Locker-room motivational speech (single speaker) urging players to adopt and maintain a high team standard. The speaker repeatedly emphasizes "the standard is the standard," appeals to accountability to teammates (named Xavier) and self, and frames competition in the Big East as requiring constant effort and no days off. Ends with a rallying call to action.
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If we keep working on improving and don't buy into anything outside this locker room, we have a chance to be a really good team. We could have been two weeks ago, a week ago. We could be a week from now or two weeks ago. I'm telling you right now. We could start rattling some off. We could become that team. I think everybody here knows it. Just in terms of the last couple days. Fellas, the one thing that I owe myself, I owe Xavier, I owe you, I owe this team, is this. It's the standard. It's the standard. I'm a passionate dude. I love the game. I want to win badly. Badly, like, keeps me up. I want to win. I want to have a group of guys that are getting better. I want to. I want to have the peace of mind. And we play the game hard in the right way. And the standard is the standard. The standard is the standard. Not everybody's going to like it all the time. That's not my job to please people. My job right here is to hold that standard right here and not ever, ever, ever give into it, regardless of who you are. And when you guys raise your level and you meet the standard, that's your best opportunity. That's you, you. Your best opportunity to play good is to meet that standard. This isn't easy. We all signed up for the Big east, right? We didn't sign up for like the mid major, right, where you can take a week off and not even know it. Here, you can never take a day off in the Big East. You can't. It brings out the best in everybody. The strong survive. Right, fellas? Good job. Let's. Let's roll. Let's get out.
