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Speaker 5: Yes, an exciting time of year. It's bowl season.

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Speaker 5: It's the Rate Bowl.

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Speaker 6: It's December the twenty sixth, It's Minnesota and New Mexico.

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Speaker 6: It is a kickoff of three thirty Minnesota time. We'll

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Speaker 6: take care at one thirty and we have the man

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Speaker 6: of the hour, the head coach PJ. Fleck with us

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Speaker 6: here on campus. And always fun this time of year

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Speaker 6: and busy this time of year.

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Speaker 7: For you, Busy this time of year yeah, not much

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Speaker 7: going on. You know, it's kind of interesting.

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Speaker 8: Now. We were talking to our press conference today and

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Speaker 7: Talking a little bit about just how I think a

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Speaker 7: lot of people don't understand like what actually happens right

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Speaker 7: now in college football and what's happening in college athletics,

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Speaker 7: let alone people who are still playing in like the

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Speaker 7: CFP and hunting for a national championship.

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Speaker 8: You got the portal right around the corner.

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Speaker 7: We're dealing with contracts with our players and agents, you're

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Speaker 7: Bowl prepping, you're getting ready to go on the recroad recruiting,

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Speaker 7: and then the portal opens.

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Speaker 8: I mean, it's unbelievable.

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Speaker 7: It's like having a whole NFL offseason in like a month,

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Speaker 7: you know what I mean, it with not many rules,

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Speaker 7: so you can imagine how busy you are and how

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Speaker 7: many things that every day come up. You're like, wow, okay,

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Speaker 7: I haven't seen that one before, which makes it really

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Speaker 6: Part and we could probably do this entire hour program

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Speaker 6: on portal and retention and who's coming, who's going, And

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Speaker 6: we won't do that, but I do have a couple

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Speaker 6: It would be it would it would, And I know

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Speaker 6: there's been some coaches that have talked about you know,

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Speaker 6: I think part of the part of the some people

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Speaker 6: But there's ways that word gets out, there's ways that

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Speaker 7: I mean, it's kind of like saying that, hey, now

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Speaker 7: All that makes you want to do is get on

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Speaker 7: we've always known there's always been those types of things

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Speaker 7: I do love the one portal system.

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Speaker 6: It's basically one window January window in January that you're.

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Speaker 7: Set your set, and you know there's always some changes

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Speaker 7: here and there. But like other than that, like you

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Speaker 6: Next year in general terms, because I know you've even

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Speaker 7: Yeah, recruit, develop, retain, develop, repeat, Yeah, that's what you

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Speaker 6: Yeah, and again we have to talk in general terms,

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Speaker 6: And then there's a guy that you know, guys that

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Speaker 7: Everybody's treated fairly, not equally in this program because we're

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Speaker 7: It's very transparent, honest communication and conversations which are very

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Speaker 7: that's what as a coach.

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Speaker 8: You should be able to take.

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Speaker 6: And now things have changed to the point where maybe,

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Speaker 6: sixth round pick. Well maybe for that situation, that's the

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Speaker 6: Now there's money in a in a pot of money

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Speaker 8: We do all of that every day.

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Speaker 6: It's more Gopher Football Weekly with PJ Fleck the Rate

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Speaker 6: Bowl preview Show. And we want to thank CUB, the

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Speaker 6: official grocer of Go for Athletics, for their sponsorship of

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Speaker 6: the Rate Bowl broadcast here on the Gopher Sports Network.

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Speaker 6: CUB has been a proud supporter of Gopher Athletics for

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Speaker 6: over twenty years and Coach you always, I know, like

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Speaker 6: to tip your cap to the great folks at CUB.

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Speaker 6: They helped with the Turkey Drive amongst all the other

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Speaker 6: things the you know, the CUB Cares program over the years.

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Speaker 6: Every now and then I'll walk into a CUB and

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Speaker 6: I see a cardboard cutout of PJ Flex.

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Speaker 5: Standing there, you know, asking for a.

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Speaker 6: One in a while, I don't think, but I've seen

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Speaker 6: it before at the CUB. But they do a great

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Speaker 6: job and big supporters for sure.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, Kerry Higgs at a CUB is just a huge

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Speaker 7: supporter of Gopher athletics, especially go for football and anytime

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Speaker 7: we ever need anything, especially for our turkey drive. Gave

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Speaker 7: over six hundred plus turkeys, yeah, and meals. You know,

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Speaker 7: the week of Wisconsin. You know, I think that's just

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Speaker 7: show is like we're talking about. You know, you're in

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Speaker 7: the most important week of the season, You're in rivalry week.

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Speaker 7: It's cold, it's snowing, the entire teams out there on

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Speaker 7: the street here throughout our complex here and handing out

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Speaker 7: turkeys and singing Christmas songs and holiday songs and spreading

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Speaker 7: joy and this is a game week, in the middle

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Speaker 7: of game week, after practice. I mean that is just

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Speaker 7: says everything. And then Kerry Higgs and Cup Foods and

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Speaker 7: their sponsorship of us and them just anytime we ever

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Speaker 7: ask them for anything, they're.

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Speaker 8: Just like, yes, yes, how many.

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Speaker 7: And I just think that's so powerful when you have

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Speaker 7: partners that way and can't thank them enough.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, it's never a bad night when you see Jackson

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Speaker 6: Howard in a turkey costume.

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Speaker 8: Right, they got all types of costs. They got turkey costumes.

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Speaker 7: They were dressed as like peach cobbler, they were dressed

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Speaker 7: as pilgrims. We had we had like like a mashed

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Speaker 7: potatoes I think too.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, there was all types of stuff.

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Speaker 5: It was fun for sure.

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Speaker 6: Well, it was pretty fun winning that Wisconsin game two

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Speaker 6: on your birthday for a second straight year.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, you know, after last year two years ago at

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Speaker 7: Wisconsin it was my birthday. Yeah, and it was like okay,

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Speaker 7: you know, and there's like, well next year it won't

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Speaker 7: be because we're playing on Saturday. We usually play them

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Speaker 7: on Friday. Well this year we played them on Saturday

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Speaker 7: and it happened to be my birthday again. Yeah, and

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Speaker 7: I was like, oh, you know, because it really depends

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Speaker 7: on what kind of birthday you have, you know, do

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Speaker 7: you you get the acts and does a birthday great

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Speaker 7: that night or is birthday just miserable you know, where

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Speaker 7: you feel like empty, you know. So it was not

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Speaker 7: to let the circumstance dig that our behavior. But that's yeah,

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Speaker 7: it's my birthday and I get to pick how I

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Speaker 7: want to spend it, right, Yes, exactly, it's.

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Speaker 8: My party and I'll yeah cry if I.

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Speaker 6: Want to, or in this case it is yeah, absolutely

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Speaker 6: absolutely it is.

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Speaker 8: But we didn't have to worry about it. You celebrate,

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Speaker 8: and we celebrate.

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Speaker 7: We had a great night that night and had they

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Speaker 7: brought a bunch of them and there after the game.

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Speaker 7: People don't know this, but she brought in a few

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Speaker 7: of my friends from just different places. They don't live here,

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Speaker 7: a few of my friends. And I was like, but

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Speaker 7: what if we didn't win? Because they ran up to

556
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Speaker 7: me on the field store, But that's what they surprised me.

557
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Speaker 7: And I was like, but what if we didn't win

558
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Speaker 7: and you brought all these people here? You know me

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Speaker 7: after a game, I'm not necessarily like the greatest hang

560
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Speaker 7: after the game if we don't win, I'm not.

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Speaker 8: It's fun. I'm just not.

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Speaker 7: It's like that's the risk out or risk I was

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Speaker 7: willing to take. And I was like, that's why I

564
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Speaker 7: married her.

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Speaker 5: She had confidence. She had confidence.

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Speaker 8: She willed it to happen.

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Speaker 6: Four or five in that series, which is I know

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Speaker 6: a great thing and we're as we're on the show

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Speaker 6: here we're in the football complex. You walk into that

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Speaker 6: entry way down there, and you see that acts in

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Speaker 6: that trophy case. So that never gets old. Not a

572
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Speaker 6: day does that get old.

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Speaker 8: Ever.

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Speaker 7: I coming through that door and when I'm doing different

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Speaker 7: media stuff and going over to the other building and

576
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Speaker 7: come back through that door, and it's a it's a

577
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Speaker 7: great sight to see every time you walk in there,

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Speaker 7: for sure.

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Speaker 6: And I think we talk about You've talked about it

580
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Speaker 6: during even that week. The rivalry is only a rivalry

581
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Speaker 6: if you can win it a few times, and now

582
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Speaker 6: four out of five that makes it an even fiercer

583
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Speaker 6: rivalry because you know, the folks to the east now

584
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Speaker 6: are hey, we got to get that thing back. So

585
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Speaker 6: you know, another year here and hopefully more after that.

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Speaker 6: But that that that what makes that Thanksgiving a week

587
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Speaker 6: pretty fun?

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Speaker 8: Yeah, it does.

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Speaker 7: And then when you look at the history of the rovalry,

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Speaker 7: it's sixty four, sixty three and eight, I think eight. Yeah,

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Speaker 7: all right, so sixty four, sixty three at eight, So

592
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Speaker 7: take out the eight ties, sixty four and sixty three.

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Speaker 8: Think about that like one game off.

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Speaker 7: I mean, there's no way that can be possible of

595
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Speaker 7: one hundred and twenty seven of those games that are

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Speaker 7: one hundred and thirty five of them, Yeah, one hundred

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Speaker 7: and twenty seven of them. Yeah, were almost split right

598
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Speaker 7: down the middle and one and eight were eight were tied.

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Speaker 8: Incredible. I mean think about that, That truly is incredible. Yeah.

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Speaker 7: I'm just very grateful every day to be a part

601
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Speaker 7: of that. Robvaly and never take that for granted.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, fun fun day with the snow, and especially when

603
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Speaker 6: it's snow, when it snowed.

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Speaker 5: And then the fourth quarter.

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Speaker 6: I know I asked you about this on recruiting day

606
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Speaker 6: the because you were you had you were busy, you

607
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Speaker 6: had things going on there in the fourth quarter. But

608
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Speaker 6: once it was pretty apparent that the golfers are going

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Speaker 6: to keep the acts. They were playing music in the

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Speaker 6: commercial or you know, in the in the TV timeouts,

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Speaker 6: and the whole stadium it's like a big karaoke bar,

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Speaker 6: you know, forty thousand people singing piano. Man, it was

613
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Speaker 6: this uphoric sense. It was just incredible.

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Speaker 8: How great was that? Yeah, that's what you know.

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Speaker 7: It was funny because you know, I got a chance

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Speaker 7: to watch some football, you know, the later on in

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Speaker 7: the day, and there's a lot of people that had

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Speaker 7: the same type of weather and there's nobody in the stands.

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Speaker 8: Yeah.

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Speaker 7: And our fans fifty thousand State all the way to

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Speaker 7: the very end.

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Speaker 13: Yeah.

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Speaker 7: And the students were incredible, incredible, I mean incredible the

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Speaker 7: whole game.

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Speaker 8: And I'm just so proud that.

626
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Speaker 7: You know, when we first got here, we said, this

627
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Speaker 7: is what type of environment we want to continue to

628
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Speaker 7: create and keep, and they have come through all year.

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Speaker 7: Our students all year were exceptional, Our band was exceptional

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Speaker 7: all year, our fans, our season ticket holders, incredible all year,

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Speaker 7: and we end up being seven and zero at home.

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Speaker 8: Yeah.

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Speaker 7: And it takes them to create that home field advantage

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Speaker 7: that you want to have. That it's a very difficult

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Speaker 7: place to play. We know all the difficult places to

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Speaker 7: play that if somebody asked you of all the experience with.

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Speaker 5: The head coach, PJ.

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Speaker 6: for Athletics and then the football team as well. With

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Speaker 6: our buddy Brian Slipka in company.

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Speaker 8: He's awesome.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 7: We usually have a meeting me and me and Slipka

651
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Speaker 7: probably once every two weeks in season, you know, and

652
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Speaker 7: it's almost like a therapy session for both of us.

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Speaker 7: And I just kind of sneak out for about twenty

654
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Speaker 7: thirty minutes see him his offices right down the road

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Speaker 7: so they can come on back. And I think it's

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Speaker 7: good for both of us. But he's a what an

657
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Speaker 7: amazing guy that's got his hands seemed to be in everything. Yeah,

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Speaker 7: and all types of companies and businesses. And it's taking

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Speaker 7: care of a lot of our a lot of our

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Speaker 7: former players and who are doing very well for him

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00:28:56,320 --> 00:28:56,840
Speaker 7: right now too.

662
00:28:56,880 --> 00:28:59,120
Speaker 8: So that's a great connection for the future as well, Yeah,

663
00:28:59,120 --> 00:28:59,440
Speaker 8: no doubt.

664
00:28:59,440 --> 00:29:01,760
Speaker 6: All right, let's talk about the rate bull December the

665
00:29:01,800 --> 00:29:04,880
Speaker 6: twenty sixth day after Christmas. We'll start with that because

666
00:29:04,880 --> 00:29:07,640
Speaker 6: you guys leave on Sunday and so you guys will

667
00:29:07,640 --> 00:29:10,760
Speaker 6: be you know, technically away from home. For the holidays,

668
00:29:10,800 --> 00:29:13,640
Speaker 6: so to speak. But I know that there's also an

669
00:29:13,680 --> 00:29:16,840
Speaker 6: aspect that the team wants to be together over the holidays.

670
00:29:16,840 --> 00:29:18,600
Speaker 6: A lot of the families of the coaching staff come

671
00:29:18,640 --> 00:29:21,440
Speaker 6: down as well and kind of take us through.

672
00:29:21,360 --> 00:29:21,959
Speaker 8: That part of it.

673
00:29:22,280 --> 00:29:24,280
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, I think it's really important one that

674
00:29:24,320 --> 00:29:26,280
Speaker 7: everybody knows, like, we love playing in bowl games and

675
00:29:26,320 --> 00:29:28,440
Speaker 7: this is going to be tremendous for our football program.

676
00:29:28,480 --> 00:29:31,000
Speaker 7: And I'm looking at the weather right now, which is great.

677
00:29:31,040 --> 00:29:33,080
Speaker 7: So I mean we leave Sunday at seventy eight, Monday

678
00:29:33,120 --> 00:29:36,560
Speaker 7: seventy nine, Tuesday seventy four, Wednesday seventy three.

679
00:29:36,520 --> 00:29:37,320
Speaker 5: Nothing wrong with that.

680
00:29:37,560 --> 00:29:39,280
Speaker 7: I think it's both the rain and the rest of

681
00:29:39,320 --> 00:29:41,320
Speaker 7: the week. But we're indoors, so halls. We don't have

682
00:29:41,360 --> 00:29:43,120
Speaker 7: any parachuters that have roof close.

683
00:29:44,600 --> 00:29:46,600
Speaker 8: Or feel free to throw it open. Yeah, don't care.

684
00:29:46,680 --> 00:29:47,840
Speaker 8: Yeah that's true. Put it open.

685
00:29:47,960 --> 00:29:48,600
Speaker 5: Yeah that's true.

686
00:29:48,960 --> 00:29:52,080
Speaker 7: But I think they learned from their past, right deathing closed.

687
00:29:52,120 --> 00:29:53,880
Speaker 7: But I think it's such a great time. I love

688
00:29:53,880 --> 00:29:56,280
Speaker 7: when the bowl games are on the twenty sixth because

689
00:29:56,360 --> 00:29:58,520
Speaker 7: we all get kind of the holiday together the day

690
00:29:58,560 --> 00:30:02,480
Speaker 7: before the game and everybody's already had their the bowl

691
00:30:02,520 --> 00:30:05,240
Speaker 7: festivities and activities, and now you're kind of focusing on

692
00:30:05,280 --> 00:30:08,000
Speaker 7: the game where it's you know, Christmas morning, and everybody's

693
00:30:08,080 --> 00:30:11,120
Speaker 7: kind of together throughout Christmas Day, nobody's alone. The families

694
00:30:11,160 --> 00:30:12,800
Speaker 7: are there, the kids are there, our players are there,

695
00:30:12,840 --> 00:30:15,400
Speaker 7: their families are there. I think it's just a wonderful

696
00:30:15,400 --> 00:30:17,440
Speaker 7: bonding experience. Then you play the next day and you know,

697
00:30:17,480 --> 00:30:20,520
Speaker 7: then you're on at twenty twenty six. But we're very

698
00:30:20,520 --> 00:30:22,240
Speaker 7: thankful to be back in the Rape Bowl, just because

699
00:30:22,240 --> 00:30:23,840
Speaker 7: they take such good carry you when you're there.

700
00:30:23,880 --> 00:30:25,840
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm asking you this question. I didn't ask ahead

701
00:30:25,840 --> 00:30:28,680
Speaker 6: of time, so I'm in danger of maybe not for

702
00:30:28,760 --> 00:30:30,280
Speaker 6: sure what the answer is going to be here. Not

703
00:30:30,320 --> 00:30:32,240
Speaker 6: that I always know your answer, but I saw it

704
00:30:32,280 --> 00:30:34,160
Speaker 6: firsthand in New York when you were out there, when

705
00:30:34,560 --> 00:30:37,360
Speaker 6: you and Heather gave the coaching staff kids and the

706
00:30:37,440 --> 00:30:40,800
Speaker 6: kids that were on the trip over Christmas and the

707
00:30:40,800 --> 00:30:44,960
Speaker 6: holidays presence, and we had kids riding scooters around in

708
00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:48,440
Speaker 6: the lobby, We had NERF basketball hoops up in the lobby.

709
00:30:48,720 --> 00:30:50,840
Speaker 6: It was so cool. And so I'm assuming you still

710
00:30:50,880 --> 00:30:52,920
Speaker 6: do that. I probably should have asked before I.

711
00:30:52,880 --> 00:30:54,600
Speaker 7: Asked if you asked it, I didn't boy, what a

712
00:30:55,040 --> 00:30:56,239
Speaker 7: grit over here.

713
00:30:56,320 --> 00:30:56,720
Speaker 8: Screwge.

714
00:30:56,760 --> 00:30:58,880
Speaker 6: But I thought that was one of the honestly, and

715
00:30:58,920 --> 00:31:01,560
Speaker 6: I mean this in all sincerity, watching those kids and

716
00:31:01,800 --> 00:31:04,760
Speaker 6: they weren't like little trinket presents. These were like nice

717
00:31:04,800 --> 00:31:07,640
Speaker 6: gifts and their their eyes light up there on the road.

718
00:31:07,840 --> 00:31:09,520
Speaker 6: It's one of the coolest things I've seen in my

719
00:31:09,600 --> 00:31:11,400
Speaker 6: time covering GO for Athletics.

720
00:31:11,520 --> 00:31:13,520
Speaker 7: Well, as I said before, you know, we're all in

721
00:31:13,560 --> 00:31:15,800
Speaker 7: this together. We're all rowing the boat together. And whether

722
00:31:15,840 --> 00:31:19,000
Speaker 7: it's the coaches, whether it's our support staff, administration, or

723
00:31:19,080 --> 00:31:21,480
Speaker 7: all of our families, everybody's involved in this thing.

724
00:31:21,600 --> 00:31:23,920
Speaker 8: And this is our livelihood.

725
00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:27,120
Speaker 7: This isn't a hobby, and so everybody has to sacrifice

726
00:31:27,120 --> 00:31:31,000
Speaker 7: something to do this job. And Heather and I believe that,

727
00:31:31,080 --> 00:31:32,959
Speaker 7: you know, we not only have our own four children

728
00:31:33,040 --> 00:31:37,080
Speaker 7: right to be parents too, but also we look at

729
00:31:37,120 --> 00:31:39,440
Speaker 7: all of our players as part of our family. And

730
00:31:39,480 --> 00:31:41,800
Speaker 7: then are a lot of our coaches families. Some Coach

731
00:31:41,880 --> 00:31:43,600
Speaker 7: Nickel has been with us the whole time, and you've

732
00:31:43,600 --> 00:31:46,760
Speaker 7: got four daughters and we've known them. Coach Nickel before

733
00:31:46,760 --> 00:31:49,160
Speaker 7: they didn't have any kids, and now you're seeing his daughters.

734
00:31:49,200 --> 00:31:51,200
Speaker 7: So it's a tradition Heather and I love to do

735
00:31:51,920 --> 00:31:53,880
Speaker 7: great Now everybody's gonna expect ye, and we like to

736
00:31:53,880 --> 00:31:56,040
Speaker 7: make it a surprise, but no, you're okay.

737
00:31:56,400 --> 00:31:58,760
Speaker 8: But what we do is we always ask the parents too.

738
00:31:58,880 --> 00:32:00,440
Speaker 7: Like it's not Heather and I saying, you know what,

739
00:32:00,880 --> 00:32:03,200
Speaker 7: I think little Johnny would like a scooter, and I think,

740
00:32:03,240 --> 00:32:05,360
Speaker 7: you know, a little Susie would like a doll. You know,

741
00:32:05,400 --> 00:32:07,840
Speaker 7: we're not Sannah, but what we are is we always

742
00:32:07,880 --> 00:32:11,560
Speaker 7: ask our coaches, hey, you know, what does your son

743
00:32:11,640 --> 00:32:13,680
Speaker 7: or daughter want? Let us, you know, help you out

744
00:32:13,720 --> 00:32:15,480
Speaker 7: with that, and let's go get them that gift. And

745
00:32:15,880 --> 00:32:19,360
Speaker 7: it's so fun because on Christmas, these are players.

746
00:32:19,600 --> 00:32:20,520
Speaker 8: This is part of football.

747
00:32:20,840 --> 00:32:23,200
Speaker 7: But the young kids that have to kind of do

748
00:32:23,240 --> 00:32:26,360
Speaker 7: football or do the holidays a little different, they can

749
00:32:26,400 --> 00:32:29,160
Speaker 7: still have Christmas, they can still have that holiday that morning,

750
00:32:29,800 --> 00:32:31,240
Speaker 7: and I think we all we all do it together

751
00:32:31,280 --> 00:32:33,280
Speaker 7: as a team, which is great. And they all open

752
00:32:33,360 --> 00:32:35,840
Speaker 7: it at once, and it's hilarious because you have forty

753
00:32:35,880 --> 00:32:39,280
Speaker 7: some little kids who some are patient, some are not patient,

754
00:32:39,640 --> 00:32:42,120
Speaker 7: and they are ready to rip into these gifts and

755
00:32:42,160 --> 00:32:43,959
Speaker 7: we all kind of do a little countdown and our

756
00:32:43,960 --> 00:32:46,360
Speaker 7: players are there. The kids rip into the gifts and

757
00:32:46,360 --> 00:32:49,480
Speaker 7: it just it brings that sense of that that holiday

758
00:32:49,560 --> 00:32:52,480
Speaker 7: spirit into that room and into something that you have.

759
00:32:52,400 --> 00:32:55,200
Speaker 8: To adapt a little bit, but you can still have

760
00:32:55,280 --> 00:32:55,880
Speaker 8: it on that day.

761
00:32:55,960 --> 00:32:56,800
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's pretty cool.

762
00:32:56,800 --> 00:32:57,760
Speaker 8: It's a lot of fun, no doubt.

763
00:32:58,200 --> 00:33:00,840
Speaker 6: All Right, the game itself, you know, in terms of

764
00:33:00,880 --> 00:33:03,280
Speaker 6: getting ready, we spent most of the show talking about

765
00:33:03,320 --> 00:33:05,720
Speaker 6: all the other stuff that you're dealing with. Let's talk

766
00:33:05,720 --> 00:33:08,400
Speaker 6: about the game, game prep, Bowl prep. You've talked about

767
00:33:08,400 --> 00:33:09,840
Speaker 6: it in the past that some of this is a

768
00:33:09,840 --> 00:33:12,920
Speaker 6: celebration of twenty twenty five, some of it's a precursor

769
00:33:12,960 --> 00:33:14,640
Speaker 6: to what you're going to see in twenty twenty six

770
00:33:14,680 --> 00:33:18,520
Speaker 6: with springball. Just you know, mere months away. How has

771
00:33:18,560 --> 00:33:20,960
Speaker 6: the bull prep been going now as you're you know,

772
00:33:21,000 --> 00:33:22,640
Speaker 6: a little less than a week away from kickoff.

773
00:33:22,720 --> 00:33:24,880
Speaker 7: Yeah, right now, we're we're in kind of we're all

774
00:33:24,960 --> 00:33:27,680
Speaker 7: New Mexico all the time. So we've got four total

775
00:33:27,720 --> 00:33:29,640
Speaker 7: practices right now, and we kind of do a group

776
00:33:29,680 --> 00:33:32,040
Speaker 7: practice which is more of a walk through practice then

777
00:33:32,040 --> 00:33:34,040
Speaker 7: a practice than a walk through practice then a practice,

778
00:33:34,040 --> 00:33:36,680
Speaker 7: and then we leave and we have a rule that

779
00:33:36,760 --> 00:33:40,120
Speaker 7: all cards, all practice scripts, everything is done prior to

780
00:33:40,200 --> 00:33:42,400
Speaker 7: going out to the Bowl trip. So our coaches have

781
00:33:42,440 --> 00:33:44,520
Speaker 7: been working the last few weeks. Once we knew our opponent,

782
00:33:44,560 --> 00:33:47,040
Speaker 7: we went on to New Mexico or New Mexico, And

783
00:33:47,120 --> 00:33:48,880
Speaker 7: when you look at the whole week, the week one

784
00:33:48,920 --> 00:33:52,160
Speaker 7: is always Minnesota versus Minnesota. Week week two we start

785
00:33:52,160 --> 00:33:55,840
Speaker 7: bringing our other players back. Sorry, Week one, young guys,

786
00:33:55,920 --> 00:33:58,200
Speaker 7: We two Minnesota versus Minnesota. We bring our older guys

787
00:33:58,240 --> 00:34:00,440
Speaker 7: back in. And then week three we're in and that's

788
00:34:00,560 --> 00:34:03,560
Speaker 7: New Mexico planning and getting ready for that. And then

789
00:34:03,640 --> 00:34:05,959
Speaker 7: we always do the bull site just like we normally

790
00:34:06,000 --> 00:34:08,000
Speaker 7: do during the week. So we're going out there Sunday,

791
00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:10,879
Speaker 7: which is technically the player's day off Monday of gaming

792
00:34:10,880 --> 00:34:12,640
Speaker 7: because we play on a Friday. So then we just

793
00:34:12,680 --> 00:34:14,439
Speaker 7: go ahead and plug and play from there.

794
00:34:14,600 --> 00:34:17,640
Speaker 6: Yeah, very into the routine you always have then on

795
00:34:17,640 --> 00:34:18,480
Speaker 6: once you get down there.

796
00:34:18,560 --> 00:34:20,800
Speaker 7: Yeah, our administration has been tremendous are allowing us to

797
00:34:20,800 --> 00:34:23,239
Speaker 7: go down there two days early, which allows us to

798
00:34:23,280 --> 00:34:26,680
Speaker 7: stay in the You know, Monday is travel day, technically

799
00:34:26,680 --> 00:34:29,600
Speaker 7: the player's day off you don't practice anyway, and then

800
00:34:29,760 --> 00:34:32,319
Speaker 7: that Monday is technically a Tuesday that next day, so

801
00:34:32,360 --> 00:34:34,440
Speaker 7: we're using Monday as at Tuesday, and that Tuesday is

802
00:34:34,440 --> 00:34:34,960
Speaker 7: a Wednesday, and.

803
00:34:34,960 --> 00:34:36,640
Speaker 8: Then we're in game week. So it's.

804
00:34:38,040 --> 00:34:40,799
Speaker 7: It keeps it keeps like the schedule as close to

805
00:34:40,840 --> 00:34:42,319
Speaker 7: a game schedule as you can possibly have.

806
00:34:43,200 --> 00:34:44,160
Speaker 5: We talked there, I did.

807
00:34:44,200 --> 00:34:46,440
Speaker 6: I was able lucky enough. Drake Lindsay was on my

808
00:34:46,480 --> 00:34:48,680
Speaker 6: podcast last week and he talked about his growth and

809
00:34:48,760 --> 00:34:50,400
Speaker 6: different things, and I'll ask you about that, but the

810
00:34:50,440 --> 00:34:52,400
Speaker 6: first thing I want to ask you about is he

811
00:34:52,480 --> 00:34:54,680
Speaker 6: said that one of the areas he grew the most,

812
00:34:54,880 --> 00:34:57,560
Speaker 6: he thought in his time was that week where it

813
00:34:57,600 --> 00:34:59,360
Speaker 6: was young guys and he got all the reps of

814
00:34:59,560 --> 00:35:02,759
Speaker 6: Bullpris before Max then kind of got back in it.

815
00:35:03,000 --> 00:35:05,239
Speaker 6: And the importance of that, he said he that was

816
00:35:05,280 --> 00:35:07,000
Speaker 6: the week he kind of said, all right, this is

817
00:35:07,040 --> 00:35:10,160
Speaker 6: kind of a baton passing off. I'm paraphrasing a little bit.

818
00:35:10,160 --> 00:35:12,440
Speaker 6: Basically he talked about that, So take me through the

819
00:35:12,440 --> 00:35:14,799
Speaker 6: theory on that. Obviously it paid off because Drake had

820
00:35:14,840 --> 00:35:17,560
Speaker 6: a nice year and all of that stuff, but of

821
00:35:17,600 --> 00:35:19,400
Speaker 6: getting the young guys that week and then letting the

822
00:35:19,440 --> 00:35:21,680
Speaker 6: guys who just beat their brains out for thirteen weeks

823
00:35:21,760 --> 00:35:23,080
Speaker 6: kind of decompress, right.

824
00:35:23,160 --> 00:35:25,680
Speaker 7: It really is, you know, and we have some guys

825
00:35:25,680 --> 00:35:27,160
Speaker 7: playing in the game we have some guys not playing

826
00:35:27,160 --> 00:35:29,080
Speaker 7: in the game, but you want to give everybody a

827
00:35:29,080 --> 00:35:31,080
Speaker 7: little time to just kind of relax.

828
00:35:30,760 --> 00:35:31,160
Speaker 8: A little bit.

829
00:35:31,200 --> 00:35:33,680
Speaker 7: They've earned that right by going to a Bull game Nember.

830
00:35:33,719 --> 00:35:35,120
Speaker 7: Going to a bowl game is a good thing. Yes,

831
00:35:35,280 --> 00:35:37,680
Speaker 7: it's earned. You know, it's fun. You don't want them

832
00:35:37,680 --> 00:35:38,560
Speaker 7: to be like, oh, I got to go to a

833
00:35:38,560 --> 00:35:40,080
Speaker 7: Bull game. Our guys have never done that, which I

834
00:35:40,120 --> 00:35:41,840
Speaker 7: give him credit. There's a lot of guys who have

835
00:35:42,040 --> 00:35:45,799
Speaker 7: NFL aspirations and you know, have decided not to do that,

836
00:35:45,880 --> 00:35:47,160
Speaker 7: But I don't blame them for that.

837
00:35:47,160 --> 00:35:47,920
Speaker 8: That's their decision.

838
00:35:47,960 --> 00:35:50,960
Speaker 7: That's why it's a celebration of twenty five, but it's

839
00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:52,799
Speaker 7: the start of twenty six. So there's a lot of

840
00:35:52,800 --> 00:35:54,800
Speaker 7: guys who maybe didn't play in the twenty five season

841
00:35:54,800 --> 00:35:58,279
Speaker 7: that will play that Bull game in twenty six. Well,

842
00:35:58,320 --> 00:36:00,520
Speaker 7: play in the Bull game, which is their start of

843
00:36:00,560 --> 00:36:02,319
Speaker 7: twenty six. And that was kind of where Drake was

844
00:36:02,600 --> 00:36:06,279
Speaker 7: where that first week of last year's bullprep was so

845
00:36:06,320 --> 00:36:09,799
Speaker 7: important for his twenty five season, and that was it

846
00:36:09,840 --> 00:36:13,040
Speaker 7: was priceless for us because he got you know, eight

847
00:36:13,080 --> 00:36:16,160
Speaker 7: to ten days where it was his offense and that's

848
00:36:16,160 --> 00:36:18,239
Speaker 7: where you saw I think the most growth in terms

849
00:36:18,280 --> 00:36:21,440
Speaker 7: of being able to capture everybody in January, even though

850
00:36:21,440 --> 00:36:24,440
Speaker 7: he hadn't played yet, it was, Hey, this is I'm

851
00:36:24,480 --> 00:36:25,960
Speaker 7: going to be the leader of this football team and

852
00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:27,000
Speaker 7: work really hard at it.

853
00:36:27,040 --> 00:36:27,200
Speaker 8: Now.

854
00:36:27,239 --> 00:36:28,839
Speaker 7: He's gonna be a way better leader in twenty six

855
00:36:28,840 --> 00:36:31,000
Speaker 7: than he wasn't twenty five. But that kind of got

856
00:36:31,040 --> 00:36:31,520
Speaker 7: it started.

857
00:36:31,600 --> 00:36:35,080
Speaker 6: Yeah, and he did in the podcast mentioned he's back

858
00:36:35,120 --> 00:36:37,520
Speaker 6: next year, which I know is good news, and he's

859
00:36:37,600 --> 00:36:39,319
Speaker 6: obviously going to play in the Bowl game and all

860
00:36:39,360 --> 00:36:43,160
Speaker 6: those things, so you know, I know you it's still

861
00:36:43,160 --> 00:36:45,640
Speaker 6: a process with the rest of the roster, but in general,

862
00:36:45,920 --> 00:36:48,279
Speaker 6: that's good news. Right, Your quarterback from twenty fives back

863
00:36:48,400 --> 00:36:49,360
Speaker 6: for twenty six.

864
00:36:49,239 --> 00:36:50,600
Speaker 7: The hell of a lot better than I'm saying I'm

865
00:36:50,640 --> 00:36:55,680
Speaker 7: not coming back. But he's just such an amazing young man. Incredible,

866
00:36:56,280 --> 00:36:59,960
Speaker 7: he truly is. And he's so mature beyond his year.

867
00:37:00,160 --> 00:37:02,279
Speaker 7: I'm not saying he doesn't have to keep maturing, but

868
00:37:02,320 --> 00:37:04,799
Speaker 7: he is very mature past his years, and he's done

869
00:37:04,840 --> 00:37:07,400
Speaker 7: it in a short amount of time. Where there's a

870
00:37:07,400 --> 00:37:09,319
Speaker 7: picture on our patio where you see him and I

871
00:37:09,400 --> 00:37:12,280
Speaker 7: and his dad when his recruiting visit, and you're looking.

872
00:37:12,080 --> 00:37:13,520
Speaker 8: At that picture, and you're like, is that even the

873
00:37:13,560 --> 00:37:14,240
Speaker 8: same kid?

874
00:37:14,600 --> 00:37:15,840
Speaker 7: And that was just a year and a half to

875
00:37:15,880 --> 00:37:20,040
Speaker 7: two years ago, and physically, mentally, emotionally, he's just matured

876
00:37:20,200 --> 00:37:23,600
Speaker 7: so much and you feel really good about you know,

877
00:37:23,719 --> 00:37:25,400
Speaker 7: you're looking at these as you know, these aren't just

878
00:37:25,800 --> 00:37:27,680
Speaker 7: it's not just year in, year out, you're just gonna play.

879
00:37:27,719 --> 00:37:29,719
Speaker 7: These are deals too, right, So you got to feel

880
00:37:29,719 --> 00:37:31,560
Speaker 7: good on your end as a coach, and they got

881
00:37:31,560 --> 00:37:33,600
Speaker 7: to feel good on their end as a feel good

882
00:37:33,600 --> 00:37:35,399
Speaker 7: on their end as a player. And when the deal

883
00:37:35,480 --> 00:37:37,400
Speaker 7: is done, you feel like, you know what, if we're

884
00:37:37,440 --> 00:37:39,919
Speaker 7: gonna do that deal, thank goodness he's getting that deal

885
00:37:39,960 --> 00:37:43,840
Speaker 7: because it it couldn't happen to a better kid, better family.

886
00:37:44,480 --> 00:37:47,200
Speaker 7: And that's what you find a lot of like peace

887
00:37:47,239 --> 00:37:48,279
Speaker 7: in this is like, all right.

888
00:37:48,239 --> 00:37:49,479
Speaker 8: Has happened to a really good kid.

889
00:37:50,239 --> 00:37:51,759
Speaker 7: It's kind of when it goes the other way that

890
00:37:51,840 --> 00:37:53,520
Speaker 7: I know a lot of people on the outside struggle

891
00:37:53,600 --> 00:37:55,680
Speaker 7: with So I'm glad we don't have a lot of

892
00:37:55,719 --> 00:37:59,560
Speaker 7: those issues. So it's he's a tremendous leader for a football.

893
00:37:59,200 --> 00:38:02,080
Speaker 6: Team, yeah, and that this is the place he wants

894
00:38:02,120 --> 00:38:04,320
Speaker 6: to be. He likes the culture, he likes his coaching staff.

895
00:38:04,440 --> 00:38:06,839
Speaker 6: He likes the offense. He thinks that's the offense that's

896
00:38:06,840 --> 00:38:09,600
Speaker 6: going to help him develop, not just for Minnesota, but

897
00:38:09,840 --> 00:38:13,439
Speaker 6: you know, his potential possible pro career down the line too.

898
00:38:13,880 --> 00:38:17,640
Speaker 7: Yeah, we just listened to Drake, and whatever Drake wants,

899
00:38:17,800 --> 00:38:22,120
Speaker 7: he gets. But when you think about it, like I

900
00:38:22,160 --> 00:38:24,560
Speaker 7: said this weeks ago, somebody asked me, I think it

901
00:38:24,560 --> 00:38:26,000
Speaker 7: was in area of presidentaid. Yeah, he has a lot

902
00:38:26,000 --> 00:38:29,239
Speaker 7: of input. Of course, your quarterback should have input. When

903
00:38:29,280 --> 00:38:33,280
Speaker 7: the type of responsibility we're putting on these young people,

904
00:38:33,840 --> 00:38:36,200
Speaker 7: they should have even more of a voice than they

905
00:38:36,200 --> 00:38:38,359
Speaker 7: had before, especially if we're going to be talking these

906
00:38:38,360 --> 00:38:40,960
Speaker 7: contracts and the money they're having, because what much is

907
00:38:41,160 --> 00:38:44,160
Speaker 7: earned or given as much as expected. So I want

908
00:38:44,160 --> 00:38:47,160
Speaker 7: to help them develop that way where they can have

909
00:38:47,239 --> 00:38:49,400
Speaker 7: those hot conversations, they can be open and talk to

910
00:38:49,440 --> 00:38:51,919
Speaker 7: you about how they feel. But Drake's a great fit here,

911
00:38:52,440 --> 00:38:54,080
Speaker 7: and I think that's where at the end of the day,

912
00:38:54,080 --> 00:38:55,719
Speaker 7: it's not about the money. I'm certa people would have

913
00:38:55,719 --> 00:38:58,520
Speaker 7: probably paid him more, but it was the fit here

914
00:38:59,120 --> 00:39:00,920
Speaker 7: where he could grow on field, he could grow off

915
00:39:00,920 --> 00:39:01,239
Speaker 7: the field.

916
00:39:01,280 --> 00:39:02,600
Speaker 8: His family's a great fit here.

917
00:39:02,760 --> 00:39:04,680
Speaker 7: He's being developed in the system that he wants to

918
00:39:04,680 --> 00:39:06,839
Speaker 7: be able to create an NFL quarterback. When you look

919
00:39:06,880 --> 00:39:09,520
Speaker 7: at all the quarterbacks that we've had here in different systems,

920
00:39:09,560 --> 00:39:11,640
Speaker 7: this system's produced the one that you know got an

921
00:39:11,719 --> 00:39:14,160
Speaker 7: NFL start. You know, when you look at it right now,

922
00:39:14,360 --> 00:39:16,319
Speaker 7: I know it wasn't as good as what people wanted,

923
00:39:16,320 --> 00:39:17,759
Speaker 7: but that was the first start of his career. He

924
00:39:17,760 --> 00:39:20,600
Speaker 7: has the top three defense in the NFL. So, but

925
00:39:20,640 --> 00:39:22,399
Speaker 7: it's when you look at it. This is the type

926
00:39:22,440 --> 00:39:25,520
Speaker 7: of system that allows Drake within his skill sets, to

927
00:39:25,640 --> 00:39:27,040
Speaker 7: maximize that to his ability.

928
00:39:27,040 --> 00:39:29,160
Speaker 8: And he won the most games and as a.

929
00:39:29,120 --> 00:39:31,799
Speaker 7: Freshman or and go for history as a freshman right

930
00:39:32,120 --> 00:39:34,520
Speaker 7: or freshman record of how many wins a freshman has won.

931
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Speaker 8: That's a huge accomplishment.

932
00:39:36,719 --> 00:39:39,759
Speaker 7: And to keep watching him develop within this, within this

933
00:39:39,840 --> 00:39:44,240
Speaker 7: offensive system that works complementary with our defense and special teams,

934
00:39:44,480 --> 00:39:46,759
Speaker 7: I think watching him coach Harbo really grow together has

935
00:39:46,800 --> 00:39:47,399
Speaker 7: been fun to watch.

936
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Speaker 8: Yeah.

937
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Speaker 6: Absolutely, all right, we're going to talk about New Mexico

938
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939
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982
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983
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Speaker 6: Mexico Lobos are your opponent. PJ Flex So what do

984
00:42:21,480 --> 00:42:23,080
Speaker 6: we know about the Lobos.

985
00:42:23,160 --> 00:42:25,080
Speaker 7: Yeah, Coach X had a heck of a season with

986
00:42:25,120 --> 00:42:28,320
Speaker 7: this team, nine wins, and I'm sure they want their tenth.

987
00:42:28,320 --> 00:42:31,160
Speaker 7: And you know, they blew out UCLA, played Michigan really

988
00:42:31,200 --> 00:42:33,839
Speaker 7: tough one to one possession games, blew out a lot

989
00:42:33,880 --> 00:42:35,960
Speaker 7: of guys in their conference. So this is a team

990
00:42:36,000 --> 00:42:39,000
Speaker 7: that playing really really well, really hard. They play together,

991
00:42:39,440 --> 00:42:41,280
Speaker 7: They do a lot of the small things really well,

992
00:42:41,840 --> 00:42:43,360
Speaker 7: but they run the football a ton.

993
00:42:43,440 --> 00:42:44,920
Speaker 8: In a really creative way.

994
00:42:45,480 --> 00:42:47,239
Speaker 7: They always keep you off balance, and they tried to

995
00:42:47,239 --> 00:42:49,120
Speaker 7: out number you and they do a really good job

996
00:42:49,120 --> 00:42:49,319
Speaker 7: of that.

997
00:42:49,440 --> 00:42:50,719
Speaker 8: And when they have to throw it, they throw it.

998
00:42:50,719 --> 00:42:52,640
Speaker 7: And they got really good receivers and a good quarterback

999
00:42:52,680 --> 00:42:54,520
Speaker 7: and he can throw it and he can run it.

1000
00:42:55,280 --> 00:42:56,960
Speaker 7: So you got to be really honest. And on defense,

1001
00:42:57,000 --> 00:42:59,239
Speaker 7: they just swarmed to the football all eleven. Understand how

1002
00:42:59,360 --> 00:43:01,200
Speaker 7: they all fit on you fit with each other and

1003
00:43:01,520 --> 00:43:03,799
Speaker 7: special teams is that bridge. So they got a really

1004
00:43:03,800 --> 00:43:05,879
Speaker 7: good football team, that's for sure. And I know they're

1005
00:43:05,920 --> 00:43:07,239
Speaker 7: fired up to play us in the bowl game.

1006
00:43:07,360 --> 00:43:09,279
Speaker 6: As you kind of dive into it, because it was

1007
00:43:09,320 --> 00:43:11,879
Speaker 6: really proud, you know, you're thinking you're probably for when

1008
00:43:11,920 --> 00:43:13,919
Speaker 6: it looked like it was going to be this bowl game,

1009
00:43:13,960 --> 00:43:16,560
Speaker 6: the Rate Bowl. You're thinking Big twelve, you know, Iowa State,

1010
00:43:16,760 --> 00:43:19,880
Speaker 6: Kansas State, maybe maybe TCU, who knows where it all

1011
00:43:19,920 --> 00:43:21,799
Speaker 6: trickles to, and then all of a sudden, boom, it's

1012
00:43:21,800 --> 00:43:22,440
Speaker 6: New Mexico.

1013
00:43:23,160 --> 00:43:25,040
Speaker 5: As you've now dived into the prep.

1014
00:43:25,400 --> 00:43:27,960
Speaker 6: What it's been a fairly quick turnaround for them to

1015
00:43:28,000 --> 00:43:31,000
Speaker 6: go from not being that relevant for a while to

1016
00:43:31,120 --> 00:43:32,919
Speaker 6: being in this bowl game against a Big ten team.

1017
00:43:32,920 --> 00:43:34,319
Speaker 6: What do you think Coacheck has done there?

1018
00:43:34,640 --> 00:43:36,520
Speaker 7: Well, I think they've He've done a great job of

1019
00:43:36,560 --> 00:43:37,600
Speaker 7: connecting that football team.

1020
00:43:37,600 --> 00:43:38,960
Speaker 8: I think he brought a lot of guys in through

1021
00:43:39,000 --> 00:43:39,680
Speaker 8: the transfer portal.

1022
00:43:39,719 --> 00:43:41,000
Speaker 7: When you look at their two deep, a lot of

1023
00:43:41,040 --> 00:43:42,880
Speaker 7: guys came in, a lot of guys are new. Did

1024
00:43:42,920 --> 00:43:45,040
Speaker 7: a great job connecting that team, got a lot of

1025
00:43:45,040 --> 00:43:48,160
Speaker 7: really good players from all over the country, some from Idaho,

1026
00:43:48,280 --> 00:43:49,719
Speaker 7: some from other places that he was at.

1027
00:43:49,760 --> 00:43:51,360
Speaker 8: So brought a ton of guys.

1028
00:43:51,080 --> 00:43:54,719
Speaker 7: With and implemented into their systems and executed at a

1029
00:43:54,719 --> 00:43:56,799
Speaker 7: really high level and gotten to play as a team.

1030
00:43:56,840 --> 00:43:58,680
Speaker 8: And beliefs a really powerful thing.

1031
00:43:58,880 --> 00:44:00,800
Speaker 7: Now, once you can get that thing go, and beliefs

1032
00:44:00,840 --> 00:44:03,120
Speaker 7: really really powerful, and you could tell they really love

1033
00:44:03,120 --> 00:44:04,480
Speaker 7: playing form and they believe.

1034
00:44:04,480 --> 00:44:06,919
Speaker 5: And now you know, it's kind of regional for them, right.

1035
00:44:06,960 --> 00:44:11,280
Speaker 6: I think it's from Albuquerque to Phoenix, maybe six hour drive,

1036
00:44:11,360 --> 00:44:13,879
Speaker 6: so you'll and I know there's a lot of goal

1037
00:44:13,920 --> 00:44:16,040
Speaker 6: Forer fans that one will travel over the holidays to

1038
00:44:16,080 --> 00:44:18,000
Speaker 6: get down there, and there's some snowbirds down there, so

1039
00:44:18,160 --> 00:44:19,440
Speaker 6: this could be a pretty good atmosphere.

1040
00:44:19,440 --> 00:44:20,680
Speaker 8: I think it's gonna be a great atmosphere.

1041
00:44:20,680 --> 00:44:21,799
Speaker 7: I think it's going to be one of the most

1042
00:44:21,840 --> 00:44:24,840
Speaker 7: well attended Bowl games we've had from both opponents. So

1043
00:44:25,360 --> 00:44:26,600
Speaker 7: it's going to be a lot of fun to see

1044
00:44:26,640 --> 00:44:28,160
Speaker 7: what the atmosphere is like, that's for sure.

1045
00:44:28,719 --> 00:44:31,279
Speaker 6: As you have the week now, when you get down there,

1046
00:44:31,920 --> 00:44:33,799
Speaker 6: you've got a spot where you go practice. Take me

1047
00:44:33,840 --> 00:44:36,359
Speaker 6: through the logistics there and how you try to make

1048
00:44:36,400 --> 00:44:37,400
Speaker 6: that a smooth operation.

1049
00:44:37,560 --> 00:44:39,480
Speaker 7: That's funny because we're having a staff meeting all about

1050
00:44:39,480 --> 00:44:41,759
Speaker 7: that you're coming up. So I'd love Garrett to be

1051
00:44:41,800 --> 00:44:43,440
Speaker 7: able to tell us all the things that we're going

1052
00:44:43,520 --> 00:44:45,560
Speaker 7: to be able to do. But once we get down there,

1053
00:44:45,560 --> 00:44:49,200
Speaker 7: it's all about having time for the bowl piece, where

1054
00:44:49,480 --> 00:44:53,000
Speaker 7: that's the fun piece. Celebrate, also do stuff that the

1055
00:44:53,000 --> 00:44:55,439
Speaker 7: bowl has you do, especially the surveying and giving piece.

1056
00:44:55,440 --> 00:44:58,080
Speaker 7: I think that's really critical and the bull prep. But

1057
00:44:58,280 --> 00:45:01,320
Speaker 7: being down there for all the rate roll Rap Bowl responsibilities,

1058
00:45:01,320 --> 00:45:04,280
Speaker 7: but then also practicing, so we're practicing at a junior college,

1059
00:45:04,320 --> 00:45:06,440
Speaker 7: so there's some different things logistically We've got to be

1060
00:45:06,440 --> 00:45:09,480
Speaker 7: able to work with that, and then you know, having

1061
00:45:09,480 --> 00:45:11,560
Speaker 7: our meetings like we normally do, but then also having

1062
00:45:11,760 --> 00:45:14,319
Speaker 7: time to enjoy the Phoenix area and I think our

1063
00:45:14,360 --> 00:45:16,680
Speaker 7: players there, you know, we're staying at the Wild Pass,

1064
00:45:17,080 --> 00:45:20,160
Speaker 7: the Wild Horse Pass, and that's a beautiful it's a

1065
00:45:20,160 --> 00:45:23,000
Speaker 7: great hotel and anybody that's going out there, it's a

1066
00:45:23,000 --> 00:45:24,160
Speaker 7: great hotel if you're staying there.

1067
00:45:24,200 --> 00:45:25,920
Speaker 8: And it's kind of off the beaten path a little bit,

1068
00:45:26,440 --> 00:45:27,080
Speaker 8: which I love.

1069
00:45:27,360 --> 00:45:29,200
Speaker 7: They got a golf course right there, which is great,

1070
00:45:29,280 --> 00:45:31,600
Speaker 7: and then there's a you know, there's a little casino

1071
00:45:31,680 --> 00:45:35,000
Speaker 7: down the town the way as well, but there's a

1072
00:45:35,040 --> 00:45:36,759
Speaker 7: lot of things to do around that area. But I

1073
00:45:36,760 --> 00:45:38,439
Speaker 7: do like because it's off the beaten path a little

1074
00:45:38,440 --> 00:45:40,600
Speaker 7: bit where you don't get that hustle and bustle. You

1075
00:45:40,600 --> 00:45:42,839
Speaker 7: really feel like you're in the desert. Yeah, and I

1076
00:45:42,960 --> 00:45:43,520
Speaker 7: like that feeling.

1077
00:45:43,680 --> 00:45:45,200
Speaker 6: I did ask Drake if he was going to try

1078
00:45:45,200 --> 00:45:46,600
Speaker 6: to get around the golf in and he said he

1079
00:45:46,760 --> 00:45:50,720
Speaker 6: was not, so he's going to stick to football all week.

1080
00:45:51,080 --> 00:45:53,640
Speaker 7: I have a hard time believing that a guy who

1081
00:45:53,680 --> 00:45:56,040
Speaker 7: owns golf courses and who is a scratch golfer.

1082
00:45:56,040 --> 00:45:57,200
Speaker 8: I have a really hard time.

1083
00:45:57,239 --> 00:45:59,480
Speaker 7: And when he sees that course is right there across

1084
00:45:59,480 --> 00:46:01,000
Speaker 7: the street, I think he's going to have a hard time.

1085
00:46:01,160 --> 00:46:01,400
Speaker 6: Is there.

1086
00:46:01,480 --> 00:46:04,480
Speaker 8: He'll there be time, though, legit, he'll be I put

1087
00:46:04,480 --> 00:46:04,879
Speaker 8: it this way.

1088
00:46:04,920 --> 00:46:07,279
Speaker 7: There was one time last year or last time we

1089
00:46:07,280 --> 00:46:10,080
Speaker 7: were there that literally we got back in time for

1090
00:46:10,160 --> 00:46:11,719
Speaker 7: like another hour and a half of light.

1091
00:46:12,040 --> 00:46:13,040
Speaker 8: I think Gary if you remember this.

1092
00:46:13,080 --> 00:46:15,799
Speaker 7: And then Garrett we somehow called the pro shop. I

1093
00:46:15,840 --> 00:46:17,640
Speaker 7: got a cart through my clubs on the back and

1094
00:46:17,680 --> 00:46:19,680
Speaker 7: I got a round in like through heather in the

1095
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Speaker 7: pasture seat. We just went and there was nobody on

1096
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Speaker 7: the course at that time. Yeah, so but it was

1097
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Speaker 7: a little bit chillier, yeah, And I must have got

1098
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Speaker 7: the whole round done in an hour and a half

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Speaker 7: before it before it was dark.

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Speaker 5: So well, when you only take like seventy one shots, that.

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Speaker 8: Could have been just the front.

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Speaker 7: So especially this time of year, you know, it's funny

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Speaker 7: when people talk about all the golf erzer, how much

1104
00:46:40,200 --> 00:46:41,000
Speaker 7: you play in Minnesota?

1105
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Speaker 8: That too much?

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Speaker 13: Not too much? No, not too much? Well, how did

1107
00:46:45,040 --> 00:46:46,520
Speaker 13: you play too much? You see all that white stuff

1108
00:46:46,520 --> 00:46:50,040
Speaker 13: out there? Yeah, exactly exactly your golf ball. Well, maybe

1109
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Speaker 13: he'll play, maybe not. Maybe he'll get a ninety minute

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Speaker 13: session in at some point too.

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Speaker 7: I don't know. I don't know about this one. I

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Speaker 7: think they were going to enjoy some other things. So

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Speaker 7: we'll see. But it's a it's a great bowl game.

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Speaker 7: They do it for minute shop.

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Speaker 8: Yeah.

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Speaker 6: Well, safe travels. We'll see you out there. Looking forward

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Speaker 6: to it. The Gophers and New Mexico. It is December

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Speaker 6: twenty sixth, that's a week from Friday. We take are

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Speaker 6: at one thirty. Kickoff Minnesota time is three point thirty. Again,

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Speaker 6: thanks to everybody for the head coach, PJ.

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Speaker 5: Fleck.

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Speaker 6: This has been Mike Grim. This has been the Rate

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Speaker 6: Bowl preview show. It's Gopher Football Weekly with PJ. Fleck

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Speaker 6: from Deerfield.