1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:03,680 Speaker 1: It's the second college football Playoffs semi final game. It's 2 00:00:03,880 --> 00:00:07,680 Speaker 1: the Peach Bowl in Atlanta. The Indiana Hoosiers are taking 3 00:00:07,720 --> 00:00:10,800 Speaker 1: on Oregon, a battle of Big ten teams. IU is 4 00:00:10,880 --> 00:00:14,600 Speaker 1: sixty minutes away from playing for a national championship in football. 5 00:00:16,079 --> 00:00:17,880 Speaker 1: I don't think that's a sentence I ever thought that 6 00:00:17,920 --> 00:00:19,880 Speaker 1: I would say. I'm not sure it's a sentence that 7 00:00:19,920 --> 00:00:21,959 Speaker 1: Olivia Ray ever thought she would say. And she loves 8 00:00:21,960 --> 00:00:25,000 Speaker 1: Indiana University more than maybe anybody. You saw Olivia for 9 00:00:25,120 --> 00:00:29,120 Speaker 1: years doing sports on Channel five here in town. Now 10 00:00:29,160 --> 00:00:33,600 Speaker 1: she is covering Indiana and they're run to the national 11 00:00:33,680 --> 00:00:36,720 Speaker 1: championship for ABC fifty seven in South Bend, and I 12 00:00:36,760 --> 00:00:40,360 Speaker 1: needed somebody to talk Hoosiers football with. Nobody is more qualified, 13 00:00:40,560 --> 00:00:43,280 Speaker 1: nobody knows more about the program than Olivia. So before 14 00:00:43,320 --> 00:00:45,280 Speaker 1: she goes on TV, kind enough to give me a 15 00:00:45,280 --> 00:00:47,640 Speaker 1: few minutes. Olivia, it's awesome to have you. How are you. 16 00:00:48,520 --> 00:00:51,000 Speaker 2: Great to hear your voice again, Moe. I am so 17 00:00:51,159 --> 00:00:53,440 Speaker 2: excited to talk Indiana football. You know, I've made it 18 00:00:53,479 --> 00:00:56,200 Speaker 2: my entire personality for the past ten years. So I'm 19 00:00:56,200 --> 00:00:59,920 Speaker 2: glad that no one can call me a bandwagon for 20 00:01:00,200 --> 00:01:00,720 Speaker 2: at this point. 21 00:01:00,800 --> 00:01:01,880 Speaker 3: I am all in. 22 00:01:02,920 --> 00:01:05,959 Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean you legitimately more than than anybody I know, 23 00:01:06,080 --> 00:01:08,160 Speaker 1: and i've I have you know, I have followed you 24 00:01:08,240 --> 00:01:10,520 Speaker 1: for years. You're you're kind of like the person who 25 00:01:10,560 --> 00:01:13,440 Speaker 1: followed the band before it hit big, and that's that's 26 00:01:13,440 --> 00:01:15,000 Speaker 1: what you are as it relates to the Hoosiers. 27 00:01:16,200 --> 00:01:17,840 Speaker 3: Yeah, it's actually how I stopped grew up. 28 00:01:17,840 --> 00:01:21,400 Speaker 2: My start in sportscasting is I was a video manager 29 00:01:21,720 --> 00:01:24,240 Speaker 2: on Kevin Wilson's IU football team when they went back 30 00:01:24,240 --> 00:01:27,760 Speaker 2: to back bowl games Pinstripe Bowl, Foster Farms Bowl, and 31 00:01:28,120 --> 00:01:30,440 Speaker 2: they were too cheap to pay someone to travel to 32 00:01:30,560 --> 00:01:32,520 Speaker 2: talk in front of the camera, so they put a 33 00:01:32,520 --> 00:01:33,280 Speaker 2: student on there. 34 00:01:33,360 --> 00:01:35,800 Speaker 3: And that is how I became a sportscaster. 35 00:01:36,040 --> 00:01:39,040 Speaker 2: So it has gone way back, and my husband played 36 00:01:39,080 --> 00:01:41,959 Speaker 2: and coached for them, and we even actually got married 37 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:45,600 Speaker 2: at Memorial Stadium two summers ago, right before this thing 38 00:01:45,680 --> 00:01:47,920 Speaker 2: really got rolling. So if you want to give anyone 39 00:01:47,960 --> 00:01:50,840 Speaker 2: any credit, you can give coach SIGs and then I'll 40 00:01:50,840 --> 00:01:52,240 Speaker 2: take the rest of it if you don't mind. 41 00:01:52,360 --> 00:01:55,640 Speaker 1: Wow, very good. Okay, Yeah, now now we know where 42 00:01:55,680 --> 00:01:57,440 Speaker 1: the credit should go. What was it like? We'll talk 43 00:01:57,440 --> 00:01:59,520 Speaker 1: about tonight. But you were there in Pasadena for the 44 00:01:59,560 --> 00:02:02,560 Speaker 1: Rose Bowl, and you know, as a Cincinnati fan, right 45 00:02:02,600 --> 00:02:05,240 Speaker 1: as a UC fan, I remember when they made the 46 00:02:05,280 --> 00:02:08,160 Speaker 1: Orange Bowl and walking out there and I saw Cincinnati 47 00:02:08,160 --> 00:02:09,960 Speaker 1: in the end zone and it's like, man, I never 48 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:13,880 Speaker 1: thought i'd see this. Uh what was it like? Covering 49 00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:17,320 Speaker 1: and being around that program in that setting with those stakes, 50 00:02:17,400 --> 00:02:20,720 Speaker 1: and then seeing them dominate the ultimate of blue bloods 51 00:02:20,720 --> 00:02:21,360 Speaker 1: in Alabama. 52 00:02:23,360 --> 00:02:24,120 Speaker 3: It was unreal. 53 00:02:24,280 --> 00:02:28,040 Speaker 2: I actually went out there with my dad and my son. 54 00:02:28,160 --> 00:02:30,320 Speaker 2: He's seven months old. My dad has been on a 55 00:02:30,360 --> 00:02:32,959 Speaker 2: plane once before, and I convinced him to climb back 56 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:35,880 Speaker 2: on to go out to Pasadena because he said, if 57 00:02:35,919 --> 00:02:38,160 Speaker 2: he ever got the chance to see you playing the 58 00:02:38,240 --> 00:02:39,600 Speaker 2: Rose Ball before he dies. 59 00:02:39,360 --> 00:02:41,400 Speaker 3: He was going to take it. And he did not 60 00:02:41,560 --> 00:02:43,200 Speaker 3: lie to me. It was unreal. 61 00:02:43,320 --> 00:02:47,079 Speaker 2: We were in the north end zone, and I mean 62 00:02:47,560 --> 00:02:50,560 Speaker 2: just to watch them wallop Alabama and then get to 63 00:02:50,560 --> 00:02:52,600 Speaker 2: be down there on the field to watch this team 64 00:02:53,400 --> 00:02:55,840 Speaker 2: act like they belonged, which was really cool, and their 65 00:02:55,919 --> 00:02:58,600 Speaker 2: celebrations of the Rose Bowl like they were not surprised 66 00:02:58,840 --> 00:03:01,200 Speaker 2: about what they did to all in any way, shit 67 00:03:01,320 --> 00:03:01,880 Speaker 2: or form. 68 00:03:03,280 --> 00:03:07,080 Speaker 1: Kurtzinetti, we see the press conferences, Google me. He's an 69 00:03:07,120 --> 00:03:10,760 Speaker 1: interesting guy as to the extent that you've gotten a 70 00:03:10,840 --> 00:03:12,880 Speaker 1: chance to get to know him and how he runs 71 00:03:12,919 --> 00:03:16,200 Speaker 1: the program. Give me what we don't see. Why is 72 00:03:16,280 --> 00:03:18,480 Speaker 1: this work to the degree it has since he took 73 00:03:18,480 --> 00:03:19,280 Speaker 1: over in Bloomington. 74 00:03:20,480 --> 00:03:22,560 Speaker 3: This is probably one of my favorite stories from the 75 00:03:22,639 --> 00:03:23,160 Speaker 3: Rose Bowls. 76 00:03:23,160 --> 00:03:25,400 Speaker 2: So we were at an IU football alumni event the 77 00:03:25,480 --> 00:03:29,080 Speaker 2: night before the game out there in Pasadena. About three 78 00:03:29,160 --> 00:03:32,520 Speaker 2: hundred former players, coaches, all of the above showed up 79 00:03:32,520 --> 00:03:34,720 Speaker 2: to this bar to hang out. And a couple of 80 00:03:34,760 --> 00:03:37,600 Speaker 2: the current coaches who were in the former regime when 81 00:03:37,640 --> 00:03:41,200 Speaker 2: my husband coached back Kevin Wilson first year of Tom Allen, 82 00:03:41,360 --> 00:03:44,520 Speaker 2: they're still on the staff, and they were talking about 83 00:03:44,520 --> 00:03:49,160 Speaker 2: the differences in like how the team approached the bowl game, 84 00:03:49,360 --> 00:03:52,360 Speaker 2: and that would be that they were monitoring the hallways. 85 00:03:52,920 --> 00:03:55,640 Speaker 2: The players were not allowed to leave their rooms essentially 86 00:03:56,120 --> 00:03:59,200 Speaker 2: in downtown LA where they were staying, and which was 87 00:03:59,240 --> 00:04:00,360 Speaker 2: not the case when. 88 00:04:00,080 --> 00:04:02,400 Speaker 3: We were in New York for New Year's Eve. 89 00:04:02,480 --> 00:04:05,720 Speaker 2: Everyone was out walking around Times Square and everything. And 90 00:04:06,080 --> 00:04:09,720 Speaker 2: he said, Coach Signati basically said, and he didn't put 91 00:04:09,720 --> 00:04:11,480 Speaker 2: the tape on the door, you know, to make sure 92 00:04:11,520 --> 00:04:13,840 Speaker 2: it wasn't broken, like kids do at summer camps. 93 00:04:13,880 --> 00:04:16,360 Speaker 3: But he said, if if he finds. 94 00:04:16,040 --> 00:04:18,680 Speaker 2: Out you're out of your room past nine pm, it's 95 00:04:18,800 --> 00:04:21,680 Speaker 2: not going to be in your best interests. So they 96 00:04:22,240 --> 00:04:25,679 Speaker 2: were policing that place, and the guys take it seriously. 97 00:04:25,720 --> 00:04:28,200 Speaker 3: They said, Sig respects their time. 98 00:04:28,440 --> 00:04:31,039 Speaker 2: So if they're not supposed to be at the stadium, 99 00:04:31,360 --> 00:04:33,599 Speaker 2: they're still getting treatment in this or that because he 100 00:04:33,680 --> 00:04:37,760 Speaker 2: doesn't overbook them with practices and therapy and all of that. 101 00:04:38,040 --> 00:04:41,040 Speaker 2: So it's a well oiled machine and it's got off 102 00:04:41,080 --> 00:04:42,760 Speaker 2: the ground in two years, which is crazy. 103 00:04:43,839 --> 00:04:48,279 Speaker 1: Favorite tonight against Oregon played them before in Atlanta. Tonight 104 00:04:49,440 --> 00:04:52,920 Speaker 1: sixty minutes away from playing for a national championship. If 105 00:04:52,960 --> 00:04:56,680 Speaker 1: they win tonight, what have they done to beat the Ducks. 106 00:04:57,040 --> 00:05:04,159 Speaker 2: They have pressure again on Dante Moore. The difference though 107 00:05:04,480 --> 00:05:06,400 Speaker 2: from the first time they saw them in week seven 108 00:05:06,600 --> 00:05:08,960 Speaker 2: is that Dante Moor is getting the ball out almost 109 00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:12,040 Speaker 2: a half second faster than in week seven when they 110 00:05:12,120 --> 00:05:14,840 Speaker 2: barely got buy him. They did sack him six times 111 00:05:15,160 --> 00:05:16,840 Speaker 2: at all kinds of pressure on him. Put him in 112 00:05:16,839 --> 00:05:20,040 Speaker 2: a pressure cooker, if you will. But this defensive line 113 00:05:20,080 --> 00:05:22,520 Speaker 2: is a lot different. I use lost Kellen Wyatt, They've 114 00:05:22,520 --> 00:05:24,960 Speaker 2: lost Stephen Daily, so they're gonna have a lot of 115 00:05:24,960 --> 00:05:27,680 Speaker 2: different personnel up there on the front seven, a lot 116 00:05:27,680 --> 00:05:30,160 Speaker 2: of different mixtures that they're gonna have to try and 117 00:05:30,240 --> 00:05:32,880 Speaker 2: find a way to get pressure on him and confuse 118 00:05:32,960 --> 00:05:35,359 Speaker 2: him like they did the difference. Though Dante Moors had 119 00:05:35,360 --> 00:05:37,440 Speaker 2: a lot more football under his belt, he was still 120 00:05:37,440 --> 00:05:39,000 Speaker 2: a newbie back then in Week seven. 121 00:05:41,200 --> 00:05:46,800 Speaker 1: It's an amazing story, you know, I said when they 122 00:05:47,680 --> 00:05:51,360 Speaker 1: beat earlier in the season, went to Oregon in one, 123 00:05:51,440 --> 00:05:54,560 Speaker 1: I said, like indyan A football, being good is just fun, right. 124 00:05:54,800 --> 00:05:57,240 Speaker 1: They were good last year, played in the playoff. It 125 00:05:57,320 --> 00:06:01,320 Speaker 1: felt like one off. I'm sort of living vicariously through 126 00:06:01,400 --> 00:06:03,440 Speaker 1: IU fans because I think it's so cool when a 127 00:06:03,480 --> 00:06:06,560 Speaker 1: Newbee crashes the party, and so I hope the guid 128 00:06:06,640 --> 00:06:09,640 Speaker 1: you guys are playing a week from Monday enjoy it 129 00:06:09,680 --> 00:06:12,080 Speaker 1: as a fan. I know you're doing your job professionally, 130 00:06:12,120 --> 00:06:13,520 Speaker 1: but it's got to be one of the coolest things 131 00:06:13,520 --> 00:06:15,360 Speaker 1: you've ever had a chance to cover. I can't thank 132 00:06:15,360 --> 00:06:18,080 Speaker 1: you enough for doing this, and maybe we'll bother you 133 00:06:18,120 --> 00:06:20,159 Speaker 1: on the night of the title game. Thanks so much. 134 00:06:20,720 --> 00:06:23,039 Speaker 3: I love it. Thanks mo talk to you soon. 135 00:06:23,120 --> 00:06:23,840 Speaker 1: Most definitely