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Speaker 1: What's up, everybody, LeVar Arrington here with coach Franklin. Another week,

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Speaker 1: a big win against Kent State and a big game

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Speaker 1: against the fighting a line now of Illinois that get

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Speaker 1: them at home. We'll talk to coach about the offensive production,

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Speaker 1: the defensive production. We're gonna talk about how the coaches

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Speaker 1: are performing, all right, We're going to grade out on that.

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Speaker 1: See what coach feels and thinks about that. And there

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Speaker 1: are injuries. What's coach's opinions and thoughts on what the

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Speaker 1: injuries are with the team and how we move forward

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Speaker 1: as a team.

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Speaker 2: Stay locked in.

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Speaker 1: This is quite Franklin with coach James Franklin and myself

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Speaker 1: the Hall of Famer. That's right, Penn State Nidney line,

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Speaker 1: LeVar Arrington. Let's get going. Coaching takeaways from the Kent game.

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Speaker 3: First of all, I love the white out energy.

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Speaker 2: You got out white out energy. You a white out energy.

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Speaker 2: We're going white out energy.

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Speaker 4: Let me say it again, Let me say it again,

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Speaker 4: white out energy energy. Guy, have to put the dramatic

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'll be all in on it.

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Speaker 2: You know what I mean. I'm part of the energy,

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Speaker 2: you know what I mean.

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Speaker 1: So as you can see, I be up in the

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Speaker 1: the energy that's already there. It's been really cool, man,

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Speaker 1: this first time I ever came back this much.

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Speaker 2: I've never ever, ever ever come back as much as

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Speaker 2: I do now.

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Speaker 1: So let me just first start by saying, that's a

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Speaker 1: testament to how you make me feel and how I

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Speaker 1: feel about you know, what we have going on with

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Speaker 1: supportive of what's going on. So super cool to have

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Speaker 1: been back as much as possible. And I would encourage

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Speaker 1: all of our lettermen while I'm talking about it, to

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Speaker 1: Super dope team. And you're missing out on meeting these

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Speaker 1: young phenomenal dudes if you're not coming back and getting

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Speaker 1: an opportunity to learn about Coach Frank and the rest

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Speaker 1: of the coaching staff. A lot of us are on

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Speaker 1: the coaching staff. So with that being said, you know,

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Speaker 1: I wanted to make sure I put that out there,

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Speaker 1: but Coach, let's talk about it how.

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Speaker 4: I was going to say, the same thing, It's been

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Speaker 4: a blessing to have you back, and I was going

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Speaker 4: to say the same thing that I encourage all the

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Speaker 3: I think it's really cool this.

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Speaker 4: Friday and Saturday, we're honoring the nineteen ninety.

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Speaker 3: Fourteen year, which was a special team.

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Speaker 4: I mean, I think it was five guys that are

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Speaker 4: first round draft choices, a bunch of Hall of famers,

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Speaker 4: guys had great NFL careers. I mean, you talk about

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Speaker 4: a seventeen year NFL career. A seventeen year NFL career

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Speaker 3: So yeah, it's just a bunch of guys coming back,

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Speaker 3: So that'll be awesome.

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Speaker 1: But to the end, Yeahronkey, John Carter, Freddie Scott, Bobby Mitchell,

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Speaker 1: I mean that that team, Marco Riviera, Rivera, Jeff Harding's

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Speaker 1: so it's always like you focus in and you dial

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Speaker 1: and I seen Trace McSorley man Man. My son was

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Speaker 2: Because Coach Kent, we have a day against Kent.

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Speaker 1: You had a lot of new guys, new faces out there,

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Speaker 4: Most importantly, we played in a way that's going to

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Speaker 4: allow us to build confidence going into Big ten play.

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Speaker 4: You know, I don't care who you play. We've been

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Speaker 4: playing football at Penn State for a long time. And

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Speaker 1: Like nineteen twenties, like nineteen twenty nine something like that,

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Speaker 4: No disrespect to our brothers over at Susquehanna, but but

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Speaker 4: a little bit different. So we've been we've been playing

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Speaker 4: football long time at Penn State and played all different

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Speaker 3: So whenever you're able to do that, that's cool.

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Speaker 4: A lot of faces and guys that are stepping up

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Speaker 4: for us and need to because we've had some, uh,

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Speaker 4: So have another guys step up and see them, you know,

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Speaker 4: and then allows us to expand our packages on offense

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Speaker 4: coming in here after a huge win at Nebraska, and

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Speaker 4: you know, we're gonna need it a top twenty five matchup,

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Speaker 1: All right, So and I think that's a perfect way

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Speaker 1: to transition into the conversation. Luke Luke Altmeyer Old Miss

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Speaker 1: crumble for Altmeyer. But dude is a talent and with

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Speaker 1: Look good, dil he was dealing put put four touchdowns

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Speaker 1: I think Brian is sixty six y three something to

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Speaker 1: That's a big that's a big boy. That's that's Illinois,

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Speaker 2: This is going to be this is going to be

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Speaker 1: Feel about the preparation with the games that have been

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Speaker 2: You feel like you're ready because.

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Speaker 1: Maybe people may not be looking at Illinois and taking

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Speaker 1: this is a fine football team and they had personnel

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Speaker 4: Well, I think, first of all, they're gonna come in

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Speaker 4: Nebraska was like the team that everybody was talking about,

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Speaker 4: with the quarterback, that's the difference in them right now.

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Speaker 4: Last year he turned the ball over. He's not turning

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Speaker 4: the ball over right now. He's got ten touchdown passes

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Speaker 4: has done that up to this point. Just so we're clear,

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Speaker 4: it gets confusing sometimes to me as well.

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Speaker 3: He's actually a Mississippi State.

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Speaker 2: Mississipp Mississippi State.

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Speaker 1: Actually, get my eyes, coach, I hadn't already done radio.

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Speaker 1: I'm so tired, right, so I did have a minute.

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Speaker 1: It is Mississippi he's a Sipper. You're right, it's Mississippi State.

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Speaker 3: Or the correct I remember him. He's a highly recruited

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Speaker 4: I actually think his dad was the team doctor at

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Speaker 4: Mississippi State. Ends up transferring there. Last year he was

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Speaker 3: The way Brett likes to play.

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Speaker 4: Brett is a defensive ball control guy who wants to

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Speaker 4: And that's how they're playing right now. And with that,

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Speaker 4: it comes to situational football. And he does a great

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Speaker 1: And looking at that the way you're you're looking at

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Speaker 1: it's going to be a grind out? This is this

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Speaker 1: what this game looks like. Now, we have history with Illinois.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if people remember the overtime game with

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Speaker 1: Like if people are thinking that this this is a

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Speaker 1: Are you comfortable and confident with the way that we've

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Speaker 1: how are you feeling about our receivers? That's always been

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Speaker 1: the question coming into this year, is the receiving corps

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I like the direction we're heading.

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Speaker 4: And I thought last week, I think it was a

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Speaker 4: You know, we're going to need to do that not

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Speaker 4: So we've we've shown that we're able to manufacture yards

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Speaker 4: and points a lot of different ways.

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Speaker 3: Now we got to put it all together.

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Speaker 2: All right.

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Speaker 1: My last, my last question for you is in terms

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Speaker 2: This is the one that everybody, you know, they may

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Speaker 1: They may I don't know, how do you how are

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Speaker 1: We talk a lot about about the players and how

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Speaker 1: for you, just knowing you and how how you operate,

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Speaker 1: it matters to you. The protocols, the process, the approach.

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Speaker 2: That's that's a big thing.

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Speaker 1: How how are you grading so far what you've done offensively,

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Speaker 4: Well, I think you have to start by you know,

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Speaker 4: that creates significant challenges. So how you approach your offseason,

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Speaker 4: the season is really important.

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Speaker 3: And for the most.

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Speaker 4: Part, we've handled that well. You don't watch our team

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Speaker 4: and feel like in certain areas that we are still

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Speaker 4: figuring things out.

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Speaker 3: Now now we are. We're developing team.

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Speaker 4: Don't get me wrong, but I'm saying we don't have

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Speaker 4: feel like it's a new coordinator trying to get things set.

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Speaker 3: So I think that's been a real positive.

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Speaker 4: And then I think the other thing is we've had

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Speaker 4: significant injuries, and we're not a team that talks about

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Speaker 4: injuries a whole lot. So you can't have it both ways.

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Speaker 4: But when you got one of the best safeties in

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Speaker 4: significant players for us, those things can be excuses and

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Speaker 4: we're not going to allow them to be excuses. It's

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Speaker 4: next man up, get them ready, get them developed. Recruited

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Speaker 4: all these guys for a reason. Obviously it's not ideal,

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Speaker 4: best position to be successful.

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Speaker 1: I appreciate you, coach. Let's have a good one. White

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Speaker 1: out energy, baby.

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Speaker 3: White out white out energy. Yeah, let's go, baby.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna say the white out for another game, but

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Speaker 1: we're gonna bring white out energy this weekend.

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Speaker 2: Energy.

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Speaker 1: Come on, let's do it. Let's turn it into a thing.

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Speaker 1: White out energy. You know we're gonna turn into a thing.

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Speaker 2: You know what I mean.

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Speaker 1: I know you we're gonna we're gonna get an energy

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Speaker 2: We're gonna get an energy company.

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Speaker 4: Called will you Know, will You'll have You'll find some

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Speaker 4: way to do this.

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Speaker 1: That's coach Franklin right there. Yes, this is quite Franklin.

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Speaker 1: Another week down, another week in. Let's see how it

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Speaker 1: works out. You got the Penn State that you lines

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Speaker 1: taking on the fighting Alni of Illinois. That will be

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Speaker 1: a late night game and it will be a home

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