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Speaker 1: This is the West Miller Radio Show, live from the

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Speaker 1: Chili Feeling good. It's Skyline Time and the original montgomery

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Speaker 1: and u see's head coach Wes Miller on the Home

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Speaker 2: It is show time, Pretty good man, a very pleasant

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Speaker 2: good evening, everybody, Greetings from the original montgomery In, home

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Speaker 3: Welcome to It's the Wes Miller Radio Show. I'm Dan

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Speaker 3: Hort alongside former Bearcats stand out Terry Nelson and the

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Speaker 3: star of the show, the head coach of the four

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Speaker 3: and oh UC Bearcats. Let's here it for Wes Miller.

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Speaker 3: Appreciate the Bearcat fan here with us here tonight at

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Speaker 3: the original montgomery In. We've got an exciting game to

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Speaker 3: look forward to tomorrow night in downtown Cincinnati Heritage Bank

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Speaker 3: Arena six thirty tip as Cincinnati takes on the sixth

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Speaker 3: ranked Louisville Cardinals. Is Louisville one of the better offensive

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Speaker 3: teams that you face in your tenure at UC.

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Speaker 4: It certainly appears that way studying the tape and looking

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Speaker 4: at the roster in the way that they're playing. You know,

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Speaker 4: it's early in the year, but it certainly appears that

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Speaker 4: way going into it.

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Speaker 5: Obviously, practices have ramped up leading up into this game,

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Speaker 5: and they've been doing it in the progression. It's not

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Speaker 5: just the Louisville game, but you could you've been ramping

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Speaker 5: it up up until this point a little bit more

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Speaker 5: emphasis going into a bigger matchup. Is there a mindset

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Speaker 5: that you want your team to take on going into

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Speaker 5: this game and every game for that matter.

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Speaker 4: Really, Terry, I just want us to go out and

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Speaker 4: play the way that we practice and really double down

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Speaker 4: on the things that we practice every day, the things

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Speaker 4: that we believe in, you know, getting them excited for

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Speaker 4: a game like this, that's that's not the challenge. These

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Speaker 4: kids are excited. They're excited to play every time the

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Speaker 4: ball goes up in the air. But when you're playing

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Speaker 4: the sixth rand team in the country and a team

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Speaker 4: national championship, I think there's going to be some excitement there.

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Speaker 4: But really just want us to double down on the

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Speaker 4: things that we care about and the things that we

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Speaker 3: Loueville is coached by Cincinnati native Pat Kelsey in his

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Speaker 3: second year with the Cardinals. You two have apparently known

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Speaker 3: each other for a long time, correct.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, since I was in high school. He was at

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Speaker 4: Wake Forest working for Skip Prosser through the recruiting process there.

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Speaker 4: And yeah, we've been, you know, the same coaching circles

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Speaker 4: for a really long time. Somebody I consider a friend,

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Speaker 4: Noah's family here in Cincinnati, comes from a terrific family,

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Speaker 4: really nice people that I've had the pleasure to get

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Speaker 4: to know. But I thin I'm sure Pat would say

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Speaker 4: And I don't think it'll matter when the ball goes up, right,

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Speaker 4: I think both of us, our competitors are going to

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Speaker 5: What the grind is like, because neither one of you

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Speaker 6: What is that like for both of you? Guys.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, I don't I can't speak for him,

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Speaker 4: but gosh, I mean, you know, we scrimmaged against each

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Speaker 5: What's the difference between North Carolina and South Carolina?

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Speaker 4: That'd be besides the border. I don't want to get

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Speaker 3: When Tanel said what's the difference between North Carolina and

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Speaker 4: What's the difference between Southern California and Northern California?

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Speaker 6: So you guys are stronger in Southern California. Just you know,

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Speaker 5: We got those knuckles, we don't we don't have to

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Speaker 5: pull the stuff out. I'm just saying, ask Corey Blunt,

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Speaker 3: So you have a McDonald's All American freshman on your roster,

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Speaker 3: and Seanna Bayev and Louisville has one in MIKEL Brown

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Speaker 4: I think a lot of us have seen him play

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Speaker 4: I watched him with the U nineteen US team win

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Speaker 5: The mar Without giving away your scouting report, obviously, there's

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Speaker 4: Yeah, there's quite a bit. I mean, I think you

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Speaker 4: the way that they shoot the ball is very dangerous,

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Speaker 4: guards that if on I think they could be on

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Speaker 4: have four of them all right, So not just the shooting,

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Speaker 4: but the playmaking it stands out there. They're great in transition,

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Speaker 4: they're great when they get an offensive rebound at getting

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Speaker 3: This is the one hundred and first meeting between Cincinnati

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Speaker 3: You'll play this year at Heritage Bank Center, next year

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think so. I think you know, Listen, I've

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Speaker 4: Louisville checks all those boxes, and then you add that

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Speaker 4: there's history here with the two programs, going back to

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Speaker 4: lot of sense, and it's something we'll try to continue,

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Speaker 6: You get to have time regardless of the score.

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Speaker 5: How do you know your team is playing Cincinnati Bearcat basketball?

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Speaker 6: Yeah?

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Speaker 4: I think for us, it's all the things that you

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Speaker 4: I always think that, like the plays on the ball

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Speaker 4: there always is an eye test, like we had to

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Speaker 4: I know Louisville's a team that's gonna they're gonna value

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Speaker 3: It's the Paracats against the Cardinals tomorrow night at six

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Speaker 3: point thirty again at Heritage Bank Center in downtown Cincinnati.

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Speaker 3: Will take a time out, it's more with Coach Miller

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Speaker 3: Cincinnati versus Louisville tomorrow night at six thirty. The Bearcats

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Speaker 4: Well, I think number one his two years ago, the

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Speaker 4: Sean of BIA's like that now. Like I FaceTime Sean

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Speaker 5: Two years ago or last year, he shot sixty seven

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Speaker 6: This year he's got off to a slow start at.

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Speaker 4: But he was really young last year playing at this level,

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Speaker 4: he's got terrific touch. He's actually a very good three

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Speaker 3: He's put on good weight since coming to Cincinnati. Kirk

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Speaker 4: He was in the weight room that they're showing his

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Speaker 6: I remember those days.

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Speaker 3: I was going to say something you will never see me.

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Speaker 4: It's because when I walk into the hotel we're at,

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Speaker 3: I pa or possible guilty as Joe.

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Speaker 4: But no, he's he had a good summer. You know,

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Speaker 4: If you want to commit yourself, he can give you

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Speaker 6: You know, you got one of the premier defenders. And

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Speaker 5: How do you keep him on the floor without filing

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think with Sincere or but you know, we

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Speaker 4: he's so important to our attack and transition. He's so

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Speaker 4: I think over time they'll have to guard him a

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Speaker 3: I prefer the Bucks stops here to Buck team now.

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Speaker 3: I love it for his defense. I'll say this about him.

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Speaker 3: He is fearless. Yes, that's one word that stands out

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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, there's yeah, there's there's uh, he's not he's

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Speaker 4: He's definitely fear That's a great way to say it.

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Speaker 5: He was the defensive Stalworth. None of the guys in

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Speaker 6: I love those leads.

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Speaker 4: Well, listen, if you want to endear yourself to me

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Speaker 3: at the time as maybe the best NBA prospect among

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Speaker 3: the young European players that could come to the US.

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Speaker 3: Did you see him at that stage? Did you get

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Speaker 3: to see him when he was you know, four years ago,

439
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Speaker 3: just starting out.

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Speaker 4: You know, it's interesting because it was all around the

441
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Speaker 4: COVID time and I had not seen him, and generally

442
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Speaker 4: I've seen the best European players because I traveled to

443
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Speaker 4: some international events every summer. But I was very well

444
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Speaker 4: aware of him and i'd seen tape, and I don't

445
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Speaker 4: think that surprises anybody because you see a six to

446
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Speaker 4: eleven guy that was running and jumping like like that

447
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Speaker 4: with the skill that he has. But if the light

448
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Speaker 4: bulb has come on in a lot of ways here

449
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Speaker 4: and it's got to continue, and I think he can

450
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Speaker 4: continue to grow. But he's playing with a force and

451
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Speaker 4: an aggression that I don't think people have been able

452
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Speaker 4: to see him play with consistently, And that's our goals

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Speaker 4: for him to play with that force and aggression consistently.

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Speaker 5: You mentioned Seana Bib's work ethic. It's like you're only

455
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Speaker 5: getting the first drawer in the dresser. Like he's got

456
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Speaker 5: so many tools in his toolbox. We're seeing the three

457
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Speaker 5: point shot, We're seeing him getting filed once a game

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Speaker 5: on a three point shot.

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Speaker 6: It seems like when I.

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Speaker 5: Was watching in practice, he's got so many other tools

461
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Speaker 5: that have yet to be unleashed in a game setting.

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Speaker 6: What are you looking forward to about.

463
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Speaker 4: His game everything? I mean, you know, I think he

464
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Speaker 4: could be one of our best passing and create creating players.

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Speaker 6: And you're hard on him in the practice, which I love.

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Speaker 4: I actually asked this question the other day to a

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Speaker 4: bunch of different people. I said, who my hardest onctice.

468
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Speaker 4: I got the same answer from everybody, Shawn number one

469
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Speaker 4: and bo I'm not sorry Mustafa number two. And then

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Speaker 4: I said, well, that's the greatest compliment I could give

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Speaker 4: two players. You know, that means I think a lot

472
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Speaker 4: of them, and I think that they could be great.

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Speaker 4: But I am very hard on both of them. But

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Speaker 4: that's because they're young, and I think that they're they're

475
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Speaker 4: just scratching the surface how great they could be this season.

476
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Speaker 4: And so it's like not about where they are now,

477
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Speaker 4: it's where can they be in January, February, March. And

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Speaker 4: I think those two could be two or three times

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Speaker 4: where they are now if we keep working at it

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Speaker 4: the right way.

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Speaker 3: All Right, we've reached the halfway point of the West

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Speaker 3: Miller Radio Show. Will take a time out questions from

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Speaker 3: the audience when we continue. We're live at the Reginal

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Speaker 3: Montgomery In, home of the world's greatest ribs, seven hundred

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Speaker 3: w all double. We are back at the Reginal Montgomery In,

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Speaker 3: home of the world's greatest ribs and the West Miller

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Speaker 3: Radio Show. Thank you to the Bearcat fans who are

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Speaker 3: with us tonight. We've got Bearcat basketball coming up tomorrow

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Speaker 3: night at six thirty seven six thirty Tomorrow night the

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Speaker 3: Heritage Bank Center, four and Oh Bearcats taking on the

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Speaker 3: sixth four and OH Louisville Cardinals. Our radio coach will

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Speaker 3: start at six tomorrow night time for questions from the audience,

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Speaker 3: our guy Elliott is in the house and has the

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Speaker 3: mic in his hand.

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Speaker 7: Uh So this is more like a I guess holiday's question.

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Speaker 7: But for the players, I don't live close to home.

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Speaker 7: Do you guys do like holidays with them?

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Speaker 4: So?

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Speaker 7: Do you have like Thanksgiving with the players and the

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Speaker 7: other coaching staff?

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Speaker 4: The Thanksgiving will be with the entire team. What fifty

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Speaker 4: people at our house for Thanksgiving? The entire program, entire team.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, my eyes went right to Lauren to see her

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Speaker 3: reaction to that. She's laughing, she's smiling, so she doesn't

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Speaker 3: seem upset.

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Speaker 4: She it's like her Super Bowl okay, and it used

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Speaker 4: to be catered before Lauren was in the pictures.

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Speaker 5: Now Loan actually invited me this year since I've never

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Speaker 5: been invited by you.

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Speaker 6: So is out of your hands. Brother, I'm a ton

511
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Speaker 6: of staying it on social media. I'm hungry.

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Speaker 4: She can really she can really cook terry, but she

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Speaker 4: doesn't have great judgment if she invites you to deal

514
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Speaker 4: the uh but no, and then some of some of

515
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Speaker 4: the coaches significant others and wives also pitching and help.

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Speaker 4: So it's a it's always a pretty neat deal with

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Speaker 4: that'll be next week and then Christmas. We do give

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Speaker 4: the guys a break at Christmas, and if somebody doesn't

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Speaker 4: have family, we always offer our homes for them as well.

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Speaker 4: But usually people can find family at Christmas time.

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Speaker 3: So you'll kick back with a group of fifty one

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Speaker 3: now including Tell and watch the Bengals beat Lamar Jackson

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Speaker 3: in the Baltimore Ravens. It's gonna be a great night.

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Speaker 3: Come on, tell how he's a Ravens fan. Now, all right, Dave,

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Speaker 3: you're up.

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Speaker 8: Hey, coach, So I have a really pressing question that

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Speaker 8: the whole city wants to know. Well, Joe Burrow play

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Speaker 8: on side side.

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Speaker 6: I can hive in on that one.

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Speaker 4: You're asking, you're asking the wrong guy. This is a

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Speaker 4: Dan Horde question.

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Speaker 6: Do you know who you is?

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Speaker 3: He has a Joe Burrow jersey. I've seen him in

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Speaker 3: his number nine Joe Burrow.

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Speaker 4: I'll tell you what, guys, I'm all in. When I've

536
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Speaker 4: moved to Cincinnati. I'm not one somebody that comes in

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Speaker 4: like one foot in, one foot out. I've been a

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Speaker 4: Bangles and Reds fan since day one. I'm even an

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Speaker 4: e FC Cincinnati fan. So heck, yeah, I know Joe

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Speaker 4: Burrow is I just do I do want Joe Burrow

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Speaker 4: to come to a Bearcat basketball game. I will say

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Speaker 4: that on him.

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Speaker 8: Okay, it's been put out there, so ramp up the

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Speaker 8: security here you go. So my real question was about

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Speaker 8: the care Source series that we've obviously played in with

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Speaker 8: the last three years. We've got the away version next year.

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Speaker 8: Is that something that's gonna continue to happen going forward?

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Speaker 8: And is that something just with us or does that

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Speaker 8: happen elsewhere in the country.

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Speaker 4: I think as you look around the country, like right now,

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Speaker 4: I think you'll see neutral games everywhere. I think you're

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Speaker 4: seeing more neutral games now than you're seeing home and

553
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Speaker 4: home games. There's a lot of reasons for that that. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: and I appreciate the sponsors and the people that are

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Speaker 4: sponsored games we've played in. Generally, people that are doing

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Speaker 4: that are sponsoring other games as well.

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Speaker 6: So you're putting away your Cam Newton jersey.

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Speaker 4: I was never I was never a Panthers fan when

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Speaker 4: Cam Newton was playing. I was a Panthers fan back

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Speaker 4: in the Jake Dell home days. If we want to

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Speaker 4: really be honest and accurate here in the augural season,

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Speaker 4: this is years and years.

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Speaker 9: Ago, coach, you have what's considered a pretty fast, uh,

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Speaker 9: pretty fast offense.

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Speaker 4: You're you're you're moving pretty quick. I'm hearing that Louisville's faster.

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Speaker 9: So I feel like I've heard back in the day,

567
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Speaker 9: teams like to press, don't like to be pressed. How

568
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Speaker 9: do you feel about trying to cover a team that

569
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Speaker 9: is pretty quick on offense. Is that something that you're

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Speaker 9: prepared for because you're trying to do it or is

571
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Speaker 9: it a difficulty?

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Speaker 4: Had a reporter in a press conference a couple of

573
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Speaker 4: days ago asked me, you know who's faster? You guys

574
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Speaker 4: are Louisville. Who's going to be fast from the game,

575
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Speaker 4: and I'll give you my answer. I don't care. I'm

576
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Speaker 4: not trying to win any competition. It's not the game.

577
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Speaker 4: I mean our our competitions on the scoreboard. Playing with

578
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Speaker 4: pace is something that is a part of the identity

579
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Speaker 4: of our team and our style of play, and so

580
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Speaker 4: when we go out there and play, I'm evaluating our pace.

581
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Speaker 4: I'm not evaluating anybody else's, right, are we playing with

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Speaker 4: our pace? Our way? Just to clarify that, I don't

583
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Speaker 4: think that's what you said, but you know, Louisville's got

584
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Speaker 4: some similar identity in that way, so that should make

585
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Speaker 4: for a fun up and down game. But there's not

586
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Speaker 4: more a whole lot more to it than that, Right,

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Speaker 4: We're going to try to play our way with our pace,

588
00:27:41,600 --> 00:27:44,720
Speaker 4: the way that we practice, and then we'll adjust to

589
00:27:44,760 --> 00:27:46,080
Speaker 4: the things that happened throughout the game.

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Speaker 10: Chris, Yeah, thanks, Hey, thanks coach. Question for you, you know,

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Speaker 10: looking at the stats and know your data guy and

592
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Speaker 10: analytic guy, you know, Louisville's turn the ball over ten

593
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Speaker 10: times and average per game, we're at about sixteen point

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Speaker 10: three Dayton Dayton's. Dayton's attacked us, you know, they attacked us,

595
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Speaker 10: forced us into twenty four turnovers.

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Speaker 6: You know, given the pace of play.

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Speaker 10: To the follow up in that question, you know, turnovers

598
00:28:09,760 --> 00:28:12,480
Speaker 10: have come from open court turnovers and things like that,

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Speaker 10: how do you focus on, you know, controlling the ball

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Speaker 10: and and and you know the fact that the game

601
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Speaker 10: obviously the pace of play, but how do you kind

602
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Speaker 10: of protect against the turnovers and the problems that we've

603
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Speaker 10: had with the with the press.

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Speaker 4: So we we've stated like every turnover this year and

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Speaker 4: where they're coming from. And there's frustrating part is there's

606
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Speaker 4: not like a consistent spot, right. Some of them have

607
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Speaker 4: been footwork turnovers. We've had some turnovers screening and setting

608
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Speaker 4: illegal screens. We've had some turnovers we try to catch

609
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Speaker 4: the ball with one hand, right, which if you come

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Speaker 4: to any of our workouts in the summer, practices were

611
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Speaker 4: pretty crazy about catching it with two hands. You know,

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Speaker 4: some of them not that many, but some were forced

613
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Speaker 4: by maybe some pressure. Some were just careless, you know,

614
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Speaker 4: handling the ball. Like there hasn't been like one thing

615
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Speaker 4: that you can say when this happens, we're turning the

616
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Speaker 4: ball over. I think, you know, number one, we'll get better.

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Speaker 4: We're not going to be a team that has a

618
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Speaker 4: turnover problem for the whole year. We have good decision makers,

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Speaker 4: good skilled players. Number two, it's not pace of play,

620
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Speaker 4: like there will be some turnovers with the faster pace

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Speaker 4: of play, but that's not why we have sixteen a game.

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Speaker 4: You know, maybe we have some, but it's not the

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Speaker 4: result of sixteen a game. So anyway, we got to

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Speaker 4: continue to clean it up. I think that the dating game,

625
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Speaker 4: let's hope that's the complete that's as worse as it

626
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Speaker 4: gets type of thing. But we'll continue to clean it up.

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Speaker 4: And I don't think our pace is going to be

628
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Speaker 4: the reason we have lots of turnovers. At least it

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Speaker 4: shouldn't because we don't see that in our practices every day.

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Speaker 11: Next question, So, coach, this team is scary scary good.

631
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Speaker 11: They haven't shown it yet, but the bar As are

632
00:30:00,560 --> 00:30:03,720
Speaker 11: scary scary good. When you go back and look at

633
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Speaker 11: the last four games and you actually look at the

634
00:30:05,760 --> 00:30:10,080
Speaker 11: teams that we've played. Mount Saint Mary's took Maryland overtime

635
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Speaker 11: last night and almost won that game. Dayton won last night,

636
00:30:13,720 --> 00:30:17,880
Speaker 11: so they were Marquette at Marquette. So they're good teams.

637
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Speaker 11: Where do you see the ceiling prior to the Big twelve,

638
00:30:22,800 --> 00:30:25,440
Speaker 11: because that's where we need to get to. And then

639
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Speaker 11: where do you see us going into the Big twelve?

640
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Speaker 11: Because the Big twelve is scary good again this year?

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Speaker 6: Yeah?

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Speaker 4: Thanks, I think, yeah. Mount Saint Mary's. So last night

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Speaker 4: I was trying to find it on TV. They're up

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Speaker 4: four with twenty seconds left at Maryland and I still

645
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Speaker 4: don't know how the game went to overtime because you

646
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Speaker 4: couldn't find it. You just were looking at this tracker

647
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Speaker 4: on ESPN and I went, how does that happen? They're

648
00:30:49,080 --> 00:30:51,800
Speaker 4: up four with the ball I think with twenty seconds left.

649
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Speaker 4: But anyway, No, I think my goal for our team

650
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Speaker 4: is to focus on growth and improvement every day. Like

651
00:31:03,560 --> 00:31:07,040
Speaker 4: people think, that's coach speaker, that's dodging a question, and

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Speaker 4: I said, I said it to my guys in practice today.

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Speaker 4: I do not care right now, in this moment, I

654
00:31:12,080 --> 00:31:15,040
Speaker 4: do not care about the game tomorrow night. I only

655
00:31:15,080 --> 00:31:18,400
Speaker 4: care about us getting better. That's it. It's that simple.

656
00:31:18,440 --> 00:31:20,200
Speaker 4: And we talk about getting better every day and winning

657
00:31:20,200 --> 00:31:22,520
Speaker 4: the details every day. That's it. I think if we

658
00:31:22,560 --> 00:31:26,000
Speaker 4: can really adopt that mindset, I think we can be

659
00:31:26,120 --> 00:31:28,360
Speaker 4: the scary good type of team that you're talking about

660
00:31:28,360 --> 00:31:32,000
Speaker 4: over there when when it really matters in the second

661
00:31:32,040 --> 00:31:34,600
Speaker 4: half of the year in the league play. I really

662
00:31:34,640 --> 00:31:37,160
Speaker 4: do believe that. I see that, I see stretches of that.

663
00:31:37,280 --> 00:31:40,000
Speaker 4: I see the right group of players for that. But

664
00:31:40,040 --> 00:31:42,760
Speaker 4: we have to do our part to make it happen.

665
00:31:43,240 --> 00:31:45,520
Speaker 4: In terms of evaluating we have to be there in

666
00:31:45,520 --> 00:31:47,400
Speaker 4: two weeks or three, I don't think of it that

667
00:31:47,480 --> 00:31:50,200
Speaker 4: way because we're gonna we're gonna work out it every

668
00:31:50,240 --> 00:31:52,920
Speaker 4: day to become a great team. We're gonna become a

669
00:31:52,960 --> 00:31:55,720
Speaker 4: great team. But it's not gonna be completely in near

670
00:31:55,800 --> 00:31:58,320
Speaker 4: It's not like we're gonna take a step in terms

671
00:31:58,360 --> 00:32:00,479
Speaker 4: of result everything. We're gonna have some good results, we're

672
00:32:00,520 --> 00:32:02,840
Speaker 4: gonna have some negative results. But can we be there

673
00:32:02,880 --> 00:32:05,520
Speaker 4: in February and March. That's all. That's all that I'm

674
00:32:05,560 --> 00:32:07,840
Speaker 4: really concentrated on. And we're trying to do it one

675
00:32:07,880 --> 00:32:08,400
Speaker 4: day at a time.

676
00:32:09,120 --> 00:32:12,000
Speaker 3: What does improvement at practice look like from one day

677
00:32:12,040 --> 00:32:14,760
Speaker 3: to the next. Is it eliminating the mistakes you made

678
00:32:14,760 --> 00:32:15,440
Speaker 3: the day before?

679
00:32:16,800 --> 00:32:21,200
Speaker 4: Well, there's it. First starts with a certain level of professionalism,

680
00:32:21,480 --> 00:32:26,600
Speaker 4: like a preparation to have a professionalism to come into

681
00:32:26,640 --> 00:32:31,080
Speaker 4: the gym prepared mentally and physically for practice. That's the

682
00:32:31,120 --> 00:32:33,720
Speaker 4: first thing we talk about, Like we can't have the

683
00:32:33,800 --> 00:32:35,719
Speaker 4: kind of practice and the kind of day we have

684
00:32:35,840 --> 00:32:38,320
Speaker 4: if you don't walk in ready. So you should be

685
00:32:38,360 --> 00:32:41,680
Speaker 4: there early and you are mentally and physically prepared. The

686
00:32:41,720 --> 00:32:45,200
Speaker 4: second thing we talk about is approach right, and it's

687
00:32:45,280 --> 00:32:48,680
Speaker 4: it's not just I did it well. It's in a

688
00:32:48,880 --> 00:32:53,040
Speaker 4: championship level, elite standard to what you're doing. So knowing

689
00:32:53,080 --> 00:32:56,560
Speaker 4: how to do it doing it the right way that's

690
00:32:56,640 --> 00:32:59,040
Speaker 4: just a little bit. It's doing it great and pushing

691
00:32:59,040 --> 00:33:00,920
Speaker 4: the limits. Like we talk about this all the time.

692
00:33:01,520 --> 00:33:03,680
Speaker 4: I don't want to watch you do a drill or

693
00:33:04,240 --> 00:33:06,480
Speaker 4: work on something and show me you know how to

694
00:33:06,520 --> 00:33:08,680
Speaker 4: do it. I want to see you try to perfect it.

695
00:33:08,720 --> 00:33:11,360
Speaker 4: I don't need perfection, but I want to chase perfection.

696
00:33:11,520 --> 00:33:12,000
Speaker 6: So there's a.

697
00:33:11,920 --> 00:33:15,440
Speaker 4: Certain approach to that right, and within that approach, there

698
00:33:15,440 --> 00:33:19,000
Speaker 4: needs to be some focus and attention to detail, you know,

699
00:33:19,040 --> 00:33:20,640
Speaker 4: because these games come down to one or two or

700
00:33:20,640 --> 00:33:23,320
Speaker 4: three possessions. So I think we're really really spending time

701
00:33:23,360 --> 00:33:26,400
Speaker 4: talking about the focus that the details. And the final

702
00:33:26,440 --> 00:33:28,400
Speaker 4: thing we talk about for how we get better every

703
00:33:28,480 --> 00:33:32,000
Speaker 4: day is the team there's only there's only two things

704
00:33:32,080 --> 00:33:34,360
Speaker 4: you can do with team. You can add to the

705
00:33:34,360 --> 00:33:37,160
Speaker 4: team or you can take away from the team. There's

706
00:33:37,360 --> 00:33:39,400
Speaker 4: only two things, and if you are a zero, you

707
00:33:39,480 --> 00:33:42,280
Speaker 4: are taking away. So we have to be giving to

708
00:33:42,360 --> 00:33:44,960
Speaker 4: the team every day. So we actually rank them in

709
00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:48,720
Speaker 4: these areas every week. We rank them one being terrible,

710
00:33:48,840 --> 00:33:52,000
Speaker 4: five being elite, you know, two, three, four in between,

711
00:33:52,560 --> 00:33:57,080
Speaker 4: and their professionalism, their approach, and their impact on team.

712
00:33:57,240 --> 00:33:59,160
Speaker 4: And I think if we're doing those things at the

713
00:33:59,200 --> 00:34:01,920
Speaker 4: highest standard every day, we will be that great team

714
00:34:01,960 --> 00:34:03,760
Speaker 4: you're talking about, and that's where my focus is.

715
00:34:04,160 --> 00:34:06,040
Speaker 3: All right, we'll take a time out more with Coach

716
00:34:06,080 --> 00:34:08,000
Speaker 3: Miller in just a moment. This is the West Miller

717
00:34:08,080 --> 00:34:10,560
Speaker 3: Radio Show Live from the original Montgomery in Home of

718
00:34:10,600 --> 00:34:16,719
Speaker 3: the World's Greatest Rips on seven hundred WLW. We are

719
00:34:16,719 --> 00:34:19,440
Speaker 3: back at the original Montgomery in All of the World's

720
00:34:19,440 --> 00:34:22,960
Speaker 3: Greatest Rips and the Wes Miller Radio Show. We'll have

721
00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:26,040
Speaker 3: a Coach Saderfield Radio Show next Tuesday night, our final

722
00:34:26,080 --> 00:34:30,120
Speaker 3: football edition, although sometimes we add one before a bowl game.

723
00:34:30,120 --> 00:34:31,799
Speaker 3: We'll see if that happens. We do know that the

724
00:34:31,800 --> 00:34:35,360
Speaker 3: Bearcats will be going bowling in the meantime, more questions

725
00:34:35,360 --> 00:34:37,640
Speaker 3: from the audience. Our guy Glenn is at the mic.

726
00:34:38,160 --> 00:34:39,840
Speaker 12: Okay, before I get to the question, I want to

727
00:34:39,840 --> 00:34:43,200
Speaker 12: Claire clarify some difference between North and South Carolina's taxes.

728
00:34:43,560 --> 00:34:47,960
Speaker 12: All the players, all the professional players playing North Carolina

729
00:34:48,080 --> 00:34:49,720
Speaker 12: moved to South Carolina, Texas.

730
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Speaker 6: Right, Okay?

731
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Speaker 12: Then other thing, last time I was in Freedom Hall

732
00:34:52,760 --> 00:34:56,080
Speaker 12: was March sixty three. Hope everybody, the old people remembers

733
00:34:56,080 --> 00:34:57,960
Speaker 12: that don't want to ever be back there again.

734
00:34:59,239 --> 00:35:02,640
Speaker 3: Right, remember that championship loss?

735
00:35:02,760 --> 00:35:02,920
Speaker 4: Right?

736
00:35:03,120 --> 00:35:05,000
Speaker 6: Right? Okay?

737
00:35:05,040 --> 00:35:08,239
Speaker 12: To my question, is the most valuable player tomorrow night?

738
00:35:08,440 --> 00:35:10,799
Speaker 12: Mister Harris on defense? And how do you keep them

739
00:35:10,800 --> 00:35:13,480
Speaker 12: in the game? And my question in the US, do you,

740
00:35:13,520 --> 00:35:16,000
Speaker 12: guys minor to the officials to tell of the players

741
00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:18,440
Speaker 12: which players to look which your officials to look out for?

742
00:35:19,120 --> 00:35:20,040
Speaker 6: It comes to files.

743
00:35:23,880 --> 00:35:25,799
Speaker 4: I don't have a crystal ball. If I did, I'd

744
00:35:25,800 --> 00:35:27,960
Speaker 4: be a much better basketball coach. So I can't tell

745
00:35:27,960 --> 00:35:30,000
Speaker 4: you who the most valuable player, but I will tell

746
00:35:30,040 --> 00:35:33,440
Speaker 4: you that if we're going to have success in these

747
00:35:33,480 --> 00:35:35,640
Speaker 4: type of games, since here Harris will be very important

748
00:35:35,680 --> 00:35:36,720
Speaker 4: to that success.

749
00:35:36,400 --> 00:35:38,360
Speaker 12: How you go to keep them on the floor based

750
00:35:38,400 --> 00:35:39,840
Speaker 12: on recent history.

751
00:35:39,800 --> 00:35:42,080
Speaker 4: Well, he said we've been working on it in practice.

752
00:35:42,120 --> 00:35:45,960
Speaker 4: But the as far as officials, yeah, I think the

753
00:35:46,239 --> 00:35:50,799
Speaker 4: officials they know the players, especially our guys that have

754
00:35:50,880 --> 00:35:53,080
Speaker 4: played at this level for a long time. There's there's

755
00:35:53,080 --> 00:35:56,080
Speaker 4: already relationships and that type of thing, and I think

756
00:35:56,280 --> 00:35:59,759
Speaker 4: our players know the officials. So you do learn some

757
00:35:59,800 --> 00:36:02,600
Speaker 4: of the let's say, how can we say some of

758
00:36:02,600 --> 00:36:05,200
Speaker 4: the personalities and then how to handle them on both sides.

759
00:36:05,920 --> 00:36:08,160
Speaker 12: Okay, Boba Miller play point, guardland defense.

760
00:36:09,120 --> 00:36:10,680
Speaker 4: Bob Miller can guard every position.

761
00:36:10,880 --> 00:36:13,239
Speaker 12: Yes, yes, sir, tomorrow night.

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00:36:13,280 --> 00:36:13,680
Speaker 6: Thank you.

763
00:36:13,760 --> 00:36:17,239
Speaker 3: Okay, all right, Glenn, thank you very much. T L

764
00:36:17,360 --> 00:36:21,000
Speaker 3: is coming from You're right there, we go, all right.

765
00:36:21,040 --> 00:36:23,040
Speaker 3: If we have any more questions from the audience, raise

766
00:36:23,040 --> 00:36:25,040
Speaker 3: your hand. Terry will find you. Brian.

767
00:36:27,440 --> 00:36:31,200
Speaker 9: So in in conference games, obviously you're gonna have big

768
00:36:31,239 --> 00:36:32,080
Speaker 9: twelve officials.

769
00:36:32,719 --> 00:36:34,240
Speaker 4: In non conference.

770
00:36:33,800 --> 00:36:37,719
Speaker 9: Games like when you're home, is there a standard for

771
00:36:37,840 --> 00:36:41,600
Speaker 9: which what where the officiating group comes from? And then

772
00:36:41,800 --> 00:36:45,680
Speaker 9: how does that differ for a game like tomorrow, which.

773
00:36:45,440 --> 00:36:47,959
Speaker 4: Is technically a neutral site. How do they work that out?

774
00:36:48,160 --> 00:36:50,720
Speaker 4: It's it's all about the contract between the two teams,

775
00:36:52,000 --> 00:36:56,239
Speaker 4: and so who assigned the official is based on the contract.

776
00:36:56,640 --> 00:36:59,160
Speaker 4: So like any deal that's being made, they could go

777
00:36:59,200 --> 00:37:02,480
Speaker 4: a lot of different ways. For the majority of games

778
00:37:02,520 --> 00:37:07,600
Speaker 4: between two Power four opponents, the officials will be assigned

779
00:37:08,560 --> 00:37:12,440
Speaker 4: they call like a blend crew, or the commission officials

780
00:37:12,440 --> 00:37:15,640
Speaker 4: from the Big Twelve will work with the commission officials

781
00:37:15,680 --> 00:37:18,279
Speaker 4: the ACC to assign a crew together. It's not that

782
00:37:18,400 --> 00:37:21,280
Speaker 4: difficult because a lot of the guys that are working

783
00:37:21,280 --> 00:37:25,640
Speaker 4: these games work multiple leagues already, but they do make

784
00:37:25,880 --> 00:37:28,560
Speaker 4: it is important in most of these games that it's

785
00:37:28,600 --> 00:37:30,879
Speaker 4: not just a Big twelve crew, not just an ACC crew.

786
00:37:30,920 --> 00:37:34,239
Speaker 4: It's a mix. And that'll be the case tomorrow and

787
00:37:34,320 --> 00:37:38,200
Speaker 4: these tournaments that you see, like the tournaments that'll be

788
00:37:38,280 --> 00:37:40,759
Speaker 4: on Feast week on the ESPN and stuff over the

789
00:37:40,760 --> 00:37:43,920
Speaker 4: next week and a half, the tournaments will assign the

790
00:37:43,960 --> 00:37:47,240
Speaker 4: officials and they usually use an assigner from a league

791
00:37:47,400 --> 00:37:49,359
Speaker 4: or multiple assigners from leagues to do that.

792
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Speaker 3: You see Athletics Hall of Famer Corey Blunt is up next.

793
00:37:54,040 --> 00:37:56,879
Speaker 11: I'm gonna make it easy for everybody.

794
00:37:57,480 --> 00:37:58,359
Speaker 4: Officials suck.

795
00:37:59,280 --> 00:37:59,960
Speaker 6: They're not good.

796
00:38:01,000 --> 00:38:03,600
Speaker 4: So you don't have to ask him about officials no more.

797
00:38:03,680 --> 00:38:04,560
Speaker 6: But they're all bad.

798
00:38:05,400 --> 00:38:09,680
Speaker 4: Take it from somebody who has the experience of knowing that.

799
00:38:11,360 --> 00:38:12,080
Speaker 6: All right, that's the.

800
00:38:12,160 --> 00:38:18,040
Speaker 5: End of the show, everybody forever.

801
00:38:18,719 --> 00:38:21,640
Speaker 3: Did the team practice at Heritage Bank Center?

802
00:38:21,760 --> 00:38:22,080
Speaker 6: Today?

803
00:38:22,320 --> 00:38:26,759
Speaker 4: Yes? Yes, we practically did a film session today and

804
00:38:26,800 --> 00:38:29,279
Speaker 4: then a walk through in our practice facility and then

805
00:38:29,320 --> 00:38:34,440
Speaker 4: went down to Heritage Bank to practice after that. Yes.

806
00:38:36,080 --> 00:38:38,560
Speaker 3: Yes, it's always a kind of a notoriously chilly in there.

807
00:38:38,560 --> 00:38:40,520
Speaker 3: Maybe it's the ice hockey, yep.

808
00:38:40,840 --> 00:38:45,359
Speaker 5: Do you have the same game day butterflies as a

809
00:38:45,400 --> 00:38:47,440
Speaker 5: player that you do as a coach or as a

810
00:38:47,480 --> 00:38:48,480
Speaker 5: coach you have as a player.

811
00:38:50,719 --> 00:38:55,439
Speaker 4: It's different, But I still get good nerves before every

812
00:38:55,480 --> 00:38:59,080
Speaker 4: single game. And I'll tell you this, if I ever

813
00:38:59,160 --> 00:39:02,880
Speaker 4: lose that bye, I'll be on the first t because

814
00:39:04,640 --> 00:39:06,640
Speaker 4: to me, that's one of the great one of the

815
00:39:06,680 --> 00:39:09,200
Speaker 4: many great things about coaching is you still get those

816
00:39:09,840 --> 00:39:12,000
Speaker 4: same jitters and nerves that you got as a young

817
00:39:12,080 --> 00:39:13,879
Speaker 4: kid when you played the game in the park, right

818
00:39:14,040 --> 00:39:17,360
Speaker 4: and you know, gosh, when you're playing the game outside

819
00:39:17,360 --> 00:39:18,839
Speaker 4: and you know if you lost, you'd have to sit

820
00:39:18,880 --> 00:39:20,439
Speaker 4: for an hour to get a chance to play again.

821
00:39:20,920 --> 00:39:23,200
Speaker 4: I still get that, And that's that's one of the

822
00:39:23,200 --> 00:39:27,359
Speaker 4: neat things about coaching. I probably have a lot more

823
00:39:27,400 --> 00:39:32,799
Speaker 4: stress and anxiety leading up to the practices than I

824
00:39:32,840 --> 00:39:35,440
Speaker 4: do leading up to the game, because that's that's my game,

825
00:39:35,719 --> 00:39:37,680
Speaker 4: right that the preparation that we do to get the

826
00:39:37,719 --> 00:39:41,440
Speaker 4: guys ready, Like tonight's the easiest night for me. I mean,

827
00:39:41,640 --> 00:39:45,120
Speaker 4: you know, we've already done all the work, so it's

828
00:39:45,239 --> 00:39:46,880
Speaker 4: probably the best night of sleep I get. Is the

829
00:39:46,960 --> 00:39:48,440
Speaker 4: night before the game. When I was a player, I

830
00:39:48,440 --> 00:39:50,319
Speaker 4: couldn't sleep sometimes the night before the game.

831
00:39:50,920 --> 00:39:55,640
Speaker 3: When you watch basketball, do you have a notepad nearby

832
00:39:55,840 --> 00:39:58,080
Speaker 3: if you see something you like or play you like

833
00:39:58,200 --> 00:40:00,799
Speaker 3: something for a future opponent, do you that you want

834
00:40:00,840 --> 00:40:03,280
Speaker 3: to remember? Do you jot down notes while you're watching games?

835
00:40:03,360 --> 00:40:06,920
Speaker 4: Oh? Yeah, yeah, And then we have a game on

836
00:40:07,080 --> 00:40:07,760
Speaker 4: right here.

837
00:40:08,320 --> 00:40:11,480
Speaker 3: Right now, and you see Uplick's pretty good.

838
00:40:11,520 --> 00:40:14,839
Speaker 4: Yeah, I have it on my phone. I mean, this

839
00:40:14,960 --> 00:40:17,480
Speaker 4: time of year, if I'm not on the road recruiting,

840
00:40:18,080 --> 00:40:21,080
Speaker 4: you know, I'm if I'm at home at night, there's

841
00:40:21,400 --> 00:40:25,239
Speaker 4: basketball on television. There's a laptop on watching our team

842
00:40:25,320 --> 00:40:28,200
Speaker 4: or our next opponent, and there's always I have a

843
00:40:28,239 --> 00:40:30,560
Speaker 4: note section on my laptop, and I have always keep

844
00:40:30,640 --> 00:40:34,799
Speaker 4: note pads by my nightstand. I'll keep them on the

845
00:40:34,840 --> 00:40:37,000
Speaker 4: couch and all that kind of stuff for sure.

846
00:40:37,320 --> 00:40:39,560
Speaker 5: I got a text message that wanted me to ask

847
00:40:39,600 --> 00:40:43,279
Speaker 5: you what determines what you wear on game day and

848
00:40:43,320 --> 00:40:45,600
Speaker 5: then what determines when you take your coat off?

849
00:40:49,760 --> 00:40:52,560
Speaker 4: You know, I think I said this, I really do

850
00:40:52,600 --> 00:40:54,719
Speaker 4: miss the days that we wore suits on the sidelines.

851
00:40:54,760 --> 00:40:57,439
Speaker 4: I just thought there was something about you only played

852
00:40:57,480 --> 00:41:00,680
Speaker 4: thirty some games in a college basketball season, and then

853
00:41:00,920 --> 00:41:03,880
Speaker 4: it just means something, you know, and you know you

854
00:41:03,960 --> 00:41:05,840
Speaker 4: throw on a suit because it means something. And so

855
00:41:05,960 --> 00:41:09,279
Speaker 4: for me, you know, putting a sport code on it

856
00:41:09,360 --> 00:41:11,600
Speaker 4: just felt it feels more like me. It feels more

857
00:41:11,640 --> 00:41:14,359
Speaker 4: like what I believe in. So that's why I've done that.

858
00:41:14,400 --> 00:41:16,800
Speaker 4: In terms of what outfit we wear as a staff,

859
00:41:18,520 --> 00:41:20,279
Speaker 4: I have no idea, but it's like one of the

860
00:41:20,280 --> 00:41:22,560
Speaker 4: many things my staff does that I don't get involved with.

861
00:41:22,600 --> 00:41:24,520
Speaker 4: But I get a text message. I just got it

862
00:41:24,560 --> 00:41:27,760
Speaker 4: as I walked in here with what our outfit is tomorrow.

863
00:41:27,800 --> 00:41:29,200
Speaker 4: And then I got to go make sure that we

864
00:41:29,280 --> 00:41:32,680
Speaker 4: have clean laundry so so I can if I got

865
00:41:32,680 --> 00:41:35,480
Speaker 4: to wash a shirt, I gotta do it. But and

866
00:41:35,520 --> 00:41:39,000
Speaker 4: then when I take my coat off, that is that

867
00:41:39,120 --> 00:41:42,120
Speaker 4: is like not conscious, that is just whenever it doesn't

868
00:41:42,160 --> 00:41:43,000
Speaker 4: feel right. Anymore.

869
00:41:43,000 --> 00:41:46,920
Speaker 3: It's coming off what staff member picked the color combo.

870
00:41:47,920 --> 00:41:51,279
Speaker 4: If it's a if we're all excited about it, we

871
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Speaker 4: give Chad dollar credit. If we're not excited, it's it's

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Speaker 4: Andre Moore's decisions. That's how it works.

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Speaker 6: Make sure that gets back to him.

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Speaker 3: Are you are probably happy though that you're in an

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Speaker 3: eraw where even if you do want to wear the

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Speaker 3: sport coat, sneakers are acceptable.

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Speaker 4: Yeah. You guys all know I like sneakers, so that

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Speaker 4: part has been pretty cool for sure.

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Speaker 6: I've got a hole half your place is filled with sneakers.

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Speaker 3: That about you hadn't been there. You're gonna find out

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Speaker 3: on Thanksgiving night. That's the fifty first guest when when

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Speaker 3: Terry's snooping around your house, going into the closet to

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Speaker 3: see how many pairs of shoes you have.

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Speaker 6: Now you'll know what when it takes.

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Speaker 5: Me ten minutes to get out of the bathroom and

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Speaker 5: I don't have the Beg's I'm in their closet trying

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Speaker 5: to figure out how to fit this size eleven.

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Speaker 3: We have spiraled out of control.

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Speaker 4: Were really we're really moving on here in the conversation, Dan,

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Speaker 4: you want to come to Thanksgiving you're more than welcome.

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Speaker 3: Well, thank you for the invite. I'll be in Baltimore, Okay,

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Speaker 3: I will be in Baltimore watching watching the Bengals beat Terry's.

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Speaker 3: As we've learned Terry's Baltimore Ravens. How did you become

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Speaker 3: a Ravens fan?

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Speaker 6: Ray Lewis?

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Speaker 5: Ever since Ray Lewis, I do like and his leadership,

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Speaker 5: and it just carried on model of consistency.

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Speaker 3: You want to do? His dance is a tunnel dancer.

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Speaker 3: Of course he can do it looks better.

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Speaker 6: Ask for about three or four glasses of wine.

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Speaker 3: But all right, on that note, we are just about

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Speaker 3: out of time. We've got some stuff to give away

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Speaker 3: for the folks here at the original Montgomery in We

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Speaker 3: appreciate the Bearcat fans who are with us here tonight

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Speaker 3: at Cincinnati versus Louisville tomorrow at six point thirty. We'll

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Speaker 3: be on the air with a pregame show at six

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Speaker 3: o'clock until then for our engineer Joe Strecker, and for

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Speaker 3: Joe Idell back in the studio and Terry Nelson. I'm

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Speaker 3: dan Ord. Thanks for listening to the West Smaller Radio

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Speaker 3: Show and seven hundred WLWS