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Speaker 2: And of course it's each your a weekend with the

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Speaker 2: But man, we're sitting here at you dub and hoping

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Speaker 1: And I think a lot of people.

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Speaker 2: You look at this Husky football team in year three,

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Speaker 3: Well, I like what you see from Ryan Walters right,

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Speaker 1: We appreciate that. By the way, thank you so much well, and.

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Speaker 5: It's always it's great to be with my friend Hugh

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Speaker 2: Hey man, listen, Mike, Mike. Mike asked who was doing

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Speaker 2: it wasn't for you, no way. But uh, Mike, before

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Speaker 6: That's the real world.

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Speaker 6: Again, from the moment they sold their first cable package.

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Speaker 1: Right Mike, great stuff. Man, appreciate this again.

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much for your flexibility, my friend, and

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Speaker 2: Benton good night to have him on, considering the press

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Speaker 1: But I did.

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Speaker 3: the season. In twenty twenty four, they were minus twenty

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Speaker 3: one in net runs, in the year before that, minus two,

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Speaker 3: and then plus eight in twenty twenty two. So if

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Speaker 3: you if you, uh, here's the summary of it. You

440
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Speaker 3: go over the last four years, how many times have

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Speaker 3: they been exactly four and nine? The answer is thirty

442
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Speaker 3: five out of six hundred that's five point eight percent.

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Speaker 3: How many times have they been four and nine or

444
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Speaker 3: worse out of six hundred blocks, Well, you got, uh,

445
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Speaker 3: you got seven point three percent, seven point three percent

446
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Speaker 3: of the time they have a block of games exactly

447
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Speaker 3: thirteen games where they are this record or worse. So

448
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Speaker 3: I don't know if that strikes you as frequent or infrequent,

449
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Speaker 3: but there's the down.

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Speaker 2: Well, I mean, I would just say there's a difference

451
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Speaker 2: between going four and nine to start a year and

452
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Speaker 2: going four and nine in late August when you're fifteen

453
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Speaker 2: games up on first place already, right, I mean, the

454
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Speaker 2: four and nine could hurt you. Four and nine couldn't

455
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Speaker 2: hurt you at all. It's all about the impact, right.

456
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Speaker 2: I mean, does four and nine lead to five and fifteen,

457
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Speaker 2: which leads to seven and twenty, right? Or does four

458
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Speaker 2: and nine lead to a fourteen and four run like

459
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Speaker 2: they had last year after they started the year five

460
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Speaker 2: and eight. So I mean, guys, I'm just looking at

461
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Speaker 2: this hole that they're in right now. I don't think

462
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Speaker 2: it's anything that people need to panic about, or that

463
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Speaker 2: the team is panicking about. I do think though, that

464
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Speaker 2: when you live in a day and age and we

465
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Speaker 2: got to break here in a minute, yea, that when

466
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Speaker 2: you live in a day and age where tie breakers

467
00:22:58,280 --> 00:23:01,880
Speaker 2: matter and series wins matter when it comes to tie

468
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Speaker 2: breakers at the end of the year, I mean, you're

469
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Speaker 2: already down to Texas and you're down to the Yankees,

470
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Speaker 2: which could be two teams that you could be fighting

471
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Speaker 2: for for either a a division championship or be the

472
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Speaker 2: number one seed or even the number two seed in

473
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Speaker 2: the American League playoffs. So you know, everything matters, right,

474
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Speaker 2: And what I'm getting a little bit kind of not

475
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Speaker 2: tired by. I'm not gonna say I'm exhausted by it,

476
00:23:22,200 --> 00:23:24,439
Speaker 2: but I don't want to just give guys a pass

477
00:23:24,640 --> 00:23:26,879
Speaker 2: because they're not hitting the ball in April, right, like

478
00:23:26,920 --> 00:23:28,960
Speaker 2: this thing with Julio Franks. This is now five years

479
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Speaker 2: in a row where Julio's gotten off to a slow start,

480
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Speaker 2: and I just think it's it's got to be addressed.

481
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Speaker 2: It's got to be fixed, because man, if these guys

482
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Speaker 2: finish a game out of first place or a game

483
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Speaker 2: out of a playoff spot, they look back and they

484
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Speaker 2: see forty four struggling for the first thirteen games of

485
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Speaker 2: the year, Cal Rowley struggling, or Josh Naylor's struggling, Like

486
00:23:46,480 --> 00:23:49,280
Speaker 2: these games matter, all of them matter, right, you know,

487
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Speaker 2: It's like it's not cute that all of a sudden

488
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Speaker 2: Julio gets going when the weather heats up. I mean,

489
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Speaker 2: he's paid like a star. Cal's paid like a star,

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Speaker 2: Josh Naylor's paid like a star. Right now, those guys

491
00:24:00,800 --> 00:24:02,840
Speaker 2: aren't playing like it. So I don't know if man,

492
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Speaker 2: I'm just I'm not gonna freak out at all, But

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Speaker 2: I do think there is a point view where if

494
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Speaker 2: things continue, I mean, how many more games do they

495
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Speaker 2: have to lose? How many more series do they have

496
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Speaker 2: to lose before we start to get really concerned about this.

497
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Speaker 2: If they lose three out of four, are we having

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Speaker 2: a different conversation on Tuesday morning?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: Probably every time. Well, and to answer your question, last year,

501
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Speaker 3: the last time that they were four games or worse

502
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Speaker 3: in a thirteen block segment was August thirtieth. From that

503
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Speaker 3: point on, there were twenty six more games, and they

504
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Speaker 3: averaged eight point five wins and over the last Holy cowan,

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Speaker 3: just looking at this at the end the last twelve games,

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Speaker 3: they were ten, ten, eleven, twelve, twelve, twelve, twelve, twelve, twelve, twelve, eleven,

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Speaker 3: ten and nine. Right, they were in fuego.

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Speaker 1: Not all four nine is are built the same? Is

509
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Speaker 1: the point? Right? Not at all?

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Speaker 2: I don't know, Hey, he me just jumping. We gotta

511
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Speaker 2: break right, Well, let's continue this conversation. Petros will joined

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Speaker 2: us at four o'clock. We're live at ub for spring

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Speaker 2: football right here on ninety three three KJRFM from the R.

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Speaker 7: And R Foundation Specialist broadcast studio. Now back to SOFTI

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Speaker 7: and Dick on your home for the Huskies, Kraken and

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Speaker 7: the twelfth Man Sports Radio ninety three point three KJR FM.

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Speaker 2: All right, we are back week number two Husky football

518
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Speaker 2: spring practice. The defensive coordinator Ryan Walters will join us

519
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Speaker 2: coming up in the six o'clock hour. They've made some

520
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Speaker 2: changes obviously to their roster. You know, all Eyes Hughey

521
00:25:36,640 --> 00:25:39,600
Speaker 2: are going to be on this Derreck Coleman Brusaw kid,

522
00:25:40,240 --> 00:25:44,400
Speaker 2: the pure freshman defensive end, local kid. It's funny how

523
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Speaker 2: they're going to be relying this year on a pure

524
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Speaker 2: freshman defensive end and Derreck Coleman Brusa and probably ninety

525
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Speaker 2: five percent certain it'll be a pure freshman left tackle

526
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Speaker 2: in Cody Green, who went to Matter Day after spending

527
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Speaker 2: his high school career up in Sea Out but went

528
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Speaker 2: down there for one year and then came back. I

529
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Speaker 2: don't know if either one of these guys plays if

530
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Speaker 2: this is ten years ago, right, but they've got to

531
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Speaker 2: play them because they are four or five star recruits.

532
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Speaker 2: They're probably both highly paid when it comes to nil,

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Speaker 2: and if you don't play them, then they're gonna transfer

534
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Speaker 2: and go somewhere else, and then somebody else will bear

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Speaker 2: the fruits of that labor.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know, man, how nervous would you be?

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Speaker 2: And maybe it's different for a mobile guy like a

538
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Speaker 2: Demon Williams, And maybe it's different for a kid growing

539
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Speaker 2: up in this era, How nervous would you have been

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Speaker 2: with a eighteen year old kid protecting your blind side?

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Speaker 3: By the way, it depends how good he is. But

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Speaker 3: I mean in theory of modern day, I'll put it

543
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Speaker 3: this way. They're in the Trinity League down in southern California.

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Speaker 3: I believe objectively that is the number one conference in

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Speaker 3: America for high school football. Got I mean they got

546
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Speaker 3: Bosco and OLU, Orange Lutheran and all that. I mean

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Speaker 3: that that is the highest caliber of high school football

548
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Speaker 3: you can get. And when they've traveled, you know, they're undefeated.

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Speaker 1: Nobody is.

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Speaker 3: But they've got a better record than any conference. I mean,

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Speaker 3: they can go to Bishop Gorman, they can go to

552
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Speaker 3: IMG down in Florida. That I mean that league is

553
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Speaker 3: is stout.

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Speaker 6: You know.

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Speaker 3: So that would give me more Uh, that would give

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Speaker 3: me more comfort. But you know, I thought you were,

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Speaker 3: you know, on the thirty third team yesterday. I'm on

558
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Speaker 3: and they had a presentation about the nil and in

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Speaker 3: some of the numbers, and I was clicking away on

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Speaker 3: my phone on the on the screens and it says, Okay,

561
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Speaker 3: this is the screen that I'm looking off. Tackle market

562
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Speaker 3: value tiers A level starter minimum earnings one point two

563
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Speaker 3: million maximum What does it say? Two point eighty six million? Wow,

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Speaker 3: Like that's the era that we're in. You mentioned a

565
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Speaker 3: second ago what you're paying these guys. So if you

566
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Speaker 3: want to left tackle, of course, if the thirty third

567
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Speaker 3: team right sources are right, you're you're living in a

568
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Speaker 3: window at the minimum of one point two three million,

569
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Speaker 3: if we want to be precise, and up to two

570
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Speaker 3: point eighty six million. You know figure figure for a

571
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Speaker 3: high recruit like that, you know it's probably north of

572
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Speaker 3: two million.

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Speaker 2: Well, well, and again you're not sitting a guy playing

574
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Speaker 2: that's making that much money, you know. I mean I

575
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Speaker 2: just Dick and I had this conversation a couple of

576
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Speaker 2: weeks ago about, you know, is it more important to

577
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Speaker 2: kill it in the portal or more important to kill

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Speaker 2: it in high school recruiting.

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Speaker 1: I mean, Washington's got a really good class. I think they're, you.

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Speaker 2: Know, top ten in the country right now, top five

581
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Speaker 2: to top three or four to the Big ten, whatever

582
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Speaker 2: it is. But I get a little nervous that some

583
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Speaker 2: of these kids are gonna come in here, they're not

584
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Speaker 2: gonna play, They're gonna get developed by this coaching staff,

585
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Speaker 2: and then somebody else is gonna bear the fruits of

586
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Speaker 2: their labor when they transfer and go play for somebody else.

587
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Speaker 2: And I mean, look, I have to look on data.

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Speaker 2: There is no alternative, none at all.

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Speaker 1: Zero. I mean, you got to play these guys, right,

590
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Speaker 1: You got no choice.

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Speaker 3: You got to play the game.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, although they take off.

593
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Speaker 2: So but the question is, again, if you're spending money

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Speaker 2: right like this, This was the genesis of the conversation.

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Speaker 2: If you're Daddy Warbucks donor and you've got I don't know,

596
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Speaker 2: ten million bucks to give the jetfish, five million bucks

597
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Speaker 2: to give the Jetfish, are you telling him, Hey, I

598
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Speaker 2: want you to go out. I want you to spend

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Speaker 2: the majority of this money on the best high school

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Speaker 2: football players in America and turn them into stars and

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Speaker 2: play them right away. Or I want you to spend

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Speaker 2: the majority of this money jed on the biggest names

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Speaker 2: available in the portal, guys that I know were established,

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Speaker 2: that are already coached up and ready to play and

605
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Speaker 2: kick ass right now in college football.

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Speaker 1: Where are you spending your money?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that we are so young in this

608
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Speaker 3: to try and point to models that would be most efficient.

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Speaker 3: You're almost you're just kind of going on your gut

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Speaker 3: and your intuition as opposed to any data. I rear

611
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Speaker 3: that okay right now? As we know, as a reminder,

612
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Speaker 3: the reigning college football champions Indiana, they had fifty seven

613
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Speaker 3: cent of their starters were transferred, obviously more than half.

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Speaker 3: And then we just saw Michigan a couple of nights

615
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Speaker 3: ago with a five out of five starters on transfer.

616
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Speaker 3: Like this, that's the ear where if you just came

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Speaker 3: out of a coma, oh brother, do we got some

618
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Speaker 3: news for you? Because what you thought, you what you

619
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Speaker 3: last remembered, it ain't that picture anymore. So you know,

620
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Speaker 3: I think Jed Fish, uh, you know, he said it publicly,

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Speaker 3: I have no reason to think it's not what he's

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Speaker 3: he's saying privately, or at least to his team privately.

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Speaker 3: You know, he has a very pragmatic approach to it.

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Speaker 3: It's like, hey, we're not going to sit around here

625
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Speaker 3: and bitch about how things are changed or what is us.

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Speaker 3: We're just gonna say, this is the new climate, and

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Speaker 3: we got to figure out how to win in this climate.

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Speaker 3: And so I admire that about his approach and uh,

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Speaker 3: and and it has to be the approach. But to

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Speaker 3: answer your question, look, I've given that a lot of thought.

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Speaker 3: I don't think there's you know, there's no facts upon

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Speaker 3: which I can I can base the decision. I would

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Speaker 3: say it is some type of a blend, which is

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Speaker 3: a very unsatisfactory answer for you on a radio show.

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Speaker 3: You want me to take a take a stand. I

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Speaker 3: just don't know how to take that stand. No, I

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Speaker 3: mean it's both.

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Speaker 2: Wow, I think, I think, But that's why I said that,

639
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Speaker 2: even I got to go back and look at the

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Speaker 2: data because I don't know either.

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Speaker 1: My gut is that My gut is.

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Speaker 2: That it would be I'd rather have the established guys.

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Speaker 2: And maybe I'm just recency biased, living in the moment

644
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Speaker 2: after what Signetti just did, right, and I'm just kind

645
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Speaker 2: of maybe, you know, just remembering that. But I could

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Speaker 2: absolutely see who how a college football coach would say, hey, look,

647
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Speaker 2: every school's got twenty million, and then you do the nil,

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Speaker 2: the third party nil on top of that. So if

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Speaker 2: you're giving me, if if if fifteen of the twenty

650
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Speaker 2: million is going to football, and you're telling me how

651
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Speaker 2: I can spend that money, well, first of all, it

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Speaker 2: depends on the context of that season.

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Speaker 1: You know what I need.

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Speaker 2: For example, But number two, I can see a coach

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Speaker 2: saying I'd rather go out and spend the money on

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Speaker 2: established dudes that are gonna be this their last stop

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Speaker 2: or more likely to make this their last stop, versus

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Speaker 2: going out and getting a high school football player that

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Speaker 2: looks good on the hoof on tape and look good

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Speaker 2: against high school players.

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Speaker 1: But I got no idea what.

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Speaker 2: This guy's gonna do when he gets to Division one

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Speaker 2: college football. And even if he does play well, he

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Speaker 2: might not play well for two or three years, and

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna coach him up and then somebody else is

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Speaker 2: gonna get the benefit from that. So I could absolutely

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Speaker 2: see how a coach would say, I want to get

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Speaker 2: the established students. Hey, Hugh, let's do this now. We

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Speaker 2: gotta break We're gonna break up because Petros is gonna

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Speaker 2: be up next segment. We can pick up this conversation

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Speaker 2: later in the show. Brett boot At five will continue

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Speaker 2: from UB Spring Football. Petros skipped out on yesterday's show

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Speaker 2: for once, it wasn't my fault. He'll join us next

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Speaker 2: on ninety three to three KJARFM