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It's Thursday. 

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The 22nd of September, it's 
officially fall. 

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I'm officially on the road to 
seasonal affective disorder as I

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think I woke up and it was like 
maybe 52 outside it's going to 

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be like 43 tomorrow. 
This is not funny, Mike. 

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I don't need laughter here. 
This is a serious serious thing.

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But yes, that we had our way 
like 95 degrees here in 

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Bloomington on Wednesday. 
And I think that might be the 

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last time we get above 80 until 
May perhaps so Not good. 

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But anyway, we're not here to 
talk about my problems with the 

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weather. 
We're here to talk about IU 

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football and we've got Mike 
Petrie joining us. 

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If you've been following the 
podcast for any length of time, 

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you've heard from Mike and Mike,
it's good to see you and hear 

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you again. 
How are you doing? 

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I'm doing well. 
And yeah, I think we're not here

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to talk about your problems with
whether we're here to talk about

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how you footballs problems of 
richest with the weather. 

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But over all of which there are 
are either many depending on who

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you ask or none and we should 
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problems at all and everything 
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So we'll see who's right on that
as we move into this game here, 

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but before we do that quickly, 
just a reminder that we are part

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I don't know if you saw this. 
But home-field just debuted 

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I think some interesting stuff 

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My brother went to Wake Forest 
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Yeah that that works out really 
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Well that's well. 

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I mean he was laying the 
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So I don't feel the Peril.com, 
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maybe while you're listening to 
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Now we don't have to just focus 

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on one thing. 
Anyway, Mike as we just 

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mentioned - of Cincinnati, Mike 
and I go way back. 

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To the the student Radio Days 
here at IU and Mike leave. 

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It's interesting. 
I was thinking about this. 

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I remember when we were in 
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a series then and it seemed kind
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know, back then all anybody paid
attention to were like the big 

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conferences and Cincinnati might
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division 2 team for all. 
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cam Cameron's teams were able to
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Dole Cincinnati in both of the 
games that they played. 

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If my memory serves me 
correctly, this you battle. 

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So you've had a long history 
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also with you see and, you know,
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think many people have much of a
memory of you see, prior to Luke

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fickle, doing what he's done 
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people, fortunately miss the 
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of the previous eras before that
what was your like, what was it 

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like kind of being around. 
Found the you see program, you 

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know kind of observing what they
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What were they like in for 
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Well it it was to put it bluntly
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The the football program would 
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rather liberally here. 
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ranked team in division. 
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in division one. 
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saw, I was just looking through,
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that was their athletic 
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They went back-to-back years. 
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one year went one night and one 
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Rutgers now which also shows how
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I guess. 
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Maybe and, you know, and the 
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people kind of have a feeling 
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basketball, the last 30 years, 
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always been there, but the 
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Abject disaster. 
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There was a year. 
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winds were two of the Winds. 
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because one was Eastern Kentucky
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was Northern Kentucky who was 
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reminiscent or I guess much like
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there was a very much. 
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everybody was very excited about
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to set the program back on the 
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entire freshman class was 
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So I mean just no matter what 
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time, they couldn't do it. 
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Nippert Stadium which is one of 
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I think they've done a lot of 
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During the 80s. 
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University of Cincinnati which 
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that stadium was instead playing
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stadium. 
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seat Stadium, heard, you know, 
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doesn't look very good when you 
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stadium. 
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I mean, Everything that could go
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Did go wrong. 
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they used the basketball 
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into a prominence and use that 
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they've basically, been coming 
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the odds, and against some 
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30 years. 
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you know, the Cincinnati program
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at this. 
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they deserve a great deal of 
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breaking through and making the 
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five team. 
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group of five and say, 
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the ACC, it kind of makes you 
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because those those things don't
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necessarily be that way. 
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the Big East for a pretty long 
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You know what a decade I yes or 
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decade and you know and they had
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Ranked Brian Kelly obviously was
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top 15 somewhat regularly. 
I think what they were even, you

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know, top five at one point 
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despite going to the Orange 
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they weirdly they feel like on 
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point even even with all of that
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think that they are probably not
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power. 
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think even Boise State probably 
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nation's darling to a certain 
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Dame are other non power, five 
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guess and are just don't have 
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them you mentioned, the Big East
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Cincinnati. 
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Oops. 
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pulls out three of the, I guess,
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Most Minute that the time, Big 
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says, oh well, we're just going 
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conference now and set the 
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at that point. 
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going to become a Power five 
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2024, 2025 whenever all that 
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gotten out early now, so it'll 
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But you know, as you talked 
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not the power 5 anymore. 
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kind of everybody else. 
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seeing if there's going to be 
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So every time they've made a big
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Thank King. 
Okay, well, this this is it we 

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finally arrived kind of the 
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again. 
They do seem to be kind of an 

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interesting incubator of 
coaches, which I think is a 

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fascinating thing about the 
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We mentioned. 
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Jones and Luke fickle seems like
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He'll go to a bigger program at 
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I don't know you've gone 13 and 
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I don't know exactly like what 
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waiting for, but it is a marked 
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head coach at you see it's And 
we're going to just forget the 

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Tommy tuberville exist. 
I think that's best for 

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everybody, but but it is it's 
fascinating that this has become

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a big launching off point and 
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I mean, you know, despite all of
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sorts of things, like this 
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more than a couple of years in a
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Minter left and you know that 
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reason for Or that I think the 
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with, is that I decided I was 
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I grew up, I was a big 
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My parents raised me correctly. 
They were graduates in 61, and 

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over Ohio State, who refused to 
play them in anything for 30 

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But you know, so there I was as 

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then I decided to come to 
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how the fortunes of both schools
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then. 
So if Indiana fans are looking 

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for a reason to someone to 
blame, that would probably be 

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nice. 
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that probably need to be blamed 
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really long. 
I'm gonna put you kind of like 

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two-thirds of the way back in 
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I'll put you in there. 
R. 

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Let's talk about this current 
Cincinnati team, you know, they 

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stumble in their first game 
against Arkansas, it wasn't a 

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bad loss, by any means, you're 
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they only lose by seven. 
They didn't play particularly 

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well in the game, but they still
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close. 
And, you know, then they blow 

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out Kennesaw State and then they
have kind of a weird game last 

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week at Miami of Ohio, they 
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They went Road. 
Comfortably, but maybe not as 

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comfortably as people might 
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I know, I certainly bet on 
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cover. 
So, that was, that was 

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disappointing to say the least. 
But, you know, obviously a 

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different team than last year. 
A lot of players from that team 

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are they're gone or there in the
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So what does this vintage of 
Cincinnati football have going 

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for it? 
You know what is it? 

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What are the primary things are 
the primary people that you 

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would say I you fans would be 
looking for in this game. 

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I think that what they have more
than anything is a culture and 

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the culture is that Luke fickle 
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Miami is always a weird one. 
You know that's that is Miami of

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Ohio Super Bowl. 
They are playing for. 

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I think the victreebel is the 
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West of the Allegheny Mountains 
it is you know a very historic, 

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right? 
Re but obviously one, that's 

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become very much one-sided to 
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Well, are we going to keep 

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playing this really do? 
We need to keep playing this 

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and, you know, they haven't they
haven't said that out loud but 

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you know there's enough murmurs 
of like How often do we have to 

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win this game, by 40 points? 
You know, that it becomes that 

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much more of a Super Bowl for 
Miami, right? 

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So that result I think is a 
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throw that out. 
Ultimately I you know from a 

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Personnel standpoint, I think 
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the team. 
As opposed to a mediocre or an 

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underperforming, Big Ten school.
I think the next two weeks are 

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going to be really interesting 
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that that Cincinnati is getting 
our nut of the Vintage that 

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Indiana is going to get 
physically, dominated. 

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I think, even when you saw last 
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Cincinnati team. 
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around and at least, you know, 
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probably longer than that, that 
was a team. 

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Indiana could play with ya in a 
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best. 
I think this year's Indiana team

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is better. 
I think this year's Cincinnati 

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team is obviously not quite to 
that level. but, It's an 

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execution thing that is going to
keep in the keep Cincinnati. 

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Well, ahead of Indiana at this 
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physically dominate Indiana. 
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that, in the end, I might be 
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more so than, you know, I think 
everybody kind of pins their 

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hopes to Nebraska Nebraska 
should honestly, just they've 

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got the caliber of athlete and a
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should be able to run Indiana 
off the off the field. 

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The fact that they don't is 
whether coach got fired, but, 

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you know it it's a game like 
this. 

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I think that Indiana will hang 
around. 

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A lot longer than people would 
expect. 

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Yeah, it's interesting because 
the, we know when the, when the 

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numbers came in on this game 
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I do think there's some value in
looking at that because it's a 

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lot of people think that numbers
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But it's a, it's normally a 
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perceived quality level of both 
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And you know, it started off at 
like I think Cincinnati was at 

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eight and a half Point favorite 
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18 and a half. 
It's and it's settled back down 

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now to wear it Cincinnati by 16 
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that's you know it's I mean it's
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more or less where the game kind
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14-point game last year. 
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the losses you could see the 
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that good. 
But I think your point is well 

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taken. 
Like if you look at the grading 

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of Cincinnati players so far on 
the season, Like they really 

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struggled against the 
athleticism of Arkansas. 

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They couldn't block, you know, 
they really couldn't tackle. 

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They really struggled in 
coverage against really Speedy 

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players. 
They played much better. 

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Obviously the last couple of 
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competition. 
If Indiana were to play well and

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to the level of their talent, 
you know, I think you're right. 

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I think they could stick with 
them. 

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I do Wonder though how well we 
still don't know how this IU 

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team will travel this year like 
literally Figuratively. 

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And, you know, it's going up 
against in Cincinnati team that 

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beat them soundly last year, 
although didn't blow them out, 

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you know, Cincinnati's not going
to be scared of playing a big 10

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team at least not Indiana, maybe
they'd be scared of playing 

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another Big Ten team, but but 
Indiana is not going to put a 

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lot of fear into them. 
And while Indiana certainly has 

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some SEC light type of talent, 
you know, whether that's players

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out of Data that they've 
recruited or players that have 

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transferred in from SEC or ACC 
programs. 

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It is one of those situations 
where they're facing, you know, 

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against the Cincinnati team that
that really does know how to 

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play well, and probably has 
recalibrated after that Arkansas

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game. 
So, I don't know. 

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We'll have to see how that goes,
as you know, the IU. 

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Certainly hasn't graded a 
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their games either. 
And I do think that, you know, 

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when you look at the way that 
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At least they are trending 
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still don't know. 
Indiana might be a good team 

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that just hasn't shown it yet or
they might be a little bit of 

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Fools Gold just in terms of what
they've been able to do against 

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the teams that they played. 
Which frankly hasn't been a 

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whole great deal thus far. 
So that's that's I think the 

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biggest question mark for me as 
we go into this game, is this 

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idea of you know how How does 
Indiana matchup against the team

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that knows exactly what it's 
wanting to do and overall has 

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certainly been able to do it on 
a pretty consistent basis, Mike 

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the you know the Indiana 
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against Illinois, they 
struggled. 

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But one against Western 
Kentucky, you know, the kind of 

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picking up on on that. 
If it's, you know, when you look

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at this Indiana, team's 
resilience and that's been the 

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word that Of people have talked 
about Tom Allen's talked about 

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it quite a bit in his press 
conferences. 

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We do you think belief is enough
coupled with the talent 

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Indiana's, got to really be able
to make a game of this and 

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potentially even walk in and 
win? 

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Or do you see that not really 
being something that bothers 

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Cincinnati after what they've 
been through the last couple of 

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years, I don't think that that 
bothers Cincinnati so much, but 

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what I think what Indiana has 
going for it is that this game 

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is a bigger opportunity for 
Indiana than it is for 

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Cincinnati. 
Especially you know, coming off 

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of last year, last year they 
came into Indiana, they were 

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looking to prove something they 
were playing a Big Ten team on 

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the road. 
It was a big 10 team that had 

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been knocked down a pig Maybe by
Iowa but was still, you know, 

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came in the year with very high 
expectations. 

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Now we are kind of just another 
game on Cincinnati schedule and 

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I think that that's one thing 
that Indiana has going for it 

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because this is an opportunity 
to kind of wake up everybody to 

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what to the fact that this year 
is different than last year. 

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And I think that some of that 
belief, some of that confidence,

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you know, is something that can 
build within a game and you get 

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to the second half of the game. 
And you've certainly seen many 

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opportunities where, again, if 
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game against Ohio, State or 
Michigan, and you know, 

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Indiana's hanging around but in 
hanging around in a game that 

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they don't necessarily belong in
This is the Cincinnati team that

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doesn't have that extra physical
level that, you know, that we're

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when Cincinnati or where 
Indiana's hanging around late in

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the game. 
They're not hanging on by their 

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fingernails against a physically
superior team. 

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Yeah. 
And I think that that's the 

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biggest advantage that that 
Indiana has. 

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Yeah, it's going to be 
interesting. 

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I mean, I and I am curious as 
much as I'm curious about what 

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Cincinnati looks like in this 
kind of A game like you said, 

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where they're, they're not going
to take Indiana as seriously as 

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probably the wrong word, but 
it's kind of the only word I can

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think of that, like the way they
took them last year. 

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You know Cincinnati coming in 
ranked fourth but probably still

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feeling like they needed to 
prove something on the national 

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stage. 
Indiana, everybody thought was 

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still good at that point last 
year, how right how quickly that

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turned around? 
But that is going to be an 

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interesting Factor. 
You know, you've watched this 

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Your team through three games so
far. 

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What has stuck out to you? 
Good or bad about the way that 

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they've played and the way that 
they've been in these games, I 

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think it's been that a lot of 
what has gone wrong is is 

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fixable, I think that's the only
optimistic take you. 

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Can you can have from the three 
games and I think that when 

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you're talking about the bare 
minimum of level of success, For

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a team, like Indiana in the Big 
Ten, which is the bare minimum 

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is get six wins. 
There's a path to that. 

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And I think they're going to 
have to steal a game or two that

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they don't really deserve to 
win, but I think that that's 

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possible. 
You know, they've gotten lucky 

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certainly to win the games that 
they've to win all the games 

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that they won, they've certainly
gotten themselves up to the 

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Cliff's Edge. 
Far more often than we'd like. 

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But I think that that does that 
winning those games, does it 

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gives you a certain sense of 
invincibility? 

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And I think that that is why 
especially this game, you know, 

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if you get to it, close to it to
where it's closed at the end, 

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you've got a shot because You 
can tell yourself whether it's 

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right or wrong. 
We've been here before we, you 

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know, if we're down 14 points at
the start of the fourth quarter,

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we've done that and it's a 
better opponent obviously and 

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they'll have to execute much 
more sharply and they'll have to

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play better to only be down, 14 
points at the beginning of the 

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fourth quarter, but all of those
things are things that they are 

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capable of doing. 
Yeah, now it's true. 

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I mean, it feels weird think 
about. 

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I you as, you know, 
underachieving or maybe just 

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not, not not not taking 
advantage of opportunities. 

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But it's like, you don't, if you
can come back and win at the 

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end, against Western, Kentucky 
or against Illinois. 

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Clearly, like there's something 
there that you can take 

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advantage of and maybe elevate 
your game in something like 

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this. 
It's just weird to me, maybe. 

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Well, weirds the wrong word, but
it is kind of its peculiar in a 

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way that I use to keep He woken 
up in the fourth quarter and 

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then that does concern me a bit 
because I think you can, you do 

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somewhat get away with that in a
home game against a mid-level 

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competition. 
But even with what they've lost 

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I think, you know, and the and 
even you can point to some of 

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the talent disparity and and, 
you know, Cincinnati not having 

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like perhaps better Talent 
necessarily from a ratings 

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perspective than I you. 
But that's it's a real concern. 

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If you're going on the road and 
facing a team that knows what 

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they're doing, When you're an 
Indiana team, that at least for 

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half of the game so far or half 
of each of the games, maybe has 

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shown that. 
It doesn't quite know what it's 

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doing. 
Yeah, there's a professionalism 

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that Luke fickle has brought to 
the, you see Team. 

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I think that the experience that
Indiana has an incoming bag. 

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I think is is counterbalanced by
the experience that you see has 

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in plain teams that it should be
and, you know, it I guess if 

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there's anything that the AAC 
has been good for for Cincinnati

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is that it's given them, a lot 
of experience on. 

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Here's what, here's how you put 
away in fear, you're sitting 

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here, you know, and here's what 
happens. 

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When here's what you do. 
When you're in a game that, you 

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know, with the team that you 
should be beating pretty 

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handily. 
And I think they probably feel 

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like they should beat Indiana 
handily. 

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But You know, there's the 
professionalism, that that Luke 

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fickle has brought, they're not 
going to take since take Indiana

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lightly, right? 
But it's not the level of 

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motivation they had. 
For, for the, for the IU fans, 

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that are heading down to nippert
for this game. 

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What advice would you give them 
anything? 

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They need to be? 
Keeping an eye out for or 

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anything. 
You would advise them to to get 

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into. 
Um, you know, the nippert 

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stadium is a really cool place 
to watch a game. 

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I think that they've refurbished
it and it is, you know, just a 

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really cool old stadium. 
I think it's been open since 

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since the 20s to be honest. 
And just, you know, to take in 

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the whole experience, they've 
made a much better experience 

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out of the whole game day around
around. 

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The Bearcats as pretty much 
everybody has over the last 20 

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years. 
It's become much more of a 

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production, but it used to be 
again, going back to the bad old

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days. 
Even when they got themselves 

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back into Nipper, it was get 
yourself to the, get yourself 

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into the stadium, get yourself 
out. 

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And hope that your car still has
four tires on it. 

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When you're leaving, you know, 
the area around nippert Stadium.

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Is much better in terms of just 
an overall overall experience 

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got it? 
Yeah. 

447
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The Cincinnati Zoo is nearby. 
I notice that's that's I don't 

448
00:28:13,400 --> 00:28:15,600
know if that's it. 
The William Howard Taft. 

449
00:28:15,600 --> 00:28:18,200
National Historic Site is 
nearby. 

450
00:28:18,200 --> 00:28:19,200
I'm not sure if these are 
things. 

451
00:28:19,200 --> 00:28:22,900
People should be going to. 
But with your, if you're going, 

452
00:28:23,000 --> 00:28:26,600
where are you stopping to eat or
drink before the game, where are

453
00:28:26,600 --> 00:28:33,300
you Get yourself some Skyline 
Chili. 

454
00:28:33,600 --> 00:28:38,400
Oh my God, it's really funny. 
Actually and and I remember I 

455
00:28:38,400 --> 00:28:41,900
sent you a kind of a thing for 
the getae which is also another 

456
00:28:41,900 --> 00:28:46,100
Cincinnati. 
Yes, kind of delicacy and the 

457
00:28:46,100 --> 00:28:50,900
recipe says it's not much to 
look at but trust me. 

458
00:28:50,900 --> 00:28:54,800
It tastes really good and I 
thought is there any Cincinnati 

459
00:28:54,800 --> 00:28:58,700
food specialty, that doesn't 
begin with that disclaimer it? 

460
00:28:58,900 --> 00:29:03,000
Look very good, but trust me, 
maybe maybe the beer which 

461
00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:05,000
probably doesn't count as a food
item. 

462
00:29:05,300 --> 00:29:09,400
But, yeah, that's wow. 
That's quite a, that's quite an 

463
00:29:09,400 --> 00:29:12,900
advertised it. 
Well, you know, it should be an 

464
00:29:12,900 --> 00:29:16,800
interesting game to say the 
least and I'm quite curious to 

465
00:29:16,800 --> 00:29:21,500
see how this plays out. 
I tend to think I kind of I'm 

466
00:29:21,500 --> 00:29:25,100
kind of in the same boat as you.
I get the feeling I you is going

467
00:29:25,100 --> 00:29:27,200
to stick around a bit. 
They might even have an early 

468
00:29:27,200 --> 00:29:31,000
lead. 
It does kind of feel like it's 

469
00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:34,000
got the Hallmarks of the game 
that I you could eventually get 

470
00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:37,900
kind of get ground down in, as 
Cincinnati, kind of figures out 

471
00:29:37,900 --> 00:29:40,100
what they need to do throughout 
the course of the game. 

472
00:29:40,900 --> 00:29:43,000
But nothing would surprise me in
this one, you know, I mean, I 

473
00:29:43,000 --> 00:29:46,400
could see, I could see how you 
getting blown out by 30. 

474
00:29:46,500 --> 00:29:48,700
I could also see them sticking 
around and, you know, having a 

475
00:29:48,700 --> 00:29:52,500
shot to win it at the end. 
It's, it's one of those. 

476
00:29:52,500 --> 00:29:56,800
It's a weird game to because a 
win in this game, kind of 

477
00:29:56,808 --> 00:29:58,600
completely transforms. 
Indiana. 

478
00:29:58,600 --> 00:30:01,100
See, And as you mentioned your 
kind of alluded to earlier 

479
00:30:01,100 --> 00:30:04,000
because at that point it's like 
why you gosh it's now you got 

480
00:30:05,100 --> 00:30:08,900
you got you know, Nebraska 
Marilyn Rutgers and Purdue and 

481
00:30:08,900 --> 00:30:12,600
you only need two wins out of 
that those four to get to bowl 

482
00:30:12,600 --> 00:30:15,100
eligibility. 
Whereas if you lose the game, 

483
00:30:15,100 --> 00:30:17,000
you need three wins out of that 
group. 

484
00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:20,800
And and, you know, with a couple
of those games being on the 

485
00:30:20,800 --> 00:30:24,400
road, it seems somewhat less 
likely given how Indiana 

486
00:30:24,400 --> 00:30:28,700
normally plays on the road? 
But yeah, I mean, it clearly 

487
00:30:28,800 --> 00:30:30,900
Cincinnati not going back to the
playoffs this year. 

488
00:30:30,900 --> 00:30:34,800
So I am interested to see how 
they perform, since they don't 

489
00:30:34,800 --> 00:30:38,200
have the, I mean they came in 
what rank fourth last year? 

490
00:30:38,200 --> 00:30:41,100
I think in that game, clearly, 
they knew they were playing for 

491
00:30:41,100 --> 00:30:43,100
something big. 
Maybe they don't feel like 

492
00:30:43,100 --> 00:30:44,900
they're playing for stepping 
quite as big because quite 

493
00:30:44,900 --> 00:30:49,300
frankly, they're not well, well,
yeah, not only, is there not the

494
00:30:49,300 --> 00:30:52,700
reward at the end? 
They are, you know, they're 

495
00:30:53,200 --> 00:30:57,900
there is no way they look at 
what it at playing Indiana, you 

496
00:30:57,900 --> 00:31:03,500
know in this As they did last 
year, you know, it's the way 

497
00:31:03,500 --> 00:31:07,600
that the decks again kind of 
going back to the same theme, I 

498
00:31:07,600 --> 00:31:11,500
am really glad that Cincinnati 
was able to make the playoff 

499
00:31:11,500 --> 00:31:14,300
plus here but it really would 
have been fitting if the fact 

500
00:31:14,300 --> 00:31:18,300
that's that Indiana tanks the 
way they did was the reason that

501
00:31:18,700 --> 00:31:22,500
Cincinnati did not get ya get 
into the playoff that really 

502
00:31:22,500 --> 00:31:27,900
would have kind of cemented 
Cincinnati's. 

503
00:31:28,500 --> 00:31:32,400
Well Well, earned gripe against 
the whole college football 

504
00:31:32,400 --> 00:31:34,400
establishment. 
I mean, hey, if you can't 

505
00:31:34,400 --> 00:31:37,000
schedule properly seven years in
advance and what are you even 

506
00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:39,300
doing right? 
Well, yeah, exactly. 

507
00:31:39,800 --> 00:31:42,500
Well Mike, anything else you'd 
like to touch on before we wrap 

508
00:31:42,500 --> 00:31:45,500
up? 
No, I think that covers it. 

509
00:31:45,500 --> 00:31:48,800
Everybody should check out my 
Twitter thread on on here. 

510
00:31:48,800 --> 00:31:52,700
Cincinnati though that I haven't
gotten blocked by nearly enough 

511
00:31:52,700 --> 00:31:54,900
people. 
So obviously not enough people 

512
00:31:54,900 --> 00:31:57,400
have read that. 
We definitely need to get Mike 

513
00:31:57,400 --> 00:31:58,700
blocked by as many of you as 
possible. 

514
00:31:58,800 --> 00:32:07,700
Sybil Mike, your Twitter account
is, I am th e, MD P, I'm the mdp

515
00:32:07,700 --> 00:32:14,400
and yes, he has a 13 tweet 
thread going about Cincinnati's 

516
00:32:14,400 --> 00:32:20,400
fight song that I highly highly 
recommend, and I think if you 

517
00:32:20,400 --> 00:32:24,200
get through all of that tweet at
Mike, he might record himself 

518
00:32:24,200 --> 00:32:28,200
singing the song and you can 
listen to that before you block 

519
00:32:28,200 --> 00:32:29,400
him. 
And then Everybody will be 

520
00:32:29,400 --> 00:32:31,700
happy. 
Well, right if you get me 

521
00:32:31,700 --> 00:32:33,800
singing, I will definitely get 
Block. 

522
00:32:33,800 --> 00:32:36,500
There you go. 
That tape that that will and I 

523
00:32:36,500 --> 00:32:42,100
will deserve it Mike Mike Petrie
once again joining us here in 

524
00:32:42,100 --> 00:32:43,900
Crimson cast. 
Mike always great to talk with 

525
00:32:43,900 --> 00:32:45,900
you. 
Good luck to you and thanks to 

526
00:32:45,900 --> 00:32:50,000
all you folks for listening in 
IU takes on Cincinnati on 

527
00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:54,800
National Television, 3:30 on 
ESPN2, we'll keep an eye out for

528
00:32:54,800 --> 00:32:57,900
that and be watching that and 
probably have some commentary 

529
00:32:57,900 --> 00:33:00,400
during the game and Definitely 
have come Terry coming up on 

530
00:33:00,400 --> 00:33:02,600
Sunday morning so be sure to 
tune back in for that. 

531
00:33:03,000 --> 00:33:05,700
Catch you folks on the flip 
side, bring back the Bison. 

532
00:33:05,800 --> 00:33:06,500
So long everybody.
