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Speaker 2: All right, welcome back. It is our number three thanks

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Speaker 2: thirty Cincinnati Sports Station. Let's dive right into it because

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Speaker 2: tonight there's a return happening. It's the return of Jisel

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Speaker 2: James to the University of Cincinnati men's basketball program as

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Speaker 2: they get ready to take on Alabama State tonight. They

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Speaker 2: take on Clemson on Sunday. Let's talk some hoops. Let's

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Speaker 2: talk a little Bearcat football as well. Let's do so

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Speaker 2: with the man from Bearcat Journal himself, Chad Breundle. Nice

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Speaker 2: enough to join us today, Chad, how are you doing.

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Speaker 3: Good?

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Speaker 4: It was Kegan not available today or well.

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Speaker 2: With news like this, Chad, you got to go right

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Speaker 2: right to the top of the food chain. I feel like, okay, okay,

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Speaker 2: you and I have spoke. We spoke about this on

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Speaker 2: air last time. I think you filled in for Moegger

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Speaker 2: about Gigsel James just kind of being around, and you know,

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Speaker 2: he's being showed on the jumbo tron and then all

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Speaker 2: of a sudden, I flip on the game over the

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Speaker 2: weekend at Georgia and he traveled and he's there in

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Speaker 2: Georgia with the team. And fast forward to today, we

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Speaker 2: know now that Gisel James is back on the roster.

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Speaker 2: What has changed from the statements we've heard all along

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Speaker 2: from west Miller that he's not going to be on

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Speaker 2: the team this year but he's around the team. What

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Speaker 2: has changed from then to now?

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Speaker 4: Well, then they were either undefeated or had a close

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Speaker 4: loss at against Louisville, and now there's.

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Speaker 3: Six and four and about to go into the Big twelve.

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Speaker 4: So I mean, you know, we can get into this

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Speaker 4: a million different ways.

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Speaker 3: And I can tell you.

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Speaker 4: There's concerns about Dalen Cells team's back, and Tyler McKinley's knee,

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Speaker 4: and with Jalen Haynes already out there, they're getting pretty

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Speaker 4: low on numbers.

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Speaker 3: And you know those things are to an extent true.

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Speaker 4: But they need a spark, they need they better find

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Speaker 4: something because what they're doing isn't working.

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Speaker 3: And on January third, you host Houston, and if.

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Speaker 4: You're gonna figure it out, the time to figure it out.

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Speaker 4: That clock is ticking.

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Speaker 3: Gisel is that practice.

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Speaker 4: He's been working with the team, So I guess you

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Speaker 4: see if it works.

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Speaker 2: So for me, it's one thing to say, Okay, Gizzle's

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Speaker 2: back on the team. It's another thing to say, Okay,

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Speaker 2: how does Jizzle impact this team? Kerkkrisa has not been

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Speaker 2: what the Bearcats I think had hoped in any sense

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Speaker 2: that he would be. I know Tillery, he has seen

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Speaker 2: his minutes diminishing. You still have Daydae Thomas. We watched

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Speaker 2: Day Day and Jizzle a lot last year. How does

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Speaker 2: he help this team at the guard position?

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Speaker 3: He gives you a high major guard.

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Speaker 4: And look, there are reasons to be concerned about Jizzle's

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Speaker 4: overall game. I talked about it a lot last year.

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Speaker 4: He's inefficient. He takes a lot of tough twos, he

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Speaker 4: doesn't shoot well from three, he doesn't get to the

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Speaker 4: free throw line a lot For a team that's struggling

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Speaker 4: in offensive efficiency. This isn't just a you know, plug

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Speaker 4: this guy in and all of a sudden the offense

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Speaker 4: is going to be fixed in.

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Speaker 3: A lot of ways.

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Speaker 4: But he's also a guy that scores a lot of

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Speaker 4: points for a team that struggles to score points. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: so some of it you're gonna have to and look,

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Speaker 4: they've lived with it for two years, they're going to

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Speaker 4: live with it for the rest of this year. It

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Speaker 4: looks like like, you know that there are some shortcomings,

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Speaker 4: some things that he doesn't exactly you know, do that

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Speaker 4: jump off the page. But you can put the ball

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Speaker 4: in his hands and you're pretty confident that he's going

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Speaker 4: to be able to put points on the board. It

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Speaker 4: might be you know, four of thirteen putting points on

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Speaker 4: you fifteen to twenty points on any given night for

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Speaker 3: That's the most obvious thing. I think.

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Speaker 2: Is there a confidence issue in the team anytime a

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Speaker 2: believe you you worry about confidence. Does this bearcat roster

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Speaker 2: at this point in your opinion, have a confidence issue?

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Speaker 4: I think the Georgia game would say absolutely, because at

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Speaker 3: We didn't see like Louisville.

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Speaker 4: They got up early, and then Louisville erased that deficit

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Speaker 4: in the blank of an eye, right, But then the

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Speaker 4: problem started and Georgia started to get going a little bit,

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Speaker 4: and Cincinnati didn't have any answers, and then as you

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Speaker 4: got through the second half, it progressively got worse. That

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Speaker 4: tells me there's a confidence issue. That tells me that

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Speaker 4: they don't have anything that they really believe in to

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Speaker 4: that game.

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Speaker 3: And that's It's an okay Georgia team.

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Speaker 4: I think they're going to be fine in the SEC,

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Speaker 4: but I don't think they're gonna be competing for an

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Speaker 4: to get back in that game and at worst, you know,

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Speaker 4: tells me, Yeah, they're searching.

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Speaker 3: For what do we do when you know, when things.

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Speaker 4: Stop working, how do we get out of it? How

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Speaker 4: seen that in all these games that they've lost, or

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Speaker 3: Played well in. They play well in fits and starts.

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Speaker 3: They'll play well for five.

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Speaker 4: Seven minute stretches, and then there'll be a ten minute

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Speaker 3: And that's not conducive to winning at a high level,

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Speaker 3: is it?

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Speaker 2: And I get you. You turn back to Jisel and

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Speaker 2: maybe you find a spark there. You know this team

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Speaker 2: better than anyone, Chad. Is it too late for this

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Speaker 2: I'm watching a lot of basketball Arizona BYU Houston. You

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Speaker 2: are just outside the top twenty five. You watch basketball,

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Speaker 2: You've watched this team and I know they have talented players.

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Speaker 2: Is it too late for this team to turn it around,

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Speaker 3: I have a hard time seeing it, if we're being honest.

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Speaker 4: I mean, you've got six or seven teams at the

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Speaker 4: top of this league. I just don't how do they

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Speaker 4: I look at those games and I go out of Cincinnati.

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Speaker 4: Win a couple to get back in this thing, They're

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Speaker 4: gonna have to get a couple of big scalps. You're

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Speaker 4: you're gonna have to have a couple. You start at

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Speaker 4: six and four, you're in a hole. You've got a

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Speaker 4: ton of grant with Yeah, a good cleansing team that's

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Speaker 4: well coached, and they're gonna make you pay for for

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Speaker 4: beat Clemson Sunday. Don't feel great about that. Let's not talk,

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Speaker 4: Let's not look over. I was say, let's come was

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Speaker 4: leading Duke yesterday for a good portion of that game.

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Speaker 4: That's the after Christmas, the dreaded after Christmas game that

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Speaker 4: teams have always kind of looked flat in so yeah,

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Speaker 4: I don't. The path is, uh, the path has grown

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Speaker 4: a real good machete to slice your way through it.

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Speaker 4: I mean, we knew the tough of the top of

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Speaker 4: can they beat an improved Oklahoma State team? Uh? You

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Speaker 4: know there's a couple in that group that boy, if

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Speaker 4: you lose one or two of those games, sure, then

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Speaker 4: you're you're swimming even farther upstream. And do you feel

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Speaker 4: good about this team going on the road and beating

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Speaker 4: anybody at this point in time?

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Speaker 3: So that includes.

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Speaker 4: Clemson and nine Big Twelve games. So it doesn't feel great, Tony.

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Speaker 4: And you know this is probably why Gisel James is

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Speaker 2: Outside of that, the football squad is preparing for a

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Speaker 2: now secondary. They don't have their cornerback coach anymore. He's gone.

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Speaker 2: Brendan soaresby ha left. How difficult is this game itself

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Speaker 2: who will not be resting players? No players are opting

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Speaker 2: out of the bowl game for Navy, a team that

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Speaker 2: leads the nation in rushing yards per game. How difficult

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Speaker 2: One is the opponent for the bowl game, and two

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Speaker 2: putting together the roster and preparing with players that are

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, look, if you're in Cincinnati situation where

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Speaker 4: last thing you want to see is Navy pop up

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Speaker 4: as your opponent. Yeah, they are going to be exactly

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Speaker 4: brand of football that I mean, there's what like four

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Speaker 4: Cincinnati left the American Athletic Conference.

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Speaker 3: Like, they don't know Navy and what did we.

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Speaker 4: See If you go back to when Davy entered the

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Speaker 4: rush for what eight thousand yards in that one game

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Speaker 4: in twenty seventeen or whatever it was, and then, as usual,

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Speaker 3: But in a one off.

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Speaker 4: That's the danger of playing Navy is it's new. It's

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Speaker 4: something you're not used to. It's a style you're not

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Speaker 4: Their defense is not great. But you're without Brendan Soresby.

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Speaker 4: You're probably gonna be without Tywie Walker.

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Speaker 3: And Evin Pryor. Your line is there.

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Speaker 4: I think you're going to have most of your wide receivers,

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Speaker 4: so there will be something. There will be something to

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Speaker 4: fall back on. But boy, you're definitely not looking at

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Speaker 4: one of the most efficient offenses in the country. And Tony,

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Speaker 4: how much did we talk about time of possession?

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Speaker 2: Oh boy?

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Speaker 3: This year?

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Speaker 2: Yes? Correct?

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Speaker 3: What fifty to ten? Yep? On January third?

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Speaker 4: Like, what's the record for what a team has possessed

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Speaker 4: the ball?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, without a doubt. And now the possessions, Chad become

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Speaker 2: How how difficult does the rebuild become? And I know

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Speaker 4: I don't know that it's we're in this world now

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Speaker 4: And then I think you could you could feel it, Tony.

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Speaker 4: They were the better built, better agreed constructed, better performing

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Speaker 3: Big success at seven.

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Speaker 4: Losing your last four, now you're staring down the barrel

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Speaker 2: Without a doubt, it is a tough time right now

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Speaker 2: State tonight a game on Sunday. There is a lot

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Speaker 2: for those looking to to follow along with the coverage

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Speaker 2: or maybe gift that coverage to someone in their lives

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Speaker 2: that's a Bearcat fan. Now, what do you got going on?

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Speaker 2: A Bearcat journal?

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Speaker 4: Obviously everything you could possibly want to know about, all

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Speaker 4: the things that you just mentioned. Uh, we've got the

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Speaker 4: podcast and video network. Keegan does a phenomenal job on

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Speaker 4: the writing side covering everything that's going on. We'll see

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Speaker 4: what happens tonight with Alabama State. You're not You're not

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Speaker 4: gonna want to miss this one, Like what does moday

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Speaker 3: To be interesting?

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Speaker 2: That's it.

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Speaker 3: The night's gonna be interesting. And then guess what, ton

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Speaker 3: I'll see you tomorrow.

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Speaker 2: Oh you won't. I'm off tomorrow, Chad. You'll see Austin.

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Speaker 3: It'll just be us Chad. Sorry, Yeah, I get it. Sorry, No,

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Speaker 3: that's fine. I know, that's fine, that's fine. Once.

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Speaker 4: The one lady was talking about telling a long story

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Speaker 3: No, it's fine. I mean it's fine.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, no, it's fine, and like it's wanted to look

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Speaker 4: over go it's not fine, lady, but trying to convince

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Speaker 2: It's fine, fine, everything's fine, that's fair, fair, everything's going well. Chad,

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Speaker 2: enjoy catching up with Austin tomorrow, and thanks for catching

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Speaker 3: Thanks ched, Thanks gentlemen, have great holidays you too.

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Speaker 2: That is Chad Brendle. Bearcat Journal dot Com certainly appreciative

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Speaker 2: of Chad's time. We have more time next on the

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Speaker 2: ESPN fifteen thirty Cincinnati Sports station, our number three thanks

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Speaker 2: to Penn Station.

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Speaker 1: Nope, he doesn't know everything