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Speaker 1: And welcome in Lake. Kick is on the air. It

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Speaker 1: is Thursday night.

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Speaker 2: It is February third, Dear of a Lord, twenty twenty two.

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Speaker 1: This is Fort Lauderdale.

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Speaker 2: It is a nice, immaculate studio and we are coming

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Speaker 2: off a very memorable National Signing Day.

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Speaker 1: Now, look, I'm still on the road for a little while.

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Speaker 2: But what I wanted to do with the show tonight

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Speaker 2: is take sort of a best of from yesterday.

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Speaker 1: We had Nick Saban on the show.

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Speaker 2: We had Jimbo Fisher probably as animated and as I've

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Speaker 2: ever seen him.

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Speaker 1: He joined us. We're going to show you what he

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Speaker 2: There were a lot of winners and losers, and I

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Speaker 2: was really proud of the production that we put on

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Speaker 2: was there, had Bud Elliott there, Cooper Pettagni, Chris Singletary,

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Speaker 2: Blake Brockermeier. So we put on about a forty seven

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Speaker 2: hour show. I wanted to pick some of the best

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Speaker 2: parts from that. Take a look from National Signing Day

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty two and let us know what you think

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Speaker 2: about it in the comments below.

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Speaker 1: We've also got the Texas A and m.

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Speaker 2: Maggie's now locked up with the number one class in

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Speaker 2: the twenty four to seven Sports team recruiting rankings. And look,

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Speaker 2: let's go ahead and just add on to that number

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Speaker 2: one class of all time. And if you want to

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Speaker 2: hear us talk about that, that's fine. We're going to

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Speaker 2: do that all afternoon. But why not just bring in

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Speaker 2: the headman himself. Jimbo Fisher is there in college station.

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Speaker 1: Coach. I don't know if you're aware of this.

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Speaker 2: There's a graphic floating around here of you with a

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Speaker 2: championship belt flung over your shoulder. So if you don't

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Speaker 2: want that, you just give me an address and we'll

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Speaker 2: send it to an assistant coach. It'd make a great

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Speaker 3: What is this, Dave been like, bitteber, I mean, we

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Speaker 3: added to our class smart, tremendous player, tremendous young man,

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Speaker 3: has size, speed, has all the measurables. But also he's

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Speaker 3: a better person than he is player. He's a great

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Speaker 3: young man to be around. And I think we have

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Speaker 3: a huge impact on our organization.

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Speaker 2: When you guys met as a staff, and this would

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Speaker 2: have been months ago, but when you identified the key

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Speaker 2: to check. What did you need to do in this

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Speaker 4: I think we hit every kneed across the board.

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Speaker 3: We had to have a quarterback, we had to have

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Speaker 3: We had to have listen in our leg The line

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Speaker 3: of scrimmage on the offense and defensive lines are huge.

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Speaker 3: We think we addressed that. Uh, the secondary was big need. Linebackers.

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Speaker 4: We got some great couple of great linebackers.

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Speaker 3: And you know, guys get a fan into your game, changes,

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Speaker 3: Guys get affected offense and decently defensively. And we also

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Speaker 3: got a great kicker. I think we got as good

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Speaker 4: I love him.

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Speaker 3: And you know, we were across the board and I

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Speaker 3: think you have to today and you know with kids

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Speaker 3: leaving transfer, porter all that type of things. You know,

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Speaker 2: How important is it for you as you transition now

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Speaker 2: more stocked with talent then maybe it was when you

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Speaker 2: to preach competition on the recruiting trill and get kids

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Speaker 3: If you don't need to come here and our best,

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Speaker 3: our biggest battles have toccur on that practice. We have

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Speaker 3: we did to the great teams we had at Florida State,

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Speaker 4: But you listen, you have to be willing to.

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Speaker 3: Have a guy at your position or another position, or

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Speaker 4: Because this is a team sport.

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Speaker 3: You can't do this with two or three players like

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Speaker 3: and you know, be the first to win that championship.

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Speaker 4: Here, this is where you need to be.

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Speaker 2: EXA the ANDM head coach, jimbo Fisher, We'll get you

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Speaker 2: out of here on this one, coach. Everyone in our

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Speaker 2: line of work's got an opinion about transfer portal, but

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Speaker 2: they've also got an opinion about nil. But you're there

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Speaker 2: How big an impact has it had on the sport?

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Speaker 2: Where do you like it heading? And what do you

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Speaker 3: Affect recruiting at all and our nil now and I'll

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Speaker 3: say this, and I'm addressed in my press conference, this

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Speaker 3: the country it believes it is a joke. So it

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Speaker 3: didn't affect recruiting at all. And you can now and

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Speaker 3: I will address the rest of it, and the people

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Speaker 3: who want to, as I say, make comments on and

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Speaker 3: who came here and the people around us. The transfer

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Speaker 3: porter was a factor. And it's funny all the guys

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Speaker 3: griping across the country. It's amazing what goes on. But

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Speaker 3: it is a factor. I think it affects high school kids.

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Speaker 3: I think the porter was affecting junior college kids, and

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Speaker 3: I think it's affecting high school kids the guys that

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Speaker 3: I don't know where it's going to go. It's we're

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Speaker 3: where things go, but obviously it's here to stay.

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Speaker 2: Look, what's the biggest misconception there to you? And how

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Speaker 4: In what regards? Please please explain.

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Speaker 2: So a lot of people, as you said, say a

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Speaker 2: isn't true, And there's so there's a.

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Speaker 1: Lot of perception out there.

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Speaker 2: But yet you're there on the other side of the curtain,

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Speaker 2: and so you can address it directly and you have

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Speaker 3: No funds are all these things that people were talking

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Speaker 3: and in your team, they do get those things.

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Speaker 4: We were very we weren't. We were one of the

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Speaker 4: low ones. I mean, I remember right it was Nick

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Speaker 4: I mean, and that was that was great. I State

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Speaker 3: Article that they had the highest NIL deals of anybody

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Speaker 4: It's all legal.

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Speaker 3: Was fine, But that had nothing to do with his

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Speaker 3: insulting to the kids who come here that you insinuate that,

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Speaker 3: Sliced Bread. Whoever the heck that is, who has no

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Speaker 3: clue about what goes on. But nil is here to

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Speaker 3: stay in college, fool, It's going to be a factor

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Speaker 3: in college foot mother. There is no doubt in the

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Speaker 4: It's here to stay.

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Speaker 3: But those reports and the things that people say are

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Speaker 3: figure out the truth before they do it. There's a

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Speaker 3: Come on now, I mean, and what goes on and

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Speaker 2: Texas A and M head coach Jimbo Fisher, Hey, we

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Speaker 2: appreciate you being direct and addressing it here because not

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Speaker 2: everyone in your line of work actually will do that.

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Speaker 2: So Texas A and M and Jimbo Fisher landing the

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Speaker 2: top class in the country today, coach, and not only

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Speaker 2: to you, but your entire staff. Congratulations. I know this

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Speaker 2: So obviously that gave us about three hours worth of

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Speaker 5: Flight spread It will be a popular trending phrase on

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Speaker 6: I had to google it. It took a couple googles,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, there will be a greatest thing, including slid spread

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Speaker 2: first time he's addressed this. He was just very direct today.

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Speaker 2: And now that the haze in the barn in the

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Speaker 2: Think about this, when you've got a recruitment and it's

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Speaker 2: one's actually ever said that. And it's kind of been

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Speaker 1: And if you just tuned in.

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Speaker 2: Jimbo Fisher vehemently disagreeing with that figure, I'm very interested

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Speaker 2: to hear what he says it as presser today.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, it's an echo chamber.

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Speaker 5: You know, we see that in all levels are reporting

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Speaker 2: Back to yesterday, National Signing Day twenty twenty two.

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Speaker 1: What a memorable day it was.

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Speaker 1: Coach, we appreciate you taking some time.

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Speaker 7: Nothing?

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Speaker 7: You know, you can be frustrated with your circumstance, which

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Speaker 2: Coach, I got one more for y'all, get you out

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Speaker 2: as a luxury. But what's that process like and identifying

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Speaker 2: not only who's in.

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Speaker 1: The portal, but whether that's a fit for this program.

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Speaker 7: Well, I think we try to use the same evaluation

444
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Speaker 7: process that we would for any player. You know, we

445
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Speaker 7: have criteria that we use at every position to try

446
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Speaker 7: to get players that you fit our criteria for what

447
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Speaker 7: we want so that they can have success that they're

448
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Speaker 7: position and whether it's their character and intelligence, whether it's

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Speaker 7: their football skills to play a certain position, size and

450
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Speaker 7: speed to play a certain position. And I think when

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Speaker 7: you take a guy out of the transfer portal, he

452
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Speaker 7: should have an opportunity to play because you have a

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Speaker 7: need on your team, because that's what those guys are

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Speaker 7: looking for. And if they fit the profile of what

455
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Speaker 7: you want as a player at that position, and all

456
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Speaker 7: three of these guys certainly do, then it's a good

457
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Speaker 7: fit for them and it's a good fit for us.

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Speaker 2: Alabama head coach Nick Sabe and coach is always a

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Speaker 2: pleasure to talk to you. Go get right back to

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Speaker 2: work on twenty twenty two.

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Speaker 7: All right, good, thank you very much. You guys have

462
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Speaker 7: a good day.

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Speaker 1: All right.

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Speaker 2: So a lot to take away from there as well.

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Speaker 2: I just I want to go right back to what

466
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Speaker 2: I just talked to him about about the transfer portal,

467
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Speaker 2: because there are a lot of programs out there that

468
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Speaker 2: go into the postseason and they understand we have to

469
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Speaker 2: get filling the blank out of the portal or we

470
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Speaker 2: will not be good enough. That's certainly not Alabama. And

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Speaker 2: there's also a different dynamic of kind of hoping it's

472
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Speaker 2: going to be there versus you're Alabama, you need it

473
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Speaker 2: to be there. You kind of know you send up

474
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Speaker 2: that bat signal, it'll be there even if it's not already.

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Speaker 2: And it's just kind of the way of the world

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Speaker 2: right now, and It was a few years ago when

477
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Speaker 2: we were first talking about the portal, and that man

478
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Speaker 2: that we just talked to said, we're probably going to

479
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Speaker 2: lose some good players to the portal. We're going to

480
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Speaker 2: get some great players from the portal, and the rich

481
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Speaker 2: will get richer, and here we are.

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Speaker 6: Well, I think for them, obviously, it's they're program that

483
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Speaker 6: maybe has to go into the portal because they have

484
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Speaker 6: some depth issues because they had some three and dons,

485
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Speaker 6: you know, and maybe every once in a while a

486
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Speaker 6: player didn't pan out the way they wanted to. So

487
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Speaker 6: they have to go in and address the need at

488
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Speaker 6: receiver or address a need at running back. So for

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Speaker 6: for Alabama, their program is certainly built on the foundation

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Speaker 6: of recruiting in high school, evaluating well player development, and

491
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Speaker 6: then going into the portal when we need it.

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Speaker 5: Right, when you look at the recruiting class US right,

493
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Speaker 5: five stars in our rankings at least supposed to be

494
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Speaker 5: first round draft picks, right, So most years Alabama's what

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Speaker 5: adding five, six, seven, eight. Then we go to the

496
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Speaker 5: transfer portal. Look at that group they got coming in,

497
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Speaker 5: Elias Ricks, Jamir Gibbs, Jermaine Burton. I mean, those are

498
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Speaker 5: all potential first round guys as well. So it is

499
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Speaker 5: really the rich getting richer and kind of the rule

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Speaker 5: of thumb is you mentioned the bad signal. Kids don't

501
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Speaker 5: enter the transfer port unless.

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Speaker 1: They know where they're going.

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Speaker 5: Okay, so I think you know if a kid ends

504
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Speaker 5: up at Alabama, there's a reason why they're at Alabama.

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Speaker 1: There you see a USC trojan's uniform.

506
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Speaker 2: But Jackson Dart not playing college football at USC anymore.

507
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Speaker 2: Nor is Zach Evans and fort Worth in a TCU uniform,

508
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Speaker 2: both of them finding common ground where else in Oxford,

509
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Speaker 2: Mississippi they are now ole Miss Rebels. And that well

510
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Speaker 2: at least two parts of a very very impressive transfer

511
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Speaker 2: portal signing class now for ole Miss. It includes the

512
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Speaker 2: likes of Michael Trigg. You see Tennyson there, Brown, JJ, Pegee,

513
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Speaker 2: and it's it's a class right now that just in

514
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Speaker 2: and of itself, really stands out.

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Speaker 1: When you combine.

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Speaker 2: That, obviously with the recruiting hall that Lane Kiffin and

517
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Speaker 2: company will bring in today, that's where you really get

518
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Speaker 2: an overall sense of what the team there at ole

519
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Speaker 2: Miss is doing for this signing class in this entire cycle.

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Speaker 2: And we go back now to Chris Hummer twenty four

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Speaker 2: to seven Sports National writer and Transfer Portal extraordinary. You've

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Speaker 2: been in this thing knee deep and this is one

523
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Speaker 2: of the programs, Hummer, You've been talking about a lot.

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Speaker 1: It's been Ole Miss and USC.

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Speaker 2: We'll get to USC in just a second, but overall,

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Speaker 2: your impressions of what that Rebel staff has been able

527
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Speaker 2: to do in this cycle in the transfer portal, Oh.

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Speaker 8: They've done an outstanding job. They've been extremely aggressive in

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Speaker 8: the transfer portal addressing needs and there are a lot

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Speaker 8: of them coming off of this ten win season for

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Speaker 8: the Rebels with as many starters as they had exiting

532
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Speaker 8: the program. They got one of the best quarterbacks and

533
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Speaker 8: the transfer portal and Jackson Dark big check mark.

534
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Speaker 4: After Matt Craull left.

535
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Speaker 8: They added Zach Evans, one of the best running backs

536
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Speaker 8: in the country and the check transfer Portal big check

537
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Speaker 8: mark after what they lost at that position earlier this year.

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Speaker 8: Michael Trigg is one of the best tight ends in

539
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Speaker 8: the transfer portal big check mark. Defensively, they added impacts

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Speaker 8: players all over the place.

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Speaker 4: J j peg Thegee.

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Speaker 8: Coming from Auburn one of the more intriguing defensive line

543
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Speaker 8: prospects in the country. He's an Oxford native, going to

544
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Speaker 8: make an impact right away. Troy Brown coming from Central

545
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Speaker 8: Michigan going to be an excellent edition in the secondary.

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Speaker 8: You could say much the same thing about Ashem Young

547
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Speaker 8: coming from Iowa State, and Mason Brooks. That offensive tackle

548
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Speaker 8: it's going to start right away for the Rebels. It's there,

549
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Speaker 8: loaded up at pretty much every position possible. Lane Kevin

550
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Speaker 8: and his staff is done an excellent job.

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Speaker 1: Chris.

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Speaker 2: You remember the recruitment of Zach Evans. I remember talking

553
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Speaker 2: about it a whole lot when he was coming out

554
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Speaker 2: of high school and you had on one hand the

555
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Speaker 2: immense talent, and then you had some questions about him

556
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Speaker 2: off the field, and some people used it to maybe

557
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Speaker 2: knock that rating down a pegger two. Well, this is

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Speaker 2: not high school anymore. We've seen Zach Evans in college.

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Speaker 2: We've seen him on the field. He's got a resume

560
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Speaker 2: now of what you can expect as an off the

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Speaker 2: field guy. And so I'm very curious. Have you since

562
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Speaker 2: a reset on the industry evaluation in the coaching world

563
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Speaker 2: and maybe the way he's perceived now.

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Speaker 4: I think there should be.

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Speaker 8: If you talk to the coaches a TCU, they were

566
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Speaker 8: nothing but thrilled with the way Zach handled himself during

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Speaker 8: his time in Fort Worth, and I've knew Zach pretty

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Speaker 8: well during the recruiting process too. I always thought some

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Speaker 8: of the concerns with.

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Speaker 1: Them are a little overblown.

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Speaker 8: And on the field, I think it's he's an arguably

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Speaker 8: great He averaged over seven yards per carry during his

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Speaker 8: TCU career. He can do everything and catch the ball

574
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Speaker 8: on the backfield, which I'm sure he's new gaps to

575
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Speaker 8: do a lot in Oxford, and when you put him

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Speaker 8: in the SEC spotlight next year, I think he's going

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Speaker 8: to emerge as one of the superstars in college football.

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Speaker 8: He's that talented and I think Ole Miss picked up

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Speaker 8: one of the unquestionably best players in college football via

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Speaker 8: in the.

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Speaker 2: Portal, Chris, what's the feel not just on the roster

582
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Speaker 2: turn there, but the coaching staff turn. There have been

583
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Speaker 2: some big names walk out the door, and I know

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Speaker 2: right now our attention is on Jackson Dard and these

585
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Speaker 2: guys coming in via the transfer portal, But what's the

586
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Speaker 2: overall insider feel about what link Kiffin has done and

587
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Speaker 2: has to do to replace some big coaching departures on

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Speaker 2: his staff.

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Speaker 8: I think if you look at some of the departures

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Speaker 8: and some of the places those people ended it up,

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Speaker 8: it's not really surprising you got DJ Dirk and going

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Speaker 8: to Texas. A and M for an example, like A

593
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Speaker 8: and M is having a significant sum to bring him

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Speaker 8: in his defensive coordinator. I don't know if a lot

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Speaker 8: of the departures were that unexpected when you look at

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Speaker 8: them situationally. I guess when you pull the curder back

597
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Speaker 8: a little bit, it does look like a lot. But

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Speaker 8: I don't think there's a ton of concern within the

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Speaker 8: old miss staff about where that is going, and I

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Speaker 8: think they feel really good about where they're headed in

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Speaker 8: twenty twenty two.

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Speaker 2: Let me shift it out to the west coast and

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Speaker 2: talk USC with you for a second. We know the

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Speaker 2: name Caleb Williams, but when you get past Caleb Williams,

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Speaker 2: there have been several other names here. I mean, there's

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Speaker 2: a reason why that USC logo is right up near

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Speaker 2: the top of the Transfer portal rankings.

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Speaker 1: Who are some other names that people need to know?

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Speaker 8: Well, Mario Williams to start, I think he's our number

610
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Speaker 8: one overall receiver in the transfer portal right now, really

611
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Speaker 8: gifted player from Florida.

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Speaker 4: He made an impact right away.

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Speaker 8: At Oklahoma as a true freshman, and that connection that

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Speaker 8: he has with Cale Williams is pretty clear. I think

615
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Speaker 8: we're going to be hearing Williams to Williams quite a

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Speaker 8: bit in Los Angeles this year and for the next

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Speaker 8: two years at least. They added two of the more

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Speaker 8: intriguing running backs in the portal in my opinion, Travis

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Speaker 8: Dye coming from Oregon and Austin Jones from Tamford. Travis Dye,

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Speaker 8: I think everybody knows him. He doesn't really run any

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Speaker 8: arm bands or anything when he's out there as a

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Speaker 8: running back. He was excellent this year for Oregon, has

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Speaker 8: been the last couple of years.

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Speaker 4: Austin Jones is a bit more under the radar. He's

625
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Speaker 4: a really highly coveted group coming out of high school.

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Speaker 8: Was really good for Stamford. I think they're going to

627
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Speaker 8: be an excellent backfield pairing together. Lachral mccutcheons also coming

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Speaker 8: up from Oklahoma.

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Speaker 4: He was a person a lot of people were really

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Speaker 4: high on out of Texas in the twenty twenty one class.

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Speaker 8: Shane Lee played a lot for Alabama, especially during the

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Speaker 8: twenty nineteen season. He's coming in at linebacker, a bit

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Speaker 8: of a downhill thumper for USC for a defense looking

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Speaker 8: to reset and reload. So there are lots of pieces

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Speaker 8: across the Trojans that are going to make an impact.

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Speaker 2: Chris, there's this alternate universe where Lincoln Riley and USC

637
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Speaker 2: didn't land Caleb Williams.

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Speaker 1: I want to know from you two things. Firstly, how

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Speaker 1: close was that to happen?

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Speaker 2: And secondly, had it not happened, what would the reaction

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Speaker 2: have been out there?

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Speaker 8: I think I had usd as my crystal ball picked

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Speaker 8: the entire way for Kayleb Williams. I think there were

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Speaker 8: some considerations from people around him where they might have

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Speaker 8: thought about other places, but USC was always probably going

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Speaker 8: to be the destination for Kayleb. As for what the

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Speaker 8: reaction would have been had USC nottland Kla Williams, I

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Speaker 8: think it would have been a bit.

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Speaker 4: Of panic in Los Angeles.

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Speaker 8: Lincoln Riley not only would he have missed out on

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Speaker 8: Caleb Williams, but he would have lost out on Jackson

652
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Speaker 8: Dart as well.

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Speaker 4: We talked about earlier.

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Speaker 8: Jackson had an old miss and you would have headed

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Speaker 8: into the spring ball with him, essentially having to put

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Speaker 8: Miller Moss a red shirt freshman atop the depth chart.

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Speaker 8: I think USC would have certainly dipped in the portal

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Speaker 8: after that and add more bodies to the room. But

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Speaker 8: there would have certainly been some panic in Los Angeles,

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Speaker 8: I think not Landon Williams.

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Speaker 2: All right, Chris Hummer knee deep in the transfer portal

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Speaker 2: and this is not going anywhere anytime soon.

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Speaker 1: Nor is Chris Hummer.

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Speaker 2: He is available pretty much all day on twenty four

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Speaker 2: seven sports dot Com, a lot of news on Twitter

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Speaker 2: as well, and we appreciate him joining us as he

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Speaker 2: has several times throughout the day already would have been interesting, though,

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Speaker 2: you know, we now know that it's all sealed and

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Speaker 2: it's done. But Caleb Williams, I mean that was basically

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Speaker 2: the second part of the sentence when people in Southern

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Speaker 2: cal told you we got Lincoln Riley, you waited and

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Speaker 2: because you knew what was coming, and we're gonna get

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Speaker 2: Caleb Williams, and now they do.

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Speaker 5: I'm excited about Mario Williams too. I mean, Chris brought

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Speaker 5: it up. He's a dynamic receiver. I think the Williams,

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Speaker 5: the Williams combination is He's gonna make an interesting in

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Speaker 5: the PAC twelve and I personally look forward to watching

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Speaker 5: these guys late at night PAC twelve after dark, I think,

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Speaker 5: you know, the transfer portal is away to win games.

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Speaker 5: We saw Florida State do, We've seen Miami do it.

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Speaker 1: Everyone.

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Speaker 5: It's you can create, create some fire in the pan

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Speaker 5: with some grease, real fast, Steve.

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Speaker 1: You remember a.

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Speaker 2: Couple of years ago there was that disastrous sign of

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Speaker 2: class for USC and then they rectify things. And this

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Speaker 2: year's class, like, when you look at it right now,

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Speaker 2: it's really weird because you have to take into account

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Speaker 2: the context of what's happening right now. But how do

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Speaker 2: you view this class right now?

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Speaker 6: Well, I like to go to my favorite average ranking

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Speaker 6: per commit deal and when you look at it that way,

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Speaker 6: it's one of the more talented classes in the country.

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Speaker 6: It's obviously small, but Demandi Jackson's is talented, a dB

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Speaker 6: as there is in the country, where Leak Brown is

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Speaker 6: as Electrica running back, slot all purpose back as there

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Speaker 6: is in the country.

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Speaker 1: CJ.

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Speaker 6: Williams was dominant that wide out at the All America Ble.

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Speaker 6: One of the more sought after pass catchers in the country,

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Speaker 6: flipped him from Notre Dame and then Zion branch. They

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Speaker 6: win a slobber knocker on the trail late with Ohio

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Speaker 6: State to land the coveted safety. And then I like

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Speaker 6: the sleeper that they have committed out of the State

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Speaker 6: of Georgia. And Garrison Madden, the linebacker I think is

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Speaker 6: going to be a good player for them as well.

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Speaker 6: So small class, but like Miami, Miami and USC, I

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Speaker 6: don't think they really reached on anybody late. I don't

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Speaker 6: think they took a warm body for depth. I think

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Speaker 6: that they were on the hunt for guys that they

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Speaker 6: think can be difference makers within their program. And and

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Speaker 6: both Lincoln Riley and Mario Christobov won some big battles

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Speaker 6: down the stretch.

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Speaker 1: Beautiful use of blobberny timely an impactful. I appreciate that.

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Speaker 8: Steven.

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Speaker 2: We look across the table at Andrew Rivans and Steve

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Speaker 2: wolf Fong and you guys work on this pretty much

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Speaker 2: throughout the day on National Sign of Day. It's one

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Speaker 2: of the most anticipated final pieces of the literature that

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Speaker 2: is produced. And Andrew Rivens has got that thing cooked up.

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Speaker 1: And ready to go over there.

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Speaker 2: So let's just start talking about it as we look

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Speaker 2: your biggest winners, biggest losers.

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Speaker 5: I didn't know my name was gonna, be honest, I'm

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Speaker 5: just couldn't. Obviously, Texas, A and M you know you

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Speaker 5: can't sign the best recruiting class that ever are not

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Speaker 5: finished as a winner. Georgia gets some defensive pieces.

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Speaker 1: We didn't mention.

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Speaker 8: E J.

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Speaker 5: Lightsley, the linebacker former Florida committed. He's kind of a

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Speaker 5: hitting gym there in South Georgia.

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Speaker 1: I like him.

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Speaker 5: Miami started the day number three in the in the

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Speaker 5: Big Three in Florida. They're up to number one up

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Speaker 5: there in the state. Nebraska, I like what they did.

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Speaker 5: We mentioned at the beginning of the broadcast an Arian Bonner.

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Speaker 5: They also got aj Allen uh bacheloss season, maybe a

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Speaker 5: half bachelor's season. They also added two junior college players.

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Speaker 5: I got them to enroll last week, which I think

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Speaker 5: was really big. And then Oregon, we're kind of anticipating this.

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Speaker 5: They still got to get some guys across the finish line,

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Speaker 5: but it's shapened up for them to be pretty good

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Speaker 5: in terms of losers. I was just reading an Arizona

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Speaker 5: State story. He said this will be their worst recruiting

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Speaker 5: class ever, historically bad in the Pac twelve obviously there's

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Speaker 5: some unknown surrounding the future of that Sun Devil's program.

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Speaker 4: Florida.

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Speaker 5: Obviously, you know got some guys. We saw him yesterday,

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Speaker 5: get Jack Pieburn, the Edge Rusher, there was some other

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Speaker 5: Caleb Douglas today, Caleb Douglas. But I also missed on

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Speaker 5: what Cayden story, Citizens Vonte Citizen, Harold Perkins. Yeah, that's

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Speaker 5: a difficult day there as well. And then I always

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Speaker 5: state I mentioned it we were talking about the Big twelve.

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Speaker 5: You know, our Mason Thomas, that was kind of third guy.

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Speaker 5: They sent the entire defensive staff on Thursday night, literally

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Speaker 5: at the last hour before he left that Miami official

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Speaker 5: visit over the weekend, and they weren't able to get

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Speaker 5: the job done. So that's things, especially because maybe they

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Speaker 5: see him next to next year while Oklahoma is still

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Speaker 5: in that Big twelve.

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Speaker 2: All right, so we can breathe the sigh of relief

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Speaker 2: with that in mind. National Signing Day twenty twenty too.

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Speaker 2: In the books, there's gonna be a lot that needs

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Speaker 2: to be talked about. We'll obviously do it on the

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Speaker 2: Sunday Night show, will be live Super Bowls a week away.

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Speaker 1: We're probably not going to try and compete with the NFL.

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Speaker 2: We will seed Super Bowl Sunday to them. We're gonna

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Speaker 2: have a jam packed show Sunday night. Hopefully we'll be

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Speaker 2: back in Nashville. I don't know what would keep me

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Speaker 2: from it. We will be back in Nashville. Look, guys,

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Speaker 2: I appreciate so much you being tuned in, Appreciate the comments,

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Speaker 2: Appreciate you guys sharing the show all over the place.

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Speaker 2: We spend zero dollars per year marketing the show.

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Speaker 1: We don't need to. You guys take care of it

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Speaker 1: for us, and we really appreciate that.

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Speaker 2: Got a great year coming up, and excited to be

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Speaker 2: back in Nashville Sunday nights.

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Speaker 1: Talk about that, talk a lot more about signing.

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Speaker 2: Day, and also looking towards Yeah, we can do that now,

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Speaker 2: looking towards what's.

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Speaker 1: Cone in twenty twenty two.

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Speaker 2: Until then, for producer Jesse and director Colin and our

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Speaker 2: entire crew that made everything this week possible down here

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Speaker 2: in FT Lauderdale.

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Speaker 1: I'm Josh Bate. Have a great rest of your evening.

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Speaker 1: Thank god, Bluck