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Speaker 1: This is Tony Pike since e three sixty about Cincinnati.

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Speaker 1: From Cincinnati, this is ESPN fifteen thirty Cincinnati Sports Station.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back our number three since e three sixty. We

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Speaker 2: are rolling along on a Wednesday afternoon right here on

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Speaker 2: the home of the Bengals, ESPN fifteen thirty Cincinnati Sports Station.

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Speaker 2: This is not new news to anyone. What's going on

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Speaker 2: at Miami right now is absolutely amazing. We have dropped

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Speaker 2: Miami of Ohio. It is now just Miami. It is

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Speaker 2: the true Miami of all collegiate sports. So we'll take

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Speaker 2: some time today in Stueo devisit with our guy from

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Speaker 2: Red Brick Legacy, Kyle Decker is here.

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Speaker 3: What's up, Kyle? How you doing?

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Speaker 4: You'd brother good? I love the respects.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: Times we dropped there too, So we've dropped it. Yeah,

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Speaker 5: we've dropped Miami, Ohio. It's a fort place to be.

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Speaker 5: It's the as I call him, it's America's team right now.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it is now.

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Speaker 2: I'll give we have to give Austin credit here because

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Speaker 2: before we got started today you mentioned that Austin is

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Speaker 2: a great follow.

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Speaker 3: Up on X.

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Speaker 4: Yeah. No, I look to actually have him right now.

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Speaker 4: I don't.

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Speaker 5: I see about seven thousand followers. I think he should

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Speaker 5: be like twenty five thousand plus. Wow, doesn't get he

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Speaker 5: doesn't get the respect Austin that I think you deserved.

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Speaker 5: He was doing a little research. I think he has

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Speaker 5: lots of good content. Wow about this really good good stuff.

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Speaker 5: I think he's he gives a kind of a genuine

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Speaker 5: look at sports man.

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Speaker 3: It's easy to be Red Brick Legacy.

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Speaker 4: It feels good to be seen. Thank you.

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Speaker 2: Put some respect on Austin Elmore for Red Brick Legacy

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Speaker 2: coming up next. Listen, it's it's red hot right now

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Speaker 2: with with what's going on at Maammy obviously the basketball team,

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Speaker 2: which we're going to talk about a lot of other

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Speaker 2: things happening. I thought one of the cooler moments of

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Speaker 2: the past weekend the gold medal game between USA and

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Speaker 2: Kida and USA pulls it out and then national pushback

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Speaker 2: of what's going on at Brick Street. Yeah, I mean

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Speaker 2: not just what's going on at Miami, but the kippis

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Speaker 2: the university absolutely on fire right now.

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Speaker 5: Like it's just one thing after another, Like from uh,

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Speaker 5: you know, we're on ESPN, who know, you know on

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Speaker 5: Friday night the first time the Mac game has been.

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Speaker 5: Then you got uh you know, the hockey, and you

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Speaker 5: got a team you'll say where It's like every major

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Speaker 5: outlet was was tweeting brick Street, Mayama, Ohio or my

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Speaker 5: university and uh, I got't even get used to it.

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Speaker 5: But yeah, I mean what a I think it's the best.

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Speaker 5: I mean, I don't even think I have to say it,

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Speaker 5: but the best college bar in the country.

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Speaker 4: Have you ever been there?

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Speaker 3: I've not, Man, you play a game.

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Speaker 5: But yeah, I got the uh mark and Will Wiseman

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Speaker 5: do a great job of the r and it's it's

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Speaker 4: And now like uh work is rocking. I mean that

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Speaker 4: dude was waving the.

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Speaker 5: Marin flag and playing it under the bar and people

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Speaker 5: are going nuts. It's like, how cool is that? You know,

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Speaker 5: team USA gold medal. I mean, what a great thing

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Speaker 5: for our country, especially right now. And then to see

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Speaker 5: all the bars, I think it's the most wide game

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Speaker 5: since anything at nine am Eastern Standard time. And then

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Speaker 5: just to see how much support and then just to

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Speaker 5: see brick Street, you know, packed tot to the gills

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Speaker 5: and just going nuts. And then but yeah, it's it's

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Speaker 5: a great time to be in Oxford.

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Speaker 3: Ohio.

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Speaker 2: You know I mentioned you mentioned espudo games are nationally televised.

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Speaker 2: You have guys like Scott Van Pelt and others that

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Speaker 2: are coming out and pleading to put more respect Miami's name.

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Speaker 2: And then the past weekend, Miles garrett attendance at Mallett

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Speaker 2: atmosphere is unbelievable. Again, so many people outside of the

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Speaker 2: university are are taking notice. What's what's that ride been like?

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Speaker 2: As from someone on your side of things, just see

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Speaker 2: how this is not only engulfed the state of Ohio,

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's crazy.

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Speaker 5: Like I was sitting in court side and they're like

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Speaker 5: you had governor to walk going to be there tonight

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Speaker 5: the next week it's Miles Garret. Miles Garrett. Actually his

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Speaker 5: agent is it was a bred Miami when I was there. Yeah, Chay,

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Speaker 5: good guy, but you know he's in there to can picture.

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Speaker 5: Super nice guy. Obviously. I grew up a brown fan

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Speaker 5: I don't know if and that on the but no,

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Speaker 5: it's just it's a it's so much fun to know

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Speaker 5: where Travis give the players and you know coach Steele

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Speaker 5: and his staff credit. You know, it's just being part

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Speaker 5: of the process. I guess Tony like years pat, you know,

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Speaker 5: how this team was built from that perspective, let alone

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Speaker 5: everything they do. I why say it's America's team because

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Speaker 5: I really feel like one. You know, it's coaches speak

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Speaker 5: all the time. Hell yeah, we're a good team. We're together,

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Speaker 5: very true. Like their togetherness is their you know, special

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Speaker 5: power as what Travis would say, and man do they

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Speaker 5: they they play well together, they know each other. There's

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Speaker 5: a ton of continuity and they're a fun team to watch.

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Speaker 5: I would say unflappable. It's not like it's not like

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Speaker 5: they've been undefeated and untested. Yeah, there have been games,

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Speaker 5: whether they're going on the road or they have to

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Speaker 5: a way to win it. And almost like as they

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Speaker 5: It's just a more confident team.

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Speaker 2: What they did last night in the first half against

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Speaker 2: the scenes that Malett Hall have been. I know there's

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Speaker 2: a big vote coming up as well with the Board

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Speaker 2: a new I think two hundred and eighty plus million

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Speaker 5: Yeah, no, it's it helps to have a winning basketball

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Speaker 3: There's a good time for a vote to happen.

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Speaker 5: We talked previously about you know, anytime you're going to

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Speaker 5: and so it is going to vote tomorrow, and you know,

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Speaker 5: I have high probability and high expectations that'll it'll go through.

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Speaker 5: it's gonna be incredible arena. Their goal is to make

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Speaker 5: to be an opportunity for us to have a multifaceted

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Speaker 4: He'll be right next to the Farmer School of Business.

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Speaker 5: It's gonna be a great opportunity for us to advance

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Speaker 5: and utilize other things that much capital being infused into athletics,

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Speaker 2: How exciting and how much from from a fan standpoint,

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Speaker 2: to watch this and understand that with the notoriety, people

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Speaker 2: are going to say, Okay, what we want Travis Steele

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Speaker 2: as our next head coach or or the roster next year.

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Speaker 2: In the world of nil, people are going to try

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Speaker 2: to come in and uh and and take off the roster.

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Speaker 2: We had Travis Steel in studio a couple of weeks ago,

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Speaker 2: and I think one of the things that kind of

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Speaker 2: come back. And in this day and age, when you

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Speaker 2: can have meetings after a season and know that a

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Speaker 2: be a part of what you're doing, I think you

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Speaker 2: the next question for me. As historic and awesome as

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Speaker 2: it feels like this has stain power as well to

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Speaker 2: not just be you know, is it easy to go

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Speaker 2: undefeated every year now, but to have stain power as

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Speaker 2: end of the MAC for years to come.

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Speaker 5: And that's like once I got into this, and I

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Speaker 5: the coaches we have. Coach Mylen baseball or women's basketball,

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Speaker 5: as we were talking about earlier, is incredible. We're all

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Speaker 5: to it, I think it's the program, you know, that

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Speaker 5: of the things they value for whatever reason, Tony, they

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Speaker 5: value my opinion and insight. So as part of you know,

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Speaker 5: Like you said, you know, I think Travis, you know,

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Speaker 5: continue to build. Obviously that's a decision he's going to

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Speaker 5: he we feel like with the arena, with the resources

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Speaker 5: this and Travis says it too, we have complete alignment.

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Speaker 5: And we didn't have that maybe three or four years ago.

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Speaker 5: But from our board, to President Crawford, to our ad

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Speaker 5: David Saylor, to our coaches, to donors, to the support

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Speaker 5: like it's it's it takes that and we have that now.

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Speaker 5: And so I think any person like you said that

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Speaker 4: I hope that's not the case.

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Speaker 5: Sure, but inevitably, if you know, things happen and we

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Speaker 3: Red Brick legacy itself.

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Speaker 2: We we kind of talked at the infancy stage of this,

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Speaker 2: Matt mchub was in here. We were talking about kind

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Speaker 2: I think last time we had a chance to talk,

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Speaker 2: we were talking about Uptown Light and where things were

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Speaker 2: going to what's the latest from the collective side, because

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Speaker 2: as you know, as this thing continues to get rolling,

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Speaker 2: it never stops in the nil world and in what

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's amazing where we were to where we are now.

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Speaker 5: I'd say I told you we want to be the

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Speaker 5: best in the MAC and I would say soon thereof

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Speaker 5: we're right at the top, if not the top, and

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Speaker 5: definitely football and in basketball, so those things are getting

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Speaker 5: close to where we needed to be.

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Speaker 4: I know there's a lot of speculation.

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Speaker 5: Obviously, going from zero and having no collective years ago.

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Speaker 4: We're a little bit late to enter the game.

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Speaker 5: But now I'm pretty confident we're in the top tier

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Speaker 5: and we're getting very close to be number one and

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Speaker 5: I said, the a lot of that came in when

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Speaker 5: It's a great lesson not just for us at Miami,

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Speaker 5: We still got a lot of ball left in front

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Speaker 5: And we would love to continue to raise funds and

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Speaker 2: You've already got the residency in Detroit for the MAC Championship.

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Speaker 2: now with what Travis Steele is putting together. Three more

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Speaker 5: Impact with Red Brick Legacy. What's the easiest way? Yeah, no,

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Speaker 5: really appreciate it. Thanks again for all the support RedBrick

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Speaker 2: You hate to look ahead, but you have Western MISCN

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