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his win and Willner's winner. He took Rutgers minus the points.
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He is now three and two on the air, our
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friend Johnny Wilks, John, how are you pal?
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What's going on?
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H good? Three and two? I'll take it.
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Yeah, well, yes, fine, but I will tell you that
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you went head to head with Rick Neuheisel who took
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the Huskies, and you won. You you beat the coach
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on Friday, So congratulations. But why don't we just start
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there and talk about kind of this Husky football team
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They outgained Wreckers by what two hundred and twenty two
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yards whatever it was in the game on Friday and
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they lose to I think, inferior football team. How irritated
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should Husky fans be with this team right now?
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Somewhat irritated? And didn't they They outgained the Cougars by yes,
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seventy five or one hundred yards as well. But that's
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the mark of a you know, mediocre Okay football team
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is out gaining opponents, but not being able to finish drives,
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not being able to avoid penalties, just making those mistakes.
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That's what separates a really good team from a mediocre team,
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is the mistakes. The Huskies have to get that stuff settled.
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If they can, they'll be They'll be pretty good by
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the end of the season. And I don't think it's
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a big surprise that they're having these kind of problems,
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given the turnover with the coaching staff, the turnovers offensive line.
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But that's the issue, and you know, good teams get
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past this.
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So should Husky fans be more encouraged based upon what
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they're seeing from from the team itself as far as
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the yards they're racking up, the defense out they're putting
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up there, or should they worry that maybe it's the
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coaching staff's issue and it will continue to be an
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issue that they have these disciplinary issues.
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I don't think you can rule that part out. I
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looked up Arizona's penalty situation last year under Jed Fish
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and they I don't remember exactly, but they were somewhere
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around eightieth nationally in both penalties per game and penalty
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yards per game. Now there are one hundred and thirty
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three FBS teams, so you know, they were like in
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the middle third, not outrageous. So I don't know that
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I would you know, necessarily draw conclusion from that that
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the Huskies are doomed to have a lot of penalties
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this entire season. But I would think by the middle
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of you know, second half of October, early November, they
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should start to be cleaning this stuff up, and they
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should start to you know, the situational football as well,
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third down, red zone penalties. That's that's the kind of
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stuff you got to clean up as the season goes on.
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Yeah, well, I mean there's a lot of the fifteen
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yard variety for you, dub, which really, in the end
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is kind of the issue for this football team. I'm
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going to look it up and see where they're at
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in the nation right now. In yards twenty yeah, there
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are one.
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Hundred and twenties in both both yards and penalties per.
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Game, one hundred and twenty eight and one hundred and
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twenty eighth.
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Yeah, and the teams below them, they might be last
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among Power four teams. Right. A lot of the teams
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below them in both categories are Western Kentucky's or that.
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Yes, study incorrect, Ale Miss the Running Rebels, or one
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hundred and twenty ninth right behind you, dub.
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But outside of.
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That, you're grouped with lang Kiss.
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Yeah, that's not good.
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North Texas, UMass, Nevada, and New Mexico are the only
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four teams that have fewer penalty yards than you, but
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all Miss does.
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But this this game.
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Saturday with Michigan, I mean, you know, look, we've been
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kind of circling this game for a while. And by
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the way, John, do me a favor. I know you're
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coming up for the game, You're gonna write about the game.
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It's gonna be great to see you at the game
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on Saturday. Will you please, for the love of God,
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if Washington wins this game, and I just had to
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go after these adults on Twitter.
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For doing this.
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Do not use the R word. There's no revenge to
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be had. It's week six versus the National Championship. You
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cannot get revenge against somebody in Week six versus losing
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a national title game. Will you please promise me if
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Washington wins, you will not use that word.
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No, I hadn't even considered that. I certainly won't use
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that word. That's I mean, that's kind of an insult
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to the Washington program to look at it that way.
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I agree, Well, you can use other R words. You
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can use rivalry because I think it is. You could
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use rematch because it's certainly it's. But don't you think
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it's a great spot for you, dub John. I mean,
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coming off a game where they played other than those awful,
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awful decisions and penalties, they played on the field, probably
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better than we all expected they would on a Friday
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night three thousand miles away. Now they've got Michigan coming
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to the Pacific time zone for only the second time
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in twenty years.
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Yeah. No, I agree with your dick on that they
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did not show. You know, there were some things I
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was looking forward looking for in the first quarter just
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to show the short week and the travel, and I
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didn't really see much of that. I was impressed with,
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you know, the effort and energy they had early on.
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I think getting Michigan anywhere is a good situation for
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the Huskies because Michigan's not very good. They're not good
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at all. They can't throw the ball. They are one
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dimensional on offense. If Washington as long as they can
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not you can't allow seventy eight yards on a first
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down run.
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Play, yeah, they can.
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Get them in a second and medium to second and long.
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The Huskies should be in pretty good shape as long
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as they don't you know, turnovers and like you guy said,
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the fifteen yard penalties on offense and turnovers, if they
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don't have those, yeah, they got a great chance to win.
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Michigan's not any good.
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You better damn well. Hope they don't get beat by
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a bomb in this game. I'm gonna kill both of you,
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by the way, if that happens this weekend. Michigan is
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number six run defense in Collwege football at under seventy
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yards per game, so they're very stout on the ground,
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no doubt.
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We'll see what happens. But John wielners with us.
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John, next weekend, you dub is gonna play Iowa at
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eleven o'clock Iowa time, nine o'clock our time. There's a
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chance it could end up on Fox as the Big
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Newton kickoff, or it could end up on the Big
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ten network. Can you explain what the rules are that
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require or that what is required? Excuse me from Big
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ten teams in the Big ten network? And are we
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dealing with another situation which Dick and I and Jackson
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we don't care anymore. We're Fubo men. We couldn't care less.
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But there's a lot of people that still left Comcast.
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Are we still dealing with this blackout problem next Saturday?
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We are well? As of now we are. I am
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trying to think Oregon o'house State is not a big
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noon game obviously because it's it's in Eugene. No, I
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don't know what the other game could be that Fox would.
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Take Wisconsin and is it Indiana? Is that who they
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have next next weekend? So the Big ten games that one,
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I'll just tell you the Big ten games next week
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are Ohio State at Oregon, which is nine am Pacific,
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Penn State USC, which would be nine am Pacific. They're
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not going to make those teams play at nine o'clock
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in the morning. I assume in Eugene or La.
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Penn State, USC is already on CBI.
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There you go, there you go.
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So the only other possibility would be Big excuse me,
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Wisconsin Rutgers.
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That's it.
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I am guessing that if the Huskies win, they would
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be on Big Noon. Got it else's lose this week?
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That they will be on Big ten network. And if
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they're on Big ten network, they are I mean, I
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assume the blackout's going to continue at this point. Neither
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side has budged. You know, Comcast does not think that
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there's enough reason to give into the Big ten's requirement
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that the network be placed on a basic tier along
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the West Coast. So I am going to assume at
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this point that that game, if it's on Big ten network,
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will be blacked out on Comcast in Seattle.
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Wow.
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Unbelievable. Well, like Soffie said, we don't have to worry
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about anything that's right. That's right, John, the Big ten
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is modifying rules on the fly in the wake of
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the miscall in the Minnesota Michigan game. On the off sides.
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On the it just it just flies and start. Contrast
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to what we've been living through in Pac twelve Land
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the last one hundred years, doesn't it.
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It does. Although the mistake itself, which was pretty ingregious,
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I don't know, you guys, see your former coach was
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pretty upset about that.
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On the Fox Studio show Chris Peterson.
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He said he said Minnesota got posed. So I agree
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with him. I thought it was a bad call and
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good for the Big ten making the correction. This was
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not a you know, this was what they call a
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mechanical issue, which is basically derived from which official can
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make the decision and they have a fixed it so
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that they feel like they got a better handle on it. Now.
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We did not see the Pac twelve ever really admit
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the mistakes. You know, that was not something Larry Scott
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was fond of doing. So I was like, hey, that's right,
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you can make make amends for your mistakes, hold yourself accountable,
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and try to do better.
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I mean, if he was fond of admitting the mistakes,
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they'd be admitting the mistakes every damn day. Take them
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all freaking week to get through the mistakes they make
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I mean, I guess, when you know, make a lot
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of mistakes, you can admit to them.
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But John Wilders with us and John.
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Eight days ago, Brett McMurphy tweeted that the Gonzaga Bulldogs
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were leaving for the PAC twelve and everybody slammed him.
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A lot of national people got on him for that.
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And here we are today and Gonzaga is in the
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PAC twelve.
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How about that?
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Yeah? Well, when he tweeted that, it was not accurate
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in that they hadn't signed the deal.
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Oh, come on, he was going to happen for it.
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The point was they were leaving for the PAC twelve
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and you know it, Come on.
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I thought that there was a good chance, but you know,
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it depends on Hey, listen, you have to be accurate
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with your reporting. And I don't remember the exact wording
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of his tweet, but at that point, because Zaga had
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not been offered a contract, had not signed a contract,
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and it was not a done deal, did all signs
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indicate it was gonna happen eventually? Yes? And I don't
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know how he offhands how he framed it, because you
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could frame it multiple ways. If it was more of
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a it's gonna happen, then yes, if it was, uh,
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it has happened, it's a done deal that then then
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it wasn't acting.
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I don't remember that exertly.
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You guys have it in front.
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Of Yeah, it says Gonzaga leaving West Coast Conference to
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join PAC twelve Source told Action Network Action Network.
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Yeah, you could say leaving means that it's going to happen,
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not that it has happened.
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That's right.
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So in that case, it was like, you know, in
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the future, this is gonna happen, and it certainly looked
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like that all along.
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I just it.
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I'm not sure how much the miss on the American
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School's Memphis, South Florida Tulane affected their strategy, whether they
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had Gonzaga all along.
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So, you know, the way it's worded, you could argue
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was correct foreshadowing.
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You're unbelievable. You know that.
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I mean, I love you, I love you to death.
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You know how much I love you. But you're unbelievable.
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I mean, well, but the thing is that if you're
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reporting stuff and you're dealing with factual things like contracts, terms, offers, invitations, approvals,
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you have to be you have to be accurate. Now,
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he didn't use any of those terms, so I would
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say he's not inaccurate. But but you know, you gotta
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you gotta be accurate with your words.
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So John's not going as far as our back is.
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The guy said it's going to happened, and he was
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dead on balls accurate.
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it right. At that point, they hadn't actually joined the conference,
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all right.
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of things, because they still need an eighth team for football.
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need an eighth team because so much of what's going
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on with the NCAA is up in the air. They
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could end up getting rid of that rule or adjusting
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the rule so that you can have a school like
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Gonzaga that's playing in all sports but football, and then
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you could have a football only school like U Can
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all up in the air, like so much in the NCUBLEA.
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have Gonzaga certainly makes the conference more attractive for basketball,
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even for football, because it will make them more attractive
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for the media deal, right, I mean, you got Gonzaga
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broadcast your games.
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Is it at all possible for a Boise State football
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player to win the Heisman Trophy? Because that dude is unbelievable.
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He is unbelievable. He's uh, he's uh. I heard the
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comparison of Maurice Jones Drew, which I think is pretty good, powerful,
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but agile. He is fantastic. I believe he is on
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pace to break Barry Sanders record, and if he does that,
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it's gonna be hard to deny him. But you know what,
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what his toughest competition could be Travis Hunter doing something
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that we have never seen in the modern era. So
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it's hard to say that that Jane deserves it more
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than Hunter, who's playing at a high level on both
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sides of the ball.
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Yeah, and if Calorado keeps winning the way they are
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right now, then Hunter is going to get even more
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and more attention. How big of a blow did the
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Cougars twelve team playoff?
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Fantasy hopes take over the weekend of the.
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Knocked out flow.
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They had to be undefeated in order for them to
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get in that large birth ahead of an SEC or
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Big ten team, they had to be undefeated one. Even
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if they're eleven to one, they don't have the schedule
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to justify getting in ahead of you know, Georgia or whoever,
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Tennessee or Oregon.
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Yeah, they got blown out. It's not like they lost
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thirty eight thirty seven on a last second field goal, right.
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They got blown out. Now, Boise is in great position
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to get the group of five feted, and that would
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be terrific to see Ashton Jens you know, in that
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opening round game against Alabama or Texas.
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That would be fun. Yeah.
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I mean, they wouldn't win, but I'd still like to
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see those defenses try to try to corral that guy
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because he's in real Yeah.
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Are they three and one? Busies? Bugs? Three and one? Right?
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Is that right? Guys?
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Yep? So we lost that Oregon.
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Ashton genty is on pace to run for twenty five
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hundred yards.
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It's insane.
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And how many touchdowns thirteen by ma or quick some
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math yaka yeck he's on pace to run for twenty
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four touchdowns.
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except he only had eleven carriage to get to Portland.
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Stick because it was a blowout. He had like eleven
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carriages for one hundred and thirty yards and he didn't
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play half the game. Otherwise he would you'd add another
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one hundred and something to his total.
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Yea, it is.
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It is just incredible how good he is. And that's
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an interesting story too, right, because he could have gone
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anywhere in the transfer portal with nil money and he
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chose to stay. Boys.
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Sorry, it's thirty nine touchdowns, by the way, not twenty four.
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That he's on pace for thirty nine twenty five hundred yards.
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And thirty nine touchdowns.
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Oh yeah, If he rushes for forty touchdowns, still, he
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won't be the Heisman Trophy winner. All right, John, before
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you go, let's get to it. Congratulations on a hell
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of a win last week. I hate that you were right,
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but you were right. You're riding a two game winning
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streak looking for three inner row willners winner. The Wendelorean
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has emerged again, victorious out of his dark shadow from
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the twenty twenty three season and into the light of
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twenty twenty four.
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Who do you like this week?
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Buddy, I will take the Cow Golden Bears a host
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of ESPN Game Day for the first time ever.
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How about that? How about that?
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I'm actually shocked you're not going to that game. That's
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your neck of the woods and you're flying up here
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for you Dove Michigan.
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I didn't know, you know, I had no idea Cow
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was gonna be good this game, which is gonna be
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relevant when I made by players. I'm gonna go to
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Oregon Michigan State Friday night and then I'm coming up
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for Washington Michigan on Saturday. And the reason I want
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I'm gonna take Cal is actually because Justin Wilcox has
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coached very well against Mario Christobal. They all with Colt
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almost always gave Moregon trouble crystal Ball. It's just the
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way he plays just works with the way Wilcox plays.
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I think that's gonna be a very close game.
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Cow's getting ten points, you like, count the ten points
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against Miami double down. Yeah, they're building this. They're building
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this as Woke versus Coke Saturday, the old Catholics versus
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Convicts is now woke versus Coke.
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All Right, John, great.
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Stuff, and uh I'll shoot you a text, but we'll
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see you Saturday.
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Pregamer right bus shun all right man, John Wilner.
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Back to the Hawks, who got the Well, I was
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gonna say it to the job.
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It's funny because I kind of feel like you.
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They played well, they did play well, they lost, Like
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it's my emotions are just backwards.
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Man. We'll get to more Hawk talk.
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his win and Willner's winner. He took Rutgers minus the points.
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He is now three and two on the air, our
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friend Johnny Wilks, John, how are you pal?
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What's going on?
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H good? Three and two? I'll take it.
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Yeah, well, yes, fine, but I will tell you that
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you went head to head with Rick Neuheisel who took
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the Huskies, and you won. You you beat the coach
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on Friday, So congratulations. But why don't we just start
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there and talk about kind of this Husky football team
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They outgained Wreckers by what two hundred and twenty two
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yards whatever it was in the game on Friday and
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they lose to I think, inferior football team. How irritated
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should Husky fans be with this team right now?
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Somewhat irritated? And didn't they They outgained the Cougars by yes,
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seventy five or one hundred yards as well. But that's
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the mark of a you know, mediocre Okay football team
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is out gaining opponents, but not being able to finish drives,
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not being able to avoid penalties, just making those mistakes.
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is the mistakes. The Huskies have to get that stuff settled.
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If they can, they'll be They'll be pretty good by
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the end of the season. And I don't think it's
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a big surprise that they're having these kind of problems,
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given the turnover with the coaching staff, the turnovers offensive line.
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But that's the issue, and you know, good teams get
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So should Husky fans be more encouraged based upon what
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they're seeing from from the team itself as far as
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the yards they're racking up, the defense out they're putting
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up there, or should they worry that maybe it's the
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coaching staff's issue and it will continue to be an
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issue that they have these disciplinary issues.
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and they I don't remember exactly, but they were somewhere
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around eightieth nationally in both penalties per game and penalty
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yards per game. Now there are one hundred and thirty
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three FBS teams, so you know, they were like in
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the middle third, not outrageous. So I don't know that
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the Huskies are doomed to have a lot of penalties
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this entire season. But I would think by the middle
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of you know, second half of October, early November, they
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should start to be cleaning this stuff up, and they
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should start to you know, the situational football as well,
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third down, red zone penalties. That's that's the kind of
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stuff you got to clean up as the season goes on.
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yard variety for you, dub, which really, in the end
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is kind of the issue for this football team. I'm
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going to look it up and see where they're at
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in the nation right now. In yards twenty yeah, there
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Game, one hundred and twenty eight and one hundred and
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among Power four teams. Right. A lot of the teams
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below them in both categories are Western Kentucky's or that.
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Yes, study incorrect, Ale Miss the Running Rebels, or one
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hundred and twenty ninth right behind you, dub.
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That, you're grouped with lang Kiss.
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North Texas, UMass, Nevada, and New Mexico are the only
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four teams that have fewer penalty yards than you, but
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all Miss does.
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the way, John, do me a favor. I know you're
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coming up for the game, You're gonna write about the game.
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It's gonna be great to see you at the game
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on Saturday. Will you please, for the love of God,
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if Washington wins this game, and I just had to
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go after these adults on Twitter.
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For doing this.
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Do not use the R word. There's no revenge to
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be had. It's week six versus the National Championship. You
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cannot get revenge against somebody in Week six versus losing
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a national title game. Will you please promise me if
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Washington wins, you will not use that word.
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No, I hadn't even considered that. I certainly won't use
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that word. That's I mean, that's kind of an insult
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to the Washington program to look at it that way.
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use rematch because it's certainly it's. But don't you think
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it's a great spot for you, dub John. I mean,
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coming off a game where they played other than those awful,
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awful decisions and penalties, they played on the field, probably
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better than we all expected they would on a Friday
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night three thousand miles away. Now they've got Michigan coming
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to the Pacific time zone for only the second time
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in twenty years.
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did not show. You know, there were some things I
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was looking forward looking for in the first quarter just
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to show the short week and the travel, and I
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didn't really see much of that. I was impressed with,
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you know, the effort and energy they had early on.
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the Huskies because Michigan's not very good. They're not good
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at all. They can't throw the ball. They are one
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dimensional on offense. If Washington as long as they can
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not you can't allow seventy eight yards on a first
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down run.
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Play, yeah, they can.
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Get them in a second and medium to second and long.
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The Huskies should be in pretty good shape as long
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as they don't you know, turnovers and like you guy said,
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the fifteen yard penalties on offense and turnovers, if they
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don't have those, yeah, they got a great chance to win.
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Michigan's not any good.
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You better damn well. Hope they don't get beat by
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a bomb in this game. I'm gonna kill both of you,
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by the way, if that happens this weekend. Michigan is
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number six run defense in Collwege football at under seventy
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yards per game, so they're very stout on the ground,
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no doubt.
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We'll see what happens. But John wielners with us.
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John, next weekend, you dub is gonna play Iowa at
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eleven o'clock Iowa time, nine o'clock our time. There's a
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chance it could end up on Fox as the Big
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Newton kickoff, or it could end up on the Big
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ten network. Can you explain what the rules are that
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require or that what is required? Excuse me from Big
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ten teams in the Big ten network? And are we
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dealing with another situation which Dick and I and Jackson
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we don't care anymore. We're Fubo men. We couldn't care less.
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But there's a lot of people that still left Comcast.
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Are we still dealing with this blackout problem next Saturday?
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We are well? As of now we are. I am
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trying to think Oregon o'house State is not a big
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noon game obviously because it's it's in Eugene. No, I
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don't know what the other game could be that Fox would.
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Take Wisconsin and is it Indiana? Is that who they
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have next next weekend? So the Big ten games that one,
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are Ohio State at Oregon, which is nine am Pacific,
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Penn State USC, which would be nine am Pacific. They're
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not going to make those teams play at nine o'clock
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in the morning. I assume in Eugene or La.
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Penn State, USC is already on CBI.
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So the only other possibility would be Big excuse me,
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I am guessing that if the Huskies win, they would
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be on Big Noon. Got it else's lose this week?
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That they will be on Big ten network. And if
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they're on Big ten network, they are I mean, I
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assume the blackout's going to continue at this point. Neither
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side has budged. You know, Comcast does not think that
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there's enough reason to give into the Big ten's requirement
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that the network be placed on a basic tier along
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the West Coast. So I am going to assume at
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this point that that game, if it's on Big ten network,
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will be blacked out on Comcast in Seattle.
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Unbelievable. Well, like Soffie said, we don't have to worry
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about anything that's right. That's right, John, the Big ten
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is modifying rules on the fly in the wake of
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the miscall in the Minnesota Michigan game. On the off sides.
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On the it just it just flies and start. Contrast
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to what we've been living through in Pac twelve Land
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the last one hundred years, doesn't it.
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It does. Although the mistake itself, which was pretty ingregious,
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I don't know, you guys, see your former coach was
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pretty upset about that.
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good for the Big ten making the correction. This was
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not a you know, this was what they call a
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mechanical issue, which is basically derived from which official can
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make the decision and they have a fixed it so
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that they feel like they got a better handle on it. Now.
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We did not see the Pac twelve ever really admit
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the mistakes. You know, that was not something Larry Scott
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was fond of doing. So I was like, hey, that's right,
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you can make make amends for your mistakes, hold yourself accountable,
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and try to do better.
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they'd be admitting the mistakes every damn day. Take them
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all freaking week to get through the mistakes they make
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of mistakes, you can admit to them.
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But John Wilders with us and John.
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Eight days ago, Brett McMurphy tweeted that the Gonzaga Bulldogs
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were leaving for the PAC twelve and everybody slammed him.
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A lot of national people got on him for that.
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And here we are today and Gonzaga is in the
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PAC twelve.
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How about that?
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Yeah? Well, when he tweeted that, it was not accurate
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in that they hadn't signed the deal.
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Oh, come on, he was going to happen for it.
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The point was they were leaving for the PAC twelve
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and you know it, Come on.
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I thought that there was a good chance, but you know,
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it depends on Hey, listen, you have to be accurate
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with your reporting. And I don't remember the exact wording
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of his tweet, but at that point, because Zaga had
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not been offered a contract, had not signed a contract,
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and it was not a done deal, did all signs
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indicate it was gonna happen eventually? Yes? And I don't
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know how he offhands how he framed it, because you
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could frame it multiple ways. If it was more of
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a it's gonna happen, then yes, if it was, uh,
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it has happened, it's a done deal that then then
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it wasn't acting.
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I don't remember that exertly.
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You guys have it in front.
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Of Yeah, it says Gonzaga leaving West Coast Conference to
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join PAC twelve Source told Action Network Action Network.
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not that it has happened.
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That's right.
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the future, this is gonna happen, and it certainly looked
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like that all along.
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I just it.
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I'm not sure how much the miss on the American
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School's Memphis, South Florida Tulane affected their strategy, whether they
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had Gonzaga all along.
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was correct foreshadowing.
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You're unbelievable. You know that.
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I mean, I love you, I love you to death.
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You know how much I love you. But you're unbelievable.
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I mean, well, but the thing is that if you're
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reporting stuff and you're dealing with factual things like contracts, terms, offers, invitations, approvals,
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you have to be you have to be accurate. Now,
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he didn't use any of those terms, so I would
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say he's not inaccurate. But but you know, you gotta
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you gotta be accurate with your words.
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So John's not going as far as our back is.
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But I mean, no, I don't get it. The guy.
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The guy said it's going to happened, and he was
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dead on balls accurate.
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All right, theory or in the big picture, he had
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it right. At that point, they hadn't actually joined the conference,
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all right.
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So what does this then mean for the football side
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of things, because they still need an eighth team for football.
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need an eighth team because so much of what's going
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on with the NCAA is up in the air. They
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could end up getting rid of that rule or adjusting
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the rule so that you can have a school like
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Gonzaga that's playing in all sports but football, and then
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you could have a football only school like U Can
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and that combination makes up for your eighth member. It's
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all up in the air, like so much in the NCUBLEA.
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I think they'll take their time. The fact that they
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have Gonzaga certainly makes the conference more attractive for basketball,
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even for football, because it will make them more attractive
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for the media deal, right, I mean, you got Gonzaga
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and you're gonna have some TV networks that want to
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broadcast your games.
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Is it at all possible for a Boise State football
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player to win the Heisman Trophy? Because that dude is unbelievable.
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He is unbelievable. He's uh, he's uh. I heard the
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comparison of Maurice Jones Drew, which I think is pretty good, powerful,
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but agile. He is fantastic. I believe he is on
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pace to break Barry Sanders record, and if he does that,
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it's gonna be hard to deny him. But you know what,
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what his toughest competition could be Travis Hunter doing something
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that we have never seen in the modern era. So
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it's hard to say that that Jane deserves it more
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than Hunter, who's playing at a high level on both
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sides of the ball.
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Yeah, and if Calorado keeps winning the way they are
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right now, then Hunter is going to get even more
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and more attention. How big of a blow did the
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Cougars twelve team playoff?
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Fantasy hopes take over the weekend of the.
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Knocked out flow.
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They had to be undefeated in order for them to
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get in that large birth ahead of an SEC or
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Big ten team, they had to be undefeated one. Even
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if they're eleven to one, they don't have the schedule
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to justify getting in ahead of you know, Georgia or whoever,
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Tennessee or Oregon.
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Yeah, they got blown out. It's not like they lost
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thirty eight thirty seven on a last second field goal, right.
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They got blown out. Now, Boise is in great position
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to get the group of five feted, and that would
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be terrific to see Ashton Jens you know, in that
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opening round game against Alabama or Texas.
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That would be fun. Yeah.
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I mean, they wouldn't win, but I'd still like to
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see those defenses try to try to corral that guy
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because he's in real Yeah.
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Are they three and one? Busies? Bugs? Three and one? Right?
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Is that right? Guys?
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Yep? So we lost that Oregon.
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Ashton genty is on pace to run for twenty five
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hundred yards.
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It's insane.
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And how many touchdowns thirteen by ma or quick some
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math yaka yeck he's on pace to run for twenty
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four touchdowns.
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Well, and the thing is he would have more yards
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except he only had eleven carriage to get to Portland.
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Stick because it was a blowout. He had like eleven
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carriages for one hundred and thirty yards and he didn't
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play half the game. Otherwise he would you'd add another
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one hundred and something to his total.
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Yea, it is.
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It is just incredible how good he is. And that's
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an interesting story too, right, because he could have gone
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anywhere in the transfer portal with nil money and he
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chose to stay. Boys.
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Sorry, it's thirty nine touchdowns, by the way, not twenty four.
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That he's on pace for thirty nine twenty five hundred yards.
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Oh yeah, If he rushes for forty touchdowns, still, he
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won't be the Heisman Trophy winner. All right, John, before
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you go, let's get to it. Congratulations on a hell
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of a win last week. I hate that you were right,
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but you were right. You're riding a two game winning
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streak looking for three inner row willners winner. The Wendelorean
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has emerged again, victorious out of his dark shadow from
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the twenty twenty three season and into the light of
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twenty twenty four.
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Who do you like this week?
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Buddy, I will take the Cow Golden Bears a host
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of ESPN Game Day for the first time ever.
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How about that? How about that?
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I'm actually shocked you're not going to that game. That's
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your neck of the woods and you're flying up here
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for you Dove Michigan.
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I didn't know, you know, I had no idea Cow
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was gonna be good this game, which is gonna be
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relevant when I made by players. I'm gonna go to
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Oregon Michigan State Friday night and then I'm coming up
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for Washington Michigan on Saturday. And the reason I want
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I'm gonna take Cal is actually because Justin Wilcox has
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coached very well against Mario Christobal. They all with Colt
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almost always gave Moregon trouble crystal Ball. It's just the
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way he plays just works with the way Wilcox plays.
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I think that's gonna be a very close game.
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Cow's getting ten points, you like, count the ten points
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against Miami double down. Yeah, they're building this. They're building
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this as Woke versus Coke Saturday, the old Catholics versus
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Convicts is now woke versus Coke.
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All Right, John, great.
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Stuff, and uh I'll shoot you a text, but we'll
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see you Saturday.
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Pregamer right bus shun all right man, John Wilner.
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Back to the Hawks, who got the Well, I was
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gonna say it to the job.
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It's funny because I kind of feel like you.
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They played well, they did play well, they lost, Like
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it's my emotions are just backwards.
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Man. We'll get to more Hawk talk.
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Humill En joins in the six pm hour coming up
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on ninety three three kJ RFM.
