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We have a lot of stuff to get to today. We're enjoying it because it's going to be

less of us talking out of our butts, which I know some people like that aspect of this, but we are in that part of the

preseason where we talk to players and assistant coaches and urban Meyer every

week now we usually get two position groups so we talk to the assistant for that position group and then the top three or four guys from that position group and we get urban mired every Monday in case you guys want to know our schedule.

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