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00:00All right, Kira Luck, go ahead.
00:03Hey, Coach, I just wanted to know how you're dealing with the excitement and the nerves
00:10for tomorrow and, you know, trying to keep your guys poised and just, you know, focused
00:15on the game and not focused on the excitement surrounding it.
00:18Yeah, Kira, we're trying to get so we practice the same way every day.
00:23I told the guys that this is a national game.
00:26It gets a lot of attention.
00:28Next week we'll be playing Western Carolina.
00:30It won't get near as much attention.
00:33But for us to be the program we want to be next Tuesday's practice should be like this
00:37Tuesday's practice.
00:39That's who you've got to become.
00:40You've got to become a team that gets better every day and works hard to get better.
00:45And the other thing in this game, the pressure is really on Notre Dame.
00:49This is a game that people don't expect us to win.
00:53They're wondering if we can hang in there.
00:54So I told the guys, give it your best shot.
00:59It's a chance for us to find out who we are against a national team.
01:04If we're not where we need to be, we understand we got a lot of work to do and we'll keep
01:07working to get there.
01:08And then we'll have another shot at a national game with a top 10 team with Miami in a couple
01:12of weeks.
01:14But don't go in there uptight and then not play well and then look back and regret it.
01:24Go have fun.
01:25This is what you play for.
01:27This should be fun.
01:28This should be a game of excitement and joy.
01:32You've got a national TV audience watching you.
01:35You've got a great opponent.
01:37You come to places to play games like this.
01:41So I want our guys to embrace these games and have fun with these games and be excited
01:45about these games and go compete every play.
01:50And I'm excited to see where we are.
01:53So these are not the ones you get uptight about.
01:56The ones you get uptight about are when you're supposed to win and like Florida State, we
02:01go down there and lay an egg and that one hurts you.
02:06But this one, it's a fun game for us to go throw everything we've got at them and see
02:12where we are.
02:13Thank you, Coach.
02:14Thank you.
02:15Let's swing back over to Andrew Jones.