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Speaker 1: You know, as always, it's a very difficult job to

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Speaker 1: like that that are UM you constantly part of the system. UM,

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Speaker 1: record number of hundred classmen this year, one hundred and

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Speaker 1: thirty some whatever it was UM. And let's say, just

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Speaker 1: in general, a continuing smaller sliver of opportunity to evaluate

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Speaker 1: He sees literally every player, all the pro players, all

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Speaker 1: the day after the two thy eighteen draft, actually before that,

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Speaker 1: UM again compiled enormous amount of information both from a

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Speaker 1: here are the players that were considering, Um, here are

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