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All right, let's welcome in the six for two two

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hundred pound quarterback out of Huntsville, Texas. We got Steve

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Klements on the line. Steve, how the heck are you buddy.

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Speaker 4: Outstanding? How are you buddy.

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Speaker 3: Doing awesome, doing fantastic? When you were growing up, what

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was the rhetoric surrounding Texas Tech? What do you remember

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about Texas Tech when you were growing up? Uh?

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Speaker 5: Well, in Texas similar to here, there were two teams.

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Speaker 4: It was Texas and Texas A and M.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, there are other colleges TCU, s m U, Texas

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Tech Old Southwest Conference. But you're either a Texas Van

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or Texas A and M fan, either a BUYU fan

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or Utah fan.

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Speaker 1: So it was a much stock around Texas Tech. So

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you see.

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Speaker 4: School there or whatever.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, you see what's happening with the Red

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Raiders right now. And I think it's a surprise to

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a lot of people that they are one of the

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best teams in college football and they've invested at such

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a high level within that college football landscape.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, and I think they're they're more of a surprise

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because typically you know, coach Maguire, who I believe about

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ten or twelve years ago, came up here and when

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he was a coach at Cedar Hill High School there

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in Dallas area.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and.

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Speaker 4: Like they were world beaters, man, Like they were legit.

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Every year they're playing for state championship.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, and you typically a high school head football coach

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doesn't have the success that he's had at Texas Tech

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making that jump, and so I think that adds to

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the surprising nature of this team generally speaking, just because

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of his lack of experience in the college game. He

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goes right from high school granted, one of the better

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high school programs in the whole state of Texas, which is,

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as we know, is the predominant religion down in that state.

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But yeah, it's it's very surprising because it's Texas Tech.

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Texas Tech is known has been really known for Yeah,

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there's number fifteen for the Kansas City Chiefs. Helps Texas

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Tech have a name. But you know, before that they

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were they'd win more than they lost, you know, Mike

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Leach with their offense, their air raid offense started to

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put them on the map a little bit more. But

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as far as the consistency, they haven't been really consistent,

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you know, where they've been a top ten, top fifteen

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ranked team consistently year after year after year. Now that's changing.

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I think coach MacGuire, it's a testament to him and

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to have sustainability with obviously the things that he's putting together,

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Speaker 4: Oddly enough.

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Speaker 5: Or interestingly enough, he started his career at North Crowley

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High School in the Fort Worth area as a defensive

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line coach and then you look at their defensive line

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and what are they ranked, and I think it's number

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one rush defense in the nation.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and everybody talks about their defensive line.

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Speaker 5: Well, I mean that's how he started, that's the position

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he started coaching in his career.

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Speaker 4: That spanns you know, decades and decades.

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Speaker 5: Uh so probably not a surprise that that's one of

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the strong suits.

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Speaker 4: But Texas Tech has always been known for their offense,

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never for their defense.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's just you knew you were going to get

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into a track meet with those dudes, and uh now

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they they've kind of flipped the script little. There's still

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a high fired offense, they're averaging over thirty points a game,

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but uh, it's their defense that people are going, Wait

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where did this come from?

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Speaker 4: They've always been known, you know, Patrick Mahomes, their.

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Speaker 5: Raid offense, offense offense, and all of a sudden, they're

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stopping people on defense.

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Speaker 4: And so but I'm excited, man, I'm looking forward to it.

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Speaker 3: Well, what's crazy, He's like very few, as you mentioned,

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very few coaches at the high school ranks get an

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opportunity to go to the college ranks. And even when

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they do get to the college ranks. It's not like

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they're they become head coaches at the FBS level, at

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the G sixth level or at the P four level.

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He got in with with I think coach Rule there

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at Baylor as a tight ends coach after being at

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Cedar Hill High School from what ninety seven to twenty

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and sixteen, right like that's when I mean that was

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the heyday where he was just balling out, winning state

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championship after state championship. So coach Rule brought him on

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and he was with Baylor through twenty and twenty one,

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even with the transition to the Dave Randa staff, and

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then finally got his opportunity to be the head coach

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of Texas Tech, which is pretty insane. You need a

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collective group of high school football head coaches to come

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together and influence an athletic director to hire a former,

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I think a former high school coach that made his

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way through the you know, the assistant coaching world.

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Speaker 1: There's a lot of advocates.

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Speaker 3: There was a lot of advocacy there in the state

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of Texas or Joy McGuire to be the guy, and

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there's a huge, huge community that wants him to succeed,

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not only at Texas Tech, but I think in the

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entire state of Texas.

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Speaker 4: Well, one hundred.

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Speaker 5: Because of it's such a big deal down in Texas

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high school football.

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Speaker 4: I'm talking about in football in general.

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Speaker 1: And you coached high school football in Texas for how long.

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Speaker 5: I was down there between seven and twenty thirteen, so

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what six?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? Enough years you grew up there, wouldn't you say.

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Speaker 3: There's a lot of high school football coaches, ig level

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high high school fotball coaches that kind of feel that

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they could coach at the collegiate level if given the chance.

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Speaker 4: Yes, and they could.

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Speaker 5: And but just like anybody else, especially coach maguire. Even

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though so he goes from high school head coach to

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an assistant college but only for five or five years,

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and he becomes a head football coach at a major

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Division one program. That doesn't happened. But boy, they kind

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of run those programs almost small colleges anyway. I mean,

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the stadiums, in the locker rooms and the weight rooms

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are bigger than a lot of small Division I college

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football programs and athletic departments.

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Speaker 4: It's it's kind of insane.

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Speaker 5: Now, the property taxes are through the roof there's no

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state income tax, so they're allowed to put a lot

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of money into the schools and the stadiums and the

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weight rooms and the everything that involved around athletics down

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there in the high schools. And so yeah, there's a foundation.

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There's quite a bit of a foundation for a head

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football coach.

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Speaker 4: The resources that if he makes.

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Speaker 5: The jump, it's not quite the gap that you would

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see maybe from other states that don't have those same

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type of resources. And so but he's done it very

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successfully and really relatively quickly based on history of that

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happening before him. Uh, and that's just a testament to

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him and how he runs his runs a ship and

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and it's it's impressive. And you know, you always if

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you're from from Texas, you always gonna root for Texas

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teams until they run up against your Alma manor Sure,

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but yeah, I've always wanted Texas Tech and TCU and

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s m U and Texas Not so much Texas A

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and M because that's that's a different story. But everybody

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else you want to see do well, you know, so

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uh but uh, yeah, it's good stuff.

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Speaker 1: Well.

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Speaker 3: Steve Klemens here on ESPN The Fan talking to BYU

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Texas Tech.

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Speaker 1: How do you see this game playing out?

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Speaker 3: What stands out to you in your scatling report on

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the Red Raiders. What will ultimately differentiate uh b YU

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in this game in order to come out as winners.

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Speaker 5: Well, I think the first thing, it's gonna be the

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first quarter and a half. What that looks like at

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the end of the first quarter, there's by you get

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Speaker 4: Really their traditional slow start. Obviously they I think again

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it's Iowa State again. The hangover I think.

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Speaker 5: Bled into the first half of Iowa State, and we

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struggled both offensively and defensively a little bit and then

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took coach yard at halftime and right of the ship

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and Texas Tech does most of their damage in the

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first quarter. Now, we've given up a lot defensively. Now

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it's not a whole heck of a lot, but where

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we're we've been most vulnerable defensively has been the first quarter.

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Speaker 4: In the scoring allowed in the first quarter.

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Speaker 5: So I think that I believe we're thirty five and oh,

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if we score first, I think something like that. So

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if we score first, we've got a really good shot.

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And I think if we just at least keep it

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close and be able to manage the game plan. I

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think it's going to be a lower scoring game. I

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think it's going to be just like similar to Utah

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Where's that, you know, in the twenties, and it's going

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to go back and forth. But I don't know if

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anybody can then score in the forties because both defenses

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are so dang good. So but I think the first

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quarter coming out and not necessarily a quick start, but

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a little bit quicker than normal.

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Speaker 4: I think with a week off, you may see something.

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Speaker 5: I think a Rod does really good on the triggeration plays.

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Oh yeah, having an extra week, so you may see

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that early in the game.

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Speaker 4: I don't know.

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Speaker 5: That's just a guess of mine, but I will say this,

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And we talked last week about the importance of the

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Iowa State game to me, I think being one of

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the biggest bigger wins that we've had this season, if

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not the biggest win because of beating the arrival, not

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putting all our eggs in the basket, and going over

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to Iowa State and laying an egg no pun intended,

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like we did last year after we beat or Utah

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and then we lost the next two games, and so

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I think that was a maturity thing, and a maturity

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win by not just the players, but the staff too.

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I think this team is different because of that, and

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so it's going to be interesting. And I feel so

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much better going into this game knowing that Iowa State

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has already happened and you're playing in a ruckets crowd

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and college game day and all the hooplaw. But on

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Wednesday's practice, I think in the past, if I've gone

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to a Wednesday practice, it'd be it'd be a lot

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looser than it was.

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Speaker 4: Man, I'm telling you. They were locked in. They were focused.

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Speaker 5: They knew what the stakes were on this coming Saturday tomorrow,

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and they practiced like it. They weren't just going through

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Speaker 4: There was a purpose to.

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Speaker 5: Every rep, to every throw, to every tackle, to every.

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Speaker 5: And I think that's that I've seen a difference there

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a little bit more I don't want to say undisciplined.

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focus mentality. This is not just for Big twelve, but

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this is national implications this game on Saturday. Now, granted

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they still think they can get in the playoffs, if

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they split, if they go three and one and even

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lose one here in the next four games, I don't

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know if two losses gets his end.

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Speaker 4: But I don't know how stranger things have happened.

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Speaker 5: Uh, but I do think that this is a different

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team because they're they're they're their makeup psychologically to me

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is the big difference maker between years of.

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Speaker 4: Past and this, uh is Kalani's tenth year. I'd be all, you.

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Speaker 3: Pretty crazy to see what Kilane is accomplishing in year ten,

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building a championship program something that, uh, you'll be we

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guysn't really haven't been able to able to get over

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the hump, right, Like even in the ninety six, uh

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ninety six season, two thousand and one, season six O

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seven nine twenty twenty yard Shore versus Coast Carolina twenty

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twenty one lost a couple of heartbreakers, right you know

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your era, I don't know, like you know when you

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ponder on your ear, like just couldn't get over the

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hump in order to get into those New Year's Bowl

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New Year's Bowl games and you know, sit at the

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top with the food chain and be elite once again.

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We've always been great since nineteen seventy two, and we

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were elite maybe in nineteen eighty four, eighty five and

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those early eighties, but it's time now. It feels like

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the glory days may be back. Do you think YU

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can get over the hump this year? Do they have

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the horses, do they have the coaches, do they have

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the culture?

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Speaker 5: I think they checked, yes, I think they check all

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three boxers with the talent level and not just the

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talent level, but the maturity of the talent level a

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little bit older.

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Speaker 4: A lot of guys are back from last year.

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Speaker 3: Now.

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Speaker 5: We haven't talked about the freshman little phenom in the

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backfield wearing number forty seven.

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Speaker 4: We will, and that's probably probably.

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Speaker 5: An anomaly, but I think everything was set up and

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in place for him there to be successful, because you're

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coming in with an outstanding defensive coordinator who's now had

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the range for three years and now he's implemented all.

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Speaker 4: Of the things that he likes.

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Speaker 5: He's put a stamp on that side of the ball,

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meaning Jay Hill. And when you have I'm telling you

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as a signal caller to have a defense like we

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have right now, Boy, it just alleviates a lot of

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pressure that you might otherwise feel if Indeed, back in

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the day in the nineties, Chow would come up every

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Monday and get up in front of the room and go, hey,

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we've got to score forty seven points this year or

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this week, because you know the guys in the next

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room are going to give up forty five.

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Speaker 4: And he would just call it lucky.

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Speaker 5: See that we struggle defensively back in the in the

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early nineties, and he would say he would give us

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a number every Monday. Okay, we got to score forty two.

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We got to score fifty two because their offense is

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really good and we have we struggle stopping people.

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Speaker 4: So on the floor.

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Speaker 5: So that puts a lot of pressure on the offense

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and especially the quarterback because you know you almost have

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to score every possession.

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Speaker 4: Bear doesn't have to do that.

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Speaker 5: And with a defense like that, and then the cultures,

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it's just the foundation of everything and the culture. To me,

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I saw it firsthand on Wednesday, based on the Wednesday practice,

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which is the lighter practice. But it's it's not a

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light practice. It's not a light in any form or fashion.

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It was business. They knew what they were what Saturday

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meant and everything was with purpose and attention in the

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detail from the drills to seven on seven that to

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every thing that they did, there was a purpose and

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that comes from Kilani and that comes from a staff

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that is now finding itself and has been here now.

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Speaker 4: For a little bit together.

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Speaker 5: I think what made us so good BYU, but we

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never got over the hump was the sustainability of all

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the coaches. I mean, coaches were here twenty twenty five,

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thirty years and that obviously proved dividends being consistent like that,

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and so I really do think the talent, the culture

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stands to get us over the hump this year. And

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it's sustainable.

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Speaker 3: Ye Tooble, just like a onele this is not just

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one year.

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Speaker 4: No, no, it's not.

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Speaker 5: And we're lucky and we're gonna be lucky because I

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think some of the Iowa states of the world of

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people like that, they're gonna have that one year every

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five or six yep. And we've had that really to

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a point the years that you just mentioned. But I

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really do think everything's coming together to have this be

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sustainable starting you know, really the last couple of years,

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but especially the last two years, and to be that

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have that now as the expectation, which puts a lot

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more pressure on Claude.

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Speaker 4: But what's as fine. I think he'll take that.

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Speaker 5: He'll take that pressure versus just trying to get to

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a freaking bowl game every year.

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Speaker 3: Well, quota so that you know over the last sixty

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years is eight wins. That's would be what you average is.

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So that's quota in any given year. It's not bowl game,

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it's it's it's eight wins. So I'm wondering if that

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quota will continue into the P four era, where you know,

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now year three and you went five and seven, then

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eleven and two, and now you're on a trajectory to

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possibly surpass eleven wins depending on what happens here on

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the back end of the schedule. But I mean last year,

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a known you lost a few games on the back end.

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We'll see what happens. But one of the reasons why

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most PLI fans are very optimistic is because the true

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freshman Bear Bachmeyer, the god damn centaur, you know, the

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the air bear, the what is the bear forty seven?

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The days of forty seven? Because he's leading by U

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two glory in victory right now. His stoicism, his running ability,

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his throwing ability.

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Speaker 1: He does it all.

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Speaker 3: And you called him the right handed, better throwing tim

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Tebow and everyone just was there was weeping, wailing, gnashing

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of teeth, all manner of criticism heaped on you. Yeah,

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but you've been validated at SAMs. You've been maybe even

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vindicated here. What do you like about Bear right now

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and how he's playing?

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Speaker 5: I think the older I get, the more I tend

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to focus on neck up rather than neck down and

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fundamentals and athleticism and talent, because he has all that,

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but it's his ability to whether he makes a bad

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player a good play. He's always thinking about the next

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play and being present and so getting back to a

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calmness about him because he never he can't really tell

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a lot of times if he indeed threw a touchdown

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pass or left over a guy or threw a pick

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or from the ball, because he's so even keeled, And

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that's a lot of times.

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Speaker 4: Talent will separate all the time.

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Speaker 5: But then it's the ability to overcome or handle adversity,

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and how do you do that? How do you react

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to things that don't go your way or things you

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want to go your way?

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Speaker 4: How do you react to that?

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Speaker 5: But at the same time, we always forget how about

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those times that.

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Speaker 4: We're on a high.

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Speaker 5: How how quickly can we get back to normalcy or

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even kill about our mentality and our psychology? Because so what, Okay,

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you threw a touchdown pass. Now what you still you

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still got to finish the game, right. You can't get

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all up jacked up and go yeah, I'm I'm the dude,

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I'm the man and forget oh yeah, we've still got

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three quarters left to play. So it's it's his ability

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to get back to evenness, as I.

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Speaker 4: Would call it.

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Speaker 5: And and he just performed that a high level in

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all facets.

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Speaker 4: You see, maybe you just got a three on your

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passing game after and again I think.

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Speaker 5: That was the biggest win of the year, going to

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Iowa State after beating Utah and having the game that

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he did through the air. So now Texas, tex Yeah,

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the dude can throw now too well crap, okay, crap,

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because we had something for him if he was just

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gonna run. But now Bear in the big Blue House

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can throw the ball, so we we gotta, we gotta

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And then what's your name? JoJo's coming back? Yeah, So Yeah,

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they're gonna have and then you know, Parker is just

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every every week is getting better and better.

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Speaker 4: And so yeah, they've.

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Speaker 5: Got some weapons outside of number four and number forty

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seven on the ground, and of course the unsign heroes

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are always going to be the officers lineman.

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Speaker 4: That's the backbone of the team is I would always.

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Speaker 3: Sayest this week at the high level, they're gonna be

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test will big time.

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Speaker 1: This is their biggest testing season.

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Speaker 4: Yep.

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Speaker 5: Man, it's gonna be a knocked down drag out and

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we're ready for it. I'm telling you. Wednesday, I saw

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some things that I was really fired up about, and

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that was the professionalism and the going on a business trip.

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Speaker 4: As they say, that's that's what they're doing.

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Speaker 5: It's it's not. They're not going on a site season.

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You're not going sight seeing in Lubbock, Texas. Sorry, ain't nothing.

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Speaker 1: There, ain't nothing. What about Huntsville? Is there anything in Huntsville?

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Speaker 4: Yeah? I mean at least we got to state prison. Everybody.

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Speaker 3: Okay, this's gracious oh man. Steve Clement's ladies and gentlemen,

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former b y U quarterback talking ball with us today.

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A great segment. Man, appreciate you hopping on? You heading out?

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Are you staying?

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Speaker 1: Are you staying here in Utah?

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Speaker 3: No?

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Speaker 5: I like to be able to see my bathroom and

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my fridge at the same time, so I'm will stay.

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Speaker 1: Here, all right. I love it man.

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Speaker 3: Well, always a pleasure talking ball with you. Give me

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a score prediction. How does this game play out?

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Speaker 5: I'm gonna go.

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Speaker 4: I'm gonna go twenty three to twenty one.

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Speaker 3: Cougs, Let's go close one, a gritty one out in Lubbock.

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You be what you gets the dub per Steve Clement Clements,

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Thanks so much. Steve always appreciate her time together in

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our weekly segments keeping up with the Cougars.

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Speaker 4: See dude, all right, there you go.

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