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Speaker 1: In Part one, we examined the crazy circumstances that the

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Speaker 2: We are announcing and introducing a regional.

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Speaker 1: Stay at home order in the state of California, fundamentally

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Speaker 1: predicated on the need to stop gathering with people outside

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Speaker 1: of your household. In fact, playing any version of a

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Speaker 3: California doesn't have the minimum number of scholarship players available

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Speaker 3: for the game because multiple players have to quarantine due

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Speaker 1: Now we look ahead, what did players and coaches learn

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Speaker 1: away from it? From the solid verbal This is a

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Speaker 1: special production, So now.

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Speaker 3: What Welcome back?

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Speaker 1: I'm Ty Hildebrandt, joined as always by Dan Rubinstein, our

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Speaker 1: resident Pack twelve afficionado.

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Speaker 2: Dan.

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Speaker 1: Part one, we looked at just a few of the

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Speaker 1: odd quirks that the PAC twelve had to deal with

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Speaker 1: during the twenty twenty college football season. Now we look ahead,

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Speaker 1: what did we learn? What can the PAC twelve, what

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Speaker 1: can college football do better in twenty twenty one and beyond?

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Speaker 1: Our interview subject again Yogi Wroth from the PAC twelve Networks.

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Speaker 1: A podcaster himself a documentary filmmaker, he found it to

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Speaker 1: be a rather educational experience.

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Speaker 2: I learned a ton.

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Speaker 4: I probably learned more about players this year than ever

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Speaker 4: before because you saw their actions, you know, really speak loudly.

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Speaker 1: You are the resident PAC twelve expert here, Dan Yogi

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Speaker 1: learned a lot about players. What did you learn?

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Speaker 3: I remember thinking that the PAC twelve never felt farther away,

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Speaker 3: And you know, USC has you know, long dominated with

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Speaker 3: And Oregon has their own ups and downs. But those

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Speaker 3: and the PAC twelve has this reputation for having a

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Speaker 3: It's a shame to me as an Oregon fan. Shame

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Speaker 3: to me that, you know, people aren't talking about Jimmy

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Speaker 1: I think what I learned, and I'm sure part of

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Speaker 1: this at least was by design. You know, every conference

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Speaker 1: Everyone said it, but the PAC twelve it seemed like

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Speaker 3: And so it ended up to me hurting the PAC

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Speaker 1: We asked Yogi, what specifically did you learn about players?

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Speaker 4: Every player I talked to to a man in the

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Speaker 4: I remember talking to her Edwards and he talked about

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Speaker 4: So I think there was that, like a real appreciation

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Speaker 4: And I also learned how somebody and how some teams unite,

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Speaker 1: And what's really interesting to me, Dan is we came

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Speaker 3: Frankly, you know what I took away from talking to

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Speaker 4: football is there was a real chance to unite around

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Speaker 4: missed because every conference is going to do in their

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Speaker 1: Doggie dog Dan, everyone out for themselves. Conferences taking a stand,

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Speaker 1: not taking a stand, trying to play, not trying to play.

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Speaker 1: As we talked about in part one, it got very

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Speaker 3: It's the playing field is going to level more and

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Speaker 3: more as things open up, as you know, the number

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Speaker 3: college football programs, we are going to see the PAC

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Speaker 3: twelve be in charge to whatever degree it can be.

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Speaker 3: Now they have a new commissioner. I don't I think

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Speaker 3: his name is George. I don't know how his last

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Speaker 3: outside higher so I'm sure he's going to be tasked

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Speaker 3: can control things, not individual teams, players and coaches, but Yeah,

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Speaker 3: the PAC twelve will be more in charge of its

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Speaker 3: narrative than it was in twenty twenty. But so will

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Speaker 3: the SEC, so well, the Big Ten, So will the ACC,

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Speaker 3: sold the Big twelve, so the MAX, so well, you

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Speaker 3: know every conference, so well, you know the American Mountain West.

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Speaker 3: So I just it'll be a fascinating year and years

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Speaker 3: stuff as much football and as much football experience into

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Speaker 3: the normal timeframe as possible. And I can't wait for it.

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Speaker 3: I honestly I cannot wait for it because seeing conference

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Speaker 3: ideology and state ideology pitted against one another, with college

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Speaker 3: football players largely caught in the crosshairs not super fun.

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Speaker 3: Not fun as a fan, not fun as somebody who

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Speaker 3: covers the sport, not fun for somebody who just likes

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Speaker 3: sports in general. Have everything seep into the conversation, all

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Speaker 3: of these variables, so I am. I'm as excited as

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Speaker 3: I have ever been and am hoping for the best.

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Speaker 1: Thanks again for listening to so now what quirks out

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Speaker 1: Most importantly, come back next week for a different topic

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Speaker 1: with the same basic question. So now what