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Speaker 1: Welcome to episode two of the Bust and Spring Football

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Speaker 1: Tour South Carolina game Cocks. We got hey, coach, Coach

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Speaker 1: Beamer with us before we get rolling.

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Speaker 2: We are going to warring you v the Chevy EV. Yes, sir,

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Speaker 2: all right.

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Speaker 3: have you on the show, sir, it is an honor.

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Speaker 3: I don't know if you're very familiar with our show,

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Speaker 3: not the most professional show in the world.

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Speaker 4: Are you familiar with the boys?

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Speaker 5: I am familiar with it, not as familiar as I

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Speaker 5: should not as familiar as I should be. I obviously

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Speaker 5: started finding out more and more about you guys last season,

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Speaker 5: know about you guys as players, but then found out

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Speaker 5: about the show throughout the season last year and just

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Speaker 5: when you guys were determining whether or not you were

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Speaker 5: gonna come here and all that.

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Speaker 4: I guess last fall.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, that's the social media on slot to get you

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Speaker 5: guys here.

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Speaker 4: I remember thinking like, who the heck are these guys?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 4: What is this show? And it speaks for itself?

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Speaker 1: South Carolina? Super accommodating, like that was a fun time.

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Speaker 1: Like JP, he's a massive fan. He went here, so

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Speaker 1: he was stoked to come and said he had a

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Speaker 1: plug and it was like, you know, we went to

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Speaker 1: like I went to Nebraska, he went to Michigan. So

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Speaker 1: those are obviously easy to go to. Tennessee's in the backyard.

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Speaker 1: So they were like very accommodating. So we were kind

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Speaker 1: of nervous, like getting outside of the box and coming

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Speaker 1: out here.

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Speaker 2: But you guys first fucking class, bro.

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Speaker 4: I appreciate it.

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Speaker 5: You guys are always welcome here, so we got to

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Speaker 5: get you back here more often.

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Speaker 3: We are going to hold you to that.

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Speaker 4: Sir.

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Speaker 3: You talked about social media a little bit, and we

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Speaker 3: as Juice and Spencer.

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Speaker 2: Are you already already saying who our sources are?

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Speaker 3: We had two players we were talking to earlier in

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Speaker 3: the poetic allegedly, we were like, what should we talk

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Speaker 3: to coach about and they said something about your social

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Speaker 3: media presence, like you tweet like ten times a day.

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Speaker 3: I don't know if it's that much, but you went

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Speaker 3: pretty viral. It went pretty viral with the whole mic challenge.

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Speaker 4: Yep, did it all? How has it been You've been.

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Speaker 3: In the game for a long time, the development of NIL,

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Speaker 3: the transfer portal, and knowing inevitably that you have to

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Speaker 3: have some sort of presence on social media to get

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Speaker 3: these big name guys there, Like, how have you had

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Speaker 3: to probably change your mindset a little bit?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, no, you have.

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Speaker 5: It's totally different, especially in a place coming in South Carolina.

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Speaker 5: When I got hired two years ago, there wasn't a

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Speaker 5: lot of energy and excitement about South Carolina football, and

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Speaker 5: it wasn't just all of a sudden going to market itself,

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Speaker 5: like we had to as a program get out there

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Speaker 5: about what we're about. So that's what a lot of

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Speaker 5: it was. And me as a head coach, like I'm

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Speaker 5: gonna be me. I think sometimes see a lot of

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Speaker 5: head coaches all of a sudden they feel like, well,

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Speaker 5: I got to act a certain way because now I'm

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Speaker 5: a head coach in the SEC. Yeah, Big twelve, whatever

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Speaker 5: it might be, Like, I'm gonna be me whether you

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Speaker 5: like it or not. And I really have just tried

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Speaker 5: to maintain the same activity on social media that I

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Speaker 5: had as an assistant. And it's different nowadays because of

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Speaker 4: But you've certainly got to be able to market your program.

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Speaker 5: The players can market themselves now in a lot of

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Speaker 5: of it. But you know, most of the stuff that

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Speaker 5: I do on social media is connect with the fans,

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Speaker 5: but the majority of it is for recruiting. We did

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Speaker 5: that Soldier Boy video last summer, and as soon as

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Speaker 5: we finished the Soldier Boy video and I had it

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Speaker 5: I've got twenty thirty text messages from recruits that are

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Speaker 5: just texting me and calling me like, oh my god,

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Speaker 5: this is amazing, you know, coach. And we still have

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Speaker 5: kids a little visit here and they'll like pull out

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Speaker 5: their cell phone and the lock screen or screensaver is

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Speaker 5: a picture of me, you know, doing the Soldier Boy

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Speaker 5: a great team here at Carolina that helps with that.

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Speaker 1: Also, it seems like it's paid off because I was

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Speaker 1: reading that you guys have kind of put together the

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Speaker 1: best recruiting class talent wise since twenty twelve. You guys

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Speaker 1: really came on late last season. You beat Clemson for

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Speaker 1: the first time in eight seasons, seven seasons or something

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Speaker 1: like that. Well, since the trophy got since the trophy

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Speaker 1: came about, Yeah, the new trophy.

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Speaker 2: But talk about the excitement surrounding the program.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it was huge, a lot of energy and excitement

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Speaker 5: coming off the twenty one season, going to a bowl

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Speaker 5: in the last three of our last five games we won.

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Speaker 5: And then to get a guy like Spencer and Juice

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Speaker 5: back to back top ten wins. It was already recruiting

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Speaker 5: to finish the season like we did, the recruiting just

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Speaker 5: lot of other people's eyes as well, and I think validated,

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Speaker 5: you know, kind of what we're doing. And when young

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Speaker 5: this facility and they see what we're about, it's a

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Speaker 5: huge thing for us pretty program, but just for then

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Speaker 5: the people that maybe aren't familiar with is it really

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Speaker 3: When you're in the beginning of the season and things

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Speaker 3: and your offense wanted to go. When you see that transition,

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Speaker 3: what do you attribute that to In the middle of

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Speaker 3: the season where it's like there seemed like a switch

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Speaker 3: went off. Yeah, you talked about Tennessee, you talked about Clemson.

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Speaker 3: The way you guys ended the season, it was electric.

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Speaker 3: We were here for this for sure. One you guys

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Speaker 3: know you've been around it. The thing we talk about

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Speaker 3: with our team is just just continue to.

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Speaker 4: Get better each week.

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Speaker 5: And I get it we're judged on twelve Saturdays, but

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Speaker 5: I tell our guys all the time, like it would

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Speaker 5: be a shame if in game twelve or the same

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Speaker 5: team that we are in game two or three. And

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Speaker 5: we we practice really really hard and do a lot

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Speaker 4: And I saw us getting better.

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Speaker 5: Spencer will be the first to tell you that he

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Speaker 5: But honestly, I think it was just particularly going into

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Speaker 5: talked about competition all the time in this program, and

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Speaker 5: we told our players the week at the Tennessee game,

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Speaker 5: look the way that Tennessee plays defense, you're gonna they're

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Speaker 5: gonna play a lot of man coverage. The way that

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Speaker 5: down to just one on one opportunities, and Spencer give

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Speaker 5: these receivers a chance to go make plays, and DB's

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Speaker 1: It's gotta be a testament to your staff though, because

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Speaker 1: I mean, you know, the middle of the year, if

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Speaker 1: you're not playing your best ball, it's so easy for

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Speaker 1: testament to the staff that you have.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think so.

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Speaker 5: The one word that always comes up when we talk

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Speaker 5: staff recruits players, players, families, is two words real and genuine,

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Speaker 5: and I believe that. I mean, to me, that's a

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Speaker 5: great compliment. Like what you see with us is what

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Speaker 5: We're to be demanding, hold them accountable, but we're gonna

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Speaker 5: treat them with respect. We're gonna treat them right, and

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Speaker 5: we're the same people each and every day. I'm sure

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Speaker 5: you guys have been around coaches that they're on like

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Speaker 5: an emotional roller coaster and they're high, they're low based

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Speaker 5: off wins, losses, their mood that day. I mean, there's

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Speaker 5: highs and lows throughout the season, but we as coaches

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Speaker 5: and hopefully our players feed off that.

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Speaker 3: When you're when you finish this season, that a high

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Speaker 3: note that you did. How do you in the New

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Speaker 3: day and age attack like the transfer portal as opposed

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Speaker 3: to the euro classic basic high school recruiting, Like is

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Speaker 3: there like a difference you go about it or is

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Speaker 3: there like different Like I really don't understand it a

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Speaker 3: lot because when we played the transfer portal was basically

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Speaker 3: you have to sit out for a year and it

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Speaker 3: hardly ever happened. Like you commit somewhere, like you're you're there,

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Speaker 3: and that's what it is, whether you like it or not.

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Speaker 2: Like Juice. Like Juice, the portal worked out worked out

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Speaker 2: great for him. I'm from JMU.

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Speaker 5: Absolutely, and we've we've had a lot of guys that

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Speaker 5: have come from smaller schools and nobody had ever heard

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Speaker 5: of that we thought were good players, and they came

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Speaker 5: here and it worked out great for us. It always

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Speaker 5: starts with high school recruiting. But as the difference to

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Speaker 5: if a team was going to take if if Michigan

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Speaker 5: was going to take five, they were going to take

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Speaker 5: two offensive tackles, and in your signing class, and they

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Speaker 5: had five guys that they offered scholarships to and they

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Speaker 5: didn't get any of them, Well, at that point you

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Speaker 5: kind of turn, I don't want to necessary necessarily say

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Speaker 5: to play and B. The plan B would have been

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Speaker 5: no doubt for six weeks, and we've got just a

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Speaker 4: Like we're gonna be us.

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Speaker 5: I don't coach any differently than what I did free

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Speaker 4: We're gonna care about these.

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Speaker 3: Also when you are navigating the nil deals, which I know,

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Speaker 4: Focus on that right now. It's focused on what we

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Speaker 5: It is to me one of the biggest challenges for

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Speaker 5: So it's it's something I'll be honest with you. I

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Speaker 5: Do you talk about it? Do you not talk about it?

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Speaker 3: Also, it seems like everything you just said send on

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Speaker 4: Well, it's just like whether it be in IL or whatever.

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Speaker 1: Right keeping the main thing, the main thing exactly. You

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Speaker 5: me hearing it, like, we just can't assume that everything's

441
00:18:14,280 --> 00:18:16,320
Speaker 5: going to go well this year because it went well

442
00:18:16,400 --> 00:18:18,080
Speaker 5: last year. At the end of the season, like this

443
00:18:18,119 --> 00:18:21,280
Speaker 5: is a whole new team in so many ways. Yeah,

444
00:18:21,280 --> 00:18:24,000
Speaker 5: we got a lot of returning players, but we've also

445
00:18:24,080 --> 00:18:28,200
Speaker 5: got a bunch of new faces, coaches, players, transfers, freshmen

446
00:18:28,320 --> 00:18:31,520
Speaker 5: coming in on and on and on. So it's let's

447
00:18:31,880 --> 00:18:33,880
Speaker 5: let's look back at what we did well last year,

448
00:18:33,960 --> 00:18:36,040
Speaker 5: continue to build on that with the great players that

449
00:18:36,040 --> 00:18:38,159
Speaker 5: we have returning, Let's look at the things that we

450
00:18:38,160 --> 00:18:40,080
Speaker 5: weren't very good at last year, and there's a lot

451
00:18:40,080 --> 00:18:42,320
Speaker 5: of things that we have to improve on as a

452
00:18:42,320 --> 00:18:45,000
Speaker 5: football team, and definitely not lose sight of all the

453
00:18:45,000 --> 00:18:47,480
Speaker 5: work that put that went into us being able to

454
00:18:47,720 --> 00:18:50,639
Speaker 5: win those games down the stretch, win eight games and

455
00:18:52,080 --> 00:18:55,399
Speaker 5: make sure that nobody's satisfied, Like I didn't. We have

456
00:18:55,480 --> 00:18:57,639
Speaker 5: higher expectations here. We're really really proud of what we

457
00:18:57,680 --> 00:19:00,119
Speaker 5: did last season in the progress we've made. But I

458
00:19:00,119 --> 00:19:02,080
Speaker 5: didn't come here to be the to be a head

459
00:19:02,119 --> 00:19:04,879
Speaker 5: coach that was seven and six and eight and five

460
00:19:05,160 --> 00:19:08,040
Speaker 5: every single season, Like, we have higher expectations than we should,

461
00:19:08,119 --> 00:19:10,880
Speaker 5: and we're just getting started in our minds.

462
00:19:11,280 --> 00:19:14,040
Speaker 3: When you spoke on tempering expectations with the guys, when

463
00:19:14,040 --> 00:19:17,199
Speaker 3: you walk into a program as lacking confidence, what was

464
00:19:17,240 --> 00:19:19,520
Speaker 3: your approach, Like, how did you dissect that, we're all right,

465
00:19:19,520 --> 00:19:21,639
Speaker 3: we're lacking confidence here? And then how did you approach

466
00:19:21,680 --> 00:19:23,440
Speaker 3: it of how you're going to give guys confidence.

467
00:19:23,760 --> 00:19:26,880
Speaker 5: I dissected it when I met with I got hired,

468
00:19:27,040 --> 00:19:28,760
Speaker 5: and when I got hired, I met with every single

469
00:19:28,800 --> 00:19:30,800
Speaker 5: player on the team individually in my office. So one

470
00:19:30,880 --> 00:19:33,639
Speaker 5: hundred plus guys just get to know you tell me

471
00:19:33,640 --> 00:19:35,560
Speaker 5: about yourself, where you're from, tell me much family, what

472
00:19:35,560 --> 00:19:36,239
Speaker 5: are you majoring in?

473
00:19:36,280 --> 00:19:37,600
Speaker 4: Why'd you choose South Carolina?

474
00:19:37,960 --> 00:19:39,560
Speaker 5: But then I asked every single one of them at

475
00:19:39,560 --> 00:19:41,640
Speaker 5: the end of the conversation, why are we a two

476
00:19:41,640 --> 00:19:44,680
Speaker 5: win team? Like why is the coach that you came

477
00:19:44,720 --> 00:19:46,720
Speaker 5: here to play for no longer the head coach? And

478
00:19:46,760 --> 00:19:49,119
Speaker 5: why am I sitting in this office? And what needs

479
00:19:49,119 --> 00:19:52,440
Speaker 5: to change for us to have success? And I wrote

480
00:19:52,480 --> 00:19:55,159
Speaker 5: down everything that all one hundred plus players told me

481
00:19:55,200 --> 00:19:57,439
Speaker 5: and then just added it up, and a lot of

482
00:19:57,440 --> 00:19:59,280
Speaker 5: the same issues kept coming up over and over and

483
00:19:59,320 --> 00:20:01,679
Speaker 5: over again. Of those was there was a lack of

484
00:20:01,680 --> 00:20:04,280
Speaker 5: confidence some guys, not everybody, but a handful of guys

485
00:20:04,280 --> 00:20:08,320
Speaker 5: that didn't didn't believe that they could truly win on Saturdays,

486
00:20:08,520 --> 00:20:11,560
Speaker 5: and we needed to overcome that. So for me, it

487
00:20:11,600 --> 00:20:16,800
Speaker 5: was just early on celebrating every small victory and accomplishment

488
00:20:17,119 --> 00:20:20,800
Speaker 5: inside this building, outside this building, academics, you name it,

489
00:20:21,240 --> 00:20:24,840
Speaker 5: just celebrating those and then just pointing out the good

490
00:20:24,880 --> 00:20:28,120
Speaker 5: football players that we had on this team, the individuals,

491
00:20:28,160 --> 00:20:30,720
Speaker 5: the progress that we were making, and then just also

492
00:20:30,880 --> 00:20:33,240
Speaker 5: I think, you know, when you enjoy what you're doing

493
00:20:34,320 --> 00:20:36,680
Speaker 5: and enjoy coming to work, or coming in this facility

494
00:20:36,680 --> 00:20:39,320
Speaker 5: each day that hopefully builds confidence over time, and that's

495
00:20:39,320 --> 00:20:41,520
Speaker 5: what we try to get back to as well, where yeah,

496
00:20:41,560 --> 00:20:43,280
Speaker 5: we work really really hard here, but let's have some

497
00:20:43,359 --> 00:20:45,680
Speaker 5: fun and let's make these guys or let's hope these

498
00:20:45,720 --> 00:20:49,880
Speaker 5: guys just learn to enjoy coming into this facility each day.

499
00:20:49,920 --> 00:20:51,200
Speaker 4: And it just kind of took off from there.

500
00:20:51,480 --> 00:20:53,640
Speaker 2: Seems like the boys love playing for you, hope.

501
00:20:53,680 --> 00:20:55,119
Speaker 4: So it's a fun group. You know.

502
00:20:54,880 --> 00:20:56,800
Speaker 5: I got into this for a lot of different reasons,

503
00:20:56,800 --> 00:20:59,679
Speaker 5: but relationships and just being with the guys is right

504
00:20:59,680 --> 00:21:00,000
Speaker 5: at the time.

505
00:21:00,359 --> 00:21:02,639
Speaker 4: And I truly it's not coach speak.

506
00:21:02,680 --> 00:21:05,120
Speaker 5: I love coming in this building each and every day,

507
00:21:05,160 --> 00:21:06,600
Speaker 5: Like we got a bunch of really good dudes on

508
00:21:06,600 --> 00:21:09,560
Speaker 5: this team, really good people, uh, in this program, and

509
00:21:09,720 --> 00:21:11,600
Speaker 5: even after a loss, like I can't wait to get

510
00:21:11,600 --> 00:21:13,800
Speaker 5: back in here the next day and get right back

511
00:21:13,840 --> 00:21:14,200
Speaker 5: to work.

512
00:21:14,320 --> 00:21:19,560
Speaker 2: So what was I gonna ask? I can't remember. I'm

513
00:21:19,600 --> 00:21:20,080
Speaker 2: drawing a blank.

514
00:21:20,160 --> 00:21:24,359
Speaker 3: Right from a recruiting standpoint, what's selling point on South Carolina? Like,

515
00:21:24,359 --> 00:21:26,560
Speaker 3: if we were trying to recruit us, what you didn't yep,

516
00:21:26,560 --> 00:21:27,000
Speaker 3: that's okay?

517
00:21:28,160 --> 00:21:31,000
Speaker 2: Were we're not good? Big ten? Big ten?

518
00:21:31,040 --> 00:21:33,359
Speaker 3: One of us yeah, I had no SEC offers the

519
00:21:33,400 --> 00:21:34,360
Speaker 3: best conference in the game.

520
00:21:34,720 --> 00:21:39,080
Speaker 4: Wow, not even Vanderbilt, that's terrible. That was more of

521
00:21:39,119 --> 00:21:39,640
Speaker 4: a great thing.

522
00:21:39,640 --> 00:21:43,040
Speaker 3: I hope if you're sitting here, got a couple five

523
00:21:43,080 --> 00:21:45,160
Speaker 3: stars sitting right now, and you want to sell us

524
00:21:45,680 --> 00:21:48,240
Speaker 3: the dream in Columbia.

525
00:21:47,680 --> 00:21:51,600
Speaker 5: Yep, I will tell you that we have everything that

526
00:21:51,640 --> 00:21:55,639
Speaker 5: you need to be successful here and for us to

527
00:21:55,680 --> 00:21:58,840
Speaker 5: win championships. Uh, we can win at the highest level.

528
00:21:58,840 --> 00:22:00,760
Speaker 5: We got a beautiful city to go to school in.

529
00:22:00,920 --> 00:22:03,000
Speaker 5: South Carolina is an awesome state to live. Close to

530
00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:06,359
Speaker 5: the beach or close to the mountains. There's great academics

531
00:22:06,400 --> 00:22:08,480
Speaker 5: capital city of South Carolina, so there's a lot of

532
00:22:08,520 --> 00:22:10,200
Speaker 5: good from that standpoint.

533
00:22:10,680 --> 00:22:13,920
Speaker 4: Academics are strong here. It's a great school as well.

534
00:22:14,040 --> 00:22:17,560
Speaker 5: We've shown in other sports women's basketball, currently baseball, about

535
00:22:17,560 --> 00:22:20,120
Speaker 5: ten years ago that you can win national championships here.

536
00:22:20,320 --> 00:22:22,320
Speaker 5: There's no reason why we can't do it in football.

537
00:22:23,000 --> 00:22:24,600
Speaker 5: When I got hired here as the head coach, I

538
00:22:24,600 --> 00:22:27,159
Speaker 5: wanted to create a program that in my mind like

539
00:22:27,240 --> 00:22:30,800
Speaker 5: checked all the boxes as far as everything that you

540
00:22:30,840 --> 00:22:32,639
Speaker 5: needed to be successful. And I feel like we have

541
00:22:32,800 --> 00:22:36,480
Speaker 5: development in the weight room, nutrition, the facility that we

542
00:22:36,560 --> 00:22:39,320
Speaker 5: work in and out of each and every day anywhere

543
00:22:39,320 --> 00:22:39,920
Speaker 5: that you are.

544
00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:42,879
Speaker 4: You want to have a good recruiting base to recruit to,

545
00:22:43,200 --> 00:22:43,640
Speaker 4: and we do.

546
00:22:43,680 --> 00:22:45,480
Speaker 5: We got a lot of great players in this area

547
00:22:45,680 --> 00:22:48,119
Speaker 5: and within a five hour radius. And then for me,

548
00:22:48,160 --> 00:22:52,400
Speaker 5: it's just the challenge of doing something that hasn't been

549
00:22:52,480 --> 00:22:56,199
Speaker 5: done before. But you can here at Carolina like I

550
00:22:56,240 --> 00:22:58,480
Speaker 5: was here as an assistant coach before. In twenty ten,

551
00:22:58,840 --> 00:23:01,159
Speaker 5: we played in the SEC champ Ship game against Aubert

552
00:23:01,200 --> 00:23:03,359
Speaker 5: and cam Newton and we lost.

553
00:23:03,400 --> 00:23:06,120
Speaker 4: But we got to that game in Atlanta and we

554
00:23:06,200 --> 00:23:06,640
Speaker 4: did it.

555
00:23:06,840 --> 00:23:09,040
Speaker 5: And we didn't have any of this, this facility that

556
00:23:09,080 --> 00:23:11,360
Speaker 5: we're in and all the resources that we have here,

557
00:23:11,400 --> 00:23:13,680
Speaker 5: we didn't have any of that. And now I see

558
00:23:13,720 --> 00:23:15,440
Speaker 5: what we have. So there's no reason why we can't

559
00:23:15,480 --> 00:23:17,119
Speaker 5: get back. And as a competitor, you want to compete

560
00:23:17,119 --> 00:23:19,159
Speaker 5: in the highest level. No disrespect to the Big Ten,

561
00:23:19,240 --> 00:23:20,720
Speaker 5: but the SEC is the best conference in all the

562
00:23:20,720 --> 00:23:22,240
Speaker 5: college football. So if you want to play against the

563
00:23:22,280 --> 00:23:24,359
Speaker 5: best and compete against the best, come on.

564
00:23:24,640 --> 00:23:26,879
Speaker 3: We have no remember talk, We have no room to

565
00:23:26,880 --> 00:23:29,080
Speaker 3: talk right now. We're talking about after Michigan and Ouse.

566
00:23:29,280 --> 00:23:31,640
Speaker 3: You're right, it's just nice to have a little bit

567
00:23:32,080 --> 00:23:33,720
Speaker 3: one thing we do have is there are two Big

568
00:23:33,760 --> 00:23:35,200
Speaker 3: ten teams in the collegeball playoffs.

569
00:23:35,280 --> 00:23:37,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, little trash talk never hurts anybody else.

570
00:23:37,359 --> 00:23:39,640
Speaker 1: Speaking of trash talk, would it be fair to say

571
00:23:39,720 --> 00:23:42,600
Speaker 1: that the South Carolina game Cocks are the team to

572
00:23:42,600 --> 00:23:43,880
Speaker 1: beat in the state of South Carolina?

573
00:23:44,040 --> 00:23:47,600
Speaker 5: Oh, We've got great respect for our rival and that.

574
00:23:49,760 --> 00:23:52,280
Speaker 4: We need to clip. We need to clip, we need

575
00:23:52,280 --> 00:23:53,560
Speaker 4: to clip. We got great respect.

576
00:23:53,640 --> 00:23:56,640
Speaker 5: And I got told Dabo after the game this year.

577
00:23:56,640 --> 00:23:58,119
Speaker 5: We were able to win that football game and we

578
00:23:58,119 --> 00:24:00,199
Speaker 5: played really, really well, and a big part of that

579
00:24:00,280 --> 00:24:01,800
Speaker 5: was because we knew what it would take to beat

580
00:24:01,800 --> 00:24:04,680
Speaker 5: a team you know, like that as well. So it's

581
00:24:04,720 --> 00:24:07,120
Speaker 5: two great programs and it's great for the state when

582
00:24:07,320 --> 00:24:09,960
Speaker 5: when both teams or both teams are good. I was

583
00:24:09,960 --> 00:24:11,800
Speaker 5: apart when I was here as an assistant the beginning

584
00:24:11,800 --> 00:24:14,480
Speaker 5: of a five game winning streak against those guys, So

585
00:24:14,520 --> 00:24:16,240
Speaker 5: we certainly need to get back to that as well.

586
00:24:16,400 --> 00:24:21,040
Speaker 3: Sorry, do you think could you guarantee there we go

587
00:24:21,119 --> 00:24:23,720
Speaker 3: game talk fans that you guys will beat Clemson this year?

588
00:24:24,720 --> 00:24:29,360
Speaker 5: Gosh, Ryan, I respect it. I guarantee. It's too makes

589
00:24:29,359 --> 00:24:30,680
Speaker 5: it real, you know what I'm saying. It's gonna be

590
00:24:30,720 --> 00:24:32,560
Speaker 5: a hell of an atmosphere across the street and wins

591
00:24:32,640 --> 00:24:36,600
Speaker 5: Rice Stadium the Saturday after Thanksgiving. And I can promise

592
00:24:36,640 --> 00:24:38,760
Speaker 5: you we know the importance of that game and and

593
00:24:38,880 --> 00:24:40,600
Speaker 5: uh uh we got a lot of work to do

594
00:24:40,640 --> 00:24:43,080
Speaker 5: before them, but we can't wait for that Saturday as well.

595
00:24:43,119 --> 00:24:44,760
Speaker 2: I was reading an article on the onion.

596
00:24:45,480 --> 00:24:49,280
Speaker 1: You are quoted saying, dabbo little weenie Sweeney, can you

597
00:24:49,280 --> 00:24:49,760
Speaker 1: confirm that?

598
00:24:49,920 --> 00:24:52,400
Speaker 5: Cannot I don't remember saying that. I've said a lot

599
00:24:52,400 --> 00:24:53,960
Speaker 5: of things. I don't remember that one. That's a new

600
00:24:53,960 --> 00:24:56,199
Speaker 5: one for me. I like how you threw out the

601
00:24:56,240 --> 00:24:59,679
Speaker 5: onion though. For that though, I'm just saying, for.

602
00:24:59,680 --> 00:25:02,120
Speaker 1: Anybody are you watching in season here is at least

603
00:25:02,119 --> 00:25:04,119
Speaker 1: all those people will be like, Okay, he's he stated

604
00:25:04,160 --> 00:25:05,720
Speaker 1: the onion not even sure.

605
00:25:05,720 --> 00:25:10,040
Speaker 3: I'd just changing gears a little bit. January second, twenty twelve.

606
00:25:10,040 --> 00:25:10,800
Speaker 3: Was that a first down?

607
00:25:11,560 --> 00:25:13,760
Speaker 4: It was a catch? Talking about yeah, Danny Gold.

608
00:25:13,720 --> 00:25:16,760
Speaker 3: No, I'm talking about Michigan versus Michigan versus Virginia Tech.

609
00:25:16,840 --> 00:25:18,680
Speaker 5: Right, No, oh, I'm talking Well, I was going to

610
00:25:18,720 --> 00:25:21,560
Speaker 5: bring it up with you. You guys robbed the twenty

611
00:25:21,640 --> 00:25:25,320
Speaker 5: eleven season Sugar Bowl from Virginia Tech because we caught

612
00:25:25,320 --> 00:25:27,400
Speaker 5: a ball in the inz and that was a call.

613
00:25:28,640 --> 00:25:32,000
Speaker 4: Yeah it was. It was twenty eleven season.

614
00:25:32,040 --> 00:25:35,160
Speaker 5: I thought you were bringing back up first down January first,

615
00:25:35,160 --> 00:25:35,600
Speaker 5: twenty twelve.

616
00:25:35,640 --> 00:25:36,400
Speaker 4: Help me were on that one?

617
00:25:36,480 --> 00:25:38,840
Speaker 3: January second, twenty twelve was the outback bull. There was

618
00:25:38,880 --> 00:25:43,080
Speaker 3: a guy who played here that Yeah, we won't bring

619
00:25:43,119 --> 00:25:43,560
Speaker 3: that one up.

620
00:25:43,880 --> 00:25:46,600
Speaker 5: The Virginia Tech one is still rawl in my mind

621
00:25:46,600 --> 00:25:48,080
Speaker 5: as well from the Sugar Bowl that night.

622
00:25:48,160 --> 00:25:50,800
Speaker 4: So we cut that doup and that legit game.

623
00:25:50,840 --> 00:25:51,840
Speaker 2: He was Rginia.

624
00:25:51,880 --> 00:25:53,320
Speaker 4: You're a Virginia coach there at the time.

625
00:25:53,400 --> 00:25:54,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, and we donkeyed that.

626
00:25:55,000 --> 00:25:57,080
Speaker 4: We dominated that entire game. I wouldn't go that far.

627
00:25:57,119 --> 00:25:58,560
Speaker 3: I mean, we went to overtime, but like you could

628
00:25:58,600 --> 00:25:59,960
Speaker 3: see the line of scrimmage. The way it was twin,

629
00:26:01,280 --> 00:26:02,679
Speaker 3: the way it was swaying was very it was very

630
00:26:02,720 --> 00:26:05,439
Speaker 3: they're running back, you really doing scrimmage. We were moving

631
00:26:06,280 --> 00:26:09,200
Speaker 3: at ease whatever we wanted we could really is why

632
00:26:09,200 --> 00:26:11,240
Speaker 3: I was closest we had, you know, a couple of

633
00:26:11,560 --> 00:26:13,280
Speaker 3: maybe play calls could have been a little bit different.

634
00:26:13,520 --> 00:26:15,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, coaches were kind of trying.

635
00:26:15,000 --> 00:26:16,040
Speaker 4: To get too cute with it.

636
00:26:16,200 --> 00:26:18,120
Speaker 2: Oh so you're blaming the coaches. Yeah, but we won,

637
00:26:18,240 --> 00:26:19,000
Speaker 2: so there's no blaming.

638
00:26:19,119 --> 00:26:20,560
Speaker 4: Yes, you know that.

639
00:26:20,600 --> 00:26:22,119
Speaker 3: We were on Bourbon Street that night and the boys

640
00:26:22,119 --> 00:26:24,639
Speaker 3: were stoked. We had a good time. That's like the

641
00:26:24,760 --> 00:26:27,600
Speaker 3: literally only bowl game. That's the only bowl game I won.

642
00:26:27,920 --> 00:26:29,440
Speaker 3: That's the only relevant bowl game we went to.

643
00:26:29,560 --> 00:26:29,720
Speaker 2: Too.

644
00:26:30,200 --> 00:26:33,200
Speaker 4: Well, I wasn't putting the years together with Carolanta Michigan.

645
00:26:33,400 --> 00:26:34,600
Speaker 2: You were you in, you were here.

646
00:26:34,880 --> 00:26:36,640
Speaker 4: You weren't here not for that game, for that hit.

647
00:26:36,840 --> 00:26:39,520
Speaker 4: I was not here for that. You saw it on TV.

648
00:26:40,119 --> 00:26:43,119
Speaker 2: It was number one play for they had to retire it.

649
00:26:43,280 --> 00:26:45,919
Speaker 3: Yeah, dude, I remember about to play that game and

650
00:26:45,960 --> 00:26:48,280
Speaker 3: my coaches like it was like the only game I

651
00:26:48,280 --> 00:26:50,280
Speaker 3: really prepared for in college because everyone was like clown

652
00:26:50,320 --> 00:26:52,520
Speaker 3: and clown and clown put the film on boys. I

653
00:26:52,520 --> 00:26:55,119
Speaker 3: played pretty well, And after the game, I'm like, I

654
00:26:55,240 --> 00:26:55,760
Speaker 3: was hight.

655
00:26:56,400 --> 00:26:59,400
Speaker 1: Those first rounds, guys, Hey, I played pretty well, brother,

656
00:26:59,440 --> 00:27:04,840
Speaker 1: you in the first everybody everybody.

657
00:27:03,520 --> 00:27:05,320
Speaker 3: Was gone at that point, like no one could stop him.

658
00:27:05,320 --> 00:27:07,399
Speaker 3: And I had a good game, and I go and

659
00:27:07,440 --> 00:27:09,440
Speaker 3: I'm like so fired up. I turn on Sports Center

660
00:27:09,440 --> 00:27:10,879
Speaker 3: and sure, now that's all they talked about for the

661
00:27:10,960 --> 00:27:13,440
Speaker 3: next two and a half years. Seemed like just leaving

662
00:27:13,480 --> 00:27:16,159
Speaker 3: your tight end out to dry. The Titans should have

663
00:27:16,160 --> 00:27:18,720
Speaker 3: made that block. I'm not in the game right now,

664
00:27:18,760 --> 00:27:20,240
Speaker 3: like I can be. I don't have to be accountable

665
00:27:20,240 --> 00:27:20,600
Speaker 3: for nothing.

666
00:27:20,760 --> 00:27:20,879
Speaker 1: No.

667
00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:24,400
Speaker 2: Remember when George's dad came on, he was like, no,

668
00:27:24,520 --> 00:27:24,880
Speaker 2: that's not.

669
00:27:24,880 --> 00:27:27,639
Speaker 3: The Yeah, I mean, anybody who knows ball knows it

670
00:27:27,680 --> 00:27:29,880
Speaker 3: wasn't my block. So I don't need a George Kittles dad.

671
00:27:29,920 --> 00:27:32,800
Speaker 3: He don't know takes great accountability. I'm a great. I'm

672
00:27:32,800 --> 00:27:35,159
Speaker 3: a great. You want me in the locker room. You

673
00:27:35,280 --> 00:27:36,600
Speaker 3: absolutely want me in the locker room.

674
00:27:36,680 --> 00:27:38,040
Speaker 2: Definitely getting off the bus too.

675
00:27:38,800 --> 00:27:43,120
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean not now, but like about forty pounds ago, absolutely, yeah,

676
00:27:43,240 --> 00:27:45,800
Speaker 3: I feel I mean, you still look good. You just

677
00:27:45,800 --> 00:27:48,000
Speaker 3: told me I seemed like I was bullimic about an

678
00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:48,400
Speaker 3: hour ago.

679
00:27:48,520 --> 00:27:50,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, but that was off camera. We're on camera now,

680
00:27:50,640 --> 00:27:52,000
Speaker 2: Like I'm trying to positive.

681
00:27:52,480 --> 00:27:52,920
Speaker 4: You look great.

682
00:27:52,960 --> 00:27:55,719
Speaker 3: You all see who Will Compton really is? You all

683
00:27:55,760 --> 00:27:57,080
Speaker 3: see it is so we didn't mean to turn this

684
00:27:57,119 --> 00:27:59,359
Speaker 3: into us. Is there anything we're missing that we should

685
00:27:59,359 --> 00:27:59,639
Speaker 3: ask you?

686
00:28:00,119 --> 00:28:03,160
Speaker 4: I think you've covered the gamut on that one for sure.

687
00:28:03,440 --> 00:28:07,159
Speaker 4: What's your thought on uh on gambling? On sports gambling?

688
00:28:07,320 --> 00:28:08,960
Speaker 4: Was forced mean y'are hit me with everything right.

689
00:28:09,080 --> 00:28:12,320
Speaker 2: When you guys lost against MISSOO this year and I.

690
00:28:12,320 --> 00:28:14,760
Speaker 5: Was some people had some questions about Yeah, I was

691
00:28:14,800 --> 00:28:15,920
Speaker 5: really I was really carried.

692
00:28:15,960 --> 00:28:16,160
Speaker 2: I start.

693
00:28:16,200 --> 00:28:18,119
Speaker 1: That's when I started to carry the South Carolina flag.

694
00:28:18,160 --> 00:28:21,119
Speaker 1: I was like, I think this is because JP Big,

695
00:28:21,160 --> 00:28:23,439
Speaker 1: he's our he's our game Cock analyst. I was like, hey,

696
00:28:23,440 --> 00:28:24,760
Speaker 1: there's a lot to be excited about. He's like, I

697
00:28:24,800 --> 00:28:27,119
Speaker 1: don't know, man, there's always once a year the game Cocks.

698
00:28:27,440 --> 00:28:29,720
Speaker 1: That was a tough night, tough late afternoon. That one

699
00:28:29,840 --> 00:28:32,439
Speaker 1: was for sure gambling was I'll tread lightly on that

700
00:28:32,440 --> 00:28:34,399
Speaker 1: one because I just got the email about do not

701
00:28:34,560 --> 00:28:36,320
Speaker 1: make sure make sure nobody on your team or your

702
00:28:36,359 --> 00:28:39,480
Speaker 1: organization is betting on the NCAA tournament and all that

703
00:28:39,520 --> 00:28:41,320
Speaker 1: as well. So I just got that email from our

704
00:28:41,320 --> 00:28:43,880
Speaker 1: compliance office. So so you're not right with the women's

705
00:28:43,920 --> 00:28:44,880
Speaker 1: basketball team.

706
00:28:44,640 --> 00:28:46,760
Speaker 4: I'm riding with them. I'm not a betting on.

707
00:28:47,480 --> 00:28:52,080
Speaker 5: Yeah, legally, my hand up and say the money on

708
00:28:52,160 --> 00:28:52,960
Speaker 5: Dawn and her team?

709
00:28:54,880 --> 00:29:06,320
Speaker 4: JP, do you got anything? Hm?

710
00:29:06,480 --> 00:29:07,880
Speaker 3: You want to re ask that question?

711
00:29:08,080 --> 00:29:10,360
Speaker 1: JP said when his players, after they get them playing

712
00:29:10,360 --> 00:29:12,400
Speaker 1: for him for four years, what is the big takeaway?

713
00:29:12,440 --> 00:29:14,160
Speaker 2: He wants them to have one walking away.

714
00:29:14,280 --> 00:29:16,920
Speaker 4: That's a good question. Is a great question, A great question.

715
00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:17,960
Speaker 4: That is a great question.

716
00:29:18,200 --> 00:29:20,520
Speaker 5: I would hope that when they graduated, you know, for one,

717
00:29:20,640 --> 00:29:22,520
Speaker 5: so when I sat in their home as a seventeen

718
00:29:22,600 --> 00:29:24,840
Speaker 5: year old and talked to their parents about the experience

719
00:29:24,880 --> 00:29:28,000
Speaker 5: they would have at Carolina that included graduating from college,

720
00:29:28,080 --> 00:29:29,440
Speaker 5: they walk out of here with a degree. But I

721
00:29:29,480 --> 00:29:32,280
Speaker 5: would hope that they say that myself and the entire

722
00:29:32,360 --> 00:29:35,160
Speaker 5: staff treated them with respect, treated them right, were the

723
00:29:35,200 --> 00:29:38,240
Speaker 5: same people day and day out, and got the most

724
00:29:38,320 --> 00:29:40,120
Speaker 5: out of them as a person and a player, you

725
00:29:40,200 --> 00:29:41,760
Speaker 5: know as well. And that's what's cool as a coach

726
00:29:41,840 --> 00:29:44,080
Speaker 5: is as I've gotten older that now I'm going to

727
00:29:45,160 --> 00:29:48,440
Speaker 5: weddings of guys that I coached, and guys that I

728
00:29:48,480 --> 00:29:50,880
Speaker 5: was in college with were recruiting their sons and things

729
00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:53,960
Speaker 5: like that. Just those relationships that you have, that those

730
00:29:54,000 --> 00:29:57,000
Speaker 5: would they would have such a great experience here that

731
00:29:57,040 --> 00:29:59,000
Speaker 5: they'd want to continue to have those relationships.

732
00:29:59,040 --> 00:29:59,200
Speaker 4: You know.

733
00:29:59,520 --> 00:30:02,640
Speaker 5: When I were for coach Burrier here, he used to

734
00:30:02,640 --> 00:30:04,480
Speaker 5: always say, you know, if you had if you were

735
00:30:04,480 --> 00:30:06,400
Speaker 5: a great coach and your players enjoyed playing for you,

736
00:30:06,440 --> 00:30:08,760
Speaker 5: they're gonna come around all the time after they're playing

737
00:30:08,840 --> 00:30:11,120
Speaker 5: days are over, and I would hope that we continue

738
00:30:11,120 --> 00:30:13,400
Speaker 5: to have guys that come back here all the time

739
00:30:13,440 --> 00:30:14,800
Speaker 5: because of the experience they had here.

740
00:30:15,280 --> 00:30:17,120
Speaker 4: That is a great question. That's a great question.

741
00:30:17,240 --> 00:30:19,360
Speaker 1: I think that's well said too, because you know, like

742
00:30:19,400 --> 00:30:21,600
Speaker 1: when you're going back around the program that knows you

743
00:30:21,600 --> 00:30:22,880
Speaker 1: you fucked with the staff.

744
00:30:22,560 --> 00:30:26,320
Speaker 4: There, Yeah, big time. If you could fight.

745
00:30:26,160 --> 00:30:31,320
Speaker 3: Any SEC coach, nice, nice, And I'm not saying I

746
00:30:31,360 --> 00:30:34,520
Speaker 3: am saying if you could fight one SEC coach, who

747
00:30:34,560 --> 00:30:35,320
Speaker 3: would that coach be?

748
00:30:35,680 --> 00:30:37,040
Speaker 4: If I could fight them?

749
00:30:37,320 --> 00:30:42,240
Speaker 1: Or power slap power power slap, power slap one SEC coach?

750
00:30:42,280 --> 00:30:42,800
Speaker 2: Who would it be?

751
00:30:43,120 --> 00:30:45,880
Speaker 3: Two questions this is this is developing. Who would you

752
00:30:45,920 --> 00:30:47,640
Speaker 3: want to fight? And who do you think you could

753
00:30:47,680 --> 00:30:52,200
Speaker 3: beat in a fight? This is hard hitting journalism. You're welcome.

754
00:30:53,400 --> 00:30:55,280
Speaker 3: I hope you're enjoying yourself. Who we really are?

755
00:30:55,360 --> 00:30:57,440
Speaker 4: No, I feel I'm sure I feel like you are.

756
00:30:57,960 --> 00:30:59,360
Speaker 4: You didn't reciprocate.

757
00:30:59,440 --> 00:31:00,080
Speaker 2: That's okay.

758
00:31:00,200 --> 00:31:01,320
Speaker 3: I feel like I'm having a good time.

759
00:31:03,280 --> 00:31:06,080
Speaker 5: There's a few I'd say that certainly at times, I've

760
00:31:06,120 --> 00:31:11,280
Speaker 5: definitely uh, I would want to fight with as well.

761
00:31:11,320 --> 00:31:13,480
Speaker 5: We sit in those head coaches meetings and it's we're

762
00:31:13,480 --> 00:31:16,640
Speaker 5: all competitors and we're intense, and it's, uh, there's great

763
00:31:16,720 --> 00:31:19,000
Speaker 5: respect for one another. But there's things that happen outside

764
00:31:19,040 --> 00:31:21,000
Speaker 5: that room and things like that that you're kind of like,

765
00:31:21,440 --> 00:31:23,959
Speaker 5: come on, man, I'm not gonna say a name, but

766
00:31:24,280 --> 00:31:26,120
Speaker 5: there's a few, And who would I Who do I

767
00:31:26,120 --> 00:31:27,040
Speaker 5: feel like I could take?

768
00:31:27,120 --> 00:31:27,600
Speaker 4: I don't know.

769
00:31:27,640 --> 00:31:31,560
Speaker 5: I worked with I worked with Sam Pittman at Georgia.

770
00:31:31,560 --> 00:31:33,400
Speaker 5: I worked with Kirby when I was at Georgia. So

771
00:31:33,440 --> 00:31:37,120
Speaker 5: I mean I know both those guys. Well, I feel

772
00:31:37,160 --> 00:31:40,040
Speaker 5: like from a quickness standpoint, agility all that, I could

773
00:31:40,160 --> 00:31:44,000
Speaker 5: probably take Sam. You know, he may be in a

774
00:31:44,040 --> 00:31:45,959
Speaker 5: beer drinking contest or something like that.

775
00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:46,600
Speaker 4: I'm sure.

776
00:31:46,640 --> 00:31:50,120
Speaker 5: But Sam and Sam and I were neighbors at South Carolina,

777
00:31:50,240 --> 00:31:51,800
Speaker 5: so and he's a little bit older than me, so

778
00:31:51,800 --> 00:31:53,520
Speaker 5: I don't I mean, neighbors at Georgia.

779
00:31:53,640 --> 00:31:55,760
Speaker 4: So I don't know. There's a few. I mean, I'm

780
00:31:55,800 --> 00:31:56,520
Speaker 4: not to toot.

781
00:31:56,280 --> 00:31:58,040
Speaker 5: My own horn, but I stay pretty active and I

782
00:31:58,080 --> 00:32:00,360
Speaker 5: try and work out regularly and things like, well, I

783
00:32:00,360 --> 00:32:04,200
Speaker 5: appreciate you saying so, I really feel like I could

784
00:32:04,760 --> 00:32:08,400
Speaker 5: hold my own and be okay with all thirteen other

785
00:32:08,440 --> 00:32:09,400
Speaker 5: ones in that room.

786
00:32:09,440 --> 00:32:10,000
Speaker 4: I mean, there'd be.

787
00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:13,000
Speaker 5: Some battles, but but uh, you know, there's a few

788
00:32:13,040 --> 00:32:15,760
Speaker 5: in particular that I would be a priority at the

789
00:32:15,760 --> 00:32:16,360
Speaker 5: top of the list.

790
00:32:16,360 --> 00:32:17,800
Speaker 4: Maybe one your schedule.

791
00:32:18,480 --> 00:32:21,000
Speaker 1: Who's a team that you love to obviously be up

792
00:32:21,080 --> 00:32:24,120
Speaker 1: late in the fourth quarter and grinning thinking I got you, motherfucker.

793
00:32:26,360 --> 00:32:28,520
Speaker 5: My wife and I literally just had that conversation this

794
00:32:28,600 --> 00:32:31,040
Speaker 5: morning about a team in the sec that goes back

795
00:32:31,040 --> 00:32:32,880
Speaker 5: to who I'd want to fight right now as well.

796
00:32:32,920 --> 00:32:34,560
Speaker 5: There's one in particular right now that I'm not really

797
00:32:34,640 --> 00:32:37,080
Speaker 5: high on. And my wife literally just said, you know,

798
00:32:37,160 --> 00:32:39,520
Speaker 5: we need this year when we play them, YadA, YadA, YadA.

799
00:32:39,600 --> 00:32:41,640
Speaker 5: So ask me again, y'all come back during the season

800
00:32:41,640 --> 00:32:44,200
Speaker 5: and we'll I want to know about.

801
00:32:44,160 --> 00:32:45,920
Speaker 4: Tell us camera, I'll tell you off camera.

802
00:32:48,320 --> 00:32:55,480
Speaker 2: Just recording, like, yeah, I'm juiced up now.

803
00:32:55,560 --> 00:32:55,880
Speaker 4: I look.

804
00:32:56,200 --> 00:32:57,920
Speaker 2: I'm a I'm a bit of a South Carolina fan.

805
00:32:58,480 --> 00:33:01,000
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, Now.

806
00:33:01,080 --> 00:33:03,120
Speaker 3: Be easy on that though, because we became Tennessee fans

807
00:33:03,200 --> 00:33:03,560
Speaker 3: last year.

808
00:33:03,800 --> 00:33:05,480
Speaker 2: I'm pretty easy to win over as long as we

809
00:33:05,520 --> 00:33:06,240
Speaker 2: have a good time.

810
00:33:06,720 --> 00:33:09,280
Speaker 1: But hearing his players talk, listening to him talk, I

811
00:33:09,280 --> 00:33:11,000
Speaker 1: feel like I'm like I'm rooting for the boys now.

812
00:33:11,040 --> 00:33:13,520
Speaker 4: We would, I would play for you. Appreciate you. Yeah,

813
00:33:13,640 --> 00:33:15,360
Speaker 4: you seem like a great guy and a good coach.

814
00:33:15,480 --> 00:33:15,720
Speaker 2: Yeah.

815
00:33:15,840 --> 00:33:17,480
Speaker 4: In all honestly, that's a huge compliment.

816
00:33:17,640 --> 00:33:19,640
Speaker 2: And Coach Eckler speaks highly of you, So I'm like,

817
00:33:19,760 --> 00:33:21,480
Speaker 2: I'm I'm an Eckler guy. You know what I mean?

818
00:33:21,640 --> 00:33:23,600
Speaker 5: Likewise, well, knowing the respect I have for you guys,

819
00:33:23,640 --> 00:33:24,719
Speaker 5: for you say that means a lot.

820
00:33:24,760 --> 00:33:25,400
Speaker 4: Appreciate it.

821
00:33:25,920 --> 00:33:28,400
Speaker 1: One last question that I have, can you talk about

822
00:33:28,440 --> 00:33:31,320
Speaker 1: the development of Spencer Radler since coming from Oklahoma? Obviously

823
00:33:31,440 --> 00:33:34,920
Speaker 1: had he had a falling out with Oklahoma, can you

824
00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:36,840
Speaker 1: just talk about how he's developed as a player and

825
00:33:37,440 --> 00:33:37,800
Speaker 1: a man.

826
00:33:38,040 --> 00:33:39,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, now that he's going into this fifth year.

827
00:33:39,640 --> 00:33:40,280
Speaker 4: He's been awesome.

828
00:33:40,320 --> 00:33:43,160
Speaker 5: I was with him at Oklahoma, so I knew what

829
00:33:43,240 --> 00:33:44,080
Speaker 5: kind of person he was.

830
00:33:44,280 --> 00:33:45,280
Speaker 2: You were with him at Oklahoma.

831
00:33:45,280 --> 00:33:50,800
Speaker 4: I'm Oklahoma. Two seasons we were together. We were two seasons.

832
00:33:51,560 --> 00:33:53,520
Speaker 5: I think it was great for Spencer because Spencer was

833
00:33:53,560 --> 00:33:56,200
Speaker 5: there in twenty nineteen and Jalen Hurts came in as

834
00:33:56,200 --> 00:33:59,240
Speaker 5: a transfer from Alabama and was our quarterback that ou

835
00:33:59,400 --> 00:34:02,640
Speaker 5: Spencer all that transition, transition with Jalen and how he

836
00:34:02,680 --> 00:34:04,760
Speaker 5: handled it, which I think I don't know Spencer would

837
00:34:04,800 --> 00:34:06,400
Speaker 5: say this. I think it helped Spencer when he came

838
00:34:06,440 --> 00:34:09,400
Speaker 5: here because he had seen somebody high profile like Jalen

839
00:34:09,440 --> 00:34:11,279
Speaker 5: Hurts come in there and do what he did, and

840
00:34:11,320 --> 00:34:12,680
Speaker 5: he was awesome when he got here.

841
00:34:12,800 --> 00:34:13,239
Speaker 4: Last year.

842
00:34:13,280 --> 00:34:15,360
Speaker 5: He didn't come in and all of a sudden, you know,

843
00:34:15,360 --> 00:34:18,440
Speaker 5: I'm Spencer Rattler and act differently. He came in and

844
00:34:18,480 --> 00:34:20,200
Speaker 5: earned the respect of his teammates with the way that

845
00:34:20,239 --> 00:34:24,640
Speaker 5: he worked in the weight room, and then he took

846
00:34:24,680 --> 00:34:27,160
Speaker 5: a lot of crap throughout the season last year, some

847
00:34:27,239 --> 00:34:30,960
Speaker 5: of it not necessarily justified because of you know, maybe

848
00:34:30,960 --> 00:34:33,360
Speaker 5: how we were performing and he wasn't playing his best.

849
00:34:33,400 --> 00:34:35,120
Speaker 5: And you guys know, I mean, the head coach and

850
00:34:35,160 --> 00:34:37,560
Speaker 5: the offensive coordinator, they're gonna take the most offense coordinator,

851
00:34:37,640 --> 00:34:39,239
Speaker 5: head coach and the quarterback are going to take the

852
00:34:39,239 --> 00:34:42,440
Speaker 5: most criticism of anybody in the program. When things are

853
00:34:42,440 --> 00:34:43,880
Speaker 5: going well, they get a ton of credit. When things

854
00:34:43,920 --> 00:34:45,680
Speaker 5: are going bad, they get all the blame. And he

855
00:34:46,719 --> 00:34:49,600
Speaker 5: wore that but never changed and just continued to work

856
00:34:49,719 --> 00:34:52,279
Speaker 5: and get better. And I was so excited for him

857
00:34:52,280 --> 00:34:55,760
Speaker 5: to have the success that he had last season, especially

858
00:34:55,800 --> 00:34:57,160
Speaker 5: towards the end of the year. And then that's just

859
00:34:57,160 --> 00:34:59,640
Speaker 5: carried over into this year with the way that these

860
00:34:59,640 --> 00:35:02,279
Speaker 5: come back and it's his team and the leadership that

861
00:35:02,320 --> 00:35:04,799
Speaker 5: he's showing and the work ethic and all that as well.

862
00:35:04,880 --> 00:35:05,600
Speaker 4: He's been awesome.

863
00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:07,960
Speaker 3: Where were you out in the process when he was

864
00:35:07,960 --> 00:35:10,040
Speaker 3: thinking about going at the draft, Like how involved were

865
00:35:10,080 --> 00:35:10,600
Speaker 3: you with him?

866
00:35:11,120 --> 00:35:14,080
Speaker 5: Ah? Very but wanting to give him his space as well,

867
00:35:14,280 --> 00:35:17,319
Speaker 5: you know, I mean I told him early on that, look, man,

868
00:35:17,320 --> 00:35:19,520
Speaker 5: I'm not gonna obviously I want you to come back,

869
00:35:19,840 --> 00:35:21,120
Speaker 5: and I'm not going to lie to you to try

870
00:35:21,160 --> 00:35:21,920
Speaker 5: and get you to come back.

871
00:35:21,960 --> 00:35:23,359
Speaker 4: I'll get you all the information you need.

872
00:35:23,400 --> 00:35:24,719
Speaker 5: I'll get you on the phone with anybody in the

873
00:35:24,800 --> 00:35:26,960
Speaker 5: NFL you want to talk to that I've got a

874
00:35:26,960 --> 00:35:29,960
Speaker 5: connection with a relationship with and let's make the best

875
00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:32,720
Speaker 5: decision for you. And if it's coming back to South Carolina, great,

876
00:35:33,080 --> 00:35:34,880
Speaker 5: and if it's not, there'll be no bigger fan of

877
00:35:34,880 --> 00:35:37,520
Speaker 5: yours in the NFL than me. And I had those

878
00:35:37,560 --> 00:35:40,120
Speaker 5: conversations with him, I had those conversations with his dad

879
00:35:40,880 --> 00:35:43,440
Speaker 5: as well, and it was an open, you know, communication

880
00:35:43,560 --> 00:35:46,760
Speaker 5: throughout and Spencer said it and it's the truth. Like really,

881
00:35:46,840 --> 00:35:48,640
Speaker 5: in the month of December, he was focused on that

882
00:35:48,680 --> 00:35:50,400
Speaker 5: bowl game, and we I think I talked to his

883
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Speaker 5: dad maybe twice, and Spencer wants about it in the

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Speaker 5: month of December, and it was like, let's just get

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Speaker 5: through the bowl and then we'll make a decision.

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Speaker 4: And then we did, and all right, we got through

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Speaker 4: the ball game.

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Speaker 5: And there were a lot of conversations that were taking

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Speaker 5: place after the bowl game as well about whether he

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Speaker 5: was going to come back or not, and and I

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Speaker 5: just tried to be there to answer any questions, telling

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Speaker 5: him what I thought.

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Speaker 4: And how much I wanted him back.

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Speaker 5: We were naming we were hiring a new offensive coordinator

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Speaker 5: during that time, so that hire was going to be

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Speaker 5: really really critical because that guy obviously was going to

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Speaker 5: be working with Spencer, and Spencer needed to develop a

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Speaker 5: relationship with him as well and feel like he did.

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Speaker 4: So it was. It was a good process, very open

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Speaker 4: and very engaging. Awesome.

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Speaker 2: Awesome, man, We appreciate your time. This was this is incredible.

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Speaker 4: Guys are awesome. I appreciate you, and I mean that

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Speaker 4: y'all need to come back more often.

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Speaker 2: We will, don't worry, we will