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Speaker 1: Welcome inlakeg is live it a Sunday night, July seventeenth year,

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Speaker 1: O Lord, twenty twenty two. It's only right if you

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Speaker 1: should play it the way that you feel it. Listen

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Speaker 1: carefully to the sound. It's Fleetwood mac in nineteen seventy seven,

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Speaker 1: as it turns out, singing about college football and NIL.

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Speaker 1: We will discuss momentarily. Jampacked Hiatapa jubilant and warm, downtown Nashville, Tennessee.

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Speaker 1: I'm headed out of here about the time I say

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Speaker 1: goodbye tonight and headed to Atlanta for SEC Media. DA's

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Speaker 1: will be live there Monday and Tuesday and Wednesday and Thursday,

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Speaker 1: so make sure you check the channel because we're not

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Speaker 1: starting at our normal start time. But that's in the future. Tonight.

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Speaker 1: There are some things how that we can look out

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Speaker 1: on the NIL horizon a little bit. It could be brewing,

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Speaker 1: and they could be troublesome, and it may not be

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Speaker 1: where your attention has been directed by the casual crowd

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Speaker 1: out there. So day tuned, we're going to dive into

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Speaker 1: that in just a little bit. Is it's an opportunity

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Speaker 1: for me to share some of the things that I've

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Speaker 1: heard over the past few months speaking of hearing some things.

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Speaker 1: What's going on with Georgia recruiting, even today, what's going

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Speaker 1: on with Georgia recruiting. We will discuss that. Chapter twenty

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Speaker 1: five of Bold Predictions is upon us. And also Mike

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Speaker 1: Gundy just choosing to speak for pretty much every one

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Speaker 1: of us. Not a headline I thought I'd be reading tonight,

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Speaker 1: but there it is. We are happy to have you

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Speaker 1: with us. They're watching in Harper's Ferry West, Virginia is

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Speaker 1: Mere Turkey. They've asked for a shout out our friends

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Speaker 1: in Turkey for about a month, got it to him finally. Naples, Florida, Joplin, Missouri.

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Speaker 1: What we're jam packed. We're going to be jam packed

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Speaker 1: all week. We opened the Late Kick store the other

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Speaker 1: day and we had to close it in like twenty

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Speaker 1: going to reopen it will happen eminently. And also several

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Speaker 1: of you, dozens of you reached out about a family

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Speaker 1: I told you we needed to help the other night.

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Speaker 1: We no longer need to help that family. They've hit

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Speaker 1: that goal, and so I knew you'd come through. I

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Speaker 1: appreciate that we don't do that very often, but I

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Speaker 1: and we did so. From them threw me to you.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for that. Let's dive into the show tonight.

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Speaker 1: We got a growing issue we need to talk about.

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Speaker 1: So I think everyone's got an opinion on NIL. Now

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Speaker 1: it could be wide and range. It could be that

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Speaker 1: you like it, you don't like it. But there's a

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Speaker 1: lot of stuff that we need to skip past tonight.

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Speaker 1: So I'm not here to litigate NIL. I'm not here

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Speaker 1: to talk about my opinion about what I do and

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Speaker 1: don't like about it. Because I think we got some

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Speaker 1: trouble brewing here, but I don't think it's obvious, So

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Speaker 1: let's skip past the whole pros and cons. I mean,

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Speaker 1: the cons are, yeah, people are out there breaking the rules.

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Speaker 1: They're using it as a recruiting inducement. Cool, but that

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Speaker 1: didn't break in the last forty eight hours. If we

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Speaker 1: knew that Thursday, we know it today. And the same thing.

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Speaker 1: On the other side, there are obvious pros to NIL.

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Speaker 1: In fact, when you do it right, vast majority of

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Speaker 1: get labeled as being anti NIL. Yeah, players can finally

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Speaker 1: their own Like, yes, that's a good thing. Let's get

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Speaker 1: past all that, though there are some things popping up.

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Speaker 1: This is the most valuable time of year for me

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Speaker 1: football operations, guys recruiting coordinators as I possibly can about

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Speaker 1: this very issue. And what I've found is interesting, and

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Speaker 1: not so much as they see it through NIL itself.

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Speaker 1: It's meant to be very much a zoomed out, fifty

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Speaker 1: When you talk to coaches, there are very different camps.

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Speaker 1: programs that really aren't rooted in anything guaranteed. Now, you

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Speaker 1: How does this affect college football though, because a lot

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Speaker 1: of folks have a problem in general. What I'm talking

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Speaker 1: about if you find out a kid's being promised something

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Speaker 1: You want to transfer? That looks bad? On you, not us.

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Speaker 1: you want to know how it's going to get rectified? Right, Well,

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Speaker 1: That's easy. What do I mean by that? Well, right now,

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Speaker 1: seventeen year old kids are not equipped to negotiate contracts.

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Speaker 1: As it turns out, a lot of folks are representing them.

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Speaker 1: They're not equipped, and they're signing their names on papers

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Speaker 1: And on the other side, you got folks licking their

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Speaker 1: saying got them, got them? Well do you? Because the

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Speaker 1: quickest way to fracture a locker room is not a

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Speaker 1: and that's going to happen. It's no guess. This is

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Speaker 1: not a matter of if, it's a matter of when,

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Speaker 1: because this practice is too frequently being put into place

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Speaker 1: across the landscape of major college football recruiting because a

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Speaker 1: lot of folks scrambled when NIL got here. Some folks

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Speaker 1: taking advantage of some kids that don't know the difference.

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Speaker 1: And you get them on campus whereas you otherwise would

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Speaker 1: And they're not there for an emotional attachment reason. They're

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Speaker 1: there for a transactional reason. You promised them more than

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Speaker 1: couldn't talk about on the record. This is the NIL era.

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Speaker 1: We can talk about it. How do you fix it?

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Speaker 1: Because this sounds like a problem right there needs to

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Speaker 1: be fixed. A lot of kids being victimized out there

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Speaker 1: imagine if I were running paid state this way and

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Speaker 1: we brought a linebacker in and that kid it's either

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Speaker 1: qualifiers on that that once I get onto page seventeen

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Speaker 1: a nine syllable word. I don't even know what that means.

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Speaker 1: My mom said it was okay to sign. Well, your

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Speaker 1: mom's never negotiated a talent contract, has she no? Cause

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Speaker 1: But she entered into it. What's going to happen is

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Speaker 1: not going to go over well because everyone in that transaction,

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Speaker 1: Really just means you put a bunch of language in

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Speaker 1: and you trick them into signing it because what else

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Speaker 1: haven't burned their transfer yet. They'll come, they'll find out

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Speaker 1: what the real deal is. They'll leave and they'll talk,

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Speaker 1: and some of them are already doing it. Infinitely more

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Speaker 1: you'll see reputations start to develop around certain programs that

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Speaker 1: you of Management, for example, is out there offering really

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Speaker 1: under his five and a half wins. I'm hammering that

428
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Speaker 1: over with confidence. In fact, my bold prediction is if

429
00:20:59,840 --> 00:21:03,639
Speaker 1: the line was seven, I'd still take the over. Well,

430
00:21:03,680 --> 00:21:05,720
Speaker 1: then that gives us something to chew on here, and

431
00:21:05,720 --> 00:21:08,600
Speaker 1: he kept going talking about the personnel there. This team

432
00:21:08,680 --> 00:21:10,600
Speaker 1: is one of our pop candidates. We haven't done our

433
00:21:10,840 --> 00:21:13,760
Speaker 1: pop preview yet, which in our world stands for proof

434
00:21:13,800 --> 00:21:17,000
Speaker 1: of performance, but in lake kick terminologies means a team

435
00:21:17,040 --> 00:21:19,879
Speaker 1: that could be a firecracker team this year. It's because

436
00:21:19,880 --> 00:21:22,320
Speaker 1: if there are a couple of things that happened for them.

437
00:21:22,760 --> 00:21:24,640
Speaker 1: It's kind of like the old coke bottle. It could

438
00:21:24,640 --> 00:21:27,000
Speaker 1: be flat or it could be shaken up and ready

439
00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:28,920
Speaker 1: to go all over the place, and you don't really

440
00:21:28,920 --> 00:21:32,679
Speaker 1: know till you twist the top. West Virginia, man, they

441
00:21:32,680 --> 00:21:34,320
Speaker 1: could be fizzed up, they could be ready to go.

442
00:21:34,880 --> 00:21:37,600
Speaker 1: They won six games last year. A lot's changed, though,

443
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Speaker 1: So if you were to crack open a preview magazine

444
00:21:40,080 --> 00:21:42,600
Speaker 1: I imagine they're talking about how unproven they are in

445
00:21:42,640 --> 00:21:45,800
Speaker 1: the secondary, which they are, and maybe even quarterback JT.

446
00:21:45,920 --> 00:21:47,720
Speaker 1: Daniels has come in there. So that's one of the

447
00:21:47,720 --> 00:21:50,800
Speaker 1: biggest transfers in the quarterback market that you saw. But

448
00:21:50,920 --> 00:21:53,680
Speaker 1: what I want to remind you is, like I said,

449
00:21:53,720 --> 00:21:56,399
Speaker 1: they won six games last year. There's a difference in

450
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Speaker 1: being thin and just being unproven. A lot of what

451
00:22:00,600 --> 00:22:03,159
Speaker 1: Neil Brown has set up there over the past few months.

452
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Speaker 1: I don't think they lack confidence in the personnel they

453
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Speaker 1: have in the secondary. Some places, when you lose the

454
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Speaker 1: amount of talent they have, you just don't have anything

455
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Speaker 1: to replace it. You lack confidence. No, they lack cohesion,

456
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Speaker 1: they lack you know, proven production. At West Virginia, they

457
00:22:20,000 --> 00:22:23,720
Speaker 1: don't lack talent though, so you know, the big challenge is, Okay,

458
00:22:23,760 --> 00:22:26,040
Speaker 1: talented teams have struggled before. How do we turn this

459
00:22:26,080 --> 00:22:28,280
Speaker 1: into a unit. Well that's the first thing to watch

460
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Speaker 1: when they play pit to open the season. But the

461
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Speaker 1: second thing is JT. Daniels at quarterback playing behind a

462
00:22:32,800 --> 00:22:36,040
Speaker 1: good offensive line, got good skill talent out wide, so

463
00:22:36,080 --> 00:22:38,160
Speaker 1: he's not coming in there having his shoulder a vast

464
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Speaker 1: majority of the load like maybe you would have on

465
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Speaker 1: prior West Virginia teams. I'm saying all that to say

466
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Speaker 1: I don't think this is bold. They don't have they

467
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Speaker 1: never have an easy schedule because every road game they

468
00:22:48,720 --> 00:22:52,600
Speaker 1: have in conference is minimum thousand miles. Just ludicrous. Welcome

469
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Speaker 1: to twenty twenty two, though, But I still think, yeah,

470
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Speaker 1: I agree with you, they're going to go over seven wins.

471
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Speaker 1: I happen to have this team serve as a little

472
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Speaker 1: bit of a pop team, so I like that. It's

473
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Speaker 1: only a five on the boldness scale for me. However,

474
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Speaker 1: I cannot stay that low on the boldness scale for

475
00:23:09,800 --> 00:23:13,320
Speaker 1: the next prediction because the next prediction takes us to

476
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Speaker 1: Lawrence Kansas. Will said Kansas is going to make a

477
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Speaker 1: bowl game this year that includes a win over Kansas State.

478
00:23:20,600 --> 00:23:23,280
Speaker 1: I'm not even gonna acknowledge the second part because the

479
00:23:23,280 --> 00:23:26,800
Speaker 1: first part was plenty bold enough. This is a nine

480
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Speaker 1: and a quarter, So it's the boldest prediction we have. Actually,

481
00:23:31,440 --> 00:23:32,919
Speaker 1: the next one's even bolder than that. We've got a

482
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Speaker 1: bunch of boldness. Tonight, I'm gonna go nine and a

483
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Speaker 1: quarter on this Kansas making a bowl game. I want

484
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Speaker 1: to read a list for you because there could be

485
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Speaker 1: two things that are true here. It could be true

486
00:23:41,440 --> 00:23:45,520
Speaker 1: that Kansas is noticeably improved this year and also well

487
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Speaker 1: short of Bowl eligibility. Listen to this list, play the

488
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Speaker 1: Sarah McLaughlin music in the background. If you have it,

489
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Speaker 1: two zero three three one two zero three three one

490
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Speaker 1: two three five, that would be the win totals over

491
00:24:01,960 --> 00:24:05,320
Speaker 1: the past thirteen years for Kansas football. You got to

492
00:24:05,359 --> 00:24:08,520
Speaker 1: go back to nine before you find a year where

493
00:24:08,520 --> 00:24:11,879
Speaker 1: they got halfway to Bowl eligibility. You talk about a

494
00:24:11,920 --> 00:24:15,320
Speaker 1: ground up rebuild. This is the definition of it. I

495
00:24:16,320 --> 00:24:19,360
Speaker 1: actually have confidence in them hitting the over this year,

496
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Speaker 1: which I think is at two and a half. I

497
00:24:21,080 --> 00:24:23,760
Speaker 1: got confidence in that. I don't think people are fully

498
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Speaker 1: appreciating what a four win season at Kansas this year

499
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Speaker 1: would mean. It would mean a lot, a whole heck

500
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Speaker 1: of a lot. And it could be that they're elevating

501
00:24:32,160 --> 00:24:37,400
Speaker 1: eventually to respectability in Kansas terms like we haven't seen

502
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Speaker 1: since the latter part of the two thousands. But guys,

503
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Speaker 1: I just wanted to read that list to you, not

504
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Speaker 1: to not Kansas. I mean, the Wikipedia page does that

505
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Speaker 1: for me. I wanted to read that list to let

506
00:24:47,560 --> 00:24:51,159
Speaker 1: you know there could be quantum leaps of improvement this

507
00:24:51,280 --> 00:24:54,840
Speaker 1: year and them finished two games below Bowl eligibility, so

508
00:24:55,119 --> 00:24:58,600
Speaker 1: I don't think they're going bowling. Also, they're out of conference,

509
00:24:59,040 --> 00:25:01,400
Speaker 1: takes them to Houston. I got Duke coming in there

510
00:25:01,480 --> 00:25:04,920
Speaker 1: at Duke Kansas game on the grid Iron, but I

511
00:25:05,240 --> 00:25:07,359
Speaker 1: don't I can't go that far. I wish I could

512
00:25:07,480 --> 00:25:10,720
Speaker 1: well listen. There's no prediction out of the five tonight.

513
00:25:10,760 --> 00:25:13,280
Speaker 1: I'd love to be wrong on more than Kansas. Kansas

514
00:25:13,280 --> 00:25:16,600
Speaker 1: feels like the kind of team that we as as

515
00:25:16,720 --> 00:25:20,159
Speaker 1: a collective, not in IL could hitch our wagon to.

516
00:25:20,480 --> 00:25:23,399
Speaker 1: I would love nothing more than to find ourselves in

517
00:25:23,440 --> 00:25:27,439
Speaker 1: mid November pulling for Kansas, like one of those major

518
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Speaker 1: league type situations. They're coming up from the from the

519
00:25:30,160 --> 00:25:32,879
Speaker 1: grave and everyone's left them for dead, but then all

520
00:25:32,920 --> 00:25:34,720
Speaker 1: of a sudden, here they go in a late season run,

521
00:25:35,440 --> 00:25:37,480
Speaker 1: and it's just all of a sudden, the world starts

522
00:25:37,520 --> 00:25:40,639
Speaker 1: to take notice, and the world's attention of college football

523
00:25:40,720 --> 00:25:43,800
Speaker 1: leagust is on Lawrence Kansas. I love that. I don't

524
00:25:43,840 --> 00:25:46,159
Speaker 1: think we're seeing that this year. Don't lose hope. I

525
00:25:46,200 --> 00:25:48,440
Speaker 1: just don't think we're seeing that this year. Last one,

526
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Speaker 1: And maybe you haven't noticed this, but uh fregin pissed

527
00:25:54,560 --> 00:25:57,320
Speaker 1: what easily the best the name we've had the night

528
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Speaker 1: so far, freggin mister Freggan. After signing the number one

529
00:26:02,240 --> 00:26:06,439
Speaker 1: class last year, Texas A and M will not land

530
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Speaker 1: in the top twenty for this cycle. This is a

531
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Speaker 1: nine point five. But if you looked at the team

532
00:26:13,400 --> 00:26:16,080
Speaker 1: recruiting rankings right now, you've got to scroll quite a

533
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Speaker 1: ways before you find Jimbo Fisher in Texas A and M.

534
00:26:19,200 --> 00:26:22,200
Speaker 1: You know why, because they're ranked sixtieth, or at least

535
00:26:22,240 --> 00:26:25,200
Speaker 1: they were as of an hour ago. What do we

536
00:26:25,240 --> 00:26:27,920
Speaker 1: think about that? Well, what I think is it's really early.

537
00:26:28,480 --> 00:26:31,600
Speaker 1: I think that they've got five total commits, average recruit

538
00:26:31,720 --> 00:26:35,399
Speaker 1: is ranked ninety point seventy nine. All I think is

539
00:26:36,080 --> 00:26:38,840
Speaker 1: December it's going to be very active again for the Aggies.

540
00:26:38,960 --> 00:26:42,960
Speaker 1: That's what I think. So this is this is boldness

541
00:26:43,080 --> 00:26:46,920
Speaker 1: bordering on insane. They're going to be top twenty. I

542
00:26:46,960 --> 00:26:49,960
Speaker 1: went and looked last year, just for a comparative data point.

543
00:26:50,800 --> 00:26:52,919
Speaker 1: If you were to go to the twentieth ranked class

544
00:26:52,960 --> 00:26:55,919
Speaker 1: last year, that was Florida State and they finished with

545
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Speaker 1: an overall class rating of two twenty nine point four six.

546
00:27:02,640 --> 00:27:04,320
Speaker 1: I don't believe A and M is going to be

547
00:27:04,359 --> 00:27:07,040
Speaker 1: in the two twenties or the two thirties or the

548
00:27:07,080 --> 00:27:09,679
Speaker 1: two forties. I think they'll be well north of two fifty,

549
00:27:09,720 --> 00:27:12,160
Speaker 1: and therefore I think they'll be squarely inside the top fifteen,

550
00:27:12,320 --> 00:27:14,480
Speaker 1: if not inside the top ten. I just think they're

551
00:27:14,520 --> 00:27:17,280
Speaker 1: gonna move a whole lot later. And think about how

552
00:27:17,320 --> 00:27:19,879
Speaker 1: they finished last year and what kind of confidence they

553
00:27:19,880 --> 00:27:23,440
Speaker 1: probably have. They probably sat around afterwards kind of a

554
00:27:23,440 --> 00:27:27,320
Speaker 1: little post mortem after last year's class and said, now

555
00:27:27,320 --> 00:27:30,199
Speaker 1: that we got this weapon in our back pocket, we

556
00:27:30,280 --> 00:27:33,080
Speaker 1: can move whenever we want to. I mean, we'd love

557
00:27:33,119 --> 00:27:35,200
Speaker 1: to take kids in July, but you know what, let's

558
00:27:35,600 --> 00:27:38,960
Speaker 1: let's fine tune our filters a little bit and let's

559
00:27:38,960 --> 00:27:41,920
Speaker 1: take a little more time. Hey, let's eboil some kids

560
00:27:41,960 --> 00:27:46,000
Speaker 1: early in their senior year. What a what a bold

561
00:27:46,119 --> 00:27:49,680
Speaker 1: approach that is these days. Let's do that because we can,

562
00:27:49,880 --> 00:27:51,840
Speaker 1: because we're A and M. They're gonna move. There'll be

563
00:27:51,880 --> 00:27:54,800
Speaker 1: a big mover, they would. It would surprise me a

564
00:27:54,840 --> 00:27:59,520
Speaker 1: lot more if they were outside the top twenty. Then

565
00:27:59,560 --> 00:28:02,240
Speaker 1: it will be if they're inside the top ten. I'll

566
00:28:02,240 --> 00:28:04,680
Speaker 1: put it out there like that, and I'm pretty sure

567
00:28:04,720 --> 00:28:08,840
Speaker 1: that made sense. Bold Predictions twenty fifth chapter Tonight good

568
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Speaker 1: for us and good for Bold Predictions. They're watching us

569
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Speaker 1: in Matthews, North Carolina. They're tuned in in Ohio City, Ohio,

570
00:28:15,280 --> 00:28:20,919
Speaker 1: and Huntsville, Alabama aka the Rocket City. I appreciate you

571
00:28:20,960 --> 00:28:24,719
Speaker 1: guys being tuned in live too. You know, I had

572
00:28:24,760 --> 00:28:27,240
Speaker 1: a little situation the other day where we had to

573
00:28:27,240 --> 00:28:31,240
Speaker 1: close the Late Kick store down because well, we couldn't

574
00:28:31,280 --> 00:28:34,919
Speaker 1: keep it open for reasons related to you. It's a

575
00:28:34,920 --> 00:28:38,840
Speaker 1: good problem to have, but I figured we're going to

576
00:28:38,920 --> 00:28:42,880
Speaker 1: reopen that thing eventually. Question is when, And I'm not

577
00:28:43,040 --> 00:28:45,360
Speaker 1: necessarily ready to tell you when, But I am telling you.

578
00:28:45,400 --> 00:28:49,000
Speaker 1: We've got live shows every night this week, and people

579
00:28:49,040 --> 00:28:52,920
Speaker 1: who tune in live, I think deserve a little extra

580
00:28:52,960 --> 00:28:56,840
Speaker 1: pad on the back. So what if, just for argument sake,

581
00:28:57,400 --> 00:29:00,480
Speaker 1: we decide to reopen that thing and to do it

582
00:29:00,560 --> 00:29:02,880
Speaker 1: during one of our live shows, and the first group

583
00:29:02,920 --> 00:29:05,400
Speaker 1: that gets the heads up is the group that's watching live.

584
00:29:06,520 --> 00:29:09,320
Speaker 1: It's well within our control. We have the power to

585
00:29:09,360 --> 00:29:13,560
Speaker 1: do it. So I think I just made that executive decision. Yes, okay,

586
00:29:13,880 --> 00:29:16,000
Speaker 1: gabble down, that's the way we'll do it. So one

587
00:29:16,040 --> 00:29:18,520
Speaker 1: of these shows this week, we're reopening that bad Boy,

588
00:29:18,720 --> 00:29:20,480
Speaker 1: and I can't guarantee how long it's going to stay

589
00:29:20,480 --> 00:29:23,800
Speaker 1: open because I was a blown back against a wall

590
00:29:23,960 --> 00:29:25,640
Speaker 1: with how much volume we did when we had it

591
00:29:25,640 --> 00:29:28,560
Speaker 1: open for like seventeen minutes the other day. That's that,

592
00:29:29,080 --> 00:29:31,880
Speaker 1: So thank you for being tuned in. Okay, I've got

593
00:29:31,920 --> 00:29:33,640
Speaker 1: to talk to you a second about something I didn't

594
00:29:33,680 --> 00:29:36,600
Speaker 1: think I was going to be talking about tonight. Georgia

595
00:29:36,640 --> 00:29:40,480
Speaker 1: recruiting specifically, what's up with it? And to remind you

596
00:29:40,960 --> 00:29:44,440
Speaker 1: about what's supposed to happen after you win a national championship,

597
00:29:44,520 --> 00:29:47,360
Speaker 1: especially if you're on a staff like Georgia, which is

598
00:29:47,400 --> 00:29:51,000
Speaker 1: already known to be one of the most relentless recruiting

599
00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:54,280
Speaker 1: staffs in America. That follow up cycle after you win

600
00:29:54,320 --> 00:29:56,240
Speaker 1: a title, especially if it's the first one you've won

601
00:29:56,280 --> 00:30:00,200
Speaker 1: in several generations, that's supposed to be the crescendo. That's

602
00:30:00,240 --> 00:30:04,160
Speaker 1: supposed to be where you just slaughter everything in your

603
00:30:04,240 --> 00:30:07,480
Speaker 1: path on the recruiting trail. That's how it's supposed to work.

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Speaker 1: But there's a very interesting dynamic that has worked its

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00:30:09,760 --> 00:30:12,880
Speaker 1: way into Athens GA right now. There's another phrase though,

606
00:30:13,360 --> 00:30:15,080
Speaker 1: that I want you to remember that if you've watched

607
00:30:15,120 --> 00:30:17,040
Speaker 1: Lake Cake or listened to our show for quite a while,

608
00:30:17,080 --> 00:30:20,640
Speaker 1: you already are familiar with and that phrase is the

609
00:30:20,720 --> 00:30:24,880
Speaker 1: consequences of success. We hit that thing a lot, but

610
00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:28,080
Speaker 1: it's reared it's uglyhead again. So what's happened? Why am

611
00:30:28,080 --> 00:30:31,280
Speaker 1: I talking about this? Well, a few hours ago, Justice

612
00:30:31,320 --> 00:30:35,920
Speaker 1: Hayes committed not to Georgia but to Alabama. Who is he?

613
00:30:35,920 --> 00:30:38,440
Speaker 1: He is a four star running back out of Buford,

614
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Speaker 1: Home of the Wolves. Played him many times in my

615
00:30:40,800 --> 00:30:42,640
Speaker 1: days at Harris County High School, or some of you

616
00:30:42,680 --> 00:30:47,120
Speaker 1: would call it harassment County. Not me, but some Justice

617
00:30:47,120 --> 00:30:51,240
Speaker 1: Hayes shocked a lot of people today quite frankly committing

618
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Speaker 1: to Alabama. Let's just go ahead and follow it up

619
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Speaker 1: because I know what's coming. Oh it's only July. Oh

620
00:30:57,680 --> 00:31:00,960
Speaker 1: he could always decommit. Okay, got it. We all understand.

621
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Speaker 1: We're all adults here, we all understand. Here's a bold

622
00:31:03,680 --> 00:31:06,280
Speaker 1: prediction for you. He's not going to decommit. I'll put

623
00:31:06,360 --> 00:31:08,400
Speaker 1: that out there, and anyone who wants to challenge that

624
00:31:08,520 --> 00:31:12,320
Speaker 1: monetarily see me on the side. So the news today,

625
00:31:13,080 --> 00:31:15,080
Speaker 1: Justice Haynes for star running back out of bu for

626
00:31:15,160 --> 00:31:17,920
Speaker 1: Georgia commits to Alabama. A lot of folks in bulldog

627
00:31:17,960 --> 00:31:19,960
Speaker 1: circles thought they led for him. Not only that, he

628
00:31:20,040 --> 00:31:22,560
Speaker 1: goes on the record a little bit later today to

629
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Speaker 1: multiple people saying, Ohio State finished runner up. So make

630
00:31:28,880 --> 00:31:31,200
Speaker 1: of that what you will. The reason I'm bringing it

631
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Speaker 1: up is because this is not isolated this cycle. And

632
00:31:35,160 --> 00:31:37,880
Speaker 1: unlike some folks who will just sit here and yell

633
00:31:37,920 --> 00:31:40,400
Speaker 1: about it and say Kirby sucks, they've let their foot

634
00:31:40,440 --> 00:31:42,400
Speaker 1: off the gas, YadA, YadA, YadA, it's none of that.

635
00:31:42,720 --> 00:31:46,840
Speaker 1: There are very specific reasons that I can gather from

636
00:31:46,880 --> 00:31:49,320
Speaker 1: talking to several people today as to why this may

637
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Speaker 1: be happening now. When I say people, I don't mean

638
00:31:52,920 --> 00:31:56,800
Speaker 1: Jethro down in Sylvester, who I respect. I love Jethrow,

639
00:31:57,120 --> 00:31:59,120
Speaker 1: but he doesn't really know the inner workings of Georgia

640
00:31:59,160 --> 00:32:02,880
Speaker 1: recruiting people who do. I've reached out to as many

641
00:32:02,880 --> 00:32:05,480
Speaker 1: people as I could who do have that access, and

642
00:32:05,560 --> 00:32:08,240
Speaker 1: some high school folks around Georgia. So I want to

643
00:32:08,280 --> 00:32:10,560
Speaker 1: give you a little behind the curtain on what's being said.

644
00:32:10,680 --> 00:32:13,120
Speaker 1: And it didn't start today, but it kind of had

645
00:32:13,120 --> 00:32:16,040
Speaker 1: the volume turned up on it today. And let me

646
00:32:16,040 --> 00:32:17,840
Speaker 1: give you a little backstory before we go down this road.

647
00:32:17,880 --> 00:32:20,440
Speaker 1: So this was a big surprise. Like I said to

648
00:32:20,480 --> 00:32:22,320
Speaker 1: a lot of folks, I saw Rusty and Kip over

649
00:32:22,400 --> 00:32:24,800
Speaker 1: on the Dog's twenty four to seven board. They were

650
00:32:24,800 --> 00:32:28,040
Speaker 1: surprised by it. I assume the Georgia staff was surprised

651
00:32:28,040 --> 00:32:30,840
Speaker 1: by it, although I can't confirm that. But this comes

652
00:32:30,880 --> 00:32:33,120
Speaker 1: on the heels of a lot of Crystal Ball attention

653
00:32:33,240 --> 00:32:36,600
Speaker 1: shifting towards Alabama. For Caleb Downs, Caleb Downs is our

654
00:32:36,640 --> 00:32:40,280
Speaker 1: current tenth rated player in the country. Could change tomorrow.

655
00:32:40,320 --> 00:32:42,240
Speaker 1: There are a ton of rankings updates. I'm going to

656
00:32:42,280 --> 00:32:43,360
Speaker 1: tell you about it at the end of the show

657
00:32:43,360 --> 00:32:46,840
Speaker 1: coming tomorrow. The Caleb Downs is a five star caliber guy.

658
00:32:47,440 --> 00:32:50,600
Speaker 1: He's out of the state of Georgia, and it looks

659
00:32:50,640 --> 00:32:52,760
Speaker 1: for all the world like Alabama has the momentum in

660
00:32:52,760 --> 00:32:56,280
Speaker 1: that recruitment right now. Georgia, as far as their twenty

661
00:32:56,320 --> 00:32:58,920
Speaker 1: twenty three running back recruiting goes, I'll just echo what

662
00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:02,120
Speaker 1: Rusty said. Particularly know what direction they're going to go.

663
00:33:02,320 --> 00:33:04,640
Speaker 1: There's another four star running back out of Florida, kind

664
00:33:04,640 --> 00:33:07,760
Speaker 1: of in the Fort Myers area named Richard Young. I

665
00:33:07,760 --> 00:33:09,880
Speaker 1: think Georgia's on the outside looking in for him after

666
00:33:09,880 --> 00:33:12,440
Speaker 1: talking to some folks today. But it is Georgia, and

667
00:33:12,520 --> 00:33:14,719
Speaker 1: it is July, and it is the running back position.

668
00:33:15,080 --> 00:33:18,520
Speaker 1: So this alone is not worth you know, finding the

669
00:33:18,560 --> 00:33:22,000
Speaker 1: tallest building in Yelling. I'll jump on. That's not the point.

670
00:33:22,640 --> 00:33:24,640
Speaker 1: The point is to draw you back to some of

671
00:33:24,640 --> 00:33:26,800
Speaker 1: the feedback I got today and to remind you that

672
00:33:26,880 --> 00:33:32,360
Speaker 1: phrase consequences of success. This huge misnomer out there is

673
00:33:32,400 --> 00:33:35,880
Speaker 1: that once a program like Georgia gets to the mountaintop,

674
00:33:36,400 --> 00:33:40,680
Speaker 1: it's just smooth sailing and the seas have parted and

675
00:33:40,880 --> 00:33:43,480
Speaker 1: it's not going to be easy, but the entire sport

676
00:33:43,520 --> 00:33:45,760
Speaker 1: is set up for them to dominate. That's not the

677
00:33:45,800 --> 00:33:49,160
Speaker 1: way this work. It's just even for Georgia. That's not

678
00:33:49,240 --> 00:33:51,160
Speaker 1: the way this works. So let me let me give

679
00:33:51,160 --> 00:33:53,520
Speaker 1: you a little behind the scenes. Some of the Georgia

680
00:33:53,560 --> 00:33:56,000
Speaker 1: folks will know this, but I don't think ninety nine

681
00:33:56,040 --> 00:33:59,680
Speaker 1: percent of you do. Kirby Smart and Georgia are so

682
00:33:59,840 --> 00:34:03,280
Speaker 1: good good they can choose their recruiting strategy, Hardley, anyone

683
00:34:03,280 --> 00:34:06,360
Speaker 1: else has this luxury. They can choose to recruit talent

684
00:34:06,440 --> 00:34:09,400
Speaker 1: rich Georgia, or they can choose to go totally national,

685
00:34:09,719 --> 00:34:11,640
Speaker 1: or they can choose to blend a little bit of both.

686
00:34:12,080 --> 00:34:15,040
Speaker 1: But when you make that decision, especially if you go

687
00:34:15,080 --> 00:34:18,120
Speaker 1: the direction kirbya company have, there will be a price

688
00:34:18,440 --> 00:34:21,160
Speaker 1: that has to be paid. They've chosen to go national.

689
00:34:21,160 --> 00:34:23,080
Speaker 1: They recruit Georgia to go back and look over the

690
00:34:23,120 --> 00:34:25,120
Speaker 1: past few cycles, look at the top ten players in

691
00:34:25,120 --> 00:34:27,480
Speaker 1: Georgia and look at how many of them that are

692
00:34:27,600 --> 00:34:29,960
Speaker 1: very good someone playing on Sundays now are about to

693
00:34:29,960 --> 00:34:33,279
Speaker 1: be that they haven't landed. Sometimes it's just because a

694
00:34:33,360 --> 00:34:35,600
Speaker 1: kid wanted to leave. It's a transient state. I get

695
00:34:35,640 --> 00:34:37,960
Speaker 1: that I grew up there. But other times it's cause

696
00:34:38,040 --> 00:34:41,200
Speaker 1: they passed. You want me to illustrate that. Will Anderson

697
00:34:41,239 --> 00:34:43,719
Speaker 1: should have been a Heisman finalist last year and is

698
00:34:43,800 --> 00:34:47,160
Speaker 1: probably the best player in college football right now at Alabama.

699
00:34:47,840 --> 00:34:52,200
Speaker 1: Will Anderson from Hampton, Georgia. Georgia passed him over. Georgia

700
00:34:52,520 --> 00:34:54,960
Speaker 1: could have pursued him, and they did not early on

701
00:34:55,000 --> 00:34:57,200
Speaker 1: in his recruitment. There are several reasons for that, but

702
00:34:57,239 --> 00:35:00,200
Speaker 1: they didn't. Jordan Battles starting safety at Alabama. Probably he

703
00:35:00,239 --> 00:35:04,000
Speaker 1: also projects as a first day NFL guy or maybe

704
00:35:04,080 --> 00:35:08,680
Speaker 1: round two NFL guy. He's from Tyrone, Georgia. They passed

705
00:35:08,719 --> 00:35:11,279
Speaker 1: on him. Jamiir Gibbs, who went on to start at

706
00:35:11,280 --> 00:35:12,800
Speaker 1: Georgia Tech and is now going to probably start it

707
00:35:12,880 --> 00:35:15,040
Speaker 1: running back for Alabama this year. You notice that Alabama

708
00:35:15,080 --> 00:35:18,879
Speaker 1: theme crossing that Chadhoochie River Jamir Gibbs. Georgia that pursued him,

709
00:35:18,920 --> 00:35:21,680
Speaker 1: they passed on him. There's a lot of elite talent

710
00:35:21,880 --> 00:35:25,080
Speaker 1: that they've passed on. Georgia has not hurt in recruiting.

711
00:35:25,400 --> 00:35:28,359
Speaker 1: I'm not saying shame on Georgia for passing on will

712
00:35:28,400 --> 00:35:31,560
Speaker 1: Anderson and then being terrible in recruiting. No, you know

713
00:35:31,640 --> 00:35:33,800
Speaker 1: as well as I do, dude, george has been finishing

714
00:35:34,080 --> 00:35:36,800
Speaker 1: top five every year. Georgia's finished number one a couple

715
00:35:36,800 --> 00:35:40,400
Speaker 1: of times. There's a price to be paid for the strategy.

716
00:35:40,719 --> 00:35:42,080
Speaker 1: This is what a lot of folks back in the

717
00:35:42,080 --> 00:35:44,239
Speaker 1: state of Georgia are talking about right now. And this

718
00:35:44,360 --> 00:35:46,279
Speaker 1: is what some of the high school coaches are talking

719
00:35:46,360 --> 00:35:49,560
Speaker 1: about right now. Some of the handlers, which is a

720
00:35:49,640 --> 00:35:51,319
Speaker 1: word I don't like using a lot because I have

721
00:35:51,400 --> 00:35:53,279
Speaker 1: to take a shower after I say it, Some of

722
00:35:53,320 --> 00:35:55,680
Speaker 1: the handlers are talking about this. I'm just being real

723
00:35:55,719 --> 00:36:00,200
Speaker 1: with you. People. See, when Georgia chooses to go out

724
00:36:00,239 --> 00:36:05,400
Speaker 1: of state over very viable in state kids. Some staffs

725
00:36:05,400 --> 00:36:08,320
Speaker 1: out there actually take the approach of taking some in

726
00:36:08,440 --> 00:36:11,359
Speaker 1: state kids that they don't have evaled quite as high

727
00:36:11,360 --> 00:36:13,520
Speaker 1: as some out of state kids, just because they don't

728
00:36:13,560 --> 00:36:16,080
Speaker 1: want to start that drip drip that turns into a

729
00:36:16,080 --> 00:36:18,879
Speaker 1: steady stream one cycle or two cycles down the road.

730
00:36:19,280 --> 00:36:21,239
Speaker 1: There may be a kid at Buford one or two

731
00:36:21,239 --> 00:36:24,040
Speaker 1: cycles ago that you take that's a fringe take. He's

732
00:36:24,080 --> 00:36:25,960
Speaker 1: like twenty four to twenty five, but you take him

733
00:36:26,080 --> 00:36:28,560
Speaker 1: because you know you got Haines down the road. Some

734
00:36:28,600 --> 00:36:30,920
Speaker 1: staffs choose to do it that way. Kirby and his

735
00:36:31,000 --> 00:36:33,320
Speaker 1: staff have not. Kirby Smart's one of the best recruiters

736
00:36:33,320 --> 00:36:37,120
Speaker 1: in America, Total Assassin. That's one of the best recruiting operations.

737
00:36:37,440 --> 00:36:42,640
Speaker 1: They're relentless about it. But it's not without potential pitfalls.

738
00:36:42,680 --> 00:36:45,120
Speaker 1: It's what I'm saying. So that's what's happening with them

739
00:36:45,200 --> 00:36:48,200
Speaker 1: right now, and that's why you're not seeing that huge

740
00:36:48,400 --> 00:36:52,600
Speaker 1: tidal wave of recruiting momentum and success thus far in

741
00:36:52,600 --> 00:36:55,600
Speaker 1: this cycle. Now, make no mistake, what this is not

742
00:36:56,280 --> 00:36:58,560
Speaker 1: is time to freak out because it's July and they're

743
00:36:58,640 --> 00:37:01,319
Speaker 1: ranked I think sixth right now. So they've got very

744
00:37:01,400 --> 00:37:05,040
Speaker 1: very first world problems there. But they're not recruiting the

745
00:37:05,040 --> 00:37:07,320
Speaker 1: way that I would expect them to. They're not recruiting

746
00:37:07,360 --> 00:37:10,320
Speaker 1: the way they probably expected to this cycle. They probably

747
00:37:10,360 --> 00:37:13,279
Speaker 1: expected to completely and totally knock every domino down they

748
00:37:13,360 --> 00:37:16,279
Speaker 1: wanted to. It just hasn't happened that way. They're getting beat.

749
00:37:16,560 --> 00:37:18,600
Speaker 1: They're getting beat in their own state for some kids.

750
00:37:18,880 --> 00:37:20,960
Speaker 1: And I don't think it's just because someone dropped the

751
00:37:20,960 --> 00:37:22,880
Speaker 1: ball this cycle. I don't think it's a case of

752
00:37:23,040 --> 00:37:25,239
Speaker 1: people dropping the ball at all. I think it's a

753
00:37:25,280 --> 00:37:29,560
Speaker 1: case of ramifications of a recruiting strategy. Now, I'll also

754
00:37:29,600 --> 00:37:31,360
Speaker 1: tell you something else. I don't think this is the

755
00:37:31,400 --> 00:37:34,600
Speaker 1: best recruiting staff Kirby's ever had there, nor the best

756
00:37:34,600 --> 00:37:37,359
Speaker 1: staff he will have in seasons moving forward. I think

757
00:37:37,360 --> 00:37:39,279
Speaker 1: you'll see some changes there. You got what you got

758
00:37:39,360 --> 00:37:42,520
Speaker 1: right now. I'm saying two years from now, I think

759
00:37:42,560 --> 00:37:46,120
Speaker 1: there will have been significant turnover on this staff. That's

760
00:37:46,160 --> 00:37:49,399
Speaker 1: happening all the time. The second thing is, I think

761
00:37:49,440 --> 00:37:51,960
Speaker 1: two years from now there'll be a different approach to

762
00:37:52,080 --> 00:37:54,799
Speaker 1: Nil than there is at Georgia right now. I don't

763
00:37:54,800 --> 00:37:56,839
Speaker 1: think they've been as aggressive on that. I don't think

764
00:37:56,840 --> 00:37:59,800
Speaker 1: they've been nearly as aggressive on that now. The reasons

765
00:38:00,320 --> 00:38:02,759
Speaker 1: could be multiple in nature, but I think there are

766
00:38:02,800 --> 00:38:05,160
Speaker 1: some other programs out there far more aggressive on NIL

767
00:38:05,239 --> 00:38:07,480
Speaker 1: in Georgia. So these are just a couple of things

768
00:38:07,719 --> 00:38:10,799
Speaker 1: that are being said around the Peach State. Driving down

769
00:38:10,840 --> 00:38:15,280
Speaker 1: there later tonight after the show, that can probably answer

770
00:38:15,600 --> 00:38:17,480
Speaker 1: a little bit of your question as to why does

771
00:38:17,520 --> 00:38:20,720
Speaker 1: Georgia look not bad but they just look a little

772
00:38:20,760 --> 00:38:23,680
Speaker 1: off right now? Well, that's what's happening. I don't think

773
00:38:23,680 --> 00:38:25,520
Speaker 1: it's done. I think there are some other big names

774
00:38:25,520 --> 00:38:28,200
Speaker 1: they're gonna miss on. They'll finish with a very solid class.

775
00:38:28,600 --> 00:38:30,799
Speaker 1: I think they'll close really strong. They may end up

776
00:38:30,840 --> 00:38:33,840
Speaker 1: being top five again, but it's not gonna be the

777
00:38:33,920 --> 00:38:36,239
Speaker 1: kind of class that you would expect following the first

778
00:38:36,360 --> 00:38:40,360
Speaker 1: championship since the early eighties. That's not probably in the

779
00:38:40,400 --> 00:38:44,479
Speaker 1: cards of this cycle. What I don't know to wrap

780
00:38:44,520 --> 00:38:47,360
Speaker 1: it up there, What I don't know is what that

781
00:38:47,520 --> 00:38:49,840
Speaker 1: coaching staff thinks when they look at it. It Really Curby

782
00:38:49,880 --> 00:38:52,160
Speaker 1: Smart's all I care about. When he looks at what's

783
00:38:52,160 --> 00:38:55,240
Speaker 1: happening right now, does he think we got some issues

784
00:38:55,600 --> 00:38:58,960
Speaker 1: or does he think I'm willing to swallow that I'm

785
00:38:59,680 --> 00:39:02,080
Speaker 1: doing it the way I want to do it. We

786
00:39:02,120 --> 00:39:04,680
Speaker 1: have certain We just won a national title five minutes ago,

787
00:39:04,840 --> 00:39:08,319
Speaker 1: and we had players from all over America littered all

788
00:39:08,320 --> 00:39:11,480
Speaker 1: over that roster. So my approach works. I've got proof

789
00:39:11,520 --> 00:39:14,680
Speaker 1: of production there. It works if we lose a kid

790
00:39:14,760 --> 00:39:16,400
Speaker 1: every now and then from this state, even if he

791
00:39:16,440 --> 00:39:19,240
Speaker 1: goes to Alabama, so be it. I'm not changing my approach.

792
00:39:19,280 --> 00:39:22,360
Speaker 1: Does he feel that way or does he say I

793
00:39:22,360 --> 00:39:24,200
Speaker 1: don't like this, Let's take a second look at this

794
00:39:24,760 --> 00:39:26,920
Speaker 1: that I can't tell you. Plus, Kirby Smart's not the

795
00:39:26,960 --> 00:39:30,239
Speaker 1: kind of guy who shares is philosophical recruiting leanings with

796
00:39:30,360 --> 00:39:33,400
Speaker 1: very many people. Who knows. Maybe we'll bump into him

797
00:39:33,440 --> 00:39:35,759
Speaker 1: this week at SEC media days. He'll just pull us

798
00:39:35,800 --> 00:39:38,359
Speaker 1: off the side. We'll talk twenty five minutes about it.

799
00:39:38,760 --> 00:39:40,759
Speaker 1: If he does, I'll be the first to let you know.

800
00:39:42,200 --> 00:39:45,120
Speaker 1: All right, I have to play something for you, and

801
00:39:45,120 --> 00:39:48,000
Speaker 1: then I have to remind you of some things. I

802
00:39:48,200 --> 00:39:53,680
Speaker 1: was perusing the old Twitter sphere today and asked, what

803
00:39:53,760 --> 00:39:56,800
Speaker 1: did you think of Mike Gundhy's comments during Big twelve

804
00:39:56,840 --> 00:39:59,040
Speaker 1: media Day. I think some of you saw this already,

805
00:39:59,080 --> 00:40:01,920
Speaker 1: but I bet farm more of you didn't. I think

806
00:40:01,960 --> 00:40:04,640
Speaker 1: it's worth playing. So it's about forty seconds. We normally

807
00:40:04,680 --> 00:40:07,920
Speaker 1: shy away from the longer sound bites. This is worth it.

808
00:40:07,960 --> 00:40:09,840
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you why it's worth it, because I

809
00:40:09,880 --> 00:40:12,640
Speaker 1: guarantee you, if you haven't heard this yet, knowing our

810
00:40:12,680 --> 00:40:16,000
Speaker 1: audience like I do, a vast majority of you, about

811
00:40:16,000 --> 00:40:18,240
Speaker 1: twenty thirty seconds into this thing are gonna be nodding

812
00:40:18,280 --> 00:40:21,200
Speaker 1: your head so violently and just saying thank you. You'll

813
00:40:21,200 --> 00:40:23,880
Speaker 1: probably miss the final ten seconds. So Colin, let's roll it.

814
00:40:23,920 --> 00:40:26,160
Speaker 1: This is Mike Gundi at Big twelve Media Days.

815
00:40:27,320 --> 00:40:30,680
Speaker 2: The geographical locations of conferences and traditions of college football

816
00:40:30,719 --> 00:40:33,520
Speaker 2: are gone, and more so now than they were two

817
00:40:33,560 --> 00:40:34,040
Speaker 2: weeks ago.

818
00:40:34,320 --> 00:40:35,279
Speaker 1: Right, we see that.

819
00:40:35,920 --> 00:40:39,320
Speaker 2: So you adapt and change and deal with it, or

820
00:40:39,360 --> 00:40:40,680
Speaker 2: you get out of the game if you don't think

821
00:40:40,719 --> 00:40:42,200
Speaker 2: you like it, if you're old school.

822
00:40:42,640 --> 00:40:44,960
Speaker 1: I'm a little old school, but I.

823
00:40:44,920 --> 00:40:47,359
Speaker 2: Can adjust and make changes based on it's not gonna

824
00:40:47,360 --> 00:40:51,120
Speaker 2: go away. This is a big business now. When conference

825
00:40:51,120 --> 00:40:54,520
Speaker 2: alignment started a year ago, whenever it started jumping, there

826
00:40:54,560 --> 00:40:56,879
Speaker 2: was a lot of people that were unhappy. But those

827
00:40:56,920 --> 00:40:59,640
Speaker 2: people aren't the ones that are making the decisions at

828
00:40:59,640 --> 00:41:02,680
Speaker 2: the top, and so the ones making decisions at the

829
00:41:02,719 --> 00:41:06,920
Speaker 2: top are going to decide the future and the history

830
00:41:06,920 --> 00:41:08,680
Speaker 2: of college football, not us.

831
00:41:11,320 --> 00:41:14,320
Speaker 1: Yeah, so that's what Mike Gundhy said. What do you

832
00:41:14,360 --> 00:41:18,760
Speaker 1: think about that? I heard it, and then I played

833
00:41:18,760 --> 00:41:21,080
Speaker 1: it again, and then I played it a third time.

834
00:41:21,520 --> 00:41:25,200
Speaker 1: Because he's right, and you could tell he's been mad

835
00:41:25,239 --> 00:41:28,360
Speaker 1: about this, but he was very measured in a public setting,

836
00:41:28,719 --> 00:41:31,200
Speaker 1: but he almost seemed exhausted when he was saying it,

837
00:41:31,200 --> 00:41:33,920
Speaker 1: didn't he It was almost like he's just repeating what

838
00:41:34,400 --> 00:41:36,839
Speaker 1: he sat around the dinner table or around a chalk

839
00:41:36,880 --> 00:41:39,279
Speaker 1: talk session with buddies or fellow coaches, and he said

840
00:41:39,280 --> 00:41:43,640
Speaker 1: a million times already. It just becomes so pointless to

841
00:41:43,719 --> 00:41:46,400
Speaker 1: try and re litigate it, because, like he just said,

842
00:41:46,520 --> 00:41:49,759
Speaker 1: you realize I'm not in charge. Sometimes you get to

843
00:41:49,800 --> 00:41:52,439
Speaker 1: feeling like your voice really doesn't matter. Now. What Mike

844
00:41:52,480 --> 00:41:57,600
Speaker 1: Gundhy spelled out was there was tradition and there were

845
00:41:57,640 --> 00:42:01,880
Speaker 1: certain threads woven into our sport that could not remain

846
00:42:02,640 --> 00:42:06,440
Speaker 1: as the texture of college football if big business truly

847
00:42:06,480 --> 00:42:08,319
Speaker 1: wanted to take it over. And the way I look

848
00:42:08,360 --> 00:42:10,560
Speaker 1: at it, it's not an apples to apples, but the

849
00:42:10,560 --> 00:42:12,480
Speaker 1: way I always looked at it, the way I've always

850
00:42:12,480 --> 00:42:15,480
Speaker 1: explained it to you guys, My simple mind always thought

851
00:42:15,480 --> 00:42:19,200
Speaker 1: about college football as a natural preserve, a nature preserve.

852
00:42:19,600 --> 00:42:21,840
Speaker 1: Right in the middle of downtown Nashville. We had a

853
00:42:21,920 --> 00:42:25,239
Speaker 1: nature preserve, and we all knew as we drove by

854
00:42:25,280 --> 00:42:29,160
Speaker 1: that nature preserve that if true market forces that run

855
00:42:29,200 --> 00:42:31,840
Speaker 1: things like Major League Baseball or the NBA, if we

856
00:42:31,920 --> 00:42:35,560
Speaker 1: really allowed this sport to ever operate on the same

857
00:42:35,640 --> 00:42:38,920
Speaker 1: level as those sports, the nature preserve would be wiped

858
00:42:38,920 --> 00:42:41,440
Speaker 1: out and destroyed immediately. If we allowed that nature preserve

859
00:42:41,640 --> 00:42:44,440
Speaker 1: to operate under the same city code that everything around

860
00:42:44,440 --> 00:42:46,760
Speaker 1: it operated under, that plow it down in two seconds

861
00:42:46,760 --> 00:42:48,719
Speaker 1: and build a high rise on it, because that's what

862
00:42:48,960 --> 00:42:51,520
Speaker 1: surrounds it. So what would stop that from looking the

863
00:42:51,600 --> 00:42:54,759
Speaker 1: same way? What stops it is a group of people saying, no,

864
00:42:54,960 --> 00:42:57,160
Speaker 1: we like this patch of land over here. We are

865
00:42:57,200 --> 00:42:59,560
Speaker 1: going to agree as a civil society, as a collection

866
00:42:59,560 --> 00:43:02,720
Speaker 1: of people community, to treat this one patch over here different.

867
00:43:03,320 --> 00:43:06,440
Speaker 1: College football was that for a long time. It turns

868
00:43:06,480 --> 00:43:08,440
Speaker 1: out we were always on borrowed time. Now, I know,

869
00:43:08,480 --> 00:43:10,600
Speaker 1: if you talk to you know, if you talk to

870
00:43:10,640 --> 00:43:13,839
Speaker 1: your seventy five year old great uncle. He would tell

871
00:43:13,840 --> 00:43:16,440
Speaker 1: you this happened a long, long, long time ago. And yes,

872
00:43:16,560 --> 00:43:19,280
Speaker 1: there's always been change in college football. There's always been upheaval.

873
00:43:19,320 --> 00:43:22,160
Speaker 1: There's never been a thirty years fixed period in our

874
00:43:22,200 --> 00:43:25,759
Speaker 1: sport where everything looked the same. I understand that, but

875
00:43:25,880 --> 00:43:28,680
Speaker 1: I think we can all agree there have been far

876
00:43:28,719 --> 00:43:33,319
Speaker 1: more violent earth tilting changes happening kind of kind of

877
00:43:33,360 --> 00:43:36,200
Speaker 1: congruent with each other over the past three or four years.

878
00:43:36,200 --> 00:43:37,920
Speaker 1: Feels like past three or four months really a lot

879
00:43:37,960 --> 00:43:40,520
Speaker 1: of it's really ramped up then we've seen it any period.

880
00:43:40,560 --> 00:43:43,120
Speaker 1: I mean, there's been more permanent change in the sport

881
00:43:43,120 --> 00:43:45,680
Speaker 1: in the past few years than there were the past

882
00:43:45,680 --> 00:43:49,040
Speaker 1: couple of decades. We just changed, if you think about it.

883
00:43:49,239 --> 00:43:51,840
Speaker 1: We changed some cosmetic things about the sport over the

884
00:43:51,920 --> 00:43:55,200
Speaker 1: last fifteen years, a lot more so than foundational. We're

885
00:43:55,320 --> 00:43:58,239
Speaker 1: changing the foundation now. There's, like Mike Gundy said, no

886
00:43:58,360 --> 00:44:01,840
Speaker 1: going back on some of this stuff. The nature preserve

887
00:44:02,840 --> 00:44:05,279
Speaker 1: was finally looked at by the folks who built the

888
00:44:05,280 --> 00:44:07,759
Speaker 1: rest of the city, and they looked at it and said,

889
00:44:07,800 --> 00:44:10,080
Speaker 1: you know, how much that land's worth if we cultivated

890
00:44:10,080 --> 00:44:11,440
Speaker 1: it the right way, if we develop it the right way.

891
00:44:11,480 --> 00:44:14,399
Speaker 1: You know, much that land's worth. And so here we said,

892
00:44:15,040 --> 00:44:18,120
Speaker 1: you and me, like fern Gully, the college football addition,

893
00:44:18,640 --> 00:44:21,879
Speaker 1: just hoping our trees get saved, and here come the bulldozers.

894
00:44:22,440 --> 00:44:24,839
Speaker 1: And I think we all remember how fern Gully ended.

895
00:44:24,920 --> 00:44:26,239
Speaker 1: I don't want to recount it. I don't want to

896
00:44:26,239 --> 00:44:28,239
Speaker 1: cry on air. That's not why I'm here tonight. I'm

897
00:44:28,280 --> 00:44:31,719
Speaker 1: just here to tell you what Mike Gundy said was true. Okay,

898
00:44:31,440 --> 00:44:34,000
Speaker 1: so it really probably does not do much good for

899
00:44:34,080 --> 00:44:35,839
Speaker 1: us to chain ourselves to the trees. They're coming down.

900
00:44:35,880 --> 00:44:39,239
Speaker 1: They don't really care about us, Michael Jackson. But what

901
00:44:39,360 --> 00:44:41,400
Speaker 1: I will say moving forward is there's going to be

902
00:44:41,440 --> 00:44:43,720
Speaker 1: a college football There's going to be a very attractive product.

903
00:44:43,840 --> 00:44:46,319
Speaker 1: There's going to be a really fun product. It just

904
00:44:46,719 --> 00:44:49,240
Speaker 1: may take some getting used to. But what Mike Gundy

905
00:44:49,280 --> 00:44:51,480
Speaker 1: doesn't know that I don't know that, you don't know that.

906
00:44:52,200 --> 00:44:54,440
Speaker 1: Greg Sinki doesn't know he's going to speak in Atlanta

907
00:44:54,480 --> 00:44:57,399
Speaker 1: tomorrow morning at SEC Media Days. I doubt he even

908
00:44:57,440 --> 00:45:01,600
Speaker 1: knows what the future looks like because everybody's still walking

909
00:45:01,600 --> 00:45:05,080
Speaker 1: through the fog. The tornado's still in progress. We can't

910
00:45:05,080 --> 00:45:09,239
Speaker 1: do a damage assessment. We don't know. But there's a

911
00:45:09,239 --> 00:45:11,960
Speaker 1: lot that used to be cyclical that's now just permanent.

912
00:45:12,200 --> 00:45:14,680
Speaker 1: I really wonder if we could just hit the fast forward,

913
00:45:14,760 --> 00:45:16,759
Speaker 1: if we could take a peak ten years down the road,

914
00:45:17,160 --> 00:45:20,680
Speaker 1: everything presumably is settled, how enjoyable is the product? I

915
00:45:20,719 --> 00:45:23,440
Speaker 1: think there are two very different routes we could take. Like,

916
00:45:23,480 --> 00:45:26,480
Speaker 1: if this thing's managed correctly, there's no doubt we're going

917
00:45:26,560 --> 00:45:29,080
Speaker 1: to lose some stuff we love. If it's managed correctly,

918
00:45:29,160 --> 00:45:32,840
Speaker 1: it still could be a wildly entertaining, wildly fun product

919
00:45:32,840 --> 00:45:35,640
Speaker 1: to watch, just a different looking product. But there's another

920
00:45:35,719 --> 00:45:42,440
Speaker 1: route we could take where you basically strip away everything

921
00:45:42,480 --> 00:45:45,279
Speaker 1: that was attractive about it, and you take out all

922
00:45:45,320 --> 00:45:47,799
Speaker 1: the local mom and pops and chain restaurants come in

923
00:45:47,840 --> 00:45:49,920
Speaker 1: and take over. And I know we're hitting on a

924
00:45:49,920 --> 00:45:53,239
Speaker 1: lot of other socioeconomic themes here, but that's the way

925
00:45:53,280 --> 00:45:56,720
Speaker 1: it is. Bruce Hornsby, how many artists can I shout

926
00:45:56,719 --> 00:46:01,560
Speaker 1: out in one Ada Lib segment? Let's just see the

927
00:46:01,600 --> 00:46:03,879
Speaker 1: point is, I'm not going to sit here and tell

928
00:46:03,920 --> 00:46:05,920
Speaker 1: you how to feel when I don't fully know how

929
00:46:05,920 --> 00:46:08,080
Speaker 1: I feel. That's about as real as I could be

930
00:46:08,200 --> 00:46:09,759
Speaker 1: with you. I don't know how I feel about it,

931
00:46:09,840 --> 00:46:11,680
Speaker 1: yet I know I love the sport. I know it's

932
00:46:11,719 --> 00:46:14,000
Speaker 1: been my favorite forever and I hope always will be

933
00:46:14,080 --> 00:46:17,239
Speaker 1: my favorite forever. I haven't been any happier than some

934
00:46:17,280 --> 00:46:19,440
Speaker 1: of you have been. I've heard some other folks. Yeah,

935
00:46:19,440 --> 00:46:21,520
Speaker 1: I listened to Joel Klatt the other day talk about

936
00:46:21,560 --> 00:46:24,839
Speaker 1: how he loves where we're headed. He thought it was necessary.

937
00:46:25,400 --> 00:46:28,360
Speaker 1: He thinks that in time, everyone who loves college football

938
00:46:28,400 --> 00:46:31,200
Speaker 1: will come to appreciate it. I'm man enough to say,

939
00:46:31,239 --> 00:46:32,719
Speaker 1: I hope he's right. I hope I'm wrong on that.

940
00:46:32,800 --> 00:46:35,919
Speaker 1: I hope he's right. I have my doubts, but man,

941
00:46:36,000 --> 00:46:38,600
Speaker 1: I hope he's I appreciate the optimism. I'm happy to

942
00:46:38,600 --> 00:46:41,880
Speaker 1: share the optimism, but mine's a little more guarded, I

943
00:46:41,920 --> 00:46:44,279
Speaker 1: would say so. I just wanted to play that from

944
00:46:44,320 --> 00:46:46,759
Speaker 1: Mike Gundy before I head out of here tonight, let

945
00:46:46,800 --> 00:46:48,839
Speaker 1: me remind you of some things. So, as you've seen

946
00:46:48,880 --> 00:46:52,200
Speaker 1: and as I've told you on this show, this channel

947
00:46:52,280 --> 00:46:55,759
Speaker 1: is ours now. Wasn't a hostile takeover, but it's ours now,

948
00:46:56,120 --> 00:46:58,320
Speaker 1: and there is a new twenty four to seven channel.

949
00:46:58,960 --> 00:47:01,399
Speaker 1: And Cooper protect Or is he's known on this show.

950
00:47:01,440 --> 00:47:03,640
Speaker 1: Cooper Patanya actually is probably sitting right through that wall

951
00:47:03,719 --> 00:47:05,160
Speaker 1: right now he's in town. They're doing a bunch of

952
00:47:05,200 --> 00:47:07,839
Speaker 1: stuff tomorrow, their entire rankings Council. So let me tell

953
00:47:07,840 --> 00:47:10,600
Speaker 1: you what's coming tomorrow. I would highly advise you to

954
00:47:10,680 --> 00:47:13,040
Speaker 1: subscribe to the twenty four to seven Sports YouTube channel.

955
00:47:13,360 --> 00:47:15,520
Speaker 1: So here's what's happening. Busy Monday. I'm going to be

956
00:47:15,520 --> 00:47:18,600
Speaker 1: in Atlanta, but here in Nashville. You've got the new

957
00:47:18,680 --> 00:47:21,960
Speaker 1: twenty four to seven rankings drop. Tomorrow, there's a rankings drop.

958
00:47:22,760 --> 00:47:25,239
Speaker 1: The twenty four seven Sports YouTube channel will have a

959
00:47:25,280 --> 00:47:28,799
Speaker 1: lot of this ten am Eastern time. They're going to

960
00:47:28,800 --> 00:47:32,080
Speaker 1: be eleven new five stars revealed. That'll be ten am

961
00:47:32,120 --> 00:47:36,080
Speaker 1: on the channel. At noon Eastern they will reveal the

962
00:47:36,120 --> 00:47:38,879
Speaker 1: top thirty two. Big question there, of course, is arch

963
00:47:38,920 --> 00:47:42,239
Speaker 1: Manning's still number one. I've been a big Dante More guy.

964
00:47:42,680 --> 00:47:44,920
Speaker 1: They locked the door. I bang on the rankings Council door.

965
00:47:44,960 --> 00:47:46,799
Speaker 1: They won't let me in. Is arch Manning is still

966
00:47:46,800 --> 00:47:50,160
Speaker 1: going to be number one? That we will find out tomorrow. Also,

967
00:47:50,400 --> 00:47:53,240
Speaker 1: this is what I'm excited about. So Preps to Pros

968
00:47:53,640 --> 00:47:56,759
Speaker 1: is a concept show that became a Twitter show that

969
00:47:56,880 --> 00:47:59,920
Speaker 1: is now becoming a full YouTube show. It's with Cooper Tag,

970
00:48:00,280 --> 00:48:03,080
Speaker 1: It's with Andrew Ivans. I think those two compliment each

971
00:48:03,080 --> 00:48:05,560
Speaker 1: other very well. You know, we don't give many endorsements

972
00:48:05,600 --> 00:48:08,680
Speaker 1: out around here. That is a product that if you

973
00:48:08,840 --> 00:48:12,520
Speaker 1: evalue kind of a balance between the evaluation and the

974
00:48:12,560 --> 00:48:15,440
Speaker 1: inside scoop, which is all you need to cover recruiting.

975
00:48:15,920 --> 00:48:19,000
Speaker 1: Those two have as perfect a blend as anybody else

976
00:48:19,000 --> 00:48:21,279
Speaker 1: I see in the industry right now. It's an underserved

977
00:48:21,280 --> 00:48:25,279
Speaker 1: aspect of the industry, quite frankly. So that show will

978
00:48:25,320 --> 00:48:28,000
Speaker 1: begin airing on the twenty four to seven Sports YouTube channel,

979
00:48:28,040 --> 00:48:30,279
Speaker 1: So there's a lot coming. I mean, yeah, I think

980
00:48:30,320 --> 00:48:32,319
Speaker 1: I got it all. Subscribe to that channel. It's a

981
00:48:32,400 --> 00:48:34,759
Speaker 1: very good compliment to our channel, and there's a lot

982
00:48:34,800 --> 00:48:36,880
Speaker 1: coming on there that's really scratching the surface of what

983
00:48:36,920 --> 00:48:39,200
Speaker 1: they have down the road. I am privy to some

984
00:48:39,280 --> 00:48:41,480
Speaker 1: of that information, but I'll let them share it with you.

985
00:48:41,800 --> 00:48:44,279
Speaker 1: So Big day tomorrow, we're going to be in Atlanta. Now,

986
00:48:44,280 --> 00:48:46,359
Speaker 1: what I cannot tell you yet is exactly what time

987
00:48:46,360 --> 00:48:49,160
Speaker 1: we're going live professional I know that's the world we

988
00:48:49,200 --> 00:48:51,239
Speaker 1: live in, but I believe they got to set up

989
00:48:51,239 --> 00:48:54,200
Speaker 1: at the Hall of Fame there, so somewhere in the

990
00:48:54,280 --> 00:48:58,080
Speaker 1: pre evening, as I'm told, it's called five six six

991
00:48:58,239 --> 00:49:01,680
Speaker 1: thirty Eastern somewhere around there. We'll go live Monday, Tuesday

992
00:49:01,680 --> 00:49:05,239
Speaker 1: and Wednesday Thursday. Probably gonna have some pretty interesting interviews

993
00:49:05,440 --> 00:49:07,879
Speaker 1: that you'll want to catch. That's all I can tell you. Well,

994
00:49:07,880 --> 00:49:11,040
Speaker 1: that's all I know, But until now, catch us all week.

995
00:49:11,160 --> 00:49:13,960
Speaker 1: Subscribe to the channel like the video for producer Jesse,

996
00:49:14,120 --> 00:49:16,440
Speaker 1: for director polland and our entire crew. I'm Josh Bate.

997
00:49:16,520 --> 00:49:19,080
Speaker 1: Have yourselves a great start for your week. For God

998
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Speaker 1: bless