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Coach Freddie Kitchens press conference ahead of coaching #UNC in the Fenway Bowl
Dec 19, 2024
Coach Freddie Kitchens press conference ahead of coaching #UNC in the Fenway Bowl
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you know I want to compliment the guys
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on kind of um you know working to get
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better each and every day it really
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hasn't been about Connecticut at this
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point and uh you know we're just trying
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to do a good job of uh you know staying
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where our feet are and and uh getting
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better each and every uh every day
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collectively and individually and I
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think these guys have done a good job of
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kind of knocking out some of the
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distractions and and doing
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that how many guys that are
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know yeah I mean what you
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go ahead
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I all right how many guys that are in
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the portal right now are still
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practicing as well as uh there's uh a
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bunch of guys I don't know the exact
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number but everybody's out there
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practicing right now except for maybe
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one or two FR who do you have who do you
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have at offensive coordinator
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since uh we're collectively doing it as
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an offensive staff and uh you know
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Lonnie's kind of uh uh scripting and and
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getting this prepared for practice each
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and every day and who just to follow up
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on that who do you see calling plays in
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the bow game yeah I don't think we've
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really determined that yet we're just
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trying to again we're just trying to get
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better each and every day and and that
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really doesn't require a play caller U
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on Thursday week and a half before the
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game no Fredy I know you said it's not
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all about youon right now but in your
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initial study of them what is it that
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jumps out about them and what can be a
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challenge for you guys well I think uh
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you know it's more about us than
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anything this time of year especially um
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you know again I'll reiterate we're
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trying to just stay and and get better
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each and every day on whatever we're
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doing whether we're working on third
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down in general or first to second down
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play action uh goal line uh Red Zone it
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doesn't matter whatever the day of
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emphasis is that's what we're trying to
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do is get better Adam mentioned
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offensive coordinator is coach Tom still
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going to be part the defensive play yes
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yes Coach Collins uh nothing's really
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changed from an offensive or defensive
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staff or special team staff
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uh per se um all of our coaches are here
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except for chip um and of course we're
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going to miss chip but uh you know we'll
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make up for it what was the I guess kind
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of process of you know coming the in
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room you know obviously day after the
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state game you were names what was that
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process in those conversations yeah I
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think uh you know I don't really know
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what the process I didn't make that
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decision and uh you know I was just I'm
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here just to to serve Carolina and be
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the best version of myself I can be for
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us at this time what was the challenge
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for you that Sunday your named interim
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head coach you have to deal with the
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team what were some of those early
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challenges what was your initial message
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to them that you kind of tried to
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maintain throughout well I think uh the
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team for the most part uh they know me
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they understand me they know how I
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operate uh I'm kind of a straight
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shooter and I don't really pull any
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punches and and they know that that's
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what they were going to get uh the whole
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time and and really it's just a matter
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of the guys that may not know me as well
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getting to know me and and I think uh
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I've done a good job of allowing them to
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get to know me and they've done a good
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job of reciprocating as the search
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carried into um past two weeks and
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regardless what some speculation that
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was going on out there did it become
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increasingly difficult to kind of keep
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the kids focused on now when they didn't
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know who the coach was going to be and
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maybe thought one would would have been
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named a little bit sooner yeah I don't
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think that never came up really you know
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uh I think we've got a good group of
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kids uh they're good kids and also they
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they're good at the ability to you know
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stay where their feet are and and stay
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focused on what they're doing at that
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moment and they did a good job of that
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didn't hurt that finals fell in there
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too as far as game planning where is
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Coach belich come down on that well
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coach belich is really uh he's leaving
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it up to the staff right now but he's
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aware of everything that we do on each
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each and every day um he's aware of
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practice uh and things like that but but
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right now I think we're just going to
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finish the year out and then uh go from
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there what does the dep chart look like
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in the off of that field uh I think it's
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probably you take amarian out of the
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equation and and everything else you've
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gotten the rest of the
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Year Freddy do you have when you're
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talking about B check and um you know
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being aware of practice I guess keeping
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an eye on practices being out there when
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you can do you like report give him a
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practice report like daily or just go by
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his office and say like look here's what
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I got for like give him a breakdown like
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how does that work just with the sort
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sort of like relaying the information I
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guess yeah well coach belich and I are
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in in contact and we talked every uh
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talk every day and uh yeah I mean he
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asked questions I answered questions and
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uh you know so he's fully aware of
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everything dealing with this program uh
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since day one um so nothing's changed of
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that so how did the process play out
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with him naming you as the first
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publicly as assisant coach was some of
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those conversations and and what is your
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role going to be or do you know 100%
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what your
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well I think whatever my role is um will
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remain between coach belich and I and um
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you know when he gets ready to announce
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those things he'll do that and uh that's
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not for me to decide or announce he did
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he did say in Inu press conference that
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you were you going to be on the staff so
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if you can tell us kind of how that
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played out and why you want to be on the
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staff with him and just kind of take us
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into some of that well I've known coach
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belich for a while and um you know we've
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competed against each other when I was
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in Cleveland and even when I was in
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Arizona um so I think coach belich knows
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who I am and I know who he is certainly
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and um you know that's about all I have
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to say about that as far as how things
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happen and things like that that that's
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kind of a we keep that between ourselves
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does the par sales connection play in
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there too Freddy since you work for him
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bich worked for him like do you guys
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share common bond with with the part
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under the par sales treaty maybe well I
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think um uh ultimately I feel very
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fortunate on who I've had an opportunity
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to work for even going back to um you
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know Daryl Dicky Sylvester K coach
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parcel coach Savin uh Rick tricket um
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Ken wizen Hunt Bruce arens uh so you
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know I feel very fortunate on everybody
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that I've and you still have to produce
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and you have to perform uh with anybody
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you did and hopefully I did that for
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Coach barcel so if that helped me in any
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way so be it but I'm not sure what are
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your thoughts on him doing this with
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someone you've been in the NFL you're in
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college and there are there were bigger
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differences before now there aren't as
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many difference as what you thought
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about a guy who's experienced what he
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has now embarking on this kind of
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challenge well I think um you know again
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that's that's a question for him to
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answer it's not for me to answer but um
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you know I love the fact that he wanted
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to come to Carolina I love Carolina I
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want what's best for Carolina and I know
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right now at this moment in time uh
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coach B's best for Carolina
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was there shock for you at all Freddy
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like this thing shocked a lot of people
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um you know especially when they first
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heard it like you know come on really
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yeah were you stun I don't think I think
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the longer you stay in this business the
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the least amount you be shocked but no
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not at all coach bel's a ball coach and
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um you know I'm feel very fortunate to
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to be able to extend and and work here
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at Carolina for him and and for the
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people at Carolina and at the end of the
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day um you know he's a ball coach and
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and I enjoy working for ball coaches and
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just to follow up on that is that
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something that you yourself have
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experienced coming back from the NFL
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like has you know has coming back to
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college I don't know refreshed you
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reinvigorated you like is that something
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that you have found since you spent all
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that time in the NFL well I think um on
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a personal level you know I got into
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this business uh for um the reason why I
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got into this business was because of
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some of the biggest impacts in my life
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were my college football coaches and uh
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kind of lost track of that a little bit
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in the NFL for after 16 years and I had
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the opportunity with my daughters going
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to college and and the family life
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really not being the same in college
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football and in the NFL um you know it
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was a good opportunity for us to decide
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what we wanted to do my wife and I so uh
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we decided to give College a try and U
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and I realized why I enjoyed college
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football so much not to say I didn't
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enjoy the NFL football but um you know I
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if I can impact a kid from 18 to 22 in a
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positive manner I think that's worth it
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so uh the same as as people did for me
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yeah youve talked about of course as a
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staff you guys are doing a lot
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collectively you know in preparation not
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not even just for you but just
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individually I guess how different for
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you has it been you know overseeing
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pretty much you know everything and just
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taking a broader view as opposed to
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during the season be kind of more on
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your
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position well I think uh you know of
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course it's a different role and a
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different job uh description and my
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responsibilities change but at the end
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of the day um you know however I factor
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in offensively or defensively or or
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overall scheme of things uh really it's
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just to put try to put the player in the
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best position to be successful uh
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whether that be a guys as a position
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coach a coordinator a head coach it
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doesn't matter you're still trying to
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just put them in the best position uh to
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be successful how you seen some of the
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guys that you know and again I know
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several guys are still around what they
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might be B you know whatever obious seen
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some of the guys that know they kind of
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will have an increased rep count how
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different do they see the RS maybe some
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of the money backs like you mentioned
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like how different have they come of
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approach that well I think uh you know
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we try to create these practices to be
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very competitive and uh I think um you
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know when you stay where your feet are
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you're trying to get better and you try
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to create
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competition um I think that's always a
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good thing you see some people thrive
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with competition and some people don't
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and you know we'd rather find out about
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it on the practice field than on game
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day how does the Playbook Chang from the
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last couple of games
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to I think uh you know I don't know I
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don't know we will We I'm not going to
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sit here and give away like plays and
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stuff we're working on and stuff like
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that I mean you have to go to the game
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Saturday next Saturday we got a lot of
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trick plays for them okay just
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kidding did you uh even before doll Che
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about you notice college game was Waring
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into what the NFL was like maybe 10 or
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15 years ago uh definitely I think um
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you know anytime you you
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include uh the acquisition of players
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people are going to draw similarities to
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the National Football League and um you
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know that's part of our job description
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now in college football is player
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acquisition um retention uh terms that
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really have not been used in college
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football before uh and of course that
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all started with the um I don't know the
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history behind it but that all started
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with the
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nil um era and all that kind of stuff so
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I think there's definitely some some
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U some similarities uh I don't know how
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much these guys have to go to school
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these guys getting good grades are
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important to these guys at least our
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guys and uh you know so there's still
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things that these guys have to think
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about and worry about that National
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Football League players do not but uh at
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the end of the day uh there's some
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similarities from a the standpoint of
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player retention and and acquisition I
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know you talked about the players having
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their feet on the ground but when the
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you know Bel H was announced is that was
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there a buzz about the locker room could
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you feel the excitement for the
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opportunity front well I think um you
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know anytime you have a new beginning
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there's going to be excitement
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but the excitement uh turning into a
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good thing is up to the individual
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player which goes back to staying where
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your feet are and trying to get better
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each and every day on whatever you're
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doing whether it's in math or or geology
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I went to a geology class the other day
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just to check on some guys so it's um
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you know it's all it all goes back to
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that I mean the the excitement ends
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after a while for the player and it
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becomes about the work what kind of work
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do they want to put in what who do they
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want to be as a player who do they want
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to be as a team so ultimately all that
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is like things that they can't control
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and we're try to rely on things that we
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can control rather than that did you
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learn anything in the geology class I
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did a couple of things can't repeat I
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let the geology Professor talk about
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that classes are out I mean you can
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repeat it yeah well I don't know we may
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still have some guys waiting for
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grades and Al also just kind of going
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off that too um maybe it's presumptuous
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to Phill Bel R when to give him coaching
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advice but if you were to kind of part
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some Wis someone who's come back from to
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go back to college recently is there
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anything that stands out to you like
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keep in mind yeah I think you're right
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with your comment I'm not going to give
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him advice I'm going to try to soak in
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all I can from him and uh be a better
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Coach because of it Fredy I I assume
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since you became the interim and you're
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making more speeches to the group
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collectively like what is what has been
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your general message just to these guys
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over the last couple days or weeks and
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how do you expect them how do you expect
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them to play when we hit the balls well
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um I expect them to play well and
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hopefully they expect themselves to play
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well and that's how they're preparing to
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play well um if not they shouldn't be
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out there and uh every time we go on the
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field we should be preparing ourselves
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to play well uh but goes along with that
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is you got to prepare yourself to
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practice well and uh before you can do
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anything exceptional on game day you
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have to do it during the week um and and
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again it goes back to I know I'm being
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redundant here but just stay with what
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whatever you're doing right there and
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try to get better whether it's in the
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weight room or on the practice field in
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the classroom it doesn't matter just
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wherever you're at stay where you're at
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while you're in the interim role right
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now have you had much to do with the
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recruiting or portal stuff since coach
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Bel was HED and if so have you seen like
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a significant change in how kids View
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North Carolina or the interest they have
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because coach bich now in that role yeah
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I don't I don't want to get too much
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specifics about how I view or we View
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um the players that we're actually
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recruiting but yes I think uh college
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football coaches are are always
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recruiting we're always coaching uh
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we're always talking to our players and
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trying to trying to create a better
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environment for them uh individually as
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a student athlete and um you know put
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them in the best position to win and are
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you if you are involved in communicating
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with these kids right now are you
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hearing a different kind of response and
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excitement from them about how they
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North Carolina right now because of
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Coach bich yeah I think uh anytime uh
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coach bich talks to someone on the phone
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uh whether it be a recruit a recruit's
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parent uh or anything dealing with that
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that potential athlete uh for us there's
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definitely an excitement and um you know
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so so anybody's uh anybody wants to come
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come on what say to you personally just
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the most about this new
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chapter um
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say that again say one time just new
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chap what excites you the most well it
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excites me that we get to line up uh
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when we come back Sunday from giving
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them a couple days off here uh that we
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have the opportunity to get better like
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it's like every other day um the kids
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get a chance to put their best foot
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forward each and every day um and then
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next Saturday we get to go out and and
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try to see if we've gotten better um so
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that's the I'm a short-term Vision kind
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of guy right now and my job right now my
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role right now is just to make sure uh I
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can do everything in my power and the
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rest of the coaches do everything in
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their power to get this team ready to
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play next Saturday so that's really the
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only thing we're focused on right now
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it's not setting a next chapter or
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anything like that it's just really
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staying literally whatever we're doing
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that day to get better just on the
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upcoming game obviously you know you
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have your opt outs with you know a
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player like Maran but what are you
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saying if anything just particular
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advice to guys like uh JJ Jones for
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instance who are playing this B game
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really want to use it um to elevate you
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drop St again prepare well go play well
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that's all we ask you know it's it's uh
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prepare well prepare like uh that's the
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only thing on your mind at that moment
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and then go and put that on the field on
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game day and that's really the only
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thing they can control they can't
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control uh right now they can't control
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what they run in April at the the with
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the 40- yard dash they can only control
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what's on tape because ultimately at the
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end of the day the NFL people they're
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going to watch what's on tape they're
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not going I mean they're going all worry
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about the stopwatches and stuff like
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that in April but uh at the end of the
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day it's always going to go back always
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going to go back to what they put on
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tape to the point uh this new regime
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coach Bel Michael Lombard talked about
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this potentially being a football
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Factory and if you want to go to the
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next level you play here how much do
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does you guys experience at that level
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play into um you know what you're
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teaching these kids right now and uh you
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know potentially guys that want to come
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here I think uh for any potential
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student athlete for the University of
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North Carolina would be asinine for them
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not to consider and want to come to the
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University of North Carolina I mean what
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are you looking for is what I would ask
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um the preparation and get you ready to
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play at the next level if that's a goal
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of yours then we should be at the top of
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anybody's list so uh I think for them to
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come in and and to be in a uh a weake
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program that's uh that they're going to
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continue in the NFL we're going to have
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a professional um weight program we're
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going to have a Professional
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Organization how it's run how we
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practice everything dealing with the
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football side of things is going to be
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uh run like the NFL so if you want to
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prepare like an NFL player come to North
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Carolina and then secondly uh have you
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been to fway park and what is it going
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to be like for you football I have been
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to finway park just not inside so uh
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when my daughter was visiting uh
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different schools and and things like
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that um we we went to Boston and and
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toured three or four schools up there in
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that Boston area and uh so I have been
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to Fenway Park walked beside Fenway Park
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they just wouldn't let us in we didn't
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have a
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ticket I know one thing you said earlier
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was it's pretty much everybody still
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there except like one or two guys I
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guess as far as players that are in the
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portal that are playing on next week how
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many meetings did you kind of have to
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set up to you know kind of check this
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you know who's still
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around yeah I think uh you know our guys
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are very responsible from the standpoint
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they let us know if they're thinking
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about doing something or they actually
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got in the portal or whatever and then
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uh when they saw who the coach was they
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immediately got out so that's a
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testament to them as well as coach
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belich um but yeah I mean there's they
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they show up to practice every day
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that's all we need to know what's the I
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hope that answer your question I'm not
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trying to avoid it it's just I don't
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really know how to answer that question
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what's the practice schedule Ben since
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exam are you going every day up until
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the PO game or what no we've been going
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uh you know up until this week they had
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finals and uh we we took that in
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consideration and things like that with
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our practicing but but really it's uh
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it's been probably every other day I
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guess and then we're going to give them
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a two week uh two-day vacation kind of
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come back Sunday uh we felt like it was
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was important for them to go home and
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spend some time with their family before
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we went to Boston so all Friday and
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Saturday sir all Friday and Saturday uh
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yes sir so what is the itinerary when
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they come back what's your travel
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itinerary going up there um you know
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what I'm not there yet I I literally
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practice what I preach and I'm staying
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where my day is or uh where my feet is
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and and uh I'll worry about that
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tomorrow I'm not really sure yet Focus
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go ahead goad focusing on the shortterm
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I mean if you're if you're asking when
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we're leaving to go I think of gener
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Terr when you here when you go up to
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Boston yeah we leave I think we leave
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Wednesday and and uh Tuesday see I told
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you like I'm on Thursday so we leave
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Tuesday and uh yeah and we'll be up
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there through Saturday you mentioned
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focusing on the the short term right and
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the whole Practice season always feel
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like unique situation because it's for
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so much on classes they're focusing on
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one game opportunity you want to win the
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game against uton obviously but what's
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like the other Big Goal you find the
20:59
team focusing in on in this unique
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stretch of the practices the big goal
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and the only goal is to get better each
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and every day and I know I'm kind of
21:08
being redundant in saying that but
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that's truly the only goal is to get
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better each and every day and then we
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show up next Saturday and see if it's
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good enough and uh yes of course we w
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win the game or we wouldn't be playing
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the game in your history do you find
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that this is a time when let's say young
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players can really take in that step and
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apply what they've learned this season
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100% like a lot of these guys that are
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getting reps now in these last couple of
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weeks haven't gotten too many reps
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during the course of the year uh
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especially the ones that have been red
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shirted per se um so yeah it's a big
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opportunity for them it's a big
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opportunity for them to show what they
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can do it's a big opportunity for our
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seniors to get ready for the draft and
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put their best foot forward um so
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there's a big opportunity for
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everybody Fred you can't um talk to
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anybody else but m brown is such a
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presence of this University the two St
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and he was different from terms of
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business personality right difficult was
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it for you when all that came well um
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you know I would just say this Coach
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Brown has been a staple here at the
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University of North Carolina has done a
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tremendous job um as far as difficult
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for me you know I came back to college
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football for the kid that I'm coaching
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whatever kid that is and the impact that
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I have on that individual kid and um so
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you know it was a big task for us to
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remain physically there and Visually
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there for the kid um because they lost
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their coach too and and a lot of people
22:43
tend to forget that I mean they lost
22:45
their coach so uh you know I think more
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more than just about me or our staff
22:52
it's more about the kids at that point
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what were the different reactions the
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range of reaction
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yeah I don't I I'll let them react to
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however they want to when they talk to
23:03
the media you know I'm not going to
23:04
speak for them or anything like that I
23:06
can just tell you about
23:07
me the when this thing gets fully set up
23:11
here um with what it sounds like the
23:13
vision from from Bill and lardi is with
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um you know having the like the front
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office side and almost the coaching side
23:21
do you think just generally do you think
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you will have to recruit less because
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you'll be coaching more and they got all
23:29
these other like people there doing the
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recruiting is that how you sort of
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Envision like yeah I don't know I don't
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know uh I don't know necessarily that
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but I do know that uh we will work
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tirelessly uh on both aspects of things
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the coaching side and the player
23:44
acquisition or recruiting or whatever
23:46
you want to call it um and at the end of
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the day this is a people business
23:50
whether you're in a National Football
23:51
League or or in college football it's
23:53
about you know trying to get the best
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out of this individual to put his best
23:57
foot forward make became the best player
23:59
possible and best student possible and
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best person possible you know and and uh
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so I can only say that it will be um the
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work will be tirelessly involved to get
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us to that point whatever the setup is
24:14
good time for one more when you when you
24:15
heard the vision you know that's another
24:18
thing that sort of caught people's you
24:19
know attention and Imagination like w
24:21
it's kind of a cool setup of how to
24:23
approach things on the college level
24:25
like when you have heard the vision laid
24:27
out what you thought about it well I
24:30
think uh again it's it's not like any
24:32
other situation that uh we've been in at
24:36
times it's it still goes back to the
24:38
same thing as far as making the best
24:40
decision at that moment on what kids you
24:42
want what kids you want to recruit and
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it's got to be reciprocated so then we
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get to that point we acquire the best
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talent we can the best players we can
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and then we go coach them so that hasn't
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changed all right thank you k