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Indiana Football Q&A: ESPN College GameDay’s ‘Stanford Steve’ Coughlin previews Washington
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Nov 7, 2024
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so why do you think this show has turned
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into such a cultural
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Touchstone um huh
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um well first of all this the name I
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mean I I came on last year but I mean
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going back to my playing days on the
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west coast like it was it's what you did
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you woke up as early as you could cuz
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it's on earlier out there obviously and
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um you know figure out who the guys are
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picking and watching and saying what but
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the names I mean it's just gotten bigger
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and bigger uh then you factor in Pat and
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and Coach Savin coming on like it
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doesn't get any better than those two
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guys um but I think it we resonate you
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know everywhere and the idea of
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everybody wanting you to come to their
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place every week which is impossible um
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but it's you know it's a fun some people
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call it a circus but we look at it as as
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a darn good time and uh it's it's just
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fantastic to see the reaction we get and
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um you know the buildup what these
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people do you know letting us in you
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know using Offices here like it's just
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it's great and uh my first time here and
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I'm super super fired up glad we glad
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we're here did you think you'd get to
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Bloomington with a 7 and0 who your
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football team in the summer no I don't
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think you guys did either um but it's
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been awesome man it it really has I mean
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want to talk about Coach of the Year
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through seven games uh you know the way
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he's pieced this roster together uh you
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know then you look at the offensive line
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and how the many fifth sixth year guys
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like to make that mold you got to know
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what you're doing and obviously coach
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has a stamp I mean we were at JMU last
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year for one of our biggest shows
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biggest show I think right okay um and
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it's funny I I I was thinking about that
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this week because not one I mean we had
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20 something thousand 23,000 people not
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once in that show of 3 hours did we
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mention App State and App State won you
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beat JMU and cost them cost them a uh
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undefeated season so uh knowing that
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coach Sig was there for that I'm sure
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he's learned from that and uh you know
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there's a way of controlling he's he's
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the ultimate guy I mean the way he's
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kept guys motivated talking to guys on
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the team with his halftime speeches they
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they've LED you know they have a School
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record for consecutive game scoring 40
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points like everything is rolling but
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how do you stay motivated and uh that's
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the genius of what he's done with all
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the ties to the to IU you know between
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coach porso and you know coach Z and
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zetti going back I guess what's it been
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like bringing the show here
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uh just the idea of Coach I mean we're
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at the hotel this morning and Coach
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course he and I are in line getting a
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coffee and the the the look on people's
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faces you know the the the members of
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the 79 team and then like their spouses
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and you know just like it really hit you
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like I'm like man I you know I was 2
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years old in 1979 you know I didn't I
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didn't know about the the B the bull
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Team uh but you know just the genuiness
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of of here in Bloomington like you just
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feel feel it and uh it's been awesome I
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mean Pat being here uh we know what he's
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done in this state and like it's it's
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just going to it's monstrous man like
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the story you don't get that all the
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time where you can tie this in and and
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Coach Coro and Pat that that idea of
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that here uh is just awesome they were
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very very lucky to for the timing Pat's
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been a big proponent of this team and
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his coach Signet of course how much did
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he play a part of getting the show here
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uh I think we all were on the same page
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like when you looked at the possibility
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like we you know we love going to the
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biggest stories and in this conference
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when you talk about all the change
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that's been on that's what makes it so
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awesome it's it's an old big 10 school
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and the idea we we did pree you know the
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first game back in what was it
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2015 17 17 sorry sorry sorry sorry but
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now we get to you know get the stage out
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we're outside the stadium we get to go
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in like it has that true big game feel
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so that's it's just like I said
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fortunate of the timing it it doesn't
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happen all the time where that works out
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that way but uh yeah I mean Pat's been a
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huge proponent of Coach I mean he goes
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back the Pittsburgh ties like those guys
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are are hardcore uh remembering who who
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played with who what high school you
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played what year you played them in the
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playoffs so it's awesome uh it it's it
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just adds to the excitement level and
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we're here we're here have you kind of
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felt that excitement just walking around
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Bloomington and being around campus yeah
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yeah it's different I mean people were
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jacked up uh last night out the dinner
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and just fired up I I've tried to temper
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their expectations I told them about
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jamu last year they don't care they they
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they the the idea of seeing your team
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score 40 plus of seven straight weeks
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it's kind of I think gotten to him and
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it's all I mean they they flip the
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culture in you know the time he's been
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here um and that's what's awesome that's
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what it's supposed to be I always say
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this there's nothing you can't fake the
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excitement of a college campus just a
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general enthusiasm the energy um and
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it's it's Sky High here uh as you can
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tell I haven't even here 24 hours Steve
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you may not know this but Indiana does
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not have a mascot mhm so if if Lee were
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to maybe pick IU to win this game what
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would he use as a head I don't know I I
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I was I was pushing for the candy cane
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pants um but he's usually sitting down
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and we don't want to have to you know
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yeah change um but no I I was reading
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about that what is it like in the 60s
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and 7s they tried the whole bison thing
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yeah that worked for about 10 minutes
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work and then there's a group that's
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still trying to bring it back or
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something like
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oh man it's who even a hoer man at one
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time really a big inflatable ho
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man he rode around a little moped uh I I
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don't I don't know I don't I haven't
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like that I'm obviously is uh getting
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decided there's a plan uh but I I try
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and go in not knowing who he's going to
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pick okay and I believe last week was
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the first week he didn't get it right
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he's been on fire uh with his picks and
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he loves every single second of it he's
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we do a super dog segment so you got to
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pick an underdog uh and he's the first
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one every week to text our producer with
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his pick so he's he's locked in man
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don't worry about it feeling good yeah
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yeah yeah doing all right yep good
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you've been talking le le has got to be
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pumped up to be back all the things that
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are going on for him recognizing that
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bowl team that you already mentioned
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homecoming for him uh not having been
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able to do this before how excited has
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he been talking to you about this IED s
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in the coffee shop like he was amazed um
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you know it's I I can't imagine being
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his age and having that many memories
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and like at a place for 10 years you
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know and now you I mean I don't know
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when's the last time he saw half of
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these people uh but like there's there's
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a resonation that those people like he
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gave them a lot of the best times of
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their Liv that happens to college all
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the time you're going to remember the
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best times and you remember the people
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you were around and the places you went
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so the idea that they were able to do
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that that year is I mean what are we 40
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years you know more than that 50 um
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Math's not great uh but it's it's it's
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true true you know like it just
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everything you
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would everything you wanted it to play
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out so far has with with the recognition
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and the love that you've been shown it's
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it's great with Kansas last year now
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Indiana this year you're looking at
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Assembly Hall as you talked to us what's
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it like to see a basketball school these
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basketball schools become football
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schools you know I had an idea that I
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was going to uh a you know Stanford guy
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going to cow and had a little trolling
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in me and I was like should I wear Yukon
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gear cuz you know I'm going to a
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basketball school just to show people
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but I I did not again this is coach Coro
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and Pat show um it's uh H it I don't
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think it matters like when when you get
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this you got a ranking next to your name
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um and you know the I mean every home
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game sold out right the rest of the way
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uh like that's I don't I don't care what
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kind like you're you're foot it's
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football season you're a football school
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and you know this fan base is starving
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for success as a lot of other schools
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are and a lot of schools other will be
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super jealous of what you know the
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attention in the got but they deserve it
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you know that's I mean they've done it
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themselves and that's you know
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everybody's like oh why don't you come
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to our place I'm like you're in control
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that you know you you become the topic
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we we we'll be there no matter where you
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are so um it's it's I I don't I don't
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look at it that way I mean especially
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never being here I've never you know
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stepped foot in that so I just always
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remember as a kid they never lost it was
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years and years I I just watched teams
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and laugh I'm like they're not going to
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win this thing at all so uh it's it's
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really cool to be a place ion of
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building do you plan on being going in
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there at some point yeah yeah I
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definitely want to walk around there uh
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just it's it's one of the like not being
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like I got a chance to go to F gallon a
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couple years ago and you're like oh okay
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you got this and just that building
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resonates on TV which a lot of buildings
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now these newer ones whether it's the
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crowd whether the way they do the seats
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and the suit and all that that building
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resonates TV so I'm fire up to go over
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there what what is Pat and Coach Sabin
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what have they added to the show Saving
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this year and Pat Uh Pat obviously the
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energy but like the idea of how he
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resonates with you know the younger the
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younger demo uh has just been incredible
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and it's only gotten bigger as we go
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different places I mean we're out in C
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and Oregon two straight L we got 3:00
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a.m. wakeup calls out there to get ready
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for the show and the place is jumping at
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4 in the morning um coach is just I
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think he's just up everybody's level
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like not even having a speech or
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anything just the account the
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accountability of like all right Nick's
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coming out okay people that are working
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on his segments super dial in s but just
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the accountability has gone up because
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of the I think it's what what we wanted
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we thought his expectation might be and
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it's just made everybody better the
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success Indiana's had this year what's
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it kind of been like for Lee to watch
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this from afar like is is it kind of
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making him Happy from far it's uh oh
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yeah for sure for sure uh you know he's
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he's still not picking Purdue any week
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of the Season uh so he loves that seeing
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them down and Indiana up but yeah I it's
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you know he's he's down the office he's
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taking a couple walks his son I saw his
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son uh was here so like it's I think
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he's trying to take it his drive but
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yeah he's he's super jazzed up that the
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hooers are are playing well as a group
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what do you guys you've seen this team
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you see a lot of teams play week in week
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out where do you rank this team as far
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as being in the elite because they are
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definitely in the cfp conversation no
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doubt um I think it's interesting how as
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we get farther in October we still want
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to learn about teams you know we were in
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Austin last week and when I'm going
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through it I'm like they kind of it's
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not their fault you can only play on you
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know who's on your schedule but they
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hadn't played a team that could you know
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throw the ball with success so I wanted
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to see that and then you know you saw
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what happened with Georgia and how
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motivated they were I think with Indiana
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it's sort of the same lines like they've
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pummeled everybody they've played there
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there's an attitude to them but can you
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manage these expectations I mean this is
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this is a big deal Washington's got
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nothing to lose I think Jeff fish is a
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great coach and the idea of Coach Sig
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now having to do with a backup
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quarterback I mean like going back and
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watching the tape uh I thought Tav was
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great cuz it's
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287 uh he comes in the game and I'm like
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I they just going to run the ball and
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get out of here with a win you know keep
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the undefeated seat no for the first six
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plays or passes he throws two TS um and
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they scored 28 more points so that foots
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on the gas and I can't wait to see what
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they bring to the table tomorrow that's
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all the time we have St guys thanks St
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