like in college basketball? Even in the
Big twelve?
Speaker 4: Yeah, and who knows. I would say it's, uh, it's
middle to lower end of the twelve. I mean you
look at by U in Texas Tech respectively, Caynes is
obviously as H has been spending it for years, and
so I think you got you know, I think you've
got a group up at the top. That's that's a
lot different than many of the teams that the resulte
at the bottom as far as that numbers. Would you agree, Yeah?
Speaker 3: I think so.
Speaker 2: It is a bit reflective of maybe where they're ranked
right now in the Big twelve or tenth in the
Big twelve.
Speaker 4: Standings, Yeah, which is where they were picked right in
the preseason pole. Yeah, I would see. I would say
that's probably about right. Yeah. Isn't that interesting how the
money is is uh, you can follow the money and
determine where it's finishing league. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And it works for basketball? Is it? Is it
always equivalent in in football? Right now? Is it?
Speaker 2: Is it the ones that are paying the most winning
the most? Do you think in college football as well?
Speaker 4: Well taking b YU both were at the top, right,
Arizona State was up there. I would I would say,
if you look at the Big twelve, that would be
the example that I would use. You know, it seems
like that has been the case, right, Yeah, you know.
Speaker 2: It's the Indiana situation is intriguing to me because I
don't feel like they've acquired as much talent.
Speaker 4: Uh and more than we say. I think they've spent
more than you thought. I think so, yeah, I think
they may have spent more than your team. What they
have done too is you know, uh, they've been they've
also gone out and you know, brought a bunch of
guys from James Madison. They probably don't have to overpay
for yeah. So, but but he filled in some holes
pretty nicely with you guys.
Speaker 3: What what happened with with Hoover? How did TCU lose Hoover?
Speaker 2: I thought I thought, you know, I thought Sonny would
be able to retain him. Obviously he got he got
probably a nice payday going over to uh signetty.
Speaker 3: But how's the NIL support on the.
Speaker 4: I think TCU's football and ils is different from the basketball.
And then they do have some money to spend any
and that they would have loved to have kept Hoover,
but uh, you know, Hoover wanted to go play in
another place. I guess he wanted, uh, you know, to
make more money. And I think DC was pretty generous
in what they where they were. I don't really know
the exact numbers, but uh, you know, uh, and and
I don't know that we know what he's getting in
Indiana doing I don't know, actually singing published, but apparently
he is getting more money. And so yeah, I mean
it all kind of again, follow the money, right m h. Yeah.
Speaker 2: It's uh, it's hard to get old and staled these days,
isn't it. You'll been doing this for a long time.
It's hard to get old staled right now.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it is. I mean it's you know, it's uh,
it's hard to figure out exactly where we are too
as a sport, uh or really as a you know,
and what what are we doing in college sports?
Speaker 3: You know this rock ruined?
Speaker 4: Man, you played. You don't want to mess it up,
do you?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I think there's I think it's a
I'm a I'm an entrepreneur, I'm a capitalist. Uh, and
so I do like free markets, and the pendulum has
swung and it's probably swung too far, and I wanted
to to get back into center, but you know it
needs to swing as far this direction where there's it's
like kind of a player advocacy era where they have
all the power because the NC double a kind of
sorta uh uh, you know, kind of pillaged for a
long time, took advantage for a long time, you know
what I mean?
Speaker 4: And so, and did you graduate from Yai?
Speaker 3: I did? Yeah? Yep?
Speaker 4: How much? How much classes?
Speaker 3: How much classes?
Speaker 4: Know? How much were classes? How much did the jet
to pay to go to class?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 2: Man? Well, I mean look, I was a walk on initially,
so I didn't get the initial scholarship. But you know
there's a subsidy as well because of tithes and offerings. Right,
so if you're a member of the church, your return missionary,
the classes were much cheaper. I think my tuition was
around like twenty five hundred per semester, so it's pretty cheap.
Speaker 4: So you had to pay twenty five eleven D semester.
Speaker 2: Yeah, until I got the scholarship, have to pay right, yep, yeah,
one hundred percent. No's a there's a question, like when
I chocked it up, when I was looking at the
hours allocated when I was on scholarship, when I was
receiving you know, taking into account the tuition and scholarship check,
I was probably making, you know, per hour, probably around
twelve thirteen, maybe fourteen bucks an hour as a football
player in two thousand and seven, two thousand and eight.
Speaker 4: How many other college kids were making it?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean you can make an argument for that
that they are making as much or they're making as much,
but they weren't doing something as fun as what I
was doing.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 4: Well, we've just we've devalued the degree. Uh, you know,
we we've devalued the education. When people go, oh, well,
you know, uh, they got to have more than the
scholarship is worse something. I got two kids in college,
fortunate one. Both of them played college athletics. One of
them is a Division one baseball player and goes and
goes for free. All right, it actually makes money going
to school. Not but he goes to a non nil
school Division one uh and then uh, and then he
goes to an academy. Uh. My daughter plays Division three
softball at a school that's I'm not complaining she picked
it and it was the right thing for her. It's
as expensive or more expensive than an IVY school. M
h okay uh and so but to her, the value
of the education something sure, you know, and I think
that's what we have to get back to, is, hey,
you're going to get a degree from b yu man.
There is value in that. And I but no one
talks about that. How many guys how many times on
your show have you talked about, Hey, that the student
athlete is progressing toward a degree. You remember we used
to hear that. Yeah, you know, how many guys were
ineligible during the college football bowl season this year academic?
A lot of them were, yeah, well they were academic.
Speaker 2: Well well, well well there was a lot of them
that weren't going to class, Like they're not going to class.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but they're not.
Speaker 4: Ineligible, ineligible they couldn't play in the bowl game because
of academics.
Speaker 3: I mean, no, I don't think any of them.
Speaker 4: I think I think there was one when you were playing.
That would happen all the time. Sure, so we're not
we're not talking about academics anymore. We're not talking about
the degree, We're not talking about the value of that,
uh and no one. And so I just think, to me,
that's that's where the world's changing. And maybe not for good.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, I do. I do think there needs to
be a balancing of it, all right.
Speaker 2: It has to be this has to be a transformational
experience on a transactional experience, right, and you'd hope that
education takes precedence with that. But you know, I mean, look,
the NCAA is a two billion dollar organization and none
of that was trickling down to the player.
Speaker 3: And they weren't allowing.
Speaker 2: For name, image and likeness, transactionality, right, Like if I
would have got if I would have worked at like
a any job and received twenty dollars an hour and
that was above whatever the fair market rate was, that
would be viewed as an improper benefit and I could
be ineligible, right, like I.
Speaker 3: You know what I mean.
Speaker 2: And so it's really hard because like ESPN, Fox are
making billions of dollars, coaches are making hundreds of millions
of dollars. NCAA is making so much money and like
the players aren't making I mean, they're getting their educate
and that's that's enough.
Speaker 3: And it was kind of like it was it to
a degree. It's it.
Speaker 2: It kind of seems I know, this is maybe too strong,
but it's a little bit like indentured, a little indentitude,
A little.
Speaker 4: Bit careful, dude. You were flying on a chartered plane.
You had all kinds of gear. You ate seven meals
a day, you know, I mean, uh, chicks, w I
mean there's it's a little it's a little different than
an indentured service.
Speaker 2: I know it's strong, but I mean it was it's strong,
but I mean, you're you're only talking about the highest
level right of of of play.
Speaker 3: You know, power four, power five, and so it needs
to balance.
Speaker 2: Right, and and the the answer is what, well, the
university is.
Speaker 4: What that highest level are the only ones that are
getting paid right now?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 2: So, But everybody else is getting an education D one
double A f c s. They're getting education, right, you're
you know, and so I agree with you. There has
to be a balancing effect here. And but you know,
universities could have stepped in at any time and offered
W two. They could figure out a W two salary,
but the institutionals don't want to do it. Why don't
they want to employ their students, their student athletes and
say hey, well you get to go to school as
well as you're as an employed person. They don't want
to pay workmen's comp. They don't want to protect them,
so they're they're a commodity and they're transacting from the
player while making money off of them. Over the last years,
universities are as much to blame as the NCAA, ESPN
and FOX of course.
Speaker 4: Something out here. Student athletes don't want to be employees, right,
did you want to be an employee?
Speaker 2: Well, I mean I didn't understand the ramifications of a
W nine or W two at the time, but if
you would have said, yeah, you get you get workmen's comp,
then yeah, I want to I want to be an employee.
Yeah yeah, I mean, look, if you're going to pay
me forty thousand dollars a year as a W two
employee and take care of me with workman's comp at
a four oh one K and retirement plan for my
five years and set me up for.
Speaker 3: Success, that's a part of the education as well.
Speaker 2: Right, that would be a part of Hey, like, we're
an advocate for the student athlete. But the universities have
sat there and washed their hands of it taking money
and making hundreds of millions of dollars. I don't know
what the the P and L looks like for TCU,
but the universities, I mean, their revenue in the athletic department,
it's it's upwards one hundred million, one hundred and twenty million,
one hundred and fifty million a year over year.
Speaker 4: But then they turn around spend it. You know, none
of them are very few of them are profitable. Now
that's a whole nother story that we have a twenty
minutes on that we all have. But sure, yeah, you know,
it's how these universities allow these athletic departments to be run.
That fiduciary fiduciary responsibility that is lacking there. Sure athletic
directors on damn yeah, I mean you look at the contracts.
You talk about contracts and coaches have the I mean
that is ridiculous. You know, the payouts that are being
throwing the coaches who get let go come on yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and the payouts go.
Speaker 2: Lord man, I'm saying, is I appreciate the pendulum swinging?
Speaker 3: Does it need to be fixed hundred percent? Let's go
collective bargaining.
Speaker 2: Let's figure out a way to have a salary cap
and things of that nature.
Speaker 3: But it has to be under the laws of the land.
Speaker 2: Either federal government has to step in and say you
can operate as a monopoly and impose these bylaws and
you're we're gonna give you legal precedents to to be
able to operate as a monopoly, or we got to
figure out, you know, something else, uh down the pipeline.
But you know, and I think for you as a
play by play guy, and you've been doing this for
a long time, one of the things that you know,
we enjoy as media members is storytelling, right and getting
to know the players, and it's hard to do that
with all this carousel going on and that and it
impacts us totally.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, you know, and that would that'd be a
selfish view to say it impacts me as much as
I I do worry about you know, like where do
these guys go for homecoming? Now, if you go to
four schools in four years homecoming, where do you where
do you bring your eight year olds back and say, hey,
this is where daddy played yep, and where and where's
daddy welcome? You know, think about that with Joshuber if
Joshuverer would have stayed one more year at TCU. He
would have left as the number one quarterback in every category.
All right, Yeah, the history of TCU. His eight year
old son, and he could have walked down the hall
of the football office anytime they wanted to, and he
could have eaten for free and for worth the rest
of his life. Yep. But he walked away from it
for another five hundred thounds a bucks. Yep. Think about
the long term decision that is man and so now
all of a sudden he can't bring his eight year
old son back to a place. And he gave three
years to put up some huge numbers, was highly successful,
but he's not. He's not. He's not going to be
welcome here because the fans are going, hey, that's a dude, leftists,
that's a dude. That quit. M h. No.
Speaker 2: I think it's powerful, that retention message. You know, it
needs to be promulgated from every every athletic department, every
football for every football coach.
Speaker 3: Right And I'm sure it was I'm sure it was pitched.
Speaker 4: I'm sure I'm sure they said it. But I mean,
you know, how do you get that message across and
in the media, we're just as guilty of it when
we say, oh, he opt out of the opted out
of the bowl game. No he didn't quit.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he quit.
Speaker 4: Who decided we need to go We need to glamorize
this word in the description of it. No, they quit
on their team. Yeah.
Speaker 3: And he's from Heath, Texas.
Speaker 4: You know he's a Texas Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3: Yes, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4: And I'm not singling out Josh Hooper when I say quit,
I'm talking about every guy who didn't play in the
bowl game, who was with his team for all throughout
the whole year, who decided I'm not going to play
in that bowl game because i might get the portal
I'm going to do this. You quit, man.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: And isn't it our responsibility as educators to also the
whole kids accountable and teach them what that's like in
the real world.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the long term.
Speaker 2: I when I'm pitching it, it's this, right, it's do
you want short term earning potential long term learning potential?
So don't be so, you can't be short sighted. You
can build a legacy. Yes, you need a fair market
wage for the fair market you know, evaluations, but you know,
I talk about long term earning potential, which is educational, right,
It's about it's about what you can make in that
community for years to come, ten years, fifteen down, like
real estate deals, commercial deals, whatever, it could be entrepreneurship things.
And it's hard to see that when you're just money grabbing,
money grabbing.
Speaker 4: With Kansas State and Iowa State back out of the
Bowl games and they both said, well, our teams voted
and they didn't want to play in it. I told you,
I told my counterpart of Kansas State. I said, hey,
walk in your athletic director's office and say, hey, yeah,
if if this basketball team doesn't play any better, I'm
not going to the Big twelve tournament call the game.
See how that would go over? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, you know,
but no that we're adults. We don't do that. And
at some point we got to train up these kids
who get to quote opt out to be adults.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's got to be some accountability that knows doubt it,
no doubt about us.
Speaker 3: Brian.
Speaker 4: Uh, go walk into your boss and tell them, you
know what, until this engineer gets this thing sounded better,
I ain't doing it anymore.
Speaker 3: I know. That's gonna go over very well.
Speaker 2: Great, Brian, we're gonna we're up against the break. But
real quick, give me a little preview of this game,
what b YU fans can expect from this TCU team,
and give me a h maybe a kind of a
prediction how this game plays out.
Speaker 4: Sure, I think TCU has obviously got to be good
defensively because b YU is gonna make shots. You gonna
make shots at home. I think tc won't be afraid
to run with the by U, So I think we
could have a fun game in store for us that way.
If TCU gets in any found trouble, they're not real
deep in a couple of spots, h So that that's
that's gonna be really important for them. But it's gonna
come down to can they weather the storm that that
you know is gonna I'm here in provo. Can they
handle the crowd in what that's like? So it's gonna
be interesting, you know. I think if tc you can
you know, if it's a close game at halftime, if
those first four minutes of the second half they could
survive that, I think we should have a phone down
to the wire.
Speaker 2: Follow Brian on x at Brian Estridge, ladies and gentlemen,
and check out his call. Uh if you want to
hear it from the other side. Where where can we
can we catch that call?
Speaker 3: Brian?
Speaker 4: The best easiest way is just to do it on
the Varsity app, so you cant go to the Varsity
app download listen stream.
Speaker 2: Nice Brian, Let's catch up again too. I loved this conversation.
I know we didn't get as much into the hoopstock
as I would have liked as you maybe you would
have liked, but I love chatting about this stuff, the
real the real issues in college athletics.
Speaker 3: Thank you so much.
Speaker 4: Let's let's solve the world's problems right here.
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Speaker 5: Richie Sanders was named the us BWA Oscar Robinson National
Player of the Week on Tuesday afternoon after leading the
eleventh three Cougars to a pair of wins last week.
But the twenty twenty five to twenty six season, the
USBWA continues as national Player of the Week program that
has been affiliated with the Oscar Robertson Trophy since two
thousand nine ten season. Prior to the twenty twenty four
to twenty five season, the USWBA had recognized just one
player a week. Each Tuesday during the regular season, the
board members will select five standouts from the thirty one
Division one conference players of the Week to be recognized.
This week's selections were chosen from a list of conference
that named a player of the week on Monday. Fresh
off of career high thirty one points against Arizona State,
Saunders recorded his second double double of the season and
third of his career, finishing with twenty four point cent
fourteen rebounds, six of those coming on the offensive glass.
The senior average twenty seven point five points and eleven
rebounds in the wins over Arizona stead in Utah while
shooting sixty five point five percent from the field and
fifty three point three percent from the three and seventy
five percent from the three point line. After going two
to seven and from three point range on Saturday, Ritchie
Sanders has made multiple three pointers in a career best
seven game stretch. During that stretch, the senior guard is
shooting forty four point nine percent from three point range,
including four games for three or more triples.
Speaker 1: The Cougars that won twenty straight games.
Speaker 5: A llegiate halftime after holding on to defeat Utah on
Saturday evening. They also won their sixty eighth three game
when leading with five minutes left in regulation.
Speaker 3: Number eleven.
Speaker 5: BOYU returns in action tonight to defend its twelve game
win streak against the TCU Horn Froggs at the Marriott Center.
Tip Off the schedule for nine pm, Mountains Center Time,
and the game will be on ESPN two.
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