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This is Bill Connolly again. We are once again without Stephen Godfrey for the last week, for the final week.

He should be back. He sounds like he's nice and bored in Nashville and maybe becoming a hockey blogger if Twitter is an indication but I had an opportunity to bring in a couple of fun guest hosts here last week we talked to Stephen Gaither about all things

HPCU and the feedback to that was really good and I appreciate it that's a very

PAPN level topic when it comes to history and the mid-major dome and everything else it's a history and the mid-major dome and everything else.

It's a really fun topic and I thought the response was awesome.

This week, we're going in a different direction entirely.

I thought it would be a lot of fun to have

maybe the first coach I exchanged

emails with five years ago or something I can't remember for sure but it's quite possible

mani Diaz you are the first coach that I have interacted with on any major level

so thanks thanks for responding to emails way back then and thanks for coming on today.

God Bill, I can't believe you'd kiss and tell, you know.

I know.

But I appreciate the invite and hope I can be a suitable replacement for today's show.

Well, I think Godfrey is taller than either one of us, but otherwise I think you'll do just fine.

Yeah, I was trying to think, so this was probably 2011-ish maybe 2012 and Bruce

Feldman put out a piece on E-S-PN.com about he had I think you were at Texas at that point and he was talking about you

know this up-and-coming defensive coordinator who was using fancy metrics to

to measure success and whatnot and you at that point I think, I was at a point where I didn't really feel the need to talk to coaches,

or this is what I was telling myself.

Like I haven't completely developed my own voice,

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