00:00A lot of people thought you guys would be good.
00:17Did you expect this though, coach?
00:21You know, I don't know.
00:22I mean, no one's ever kind of gone into a power conference and started 5-0 in the league,
00:28so I can't say I expected it, but I did think we had a team that, we had a lot of guys returning
00:33off of last year's 11-win team, and, you know, we have a good team culture.
00:38They believe in each other.
00:39They love playing together, and they just kind of, they know how to win, and so we really
00:43felt like we had a team that would compete, and, you know, even in year one.
00:47Now, we didn't really know what that would look like, and, you know, they've just gone
00:50out week after week and played really well, and, you know, like I said, I don't think
00:55anybody told our guys we weren't supposed to be contending.
00:58You know, you mentioned the transition into the ACC, and I know y'all played BC in a bowl
01:03game last year, so you kind of got a taste of that, but is the, was the transition about
01:09what you expected from a talent perspective?
01:12Did you notice a big talent weight class that you kind of went up in?
01:16Yeah, I mean, we did play BC in a bowl game last year.
01:20You know, we played TCU in Oklahoma last year.
01:22We played Maryland and TCU the year before.
01:24We've played power conferences, you know, a couple times a year a lot lately, and so
01:31we knew what we were getting into.
01:32I think the adjustment is just week in, week out.
01:36You know, where you play ten straight power four level conference games, like since week
01:41three all the way through the end of the season, it's the same every week, and so that's the
01:46real challenge is the week in, week out, the depth, the physicality.
01:49It's not like you play a couple really good teams, and then you get a couple easy ones.
01:53Every week, you've got to show up, and you've got to play well, or you're going to get beat,
01:57and so I think that's the part we weren't sure of how would we handle that, and you
02:02know, seven games into that stretch, we've handled it really well.
02:05Now we've got to finish.
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