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Speaker 1: Man, Welcome to Lake Is Live. It is Sunday night,

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Speaker 1: July thirty first, the Year of Our Lord, twenty twenty two.

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Speaker 1: It's going to be August in like five hours, which

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Speaker 1: means we've got college football this month, or at least week.

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Speaker 1: We'll be able to say that in about five hours.

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Speaker 1: Pay Some names out there just more important than others

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Speaker 1: in this sport this year, and we will talk about that.

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Speaker 1: To lead the show tonight, we are jam packed high

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Speaker 1: at top a happening downtown Nashville, Tennessee. Like I said

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Speaker 1: the other day, if it's going on, it's going on

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Speaker 1: here this weekend. The most important names in college football

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Speaker 1: this year. It could be a commissioner, it could be

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Speaker 1: a coach, could be a coordinator, could be a player.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna go down a list, at least to start

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Speaker 1: with tonight. We're gonna hit about five names. Also, a

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Speaker 1: ton of recruiting momentum for some programs that just about

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Speaker 1: a month ago were being questioned, perhaps even on this show,

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Speaker 1: and they've responded in a big way. We got Bold

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Speaker 1: Predictions Chapter twenty eight tonight. Also some thoughts now that

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Speaker 1: I've had a few days to marinate on it, on

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Speaker 1: what the PAC twelve Commissioner George Klakoff said at PACK

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Speaker 1: twelve Media Days, because it should resonate well beyond the

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Speaker 1: PAC twelve and it's not just one of those let's

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Speaker 1: fight for the integrity of the sport. No. I'm speaking

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Speaker 1: a lot more tonight, at least about some dollars and cents,

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Speaker 1: some behind the scenes mechanisms that are in play when

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Speaker 1: it comes to the big ten media rights deal and

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Speaker 1: how that's going to impact PAC twelve. It's pretty fascinating

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Speaker 1: stuff and it matters to everyone. You just don't hear

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Speaker 1: people talk about it a lot, because, truth be told,

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Speaker 1: from that angle, and I at least somewhat do so

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Speaker 1: by default that's going to make me an authority on it.

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Speaker 1: So I'll speak on that tonight. Brunswick, Georgia. They are

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Speaker 1: tuned in watching from Brunswick, Lawton, Oklahoma, Salem, Ohio. They're

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Speaker 1: watching us in the Philippines and hip man Harry just

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Speaker 1: the live chat here. Hey, a week from tonight, do

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Speaker 1: you know what starts? A week from tonight? We go

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Speaker 1: to three nights per week formatting. So starting Sunday night

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Speaker 1: a week from now, we'll have a show, Then we'll

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Speaker 1: have a show on Tuesday, then we'll have a show

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Speaker 1: on Thursday, and it'll be that way until what like February.

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Speaker 1: I think that's normally when we let our foot off

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Speaker 1: the gas just a little bit. But that whole note

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Speaker 1: off season vibe, we're almost done having to talk about that. Hey,

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Speaker 1: I got something to show you guys, And if you're

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Speaker 1: listening on podcasts, I'm been going to describe this as

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Speaker 1: eloquently as I can. As you know, we were out

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Speaker 1: in California about three or three or some odd weeks ago,

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Speaker 1: and we have been driving. I mean we bled for this,

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Speaker 1: you and I. We were driving to get to one

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Speaker 1: hundred thousand subscriptions on the YouTube channel and if you're watching,

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Speaker 1: please subscribe. Well, I was so sidetracked when we were

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Speaker 1: YouTube channel and so everybody clapped whoo. But you know

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Speaker 1: why we were excited because we knew this bad boy

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Speaker 1: Look at that I'm trying to turn it where you

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Speaker 1: can see it Late Kick with Josh one hundred thousand

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Speaker 1: it so you hear how solid that is. A bright

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Speaker 1: wanted this, Jesse wanted this, but director Colin he needed

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Speaker 1: this thing. The first day I met Colin and I

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Speaker 1: we get there, and pretty much every week since then,

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Speaker 1: as long as I've known Colin, he has talked about

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Speaker 1: Speaking of the show, let's dive into it tonight. We

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Speaker 1: Who are the most important people? What are the most

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Speaker 1: important names in college football? That's a question I posed

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Speaker 1: to you guys earlier today, and man, it's like opening

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Speaker 1: I told you to me, pound for pound. One of

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Speaker 1: the most important names in college football this year's Jim Knowles.

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Speaker 1: And that is the new Ohio State defensive coordinator by

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Speaker 1: So he's come in there, and this is really important.

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Speaker 1: outside of our walls to get the replacement. Here's why

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Speaker 1: showing on the screen the ineptitude of the Ohio State defense.

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Speaker 1: And this is a place where largely you should be

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Speaker 1: Ohio State defensively. If this year manifests the same kind

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Speaker 1: very important name in college football this year, not just

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Speaker 1: by Bold Predictions, Chapter twenty eight. We have gotten almost

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Speaker 1: to thirty. There's nothing stopping us now except the season

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Speaker 1: at some point getting in our way. Let's start with

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Speaker 1: one of our good, close, dear friends, Dave bartwo or

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Speaker 1: He said, I wouldn't say this is bold, Uncle Dave.

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Speaker 1: We will decide how bold this is. You just give

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Speaker 1: us your prediction, he said. My favorite three in the

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Speaker 1: preseason top twenty five to not be there at the

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Speaker 1: end of the season are Pit, Cincinnati, and Ole Miss.

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Speaker 1: What do we think about this? I put a nine

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Speaker 1: flat on the boldness scale of one to ten. You

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Speaker 1: could sell me. You could give me a plausible scenario

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Speaker 1: where any one of these three teams finish the season

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Speaker 1: outside the top twenty five. It could happen. Cincinnati is

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Speaker 1: a G five team, so normally if they lose three games,

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Speaker 1: Pit probably need four losses. Maybe I don't know. It

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Speaker 1: just depends on how the rest of the country shakes out.

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Speaker 1: So you could sell me on one of them, but

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Speaker 1: three of them, all three of these, and these are

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Speaker 1: solid reputations they have. I'm not so sure that's happening.

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Speaker 1: And also keep in mind what you need. You don't

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Speaker 1: just need them to fall. You need the right confluence

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Speaker 1: of events around them to transpire for them to all

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Speaker 1: three be outside the top twenty five. It is. It's

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Speaker 1: a great, big difference when you say top fifteen versus

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Speaker 1: top twenty five. You start getting into some three and

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Speaker 1: four loss minutia when you get into the twenty to

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Speaker 1: nine and a half, that's the G five team in

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Speaker 1: this group. They're just they're too well coached, they're too

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Speaker 1: well constructed. Even if they are off this year, look

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Speaker 1: may very well be there on the every given Saturday

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Speaker 1: tour in Fayetble. You know, I got to get there

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Speaker 1: at some point this year. They're a seven point dog

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Speaker 1: in that game. Maybe they'll lose it. Let's say for

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Speaker 1: arguments sake, they do, guys it. The rest of the

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Speaker 1: way is very favorable for them, and they'll be favored

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Speaker 1: I just don't see I don't see all three of them.

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Speaker 1: I gotta have all three of them happening. It's not

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Speaker 1: happening Ole Miss maybe individually in a vacuum. I told

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Speaker 1: you the other night, if I had to take an

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Speaker 1: under in the West, it would be All Miss. I

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Speaker 1: would take under seven and a half wins. But look,

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Speaker 1: and then we get into the power rating world. Even

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Speaker 1: if Ole Miss is seven and five this year, which

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Speaker 1: would be under the seven point five preseason win total,

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Speaker 1: just because of the division they play in, they may

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Speaker 1: top twenty five. So I'm gonna go with a nine

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Speaker 1: on the boldness scale. Next up, this one got an

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Speaker 1: eight from me. Clark said, there is going to be

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Speaker 1: an SEC team not named Bama or Georgia in the

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Speaker 1: college football Playoff this year. Now, oddsmakers would clearly tell

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Speaker 1: you this is going to be Texas, A and M.

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Speaker 1: If it's not Bama and Georgia, it would be Texas.

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Speaker 1: A and M. Their preseason over under win totals eight

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Speaker 1: and a half. By comparison, Georgia and Bama both have

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Speaker 1: eleven as their preseason over underwent total. The perception out there,

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Speaker 1: which I think is reality, is you have two prime candidates,

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Speaker 1: just as you did a year ago. You got tied,

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Speaker 1: you got dogs, then you got a gap, and then

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Speaker 1: you got maybe one or two teams maybe A and

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Speaker 1: M and Tennessee are kind of floating there. But Jesse

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Speaker 1: Colin punched it. But he's showing you the preseason national

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Speaker 1: title odds on the screen. Here's how that sounds for

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Speaker 1: those of you on podcast. Alabama plus one eighty, now

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Speaker 1: that's to win the whole thing. Georgia plus four to

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Speaker 1: twenty five. Do you know who the next closest team

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Speaker 1: That would be A and M, and they are at

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Speaker 1: plus twenty five hundred, and then it's LSU at plus

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Speaker 1: five thousand. So there's a steep, and I mean a steep,

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Speaker 1: a precipitous drop off if you will, after the first

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Speaker 1: two there. Anyway, the prediction was someone not named Bama

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Speaker 1: and Georgia from the SEC will be in the playoff.

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Speaker 1: To me, that's Texas A and M. And to me

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Speaker 1: that is an eight on the Boldness scale. Quarterback play,

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Speaker 1: quarterback play, quarterback play. I had someone going at it

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Speaker 1: is A and M really going to do this year?

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Speaker 1: What are they really capable of? And I said, well,

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Speaker 1: if they have plus level quarterback play there capable of

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Speaker 1: making the playoff. Now I get how how big a

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Speaker 1: A and M football, didn't we Over the last couple

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Speaker 1: improving depth across the board, vastly improved defensive football team.

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Speaker 1: They've at various times had some of the best offensive

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Speaker 1: lines in college football out there, but they have not

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Speaker 1: been able to stretch the field on you. That's the

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Speaker 1: long and short of it. It's so easy to say,

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Speaker 1: it's so hard to rectify. I was talking to someone

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Speaker 1: And I will continue. If you're not done talking, continue,

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Speaker 1: They said, watch how many pre snap shifting and motioning

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Speaker 1: answer is virtually nil. He doesn't believe he needs to

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Speaker 1: eleven robots on the field. You got eleven living, breathing

641
00:31:14,800 --> 00:31:17,280
Speaker 1: humans that were born less than twenty years ago in

642
00:31:17,280 --> 00:31:20,160
Speaker 1: most cases. So sometimes you need some margin for aaron.

643
00:31:20,200 --> 00:31:22,560
Speaker 1: There's not a lot of it baked into Jimbo's offense. Well,

644
00:31:22,560 --> 00:31:24,840
Speaker 1: if we get better quarterback play this year, the point

645
00:31:24,920 --> 00:31:27,600
Speaker 1: is A and M would be that team. I do

646
00:31:27,640 --> 00:31:31,719
Speaker 1: not necessarily foresee this being the year that someone not

647
00:31:31,800 --> 00:31:34,800
Speaker 1: named Bama and or Georgia breaks through here. So I'm

648
00:31:34,800 --> 00:31:36,840
Speaker 1: gonna say it's an eight. I'm gonna say it's an

649
00:31:36,880 --> 00:31:39,560
Speaker 1: eight that a team not named Bama or Georgia goes

650
00:31:39,600 --> 00:31:42,560
Speaker 1: to the playoff from the SEC. This next one is

651
00:31:45,320 --> 00:31:47,120
Speaker 1: on the surface, it looks really bold, but then you

652
00:31:47,160 --> 00:31:49,680
Speaker 1: dive in and it's not that bold. So DJ said,

653
00:31:50,200 --> 00:31:54,240
Speaker 1: Utah will be the only Power five team to repeat

654
00:31:54,440 --> 00:31:57,719
Speaker 1: as a conference champion, and they'll make it to the playoff. Now,

655
00:31:57,760 --> 00:31:59,960
Speaker 1: out of the interest of fairness, I'm just gonna acknowledge

656
00:31:59,960 --> 00:32:02,680
Speaker 1: the first part here. They'll be the only team to

657
00:32:02,800 --> 00:32:06,760
Speaker 1: repeat as a conference champ. Quick reset, Who were your

658
00:32:06,760 --> 00:32:10,520
Speaker 1: conference champs at Power five level last year? Pitt won

659
00:32:10,520 --> 00:32:14,360
Speaker 1: the ACC, Baylor won the Big twelve, Michigan won the

660
00:32:14,360 --> 00:32:17,760
Speaker 1: Big Ten, Utah the aforementioned utes, they won the PAC twelve,

661
00:32:17,800 --> 00:32:21,200
Speaker 1: and Alabama won the SEC. If you're not careful, you'll

662
00:32:21,200 --> 00:32:24,320
Speaker 1: convince yourself. Georgia won the SEC last year. No, they

663
00:32:24,320 --> 00:32:26,440
Speaker 1: won the rematch in the national title game. You got

664
00:32:26,520 --> 00:32:30,840
Speaker 1: Nick Saban and Obama as your SEC champ. I think

665
00:32:30,880 --> 00:32:34,760
Speaker 1: this is like a six on the boldness scale. This

666
00:32:34,840 --> 00:32:37,320
Speaker 1: is a situation where if we go down the list

667
00:32:37,400 --> 00:32:40,360
Speaker 1: right quick to give you an idea to rephrase here,

668
00:32:40,680 --> 00:32:43,600
Speaker 1: the prediction is Utah is the only team that won

669
00:32:43,640 --> 00:32:45,800
Speaker 1: a conference title last year that's going to repeat this

670
00:32:45,880 --> 00:32:49,200
Speaker 1: conference champ this year, Utah is a co favorite to

671
00:32:49,240 --> 00:32:52,640
Speaker 1: win the Pac twelve. They are plus two ten co favorites,

672
00:32:52,880 --> 00:32:57,960
Speaker 1: with USC Okay in the ACC last year's champ, Pitt.

673
00:32:58,200 --> 00:33:01,560
Speaker 1: They are not your favorite. In fact, they are one

674
00:33:01,720 --> 00:33:05,280
Speaker 1: two three. They are tied for third in the odds.

675
00:33:05,400 --> 00:33:07,560
Speaker 1: Clemson is a minus one to twenty favorite, then it's

676
00:33:07,600 --> 00:33:11,160
Speaker 1: Miami plus five hundred. Then NC State and Pitt are

677
00:33:11,200 --> 00:33:14,239
Speaker 1: plus eight hundred, so they're not expected to win the thing.

678
00:33:14,440 --> 00:33:16,760
Speaker 1: Expectation doesn't mean a whole lot once we kick it off,

679
00:33:16,760 --> 00:33:18,640
Speaker 1: but just to give you an idea where Vegas stacks

680
00:33:18,720 --> 00:33:21,280
Speaker 1: these teams up. What about the Big twelve? Where is Baylor?

681
00:33:21,760 --> 00:33:24,440
Speaker 1: We've talked about Baylor a considerable amount over the past week.

682
00:33:24,640 --> 00:33:28,280
Speaker 1: Baylor is fourth odds on favorite to win the Big

683
00:33:28,320 --> 00:33:32,840
Speaker 1: twelve at plus six p fifty by comparison, Oklahoma Texas

684
00:33:33,120 --> 00:33:35,880
Speaker 1: plus two to twenty co favorites. Next up in the

685
00:33:35,880 --> 00:33:38,920
Speaker 1: Big ten. Michigan is your chant from last year. They're

686
00:33:38,920 --> 00:33:41,760
Speaker 1: well behind Ohio State in terms of odds. Ohio State

687
00:33:41,760 --> 00:33:44,560
Speaker 1: a minus two to fifty favorite, and Michigan's next and

688
00:33:44,560 --> 00:33:47,800
Speaker 1: their plus seven to fifty, so a very sizeable gap.

689
00:33:47,960 --> 00:33:52,120
Speaker 1: Perceptionally in the odds market between Ohio State and Michigan,

690
00:33:52,160 --> 00:33:54,560
Speaker 1: and then you got Bama. This is where you're gonna

691
00:33:54,640 --> 00:33:56,800
Speaker 1: run into a little bit of a problem because Bama

692
00:33:56,960 --> 00:33:59,440
Speaker 1: is a pretty big favorite twin the SEC. They're minus

693
00:33:59,480 --> 00:34:02,000
Speaker 1: one to forty. Georgia's next at plus one point forty.

694
00:34:02,240 --> 00:34:06,160
Speaker 1: It is widely assumed in the odds making community they

695
00:34:06,200 --> 00:34:10,080
Speaker 1: will play again for the SEC championship. So you can

696
00:34:10,120 --> 00:34:13,080
Speaker 1: sell me on Pitt and Baylor and Michigan not winning

697
00:34:13,160 --> 00:34:16,480
Speaker 1: their conferences again and Utah does win the PAC twelve,

698
00:34:16,520 --> 00:34:19,600
Speaker 1: but you still got the Bama factor to deal with,

699
00:34:19,960 --> 00:34:22,239
Speaker 1: and Alabama as of today, would be my pick to

700
00:34:22,280 --> 00:34:25,560
Speaker 1: win the SEC. So because of that, I made this

701
00:34:25,800 --> 00:34:29,120
Speaker 1: a six on the boldness scale. Because George is still

702
00:34:29,120 --> 00:34:30,920
Speaker 1: gonna have a really good team this year, and you

703
00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:33,520
Speaker 1: also you could have something really crazy happen and Bama

704
00:34:33,520 --> 00:34:35,840
Speaker 1: don't play for the SEC, or Bama doesn't play for

705
00:34:35,880 --> 00:34:38,520
Speaker 1: the SEC title. It would be unlikely. So I made

706
00:34:38,520 --> 00:34:41,560
Speaker 1: that a six on the boldness scale. Next up, we

707
00:34:41,600 --> 00:34:43,759
Speaker 1: had to do some digging on this one. There will

708
00:34:43,760 --> 00:34:46,840
Speaker 1: be zero undefeated teams at the end of the regular season.

709
00:34:47,560 --> 00:34:50,239
Speaker 1: Now we're talking about regular season here. If we were

710
00:34:50,280 --> 00:34:52,840
Speaker 1: talking about the full season, which counts conference titles and

711
00:34:52,840 --> 00:34:57,799
Speaker 1: the playoffs and bowl season. It's fairly uncommon, but it's

712
00:34:57,840 --> 00:35:00,879
Speaker 1: not unheard of to have zero undefat at the end

713
00:35:00,920 --> 00:35:04,799
Speaker 1: of the entire season. Twenty twenty one last year we

714
00:35:04,880 --> 00:35:08,600
Speaker 1: did not have an undefeated at the very end. Twenty fourteen,

715
00:35:08,719 --> 00:35:11,040
Speaker 1: fifteen and sixteen we did. In twenty eleven we did,

716
00:35:11,239 --> 00:35:13,719
Speaker 1: so it still happens, but it's a little more rare.

717
00:35:14,040 --> 00:35:17,319
Speaker 1: But just the regular season, this is this is not

718
00:35:17,520 --> 00:35:21,000
Speaker 1: this very bold to say we're going to have no undefeateds,

719
00:35:21,400 --> 00:35:23,520
Speaker 1: cause I'm going to put this at an eight point

720
00:35:23,560 --> 00:35:28,719
Speaker 1: seventy five. We have undefeateds all the time at the

721
00:35:28,800 --> 00:35:31,200
Speaker 1: end of the regular season. In fact, Jesse's showing you

722
00:35:31,280 --> 00:35:33,719
Speaker 1: right now, we had two of them last year. We

723
00:35:33,800 --> 00:35:37,239
Speaker 1: had three and twenty nineteen, four in twenty eighteen, two

724
00:35:37,280 --> 00:35:40,359
Speaker 1: in twenty seventeen. So most years we have multiples. And

725
00:35:40,440 --> 00:35:42,840
Speaker 1: we excluded the twenty twenty year just because it was

726
00:35:42,920 --> 00:35:46,640
Speaker 1: lopsided due to COVID, So I mean we had some

727
00:35:46,760 --> 00:35:49,920
Speaker 1: that year too. Point being, if you look at the

728
00:35:50,040 --> 00:35:53,040
Speaker 1: highest win totals in college football this year, we have

729
00:35:53,239 --> 00:35:56,239
Speaker 1: three teams at eleven. That's Bama Georgia, Ohio State, we

730
00:35:56,280 --> 00:35:59,000
Speaker 1: have Clemson at ten and a half. Someone's going undefeated

731
00:35:59,040 --> 00:36:01,680
Speaker 1: in the regular season. Now, the good news, I guess

732
00:36:01,719 --> 00:36:04,680
Speaker 1: for the prediction is there is no slam dunk G

733
00:36:04,880 --> 00:36:07,120
Speaker 1: five team. There's no G five team this year where

734
00:36:07,120 --> 00:36:13,080
Speaker 1: you look and you say, who's going to stop them? Houston, Central, Florida, Cincinnati,

735
00:36:13,080 --> 00:36:15,319
Speaker 1: Who's going to stop them? They're a virtual lot to

736
00:36:15,360 --> 00:36:18,520
Speaker 1: go undefeated. We'll just see how wide the scoring margins are.

737
00:36:18,640 --> 00:36:20,759
Speaker 1: There's not that team this year. But even having said that,

738
00:36:21,320 --> 00:36:24,520
Speaker 1: Ohio State and if not them, Bama, if not them, Georgia,

739
00:36:24,520 --> 00:36:27,560
Speaker 1: if Clemson, someone's going undefeated in the regular season. So

740
00:36:27,600 --> 00:36:29,719
Speaker 1: I made that one an eight point seventy five last

741
00:36:29,800 --> 00:36:33,880
Speaker 1: one here, this hits close to home. Morgan said, the

742
00:36:33,960 --> 00:36:37,799
Speaker 1: Every Given Saturday Tour will make a stop in Columbia

743
00:36:37,960 --> 00:36:42,560
Speaker 1: Missouri for four and zero Missouri versus Georgia in Week five.

744
00:36:43,440 --> 00:36:47,839
Speaker 1: For those unfamiliar, this is what we do. We and

745
00:36:47,880 --> 00:36:51,239
Speaker 1: it's me really every Saturday in the fall, I just

746
00:36:51,320 --> 00:36:53,439
Speaker 1: go to whichever game I want to and we call

747
00:36:53,480 --> 00:36:55,760
Speaker 1: it something. This year we call it the Every Given

748
00:36:55,800 --> 00:37:00,560
Speaker 1: Saturday Tour. Last year was the Renaissance Tour, and we

749
00:37:00,600 --> 00:37:02,880
Speaker 1: get to choose where we go, and we're looking to

750
00:37:02,920 --> 00:37:04,839
Speaker 1: go to the biggest game. We're looking to see as

751
00:37:04,840 --> 00:37:06,560
Speaker 1: many teams as possible. We're looking to be in the

752
00:37:06,600 --> 00:37:10,719
Speaker 1: best environment on a Saturday. And so you may look

753
00:37:10,760 --> 00:37:14,400
Speaker 1: at this suggestion like I do, and say, what Georgia

754
00:37:14,440 --> 00:37:17,040
Speaker 1: Missouri is going to be that game week five? Well,

755
00:37:17,600 --> 00:37:19,759
Speaker 1: this is a nine point five for a reason. I

756
00:37:19,760 --> 00:37:22,560
Speaker 1: don't think I'm going to be in Columbia Missouri in

757
00:37:22,600 --> 00:37:26,600
Speaker 1: week five. We got Bama at Arkansas that day. And

758
00:37:26,680 --> 00:37:28,799
Speaker 1: if Arkansas has already lost some games and it's not

759
00:37:28,880 --> 00:37:30,920
Speaker 1: as attractive, you know what else we got that day?

760
00:37:31,040 --> 00:37:33,600
Speaker 1: Michigan at Iowa. I have never been to a game

761
00:37:33,640 --> 00:37:36,719
Speaker 1: at Iowa. Went to Iowa State last year. Never been

762
00:37:36,760 --> 00:37:40,000
Speaker 1: to a game at Iowa. Michigan's going to be undefeated

763
00:37:40,440 --> 00:37:44,120
Speaker 1: that afternoon. If Iowa gets past Iowa State, I believe

764
00:37:44,280 --> 00:37:46,759
Speaker 1: I was probably going to be undefeated that afternoon. That

765
00:37:46,840 --> 00:37:48,719
Speaker 1: would I'm going to go ahead and tell you we'd

766
00:37:48,760 --> 00:37:51,400
Speaker 1: probably be there if that was the case. LSU's at Auburn.

767
00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:54,960
Speaker 1: Both of those teams could be undefeated that afternoon. Oklahoma

768
00:37:54,960 --> 00:37:57,080
Speaker 1: State at Baylor, as I said the other night, is

769
00:37:57,120 --> 00:37:59,960
Speaker 1: the sneakiest game in the early portion of the season period,

770
00:38:00,440 --> 00:38:04,320
Speaker 1: that's that afternoon. Oh you is at TCU that afternoon,

771
00:38:04,520 --> 00:38:07,360
Speaker 1: so NC states that Clemson that afternoon. I overlooked that

772
00:38:07,480 --> 00:38:11,359
Speaker 1: in my notes. So the reason I'm so emphatic there

773
00:38:11,560 --> 00:38:13,520
Speaker 1: because I'm telling you we're probably not gonna be at Missouri.

774
00:38:13,560 --> 00:38:16,040
Speaker 1: That's a nine point five at least, you know what,

775
00:38:16,080 --> 00:38:17,600
Speaker 1: I'm gonna ahead, mump it up. That's a nine point

776
00:38:17,640 --> 00:38:21,360
Speaker 1: seventy five. Now, whether Missouri will be four and oh

777
00:38:21,520 --> 00:38:23,000
Speaker 1: what have they had to do? They got to go

778
00:38:23,000 --> 00:38:25,640
Speaker 1: to Kansas State and win, not easy at all, and

779
00:38:25,680 --> 00:38:27,120
Speaker 1: they have to go to You know what, I don't

780
00:38:27,120 --> 00:38:28,920
Speaker 1: think Missouri is going to be unefeated by that point.

781
00:38:29,440 --> 00:38:32,080
Speaker 1: If they are, we will we will hard golf clap

782
00:38:32,120 --> 00:38:34,400
Speaker 1: for the Tigers on this show. But I still don't

783
00:38:34,400 --> 00:38:37,680
Speaker 1: believe that we'll be at that game even if they're undefeated.

784
00:38:37,719 --> 00:38:40,640
Speaker 1: You know how big Georgia would be favored in that game,

785
00:38:41,000 --> 00:38:43,600
Speaker 1: and it just it's the same reason we're probably not

786
00:38:43,640 --> 00:38:46,239
Speaker 1: going to Georgia versus Oregon week one. The line on

787
00:38:46,280 --> 00:38:49,359
Speaker 1: the game seventeen and a half. So what we don't

788
00:38:49,400 --> 00:38:51,760
Speaker 1: want is we don't want to be at a game

789
00:38:52,120 --> 00:38:54,759
Speaker 1: on the every given Saturday tour and be in the

790
00:38:54,800 --> 00:38:57,839
Speaker 1: media suite at halftime and it's thirty one to three

791
00:38:57,880 --> 00:39:00,200
Speaker 1: and you're saying, why did we come to this one?

792
00:39:00,719 --> 00:39:03,280
Speaker 1: That's what we want to avoid. We saw four field

793
00:39:03,320 --> 00:39:06,800
Speaker 1: stormings last year. That's where we want to be, all right.

794
00:39:06,880 --> 00:39:09,320
Speaker 1: So that's it. That's all for bold predictions. They're watching

795
00:39:09,360 --> 00:39:12,920
Speaker 1: us in Washington, Missouri tonight. Not that we're against the

796
00:39:12,960 --> 00:39:14,520
Speaker 1: show me state, we just probably won't be there in

797
00:39:14,560 --> 00:39:18,000
Speaker 1: week five. Columbia South Carolina's tune tuned in Denver, Colorado

798
00:39:18,000 --> 00:39:22,799
Speaker 1: tuned in Round Rock, Texas. They are tuned in. Recruiting

799
00:39:22,960 --> 00:39:25,000
Speaker 1: is on fire and we need to talk about it

800
00:39:25,040 --> 00:39:27,200
Speaker 1: because there are some programs that are surging right now

801
00:39:27,680 --> 00:39:30,120
Speaker 1: and I don't know how to say it. Welcome to

802
00:39:30,160 --> 00:39:33,839
Speaker 1: the party, Florida. They asked me all week you're gonna

803
00:39:33,840 --> 00:39:35,800
Speaker 1: talk about us? You're finally gonna talk about it Saturday

804
00:39:35,880 --> 00:39:38,839
Speaker 1: or Sunday. Yes, yes, And you know why because there

805
00:39:39,000 --> 00:39:42,120
Speaker 1: is not smoke. There's just straight up fire from gamesvill

806
00:39:42,200 --> 00:39:45,440
Speaker 1: Florida in recruiting now, Billy Nampier has tweeted out that

807
00:39:45,600 --> 00:39:48,120
Speaker 1: smile wearing the shades. I don't know how many times

808
00:39:48,320 --> 00:39:51,200
Speaker 1: over the past few days, and with good reason. Jakeem Jackson,

809
00:39:51,239 --> 00:39:54,800
Speaker 1: four star corner committed. Jordan Castell, four star safety committed,

810
00:39:55,080 --> 00:39:57,920
Speaker 1: Aide Mozelle four star wide receiver committed, Andy Jeen. They

811
00:39:57,960 --> 00:40:01,040
Speaker 1: took him from the clutches of my four star wide

812
00:40:01,080 --> 00:40:04,719
Speaker 1: receiver committed. They are rolling and the Florida Gators once

813
00:40:04,800 --> 00:40:09,000
Speaker 1: left for dead, not necessarily by me contribute to allegations,

814
00:40:09,040 --> 00:40:11,480
Speaker 1: but by some. You know, they've got the twelfth rinth

815
00:40:11,520 --> 00:40:13,600
Speaker 1: class in the country right now. You know their average

816
00:40:13,600 --> 00:40:17,200
Speaker 1: player rating is ninety one point fourteen right now and

817
00:40:17,320 --> 00:40:21,480
Speaker 1: still climbing. They had the Friday Night Lights camp Friday night.

818
00:40:22,480 --> 00:40:25,600
Speaker 1: I had a text from someone in the know around

819
00:40:25,640 --> 00:40:28,680
Speaker 1: the Florida program. I said, how did FNL go? And

820
00:40:28,719 --> 00:40:33,120
Speaker 1: they texted back A plus plus plus. I don't know

821
00:40:33,120 --> 00:40:35,800
Speaker 1: that anyone's ever texted me that. I ask my parents

822
00:40:35,800 --> 00:40:37,920
Speaker 1: how the show went tonight. They don't say, A plus

823
00:40:37,920 --> 00:40:42,080
Speaker 1: plus plus. So Friday Night Lights home run and you

824
00:40:42,480 --> 00:40:44,959
Speaker 1: land some commitments from that. That's great, as the folks

825
00:40:45,000 --> 00:40:48,080
Speaker 1: who follow the Florida program very well know. The key

826
00:40:48,120 --> 00:40:51,399
Speaker 1: there is the relationship building. You're trying to build layer

827
00:40:51,480 --> 00:40:55,560
Speaker 1: upon layer, class upon class worth of relationship building down there,

828
00:40:55,640 --> 00:40:57,840
Speaker 1: and with a new staff, it's imperative they do that,

829
00:40:58,520 --> 00:41:03,359
Speaker 1: as I've equated it several times watching the ebbs and

830
00:41:03,440 --> 00:41:06,920
Speaker 1: flows of the Florida recruiting effort under Billy Napier. So far,

831
00:41:07,200 --> 00:41:09,920
Speaker 1: it's like watching someone try and drink from a fire hose.

832
00:41:10,480 --> 00:41:13,440
Speaker 1: But the thing about it is they've gotten the worst

833
00:41:13,440 --> 00:41:15,680
Speaker 1: of the water pressure out of the way, and they're

834
00:41:15,719 --> 00:41:18,400
Speaker 1: starting to get some SIPs, and the SIPs turn into gulps.

835
00:41:18,880 --> 00:41:21,239
Speaker 1: They may finish with a top ten class. I did

836
00:41:21,320 --> 00:41:23,239
Speaker 1: not think that was possible. I will tell you that

837
00:41:23,719 --> 00:41:25,640
Speaker 1: I did not think it was possible. I was over

838
00:41:25,680 --> 00:41:27,480
Speaker 1: on Swamp twenty four seven a couple of weeks ago,

839
00:41:28,000 --> 00:41:31,680
Speaker 1: and I was fighting off some of the fringe lunatic

840
00:41:31,760 --> 00:41:34,240
Speaker 1: haters of me, and then there were just some normal

841
00:41:34,280 --> 00:41:36,840
Speaker 1: folks who also hate me. And then there were some

842
00:41:36,880 --> 00:41:39,160
Speaker 1: others that were willing to have a rational conversation. And

843
00:41:39,239 --> 00:41:42,960
Speaker 1: I said to them what I thought, which is my

844
00:41:43,080 --> 00:41:46,400
Speaker 1: strategy would be, you've already missed on some guys. The

845
00:41:46,520 --> 00:41:50,040
Speaker 1: NIL structure is seemingly wobbly behind the scenes, so my

846
00:41:50,160 --> 00:41:52,480
Speaker 1: strategy would be just finish as high as we can.

847
00:41:52,560 --> 00:41:54,560
Speaker 1: I think I said top twenty, trying to land a

848
00:41:54,600 --> 00:41:57,320
Speaker 1: top twenty class, but really get your ducks in a

849
00:41:57,400 --> 00:41:59,880
Speaker 1: row for the next cycle and fill in the gaps

850
00:42:00,120 --> 00:42:03,239
Speaker 1: the portal. I guess I underestimated what they were about

851
00:42:03,239 --> 00:42:05,040
Speaker 1: to do over the next month, because they're sitting there

852
00:42:05,120 --> 00:42:08,480
Speaker 1: number twelve right now. And so today here's the new

853
00:42:08,640 --> 00:42:12,080
Speaker 1: over under bet. Does Florida finish with a top ten class?

854
00:42:12,480 --> 00:42:14,359
Speaker 1: What are the odds? What can we get? I guess

855
00:42:14,360 --> 00:42:16,080
Speaker 1: we got to get Willfong not Vegas to set the

856
00:42:16,080 --> 00:42:18,720
Speaker 1: odds on this. Maybe Ivans Florida guys set the odds

857
00:42:18,719 --> 00:42:22,640
Speaker 1: on that. For me, I think they're gonna possibly maybe

858
00:42:22,880 --> 00:42:25,520
Speaker 1: Finch riding Fench writing they're maybe gonna finish top ten.

859
00:42:25,560 --> 00:42:29,080
Speaker 1: In recruiting, I it takes a big man to admit

860
00:42:29,120 --> 00:42:31,200
Speaker 1: when he was wrong, and I am that big man.

861
00:42:31,480 --> 00:42:35,040
Speaker 1: Florida recruiting has found a groove and it does not

862
00:42:35,120 --> 00:42:37,880
Speaker 1: look to be stopping anytime soon. Texas A and M

863
00:42:38,280 --> 00:42:41,880
Speaker 1: also making some moves. An M was in the sixties

864
00:42:42,000 --> 00:42:45,880
Speaker 1: last week, they're in the forties now ranked forty second

865
00:42:46,200 --> 00:42:48,680
Speaker 1: in the country. Those team rankings just creeping on up there.

866
00:42:49,680 --> 00:42:53,920
Speaker 1: Texts ags these people are maniacs. So Textags. I am

867
00:42:53,960 --> 00:42:56,000
Speaker 1: a frequent visitor there. It's not in the twenty four

868
00:42:56,000 --> 00:42:58,120
Speaker 1: to seven network, but I don't care. I go over

869
00:42:58,120 --> 00:43:02,000
Speaker 1: there anyway. I did a raty hit with Billy Lucci

870
00:43:02,120 --> 00:43:05,759
Speaker 1: last week, did oh man? It was a Ryan Fowlers show.

871
00:43:05,760 --> 00:43:08,319
Speaker 1: And we're both sitting there and are a MIC's working?

872
00:43:08,360 --> 00:43:10,000
Speaker 1: Are they not working? Who cares? Getting to hang out

873
00:43:10,000 --> 00:43:12,879
Speaker 1: with Billy Lucci and the guys? David just I met

874
00:43:12,920 --> 00:43:16,160
Speaker 1: everyone from tech SAgs last week. But to tell you

875
00:43:16,400 --> 00:43:20,719
Speaker 1: how crazy recruiting is around A and M. There is

876
00:43:20,800 --> 00:43:24,319
Speaker 1: a thread on the tech SAgs board that can't be

877
00:43:24,400 --> 00:43:26,600
Speaker 1: more than a day or two old, because it's about

878
00:43:26,640 --> 00:43:30,280
Speaker 1: a recruiting event this weekend. It is over one million views,

879
00:43:30,800 --> 00:43:34,800
Speaker 1: It's ninety pages deep, and it's just people are insane,

880
00:43:34,920 --> 00:43:37,720
Speaker 1: People are maniacs. But I love them. That is our audience.

881
00:43:37,920 --> 00:43:40,960
Speaker 1: Those are the people that traffic in our show. I

882
00:43:41,080 --> 00:43:43,520
Speaker 1: love that because those are the kinds of things that

883
00:43:43,600 --> 00:43:47,280
Speaker 1: you take to someone like my old old old sales

884
00:43:47,320 --> 00:43:49,719
Speaker 1: department when they asked, how do we justify doing a

885
00:43:49,719 --> 00:43:53,440
Speaker 1: college football show year round? Look at this tech SAgs thread.

886
00:43:53,640 --> 00:43:56,160
Speaker 1: This is about recruiting. This is about a pool party

887
00:43:56,360 --> 00:43:59,600
Speaker 1: in July, sir, it's got a million views. What are

888
00:43:59,640 --> 00:44:01,239
Speaker 1: we showing on air in the place of what we

889
00:44:01,239 --> 00:44:04,800
Speaker 1: could be talking about here? Anyway, that's an entire different

890
00:44:04,800 --> 00:44:07,719
Speaker 1: tangent Texas A and M recruiting. As I've said for

891
00:44:07,719 --> 00:44:09,480
Speaker 1: about a month now, when people have asked about where

892
00:44:09,520 --> 00:44:12,120
Speaker 1: they're going to finish, they are going to finish in

893
00:44:12,160 --> 00:44:14,399
Speaker 1: the top fifteen. I would bet they're going to finish

894
00:44:14,440 --> 00:44:16,640
Speaker 1: in the top ten. I have all the confidence in

895
00:44:16,640 --> 00:44:19,520
Speaker 1: the world in that because I saw how they recruited

896
00:44:19,600 --> 00:44:21,800
Speaker 1: last year, and more importantly, I saw how they closed

897
00:44:21,920 --> 00:44:25,120
Speaker 1: last year, and I know what they can offer, and

898
00:44:25,239 --> 00:44:27,360
Speaker 1: I also know what they can't offer, and that list

899
00:44:27,400 --> 00:44:30,400
Speaker 1: is very very short, very far exceeded by what they

900
00:44:30,440 --> 00:44:33,759
Speaker 1: can offer. So I was talking to producer Jesse out

901
00:44:33,760 --> 00:44:37,760
Speaker 1: in the bullpen earlier today, and I said, what's the downside?

902
00:44:38,520 --> 00:44:39,960
Speaker 1: If you're trying to sell me A and m's not

903
00:44:40,040 --> 00:44:43,160
Speaker 1: going to land an elite class or highly rated class,

904
00:44:43,320 --> 00:44:46,000
Speaker 1: what's the downside? There has to be a downside that's

905
00:44:46,040 --> 00:44:49,960
Speaker 1: pushing a kid away from college station right, And we

906
00:44:50,520 --> 00:44:52,440
Speaker 1: didn't even make it forty five seconds. That was a

907
00:44:52,440 --> 00:44:57,160
Speaker 1: brief conversation. There is no downside. Some of you out there, think, man,

908
00:44:57,200 --> 00:44:59,960
Speaker 1: they're just dropping nil bag after nil bag in their

909
00:45:00,080 --> 00:45:03,320
Speaker 1: convincing kids to come to a place that otherwise is undesirable.

910
00:45:03,680 --> 00:45:06,239
Speaker 1: What I try and counter with and those of you

911
00:45:06,280 --> 00:45:08,520
Speaker 1: who have never been out there, I don't really waste

912
00:45:08,520 --> 00:45:11,359
Speaker 1: time on that. If you've been out there, you get

913
00:45:11,440 --> 00:45:15,440
Speaker 1: the attraction. It's a place where you don't sacrifice anything.

914
00:45:15,600 --> 00:45:18,560
Speaker 1: You're not giving up the ability to be developed to

915
00:45:18,680 --> 00:45:22,960
Speaker 1: go there for nil money. You get both, you get developed.

916
00:45:22,960 --> 00:45:25,400
Speaker 1: They've got a very good track record of development, and

917
00:45:25,480 --> 00:45:28,200
Speaker 1: especially if if you're a defensive player and they've been

918
00:45:28,239 --> 00:45:30,560
Speaker 1: loading up on them. That defensive front class was insane

919
00:45:30,640 --> 00:45:33,959
Speaker 1: last cycle, why not go there. So the other part

920
00:45:33,960 --> 00:45:37,880
Speaker 1: of this is, and I had this rebuttal made to

921
00:45:37,920 --> 00:45:40,400
Speaker 1: me earlier today when I said, A and M. I

922
00:45:40,400 --> 00:45:43,240
Speaker 1: believe it's still going to land a top top ten class.

923
00:45:43,400 --> 00:45:48,240
Speaker 1: Let's just say top ten. Someone told me they can't

924
00:45:48,320 --> 00:45:50,080
Speaker 1: land a top ten class. I said, why is that?

925
00:45:50,080 --> 00:45:53,759
Speaker 1: They said, well, look at the uncommitted list. There aren't

926
00:45:53,840 --> 00:45:56,799
Speaker 1: enough kids. And I said, you and I are looking

927
00:45:56,800 --> 00:46:01,520
Speaker 1: at different lists. Texas A and M looks at an icon,

928
00:46:01,560 --> 00:46:04,240
Speaker 1: a little logo, you know, Texas A and M staff

929
00:46:04,520 --> 00:46:06,160
Speaker 1: let me put it that way. They look at that

930
00:46:06,239 --> 00:46:10,120
Speaker 1: list and they see every kid uncommitted because they're confident

931
00:46:10,360 --> 00:46:12,319
Speaker 1: that when they get them out there, they can flip

932
00:46:12,360 --> 00:46:15,200
Speaker 1: anyone they want to. Now that is a little bit

933
00:46:15,400 --> 00:46:19,719
Speaker 1: too much hubris, but not as much as you may think,

934
00:46:20,200 --> 00:46:22,640
Speaker 1: because I am telling you as sure as we sit here,

935
00:46:22,920 --> 00:46:26,920
Speaker 1: there are flips coming from some high profile players. I'm

936
00:46:26,920 --> 00:46:29,359
Speaker 1: not talking necessarily Tony Mitchell or anything like that. I'm

937
00:46:29,400 --> 00:46:31,799
Speaker 1: not speaking specifically about a kid. I'm saying it is

938
00:46:31,840 --> 00:46:34,440
Speaker 1: inevitable that Texas A and M is going to flip

939
00:46:34,760 --> 00:46:39,319
Speaker 1: multiple high priority, high profile candidates and targets out there,

940
00:46:39,400 --> 00:46:40,640
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, they're going to rock it

941
00:46:40,719 --> 00:46:43,080
Speaker 1: up the recruiting rankings, and you're gonna find yourself if

942
00:46:43,080 --> 00:46:45,880
Speaker 1: you're doubting them now saying, okay, I doubted them, but

943
00:46:45,960 --> 00:46:47,839
Speaker 1: I didn't know this kid was in play. I didn't

944
00:46:47,880 --> 00:46:49,840
Speaker 1: know that kid was in play. They're all in play.

945
00:46:50,440 --> 00:46:53,920
Speaker 1: Just assume everyone's in play, and you'll be much better

946
00:46:53,960 --> 00:46:56,560
Speaker 1: off when they do what they're gonna end up doing.

947
00:46:57,400 --> 00:47:00,600
Speaker 1: I've said my piece. Let's move on. Oh iiO State

948
00:47:01,320 --> 00:47:04,239
Speaker 1: is the sky falling? Can you be ranked second in

949
00:47:04,320 --> 00:47:07,319
Speaker 1: recruiting and have the sky falling around you. Well, no

950
00:47:08,520 --> 00:47:11,959
Speaker 1: is the short answer, but there are some issues here,

951
00:47:12,120 --> 00:47:15,680
Speaker 1: but they're very specific. So first off, here's the good news.

952
00:47:16,160 --> 00:47:18,960
Speaker 1: Stats and Info tells me that Ohio State is one

953
00:47:19,000 --> 00:47:22,359
Speaker 1: of just two classes with more than fifteen four star

954
00:47:22,480 --> 00:47:26,640
Speaker 1: rated players. Their average player rating is good for third

955
00:47:26,680 --> 00:47:29,120
Speaker 1: best in the country. So there are a lot of good

956
00:47:29,120 --> 00:47:32,960
Speaker 1: things happening, but it's not perfect, and I don't need

957
00:47:32,960 --> 00:47:35,719
Speaker 1: to tell anyone close to Ohio State. You guys know

958
00:47:35,760 --> 00:47:38,080
Speaker 1: what the date June twenty fourth means, and you know

959
00:47:38,120 --> 00:47:42,040
Speaker 1: how disastrous that Saturday was, that weekend recruiting event was.

960
00:47:43,320 --> 00:47:47,040
Speaker 1: Those of you who don't follow recruiting hardcore, you may

961
00:47:47,040 --> 00:47:48,560
Speaker 1: not know. So I want to direct your attention to

962
00:47:48,600 --> 00:47:50,840
Speaker 1: the screen right now for those of you listening on podcasts,

963
00:47:50,840 --> 00:47:54,399
Speaker 1: we're looking at Ohio State's notable commitments right now. Now again,

964
00:47:54,440 --> 00:47:56,640
Speaker 1: they've got the number two class in the country. This

965
00:47:56,680 --> 00:48:00,120
Speaker 1: is where you have to get nuanced in recruiting. As

966
00:48:00,120 --> 00:48:02,680
Speaker 1: I've told you before, I could land twenty five four

967
00:48:02,719 --> 00:48:05,080
Speaker 1: and five star receivers and finish with the number one

968
00:48:05,080 --> 00:48:07,560
Speaker 1: class in the country and get blown out every year

969
00:48:07,800 --> 00:48:11,239
Speaker 1: because I don't have balance to my recruiting. What is

970
00:48:11,360 --> 00:48:14,000
Speaker 1: missing on this graphic right now, look up and down.

971
00:48:14,200 --> 00:48:16,960
Speaker 1: Three wide receivers, a tight end, an offensive tackle, one

972
00:48:17,000 --> 00:48:20,560
Speaker 1: defensive lineman, safety tight end, couple of corners on, an

973
00:48:20,600 --> 00:48:23,960
Speaker 1: offensive lineman, a quarterback. There is no beef. There is

974
00:48:24,000 --> 00:48:27,560
Speaker 1: no front seven help here, and if they don't rectify

975
00:48:27,800 --> 00:48:31,120
Speaker 1: that portion of this recruiting class pretty quickly, there's just

976
00:48:31,160 --> 00:48:33,759
Speaker 1: going to be avoid now. The good news is they

977
00:48:33,800 --> 00:48:37,600
Speaker 1: have very more than adequately loaded up at those positions.

978
00:48:37,800 --> 00:48:40,040
Speaker 1: The past couple of cycles may have missed on some

979
00:48:40,120 --> 00:48:42,200
Speaker 1: kids they wanted, but they did good enough. But you

980
00:48:42,400 --> 00:48:46,640
Speaker 1: don't maintain the level of play they want to, and

981
00:48:46,719 --> 00:48:49,799
Speaker 1: you don't overturn a defensive style of play like they

982
00:48:49,800 --> 00:48:53,560
Speaker 1: want to without loading up every single year on those guys.

983
00:48:53,560 --> 00:48:55,160
Speaker 1: You got to have too many of them coming in.

984
00:48:55,520 --> 00:48:57,680
Speaker 1: You got to do what you've done at receiver, you know,

985
00:48:57,840 --> 00:48:59,920
Speaker 1: to put a finer point on it. Ohio State has

986
00:49:00,040 --> 00:49:03,480
Speaker 1: to recruit defensive linemen like they've recruited receivers. You got

987
00:49:03,480 --> 00:49:07,680
Speaker 1: to recruit them so much so that you look and

988
00:49:07,719 --> 00:49:09,680
Speaker 1: you kind of have fun saying, I wonder which five

989
00:49:09,680 --> 00:49:11,319
Speaker 1: stars is gonna transfer out of here at a year

990
00:49:11,320 --> 00:49:13,240
Speaker 1: and a half because he can't get on the field,

991
00:49:13,560 --> 00:49:16,279
Speaker 1: not because he sucks, but because we're too deep. That's

992
00:49:16,280 --> 00:49:17,719
Speaker 1: how you got to recruit them. They don't ocur like

993
00:49:17,760 --> 00:49:21,560
Speaker 1: that right now. And it's not gonna matter against Rutgers,

994
00:49:21,719 --> 00:49:24,560
Speaker 1: It's all due respect. It's probably not gonna matter against Maryland.

995
00:49:24,920 --> 00:49:27,719
Speaker 1: It matters against Michigan, as you saw last year. It

996
00:49:28,160 --> 00:49:30,680
Speaker 1: very much matters if you get into the playoff and

997
00:49:30,719 --> 00:49:34,399
Speaker 1: you face you face lines of scrimmage like Alabama has,

998
00:49:34,480 --> 00:49:37,279
Speaker 1: or like Georgia has, like Clemson has, or like Oklahoma

999
00:49:37,280 --> 00:49:41,000
Speaker 1: could have. It matters and you gotta match it or

1000
00:49:41,040 --> 00:49:44,520
Speaker 1: else all these racehorse receivers and these five star quarterbacks

1001
00:49:44,640 --> 00:49:47,320
Speaker 1: it gets wasted and you just have a nice season

1002
00:49:47,360 --> 00:49:49,880
Speaker 1: in the Big Ten. They don't look for nice seasons

1003
00:49:49,880 --> 00:49:52,560
Speaker 1: in the Big Ten up there. They look for trophies

1004
00:49:52,600 --> 00:49:57,600
Speaker 1: in the trophy case. And so I don't know. I

1005
00:49:57,600 --> 00:50:00,800
Speaker 1: don't know how that's gonna end. It's very early still

1006
00:50:01,120 --> 00:50:02,879
Speaker 1: to be freaking out. I think it would be done

1007
00:50:02,920 --> 00:50:04,640
Speaker 1: to freak out over this. And it could just be

1008
00:50:04,719 --> 00:50:07,440
Speaker 1: that this is one class where this happens and then

1009
00:50:07,560 --> 00:50:10,880
Speaker 1: they rectify that and they're good going forward. But it

1010
00:50:10,960 --> 00:50:13,680
Speaker 1: is an issue, and I think most Buckeye fans get that.

1011
00:50:13,800 --> 00:50:16,080
Speaker 1: I mean, that's all they're talking about right now. They

1012
00:50:16,080 --> 00:50:18,160
Speaker 1: get it. It's an issue. It's just crazy to me

1013
00:50:19,560 --> 00:50:24,560
Speaker 1: that weekend, that big recruiting weekend, was that big a disaster.

1014
00:50:24,960 --> 00:50:26,520
Speaker 1: I don't have time to go into it, and it

1015
00:50:26,560 --> 00:50:28,799
Speaker 1: would bore most of you. But a ton of big

1016
00:50:28,920 --> 00:50:31,120
Speaker 1: names were in town and they whiffed on all of them.

1017
00:50:31,520 --> 00:50:34,960
Speaker 1: And there were some comments afterwards about how this weekend

1018
00:50:35,040 --> 00:50:36,400
Speaker 1: kind of wasn't good at all. I didn't get a

1019
00:50:36,440 --> 00:50:39,239
Speaker 1: lot of attention paid to me. One kid didn't leave

1020
00:50:39,280 --> 00:50:41,879
Speaker 1: his room the whole weekend. They just had too many

1021
00:50:41,920 --> 00:50:44,920
Speaker 1: kids there and it used to be in the summertime.

1022
00:50:45,239 --> 00:50:46,680
Speaker 1: That's not a big deal. We're going to have them

1023
00:50:46,719 --> 00:50:50,880
Speaker 1: back on campus after Christmas for the January official visit flurry.

1024
00:50:51,160 --> 00:50:53,719
Speaker 1: This is the flurry. Now what I've been trying to

1025
00:50:53,760 --> 00:50:57,960
Speaker 1: tell you guys who maybe passively follow recruiting this summer stuff,

1026
00:50:58,200 --> 00:51:01,080
Speaker 1: this is the final shot you get with most kids

1027
00:51:01,080 --> 00:51:03,000
Speaker 1: now before they're going to make their commitments and then

1028
00:51:03,000 --> 00:51:06,480
Speaker 1: shut their recruitments down. And Ohio State blew it a

1029
00:51:06,520 --> 00:51:09,319
Speaker 1: couple of weekends ago. Now that's not normal for them.

1030
00:51:09,400 --> 00:51:12,160
Speaker 1: That's why it is so weird to me especially it's weird.

1031
00:51:12,560 --> 00:51:15,759
Speaker 1: So keep an eye on defensive recruiting for Ohio State,

1032
00:51:16,160 --> 00:51:20,640
Speaker 1: Alabama's Alabama. They since we last spoke about them and recruiting,

1033
00:51:20,719 --> 00:51:23,239
Speaker 1: all they did was land Caleb Downs, who is one

1034
00:51:23,239 --> 00:51:24,960
Speaker 1: of my favorite players in the country this year, and

1035
00:51:25,080 --> 00:51:28,600
Speaker 1: Richard Young, five star running back on the heels of

1036
00:51:28,680 --> 00:51:31,600
Speaker 1: a high four star rated running back from Georgia last week.

1037
00:51:31,800 --> 00:51:34,640
Speaker 1: The average player rating in this class for Alabama right

1038
00:51:34,640 --> 00:51:40,040
Speaker 1: now is ninety four point eighty nine. I think people

1039
00:51:40,080 --> 00:51:43,360
Speaker 1: forget Bama had one of the best classes in the

1040
00:51:43,440 --> 00:51:46,680
Speaker 1: history of recruiting last year and it got overshadowed because

1041
00:51:46,680 --> 00:51:49,520
Speaker 1: A and M had the best in the history. Bama

1042
00:51:49,560 --> 00:51:52,200
Speaker 1: finished with i think a class rating of three twenty

1043
00:51:52,200 --> 00:51:56,120
Speaker 1: two last year and their player rating, their average player

1044
00:51:56,200 --> 00:51:58,480
Speaker 1: rating was higher than A and M. They had an

1045
00:51:58,600 --> 00:52:03,600
Speaker 1: average player rating above ninety five, which is ridiculous, supposed

1046
00:52:03,600 --> 00:52:07,480
Speaker 1: to be illegal, and they're bordering on that again this cycle.

1047
00:52:08,160 --> 00:52:10,520
Speaker 1: They may finish with the number one class again. I

1048
00:52:10,600 --> 00:52:13,360
Speaker 1: know that when we had Nick Saban on the show

1049
00:52:13,840 --> 00:52:17,000
Speaker 1: at SEC Media Day, it was the furthest that he's

1050
00:52:17,040 --> 00:52:19,440
Speaker 1: gone at least that I've heard of. Looking you in

1051
00:52:19,480 --> 00:52:22,719
Speaker 1: the eye and saying, Hey, this new world, this new

1052
00:52:22,840 --> 00:52:25,560
Speaker 1: nil world, and the new world therefore that we have

1053
00:52:25,600 --> 00:52:29,759
Speaker 1: in recruiting, it's not gonna hurt us at Alabama. You know,

1054
00:52:29,800 --> 00:52:32,719
Speaker 1: he previously had just said it's not a good thing overall,

1055
00:52:33,120 --> 00:52:35,400
Speaker 1: but he hadn't specifically told you the truth. And he

1056
00:52:35,440 --> 00:52:38,319
Speaker 1: finally just looked at you and said, essentially, he said,

1057
00:52:38,360 --> 00:52:41,239
Speaker 1: we're gonna dominate. We're gonna be fine. Nothing bad is

1058
00:52:41,239 --> 00:52:43,080
Speaker 1: gonna happen to us. It's gonna happen to the rest

1059
00:52:43,080 --> 00:52:45,239
Speaker 1: of you. You know what. That sounds a lot more

1060
00:52:45,320 --> 00:52:47,160
Speaker 1: like sounds a lot more like one of his patented

1061
00:52:47,200 --> 00:52:50,680
Speaker 1: warnings that he's issued several times over the past decade

1062
00:52:50,719 --> 00:52:53,479
Speaker 1: to decade and a half to college football. And yet

1063
00:52:53,520 --> 00:52:56,120
Speaker 1: some people out there, I mocked you two weeks ago.

1064
00:52:56,120 --> 00:52:59,520
Speaker 1: I'm gonna roundly mock you again. You called BS on

1065
00:52:59,600 --> 00:53:03,640
Speaker 1: it and you said, he's scared. He's yeah, he's scared.

1066
00:53:03,840 --> 00:53:05,680
Speaker 1: Tell you know what he's scared of. He's scared he's

1067
00:53:05,760 --> 00:53:07,680
Speaker 1: gonna have enough room for all your five stars in

1068
00:53:07,680 --> 00:53:10,360
Speaker 1: his class to discycle. That's what he's scared of. Alabama's

1069
00:53:10,360 --> 00:53:12,719
Speaker 1: doing exactly what they've always done. They will continue to

1070
00:53:12,760 --> 00:53:14,960
Speaker 1: do what they've always done. It's laughable to me that

1071
00:53:15,000 --> 00:53:16,880
Speaker 1: we still address this, but yet here we are. So

1072
00:53:17,160 --> 00:53:21,160
Speaker 1: there's nothing much to talk about. Headline Bama's dominating and recruiting. Next,

1073
00:53:21,520 --> 00:53:23,239
Speaker 1: I didn't want to touch on Notre Dame before we

1074
00:53:23,280 --> 00:53:25,840
Speaker 1: wrap up the segment here. They've got twenty commits in

1075
00:53:25,880 --> 00:53:28,400
Speaker 1: their class. They're the number one rated class in the

1076
00:53:28,400 --> 00:53:31,359
Speaker 1: country right now, and they've got most of the hay

1077
00:53:31,400 --> 00:53:33,680
Speaker 1: in the barn. They will not finish with the number

1078
00:53:33,680 --> 00:53:36,560
Speaker 1: one class in the country. They will finish with one

1079
00:53:36,600 --> 00:53:38,919
Speaker 1: of the highest rated classes they've ever had, at least

1080
00:53:38,920 --> 00:53:41,520
Speaker 1: in the modern era. And there's such a different energy

1081
00:53:41,760 --> 00:53:45,160
Speaker 1: around the program. And I know that some of some

1082
00:53:45,239 --> 00:53:47,840
Speaker 1: of you who either played the game or who have

1083
00:53:47,920 --> 00:53:50,359
Speaker 1: been around the block several times, you get really tired

1084
00:53:50,400 --> 00:53:53,000
Speaker 1: of hearing that, because energy does not matter. When it's

1085
00:53:53,040 --> 00:53:56,440
Speaker 1: third and two in Week three and you need a

1086
00:53:56,560 --> 00:53:58,680
Speaker 1: stop in order to get off the field and preserve

1087
00:53:58,719 --> 00:54:01,239
Speaker 1: a twenty three seventeen lead, No one cares about your

1088
00:54:01,360 --> 00:54:03,720
Speaker 1: energy in July. No one cares about the hype videos

1089
00:54:03,960 --> 00:54:07,840
Speaker 1: you filmed. That's true, that's all true. Here's where it matters,

1090
00:54:08,160 --> 00:54:11,160
Speaker 1: Where it tangibly matters is the new energy around the

1091
00:54:11,200 --> 00:54:14,640
Speaker 1: program is attracting a different kind of kid than the

1092
00:54:14,680 --> 00:54:17,239
Speaker 1: previous staff did and the previous kind of energy did,

1093
00:54:17,600 --> 00:54:20,400
Speaker 1: and those kids will ultimately be the ones on the

1094
00:54:20,400 --> 00:54:22,799
Speaker 1: field when it is third and two and twenty three

1095
00:54:22,880 --> 00:54:25,320
Speaker 1: seventeen and you need to stop late in the fourth quarter.

1096
00:54:25,719 --> 00:54:28,719
Speaker 1: And that's what's starting to happen for Marcus Freeman and

1097
00:54:28,800 --> 00:54:33,040
Speaker 1: Notre Dame. Now here's the follow up. We don't have

1098
00:54:33,080 --> 00:54:35,360
Speaker 1: a sample size from Marcus Freeman yet. He's been a

1099
00:54:35,360 --> 00:54:38,160
Speaker 1: head coach for one game and that was the whole game,

1100
00:54:38,480 --> 00:54:40,799
Speaker 1: and so we're still gonna find out. So if you

1101
00:54:40,840 --> 00:54:43,279
Speaker 1: want to, if you want to wait and see, and

1102
00:54:43,360 --> 00:54:45,919
Speaker 1: they have very mixed results this year, and you want

1103
00:54:45,920 --> 00:54:49,320
Speaker 1: to start that talking point that ah, he's all hype,

1104
00:54:49,400 --> 00:54:51,680
Speaker 1: but once they get on the field, they'll blow it. Okay,

1105
00:54:51,960 --> 00:54:54,879
Speaker 1: maybe in time that's gonna happen. Or hey, maybe they'll

1106
00:54:54,880 --> 00:54:57,560
Speaker 1: take Ohio State to the wire in week one and

1107
00:54:57,640 --> 00:55:00,399
Speaker 1: they'll be a fringe playoff contender all year in year

1108
00:55:00,440 --> 00:55:03,400
Speaker 1: one under Marcus Freeman and they'll finish with a bang

1109
00:55:03,440 --> 00:55:06,560
Speaker 1: in recruiting and have a top five class. Wouldn't that

1110
00:55:06,600 --> 00:55:09,560
Speaker 1: be crazy for Notre Dame? But keep an eye on

1111
00:55:09,560 --> 00:55:12,840
Speaker 1: the Irish. It's not like there's been a huge change.

1112
00:55:12,880 --> 00:55:14,879
Speaker 1: They've been up here for a while. I just think

1113
00:55:14,920 --> 00:55:17,560
Speaker 1: that we need to keep acknowledging it. Also, producer Jesse

1114
00:55:17,640 --> 00:55:20,960
Speaker 1: tells me six of the top thirteen classes currently are

1115
00:55:21,080 --> 00:55:25,560
Speaker 1: SEC classes. If we do what is becoming all too popular,

1116
00:55:25,719 --> 00:55:28,040
Speaker 1: and we just go ahead and add Oklahoma and Texas,

1117
00:55:28,360 --> 00:55:30,840
Speaker 1: that would be eight of the top thirteen classes in

1118
00:55:30,840 --> 00:55:34,560
Speaker 1: the country made up of either current or future SEC programs.

1119
00:55:35,920 --> 00:55:39,120
Speaker 1: I have it on good authority, and the authority is

1120
00:55:39,120 --> 00:55:41,840
Speaker 1: this bright orange posted. I have it on good authority

1121
00:55:42,200 --> 00:55:45,200
Speaker 1: that there is a really interesting feature coming tomorrow on

1122
00:55:45,239 --> 00:55:48,000
Speaker 1: twenty four to seven sports dot com and it is

1123
00:55:48,200 --> 00:55:53,000
Speaker 1: thirty under thirty. And there has been a fairly noticeable

1124
00:55:53,040 --> 00:55:57,080
Speaker 1: and violent shift towards younger coaches, which is good if

1125
00:55:57,080 --> 00:56:01,239
Speaker 1: you're young. It's agism you're old. Get this out of here.

1126
00:56:01,239 --> 00:56:03,040
Speaker 1: But we're going to run the feature tomorrow. I don't

1127
00:56:03,040 --> 00:56:04,520
Speaker 1: have anything to do with it. I'm just telling you

1128
00:56:04,680 --> 00:56:07,000
Speaker 1: I got a little sneak peak of it. It's really interesting.

1129
00:56:07,200 --> 00:56:09,560
Speaker 1: It's a bunch of names. You need to know. It's

1130
00:56:09,640 --> 00:56:13,040
Speaker 1: obviously guys under thirty years old. These are going to

1131
00:56:13,160 --> 00:56:15,320
Speaker 1: be several of these dudes are about to be head coaches,

1132
00:56:15,640 --> 00:56:17,480
Speaker 1: and if you want to be the smartest version of

1133
00:56:17,520 --> 00:56:19,640
Speaker 1: a fan, you can, or if you want to get

1134
00:56:19,640 --> 00:56:21,160
Speaker 1: ahead of the curve, you think your coach is on

1135
00:56:21,160 --> 00:56:23,680
Speaker 1: the hot seat, and you want to know which pool

1136
00:56:23,760 --> 00:56:26,800
Speaker 1: could we be choosing from? It may not be the

1137
00:56:27,320 --> 00:56:31,319
Speaker 1: rugged rock rib fifty three year old lifetime coordinator. It

1138
00:56:31,320 --> 00:56:32,960
Speaker 1: may be one of these dudes who's twenty eight, twenty

1139
00:56:33,000 --> 00:56:34,880
Speaker 1: nine years old right now and he's going to be

1140
00:56:34,920 --> 00:56:37,200
Speaker 1: in this feature tomorrow. If it is him, so thirty

1141
00:56:37,280 --> 00:56:39,520
Speaker 1: under thirty keeping one on twenty four seven sports dot

1142
00:56:39,560 --> 00:56:42,080
Speaker 1: com tomorrow for that. Okay, we got one more question here.

1143
00:56:42,440 --> 00:56:44,640
Speaker 1: I think it's a good time to remind the chat

1144
00:56:44,760 --> 00:56:48,000
Speaker 1: Peytstatemateial dot com is open. Oh, we're up to eight

1145
00:56:48,120 --> 00:56:50,160
Speaker 1: hundred and sixty two likes. I appreciate that. You know

1146
00:56:50,200 --> 00:56:51,799
Speaker 1: what a little call to action as we get into

1147
00:56:51,800 --> 00:56:54,239
Speaker 1: this final segment, Why don't we just go ahead and

1148
00:56:54,239 --> 00:56:55,960
Speaker 1: get a thousand likes on the video? I mean, we

1149
00:56:56,040 --> 00:56:58,319
Speaker 1: got like twenty four hundred of you in here, just

1150
00:56:58,400 --> 00:56:59,880
Speaker 1: like the video. If you haven't already, just get it

1151
00:56:59,880 --> 00:57:03,040
Speaker 1: to thousand. It's for director Colin and producer Jesse, one

1152
00:57:03,080 --> 00:57:05,440
Speaker 1: of whom you know exists, and the other one may

1153
00:57:05,480 --> 00:57:07,120
Speaker 1: show his face when we get to a million subs

1154
00:57:07,160 --> 00:57:10,440
Speaker 1: on the channel. So yeah, just find it in your heart.

1155
00:57:10,560 --> 00:57:13,799
Speaker 1: All right. Here's a question Tank asked, as a fan

1156
00:57:13,960 --> 00:57:17,280
Speaker 1: of a PAC twelve team not named USC or UCLA.

1157
00:57:17,720 --> 00:57:20,960
Speaker 1: Should I buy what our commissioner is selling. The commissioner

1158
00:57:21,000 --> 00:57:25,320
Speaker 1: out there, for those unfamiliar, is George Clavekoff, and he

1159
00:57:25,440 --> 00:57:28,680
Speaker 1: was most recently on vacation when the news broke that

1160
00:57:28,880 --> 00:57:32,000
Speaker 1: USC and UCLA were going to the Big ten. So

1161
00:57:32,160 --> 00:57:36,560
Speaker 1: George Clavekoff, he repeated about thirty eight different late kick

1162
00:57:36,640 --> 00:57:39,120
Speaker 1: talking points. Naturally, I approved of a lot of what

1163
00:57:39,200 --> 00:57:40,680
Speaker 1: he had to say the other day, because I'm pretty

1164
00:57:40,720 --> 00:57:43,200
Speaker 1: sure he just watched the show on the plane and

1165
00:57:43,280 --> 00:57:45,920
Speaker 1: jotted a bunch of notes down on his hand. So

1166
00:57:46,040 --> 00:57:49,720
Speaker 1: he said some things that on surface I agree with.

1167
00:57:50,880 --> 00:57:53,320
Speaker 1: He also took some shots at the Big twelve, and

1168
00:57:53,360 --> 00:57:56,400
Speaker 1: there's a reason behind that. It's not just petty sniping

1169
00:57:56,520 --> 00:57:59,000
Speaker 1: back and forth. And this is kind of the crux

1170
00:57:59,040 --> 00:58:04,560
Speaker 1: of my takeaway. George Klavekoff talked about the PAC twelve

1171
00:58:04,640 --> 00:58:07,880
Speaker 1: and how we're still a very very solid entity. We're

1172
00:58:07,880 --> 00:58:10,080
Speaker 1: going to be a sustainable product moving forward. None of

1173
00:58:10,080 --> 00:58:12,360
Speaker 1: our teams, none of our programs, are going to leave

1174
00:58:12,560 --> 00:58:15,440
Speaker 1: for the Big Twelve. You need to repeat that from

1175
00:58:15,480 --> 00:58:17,880
Speaker 1: the mountaintops now. The follow up is, you need it

1176
00:58:17,920 --> 00:58:20,640
Speaker 1: to be true. You need that to actually be prophetic

1177
00:58:20,720 --> 00:58:24,600
Speaker 1: and pan out. But here's what he knows that he

1178
00:58:24,760 --> 00:58:27,400
Speaker 1: kind of hinted at that I need you to understand.

1179
00:58:28,280 --> 00:58:31,360
Speaker 1: He talked about everything being in a holding pattern right

1180
00:58:31,400 --> 00:58:34,960
Speaker 1: now waiting for the announcement of the Big Ten media

1181
00:58:35,040 --> 00:58:38,520
Speaker 1: rights deal. A lot of you get so turned off

1182
00:58:38,560 --> 00:58:40,880
Speaker 1: by this that you don't even pay attention to it,

1183
00:58:41,240 --> 00:58:43,240
Speaker 1: and I don't blame you. A lot of this stuff

1184
00:58:43,280 --> 00:58:46,880
Speaker 1: is for industry nerds, but I happen to be fascinated

1185
00:58:46,920 --> 00:58:48,560
Speaker 1: by this part of it. So I'm going to give

1186
00:58:48,560 --> 00:58:50,840
Speaker 1: you a little peek behind the curtain and do with

1187
00:58:50,880 --> 00:58:54,440
Speaker 1: it what you will. But I'm telling you the situation

1188
00:58:54,800 --> 00:58:56,800
Speaker 1: for at least one of these conferences, either the Big

1189
00:58:56,840 --> 00:58:59,160
Speaker 1: twelve or the Pac twelve, is not quite as financially

1190
00:58:59,280 --> 00:59:03,200
Speaker 1: dire as it seems. George Klavekoff knows this, and here's

1191
00:59:03,200 --> 00:59:07,600
Speaker 1: why he knows it. Right now, the Big Ten, presumably

1192
00:59:07,680 --> 00:59:10,120
Speaker 1: before the season starts, is going to announce their new

1193
00:59:10,160 --> 00:59:12,960
Speaker 1: media rights deal. It was about to be announced weeks ago,

1194
00:59:13,000 --> 00:59:15,320
Speaker 1: and then the news broke about the two California schools,

1195
00:59:15,360 --> 00:59:19,160
Speaker 1: so they had to take some more bids, and ultimately

1196
00:59:20,280 --> 00:59:23,480
Speaker 1: they're gonna be one or maybe a couple of entities.

1197
00:59:23,520 --> 00:59:26,400
Speaker 1: Maybe it's CBS, maybe it's one of the major streaming

1198
00:59:26,480 --> 00:59:30,520
Speaker 1: services that are gonna end up winning their Big Ten

1199
00:59:31,040 --> 00:59:34,360
Speaker 1: media rights bid, so they will get packages of games

1200
00:59:34,400 --> 00:59:37,960
Speaker 1: and whatnot. But here's the follow up, here's where it

1201
00:59:38,000 --> 00:59:40,680
Speaker 1: concerns the Big twelve. In the Pac twelve, there're gonna

1202
00:59:40,680 --> 00:59:43,840
Speaker 1: be some other big players at the table who are told,

1203
00:59:44,080 --> 00:59:47,040
Speaker 1: you lose, and you know what they're gonna do. They're

1204
00:59:47,040 --> 00:59:49,280
Speaker 1: gonna look in front of them. They've just got this

1205
00:59:49,840 --> 00:59:53,680
Speaker 1: huge mountain of cash that they've allocated to spend on

1206
00:59:53,800 --> 00:59:57,800
Speaker 1: Big ten football and basketball, mainly football, and they were told,

1207
00:59:57,880 --> 01:00:01,040
Speaker 1: your money is no good here. Your money's still here,

1208
01:00:01,560 --> 01:00:03,400
Speaker 1: and so what are they gonna do with it? Well,

1209
01:00:03,440 --> 01:00:06,000
Speaker 1: they can do one of two things. Either they can

1210
01:00:06,080 --> 01:00:09,080
Speaker 1: just say, well, there goes the SEC, there goes the

1211
01:00:09,080 --> 01:00:11,680
Speaker 1: Big Ten. They're locked up forever. The ACC is not

1212
01:00:11,720 --> 01:00:14,160
Speaker 1: coming on the line anytime soon. I guess we're just

1213
01:00:14,240 --> 01:00:18,400
Speaker 1: not gonna have college football on our airwaves. Spoiler alert,

1214
01:00:18,440 --> 01:00:20,800
Speaker 1: that's not the route they're gonna go. Or they could

1215
01:00:20,800 --> 01:00:23,440
Speaker 1: go Route B, and then they could say, all right,

1216
01:00:23,480 --> 01:00:27,160
Speaker 1: what else we got. There's the PAC twelve. Now, the

1217
01:00:27,200 --> 01:00:29,760
Speaker 1: PAC twelve is not going to be nearly as attractive

1218
01:00:29,800 --> 01:00:32,560
Speaker 1: a product as the SEC. The PAC twelve will not

1219
01:00:32,600 --> 01:00:34,880
Speaker 1: be nearly as attractive a product as the Big ten,

1220
01:00:35,240 --> 01:00:38,560
Speaker 1: but they will be a product and someone, in fact,

1221
01:00:38,680 --> 01:00:41,520
Speaker 1: multiple someones out there are going to have a ton

1222
01:00:41,800 --> 01:00:45,120
Speaker 1: of money and a ton of shelf space that they

1223
01:00:45,160 --> 01:00:48,440
Speaker 1: need to fill. You're not in as bad a position

1224
01:00:48,480 --> 01:00:50,240
Speaker 1: if you're the PAC twelve or the Big twelve. I

1225
01:00:50,240 --> 01:00:51,800
Speaker 1: think it's kind of a one or the other scenario

1226
01:00:51,840 --> 01:00:54,560
Speaker 1: right now. They're not in nearly as dire a position

1227
01:00:54,640 --> 01:00:57,120
Speaker 1: as it seems. You just look at them right now,

1228
01:00:57,200 --> 01:00:59,840
Speaker 1: and you see, dude, those aren't any teams I feel

1229
01:00:59,840 --> 01:01:04,000
Speaker 1: like watching. But that's not the way that either a

1230
01:01:04,040 --> 01:01:07,040
Speaker 1: broadcast network or a streaming service looks at them. They

1231
01:01:07,080 --> 01:01:09,880
Speaker 1: look at them being the PAC twelve, They look at

1232
01:01:09,880 --> 01:01:12,640
Speaker 1: their shelves which are empty, they're totally barren of college

1233
01:01:12,640 --> 01:01:15,320
Speaker 1: football programming right now, and then they look at their

1234
01:01:15,320 --> 01:01:19,880
Speaker 1: competitors and they understand we're charging people nine ninety nine, twelve,

1235
01:01:19,960 --> 01:01:24,080
Speaker 1: nine and nine. We're charging people a total well for

1236
01:01:24,240 --> 01:01:27,000
Speaker 1: cable bundles one hundred and two hundred dollars. Whatever you pay,

1237
01:01:27,120 --> 01:01:30,200
Speaker 1: we've got to justify it. These people need live sports programming.

1238
01:01:30,360 --> 01:01:33,040
Speaker 1: Someone's going to overpay for the PAC twelve. George Clacous

1239
01:01:33,080 --> 01:01:35,280
Speaker 1: knows this. I have a troubles saying his last name.

1240
01:01:35,840 --> 01:01:38,440
Speaker 1: But here's the key. You got to keep your conference together.

1241
01:01:38,920 --> 01:01:41,000
Speaker 1: Big twelve's thinking the same thing. We got to keep

1242
01:01:41,000 --> 01:01:43,440
Speaker 1: our conference together. And that's why you keep seeing these

1243
01:01:43,480 --> 01:01:46,280
Speaker 1: headlines back and forth, like the Big twelves talking to

1244
01:01:46,520 --> 01:01:49,320
Speaker 1: Utah and the Arizona schools. Now, if you're a Georgia

1245
01:01:49,480 --> 01:01:52,560
Speaker 1: Bulldog fan, you look at that and it doesn't even

1246
01:01:52,640 --> 01:01:56,400
Speaker 1: move your needle. You don't care, nor should you really,

1247
01:01:57,600 --> 01:01:59,720
Speaker 1: because you look at that and you don't think it's valuable.

1248
01:02:00,280 --> 01:02:02,320
Speaker 1: Whether Arizona is in the Pack twelve or the Big

1249
01:02:02,320 --> 01:02:05,480
Speaker 1: twelve is irrelevant to me, that's true. But if you

1250
01:02:05,520 --> 01:02:08,320
Speaker 1: are the Big twelve or the Pac twelve, whichever one

1251
01:02:08,360 --> 01:02:11,080
Speaker 1: of you is able to just keep it between the lines,

1252
01:02:11,280 --> 01:02:13,800
Speaker 1: keep it on the road long enough to get your

1253
01:02:13,800 --> 01:02:17,200
Speaker 1: product to market, you could end up having someone overpay

1254
01:02:17,320 --> 01:02:19,560
Speaker 1: for you and especially and this is the great unknown

1255
01:02:19,600 --> 01:02:21,160
Speaker 1: to me, and it's the great unknown for a lot

1256
01:02:21,160 --> 01:02:23,560
Speaker 1: of folks in the industry. The great unknown is, is

1257
01:02:23,600 --> 01:02:25,760
Speaker 1: there going to be a conference out there that's willing

1258
01:02:25,800 --> 01:02:28,800
Speaker 1: to go total streaming? Is there a conference out there

1259
01:02:28,840 --> 01:02:32,240
Speaker 1: that if Apple TV stepped up and any of the

1260
01:02:32,240 --> 01:02:35,720
Speaker 1: streaming giants know they have to massively overpay because they

1261
01:02:35,760 --> 01:02:38,880
Speaker 1: have to overcome the stigma that you need to be

1262
01:02:39,000 --> 01:02:41,960
Speaker 1: on traditional broadcast television. You got it, you can't leave

1263
01:02:42,000 --> 01:02:45,480
Speaker 1: broadcast TV. The streaming giants want your content. They know

1264
01:02:45,600 --> 01:02:48,400
Speaker 1: that's the baked in philosophy for good reason, and therefore

1265
01:02:48,400 --> 01:02:52,080
Speaker 1: they know they got to massively overspend. Will anyone ever

1266
01:02:52,120 --> 01:02:54,600
Speaker 1: take them up on it? Because if you're in desperation

1267
01:02:54,760 --> 01:02:58,400
Speaker 1: mode and you need to fill your financial coffers like

1268
01:02:58,440 --> 01:03:01,200
Speaker 1: the PAC twelve does, and especially being on the West

1269
01:03:01,200 --> 01:03:03,960
Speaker 1: Coast where they're already positioned, wouldn't the PAC twelve potentially

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Speaker 1: be a prime candidate to be the first one that

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Speaker 1: jumps into that pool, that tests those waters, that goes

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Speaker 1: full streaming. It's not like you're giving up tons of

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Speaker 1: viewership anyway. No one's watching PAC twelve football in relation

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Speaker 1: to the competitors out there in relation to the sec

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Speaker 1: in the Big ten. If you're gonna get a ton

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Speaker 1: of money, well, I'm actually thinking of a metaphor in

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Speaker 1: my mind, but I'm not gonna use it. I'm not

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Speaker 1: gonna use the liv golf metaphor. Why not take that

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Speaker 1: cash and go streaming and just see how it works out.

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Speaker 1: At the very least, you don't have folks hurting for

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Speaker 1: money anymore. Anyway, that's the great unknown. I'm not an

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Speaker 1: expert in that field. I'm just saying that's what a

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Speaker 1: lot of people who are experts in our field are

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Speaker 1: talking about behind the scenes right now. So let's just

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Speaker 1: see how that plays out. George Klivekoff was not an

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Speaker 1: idiot when he was talking the other day when he

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Speaker 1: was being very braggadocious about how we're not gonna lose

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Speaker 1: anyone of the Big twelve. He's not talking to you.

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Speaker 1: He's talking two folks who have a pen in their

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Speaker 1: hand and a check book in the other, and they're

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Speaker 1: getting ready to probably pay someone way more than they

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Speaker 1: should be paying for college football. He wants it to

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Speaker 1: be him. He wants it to be them and the

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Speaker 1: cat over there in the Big twelve feels the exact

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Speaker 1: same way, and so if Big twelve media days were

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Speaker 1: happening in the same day and they were both live

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Speaker 1: talking to each other, they just would have gone back

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Speaker 1: and forth saying the same things. So we'll see how

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Speaker 1: that works out. I appreciate you guys being tuned in.

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Speaker 1: Hey make sure, make sure because we're about to make

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Speaker 1: ten times more successful than even we planned on it being,

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Speaker 1: so just advance, thank you for that. We have got

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Speaker 1: some new products coming very soon. I can't help but smile.

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Speaker 1: I think they're going to be our best sellers. Like that,

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Speaker 1: don't be a casual skull T shirt right now is

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Speaker 1: our best seller. It will be top We got a

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Speaker 1: couple of ideas coming, so do you just tell you,

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Speaker 1: just tell those that have already perused the sl don't

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Speaker 1: go anywhere, stay close because there are new things coming.

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Speaker 1: For director Colin, for producer Jesse, I'm Josh Bate. Thanks

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Speaker 1: so much. Have a great start to your week. Take

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Speaker 1: care and as always got a less