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Speaker 1: Just like the Cougar football team, Ben Criddle was built,

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it's not born, and since two thousand and nineties built

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himself into the go to source on the radio and

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online for all Thys Cougars. This is Cougar Sports with

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Ben Krittle on one O three nine ninety three ESPN

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Speaker 2: Welcome back Cougar Sports one of three nine ninety for

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Speaker 3: I bet Critle broadcasting from our swig location just south

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think I got a I got a I guess it's

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so you can come get a swig as well as

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you get prep get ready for this BYU Utah rivalry game.

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We're gonna welcome in Drake Toll here in a few minutes.

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But also we just had a celebrity join us. That's right,

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a former BYU great baller, shot caller, one of my

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favorite receivers of the modern era. And so we're gonna

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welcome in him in here momentarily to get us prep,

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get us ready for this rivalry game. But guys, this

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rivalry game is special. I've played in it twice and

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some of the best memories I've had as a college

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football player. Luckily for me, I'm two and zero all

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time against the Utes. And it feels good to be

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undefeated against the University of Utah. It feels fantastic to

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be undefeated against the University of Utah. And I just

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want you know this, this two game winning streak to

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be extended to three games.

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Speaker 2: Why is it so important?

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Speaker 3: Well, I believe Kyle Whittingham is on the brink of retirement.

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Speaker 2: I think we all know that. I think we all

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kind of feel that.

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Speaker 3: I think it's been even prognosticated from insiders up in

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Salt Lake City that Kyle Whittingham is eventually going to retire,

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but he's got to get a win versus BYU. And

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why does he need to win versus Buia? I believe

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this is my thesis that his legacy at the University

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of Utah is the greatest coach in Utah football history,

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was built more so off of his dominance over BYU

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than it was his successful winning ways, double digit win seasons,

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bowl games, and high level like individual team achievements. Okay,

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I think his legacy as a head coach has built

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more so off with the rivalry game and his dominance

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over his neighbor than it was, you know, comparative to

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his team's success in the postseason, his team success in

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bowl games, his double digit win seasons.

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Speaker 2: And I'm gonna ride on that till I die.

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Speaker 3: I'm telling you, I believe that, and that's that's the

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reason why he's got to go out as.

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Speaker 2: A victor in this rivalry game.

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Speaker 3: If they don't get a win at Lovell tonight, I

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think Kyle's trying to come back for another season. He

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cannot go down three straight to the BYU Cougars. He

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cannot go down three straight to his alma mater. Why

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because his legacy is built off of the rivalry game period,

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and even if it's still lopsided wins losses, the momentum

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is too stark. The momentum is too tremendous for him

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to step away. So you could see Kyle Whittingham come

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back in twenty twenty six if he doesn't get a

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win under the.

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Speaker 2: Lights of level.

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Speaker 3: All right, let's welcome in former BYU great six foot three, two.

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Speaker 2: Hundred and ten pound.

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Speaker 3: Wide receiver out of the great state Arizona, my home state,

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the Valley the Sun. Let's welcome in Darius Lasser DL. No,

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not on the d L tonight. Looking good, baby, Appreciate it.

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Appreciate you for having me.

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Speaker 2: Dude.

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Speaker 3: How beautiful is this setting, This scenery, clear skies, snowcap mountains, sunny,

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six pm kickoff.

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Speaker 2: This is what it's all about. This is what college

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football is all about.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, it's it's always that's always the thing

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I always remember out here. Just if you especially plan,

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you'll have your stadium right next to moullains with the

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snow on top and then having the scenery and then

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the leaves and the trees and everything like that.

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Speaker 5: So it's just great to be back out here.

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Speaker 3: Well, you know, what words of advice can you give

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to these young bucks that are gonna be playing in

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this game tonight under the lights of Lavell if you

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had their listening ears, what would you tell them pregame?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I'll probably I'll just tell them just yeah,

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the rival game and things like that, and you never

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want to lose to your little brothers, So I just

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tell them go out there and give everything you got,

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but that don't try to do nothing extra, don't try

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to make a special highlight plays. Just let them come

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to you. Just do everything that Coligne coaching staff has

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got you up to this point, because it's got you

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six and zer right now. So uh, just just follow

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the script, believe in the guys that you're playing with,

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and then everything's gonna take care of yourself.

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Speaker 3: You've you got to play one of these games. Yeah,

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oh twenty and it was at Rice Ackle. What do

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you recall about that that that game last season?

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Speaker 5: I can't lie. It was loud in there. It was loud.

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Speaker 4: I mean it don't get it's not like less but

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it was. It was close though, for sure. But just

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just having the their fans bark at you all game

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and then uh, to send them home like that will

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come and dude doing this thing and uh sending us

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home with a victory is just it was just great,

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like the you just you kind of you kind of

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can't stop smiling after a win like that, and uh,

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I don't think I don't think nobody stopped smiling even

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to the next morning.

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Speaker 3: So how how bad do the University of Utah defensive

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backs hold comparative to other defensive backs in college football?

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Speaker 5: I don't know we should ask Jojo that question. You know.

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Speaker 4: Uh, they kind of they kind of trying to trying

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to take my man out last year.

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Speaker 3: So but I feel like, I mean, DB's hold, I'm

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a dB ahold Like I'm gonna get up, I'm gonna

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grab the rest, I'm gonna grab the hip, I'm gonna

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grab anything I can grab.

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna devate you off your out, no doubt.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I feel like but just uh, they got they

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got long dv's over there. So I feel like anytime

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you along DV and somebody getting that show space, you're

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gonna use that length to graph. So I feel like, uh,

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they do it the average dB amount, But I'm glad

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they did it last year.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, no doubt about it. It did help it in

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that drive.

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Speaker 3: But still, I mean even after that, they had to

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stop a b YU offense from driving down to get

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in the field goal range. And so as you listen

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to the complaints of Utah fans media members say, oh man,

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they you know, even their head coach, even their a

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Speaker 2: That was wild what happened last year.

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Speaker 5: It was crazy.

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Speaker 4: I mean I've never seen anything like that me neither,

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like because like we so fixated on watching the kick

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return to run around and pass the ball all around,

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and turns out he was walking on the field as

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they was trying to go score. But what would have

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happened if they actually was able to get a return

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back and then he was on the field.

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Speaker 5: Like I mean, so.

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Speaker 4: It's a it's a fun game though, Like I feel like,

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whether they won't admit it or we do, we need

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this rivalry, Like I like seeing out the little chatter

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going between the fans on Twitter, both for both sides,

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because like that's what you're kind of needing us. So

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but when they keep everything like you know what I'm saying,

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at a at a friendly, a little chatted level, everything

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is cool.

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Speaker 3: So we had Big Newton kickoff here earlier today. Obviously

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you were a part of that last year spectacle in

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Big Newton Kickoff coming in for the U of a game.

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Speaker 2: How special is that?

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Speaker 3: I mean b YU obviously has always been a prominent

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premiere program. Only recently have they been put on a

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pedestal of P four status.

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Speaker 2: How cool is it to see.

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Speaker 3: Now the world kind of being recognizing even even more

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the power that that BYU football brings, that you guys

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can compete at a high level, that b y U

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is a premier college football program.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I felt like that was also one of the

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reasons why I came here.

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Speaker 5: Out of the portal. I knew, uh oh snap, yeah.

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Speaker 3: We're getting attacked because of all this delicious food over here. Yeah,

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you know, and so that then that the bees come

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flowing into our tail game.

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Speaker 4: But I knew this was the place I wanted to be,

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just kind of talking with them, the coaching staff, and

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them telling me like there's gonna be the my first

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year here was gonna be the first year of us

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going to an actual conference, and I just kind of

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wanted to show everybody like I want to be a

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part of Okay, b Yu can play with these other

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teams and just go out there and just compete at

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a high level. And I feel like we showed that

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my first year a little bit. We had like a

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lot of games to slip away from us, Like it's

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not like teams was just beating on us every every time.

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So then we had something to prove that whole winter

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summer as well, and then we went out there last

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year proved.

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Speaker 5: It to ourselves.

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Speaker 4: That was our big focus, to prove to ourselves that

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we could go out there and play with these guys

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and we belong here. And we kind of we kind

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of did the things we wanted to do, not everything

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we wanted to do. We had we had bigger dreams

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of going Arlington and playing the big Toal championship, but

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uh that's just that just says you the mindset of

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the guys around here, Like we wasn't we weren't settling

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for second, second, spot, third, whatever, and uh, we we

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want to we want to be that top dog. We

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wanted to play everybody on notice, and we wanted to

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Speaker 5: Part of that.

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Speaker 4: Uh that first that first college football playoffs racket.

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Speaker 5: So that was our mindset going into the year.

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Speaker 3: You always got ticket has to take care of business tonight.

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Know if sands or butts about it. Yeah, last year,

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you guys, you guys got to win, and there was

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a little some people would say, hey, there's a little

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bit of a hangover sometimes that can happen after a

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big game. Right, there was consecutive losses close ones Kansas

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and ASU. If b y, you get to win tonight

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versus this team, you can't have a drop off on

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the back end if you want to do special things, right,

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because if you want to go to Arlington, you know

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you gotta focus on the next game, et cetera.

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Speaker 2: So how can you avoid that, right?

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Speaker 3: Uh, that that type of hangover if you do get

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a win in the rivalry game, I.

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Speaker 5: Feel like.

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Speaker 4: You got to just be able to move on from big,

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big degrees like that. I feel like, uh, last year,

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the rivalry games just coming back, everybody's decided to do

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stuff for it and we won and everything, but everybody

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telling us, how great we were and everything like that.

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about Utah and like how we played them and everything

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like that. But and we try to move on, but

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you kind of have it like sitting in the back

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of your mind, like, yeah, we just we just went

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down and went up there and went to go beat

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them and everything like that. So we kind of didn't

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Speaker 5: And uh, the.

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Speaker 4: Score was what it was, but we also left a

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lot of players out there, a lot of close players

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out there that kind of just determined that game. And

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I feel like in the Big twelve, like anybody can

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win at any time, it don't matter. Like, yeah, Kansas

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was on like a little losing slump at a time,

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but they were still really good football team, and we

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kind of just didn't go out there and head of business.

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Speaker 5: The way that we should have.

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Speaker 3: You got to keep your mind right and you got

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to stay present. You look too far ahead, you stumble right.

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That's just how it goes. And b YU, I think

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is focused on this game. Obviously. This is a huge

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game for BYU in a number of ways. I think

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for recruiting for recruiting right now in state, Utah's putting

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out a lot of recruits. That kid that we just interviewed,

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four star kid out of the state of Utah, Ridgeline

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High School, He's gonna choose between maybe BYU and Utah

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or Texas or Tennessee. Some of these other out of

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state schools are coming in hard too, But you want

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to keep those guys in state. You want to keep

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them at least regional, right b YU needs to be

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able to tap into a Z needs to be able

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to tap into you know, maybe certain areas of Nevada

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in southern California, so you can keep it regional. Parents

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can come to games. There's a good pitch for that,

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even from a regional standpoint. My nephew from Chandler, he's

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playing right now for b yu's a little tinged up.

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Speaker 2: He won't be playing in this game.

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Speaker 3: But like, parents like that too, and I know your

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family like coming up out that.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, my mom loved that, just as mean me being

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in Michigan for uh one year after.

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Speaker 2: That, She's like, you gotta get out of here.

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Speaker 5: I gotta Yeah.

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Speaker 4: I was like, I hated I hated try, I hated

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it coming home myself.

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Speaker 5: There's like a five hour flight. So I'm like, yeah,

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I can't keep doing this. And so.

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Speaker 4: Once I realized how close by you was, well, I

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didn't know where BYU was at first I can't lie.

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So but once I realized I closed they with, I

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was like, yeah, this, this is definitely up there. And

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then I came on my visit and.

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Speaker 2: Then well, and that's that's interesting study.

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Speaker 3: It's right, how is it right that that b YU

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can get to a point.

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Speaker 2: Where a high profile football player in the state of Arizona,

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right the last of the family that's.

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Speaker 3: A football family would know about right by you, right

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like it before like actually getting recruited by b A

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you know what I mean. Like and and that's that's

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an interesting study. Like for b YU fans, they may

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think like, well, yeah, no, they should know about by

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but you just told us like I didn't know about

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b YU.

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Speaker 2: Prior to they were recruiting me.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I didn't know nothing, Like I didn't I didn't know.

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I didn't know Kilanie's name. I thought that was his

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last name because everybody was calling him that when I

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first came here. But yeah, it was like coach, like, well,

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after that, I thought that was your last name, and

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then I was like, and then all people just call

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him Kilani too, so like but so I wasn't used

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to that at first either.

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Speaker 5: And then I really didn't know nothing about the.

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Speaker 4: Rivalry either, like you kind of you you hear about riberies,

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but like you, normally, I normally heard about like a

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like a Georgia and arburn or something like that, like

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rivalry something like that.

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Speaker 5: So I didn't really know about this.

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Speaker 4: And then, uh, I didn't really know how pretty it

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was out here either, Like my visiting here was my

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first time actually like coming out here.

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Speaker 3: And so I remember on your visit cause I ran

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into you here in Provo and met mom and met

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you and stuff like that, and it was kind of

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an eye opening experience for you, right, Like what do

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you remember about that like initial experience?

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Speaker 2: Like, oh man, how did I not know about this

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this school, this, this this area? You know what I mean?

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Speaker 4: I was like, uh, yeah, when I first came, I

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didn't know. I didn't know what to expect. I really

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didn't know what I was walking myself into.

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Speaker 5: Uh.

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Speaker 4: Like once once I like I told everybody I was

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going on the visit here and everything like that there's

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like why are you going up there? Like why are

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you going to p y U? You got you got,

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you got all these other places that that you can

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go see. I was like why why not like something different?

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Speaker 2: You don't know what, you don't know to you know,

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And then I was.

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Speaker 4: Like, like, I I know they they generally have good quarterbacks,

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so I was like, why not come check check it out?

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Speaker 5: Like I want to play with a good quarterback. So

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and then.

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Speaker 4: Keaton started hitting me up, Cody started hitting me up,

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and then Aiden started hitting me up. But like before

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I actually like came with my visit, so I was like, okay, yeah,

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I'm gonna come check you out out.

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Speaker 5: There's like yeah could because I got people coming.

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Speaker 4: Out to reach out to me and things like that,

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so that that shows that you do want you do

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want me to come there. So came checked it out

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and then I didn't know it was a lot of

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Polynesian people out here either, so that was like that

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was like a spot where they came out here eat

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a lot of Hawaiian food and things like that. So

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I probably never had this much of Hawaiian food in

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my life either, so but.

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Speaker 5: It was good though.

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Speaker 4: So yeah, like everything was different, but things being closed

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on Sundays, like you only get used to Chick fil

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A being closed on Sundays and now everything else is

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closed too.

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Speaker 5: So uh, it was, it was.

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Speaker 4: It was different, but it wasn't like adjustment that I

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wasn't willing to accept. Uh you kind of just kind

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of go dashes. Yeah, you'll adapt, go with the punches.

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So that's what I did.

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Speaker 3: Give me a quick score prediction. How do you see

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this game playing out? And then we'll let you run

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off and do whatever. You got hooked up with some

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road rolling brad gear.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, at the all blackout. That's nice.

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Speaker 5: Had to because I was meaning to get this before

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I have.

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Speaker 3: It's the murdered out. Uh you know, B, why you

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beat Digger from Royal Army. But give me a score

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prediction I got.

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Speaker 4: I got thirty four twenty one, okay, all right, double

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teacher win.

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Speaker 2: Okay, the digital win.

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Speaker 4: And I really want to I really want to say

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about like fifty to zero. But I'm gonna I'm gonna

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be respectful for them, just out of just you know

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what I'm saying, just out of that's just what us B.

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Why you men do we we show respect to little

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brothers and things like that. So I'm gonna, I'm gonna,

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I'm gonna give him some points, all.

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Speaker 2: Right, d L no longer on the d L. He'll

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be there at UH at Lavella State. Say what's up

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to him?

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Speaker 3: Give him some love, Cougarnation, Terry Slasher, love and appreciate you, man.

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Speaker 2: I always always love chatting with you. All right, We're

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gonna go to break.

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Speaker 3: Come on, buy this wig here just in the South

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Swig next to Lavelle Edwards Stadium. Come get some pulled

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pork sandwiches, some Swig drinks and Royal Army brand as

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well as some Monster Energy drinks. We'll be handing out

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those later on. Guys, don't go anywhere, Drake told. Coming

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up next, this is Cougar Sports on Onto three, nine

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ninety eight point three