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Indiana Football Q&A: ESPN College GameDay’s Rece Davis previews Washington
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Nov 7, 2024
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I think it it's been that for quite some
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time especially among you know hardcore
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college football fans I think that
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there's a tribalism there is in in a
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good way there's a sense of community
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that college football brings and I would
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argue that no other sport really touches
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and I know this is basketball country
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and there's a lot to be said for that
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but basketball plays a lot more often
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and the football season short and
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everything points to a single day and
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this show
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I mean I've been on it 10 years for PR
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days my time sort of uh is a touchstone
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moment for start today and I think it I
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hope that it's recognized by people that
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there are a lot of people on the set who
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aren't just up there performing they're
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up there because they love college
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football and hopefully that comes across
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and I think because of that the genuine
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nature of it the way the show has
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evolved over the years whether it be by
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adding different people just a different
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approach to the way we uh look at the
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show I think all those things have have
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allowed it to maintain and grow
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throughout time at a time when when
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shows like ours aren't really growing in
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other portions of Television yet we are
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we're very grateful to the pink BL watch
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C of seem to enjoy going to new places
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and I know you guys were here in 2017
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for a Thursday night game big ass risk
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beside that visit it was fun it was
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great but it wasn't this recalling that
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experience what are you looking forward
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to most tomorrow I'm looking forward to
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actually being among the Indiana fans I
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mean we were in the stadium in 2017 and
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it was a great night and people were
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excited but there's a little something
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different about having our full
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footprint of the show and the full three
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hours and uh starting the day of
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football and then even today being able
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to or tomorrow rather go into the
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stadium for kickoff it's just a
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different vibe and a different energy
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about that when you started early in the
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morning people I'm sure are going to
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camp out and we're going to have a huge
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crowd and they're going to be loud and
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excited and there's just something
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energizing about that and I think it's a
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I think it's a lot different when we go
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someplace where we haven't been before
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when we go to Ohio State when we go to
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Alabama we're treated well we treated
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great wonderful people but it's almost
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like hey you guys are back oh did did
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did you guys pay the uh you guys pay the
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property taxes and everything I know
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we're all neighbors here you know it's
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like they're used to seeing us and when
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we come here when we went to cow a few
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weeks ago there's a different kind of a
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different kind of energy about it for
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sure how about your thought Valu the
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kind of team that they had in it's it's
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been remarkable the first thing I
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noticed because
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I I I'll be fully transparent about this
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Tino sineri is a friend of mine has been
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for a long time his dad and I are
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friends who's coach of Colorado and so
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when when they got this job I I made it
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a point I watched the UCLA game and I
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was like Wow first game there the the
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adjective I've used as Crisp And what I
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mean by that is they execute they're not
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sloppy there's not confusion uh a lot of
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that is attributable to you know to Shan
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coach Shanahan coach zetti Tino and and
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really to Curtis I mean he's a veteran
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guy who orchestrated the offense very
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well defense plays with a lot of lot of
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intensity and aggression and I think it
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looks a lot like Kurt's teams at James
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Madison you know they were they were
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crisp and they won and it's uh you know
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I I think really really impressive has
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the schedule been daunting no but I mean
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I don't mean this disrespectfully at all
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it's Indiana you know I mean what is
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they haven't won more than eight games
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in 50 years you know so it's you say
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well the schedule hasn't been
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challenging they're building a new
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program here you know and I think what
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they've done is is remarkable up to this
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point and you know and Kurt said he
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thinks they have staying power nothing
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that they've shown on the field would
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indicate otherwise what does it what do
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it mean you personally to bring Lee
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borso back here to Indiana a place that
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means so much to him means means a lot
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to the people here at Indiana I love
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love love the old stories and the way
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we're going to open the show tomorrow I
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think is going to be special and I think
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people are going to I'm not going to
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give it away but I think people will
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enjoy it both people who come to the
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show and people are watching on TV I
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went back and I I've read it you know
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dozens of times before but I went back
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and read uh the old article from Sports
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Illustrated Sports Illustrated invol in
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some of the things that Lee's approach
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to trying to build a winner when he came
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here and that just sort of um his uh his
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ability to entertain while still being a
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competitive a hard-nosed competitor as
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he was as a coach and uh the old stories
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about different things that happened in
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the game some of them that have become
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legend that you know might have a hint
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of fiction in the middle but you know as
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he once said you know don't don't let
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the truth get in the way of a really
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good story so it you know there's so
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many great ones and I think because of
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what he's meant to the
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show he's the one who back in the day
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really embraced and personified the idea
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that he always reminds us of even to
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this day it's entertainment sweetheart
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football's our vehicle you know and he
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always says that he embraced that early
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on and because of that he's one of the
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most if not the most important figure in
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college football television history
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because he changed the way pregame shows
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were broadcast it wasn't just well we're
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going to see if we can block the three
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technique all that's great it's
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important but it wasn't just that and he
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was he he was a guy who was among the
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first guys to say exactly what he
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thought and not worry about it forget
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about it you know the whole thing and
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and it really changed the way I think
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people approached the way they covered
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college football and it was it's been
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great it's wonderful to bring back you
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see how excited people are to have him
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back through all your time working with
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him what's your favorite Le horo story
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okay all right this this is easy like
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we're at Penn State one year and you
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know I always like to capture the
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essence in the scen of something that is
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that is recognizable instantly with
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where we are so we're at Penn State and
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as you guys probably know they passed
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the LI to the top of Beaver Stadium so
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we're out on Old Main I said what if we
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pass the LI back through the crowd and I
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I think it was herb Street who said um
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he said what if we got LC to do it it's
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like 2016 maybe I think and so I go to
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him and he goes yeah we're going to do
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it well as as Friday afternoon went on I
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started to get more and more nervous
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about this idea of passing lead back
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through this giant crowd and so I talked
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to security a little bit I said well
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we'll keep an eye on him I'm not sure
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this is a good idea not sure we should
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be doing this like Okay so let's see
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what it's like tomorrow morning so
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tomorrow Saturday morning comes we're
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about to do it security starts kind of
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freaking out like we don't know if we
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can get him back to the set in time for
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the show we don't know if they're going
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to put him down we don't know it's going
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to happen call it off we just have the
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lion do it so I'm on his ass okay tell
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our director at the time Rodney Perez
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open me up to LC I'll tell him I said LC
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hey man Security's worried about this
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just forget about surfing the crowd just
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come on up to the set
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and Lee Lee said hell no sweetheart
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we're doing it right there and he did it
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was one of the great opens I mean this
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great crowd of LC line back being passed
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back through the Penn State crowd and it
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was uh it was awesome that's my many
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many many great memories I think that
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was the one I became nervous about the
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logistics of the show and here he was no
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people are going to like this and
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remember it we're doing it and it was it
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was
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great did you guys start to think that
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IND be a team on your radar show uh I
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mean probably after they they won four
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or five games in all honesty I think we
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were kind of peeking ahead and looking
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toward the Michigan game and saying okay
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that might be that might be a place
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where we would consider going to Indiana
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but then as things fell this one seemed
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to make a lot more sense and it's uh you
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know so I would say probably two three
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weeks ago started kind of keeping an eye
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on it and see where the opportunities
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might be we all know that the name on
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the jerseys shouldn't matter but Indiana
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is Indiana like you said do you think
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wait now you're making it sound like I
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really cast dispersions out I didn't
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that do you think that that could hurt
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them toward the end of the season as
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they try to make a run to the college
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football players not really not anymore
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there are there are other opportunities
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there are other openings now obviously
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first of all they can win the Big T U
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which is a tall order for sure I
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understand that but even if they don't
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let's say for instance and I'll probably
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have to answer to Signet for this one
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but let's say for instance they lose to
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Ohio State they don't make the Big 10
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championship game but they play
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competitively I think there's a really
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good chance they would be in that
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remember be top 11 probably you know
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depending on where the other conference
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Champion would be ranked there would be
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a chance they would be in that
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neighborhood if they win the rest of the
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games impressively and have a you know
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just for instance a close loss against
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Ohio State um so I don't I think those
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types of things are going to matter less
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it there there will still be football
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judgment there their schedule outside of
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these games coming up in in November
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will be scrutinized and that's
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appropriate there's nothing wrong with
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that so a lot of it is going to be how
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they how they play and if they play
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competitively I think they've got a shot
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and the best thing about the new system
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they can just win and then they don't
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have to worry about it that's all the
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time we have for re today all right guys
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thank
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