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Speaker 1: The following takes place between seven pm and eight pm.

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Speaker 2: All right, here we go, seven h seven seven hundred

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Speaker 2: WLW Welcome in RNL Carrier Sports Talk presented by Kelsey Chevrolet.

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Speaker 2: Two hours to get it done tonight. Man, do we

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Speaker 2: have some ground to cover between now and nine o'clock.

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Speaker 2: Let's get to it. What a weekend coming up for

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Speaker 2: UC athletics. Holy cow, let's go Friday night. You see

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Speaker 2: basketball in a showdown versus Louisville Heritage Bank Center Saturday morning,

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Speaker 2: Big noon kickoff live from Bearcats Common, top of the

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Speaker 2: top of the night at eight o'clock. Nip at night

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Speaker 2: football under the lights, U see versus by you. There's

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Speaker 2: women's volleyball with NCAA tournament, hopes and dreams being put

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Speaker 2: on the line and a chase down the stretch for that,

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Speaker 2: all of that under the umbrella of my first guest.

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Speaker 2: He's the director of athletics for the UC Bearcats. Let's

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Speaker 2: welcome in, John Gunningham. Are you ready for all this?

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Speaker 3: I hate to be.

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Speaker 4: I don't have a choice. So here it is. It's

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Speaker 4: gonna be. It's gonna be a great weekend.

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Speaker 3: Uh, just a lot of fun and a great time

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Speaker 3: to be a Bearcat.

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Speaker 2: Let me let me start with a basic question on

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Speaker 2: Big Noon Kickoff, and it's probably impossible with what a

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Speaker 2: dollar amount on it, but what is the exposure that

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Speaker 2: What does it mean to not just a football program,

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Speaker 2: but to the university. What's going to unfold on Saturday?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean it's really it's a combination of the

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Speaker 4: two things.

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Speaker 3: First, we found out, you know, earlier on that we

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Speaker 3: were going to be on Big Fox at a PM,

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Speaker 3: their prime spot, and you know when you get that

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Speaker 3: prime spot on Fox, you know the numbers.

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Speaker 4: Are gonna be huge. So there's huge exposure just in that.

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Speaker 3: And it's nip at night. We love night games at

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Speaker 3: Nippert That's what we do best.

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Speaker 4: So obviously really excited about that.

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Speaker 3: And then found out later Sunday morning that they were

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Speaker 3: going to bring Big.

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Speaker 4: New Kickoff to campus.

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Speaker 3: We've had that once before, we had it when we

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Speaker 3: played Oklahoma a few years ago, and it's just it's

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Speaker 3: absolutely absolutely huge for our university. You cannot buy that

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Speaker 3: type of exposure. We need our fans to show up,

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Speaker 3: show out and show what we're about, that we're that

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Speaker 3: we're a big time college football program right in the

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Speaker 3: heart of Cincinnati and we love to show our campus.

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Speaker 3: They're going to have cameras that will follow sorees, be

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Speaker 3: a little bit in the indoor facility, you know, coaches

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Speaker 3: on all those types of things get represented in that show.

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Speaker 2: That show starts at ten am Saturday morning, ten A

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Speaker 2: and renewed John. What are those who want to attend

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Speaker 2: those who want to are thinking about camping out? What

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Speaker 2: tell them everything they need to know about the experience.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, if you want to camp out, we're opening up TUC.

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Speaker 3: I think that's mostly maybe for our students, but maybe

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Speaker 3: there's some fans that want to do it too. So

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Speaker 3: the TUC is going to be open all night so

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Speaker 3: that that they can they can hang there and then

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Speaker 3: get early into the into the box or whatever they

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Speaker 3: call it, the little area where they're gonna have the

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Speaker 3: up front. So that's gonna be the desired location for

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Speaker 3: some Right, We're thinking our students are gonna want to

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Speaker 3: at six am.

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Speaker 4: Show starts at ten.

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Speaker 3: But to be honest, if you want to show up

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Speaker 3: at nine p thirty, there's gonna be plenty of Faith

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Speaker 3: obviously a huge area. You may not be right up front,

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Speaker 3: so you're gonna have a great a great view of

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Speaker 3: what's going on and you get to see, you know,

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Speaker 3: that that whole show. And you know, we're talking Matt

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Speaker 3: Lighter and Brady Quinn and Urban Meyer coming back to Cincinnati,

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Speaker 3: and then Dave portnoyuh and Barstool Sports and everything that

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Speaker 4: So it's a lot of fun.

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Speaker 3: We need our.

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Speaker 2: Kickoff Saturday night then is at eight. It is tough

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Speaker 3: You know, if you've been there at night with it's

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Speaker 3: it just has that different feel and it's like I

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Speaker 4: And that's just what we're going to do. So we're

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Speaker 3: All about making that that you know, facility, that that

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Speaker 4: That's that's the fun of.

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Speaker 2: It, boy. And it's also senior night for Dante Corleone

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Speaker 2: and others a total of I think twenty two seniors

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Speaker 2: who have given their their heart and soul and sweat

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Speaker 2: to the UC football program. Be nice to honor them

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's really a special group. I mean, obviously Dante,

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Speaker 3: you know, been with us for his whole career, through

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Speaker 3: year captain. You know, you don't hear about that that

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Speaker 3: But we've really done a great job of keeping a

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Speaker 3: lot of our our you know, student athletes that want

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Speaker 3: to be here and just love Cincinnati, love wearing Cincinnati

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Speaker 3: on their chest and just represent Jack Dingle is another one.

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Speaker 4: Logan Wilson.

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Speaker 3: Those guys are just you know, great bearcats that deserve

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Speaker 3: a lot of respect from our fans, and you know,

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Speaker 4: So I love giving that to him.

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Speaker 2: That's all happening on Saturday. Let's back up to Friday

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Speaker 2: night because it's hoops of showdown Downtown UC versus Number

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Speaker 2: six Louisville and man, we're talking rivals and star power

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Speaker 2: and tough to beat. A November matchup that's probably gonna

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Speaker 2: have a merch vibe or certainly a tournament resume building

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you're seeing these all over the place, right This

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Speaker 4: Dude played Kansas last night and Michigan State.

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Speaker 3: Kentucky and everybody's you're kind of going away maybe from

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Speaker 3: that's what we decided to do this year. So we're

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Speaker 3: playing Downtown neutral.

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Speaker 4: You know, you get you get.

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Speaker 3: Per the net rating, you get more credit for a

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Speaker 3: of the perfect scenario to play some neutral games.

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Speaker 4: Obviously, we still had great home.

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Speaker 3: homes versus those teams. But that's what we're doing. Downtown

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Speaker 3: versus Louisville, number six in the country.

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Speaker 4: It's gonna be a lot of fun.

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Speaker 3: It's it's gonna be a great atmosphere and a really

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Speaker 2: Early in the year, thirty tip off from Heritage Bank

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Speaker 2: Center on Friday night. For those listening who still are

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Speaker 2: making their plans for the weekend and saying, man, I

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Speaker 2: think I'll go to that. Still, they can get tickets

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Speaker 2: at ticketmaster dot com best option.

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Speaker 4: That is correct, Yes, they can go there.

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Speaker 3: I know there's some discounts as of yesterday that they

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Speaker 4: So, yeah, make your way down to.

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Speaker 3: Heritage Bank and watch a great college basketball game on

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Speaker 2: And certainly, last but not lace, let's give some love

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Speaker 2: to the volleyball program, hosting two ranked opponents at Fifth

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Speaker 2: Third Arena starting tonight and then and then also on Friday.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, Danielle Tomas's first year leading that program,

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Speaker 3: and it's one of the toughest conferences in the country.

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Speaker 3: The Big Ten probably has the top few teams in

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Speaker 3: the country with Nebraska and Penn State and Wisconsin the

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Speaker 4: The Big Twelve in volleyball is probably the best conference

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Speaker 4: in the country. We're right there. We're a bubble team.

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Speaker 3: Just like the NCAA tournament, it takes sixty four teams.

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Speaker 3: We're a bubble team right now, battling to get into that.

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Speaker 4: To get into that tournament. So a couple of home

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Speaker 4: games they're gonna be huge. We're playing to night.

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Speaker 3: Versus Iowa State and another one coming up Senior Night

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Speaker 3: this weekend. So we got to support that program. If

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Speaker 3: if you come to a volleyball game at fifth Third,

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Speaker 3: I promise you you will come back. It's exciting, it's

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Speaker 3: great volleyball, and it's just a sport on the rise

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Speaker 3: and a program on the rise.

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Speaker 2: To the Bearcats very well said what a weekend it's

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Speaker 2: gonna be enjoy. Best of luck with it and thanks

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Speaker 2: for making time tonight.

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Speaker 4: Always appreciate you, Lance. Thank you