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Speaker 1: Big Ringe Sunday.

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Speaker 1: We are here to get you there.

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Speaker 2: Now your host, former Tennessee defensive coordinator Doug Matthews.

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Speaker 3: Well, good morning man, welcome into Big Orange Sun Sunday.

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Speaker 3: Excuse me as we start February February first, today, a

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Speaker 3: lot of great things gonna be going on. We're gonna

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Speaker 3: be talking about some of them today and as we

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Speaker 3: go through this month. It was a good night last

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Speaker 3: night in Knoxville. Yesterday course balls moved to five and

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Speaker 3: three in conference play, fifteen and six overall at a

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Speaker 3: seventy seven sixty nine win over Auburn. I think they

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Speaker 3: let it from the very first points down to the last.

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Speaker 3: Lady Balls, by the way, are at Yukon today, of course,

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Speaker 3: playing number one and undefeated. Seemingly we could say that

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Speaker 3: almost every year about Yukon should be a big ball

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Speaker 3: game there. And we're gonna be talking about basketball with

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Speaker 3: Jimmy Hymes. He'll join us after this church segment, But first,

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Speaker 3: a couple of shows ago and by the way, last week,

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Speaker 3: because of the weather here in Nashville, unable to get

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Speaker 3: part of doing this show having to come in drive in,

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Speaker 3: and so anyway, we played a repeat of the week

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Speaker 3: before show. That was kind of a last minute deal.

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Speaker 3: I don't like doing that. I don't look best of shows.

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Speaker 3: I try to do a live show every single week,

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Speaker 3: but certainly I think with this way, the situation was

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Speaker 3: that was the best thing to do. Anyway, week before that,

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Speaker 3: I started a talked about doing a couple of segments

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Speaker 3: of continue that today and kind of morphit into where

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Speaker 3: UT football is right now? Why are some programs? Why

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Speaker 3: some successful and others or not? I talked last week

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Speaker 3: the periods of time with the coaches that were there

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Speaker 3: that were successful and then the ones that were not well,

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Speaker 3: Why were some successful? It's the same university, same school,

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Speaker 3: same program, all those types of things. Why were some successful,

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Speaker 3: wildly successful and others well, not so successful. On the

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Speaker 3: I want to start with the leadership at the University

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Speaker 3: of Tennessee. You know, the folks at the top, those

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Speaker 3: who make the key decisions, the men and the women

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Speaker 3: who set the tone and the agenda that leads to success.

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Speaker 3: And then of course there are those who cannot want

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Speaker 3: different courses Tennessee. Folks know, you have a president of

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Speaker 3: the system and then a chancellor at the different universities

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Speaker 3: are different. Within the ut system, Randy Boyd I think

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Speaker 3: have an education background, highly successful as a businessman, and

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Speaker 3: Don da Plowman, the chancellor at the University of Tennessee.

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Speaker 3: If there's any person since I've been involved, and it

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Speaker 3: following that through the way she handled the NICO situation

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Speaker 3: that so thoroughly no question, and to this day, who

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Speaker 3: That's something that doesn't happen all the time with head coaches.

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Speaker 3: Sometimes we are never head coach, but we get stuck

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Speaker 3: in pretty darn good shape. Hadn't been many that's had,

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Speaker 3: that's been their low point. But what coach Hepol has

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Speaker 3: done so far evaluating the program and then moving decisively

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Speaker 3: You know, when I was when I was in college

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Speaker 3: Running the football program is a business. It's a different

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Speaker 3: But the Peter principal simply said this that when an employee,

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Speaker 3: And what the Peter principal simply said, and I'm applaning

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Speaker 3: did this offseason that very very decisively. Number One, there

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Speaker 3: You don't have to be somebody that studied it or

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Speaker 3: There were two areas that stood out in games when

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Speaker 3: those types of things didn't appear to be that when

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Speaker 3: single year. The strength program, in other words, need to

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Speaker 3: not so much so. The two areas strength and conditioning

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Speaker 3: You go back, you know, you make the playoffs, you

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Speaker 3: brought in Derrek Coins as a head strength coach. Thirty

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Speaker 3: he is known as a power weightlifter. There's two, probably

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Speaker 3: All right, let's head up to Knoxville, Tennessee. But first

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Speaker 2: Jimmy Himes.

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Speaker 3: George just says he is going to be doing throughout basketball,

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Speaker 3: maybe baseball too, if other things don't get in the way. Jimmy,

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Speaker 3: A pretty good night at that. We still call it

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Speaker 3: Thompson Bowling or is it the Food Center now?

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Speaker 9: It's the Food City Center at Thompson Bowling Arena.

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Speaker 3: Oh there we go. Okay, I'll probably still refer to

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Speaker 3: it as Thompson Bowling. I knew, I knew both those gentlemen,

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Speaker 3: mister Thompson and mister Bolding of course, mister Boling was

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Speaker 3: President Bolding or me, I guess he was? He president,

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Speaker 3: he's chancellor ready, Chancellor.

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Speaker 9: Bowling, he was president, doctor Bowling.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, doctor Bowling. That real quickly on that. Uh well,

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Speaker 3: I'm not going to spend any time on that. Never

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Speaker 3: mind the difference between the president and the Chancellor and

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Speaker 3: the reporting authority, all that that goes way back to this,

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Speaker 3: so that out. Uh, let's touch and just touch real quickly.

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Speaker 3: I want to talk about the national Signing Day, which

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Speaker 3: it's a day that nobody remembers anymore. Right, I'm talking

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Speaker 3: about the spring when back back this used to be

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Speaker 3: a big, big, big, big time. Boy. You have times

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Speaker 3: changed in that area.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, when is it?

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Speaker 3: It's Wednesday? I think.

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Speaker 9: You're right.

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Speaker 10: That was such a hectic day because out of com

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Speaker 10: and recruiting for many many years, and it was you

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Speaker 10: were trying to try down twenty twenty five players and

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Speaker 10: our coaches, lining up interviews, doing all this stuff, and

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Speaker 10: then trying to report immediately when they signed with Tennessee,

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Speaker 10: and then Tennessee would send out.

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Speaker 9: A release about each one of them.

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Speaker 10: It used to be a seven am to eight or

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Speaker 10: nine pm job on signing day. Now something like that,

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Speaker 10: because much of it is much of the action has

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Speaker 10: have a few that come in that are noteworthy, but

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Speaker 10: very few surprises on National signing Day.

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Speaker 4: Now.

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Speaker 3: I don't know if Tennessee will sign anybody a National

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Speaker 3: signy Day. Maybe they will, I don't know.

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Speaker 9: I think they have an offensive lineman from Catholic.

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Speaker 10: It was a late commitment, a late ad and when

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Speaker 10: the SEC, he basically would have been a preferred walk on.

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Speaker 10: But when the SEC allowed them to go from eighty

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Speaker 10: five scholarships to one hundred and five, he's going to sign.

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Speaker 10: His last name is like George L. But yeah, very few,

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Speaker 10: one or two maybe.

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Speaker 3: Well, Tennessee's has a pretty good offensive line men from

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Speaker 3: Knox Catholic. I'll tell you that much whole family's words

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Speaker 3: as a matter of fact. Yeah, that's right, right anyway,

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Speaker 3: all right, let's uh, you want anything you want to

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Speaker 3: touch on that on the on the football front, I

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Speaker 3: think I've covered most of that, but I always like

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Speaker 3: to get Jimmy's opinion, because again he's he's well well

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Speaker 3: entrenched up there. Any anything you're hearing up there, you

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Speaker 10: Well, the one thing that I do want to point out. Look,

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Speaker 10: I'm sure you have I haven't heard everything that you said.

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Speaker 10: But in regard to Jim Knowles, the first year, his

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Speaker 10: team's his defensive haven't been as good as his second year.

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Speaker 10: But to my knowledge, Doug, this is the first time

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Speaker 10: he's been able to hire his defensive staff.

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Speaker 9: I think that's going to make a huge difference.

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Speaker 10: He inherited the staff at Oklahoma State and Ohio State

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Speaker 10: and Penn State, but now he was able to handpick

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Speaker 10: the assistance that he wanted. I think you're exactly right

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Speaker 10: about the reasons he kept Rodney Garner and Willing End

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Speaker 10: as he thought they were very good coaches.

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Speaker 9: And he's got a player at.

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Speaker 10: Each level on defense, defensive, line, linebacker, and secondary that

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Speaker 10: played for him at Penn State. So I expect more

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Speaker 10: immediate success in his first year than what he had

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Speaker 10: in his previous time.

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Speaker 3: Well, and he has a fairly low bar he started

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Speaker 3: to work with too, So it's it's going to be

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Speaker 3: it's going to be more successful. I would hope. I

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Speaker 3: would think for a lot of different reasons. And again

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Speaker 3: I'm you know, I'm I'm I am not a ten

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Speaker 3: Banks Basher didn't work out. You know, sometimes sometimes things

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Speaker 3: things don't work out, you know, just real quickly, and

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Speaker 3: I talked I mentioned this at the at the end

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Speaker 3: of the first segment. But uh, you know, he brought

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Speaker 3: in three other coaches. I'm not exactly sure how that's

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Speaker 3: all going to work, because I think you can only

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Speaker 3: are allowed to have ten full time coaches and go

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Speaker 3: out and recruit. I know they've changed now you can

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Speaker 3: have almost name bank and be out coaching, which is good.

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Speaker 3: But I get off the subject here. Uh let me

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Speaker 3: tell folks this. Forget about when they were coaching. But

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Speaker 3: William Inge and and Rodney Garner are two of the

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Speaker 3: most respected defensive coaches. You know, we don't we know

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Speaker 3: a lot about Rodney Garner because he's from down and here.

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Speaker 3: Willim Inge, he was a coordinator out at Washington. He

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Speaker 3: is a big time thought of coach. So you know,

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Speaker 3: not only did he bring in talking about coach Knowles,

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Speaker 3: bring in three other gentlemen coaches with him. He kept

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Speaker 3: those two. He didn't keep those two because he had

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Speaker 3: to or liked him or whatever. He kept them because

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Speaker 3: they are both highly thought of, fundamental coaches and Jimmy.

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Speaker 3: That's that's the thing I've been harping on. If there's

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Speaker 3: one thing that I've heard and have watched Jim Knowles do,

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Speaker 3: we will be defensively a much more fundamentally sound defense. Now,

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Speaker 3: how good we're going to play, that's that's an indifferent ballpark.

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Speaker 3: But just from doing the fundamentals that you have to

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Speaker 3: be able to do, don't You don't get a defense

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Speaker 3: to compete for championships like he has at almost every

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Speaker 3: stop without being outstanding in fundamentals. And I will be

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Speaker 3: absolutely shocked if that didn't happen. And you're exactly right

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Speaker 3: about He's brought in coaches now that can that know

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Speaker 3: the system. He doesn't have to teach the system to

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Speaker 3: the coaches. In other words, they know the system. So anyway,

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Speaker 3: all right, any any final thoughts on that before we

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Speaker 3: moved to basketball, Well, just.

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Speaker 10: That you hit on the thing about fundamentals, So I

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Speaker 10: think they'll be stronger fundamentally.

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Speaker 9: There are two things to put him to the other

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Speaker 9: good defense, that's one.

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Speaker 10: The other has had the athletes, and I think they've

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Speaker 10: done a tremendous job in the transfer portal of upgrading

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Speaker 10: their talent on defense.

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Speaker 3: Well, it all starts. Have they announced I probably should

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Speaker 3: know this if they've announced that. Most time, they start

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Speaker 3: sometime in March, I think, and go into April. Do

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Speaker 3: you have they announced the start of the announce the

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Speaker 3: start of I don't think they have. Have they announced

650
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Speaker 3: started spring practice yet?

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Speaker 10: I have not seen an announcement for the start of spring,

652
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Speaker 10: but my guess is it's going to be around March

653
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Speaker 10: to twenty seventh or twenty eight.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. And one reason they do that is there's two ways.

655
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Speaker 3: And I know going back coach Coach Majors would change

656
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Speaker 3: it up depending on his team. Because let's say you

657
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Speaker 3: have a young team or in this instance, you have

658
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Speaker 3: a news strength and conditioning sometimes you move spring practice

659
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Speaker 3: back or up, whichever way it is further end of

660
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Speaker 3: the year to give your conditioning more time to get

661
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Speaker 3: stronger and all those types of things. If you're a

662
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Speaker 3: veteran team, sometimes you move it started earlier because you

663
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Speaker 3: got a veteran team. And you know a lot of

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Speaker 3: the reasons I'm sure you don't have to name. You know,

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Speaker 3: you got what you got. You got fifteen practices in

666
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Speaker 3: thirty days or something like that. So anyway, it's not

667
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Speaker 3: a big deal. Anyway, let's talk about what it is.

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Speaker 3: Big deal, good good win, good good win. I didn't

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Speaker 3: watch all of it, watched a bunch of it. Seventy

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Speaker 3: seven sixty nine last night, Tennessee I think led from

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Speaker 3: the first first shot right or to the second shot.

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Speaker 9: At least they lived where to wire it was. It's

673
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Speaker 9: kind of interesting with this team.

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Speaker 10: They're talented, and they'll have stretches where they look like

675
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Speaker 10: they're capable of playing in the Final four. Then they

676
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Speaker 10: left stretches where you're scratching your head, like what in

677
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Speaker 10: the world were you doing. They don't always play with

678
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Speaker 10: the high basketball like you. And it's funny. And for

679
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Speaker 10: their last five games, their point guard Jacobin Gillespie has

680
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Speaker 10: not played well. He's made some silly mistakes. He's miss

681
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Speaker 10: free throws. Heck against Alberty foul a three point shooter

682
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Speaker 10: twice and the guy made it and they were four

683
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Speaker 10: point plays, one in the end of the first half,

684
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Speaker 10: one at the end of the second half. He has

685
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Speaker 10: not been a good closer for Tennessee. You want your

686
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Speaker 10: point guard to be a good closer. But they've overcome that.

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Speaker 10: They managed to figure out a way to win. Even

688
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Speaker 10: though they might be sloppy. Even though they might miss

689
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Speaker 10: some free throws later have some turnovers and miss the rebounds,

690
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Speaker 10: they have figured out a way to win now. They

691
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Speaker 10: didn't have mins free throws down the stretch against Oliburn.

692
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Speaker 10: That was a good thing. Heck, they shot over eighty

693
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Speaker 10: percent at the foul line, which is outstanding in particular

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Speaker 10: for this team. But even though they have some lapses

695
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Speaker 10: and lulls trying to close out a game, they still

696
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Speaker 10: get it done. So I got to compliment them on that.

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Speaker 10: But I also wonder if you're playing with fire. If

698
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Speaker 10: you don't play smarter, if you don't avoid the turnovers,

699
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Speaker 10: if you don't avoid foul and three point shooters, if

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Speaker 10: you don't make your free throws, I think you're going

701
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Speaker 10: to lose a couple of games you should in Kentucky

702
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Speaker 10: was one of them.

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Speaker 9: They never should have lost that game.

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Speaker 10: So they need to finish playing better basketball and with

705
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Speaker 10: a higher basketball i Q, although I think they'll catch

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Speaker 10: up with them.

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Speaker 3: Had four players with at least eight rebounds. Well I

708
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Speaker 3: think eight rebounds was the most and another one was seven,

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Speaker 3: So pretty good team effort there. You mentioned something that

710
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Speaker 3: made some notes from what you kind of talked about

711
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Speaker 3: the past free throws that have certainly been a problem.

712
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Speaker 3: Eighty one percent there A meant by, by the way,

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Speaker 3: was twelve or fifteen. Let's just talk a little bit

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Speaker 3: about him. One thing I love, I like. I don't

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Speaker 3: really listen to many coaches and what they have to say,

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Speaker 3: just a few, but I really like listening to Rick

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Speaker 3: Barnes because he actually says something, you know. I mean,

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Speaker 3: I guess he has moments when every coach has coach speak,

719
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Speaker 3: But he's been pretty blunt about a few things. Well

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Speaker 3: you mentioned Gillespie, but even the aim at kid not

721
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Speaker 3: getting enough shots last night. Yet he took thirty percent

722
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Speaker 3: of the shots, and he had fifty percent of the

723
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Speaker 3: free throws, and of course had a big night also.

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Speaker 3: So that's one thing that at least when coach Barnes

725
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Speaker 3: has spoken publicly about it, he pretty much said, hey,

726
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Speaker 3: we got to have this young man. He got to

727
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Speaker 3: be he's going to shoot more to be the way

728
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Speaker 3: to put it.

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Speaker 9: And he did. Now, he didn't shoot a very good percentage.

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Speaker 10: He was four sixteen, but you pointed out twelve of

731
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Speaker 10: fifteen at the foul line. He had eight rebounds. He

732
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Speaker 10: drew nine fouls and the twelve out of fifteen. That's

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Speaker 10: only the second time in the last twenty years that

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Speaker 10: Tennessee has had a player make and attempt that many.

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Speaker 10: Not for the last twenty years since twenty nineteen. I'm

736
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Speaker 10: sorry that Tennessee has had a player tempt that many

737
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Speaker 10: free throws and make that many. So he gets to

738
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Speaker 10: the line a lot. He gets to the line about

739
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Speaker 10: as often as anybody in the SEC because he is

740
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Speaker 10: aggressive and he'll take it to the basket. And I

741
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Speaker 10: had felt like after when he carried the team to

742
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Speaker 10: that win against a Texas A and M in overtime,

743
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Speaker 10: I felt like he's turned the corner and he has.

744
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Speaker 10: He's played exceptionally well since then. Not always a great

745
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Speaker 10: percentage from the free from the from the field goal

746
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Speaker 10: on Bilgos, but his free throw percentage has been really

747
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Speaker 10: good for the most part. And he is finding different

748
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Speaker 10: ways to affect the outcome of a game, for example

749
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Speaker 10: the eight rebounds we talked about. So he's been a

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Speaker 10: terrific player for Tennessee the last five games.

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Speaker 3: Auburn with nineteen turnovers, Tennessee with twelve. Jimmy, what what

752
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Speaker 3: is I don't know if the word's acceptable. But what

753
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Speaker 3: level do you need to me? Where do you think

754
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Speaker 3: Coach Barnes, I know you don't want any, But what's

755
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Speaker 3: an acceptable in a competitive game for turnovers? Do you

756
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Speaker 3: think in his view?

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Speaker 9: Yeah, ten, that's what they're looking for. Ten they don't want.

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Speaker 10: They want ten or fewer. They actually were in practice.

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Speaker 10: It's kind of funny. They had these balloons. They brought

760
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Speaker 10: it practice and for every turnover they would pop the balloon.

761
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Speaker 10: And when they got beyond ten balloons that they pop,

762
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Speaker 10: they ran and then they would do the drill again.

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Speaker 9: For the most part, that's work.

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Speaker 10: They've had a couple of now they have fifteen turnovers

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Speaker 10: too many, but they were able to overcome it. One

766
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Speaker 10: reason they overcame it is because they out rebound at

767
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Speaker 10: Auburn forty six to thirty and had seventeen offensive rebounds.

768
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Speaker 10: They have been a tremendous offensive rebounding team, one of

769
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Speaker 10: the best in the nation. This stata is amazing to me.

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Speaker 10: They rebound about forty four percent of their misses. That

771
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Speaker 10: is that's a huge number, and that's one reason they

772
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Speaker 10: were able to overcome the fifteen turnovers.

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Speaker 9: But ten is the number they try to limit their turnovers.

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Speaker 3: To talk about those guys, I don't know this team really,

775
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Speaker 3: to be honest, I didn't know. They don't know any

776
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Speaker 3: Tennessee basketball team real well. But some of the guys

777
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Speaker 3: it's talked about, some of those guys inside that maybe

778
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Speaker 3: not you know, they get almost all not almost all.

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Speaker 3: They're two big scores of course of the guards, right,

780
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Speaker 3: two guards, But talk about some of those guys. Dwayne Brown,

781
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Speaker 3: I mean, he had a big night last night.

782
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Speaker 10: Also, Dwayne Brown has turned into arguably their best finisher

783
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Speaker 10: around the rim. And I'm not talking about he was

784
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Speaker 10: three for five last night. He's shooting over sixty six

785
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Speaker 10: percent on the year, that leads the team, and he.

786
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Speaker 9: Has really developed.

787
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Speaker 10: They actually thought that they were going to rich shirt

788
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Speaker 10: him and he was just too.

789
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Speaker 9: Good for that.

790
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Speaker 10: I noticed himhen he went five for five against Duke

791
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Speaker 10: in a game in an exhibition game. But he also

792
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Speaker 10: he was one of those with the seven rebounds. Another guy,

793
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Speaker 10: Jp Ostrella. He is a nice offensive player. When Tennessee

794
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Speaker 10: was struggling, Tennessee had a fifteen minutes stretch bridging the

795
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Speaker 10: first and second half against Auburn doug They only made

796
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Speaker 10: three field goals, but Ostrella had one of those, and

797
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Speaker 10: he also made some other key field goals and was

798
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Speaker 10: four out of five and had eight points. You other

799
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Speaker 10: Jalen Carries the other big man. He's a Vanderbilt transfer.

800
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Speaker 10: He scored thirteen points. He had eight rebounds. He had

801
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Speaker 10: eleven points in the first first ten minutes or so

802
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Speaker 10: of the game to help spark Tennessee to what ended

803
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Speaker 10: up being a sixteen point lead in the first half

804
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Speaker 10: at one point so. And they also won that game

805
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Speaker 10: without Felix at Parr. That was a good win to

806
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Speaker 10: show the death back. Parr did not play because he

807
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Speaker 10: had a calf strain. I don't know when he's scheduled

808
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Speaker 10: to return. Tennessee plays on Tuesday night. But Brown, Estrella

809
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Speaker 10: and Carrie with the main inside players for Tennessee last night,

810
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Speaker 10: and they did a really nice job.

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Speaker 3: Jimmy, as you know you're well versed in this. I

812
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Speaker 3: got to get a commercial spot out of the way here.

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Speaker 3: Can you come back for another segment here with another

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Speaker 3: five or six minutes?

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Speaker 1: Sure?

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Speaker 3: Absolutely right, Hey, when you come back, I want to talk.

817
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Speaker 3: I want to talk about the plus minus and exactly

818
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Speaker 3: what that means in basketball. So anyway, all right, quick break.

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Speaker 3: We'll be right back with Jimmy Hymes. I'll talk to

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Speaker 3: you about mid ten Ford. If you're a truck person,

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Speaker 3: I don't like those big trucks hard to get into.

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Speaker 9: Gonna, No, have never been there.

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Speaker 10: I know what it's famous for. It's samous for Connecticut

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Speaker 10: basketball women's basketball. So and the man are doing pretty

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Speaker 3: I'll tell you what. At Lady Falls. Of course, they

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Speaker 3: played their day. Lady Walls fourteen for six and one

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Speaker 3: in the Southeastern Conference, and this has been a rivalry. Boy,

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Speaker 3: if you followed it, the rivalry, I guess when it

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Speaker 3: first all started back when in all of women's basketball.

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Speaker 3: I mean, everybody looked forward to this Bowl game, even

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Speaker 3: people that didn't follow women's basketball. Of course, the Pet

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Speaker 3: Summit during her great career there. Anyway, give me a

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Speaker 3: couple of thoughts on well, not particularly this game, but

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Speaker 3: what are you seeing from the Lady Balls right now?

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Speaker 10: Well, they started the league at six and oero and

909
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Speaker 10: then they were the last SEC team to lose the game.

910
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Speaker 10: On the women's side, they lost Mississippi State, which isn't

911
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Speaker 10: a very good team.

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Speaker 9: That was a shocking defeat of the Lady Balls.

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Speaker 3: That was at home, wasn't it.

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00:49:51,200 --> 00:49:53,759
Speaker 9: It was at home? Yeah, I mean nobody saw that

915
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Speaker 9: one coming out.

916
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Speaker 10: I saw the b writer for the Lady Balls with

917
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Speaker 10: the NAXLL News Center picked Tennessee to win about four

918
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Speaker 10: ten or fifteen points, and Tennessee beat him earlier on

919
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Speaker 10: the road on around January the eighth and ninth. But

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Speaker 10: they're just as I was talking to somebody real close

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Speaker 10: to the program and watching them, they have a very

922
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Speaker 10: very high ceiling, but a low floor. When they're playing

923
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Speaker 10: at their best, they could be just about anybody. But

924
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Speaker 10: when they played poorly, they can lose to a lot

925
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Speaker 10: of teams out there. A year ago, they beat Yukon

926
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Speaker 10: at home and snapped a long losing street to Yukon.

927
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Speaker 10: It was a huge victory for kim Calwell in their

928
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Speaker 10: first year.

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Speaker 9: But you know what, Yukon didn't lose.

930
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Speaker 10: A game the rest of the year and they won

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Speaker 10: the NCAA Championship. This Yukon team is every bit as good,

932
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Speaker 10: and I think they've only lost maybe one or two games.

933
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Speaker 10: This is going to be a very difficult challenge for

934
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Speaker 10: the Lady Balls, and you know, Yukon remembers what happened

935
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Speaker 10: last year. I would be surprised if the Lady Balls

936
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Speaker 10: can stay within ten points of Yukon.

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Speaker 3: Jimmy, talk a little bit about, Okay, anything else on

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Speaker 3: the basketball front you want to hit that we haven't

939
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Speaker 3: talked about. I'm going to get back and finish over

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Speaker 3: with a few things on the football end, but any

941
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Speaker 3: men's basketball do you want to touch on real quick?

942
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Speaker 4: No.

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Speaker 10: I just think, as we mentioned earlier, they need to

944
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Speaker 10: do a better job of closing things out, but they

945
00:51:19,480 --> 00:51:21,759
Speaker 10: have been resilient. They have figured out ways to win,

946
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Speaker 10: so I'll give them credit for that. And as we

947
00:51:24,000 --> 00:51:26,400
Speaker 10: touched on earlier, the fact they shot eighty one percent

948
00:51:26,640 --> 00:51:28,839
Speaker 10: from the free throw line twenty five or thirty one.

949
00:51:29,040 --> 00:51:30,920
Speaker 10: They hit their free throws late in the game. I

950
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Speaker 10: think that's a good sign for this team going forward.

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Speaker 3: League wise, give me a couple of two to three

952
00:51:35,160 --> 00:51:38,360
Speaker 3: teams right now that look like they're kind of separating themselves.

953
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Speaker 10: I thought Florida was the best team in the league,

954
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Speaker 10: and then Auburn went down there and beat Florida because

955
00:51:44,680 --> 00:51:46,880
Speaker 10: Florida has got the best front line in the league

956
00:51:46,880 --> 00:51:49,840
Speaker 10: and they got really good guard and hoogie flann. But

957
00:51:50,000 --> 00:51:52,040
Speaker 10: the team that's gone to the best in records Texas

958
00:51:52,080 --> 00:51:54,120
Speaker 10: A and M. I don't know how they're doing it.

959
00:51:54,520 --> 00:51:57,360
Speaker 10: They just beat Georgia by fifteen, and Tennessee struggle to

960
00:51:57,360 --> 00:51:59,560
Speaker 10: beat Georgia. But A and M is off to a

961
00:51:59,640 --> 00:52:03,000
Speaker 10: great start. There's there are Florida's at six and two.

962
00:52:03,120 --> 00:52:05,759
Speaker 10: They have the next best record. They're a handful of

963
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Speaker 10: teams that have three defeats in the league, which includes

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Speaker 10: Tennessee and.

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Speaker 9: Also includes Vanvelt.

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Speaker 10: But I guess I need to give A and M

967
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Speaker 10: the prop, so I would take A and M is

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Speaker 10: Florida right now is the two best teams in the SEC.

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Speaker 3: A and M still got the same basketball coach. I

970
00:52:23,120 --> 00:52:24,080
Speaker 3: don't even know his name.

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Speaker 9: No, Buzz Williams left.

972
00:52:26,480 --> 00:52:29,120
Speaker 10: He went to I believe Virginia Tech U and so

973
00:52:29,200 --> 00:52:33,279
Speaker 10: they've got a different coach whose name escapes me. I

974
00:52:33,440 --> 00:52:36,200
Speaker 10: just saw him play the other day. But he's the

975
00:52:36,239 --> 00:52:39,600
Speaker 10: first year guy. They're They're a well coached team. They

976
00:52:39,719 --> 00:52:42,359
Speaker 10: play together. I don't think they're the most talented team

977
00:52:42,400 --> 00:52:44,880
Speaker 10: in the league, but they played very well together.

978
00:52:45,320 --> 00:52:47,799
Speaker 9: And I'm impressed with what he's done in his first year.

979
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Speaker 3: Yep, all right, all right, that's a let's let's just

980
00:52:52,080 --> 00:52:54,600
Speaker 3: hit the athletic Departmaru. I started to kind of the

981
00:52:54,600 --> 00:52:57,160
Speaker 3: show talking about leadership and all those types of things.

982
00:52:57,480 --> 00:53:01,239
Speaker 3: How important that is in my right now. From the

983
00:53:01,239 --> 00:53:04,040
Speaker 3: president of the chancellor to the athletic director, this is

984
00:53:04,080 --> 00:53:08,319
Speaker 3: a solid and strong a group of people. And I'm

985
00:53:08,320 --> 00:53:11,120
Speaker 3: sure there's there there's support staffs are too. I don't

986
00:53:11,160 --> 00:53:14,320
Speaker 3: know many of them, uh, but Jimmy right now, tennessee

987
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Speaker 3: from from from from an from an athletic perspective. Uh,

988
00:53:19,200 --> 00:53:21,840
Speaker 3: and I'm talking about all faces of it, not just

989
00:53:21,920 --> 00:53:25,520
Speaker 3: on the field, but some pretty good stuff going on

990
00:53:25,640 --> 00:53:27,360
Speaker 3: up on the hill right now. It appears to me

991
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Speaker 3: you're there a lot.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, Oh yeah, it's uh.

993
00:53:30,840 --> 00:53:33,480
Speaker 10: They call themselves and everything's good, which means that they

994
00:53:34,440 --> 00:53:37,799
Speaker 10: want to win or compete in every sport. And not

995
00:53:37,880 --> 00:53:40,920
Speaker 10: all the athletic directors over there have had that mindset,

996
00:53:40,920 --> 00:53:44,360
Speaker 10: but anyway does. And he gives his coaches every resource

997
00:53:44,360 --> 00:53:46,759
Speaker 10: and every opportunity to win. He asked him, what do

998
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Speaker 10: you need to be successful? And right now a lot

999
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Speaker 10: of them need money because they got to go out

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Speaker 10: and buy players.

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Speaker 9: But that's uh. But they're very good and in a

1002
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Speaker 9: lot of sports. I did this.

1003
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Speaker 10: It doesn't hold true now, but a year ago, when

1004
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Speaker 10: you still at Tony Votello, I would argue that there

1005
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Speaker 10: were six coaches out of the twenty sports on Tennessee's campus,

1006
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Speaker 10: six were the best coaches they've ever had in those

1007
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Speaker 10: particular sports that included by Tellow and baseball. Your softball

1008
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Speaker 10: coaches the best they've ever had, Your swim coaches the

1009
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Speaker 10: best ever, Your golf coaches best ever. So they've had,

1010
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Speaker 10: and I think Rick Barnes is the best I've ever

1011
00:54:22,280 --> 00:54:24,719
Speaker 10: had on the men's side, So they've got to go in.

1012
00:54:24,760 --> 00:54:28,200
Speaker 10: They've hired some really good coaches, and they support each other.

1013
00:54:28,760 --> 00:54:32,240
Speaker 10: You see football players at basketball games, you see baseball

1014
00:54:32,239 --> 00:54:36,160
Speaker 10: players at softball games, and vice versas. So I think

1015
00:54:36,160 --> 00:54:38,920
Speaker 10: there's a great camaraderie within the athletic department right now

1016
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Speaker 10: as well.

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Speaker 3: I'm going to talk I got to get out of

1018
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Speaker 3: here here in a just second, but I'm going to

1019
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Speaker 3: talk to one of the things, and hesitate to even

1020
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Speaker 3: bring it up because I don't want to get into

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Speaker 3: you about this next week. Let me tell you one

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Speaker 3: thing that I hear that really kind of raised the

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1025
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Speaker 3: people out there talking about how you know, college athletes

1026
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Speaker 3: now are all there about the money, and they don't

1027
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Speaker 3: they're not there for education. That that is one hundred

1028
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Speaker 3: percent not true, not one hundred percent for every individual.

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Speaker 3: A great, great majority of athletes that are at the university,

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1031
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1032
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Speaker 3: I'm not even going to give you an opportunity to

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Speaker 3: let that let that brew a little bit and we'll

1036
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Speaker 3: talk about it next week. Okay, Okay, sounds good. And

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Speaker 3: you're talking to someone who was not a high accommendition

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Speaker 9: College.

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Speaker 3: I did go, yeah, I did. It wasn't because of academics,

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1042
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Speaker 3: Nobody offered me a football scholarship, so any and it

1043
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Speaker 3: wasn't big enough to play basketball. All right, talk to

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Speaker 3: Meal time is family time and with Rafferties made from

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Speaker 3: scratch menu, everyone can enjoy their favorites handbreadish chicken fingers,

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Speaker 3: juicy prime rib and warm buttery croissants. Keeping everybody smiling

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Speaker 3: and now with online ordering, Rafferty's curbsite carryout just got

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Speaker 3: Welding is where they go get them. We carry top

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Speaker 3: machines like Miller, Lincoln, Esoub and Hypertherm serving welders, farmers,

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Speaker 3: fabricators and contractors. You can contact this at Volunteer Welding

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Speaker 8: Walker Schevrolet celebrates one hundred years of serving you in

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Speaker 8: Middle Tennessee. Save up to eleven thousand dollars off MSRP

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Speaker 8: Now don't you buy until you give Walker Schevalt a

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Speaker 8: try since nineteen twenty six.

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Speaker 3: All right, as we go, thanks for being part of

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Speaker 3: the show today. I did want to kind of reach

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Speaker 3: out to this a little bit, talk to us a

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Speaker 3: little bit about you know, a lot of great people

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Speaker 3: here in Middle Tennessee. It's been it's been a tough

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Speaker 3: tough week here for a lot of folks in a

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Speaker 3: lot of different areas. But you know what you have

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Speaker 3: to go through, have time sometimes, but appreciate so much

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Speaker 3: the folks that the Tennessee Homeland Security do a lot

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Speaker 3: of people out there as as driving in today, there's

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Speaker 3: been a lot of trees now, Thank goodness, people are

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Speaker 3: getting working through all of that. But special thanks, I

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Speaker 3: know all of you that will join me in this too.

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Speaker 3: We certainly appreciate all of the folks and all the

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Speaker 3: help keep this area safe. Hey, thanks for being part

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Speaker 3: of the show. We will see you next Sunday right

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Speaker 3: here for Big Orange Sunday.