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Speaker 1: Let's ask my friend rig guett Is, who's on the

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line with us now from San Antonio, Rita.

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Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't want to give you an answer.

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I have an answer for you.

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Speaker 1: But when you played and your teammates played, I fell

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in love with college basketball with Fiasama Jamas. So as

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I know, the ending didn't go away that you wanted to.

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I'll never forget those times. That's when I fell in

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love with college basketball. You had the greatest time of

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your life as a young adult. So while the new

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memories that are being made hopefully tonight, will be everlasting

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for us, I'm not going to forget about the great

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times of the eighties.

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Speaker 2: I don't think you and your teammates will either.

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Speaker 3: You know, it's interesting, mad because I've had a lot

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of people say, oh, does this, you know, does this

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erase the loss?

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Speaker 4: And does this?

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Speaker 3: And the answer is no, this has got nothing to

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do with it. You know, man, last night in the stands,

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you know, my family, we were talking to Otis bird

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Song and the teams he played on and Sweet Lou Dunbar,

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and then a team comes in and this is about

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you know, one thing I agree about with it, which

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caller just said, I mean, this is this is undoubtedly

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the golden age of Houston basketball, and.

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Speaker 4: What Kelvin has done over the last you.

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Speaker 3: Know, he's talking about a storybook ending in eleven years,

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but the last seven years have been you know, everyone

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goes around on the word unprecedented a lot. It's been unprecedented.

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The number of Sweet sixteens, you know, consecutive Sweet sixteens,

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and the fact this is our second Final four, you know,

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in a handful of years. It's absolutely remarkable. And what

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Kelvin has done has done an exceedingly great job at

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is making all of us feel like we're part of

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this program. So I guarantee it, if you ask Sweet Lou,

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or you asked Otis, or you ask anybody, we feel

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a part of this team and this program and these kids.

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And these kids will be remembered after that game Saturday,

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These kids will be remembered by U of H fans

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forty five years from now. Your son's going to have

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a radio show, you know, and Juwan Roberts is going

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to be talking, you know, about this team in this run,

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in that game, and it's just I've never seen anything

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like that game Saturday. I just kept looking at my

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wife and son, going, I don't even know what I

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just saw.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I can't play it back.

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Speaker 3: I can't play it back.

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Speaker 4: In my mind and put it together.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll be brutally honest with you.

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Speaker 1: I was in San Francisco with a bunch of Rockets

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people who said, hey, let's go, let's go watch the

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game together, and they could tell when they what was

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what was duke'siggous LEA fourteen I had some of it,

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just kind.

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Speaker 3: Of fourteen with nine minutes to go, and nine with

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six minutes to go, and yeah with thirty. I mean,

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it was just unbelievable.

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Speaker 1: And I don't know if it was that the Cougars

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walk up or Duke didn't practice a normal inbounds play.

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There are strange things about practice as readA you've been

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a part of it as a coach, as an instructor,

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as a player, that the mundane things that you go

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through and practice it, you're like, why are we doing

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this over and over again? I felt like there were.

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Speaker 2: Some things attention to detail that Kelvin put into.

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Speaker 1: Play with his kids through out the course of the

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year that a lot of schools, and I'll frankly put

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Duke in the mix weren't prepared for on Saturday night.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, let me tell you something. It was the greatest

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X and O game plan by Duke maybe I've ever

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seen in a college basketball game. They absolutely eliminated every

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strength we had. There was not one single on the

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ball screen where they put their ball handler in a

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pressure situation where they were getting blitzed and double teamed.

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to the post with his back to the basket. Those

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are the two things that we are the absolute best at.

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They did not do it a single time. Where they

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got caught was guess what we haven't done maybe all year,

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is full court press. There's no way for them to

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have talked about it. There's no way for them to

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have prepared about it. And man did they tucker when

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they couldn't get that ball in bounds, you know, John Lee,

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it was just it was awesome. And you know, we

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I talking about how happy we were for Jojo. That

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the lasting memory, you know, wasn't the fact that he

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got over excited and slapped the ball out of the

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inbounder's hands. Then he turns around and blocks the shot

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and gets the put back dunk, and it's just it's

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just unbelievable.

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Speaker 1: I forgot to bring that up. When do you ever

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see a technical foul assess like that? I mean, first

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of all, it was the right call. I'm not begrudging

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the call. But strange things in front of forty thousand people,

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eat a big dome stadiums make you do crazy things.

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Speaker 4: You know. It's funny.

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Speaker 3: I haven't seen that call in probably twenty years. But

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when I was, you know, Coach Lewis had me in

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a position where I was the designated inbounder. I always

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stuck the ball out over the line to give the

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guy a chance to slap it out of my hands

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while you're watching the play develop, you know, pump fake

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or stick it out there and see if you're getting

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to react and flap it. And Joejoe is just such

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a bundle of electricity, you know. I just I was

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so happy that that wasn't that wasn't his takeaway memory?

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Speaker 1: When did you get to the game and do how

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much do you have the Florida games you see in person?

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for the second one.

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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, no, we saw all of it.

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Speaker 1: And I mentioned this to franf for Schemlos with US

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a little bit ago. That's a Florida basketball team. And

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don't really focus on anything except my couter when it

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comes to college troops.

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Speaker 2: But I did see him in the tournament.

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Speaker 1: Their final ten minutes of games, and I'm talking about

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three and four games. As tournament, they become a different

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basketball team. I don't know if they implode.

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Speaker 2: Like Duke did two nights ago.

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Speaker 1: So maybe you don't want to let it be in

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a situation where you fall behind by that, because that's

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a squad that can put up ten street points at

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about a two minute stretch.

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Speaker 4: Well, they were unbelievable.

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Speaker 3: And you know, look, Cooper Flag was undoubtedly player of

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the year, and the Jeni Broome kids from Auburn was

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right there. But but if Walter Clayton Junior wasn't like

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like fractions of a vote behind those guys, he is unbelievable.

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the deal I'll say about this this team. Duke made

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you know, four seven footers, but those guys aren't difference makers.

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our perimeter defenders up against anybody in the country. I

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Taylor wad only guard. Only guard in the last ten years,

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against this Other than that, I can't remember remember of

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us us getting beat by a perimeter oriented team.

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Speaker 2: Well, so I don't want to wait this long.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't want to wait this long until until

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seeing Manual Sharp hit those jumpers. I need a quick

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start for Uzanne. I need Sharp to find this shot.

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it in Kelvin's face.

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Speaker 2: It was like, I'm not coaching. Who is this team

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I'm coaching out there?

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Speaker 1: Because the first eight minutes looked like they completely were

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shell shocked with the entire experience.

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Speaker 3: Well, well, I don't know about that as much as

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it highlights the importance of what Milos Juzan has developed into.

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He picked up the style trouble and we played how

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many minutes at least twelve minutes, maybe fourteen minutes in

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the first half without Milos, and then he comes in

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the second half. And I was concerning a lot of

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times kids sit that long and they don't come out

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and meant and play, And he came out on fire.

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So I don't know, you know who knows. It's an

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incredible and let me just tell them. In all my

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years around you, of h I have never ever seen

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anything approach the fans and the excitement, the number of fans,

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the pure joy, it's almost indescribable. What was going on

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in the stands during that game?

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Speaker 1: Well, friend, I don't know where I'm sitting, but if

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I find you a'll buy you some fried food.

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Speaker 2: Are you okay with that?

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Speaker 3: I'm good with that. Hey, listen, let me tell you

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one quick story. My sweet wife just came out dressed

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for the game. She has on her bag.

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Speaker 4: A polka dotted handkerchief. How great is that? You know?

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Speaker 2: Me tell you something.

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Speaker 1: I know you've been married a long time, but y'all

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are still freaks, and I think that's so hot that

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you guys are having that kind of romanticism in your life,

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this late in your life.

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Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, I just you know, nothing she could

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have done. I teared up, and she goes, oh my gosh,

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are you emotional? I says, yes, I am. So that's

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the greatest thing I've ever seen. Taken a poka dotted

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handkerchief into a national champ ship game is pretty great.

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Speaker 1: Well, I'm so glad you're here. I'm so glad that

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miss is here, your kids are here. And like I said,

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I don't know if I'll see you. There's only about twenty.

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Speaker 2: Five thousand of us in the building tonight, so I

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don't know where we're going. Eybody's gonna be.

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Speaker 3: But uh, well, set today we hugged all. We hugged

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all twenty thousand, so I'm sure we'll find you.

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Speaker 1: Okay, thank you friend for all your time coming on,

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and I look forward to finding you somehow someway tonight.

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Speaker 4: Okay, brother's talk to you later.

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Speaker 2: Talk to you later. That's read get us Friend of

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Speaker 1: Great broadcaster for ESPN Plus on the Cougar Broadcast eleven