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Bill Belichick postgame press conference after loss to UCF. #UNC
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Um yes. Um first of all it's you know
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good job by uh UCF today um Scott and u
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the team played well and certainly
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better than we did. So we had you know
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just too many problems out there um to
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be consistent turn the ball over
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penalties at the end of the half missed
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tackles. Um so a lot of things we need
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to do a better job of they were just
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better than us today.
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Hey Bill. Um, I'm curious out of Max
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when he came in there and then
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throughout the rest of the game, did you
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feel like he gave a better sense of a
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vertical offense for you guys? What did
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you what did you like out of him, I
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guess, and then and then on the vertical
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offense, what did you like out of that,
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especially?
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Yeah. Well, we'll take a look at the
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film and take a closer look at it.
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There's a lot of guys out there today. I
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think I could evaluate all of them.
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on the left front row here.
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Bill, when before Gio's injury, what are
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some of the things you guys like about
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progress that he's made in moving the
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offense, which has been a struggle? So,
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what are some of the things that you're
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seeing that are coming along that might
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be obvious to people who don't really
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see it like you do?
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Yeah, we scored points the last two
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weeks. We, you know, had trouble doing
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it today. So,
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are there any specifics that you like
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about what he's
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Yeah, look, offense is a team. Football
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is a team sport. It's 11 guys out there.
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It's not I'm talking about one guy. It's
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11 guys have to operate efficiently and
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times we've done that and times we
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haven't. Today wasn't one of our better
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ones.
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We're on the right.
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Yeah. Jeremiah with inside Carolina
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quick. Do you have a early word on Gio
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and and potentially?
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No, I mean we'll wait and see how it
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looks tomorrow. It's, you know, it's
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hard to evaluate injuries, you know, 5
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minutes after the game and see how
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things look tomorrow.
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Yeah. And then when it comes to, you
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know, in the game, you know, third
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down's kind of been a bit of a struggle
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this year. Then obviously, you know, not
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similar today. What do you think needs
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to, you know, change from that
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standpoint on, you know, kind of
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extending drives on third?
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Well, this good pass rushing team. We
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third and long was a problem with these
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guys for everybody. So, the situation we
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wanted to stay out of and when we were
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in it, it was hard. when we weren't, we
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had a little more success, but I mean
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this a good pass rushing team.
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Second roll in the middle.
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Yeah. Coach, um the players came in and
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said they felt like they weren't
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prepared outside of some missed tackles
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and execution. Do you feel like UCF
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presented anything differently
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surprising either offensively or
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defensively that kind of kept you guys a
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little bit off guard?
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No, they did a good job. I mean, they do
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a good job. They have multiple options
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on their plays, which is they executed
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them well. We had a few chances offense.
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Um, yeah. I mean, this is what this is
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what they do. You know, they're
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balanced. They, you know, they have good
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backs. Quarterbacks are involved. Get
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the ball to the receivers on the RPOS's.
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I mean, they're they're well balanced
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offense. Yeah. Well coached. They do a
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good job.
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Front row on the left. Uh,
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Bill, what did you see kind of maybe go
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wrong on the defensive side of the ball,
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especially with that late uh first half
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touchdown?
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Three penalties.
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Tony's going to miss the coverage and
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so yeah
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in the back on the right.
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Hi De Marcus Richardson Florida National
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News. This is the second nationally
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televised game for your team this
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season. What does your team have to do
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to be able to win these games?
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Yeah, we'll take each each game one week
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at a time and go out there and, you
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know, compete and, you know, do our best
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each week. That's what we're going to
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do.
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front row right here on the left.
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Shelby Swanson with the News and
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Observer. Will Hardy was just in here
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speaking to us and he said something
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along the lines of, you know, after this
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loss, this is a point where the team and
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the players can either come together or
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split apart. He feels like they're going
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to come together. Just as a coach, I'm
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curious, you know, again, obviously a
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lot of emotions probably in the locker
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room after this one. What do you have to
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do in the bye just to continue to uplift
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um the players?
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Yeah. Well, I said we'll take a look at
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not just this game, the first four weeks
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and address the areas that we feel like
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need to be improved the most and work on
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those and um you know do do what we feel
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like we can do to improve the team.
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Front row on the right.
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Bill, just off the top of your head here
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coming out of this one, what would you
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maybe underline as the most important
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things you want to try to address going
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by? Like what are sort of the top line
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items?
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Yeah. Well, fundamentals and, you know,
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basic execution certainly be near the
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top of the list. Situational football's
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you know, that'll be up there too
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on the left. Coach Ro,
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does the bye-week come at a good time
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for you guys get healthy and maybe if
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you have to if Gio can't code, you can
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maybe add some things for Max and maybe
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suit his skill set a little bit
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differently.
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Yeah. Whenever it comes, it comes. We,
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you know, schedule's a schedule. So when
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we when we're kind of time to play we'll
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play and we have extra time then we'll
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use the extra time benefit the team the
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best way we can.
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Do you think your team could use maybe a
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little bit of a pullback by week's
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always you know that's always a good
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opportunity to get some things done and
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you know take care of some bumps and
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bruises and you know work on some things
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we need to work on. Sure. That's always
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a good time to do that. the second row
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right in the middle of pitch.
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Andrew Jericho, Latavius Mur 247. On a
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kind of a different note, earlier in the
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week, you've mentioned a lot of respect,
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but coach Frost, what have you, what did
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you learn about him during his playing
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days and now seeing him grow as a head
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coach to kind of battle him out between
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you guys?
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Did I learn about him in his playing
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days?
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Yeah.
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Play defensive back for me at at the
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Jets.
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So, look, Scott's a smart guy. He works
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hard. I mean, he played quarterback in
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Nebraska, then he played special teams
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and defense at the Jets. So, he played
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in all three phases of the game within a
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very short period of time at a at a very
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high level, which I think says a lot for
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him, not both physically and and from a
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preparation and and um you know, ability
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to, you know, to do multiple things in
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the game, not just physically, but
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understand the game, assignments and all
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that. So, you know, that's that's what I
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know about him.
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kind of as a followup, you mentioned
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earlier that you guys shared
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similarities between the high number of
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transfers you guys have. How would you
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see that challenge continuing to still
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both do?
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Well, that that's all over. It ended a
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long time ago, so everybody is where
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they are right now and going forward.
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There's no more transfers this year.
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That's that's going to be at the end of
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the season.
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Second row on the right. Coach, uh, kind
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of bouncing off his question a little
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bit, you're you have the bye-week coming
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up. Do you also do sort of a reset now
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that your non-conference schedule is
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done? U, you still have the conference
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schedule ahead of you.
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I mean, look, we, you know, we we get
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ready for the games that are on the
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schedule. So, the ones that are coming
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up next, those are the ones we get ready
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for.
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Last one here, front left.
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Yeah.
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I guess just following up on something
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that you said earlier in the season that
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you figured it would take you about
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three to four games into the schedule to
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figure out what you had now that we're I
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guess about at that point four games in
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just what do you feel like you have in
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terms of just the team identity to
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assess at this point?
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Well, it's I mean it's still a work in
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progress. Um,
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and we'll continue to work through it.
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It's a good time now to kind of
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reevaluate, look back at all four games,
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not just the last one or the first one
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or some other one, and try to take take
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a look at it on a composite and,
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you know, see where we are on
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everything. Some things that we
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can do better, some things we probably
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need to move on from, some things we
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probably need to add and
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um, you know, maybe do in a little bit
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different direction. So, we'll talk
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about all that, evaluate it this week,
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and you know, see what see what lies in
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the weeks ahead.
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Thank you.