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Speaker 1: This is Tony Pike, Cincy three sixty about Cincinnati.

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Speaker 2: From Cincinnati.

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Speaker 1: This is ESPN fifteen thirty Cincinnati Sports Station. Here we

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Speaker 1: go our number three, Cincy three sixty. It is ESPN

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Speaker 1: fifteen thirty Cincinnati Sports Station. Momentarily ideally getting to Keegan

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Speaker 1: nickoson Bearcat Journal dot com. Unless Keegan is, you know,

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Speaker 1: somewhere at the final four and maybe he doesn't have

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Speaker 1: service right now, maybe Radio Rose busy. I don't know

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Speaker 1: our number three. We'll check in with Moager. We'll talk

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Speaker 1: some Bengals, we'll talk some draft strategy as well. And

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Speaker 1: a question that I have and it came up a

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Speaker 1: little bit earlier today before the show. Early college football

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Speaker 1: futures are out, and we've talked about this when they

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Speaker 1: initially came out with UC's posted total at five and

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Speaker 1: a half. The Ohio State Buckeyes posted total is nine

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Speaker 1: and a half. We'll go through some of those futures

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Speaker 1: and our number three as well. But what I did

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Speaker 1: find interesting is along with the futures, you can get

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Speaker 1: some early betting lines into the early season action for

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Speaker 1: college football. In some of the Marquee games. For instance,

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Speaker 1: August twenty ninth, North Carolina and TCU have a game,

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Speaker 1: TCUs a seven and a half point favorite. What about

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Speaker 1: the fall of Clemson Austin. The Clemson Tigers play against

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Speaker 1: LSU on September fifth, early line on that LSU minus

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Speaker 1: eleven and a half. Is that more about how good

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Speaker 1: Lane Kiffen and LSU can be or is that more

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Speaker 1: about how far the ACC and Clemson has fallen. Louisville

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Speaker 1: eight and a half against Ole Miss, Baylor Auburn early

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Speaker 1: in the year. How about Wisconsin at Notre Dame on

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Speaker 1: September sixth, Right now, if you wanted to bet that,

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Speaker 1: the Notre Dame fighting Irish eighteen and a half. Notre

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Speaker 1: Dame is favored over the Wisconsin Badgers. September twelfth. Some

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Speaker 1: good football on the schedule. Michigan host Oklahoma right now,

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Speaker 1: Michigan's a two and a half point favorite, and returning

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Speaker 1: the Buckeyes will travel to take on Arch Manning and

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Speaker 1: the Texas Longhorns. Right now, Texas is a two and

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Speaker 1: a half point favorite at home against Ohio State, and

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Speaker 1: I believe a lot of that has to do with

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Speaker 1: the amount of players that Ohio State is looking to replace.

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Speaker 1: We'll get to that in just a little That we

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Speaker 1: have found our friend from Bearcat Journal dot com, Keegan Nickoson,

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Speaker 1: is joining us right now. Hello, Keagan, how are you?

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Speaker 2: I'm doing great, Tony, how are you doing great?

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Speaker 1: Are you at the Final four?

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Speaker 2: Absolutely not. I'm on my way to the beautiful indoor

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Speaker 2: practice facility at Cincinnati to watch some spring practice.

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Speaker 1: How has spring ball gone? Because I talk about this often,

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Speaker 1: it just spring football feels different. You don't lead up

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Speaker 1: to a spring game anymore. It's more of a showcase.

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Speaker 1: There's so much shuffling of the roster. Any big takeaways

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Speaker 1: that at this point in spring ball for you.

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Speaker 2: I think this team's gonna run the crap out of

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Speaker 2: the ball and play better defense. Watching Zion Johnson and

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Speaker 2: Jabron Payin run the ball behind this offensive line. They've

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Speaker 2: done it with a ton of success. Ian Johnson's score

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Speaker 2: of pressure, which wasn't normal and the three five kind

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Speaker 1: How how different is it going to be? Because I

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Speaker 1: know we talk about Scott Saderfield's offense a lot, but

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Speaker 1: when you don't have a quarterback returning, it just adds

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Speaker 1: How does the quarterback position look? I know it's only

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Speaker 2: Yeah? I think JC French looks like the most seasoned

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Speaker 2: good practices, but I just think if you're going to

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Speaker 1: we have seen this media tour from Jared Calhoun. He

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Speaker 1: How impressed are you early on with just I guess

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Speaker 2: And I wouldn't really disagree with the people saying that

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Speaker 2: And you shouldn't really expect a bunch of rock fights

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Speaker 1: The roster. I know April seventh is the date everyone

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Speaker 1: What is happening right now? Because the portal opens on

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I'm surprised we're not seeing a bunch

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Speaker 1: What will the early expectations for Jared Calhoun be? Because

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Speaker 1: in talking to Jared Calhoun's he's made it evident that

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Speaker 1: getting back to the tournament is attainable and that's where

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Speaker 2: In your opinion, I think it should be. I'm not

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Speaker 2: multiple shows, But I don't understand how you can call

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Speaker 2: And people say, well, you don't know what the roster

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Speaker 2: also think we're over complicating how hard it is to

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Speaker 2: I think Wes Miller made it very very difficult on

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Speaker 2: And I think the standards should be the tournament every

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Speaker 1: I know that Corey evans that the GM is remaining.

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Speaker 1: Do we have the staff that Jared Calhoun is is

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Speaker 2: Yeah, there's been some rumors that hasn't been anything officially

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Speaker 2: think that's more of a specific niche position that he'd fill.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, there hasn't been anything officially confirmed by the university,

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Speaker 2: kind of want these players to have some clarity.

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Speaker 1: Final four wise, who do you think cuts down the

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Speaker 1: what I think is interesting is how the rosters are assembled.

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Speaker 1: Illinois has gone for it overseas roster Jerry Calhoun talked

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I was all over at Michigan. The Elliott Cadeau

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Speaker 2: But still I think that they would have to beat Yukon,

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Speaker 2: I think success is seven wins. I think Scott Sadikie

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Speaker 2: They're not firing Scott Sadafield after the twenty twenty sixth season.

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Speaker 2: But they got a very very favorable buyout at three

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Speaker 2: really tough schedule. Six wins keeps his job, and then

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Speaker 2: Maybe it gets a little hairy.

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Speaker 1: Kick him before I let you go. I gotta ask

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think they're twenty one wins. I think they

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Speaker 2: So don't be surprised if they end up getting a

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Speaker 2: just be a crazy atmosphere at the UC Baseball Stadium.

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Speaker 1: Keigan, Man, thanks so much for joining us. Enjoy a

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Speaker 1: little taste of spring football practice. Man, we appreciate you.

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Speaker 1: Give our best to coach.

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Speaker 2: Sag youbes absolutely I will.

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Speaker 1: leading into Keegan of some early college football spreads and

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