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“It’s a hard time of year for everybody, players, coaches, the whole nine yards,” said Clemson coach Brad Brownell, a member of the National Association of Basketball Coaches committee working on the issue.

"Leader, cheerleader, athletic, the whole nine yards," he said.

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I do joke that we’ve all become Shakers, but nobody is trying to actually go the whole nine yards and move up to Sabbathday Lake in Maine.

“We can’t wait to go the whole nine yards and see how things turn out.”

Washington’s football Team is so complete that they Go the whole nine yards.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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