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Speaker 1: this Thursday night, March the Year of Our Lord, twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty six. Is there a team to beat in college

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Speaker 1: schools of thought. We'll talk about it tonight. Whispers and

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Speaker 1: around this time last year. What were we talking about?

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Speaker 1: And we did a video this time last year about

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Speaker 1: And John hit us from Toledo. He said, well, I

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Speaker 1: quarters after he had been a complete disaster. Four of

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Speaker 1: his final six games included multiple interceptions. So at Marcel

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Speaker 1: Reid's best, I got high confidence he can get the

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Speaker 1: job done. How often do I get his best? I

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Speaker 1: don't need his best? How often do I get dependable?

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Speaker 1: Pretty good Marcel Reid. This is a well built team,

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Speaker 1: it's a well constructed roster, it's a good receiver room.

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Speaker 1: He doesn't have to do it all by himself. They

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Speaker 1: promoted from within at offensive coordinator. Let's see how it

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Speaker 1: pans out. I don't know where to peg marsal read.

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Speaker 1: So that's a that's a look around the quarterback position.

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Speaker 1: Confidence wise, in the SEC, I would look around the

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Speaker 1: Peate State Store. I've got pretty high confidence that there's

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Speaker 1: something in there that you would like. So I would

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Speaker 1: go very high confidence on peytstatematerial dot com. Now, Jesse

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Speaker 1: tells me that there is no question in the inbox

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Speaker 1: that specifically asked about the Peate State Store. But that

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Speaker 1: doesn't mean I can't give an answer. These chances are

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Speaker 1: knowing how big our audience is Somewhere, someone out there

446
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Speaker 1: is driving around said and what are confident he is

447
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Speaker 1: about those shirts over there, those hats over there. I'm

448
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Speaker 1: very confident. Paytstatematerial dot com make your spring perch eye

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Speaker 1: plural of purchase. Today, speaking of spring, more and more

450
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Speaker 1: teams opening up spring ball, Penn State has started, per Jesse,

451
00:24:04,720 --> 00:24:10,040
Speaker 1: and the offense is littered with injury. I want to

452
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Speaker 1: see all kinds of names, specifically at quarterback, and I'm

453
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Speaker 1: not getting what I want. Rock o'beck obviously recovering from surgery,

454
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Speaker 1: so he's just doing individual stuff, probably getting some good

455
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Speaker 1: reps on the bike over there and whatnot, working with

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Speaker 1: the rubber bands. He'll be ready by fall, but i'd

457
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Speaker 1: love him to be ready now. But that's okay. We'll

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Speaker 1: just get reps for the backup Alex Manski. No we won't. No,

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Speaker 1: we won't because he's out too. So outside of that,

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Speaker 1: at least I can watch the receivers get some work. No,

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Speaker 1: I can't. Two of their top guys are out, so

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Speaker 1: we probably got to check it down to the tight ends.

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Speaker 1: But two of their top tight ends are out. Let's

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Speaker 1: take a look at the offensive line, Jesse. What's that

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Speaker 1: you tell me the top offensive tackle is out? Okay, Well,

466
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Speaker 1: we're still going to go through with springball up there,

467
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Speaker 1: Matt Campbell talking about rotations on the offensive line, probably

468
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Speaker 1: as many as ten guys competing for those five starting spots.

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Speaker 1: All right, the pronunciation Jesse, hit me with it. We

470
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Speaker 1: practiced this, hit me with it, you von Commaju. I

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Speaker 1: have the name written down and circled. So it is

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Speaker 1: true that we have his name circled. It is true

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Speaker 1: that he's an edge player. It is true that while

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Speaker 1: Chas Coleman got a lot of the headlines deservedly so

475
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Speaker 1: last year, this guy was very very quietly forming into

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Speaker 1: what some around the building believe could be a future

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Speaker 1: all Big ten caliber player. Three down guy. Okay, not

478
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Speaker 1: a liability against the run, at least it doesn't feel

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Speaker 1: like that. So that's just a name. If you want

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Speaker 1: to be keeping an eye and scanning the Big ten

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Speaker 1: landscape of spring practice, we're circling that name. I wanted

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Speaker 1: to go to LSU for just a second, so Sam Levitt,

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Speaker 1: we just talked about him a second. He was transferring

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Speaker 1: in and he was recovering from injury, and there was

485
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Speaker 1: some thought when he first got there that, oh, he's

486
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Speaker 1: probably gonna have to take it easy in spring ball,

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Speaker 1: and we may get to see some of him, and

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Speaker 1: that doesn't feel like it's going to be the case.

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Speaker 1: I was looking at some of Shaye Dixon's reporting, the

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Speaker 1: esteemed Shaye Dixon covering LSU spring ball. Sam Levitt is

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Speaker 1: pretty much good to go. So if that's the case

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Speaker 1: and we haven't been told otherwise, then that's good. That's refreshing.

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Speaker 1: Wish we had that everywhere. Jordan Seaton, the transfer from Colorado,

494
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Speaker 1: looks locked in at left tackle. That's not a surprise.

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Speaker 1: I don't think you invest that kind of money and

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Speaker 1: then say, all right, Bud, battle it out with three

497
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Speaker 1: other folks. That's just the way of the college football

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Speaker 1: world nowadays. Transfers at both offensive guard spots, that was

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Speaker 1: pretty much to be expected. Richard Anderson is a name

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Speaker 1: I don't need to explain to many Louisiana folks, But

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Speaker 1: if you live in oh I don't know Kearnie, Nebraska,

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Speaker 1: you probably don't know a whole lot about Richard Anderson

503
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Speaker 1: six three, about three point forty five star true freshman

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Speaker 1: defensive tackle. This is a guy who around the state

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Speaker 1: of Louisiana, they've made like general or generational comparisons to

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Speaker 1: a lot of names like if you, I always use Thibodeaux.

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Speaker 1: It's my favorite town in Louisiana. If you live in

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Speaker 1: Thibodeau and you really really love high school ball down there,

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Speaker 1: maybe you're all the way like in Monroe or up

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Speaker 1: in Shreveport, which they consider another state, but you know

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Speaker 1: some of the legendary names from around that state from

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Speaker 1: decades gone by. They've thrown Richard Anderson's name around in

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Speaker 1: those conversations. Now, he hasn't done anything in college yet.

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Speaker 1: But when I tell you that early in spring ball

515
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Speaker 1: a true freshman is running with the ones at defensive tackle,

516
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Speaker 1: it should always grab your attention because you know the

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Speaker 1: body type that it takes to do that. He's got

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Speaker 1: that body type. So that is something to keep an

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Speaker 1: eye on. First off, just is he there week one

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Speaker 1: against Clemson? And then with any true freshman at any

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Speaker 1: position especial specifically along the offensive or defensive lines. Are

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Speaker 1: they there week eleven? Week twelve? Can they go the distance?

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Speaker 1: Malik Blockden is another name that probably would get less headlines.

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Speaker 1: That's a guy we talked about the moment he transferred

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Speaker 1: from Auburn as this next wave of several layers of

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Speaker 1: the LSU portal class. Blockton is a guy that, if

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Speaker 1: he's healthy, has immense potential at defensive tackle. It's just

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Speaker 1: for whatever reason, and there are a few guys in

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Speaker 1: LSU's class like this they haven't fulfilled on that for

530
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Speaker 1: whatever varying degrees of reasons. He's another guy that, again

531
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Speaker 1: is so much variance here, could on the high end

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Speaker 1: make LSU's front really really high level, and they lost

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Speaker 1: a lot on the front. But this is one of

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Speaker 1: those situations where because of the names, because of the talent,

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Speaker 1: because of the potential, you do run the possibility of

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Speaker 1: having very little returning production. And yet the unit upgrades.

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Speaker 1: And if American hero Blake Baker, defensive coordinator at LSU,

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Speaker 1: gets that, and he's got that cornerback room that he's got,

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00:29:18,840 --> 00:29:21,720
Speaker 1: they can win games defensively if they need to buy time.

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Speaker 1: At the beginning of the year, Notre Dame I said

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Speaker 1: boldly a few weeks ago that if there was a

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Speaker 1: sneaky contender for one of the top wide receiver rooms

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Speaker 1: in the country, it would be Notre Dame. Immediately, someone

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Speaker 1: took to the Internet, the old World Wide Web, and

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Speaker 1: claimed that I said Notre Dame had the best receiver

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Speaker 1: room in the country. I don't even know why I

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Speaker 1: bother anymore. I didn't say that. I said they're a

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Speaker 1: sneaky contender. If you want a dark horse for it,

549
00:29:49,880 --> 00:29:52,040
Speaker 1: they are still a dark horse. We are still watching,

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Speaker 1: we are monitoring closely the Notre Dame wide receiver room.

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00:29:55,280 --> 00:29:59,200
Speaker 1: Jaden great House dealing with a hamstring issue, so we

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Speaker 1: are not getting to experience him fully in the spring. Also,

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Speaker 1: I just this may be nothing. I haven't heard a

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Speaker 1: whole lot about that unit. That not good, not bad.

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Speaker 1: Just haven't heard a whole lot so far. Make of

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Speaker 1: that what you will. What I want is I want

557
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Speaker 1: every other person who's covering Notre Dame, every other sentence,

558
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Speaker 1: to be whispering about the wide receiver room. Boy, this

559
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Speaker 1: is about to be a surprise for the rest of

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Speaker 1: the country. No one's used to this. They're used to

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Speaker 1: us running the ball. They're used to offensive line play. Well,

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Speaker 1: now we're gonna We're gonna bust a couple of thousand

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Speaker 1: yard receivers on him, and voila, we're in the National

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Speaker 1: Championship Game again. Hm hmm. Anthony Napp left tackle the

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Speaker 1: last two years, kicking to guard. There is a high

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Speaker 1: belief amongst Notre Dame circles that will Black, who was

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Speaker 1: a five star in last year's recruiting cycle per On

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Speaker 1: three per rivals, will be the left tackle there. They're

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Speaker 1: really really high on him. I don't want to do

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Speaker 1: the comparison game. It's not fair to young William, but

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Speaker 1: they're making some pretty lofty comparisons the folks who covered

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Speaker 1: Notre Dame for a living. If that offensive line is

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Speaker 1: not the strength of this team, it's going to be linebacker.

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Speaker 1: I think that's going to end up being the best

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Speaker 1: linebacker room in the country. And then where else would

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Speaker 1: we go? We go to Morgantown, West Virginia. Last year.

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Speaker 1: Rich rod takes the job at West Virginia a year

578
00:31:25,040 --> 00:31:30,160
Speaker 1: ago and the roster stuff was insane. They added eighty

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Speaker 1: new kids total last year when you combined portal and

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Speaker 1: recruiting class right, and we thought it was wild, because

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Speaker 1: it is, But they were number sixty two in portal

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Speaker 1: rankings per On three and they were number forty eight

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Speaker 1: in recruiting ranking per rival. So fast forward a year.

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Speaker 1: What if I told you that Rich Rodriguez and West

585
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Speaker 1: Virginia have again added eighty kids. It's a new football team.

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Speaker 1: They basically imported a new football team two years in

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Speaker 1: a row. However, this time around, different caliber athlete, different

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Speaker 1: class of cat. As me mal would say, number twenty

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Speaker 1: overall portal class, number twenty overall recruiting class. So on paper,

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Speaker 1: it looks the same, but it's not the same. Numerically,

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Speaker 1: it's the same, ratings wise, caliber of player, it's not

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Speaker 1: the same. At quarterback, got a battle up there, Michael Hawkins,

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Speaker 1: remember that he was a name that you briefly saw.

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Speaker 1: You've seen him play at Oklahoma a time or two.

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Speaker 1: He transferred. Scottie Fox is there, and I'll tell you

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Speaker 1: those aren't the names I'm focused on. I know quarterback

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00:32:37,640 --> 00:32:40,920
Speaker 1: battles get most of the attention. Cam Cook is a

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Speaker 1: name that's very interesting to me. He comes there from

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Speaker 1: Jacksonville State. He was a sixteen hundred yard rusher last

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Speaker 1: year over sixteen hundred yards. And I know people, for

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Speaker 1: whatever reason, when they think Rich Rodriguez, they think West Virginia.

602
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Speaker 1: You tend to think like a generation ago pinball offense.

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Speaker 1: They're going to run the ball this year. I don't

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Speaker 1: know that FanDuel wants to extend us an over under

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Speaker 1: rushing statistics number on West Virginia. That would be a

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Speaker 1: little dangerous this time of year. This is the kind

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Speaker 1: of situation where I would blindly bet the over. We

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Speaker 1: never encourage that, not smart. But there's just a few

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Speaker 1: times where I have such a good feeling about something

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Speaker 1: that I'll just blindly bet the over on something or

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Speaker 1: the under. And Southern Conference basketball first half totals back

612
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Speaker 1: in the day, that was one of them. The other

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Speaker 1: one is West Virginia rushing number over this year. Feel

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Speaker 1: good about it, those itches. Let's move on. Oh, we've

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Speaker 1: been busy so the past couple of days. We were

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Speaker 1: in Gainesville, Florida, two days ago for the Speaker series

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Speaker 1: with John summerl. We were in Coral Gables yesterday, sat

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Speaker 1: down with Mario Christbaul. Love making that swing through Florida

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Speaker 1: any time of year, but especially this time of year.

620
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Speaker 1: Do you know in Miami yesterday it was in the

621
00:33:56,240 --> 00:33:59,840
Speaker 1: low eighties with duo points in the fifties, just insane.

622
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Speaker 1: The Iguanas aren't even out yet. It's a very very

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Speaker 1: special time down there. And no complaints about the weather

624
00:34:05,400 --> 00:34:07,400
Speaker 1: in Gainesville either. Let me start with Florida because we

625
00:34:07,400 --> 00:34:09,800
Speaker 1: were there before. We were at Miami, the energy level

626
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Speaker 1: at Florida. I know this sounds anecdotal. I know everyone

627
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Speaker 1: says this stuff, so I'm not saying this is going

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Speaker 1: to correlate to wins. They may go four and eight

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Speaker 1: this year, they may go nine to three. All I'm

630
00:34:21,160 --> 00:34:24,400
Speaker 1: saying is I've been around Florida for several years, so

631
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Speaker 1: I was there several years when Billy was there. I've

632
00:34:27,640 --> 00:34:31,440
Speaker 1: seen some are all at Tulane, and now I saw

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Speaker 1: in practice a little bit yesterday. Dude, It's so noticeable

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Speaker 1: the level up of energy there. And I always am

635
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Speaker 1: fascinated by that because I get to go to a

636
00:34:41,719 --> 00:34:43,799
Speaker 1: lot of places. But like I always think about it

637
00:34:43,840 --> 00:34:45,719
Speaker 1: like this. If you're at a place, you're just there

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00:34:45,760 --> 00:34:49,200
Speaker 1: every day, so you actually don't get to compare your

639
00:34:49,320 --> 00:34:52,480
Speaker 1: environment to other environments a whole lot. You get new

640
00:34:52,520 --> 00:34:55,600
Speaker 1: staffers that come in and they'll tell you how your

641
00:34:55,640 --> 00:34:58,840
Speaker 1: place compares to places they've been. Players may transfer in

642
00:34:58,920 --> 00:35:00,880
Speaker 1: and they say that, but you you don't get to

643
00:35:00,960 --> 00:35:04,520
Speaker 1: experience it. So in a weird sort of way, I

644
00:35:04,640 --> 00:35:06,879
Speaker 1: kind of have a really good read on that. Man.

645
00:35:06,920 --> 00:35:08,920
Speaker 1: There's a lot of juice down there right now. Now

646
00:35:08,960 --> 00:35:12,000
Speaker 1: that's to be expected. Because everything's new. Haven't lost a

647
00:35:12,080 --> 00:35:15,239
Speaker 1: game yet, everything's new. I feel really good about what

648
00:35:15,280 --> 00:35:18,320
Speaker 1: we've been saying on this show about the wide receiver

649
00:35:18,560 --> 00:35:21,879
Speaker 1: position at Florida. Feel really good about that. I think

650
00:35:21,920 --> 00:35:25,319
Speaker 1: they feel really good about that room. Talk to a

651
00:35:25,440 --> 00:35:29,560
Speaker 1: lot of new additions there. Dave Caldwell, for example, came

652
00:35:29,560 --> 00:35:31,919
Speaker 1: in as the general manager. Nick Polk still down there.

653
00:35:32,120 --> 00:35:37,040
Speaker 1: They've really really overhauled their front office approach, not on

654
00:35:37,080 --> 00:35:39,520
Speaker 1: the high school recruiting side. I'll play a sound for

655
00:35:39,560 --> 00:35:40,920
Speaker 1: that in a second. They didn't need to do a

656
00:35:40,920 --> 00:35:43,279
Speaker 1: whole lot on the high school recruiting side, but the

657
00:35:43,320 --> 00:35:46,560
Speaker 1: portal side and understanding how that works. And it's still

658
00:35:46,640 --> 00:35:49,640
Speaker 1: kind of a work in progress monetarily, but I think

659
00:35:49,680 --> 00:35:53,080
Speaker 1: they'll get there, and kind of if Florida is ever rolling,

660
00:35:53,520 --> 00:35:55,719
Speaker 1: they don't have to pay top dollar for kids. You

661
00:35:55,760 --> 00:35:57,680
Speaker 1: get a discount. You can get seventy cents on the

662
00:35:57,760 --> 00:36:00,400
Speaker 1: dollar for a portal kid because true, he told a

663
00:36:00,400 --> 00:36:02,920
Speaker 1: lot of guys want to play in Florida. At Florida,

664
00:36:04,000 --> 00:36:06,200
Speaker 1: So that'll be a work in progress. But man, there's

665
00:36:06,280 --> 00:36:10,719
Speaker 1: some really really good people in the personnel department down there,

666
00:36:10,760 --> 00:36:13,759
Speaker 1: but the people in the building period, you remember when

667
00:36:13,800 --> 00:36:15,759
Speaker 1: Billy was there, and for two years he was on

668
00:36:15,800 --> 00:36:17,759
Speaker 1: the hot seat in the last two years he was there.

669
00:36:18,320 --> 00:36:20,000
Speaker 1: So we go down there at least once every year,

670
00:36:20,040 --> 00:36:22,359
Speaker 1: sometimes multiple times every year, and I'd always come back

671
00:36:22,400 --> 00:36:25,040
Speaker 1: and I wouldn't deny there's pressure there. I wouldn't deny

672
00:36:25,960 --> 00:36:29,080
Speaker 1: Napier's on the hot seat. I don't think it's unfair

673
00:36:29,120 --> 00:36:30,960
Speaker 1: to have the expectation level of Florida fans have. But

674
00:36:31,040 --> 00:36:34,239
Speaker 1: I always said, whatever happens there, it's not going to

675
00:36:34,280 --> 00:36:35,960
Speaker 1: because they don't have the right people in the building,

676
00:36:36,080 --> 00:36:37,960
Speaker 1: and it's not going to be because the infrastructure is

677
00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:40,880
Speaker 1: not in place, because Florida is elite and elite in

678
00:36:40,960 --> 00:36:44,719
Speaker 1: both of those categories. And when he got fired, I

679
00:36:44,760 --> 00:36:48,640
Speaker 1: came on the show and I said, whoever gets that job,

680
00:36:49,719 --> 00:36:51,919
Speaker 1: I know the instinct is to wipe the slate clean

681
00:36:52,040 --> 00:36:54,440
Speaker 1: and just flush the entire thing and start from scratch.

682
00:36:54,600 --> 00:36:56,920
Speaker 1: That is not what you should do at Florida. Florida's

683
00:36:56,920 --> 00:37:00,439
Speaker 1: a very unique example of maybe head coat she didn't

684
00:37:00,440 --> 00:37:04,400
Speaker 1: get the job done for whatever number of circumstances, but

685
00:37:04,440 --> 00:37:06,920
Speaker 1: there are a lot of things that work there. Okay,

686
00:37:07,000 --> 00:37:11,040
Speaker 1: So somemmer all gets the job and fast forward a

687
00:37:11,080 --> 00:37:14,520
Speaker 1: few months. We're down there and I'm walking around and

688
00:37:14,600 --> 00:37:18,200
Speaker 1: I see Jake Sankle, who was the nutrition guy in

689
00:37:18,239 --> 00:37:21,279
Speaker 1: the last regime. Oh, he's still there. Skyler Wise walks

690
00:37:21,360 --> 00:37:25,120
Speaker 1: up at practice. Katie Decker Turner, who is pregnant right now,

691
00:37:25,160 --> 00:37:27,200
Speaker 1: I was about to have a child, but she's still

692
00:37:27,239 --> 00:37:29,400
Speaker 1: in the building. Bree Way is still in the building,

693
00:37:29,400 --> 00:37:31,160
Speaker 1: working a little more on another side of the fence there,

694
00:37:31,160 --> 00:37:32,880
Speaker 1: but still in the building. And I look around and

695
00:37:32,920 --> 00:37:36,360
Speaker 1: I say, WHOA. I notice a lot of these people,

696
00:37:36,600 --> 00:37:38,160
Speaker 1: so I asked some are all about it when we

697
00:37:38,160 --> 00:37:40,000
Speaker 1: sat down with them on the Speaker series. I'll have

698
00:37:40,040 --> 00:37:42,120
Speaker 1: Bradley play a clip in just a second. This full

699
00:37:42,239 --> 00:37:45,920
Speaker 1: video is really good. We do these where if you're

700
00:37:45,920 --> 00:37:47,480
Speaker 1: a Florida fan, of course you want to see this.

701
00:37:47,600 --> 00:37:50,080
Speaker 1: But if you're a Washington fan, the way we do

702
00:37:50,120 --> 00:37:52,000
Speaker 1: these sit downs is where this would be of interest

703
00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:54,280
Speaker 1: to you if you're just a college football fan. Anyway,

704
00:37:54,400 --> 00:37:59,400
Speaker 1: here's John Sumral talking about what was already in place

705
00:37:59,600 --> 00:38:02,400
Speaker 1: once again to Florida. The results on the field weren't

706
00:38:02,400 --> 00:38:04,560
Speaker 1: always there, but I remember always every time I would

707
00:38:04,600 --> 00:38:06,720
Speaker 1: leave here, I would say they got so it feels

708
00:38:06,719 --> 00:38:07,960
Speaker 1: like they got so many of the right people in

709
00:38:08,000 --> 00:38:11,360
Speaker 1: the building. So then when the coaching transition happened, I

710
00:38:11,360 --> 00:38:13,319
Speaker 1: didn't know you were going to get the job necessarily,

711
00:38:13,600 --> 00:38:15,279
Speaker 1: but whoever was going to get the job, I was

712
00:38:15,320 --> 00:38:19,760
Speaker 1: really curious, how many of the off field, off camera

713
00:38:19,880 --> 00:38:23,799
Speaker 1: support staff types is that person going to retain? And

714
00:38:23,840 --> 00:38:25,759
Speaker 1: so you came in and I've seen a number of

715
00:38:25,800 --> 00:38:28,600
Speaker 1: the faces around here that I saw the last couple

716
00:38:28,640 --> 00:38:32,279
Speaker 1: of years. How much of what you saw here, whether

717
00:38:32,320 --> 00:38:35,160
Speaker 1: it be administrative le or facilities, whatever, did you walk

718
00:38:35,160 --> 00:38:37,479
Speaker 1: in and say, I like this, fine, there's no reason

719
00:38:37,520 --> 00:38:39,640
Speaker 1: to change this a significant amount.

720
00:38:39,800 --> 00:38:42,520
Speaker 2: I think the most important thing you do is you

721
00:38:42,600 --> 00:38:47,880
Speaker 2: evaluate and you listen. It's not talk. I wanted to

722
00:38:47,920 --> 00:38:50,279
Speaker 2: hear from some of the players. I met with the

723
00:38:50,360 --> 00:38:53,560
Speaker 2: leaders here, and I met with several of them one

724
00:38:53,560 --> 00:38:55,479
Speaker 2: on one, and I said, hey, give me a couple

725
00:38:55,480 --> 00:38:57,919
Speaker 2: of things that you've liked that have been going on here.

726
00:38:58,120 --> 00:39:01,600
Speaker 2: And going back to drawing upon passing experiences. When I

727
00:39:01,640 --> 00:39:03,640
Speaker 2: walked in at Troy and they had only won five

728
00:39:03,680 --> 00:39:06,600
Speaker 2: games a year for three straight years, I kept half

729
00:39:06,640 --> 00:39:10,719
Speaker 2: the staff and we flipped it fast. Well, were there

730
00:39:10,760 --> 00:39:12,400
Speaker 2: some things here that I felt I needed to be

731
00:39:13,400 --> 00:39:17,080
Speaker 2: recalibrated and adjusted. Yes, were there a lot of things

732
00:39:17,160 --> 00:39:20,719
Speaker 2: going right here that I think could create some synergy

733
00:39:20,800 --> 00:39:25,399
Speaker 2: and help us have success. Also, yes, Jake Sankle works

734
00:39:25,400 --> 00:39:29,319
Speaker 2: a nutrition here. Jake's an absolute rock star. I didn't

735
00:39:29,360 --> 00:39:32,360
Speaker 2: hire Jake Sankle, he was here. Jake is a strength

736
00:39:32,360 --> 00:39:36,879
Speaker 2: coach by trade who went back and became a nutritionist.

737
00:39:36,920 --> 00:39:39,680
Speaker 2: So we have a head nutritionian guy who also is

738
00:39:39,719 --> 00:39:40,239
Speaker 2: a strength coach.

739
00:39:40,280 --> 00:39:42,239
Speaker 1: Just dudes like talking to an astronaut. Basically, he is

740
00:39:42,360 --> 00:39:42,839
Speaker 1: pret crazy.

741
00:39:42,960 --> 00:39:44,839
Speaker 2: He's a rock star, and so I got to meet

742
00:39:44,840 --> 00:39:47,279
Speaker 2: with him and learn who he was and what he

743
00:39:47,320 --> 00:39:49,400
Speaker 2: was about. I'm like, you're not allowed to.

744
00:39:49,440 --> 00:39:51,000
Speaker 3: Leave, like you got to say.

745
00:39:51,800 --> 00:39:55,200
Speaker 2: There were a ton of examples like that in recruiting.

746
00:39:55,840 --> 00:39:58,600
Speaker 2: I think our high school recruiting side here had been

747
00:39:58,719 --> 00:40:01,959
Speaker 2: run at a really high level. I think we needed

748
00:40:01,960 --> 00:40:05,280
Speaker 2: to change some things, maybe on the other side the portal,

749
00:40:05,360 --> 00:40:07,400
Speaker 2: and be a little bit more aggressive in certain areas

750
00:40:07,400 --> 00:40:09,359
Speaker 2: to flip this thing quicker. But there are a lot

751
00:40:09,360 --> 00:40:13,960
Speaker 2: of people in house already here that I felt like, man,

752
00:40:14,080 --> 00:40:14,759
Speaker 2: they may fit.

753
00:40:17,680 --> 00:40:19,799
Speaker 1: They doubted me, Jesse. I told yall, I'm not just

754
00:40:19,840 --> 00:40:21,000
Speaker 1: saying it to say it. There are a lot of

755
00:40:21,080 --> 00:40:23,879
Speaker 1: high level people down there. There's a lot of high

756
00:40:23,960 --> 00:40:27,040
Speaker 1: level infrastructure down there. They didn't win with it. There's

757
00:40:27,040 --> 00:40:29,480
Speaker 1: no guarantee that Summer all will win with it. But

758
00:40:29,840 --> 00:40:32,560
Speaker 1: just like I said with the previous regime, if they lose,

759
00:40:32,640 --> 00:40:36,120
Speaker 1: it won't be because they lacked in those departments. By

760
00:40:36,160 --> 00:40:38,520
Speaker 1: the way, as Bradley is showing you there, Florida's over

761
00:40:38,600 --> 00:40:40,680
Speaker 1: under win total seven and a half this upcoming year.

762
00:40:41,400 --> 00:40:45,360
Speaker 1: So then we're off to Miami. Got in at a

763
00:40:45,360 --> 00:40:48,759
Speaker 1: reasonable hour and hit the sack and then got over

764
00:40:49,120 --> 00:40:52,680
Speaker 1: for a walk through the next morning over at Miami. Look,

765
00:40:53,600 --> 00:40:56,719
Speaker 1: here's one very quick observation I'll give you. I'm gonna

766
00:40:56,719 --> 00:41:00,520
Speaker 1: play some sound in a second. I'm I'm going to

767
00:41:00,560 --> 00:41:02,720
Speaker 1: say something, but I'm going to say what I'm not saying.

768
00:41:02,760 --> 00:41:06,120
Speaker 1: I have to do this a lot. Miami leans into advancement.

769
00:41:06,239 --> 00:41:10,480
Speaker 1: Miami leans into technology analytics. They do all that. They've

770
00:41:10,520 --> 00:41:13,360
Speaker 1: got the same systems and processes that a lot of

771
00:41:13,400 --> 00:41:16,000
Speaker 1: programs have with their own spin on it. So I'm

772
00:41:16,040 --> 00:41:18,719
Speaker 1: not saying they don't lean into that. What I am

773
00:41:18,840 --> 00:41:23,760
Speaker 1: saying is being around a lot of places on the whole,

774
00:41:24,080 --> 00:41:28,560
Speaker 1: Miami has about as old school a philosophical approach to

775
00:41:28,840 --> 00:41:32,200
Speaker 1: this game, to this sport as any of the major

776
00:41:32,239 --> 00:41:35,879
Speaker 1: programs out there. And I think probably you saw that

777
00:41:36,400 --> 00:41:39,759
Speaker 1: bear itself out in just the way they played last year,

778
00:41:39,840 --> 00:41:44,480
Speaker 1: specifically last few games of the season. That's all rooted

779
00:41:44,560 --> 00:41:48,919
Speaker 1: in the fundamental belief system that they have. There's really

780
00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:52,839
Speaker 1: no secret formula or magic ingredients or anything like that.

781
00:41:53,000 --> 00:41:56,560
Speaker 1: Is just really really violent at practice. I got in

782
00:41:56,600 --> 00:41:59,120
Speaker 1: trouble on the show last year because I said that,

783
00:42:00,080 --> 00:42:02,359
Speaker 1: got in trouble in the comments because I went down there.

784
00:42:02,640 --> 00:42:04,359
Speaker 1: We'll go down there a few times a year, we'll

785
00:42:04,360 --> 00:42:08,320
Speaker 1: go to practice. Practice is just a bloodbath at Miami

786
00:42:08,520 --> 00:42:11,959
Speaker 1: Tuesdays and Wednesdays, specifically, maybe not in spring as much

787
00:42:12,000 --> 00:42:13,840
Speaker 1: on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, as one of those days is

788
00:42:13,880 --> 00:42:16,680
Speaker 1: not gonna be a practice day. But the point I

789
00:42:16,760 --> 00:42:19,600
Speaker 1: made was they looked different than any team in the country.

790
00:42:20,280 --> 00:42:22,759
Speaker 1: A lot of folks took exception to that. They thought

791
00:42:22,800 --> 00:42:26,400
Speaker 1: I was carrying water, specifically Ohio State folks thought that

792
00:42:27,600 --> 00:42:30,960
Speaker 1: and I wasn't because I had never I had not

793
00:42:31,040 --> 00:42:33,839
Speaker 1: said that before this past year, specifically because Miami hadn't

794
00:42:33,880 --> 00:42:38,080
Speaker 1: looked like they looked last year until last year, and

795
00:42:38,120 --> 00:42:39,880
Speaker 1: so I said it and I meant it. Ironically, those

796
00:42:39,920 --> 00:42:42,120
Speaker 1: two teams met up in the playoffs and physically you

797
00:42:42,239 --> 00:42:44,520
Speaker 1: saw what happened. Now it's up to Ohio State to

798
00:42:44,560 --> 00:42:49,080
Speaker 1: answer the bell this upcoming year. But you think to yourself, boy, man,

799
00:42:49,080 --> 00:42:50,960
Speaker 1: I wonder what they're doing down there, the same stuff

800
00:42:51,000 --> 00:42:52,840
Speaker 1: you would have done in nineteen eighty four. In a

801
00:42:52,880 --> 00:42:55,560
Speaker 1: lot of cases, they kind of lean into that more

802
00:42:55,719 --> 00:42:59,000
Speaker 1: than I think some other places where maybe there's a

803
00:42:59,000 --> 00:43:02,719
Speaker 1: little overthinking of the room, or you know, maybe you're

804
00:43:02,719 --> 00:43:05,600
Speaker 1: a little nervous to still live that way. They're not

805
00:43:06,360 --> 00:43:08,279
Speaker 1: just kind of punches you in the face when you're

806
00:43:08,280 --> 00:43:13,560
Speaker 1: in the building. But I wanted to specifically talk to them.

807
00:43:13,880 --> 00:43:17,000
Speaker 1: Mario included I'll show you in a second about why

808
00:43:17,120 --> 00:43:19,480
Speaker 1: last year was different. So you remember there were a

809
00:43:19,480 --> 00:43:21,680
Speaker 1: couple of years where Miami's gotten off the fast starts.

810
00:43:21,719 --> 00:43:24,319
Speaker 1: Before two years ago, they go and they beat the

811
00:43:24,320 --> 00:43:26,680
Speaker 1: brakes off Florida to start the year. Everyone feels like

812
00:43:26,680 --> 00:43:29,120
Speaker 1: they're off to the races, and then it fell flat.

813
00:43:30,440 --> 00:43:33,760
Speaker 1: And last year they start strong. They've beaten Notre Dame

814
00:43:34,040 --> 00:43:37,160
Speaker 1: early in the year week one, but then you lose

815
00:43:37,200 --> 00:43:39,600
Speaker 1: a game, then you lose that other game to SMU

816
00:43:39,640 --> 00:43:42,520
Speaker 1: and you kind of wonder, oh boy, And that's how

817
00:43:42,520 --> 00:43:44,680
Speaker 1: I felt in the moment. Now we know how it

818
00:43:44,719 --> 00:43:47,520
Speaker 1: turned out, I wanted to know why. Here's a little

819
00:43:47,520 --> 00:43:50,279
Speaker 1: bit of Mario from yesterday to an extent. The last

820
00:43:50,320 --> 00:43:54,600
Speaker 1: couple of years was no problem starting fast as a team,

821
00:43:54,640 --> 00:43:56,719
Speaker 1: but then there was this point a couple of times

822
00:43:56,760 --> 00:43:58,840
Speaker 1: in the season where you feel it. I don't know,

823
00:43:58,880 --> 00:44:02,279
Speaker 1: it feels a little off. I'd watch you and man,

824
00:44:02,280 --> 00:44:04,319
Speaker 1: that looked like what it looked like in week one

825
00:44:04,440 --> 00:44:07,360
Speaker 1: or week two. And last year there was this point.

826
00:44:07,560 --> 00:44:09,360
Speaker 1: I was at the game. I was at the SMU game,

827
00:44:09,640 --> 00:44:12,120
Speaker 1: and it doesn't go your way, and you're wondering, is

828
00:44:12,160 --> 00:44:14,160
Speaker 1: that about to happen again? Is that in the process

829
00:44:14,160 --> 00:44:17,080
Speaker 1: that happened again? And then you end up playing boom boom,

830
00:44:17,120 --> 00:44:19,440
Speaker 1: boom boom, your best ball four weeks in a row.

831
00:44:19,880 --> 00:44:23,439
Speaker 1: I'm on the outside looking in, wondering what changed? What's

832
00:44:23,480 --> 00:44:26,000
Speaker 1: the difference? So what changed? Why are you able to

833
00:44:26,040 --> 00:44:26,200
Speaker 1: do that?

834
00:44:26,280 --> 00:44:26,759
Speaker 4: Last year?

835
00:44:26,880 --> 00:44:27,040
Speaker 1: Oh?

836
00:44:27,080 --> 00:44:30,640
Speaker 3: I mean, I think that team meeting after the SMU

837
00:44:30,680 --> 00:44:35,120
Speaker 3: game really kind of changed things. We just weren't playing

838
00:44:35,560 --> 00:44:39,279
Speaker 3: like we play. We were playing hard, our effort, our

839
00:44:39,320 --> 00:44:41,720
Speaker 3: care factor, everything was through the roof, but we weren't.

840
00:44:42,880 --> 00:44:46,040
Speaker 3: It didn't look like us. And so you know, when

841
00:44:46,080 --> 00:44:48,440
Speaker 3: we met and talked about those specific things, all we

842
00:44:48,520 --> 00:44:53,399
Speaker 3: did was take those first five weeks and clipped out

843
00:44:53,840 --> 00:44:58,560
Speaker 3: us playing Miami football. Physical, violent, tough, relentless, finishing plays.

844
00:44:59,280 --> 00:45:02,319
Speaker 3: Just cut the lights and let it roll. And in

845
00:45:02,400 --> 00:45:06,120
Speaker 3: dead silence, we watched ten minutes of Miami playing Miami football.

846
00:45:06,960 --> 00:45:08,600
Speaker 3: And by the time the light's cut back on, I

847
00:45:08,600 --> 00:45:12,879
Speaker 3: mean those everybody's eyes were this big. Everybody's even feel

848
00:45:12,880 --> 00:45:15,719
Speaker 3: the intensity in the room. It's like we it's not

849
00:45:15,800 --> 00:45:17,880
Speaker 3: remembering who we are, it's realizing who the heck we

850
00:45:17,960 --> 00:45:20,640
Speaker 3: are and going out and making sure that on the

851
00:45:20,719 --> 00:45:23,480
Speaker 3: daily that that showed up in practice, every ounce of

852
00:45:23,520 --> 00:45:26,719
Speaker 3: the standard. And so that led to a just a

853
00:45:26,880 --> 00:45:31,600
Speaker 3: series of high level, physical, relentless play, particularly at the

854
00:45:31,640 --> 00:45:35,520
Speaker 3: line of scrimmage, but also the dog mentality of our

855
00:45:35,560 --> 00:45:40,120
Speaker 3: skill guys. Their physicality that was all that stuff was contagious,

856
00:45:40,200 --> 00:45:43,160
Speaker 3: and I think that combination led to ourselves going on

857
00:45:43,120 --> 00:45:43,399
Speaker 3: the run.

858
00:45:45,920 --> 00:45:48,359
Speaker 1: Yeah, just kind of being around them, checking them out.

859
00:45:49,200 --> 00:45:51,200
Speaker 1: They've got everything they need to be as good as

860
00:45:51,200 --> 00:45:53,399
Speaker 1: they were last year, or better than they were last year.

861
00:45:53,600 --> 00:45:56,799
Speaker 1: And yet there's also the potential to fall off if

862
00:45:56,840 --> 00:45:59,000
Speaker 1: stuff doesn't pan out. So there are a lot of

863
00:45:59,080 --> 00:46:03,440
Speaker 1: unfinished nature about that team, maybe a lot of rawness

864
00:46:03,520 --> 00:46:06,360
Speaker 1: about that team. They got some really really good players.

865
00:46:06,360 --> 00:46:09,240
Speaker 1: There there's some places where there's going to be attrition,

866
00:46:09,760 --> 00:46:11,960
Speaker 1: and I think the general public will probably expect to

867
00:46:12,000 --> 00:46:16,320
Speaker 1: fall off for obvious reasons where there could be some surprises.

868
00:46:17,000 --> 00:46:22,440
Speaker 1: So that's up to them. But I think that yesterday

869
00:46:23,520 --> 00:46:25,439
Speaker 1: one of the things that stood out the most. There's

870
00:46:25,480 --> 00:46:28,480
Speaker 1: just this random stuff you see when you're walking around buildings.

871
00:46:29,480 --> 00:46:32,719
Speaker 1: When you play in the Cotton Bowl, the Goodyear Cotton Bowl,

872
00:46:33,800 --> 00:46:36,319
Speaker 1: and you win it like they did over Ohio State

873
00:46:36,440 --> 00:46:39,840
Speaker 1: last year, the fine folks at Goodyear, unbeknownst to me,

874
00:46:41,040 --> 00:46:44,080
Speaker 1: tear up a bunch of Goodyear tires and they offer

875
00:46:44,160 --> 00:46:49,040
Speaker 1: to build your mascot out of Goodyear tires, thus recycling,

876
00:46:50,080 --> 00:46:53,160
Speaker 1: and Miami did that and then asked or they did

877
00:46:53,160 --> 00:46:54,799
Speaker 1: it for Miami, and they said, do you want this?

878
00:46:55,360 --> 00:46:57,640
Speaker 1: And not only did they take it, Christ Paul just

879
00:46:57,640 --> 00:47:00,800
Speaker 1: put it outside his office store. It's got that great

880
00:47:01,000 --> 00:47:03,560
Speaker 1: rubber mascot smell, like you want look at that thing

881
00:47:04,040 --> 00:47:06,640
Speaker 1: just sitting outside his door and it doesn't sit there

882
00:47:06,680 --> 00:47:09,240
Speaker 1: as this prop that never gets used. They take pictures

883
00:47:09,239 --> 00:47:11,279
Speaker 1: with that thing, people fight over being able to take

884
00:47:11,280 --> 00:47:14,000
Speaker 1: it home. Some say there are certain members of the

885
00:47:14,040 --> 00:47:17,640
Speaker 1: staff that are able to hide inside the Goodyear Rubber

886
00:47:17,680 --> 00:47:21,319
Speaker 1: mascot there. I also want to give a great, big

887
00:47:21,360 --> 00:47:25,600
Speaker 1: shout out to the fine folks at shadow Wag You

888
00:47:26,280 --> 00:47:28,880
Speaker 1: Big Al in particular, because if I'm left to my

889
00:47:28,880 --> 00:47:32,239
Speaker 1: own devices, I just eat the same three or four

890
00:47:32,280 --> 00:47:37,239
Speaker 1: meals on the road, mostly from chain restaurants everywhere I go.

891
00:47:37,480 --> 00:47:40,480
Speaker 1: It is a sad, sad state of affairs. Even after

892
00:47:40,560 --> 00:47:43,479
Speaker 1: my food poisoning mishap in Jacksonville a couple of years ago,

893
00:47:43,960 --> 00:47:46,600
Speaker 1: I still fall victim to it. But when I go

894
00:47:46,640 --> 00:47:48,600
Speaker 1: to Miami, Cam Gorby will not let it happen. He

895
00:47:48,640 --> 00:47:52,080
Speaker 1: will not let a wayward soul like myself fall through

896
00:47:52,120 --> 00:47:55,520
Speaker 1: the cracks, and so he'll make sure we wrap up early.

897
00:47:55,680 --> 00:47:57,240
Speaker 1: He'll make sure we have some time on the schedule.

898
00:47:57,360 --> 00:48:01,080
Speaker 1: We go to Shadow Wag You yesterday, unbelievable. I don't

899
00:48:01,080 --> 00:48:03,799
Speaker 1: think I've eaten since then. It's still kind of full too.

900
00:48:04,000 --> 00:48:06,080
Speaker 1: There's a room for about fourteen fifteen people in there,

901
00:48:06,520 --> 00:48:10,200
Speaker 1: So don't you all go at once. But wow, that's

902
00:48:10,239 --> 00:48:12,759
Speaker 1: all I can say. Wow, that's my Yelp review for

903
00:48:12,840 --> 00:48:15,000
Speaker 1: Shadow Wag You not that they need it. Wow, those

904
00:48:15,000 --> 00:48:17,279
Speaker 1: are really good trips. Both of those sit downs are

905
00:48:17,280 --> 00:48:20,719
Speaker 1: available right now on the channel or the podcast feed. Mitch, Yeah, yeah,

906
00:48:20,760 --> 00:48:23,239
Speaker 1: they're both in the podcast feed. So those are really

907
00:48:23,320 --> 00:48:25,480
Speaker 1: really good. And like I said, you may not be

908
00:48:25,520 --> 00:48:27,600
Speaker 1: a Florida fan or a Miami fan. Maybe you hate

909
00:48:27,600 --> 00:48:31,000
Speaker 1: Florida and or Miami. This is stuff that we shape

910
00:48:31,040 --> 00:48:34,040
Speaker 1: to be interesting to college football fans in general. In fact,

911
00:48:34,080 --> 00:48:36,799
Speaker 1: there's a lot of questioning about stuff that pertains to

912
00:48:36,840 --> 00:48:45,840
Speaker 1: matters beyond just those programs. I know, I say this

913
00:48:45,880 --> 00:48:47,680
Speaker 1: about a lot of things that really may be my

914
00:48:47,719 --> 00:48:50,240
Speaker 1: favorite thing that we do outside of actually going to games.

915
00:48:50,400 --> 00:48:55,520
Speaker 1: They're watching us in reading Pennsylvania, Montgomery, Alabama, and Henderson, Nevada.

916
00:48:55,560 --> 00:48:59,800
Speaker 1: Thank you so much. It is time for some chaos.

917
00:49:01,760 --> 00:49:05,280
Speaker 1: We had a chaos scenario that floated around the office

918
00:49:05,280 --> 00:49:08,719
Speaker 1: today and I said, should I you know what, Yes,

919
00:49:08,760 --> 00:49:10,880
Speaker 1: I should. I should put this on the show tonight.

920
00:49:11,640 --> 00:49:14,200
Speaker 1: We threw one out the other night. He got good reviews.

921
00:49:14,520 --> 00:49:17,160
Speaker 1: How's this one for a little chaos this upcoming year?

922
00:49:17,600 --> 00:49:21,520
Speaker 1: So Texas enters the season with the third best odds

923
00:49:21,560 --> 00:49:25,279
Speaker 1: to win the national title. Oklahoma enters the season with

924
00:49:25,400 --> 00:49:29,040
Speaker 1: the thirteenth best odds to win the national title. Stands

925
00:49:29,040 --> 00:49:32,200
Speaker 1: to reason, Hey, that means they'll both be top fifteen,

926
00:49:32,280 --> 00:49:35,080
Speaker 1: maybe top ten caliber teams hooms amongst us knows, but

927
00:49:35,160 --> 00:49:38,080
Speaker 1: at the very least there are high expectations for both

928
00:49:38,160 --> 00:49:40,319
Speaker 1: of them. Now, of course, you know they play every

929
00:49:40,360 --> 00:49:43,279
Speaker 1: year in the Red River Shootout known by no other name.

930
00:49:43,320 --> 00:49:49,279
Speaker 1: On this show. You got returning Heisman caliber quarterbacks here

931
00:49:49,680 --> 00:49:53,440
Speaker 1: in the mix. That's not chaotic, Josh, what's chaotic about that? Aha,

932
00:49:54,239 --> 00:49:57,480
Speaker 1: I've got the chaos scenario right here. Not that this

933
00:49:57,640 --> 00:49:59,840
Speaker 1: is fortune telling. We don't believe in that sort of

934
00:49:59,840 --> 00:50:04,680
Speaker 1: thing around here. But it's not outside the realm of

935
00:50:04,719 --> 00:50:09,200
Speaker 1: possibility that the Red River Shootout on what did we say,

936
00:50:09,200 --> 00:50:12,359
Speaker 1: October tenth? It's not out of the realm of possibility

937
00:50:12,360 --> 00:50:16,000
Speaker 1: if you want chaos, that the Red River Shootout could

938
00:50:16,000 --> 00:50:20,759
Speaker 1: be a playoff elimination game this year. What how? Yeah,

939
00:50:20,760 --> 00:50:24,800
Speaker 1: it's chaotic. I know, Well, here's how it would happen

940
00:50:25,320 --> 00:50:28,600
Speaker 1: in theory. Because I'm happy in spring to play the

941
00:50:28,640 --> 00:50:31,920
Speaker 1: glass half full, three quarters full. I'm happy to play nice.

942
00:50:32,400 --> 00:50:34,759
Speaker 1: Some even say that's my reputation this time of year.

943
00:50:34,960 --> 00:50:37,239
Speaker 1: I don't like being negative this time of year. I

944
00:50:37,239 --> 00:50:39,319
Speaker 1: don't like throwing people under the bus and predicting three

945
00:50:39,320 --> 00:50:41,239
Speaker 1: and nine. So if you guys want to believe at

946
00:50:41,239 --> 00:50:44,879
Speaker 1: Texas that despite the fact that you were bottom half

947
00:50:44,880 --> 00:50:47,440
Speaker 1: of the country and pressure rate allowed last year and

948
00:50:47,480 --> 00:50:50,920
Speaker 1: you didn't run it well, past defense was very, very poor,

949
00:50:51,360 --> 00:50:53,120
Speaker 1: if you want to believe you got all that fixed,

950
00:50:53,120 --> 00:50:54,879
Speaker 1: then none of it will be an issue this year.

951
00:50:55,040 --> 00:50:58,919
Speaker 1: I'm okay going along with that. I'm just saying there's

952
00:50:59,000 --> 00:51:03,040
Speaker 1: a possibility it's not all fixed. Okay, it's at least

953
00:51:03,080 --> 00:51:06,919
Speaker 1: a possibility. More on that in a second, And as

954
00:51:06,960 --> 00:51:12,560
Speaker 1: Oklahoma folks snicker, shut up respectfully, because I also want

955
00:51:12,600 --> 00:51:14,480
Speaker 1: to remind you you couldn't run the ball to save

956
00:51:14,520 --> 00:51:17,160
Speaker 1: your life. Last year. You were one hundred and thirteenth

957
00:51:17,200 --> 00:51:20,720
Speaker 1: in the country in rushing offense. Bama was horrific running

958
00:51:20,760 --> 00:51:23,480
Speaker 1: the ball, and you guys were so bad you let

959
00:51:23,520 --> 00:51:25,520
Speaker 1: them come in your building and beat you in a

960
00:51:25,520 --> 00:51:29,480
Speaker 1: playoff game last year. That's how bad it was. What

961
00:51:29,600 --> 00:51:35,200
Speaker 1: if it's not improved, If either or both of those

962
00:51:35,640 --> 00:51:40,279
Speaker 1: weakness profiles, those vulnerability profiles aren't short up. Then we

963
00:51:40,360 --> 00:51:42,680
Speaker 1: have to take a look at the schedule, and the

964
00:51:42,719 --> 00:51:48,080
Speaker 1: schedule tells me that paper pop. Ohio State comes to

965
00:51:48,120 --> 00:51:53,120
Speaker 1: Austin in week two. Texas goes to Knoxville in week four.

966
00:51:53,400 --> 00:51:57,120
Speaker 1: These are games before they play Oklahoma. Oklahoma got to

967
00:51:57,120 --> 00:51:59,840
Speaker 1: go to ann Arbor in week two, got to go

968
00:51:59,840 --> 00:52:03,280
Speaker 1: to Athens in week four. They will be point spread

969
00:52:03,360 --> 00:52:05,600
Speaker 1: underdogs in both of those games. Right now. I know

970
00:52:05,719 --> 00:52:08,480
Speaker 1: that because FanDuel is already showing me that there are

971
00:52:08,480 --> 00:52:10,399
Speaker 1: a two and a half point dog at Michigan. Did

972
00:52:10,400 --> 00:52:12,720
Speaker 1: I have that right, Jesse? I think I did. Both

973
00:52:12,760 --> 00:52:14,920
Speaker 1: of those games, by the way, have two and a

974
00:52:14,960 --> 00:52:17,200
Speaker 1: half point lines. I think it was Texas minus two

975
00:52:17,200 --> 00:52:19,520
Speaker 1: and a half right now against Ohio State, and I

976
00:52:19,520 --> 00:52:22,919
Speaker 1: think it was Michigan minus two and a half against OU.

977
00:52:23,280 --> 00:52:28,279
Speaker 1: Thank you, Jesse. So is it likely that they go

978
00:52:28,320 --> 00:52:30,239
Speaker 1: with combined to zero to four in these games? No,

979
00:52:30,360 --> 00:52:34,120
Speaker 1: it is not. But this is an evil or it's

980
00:52:34,160 --> 00:52:37,920
Speaker 1: an ugly, it's a dirty, it's a chaotic world sometimes.

981
00:52:38,280 --> 00:52:42,279
Speaker 1: So all I'm saying is it could happen, and if

982
00:52:42,320 --> 00:52:46,640
Speaker 1: it did happen, even for one of you, this game

983
00:52:46,719 --> 00:52:50,600
Speaker 1: ends up serving as a de facto playoff elimination game.

984
00:52:52,120 --> 00:52:53,839
Speaker 1: And I don't even want to talk about what would

985
00:52:53,840 --> 00:52:55,600
Speaker 1: happen for who loses, you know what, yes, I do.

986
00:52:55,920 --> 00:52:58,000
Speaker 1: For Brent Venables, this would be a very bad deal.

987
00:52:58,480 --> 00:53:03,640
Speaker 1: Okay for brin Venible. This is his fifth year at Oklahoma,

988
00:53:03,800 --> 00:53:06,560
Speaker 1: and I don't know what the final record would be,

989
00:53:07,080 --> 00:53:09,720
Speaker 1: but here's what it would sound like. Six and seven

990
00:53:10,160 --> 00:53:13,040
Speaker 1: to ten and three to six and seven to ten

991
00:53:13,080 --> 00:53:19,200
Speaker 1: and three two. Already three losses by mid October and counting,

992
00:53:19,760 --> 00:53:22,120
Speaker 1: so it would look like the roller coaster ride under

993
00:53:22,120 --> 00:53:25,160
Speaker 1: Brenton Venables has continued down year up year, down year

994
00:53:25,280 --> 00:53:28,960
Speaker 1: up year in route to another down year. But that's

995
00:53:29,000 --> 00:53:30,680
Speaker 1: still not as bad as it would be for Sark

996
00:53:31,360 --> 00:53:33,839
Speaker 1: because if this isn't all in year for Texas, and

997
00:53:33,920 --> 00:53:37,560
Speaker 1: it is, if this is a year where it's sort

998
00:53:37,640 --> 00:53:41,160
Speaker 1: of the national title or bust attitude, I'm not necessarily

999
00:53:41,239 --> 00:53:43,319
Speaker 1: sure that means you literally have to win a title

1000
00:53:43,440 --> 00:53:45,680
Speaker 1: or it's a bust, but you get what I'm saying

1001
00:53:45,800 --> 00:53:48,200
Speaker 1: when I say that if it is one of those years,

1002
00:53:48,239 --> 00:53:50,080
Speaker 1: and it is, and it should be, and that's a

1003
00:53:50,080 --> 00:53:52,719
Speaker 1: fair expectation for a Texas fan, and you got three

1004
00:53:52,880 --> 00:53:57,680
Speaker 1: losses by the third week of October. If there's still

1005
00:53:57,760 --> 00:54:00,800
Speaker 1: pumpkins in people's yards and you've already got three losses,

1006
00:54:01,560 --> 00:54:04,960
Speaker 1: we can't have that. We won't have that. In fact,

1007
00:54:06,200 --> 00:54:09,759
Speaker 1: I am refuting that this was even put in the ship.

1008
00:54:09,880 --> 00:54:12,600
Speaker 1: Shame on you, Jesse, Shame on you for suggesting this.

1009
00:54:12,760 --> 00:54:15,319
Speaker 1: Steve Sarkisan is not gonna let this happen. I don't

1010
00:54:15,320 --> 00:54:17,759
Speaker 1: think Brenton Vennables is gonna let it happen. But I

1011
00:54:17,920 --> 00:54:21,160
Speaker 1: doubly especially know that both guys are not gonna let

1012
00:54:21,160 --> 00:54:23,440
Speaker 1: it happen. They're both friends of the program, they are

1013
00:54:23,480 --> 00:54:28,560
Speaker 1: both Speaker Series alums. Could be again, we'll see. I

1014
00:54:28,560 --> 00:54:31,280
Speaker 1: don't like to give away spoilers for the Speaker Series dates,

1015
00:54:31,800 --> 00:54:33,640
Speaker 1: but surely this is not gonna happen, right, these are

1016
00:54:33,640 --> 00:54:36,840
Speaker 1: top fifteen teams, Jesse, Surely this is not gonna no

1017
00:54:36,840 --> 00:54:42,040
Speaker 1: no waste time, no no, no, no no. That may

1018
00:54:42,080 --> 00:54:44,800
Speaker 1: have been a lie. But we will tell the truth

1019
00:54:45,440 --> 00:54:49,279
Speaker 1: in this next portion of the program tonight, Bradley, here's

1020
00:54:49,280 --> 00:54:52,760
Speaker 1: a good endpoint for you. We do something in spring

1021
00:54:52,840 --> 00:54:55,000
Speaker 1: called the Truth Teller Series. You know what. Ideally we

1022
00:54:55,080 --> 00:54:57,160
Speaker 1: just tell the truth the entire year, but we especially

1023
00:54:57,280 --> 00:54:59,239
Speaker 1: like to tell the truth in the spring, and we

1024
00:54:59,360 --> 00:55:01,040
Speaker 1: like to pick a time topic or a person or

1025
00:55:01,040 --> 00:55:05,000
Speaker 1: a team or whatnot every single night, and tonight it

1026
00:55:05,120 --> 00:55:09,680
Speaker 1: is James Franklin's turn to have the truth told about him.

1027
00:55:10,120 --> 00:55:12,560
Speaker 1: I think the truth about James Franklin is boring. I

1028
00:55:12,560 --> 00:55:14,520
Speaker 1: did not say I think James Franklin is boring. I

1029
00:55:14,560 --> 00:55:17,400
Speaker 1: said the truth about him is boring. And the truth

1030
00:55:17,480 --> 00:55:20,399
Speaker 1: is just that he's a really good coach. That's it.

1031
00:55:20,520 --> 00:55:23,120
Speaker 1: That's the truth. No, it's not. That's not nearly the

1032
00:55:23,200 --> 00:55:25,480
Speaker 1: end of the story. You know it's not. But to me,

1033
00:55:25,600 --> 00:55:29,799
Speaker 1: it is. To me if my sister, who is not

1034
00:55:29,880 --> 00:55:33,720
Speaker 1: exactly the most diehard Penn State viewer in the world,

1035
00:55:34,000 --> 00:55:36,399
Speaker 1: doesn't know a whole lot about Virginia Tech, don't think

1036
00:55:36,440 --> 00:55:38,319
Speaker 1: she checked him out at Vandy back in the day.

1037
00:55:38,520 --> 00:55:41,160
Speaker 1: If she were to see James Franklin's picture and say

1038
00:55:41,440 --> 00:55:44,920
Speaker 1: who's that, I said, football coach, and she said, describe

1039
00:55:45,000 --> 00:55:47,960
Speaker 1: him for me. What's the truth about that guy? I'd

1040
00:55:48,000 --> 00:55:51,080
Speaker 1: say he's a good football coach. That's it. Now. She

1041
00:55:51,120 --> 00:55:53,120
Speaker 1: wouldn't push back and say that he's four and twenty

1042
00:55:53,120 --> 00:55:55,400
Speaker 1: one and stay p top ten teams. I don't think

1043
00:55:55,560 --> 00:55:58,200
Speaker 1: but if she did push back and say that, I'd say, oh,

1044
00:55:58,239 --> 00:56:01,239
Speaker 1: I didn't say he's great. I didn't say he's yeah. Yeah,

1045
00:56:01,520 --> 00:56:06,040
Speaker 1: he's dropped several big games, Sure he has. He's also

1046
00:56:06,120 --> 00:56:09,080
Speaker 1: won every other game up until about five minutes ago

1047
00:56:09,280 --> 00:56:11,359
Speaker 1: that he was supposed to win. That's what made him

1048
00:56:11,360 --> 00:56:14,399
Speaker 1: a really good coach. Here's the problem. Sys they went

1049
00:56:14,600 --> 00:56:20,799
Speaker 1: all in last year and they busted. They strategically and

1050
00:56:20,880 --> 00:56:25,120
Speaker 1: a very cerebral nature decided we got all of our

1051
00:56:25,160 --> 00:56:29,040
Speaker 1: returning production here, we got Drew Aller here, we got

1052
00:56:29,040 --> 00:56:32,600
Speaker 1: a really highly paid coaching staff. This is the year

1053
00:56:32,640 --> 00:56:35,200
Speaker 1: we've been building towards. This is the year that we're

1054
00:56:35,239 --> 00:56:38,719
Speaker 1: better than just really good. This is our shot, and

1055
00:56:38,800 --> 00:56:41,960
Speaker 1: we're coming off recently being in the semi finals of

1056
00:56:42,000 --> 00:56:44,960
Speaker 1: the playoff. So we tasted it. We knocked on the door.

1057
00:56:45,000 --> 00:56:46,919
Speaker 1: Now we're going to kick the door in, and we're

1058
00:56:46,920 --> 00:56:50,239
Speaker 1: not going to be bashful about it. Remember, I mean

1059
00:56:50,280 --> 00:56:54,360
Speaker 1: they leaned into it. James Franklin was not shy about

1060
00:56:54,400 --> 00:56:57,479
Speaker 1: talking about their potential. He was not shy about talking

1061
00:56:57,480 --> 00:56:59,800
Speaker 1: about their goals. The problem is when they lost to

1062
00:57:01,360 --> 00:57:04,839
Speaker 1: that tire got wobbly and then he just fell off

1063
00:57:04,880 --> 00:57:07,520
Speaker 1: at UCLA, and then the rest of them fell off

1064
00:57:07,560 --> 00:57:10,040
Speaker 1: against Northwestern and the entire thing went up and smoked.

1065
00:57:10,680 --> 00:57:12,720
Speaker 1: And that was the end of the James Franklin tenure

1066
00:57:13,000 --> 00:57:17,600
Speaker 1: at Penn State. More on what happened afterwards in the second.

1067
00:57:17,680 --> 00:57:22,760
Speaker 1: But to me, still that doesn't take away what I said.

1068
00:57:22,800 --> 00:57:24,800
Speaker 1: I just think he's a really good coach. He's a

1069
00:57:24,800 --> 00:57:28,240
Speaker 1: really good coach that went championship or bust and busted.

1070
00:57:28,400 --> 00:57:31,120
Speaker 1: That's what he did. Okay. If James Franklin were to

1071
00:57:31,200 --> 00:57:33,840
Speaker 1: have made the goal of last year to be a good, solid,

1072
00:57:33,840 --> 00:57:37,080
Speaker 1: ten win team, and that was the universal expectation of

1073
00:57:37,120 --> 00:57:39,000
Speaker 1: the building, they probably would have ended up going ten

1074
00:57:39,040 --> 00:57:41,560
Speaker 1: to two. I don't blame him for trying to aim

1075
00:57:41,600 --> 00:57:44,840
Speaker 1: for greatness. That's just when you lunge for the belt

1076
00:57:45,320 --> 00:57:47,400
Speaker 1: and you miss it, you fall to the canvas. They

1077
00:57:47,440 --> 00:57:51,800
Speaker 1: fell to the canvas. Speaking of canvas, as boring as

1078
00:57:51,840 --> 00:57:56,680
Speaker 1: my truth is, Producer Jesse walked in earlier today and

1079
00:57:56,720 --> 00:57:59,680
Speaker 1: he pulled up what was it, an entire notes document.

1080
00:58:00,160 --> 00:58:02,280
Speaker 1: There were a lot of paragraphs. I said, Jesse, we

1081
00:58:02,280 --> 00:58:03,880
Speaker 1: don't have room for that in the show. He said,

1082
00:58:03,880 --> 00:58:05,880
Speaker 1: all right, well let me boil it down for you.

1083
00:58:06,040 --> 00:58:09,440
Speaker 1: James Franklin is Shelton Benjamin And I said, former All

1084
00:58:09,480 --> 00:58:13,080
Speaker 1: American wrestler, Shelton Benjamin. He said, yeah, well not the

1085
00:58:13,160 --> 00:58:16,200
Speaker 1: All American version, not the amateur wrestler. No, no, no, no,

1086
00:58:16,640 --> 00:58:21,520
Speaker 1: the former Intercontinental champion. I love Shelton Benjamin. I didn't

1087
00:58:21,520 --> 00:58:23,840
Speaker 1: never think he got enough run. But anyway, for those

1088
00:58:23,840 --> 00:58:27,200
Speaker 1: of you who don't watch pro wrestling, Shelton Benjamin was

1089
00:58:27,240 --> 00:58:30,640
Speaker 1: a guy who was an amateur wrestler. Was he from Minnesota, Jesse?

1090
00:58:31,000 --> 00:58:33,280
Speaker 1: So he and brock lesn Are both wrestled at Minnesota.

1091
00:58:33,600 --> 00:58:36,840
Speaker 1: Then they since there really is no pro amateur wrestling

1092
00:58:36,920 --> 00:58:40,120
Speaker 1: because those are oxy morons, but also because there really

1093
00:58:40,120 --> 00:58:42,280
Speaker 1: is no big leagues to go to, a lot of

1094
00:58:42,280 --> 00:58:46,480
Speaker 1: guys just become pro wrestlers. They become sports entertainers. You know,

1095
00:58:46,840 --> 00:58:50,360
Speaker 1: Kurt Engel did as well, won the Olympic gold medal

1096
00:58:50,400 --> 00:58:54,200
Speaker 1: with a broken freaking neck. So anyway, Shelton Benjamin does

1097
00:58:54,360 --> 00:58:57,880
Speaker 1: the same thing. Shelton Benjamin becomes a pro wrestler. Had

1098
00:58:57,920 --> 00:59:00,160
Speaker 1: one of the greatest main event matches on My and

1099
00:59:00,200 --> 00:59:02,240
Speaker 1: not Raw in history with Sean Michaels. Because everyone has

1100
00:59:02,280 --> 00:59:05,800
Speaker 1: their best match with Seawn Michaels. I digress. Shelton Benjamin

1101
00:59:05,880 --> 00:59:11,560
Speaker 1: became famous for getting close but never getting to the top, or,

1102
00:59:11,800 --> 00:59:17,280
Speaker 1: as Jesse put it, the perennial intercontinental champ that can't

1103
00:59:17,320 --> 00:59:20,040
Speaker 1: elevate to the main event level. And that is how

1104
00:59:20,120 --> 00:59:25,000
Speaker 1: Jesse described metaphorically James Franklin. And that's how you explain

1105
00:59:25,280 --> 00:59:28,280
Speaker 1: four and twenty one versus ap top ten teams. He

1106
00:59:28,400 --> 00:59:31,640
Speaker 1: is Shelton Benjamin, and the people wanted Steve Austin. The

1107
00:59:31,680 --> 00:59:36,280
Speaker 1: people of State College wanted Steve Austin. It's okay to

1108
00:59:36,320 --> 00:59:38,439
Speaker 1: want Steve Austin. It's hard to get him. There aren't

1109
00:59:38,440 --> 00:59:40,520
Speaker 1: a lot of those out there, Jesse, There aren't a lot.

1110
00:59:41,040 --> 00:59:43,120
Speaker 1: So anyway, I had my feelings like everyone else did

1111
00:59:43,120 --> 00:59:45,960
Speaker 1: about the way the James Franklin thing went down at

1112
00:59:45,960 --> 00:59:48,960
Speaker 1: Penn State. Here is what I think will end up

1113
00:59:48,960 --> 00:59:51,920
Speaker 1: being the wildest part of all of this, somehow, in

1114
00:59:51,960 --> 00:59:55,720
Speaker 1: some twisted way that only college football could provide. I

1115
00:59:55,760 --> 00:59:58,240
Speaker 1: think five years from now, who knows, maybe five months

1116
00:59:58,240 --> 01:00:01,440
Speaker 1: from now, we look back and say everyone figured out

1117
01:00:01,440 --> 01:00:05,000
Speaker 1: a way to win in this situation. Penn State won

1118
01:00:05,320 --> 01:00:08,960
Speaker 1: despite their best efforts. Penn State won because they tripped

1119
01:00:09,000 --> 01:00:14,280
Speaker 1: backwards into hiring Matt Campbell, and they upgraded themselves. And

1120
01:00:14,280 --> 01:00:19,520
Speaker 1: then Virginia Tech gets the earliest and in some way's

1121
01:00:19,600 --> 01:00:21,520
Speaker 1: latest Christmas present. I guess, depending on where you're on

1122
01:00:21,560 --> 01:00:24,040
Speaker 1: the calendar, that they could ever get in Blacksburg. They

1123
01:00:24,080 --> 01:00:28,040
Speaker 1: massively upgrade their situation. James Franklin, a guy who was

1124
01:00:28,280 --> 01:00:30,600
Speaker 1: knocking on the door of the National Championship Game less

1125
01:00:30,640 --> 01:00:33,040
Speaker 1: than a calendar year earlier, is now our head coach,

1126
01:00:33,280 --> 01:00:37,960
Speaker 1: with no scandal in tow there's no external factors. You

1127
01:00:38,080 --> 01:00:41,280
Speaker 1: just got fired. That's it. That's it. Yeah, we'll take him.

1128
01:00:41,960 --> 01:00:45,000
Speaker 1: And then James Franklin, James Franklin gets told he's not

1129
01:00:45,040 --> 01:00:49,480
Speaker 1: good enough. James Franklin gets fired, and then James Franklin

1130
01:00:50,040 --> 01:00:53,440
Speaker 1: gets a chance to restart his clock at a place

1131
01:00:53,480 --> 01:00:57,800
Speaker 1: that's going to be very overly appreciative of having him

1132
01:00:57,800 --> 01:01:01,120
Speaker 1: in the building. Look up and saying, you know what,

1133
01:01:01,240 --> 01:01:03,800
Speaker 1: everyone's better off for this, and that's a rare commodity

1134
01:01:03,800 --> 01:01:06,320
Speaker 1: in life, and it's a very rare commodity in sports.

1135
01:01:06,960 --> 01:01:09,880
Speaker 1: The win win win. In that situation, we all win.

1136
01:01:11,240 --> 01:01:17,200
Speaker 1: I still think that last year, all right, the way

1137
01:01:17,240 --> 01:01:23,440
Speaker 1: it turned out, it kind of creates a fog around

1138
01:01:23,760 --> 01:01:26,920
Speaker 1: recent history, all right, so it wasn't. But about a

1139
01:01:26,960 --> 01:01:30,320
Speaker 1: decade and a half ago, Penn State is mired and scandal,

1140
01:01:30,560 --> 01:01:32,760
Speaker 1: and there are people saying Penn State football will never

1141
01:01:32,800 --> 01:01:36,720
Speaker 1: be the same, Penn State athletics will never recover. No

1142
01:01:36,720 --> 01:01:39,320
Speaker 1: one talks that way anymore. It's been a long time.

1143
01:01:39,680 --> 01:01:42,760
Speaker 1: If you're eighteen years old watching the show, there is

1144
01:01:42,800 --> 01:01:44,720
Speaker 1: a chance you don't even know what I'm talking about.

1145
01:01:45,400 --> 01:01:48,880
Speaker 1: It could have been the exact opposite, if James Franklin's

1146
01:01:48,920 --> 01:01:52,840
Speaker 1: not there and somebody else takes the job and they

1147
01:01:52,880 --> 01:01:55,120
Speaker 1: fumble it. And then someone else takes the job and

1148
01:01:55,160 --> 01:01:57,920
Speaker 1: they fumble it. Think Tennessee football, think Florida football. For

1149
01:01:57,960 --> 01:02:02,080
Speaker 1: a long time, and the state just keeps slipping further

1150
01:02:02,240 --> 01:02:04,440
Speaker 1: down the slope and they never recover. We could be

1151
01:02:04,480 --> 01:02:07,520
Speaker 1: sitting here in twenty twenty five saying, you know, they

1152
01:02:07,640 --> 01:02:11,120
Speaker 1: really never recovered from the Sandusky stuff. They never recovered

1153
01:02:11,120 --> 01:02:14,400
Speaker 1: from it, and instead no one even talks about it.

1154
01:02:15,120 --> 01:02:19,040
Speaker 1: And you know why, James Franklin's why. So the further

1155
01:02:19,120 --> 01:02:22,000
Speaker 1: removed you get, especially if he wins at Virginia Tech

1156
01:02:22,440 --> 01:02:24,960
Speaker 1: and there are no grudges held, the further down the

1157
01:02:25,040 --> 01:02:27,520
Speaker 1: road we get. I think the more He'll be remembered

1158
01:02:27,560 --> 01:02:30,280
Speaker 1: that way instead of right now where it's still fresh

1159
01:02:30,320 --> 01:02:32,800
Speaker 1: and it's still a little bit raw. But to me,

1160
01:02:32,880 --> 01:02:35,000
Speaker 1: that's the truth about James Franklin. In a way, it's

1161
01:02:35,000 --> 01:02:37,480
Speaker 1: really boring if you think the way I think, or

1162
01:02:37,480 --> 01:02:39,320
Speaker 1: it's really spicy if you compare him to a former

1163
01:02:39,320 --> 01:02:43,720
Speaker 1: and in a condoment champ. Vanduel has over underwin totals

1164
01:02:43,720 --> 01:02:46,480
Speaker 1: for Penn State or anyone else. You can go bet

1165
01:02:46,480 --> 01:02:48,240
Speaker 1: the futures right now. If you think Penn State's gonna

1166
01:02:48,240 --> 01:02:50,280
Speaker 1: win the conference. You can go bet odds on Week

1167
01:02:50,400 --> 01:02:53,120
Speaker 1: one games now. Just you guys don't play anyone out

1168
01:02:53,120 --> 01:02:54,720
Speaker 1: of conference this year, so they probably don't have the

1169
01:02:54,760 --> 01:02:56,600
Speaker 1: Penn State Week one game on the board. Who knows,

1170
01:02:56,600 --> 01:02:58,959
Speaker 1: maybe they do. You can bet Heisman odds right now.

1171
01:02:59,720 --> 01:03:02,640
Speaker 1: You can bet a number of things. Look, technically, it's

1172
01:03:02,680 --> 01:03:05,600
Speaker 1: basketball season. After my showing on Papa Shot out in

1173
01:03:05,640 --> 01:03:10,160
Speaker 1: the out in the newsroom earlier today, basketball is dead

1174
01:03:10,200 --> 01:03:13,240
Speaker 1: to me as a sport. I am retiring from basketball

1175
01:03:13,720 --> 01:03:15,960
Speaker 1: and I am retiring from talking about basketball. But you

1176
01:03:16,000 --> 01:03:18,320
Speaker 1: know what, some of you like it, and if you do,

1177
01:03:18,800 --> 01:03:20,919
Speaker 1: you can go to FanDuel right now. And they got

1178
01:03:20,920 --> 01:03:24,120
Speaker 1: odds on good old fashioned NBA and college basketball games

1179
01:03:24,160 --> 01:03:26,960
Speaker 1: up as well, but it is the exclusive odds provider

1180
01:03:27,000 --> 01:03:34,440
Speaker 1: of the show. All right, lastly, before we get out

1181
01:03:34,440 --> 01:03:38,240
Speaker 1: of here tonight, the mood Tracker continues, and the mood

1182
01:03:38,280 --> 01:03:42,200
Speaker 1: Tracker on this show tonight is headed to Clemson, South Carolina.

1183
01:03:42,240 --> 01:03:44,200
Speaker 1: What is the mood tracker? You ask, if you're new

1184
01:03:44,240 --> 01:03:47,240
Speaker 1: around here. That's just where we try and explain, try

1185
01:03:47,280 --> 01:03:51,840
Speaker 1: and guess an educated guess how the fan base is feeling.

1186
01:03:52,160 --> 01:03:55,480
Speaker 1: And this one's really interesting because it's Clemson and it's

1187
01:03:55,520 --> 01:03:58,840
Speaker 1: a place that this time a decade ago, they were

1188
01:03:59,160 --> 01:04:03,080
Speaker 1: one A right there with Alabama as the premier program

1189
01:04:03,080 --> 01:04:05,720
Speaker 1: in college football. Dabo Sweny was one A. He was

1190
01:04:05,920 --> 01:04:09,040
Speaker 1: right there alongside Nick Sabe and he was figuring out

1191
01:04:09,040 --> 01:04:11,440
Speaker 1: a way to beat him in a national title game

1192
01:04:11,680 --> 01:04:14,400
Speaker 1: ten years ago, and then eight years ago he did

1193
01:04:14,400 --> 01:04:19,240
Speaker 1: it again. Side note, Dabosweny very very strong argument for

1194
01:04:19,320 --> 01:04:21,320
Speaker 1: him to be the number two head coach in college

1195
01:04:21,320 --> 01:04:25,400
Speaker 1: football this millennium. There's an argument to be made there

1196
01:04:25,480 --> 01:04:30,320
Speaker 1: for that solid argument. So a decade ago, there is

1197
01:04:30,400 --> 01:04:33,040
Speaker 1: no problem at Clemson. They are rolling, They are a

1198
01:04:33,160 --> 01:04:36,000
Speaker 1: rocket ship. But we're not talking about the mood a

1199
01:04:36,040 --> 01:04:38,160
Speaker 1: decade ago. The mood at Clemson right now I think

1200
01:04:38,240 --> 01:04:41,080
Speaker 1: is sort of a last stand mood. No one wants

1201
01:04:41,080 --> 01:04:46,240
Speaker 1: it to be that way. No one's wanting to criticize Daboswenny.

1202
01:04:46,360 --> 01:04:48,160
Speaker 1: If you're a Clemson fan, you just want to pull

1203
01:04:48,160 --> 01:04:50,240
Speaker 1: the nose up, you know, you want to be back

1204
01:04:50,280 --> 01:04:52,000
Speaker 1: to the way it used to be. A lot of

1205
01:04:52,040 --> 01:04:53,800
Speaker 1: people saying that about a lot of things in college

1206
01:04:53,840 --> 01:04:57,200
Speaker 1: football right now. But the failure to launch in twenty

1207
01:04:57,280 --> 01:05:01,160
Speaker 1: twenty five I think was the backbreak or for many

1208
01:05:01,200 --> 01:05:03,520
Speaker 1: Clemson fans believing it'll ever get back to the way

1209
01:05:03,560 --> 01:05:07,640
Speaker 1: it was. Now. Some of the more jaded portions of

1210
01:05:07,640 --> 01:05:10,480
Speaker 1: the fan base, maybe you had already tapped out a

1211
01:05:10,520 --> 01:05:13,920
Speaker 1: little bit and you said, I immensely appreciate Dabo for

1212
01:05:13,960 --> 01:05:15,680
Speaker 1: what he did, and you know what, our time came

1213
01:05:15,760 --> 01:05:18,800
Speaker 1: and went and will never be bad under Dabbo, but

1214
01:05:18,840 --> 01:05:20,440
Speaker 1: we're not going to be a lead again. There were

1215
01:05:20,480 --> 01:05:22,360
Speaker 1: some of you who said that last year. Most of

1216
01:05:22,360 --> 01:05:24,680
Speaker 1: you didn't. Most of you looked at the twenty twenty

1217
01:05:24,680 --> 01:05:28,600
Speaker 1: five team, especially coming off of playoff appearance, and you said,

1218
01:05:28,600 --> 01:05:32,200
Speaker 1: all right, now, this right here is a very experienced team.

1219
01:05:32,600 --> 01:05:35,440
Speaker 1: This right here is a really good coaching staff. So

1220
01:05:35,520 --> 01:05:39,320
Speaker 1: we thought we got Garrett Riley again, so we thought

1221
01:05:39,440 --> 01:05:42,840
Speaker 1: we got Garrett Riley. We got Kid Klubnick multiple years

1222
01:05:42,880 --> 01:05:49,120
Speaker 1: together OC quarterback, and this defense has NFL caliber players

1223
01:05:49,160 --> 01:05:51,120
Speaker 1: at all three levels. I don't know how many times

1224
01:05:51,160 --> 01:05:53,160
Speaker 1: we said that last summer, and you know what, we

1225
01:05:53,160 --> 01:05:56,680
Speaker 1: weren't wrong. This is the year that we'll get the

1226
01:05:56,800 --> 01:06:00,720
Speaker 1: job done. And then you didn't and you went and six.

1227
01:06:01,680 --> 01:06:05,080
Speaker 1: And at that point, I think not just the jaded

1228
01:06:05,120 --> 01:06:08,400
Speaker 1: portion of the crowd, but a majority of the crowd

1229
01:06:08,920 --> 01:06:11,520
Speaker 1: kind of said that that all right, that settles it,

1230
01:06:12,040 --> 01:06:16,320
Speaker 1: because we haven't recruited top fifteen caliber classes here lately.

1231
01:06:17,040 --> 01:06:19,560
Speaker 1: We've dipped our toe into the portal and all the

1232
01:06:19,560 --> 01:06:22,280
Speaker 1: players are promptly getting hurt. But we only recently have

1233
01:06:22,400 --> 01:06:24,760
Speaker 1: dipped our tow into the portal. We're never gonna be

1234
01:06:24,840 --> 01:06:27,480
Speaker 1: what Miami is in the portal or LSU is in

1235
01:06:27,520 --> 01:06:30,560
Speaker 1: the portal. The roster's not going to be what it

1236
01:06:30,640 --> 01:06:32,240
Speaker 1: used to be, So how are the results going to

1237
01:06:32,280 --> 01:06:34,360
Speaker 1: be what they used to be? I think a lot

1238
01:06:34,360 --> 01:06:36,400
Speaker 1: of Clemson fans feel that way. They'd be happy to

1239
01:06:36,400 --> 01:06:39,280
Speaker 1: be proven wrong. Me too. I'm not pulling against Clemson.

1240
01:06:39,320 --> 01:06:42,640
Speaker 1: I'm not pulling against Dabos twenty. I always leave room

1241
01:06:42,880 --> 01:06:46,560
Speaker 1: for an end season surprise. There are times where you

1242
01:06:46,600 --> 01:06:48,880
Speaker 1: have high expectations for a team and they don't fulfill

1243
01:06:48,920 --> 01:06:51,160
Speaker 1: on them, and then you by default doubt them the

1244
01:06:51,200 --> 01:06:54,040
Speaker 1: next year, and then that's the year that they pop

1245
01:06:54,080 --> 01:06:57,480
Speaker 1: a surprise on you. It could happen. Yeah, I don't

1246
01:06:57,560 --> 01:07:00,120
Speaker 1: see it. They're over under win total is seven and

1247
01:07:00,200 --> 01:07:02,760
Speaker 1: a half coming into this year, which begged the question

1248
01:07:02,840 --> 01:07:05,520
Speaker 1: earlier today when we were putting the show together, Well,

1249
01:07:05,560 --> 01:07:08,919
Speaker 1: what if they win eight games? What if Clemson goes

1250
01:07:08,960 --> 01:07:13,040
Speaker 1: eight and four? So they let's let's just Bradley do

1251
01:07:13,080 --> 01:07:14,800
Speaker 1: me a favorite. They' Clemson schedule up if you have

1252
01:07:14,840 --> 01:07:17,840
Speaker 1: it right quick, because I would look at this and

1253
01:07:18,160 --> 01:07:25,000
Speaker 1: so LSU Miami. Let's take Virginia Tech and I don't know,

1254
01:07:25,280 --> 01:07:28,720
Speaker 1: Georgia Tech. Let's say they lose those four games and

1255
01:07:29,120 --> 01:07:31,600
Speaker 1: win the rest of them. That's that's just a bunch

1256
01:07:31,600 --> 01:07:38,520
Speaker 1: of wins over North Carolina, cal FSU, Syracuse, Duke South Carolina.

1257
01:07:38,560 --> 01:07:41,240
Speaker 1: At the end of the year. Maybe make South Carolina

1258
01:07:41,240 --> 01:07:44,640
Speaker 1: one of the losses. So it ends poorly. Is that

1259
01:07:44,720 --> 01:07:48,000
Speaker 1: a successful season? Have we really gotten to the point

1260
01:07:48,280 --> 01:07:51,440
Speaker 1: where the over could hit for the Clemson win total

1261
01:07:51,440 --> 01:07:53,560
Speaker 1: and people still be disappointed to the point where they

1262
01:07:53,600 --> 01:07:56,560
Speaker 1: want change. I think we have, but I will say this,

1263
01:07:57,160 --> 01:07:59,920
Speaker 1: you will. You will have to rip this opinion out

1264
01:07:59,920 --> 01:08:05,040
Speaker 1: of my cold dead hands. I have solidified my feel

1265
01:08:05,120 --> 01:08:07,720
Speaker 1: on Dabo Swiny like, there's ninety five percent of my

1266
01:08:07,760 --> 01:08:12,200
Speaker 1: opinion on Dabo is sealed. Immense lifetime respect for the guy.

1267
01:08:13,440 --> 01:08:15,959
Speaker 1: No matter what happens. They go to twelve this year,

1268
01:08:16,320 --> 01:08:19,000
Speaker 1: and my opinion on him this year would be bad,

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Speaker 1: But my opinion on him overall is set. He is

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Speaker 1: a first ballot Hall of Fame. Whatever we do in

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Speaker 1: college football, he's that forever for me. And I will

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Speaker 1: also say this, as much as people want to talk

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Speaker 1: about what he should do, as much as people want

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Speaker 1: to talk about the changes he should make or if

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Speaker 1: it's going downhill, people want to talk about the way

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Speaker 1: that he should go out. He should retire, he should

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Speaker 1: do this, and he should do that. Tweeted the quote earlier, Jesse,

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Speaker 1: this was the context. It is so easy for people

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Speaker 1: who haven't authored a single chapter of your book to

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Speaker 1: going to happen a lot with Dabo. It already is.

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Speaker 1: He'll point it out in press conferences. I wrestle with this,

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Speaker 1: At what point do you deserve to go out on

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Speaker 1: your own terms? Or does no one ever earn that right?

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Speaker 1: There are varying schools of thought on this. Perhaps he

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Speaker 1: goes ten and two this year and it's a moot point.

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Speaker 1: But I'm saying, if it goes seven wins or six

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Speaker 1: wins or something like that, and it could start off

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Speaker 1: poorly because they are a double digit dog at LSU

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Speaker 1: week one. If it starts off poorly, I think you'll

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Speaker 1: just hear more of the same drum beat. I think

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Speaker 1: the fan base mood there's kind of it's a last

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Speaker 1: stand moment here. That's okay. We got multiple conference titles,

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Speaker 1: multiple national titles out of this. If this is it,

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Speaker 1: then it was the most iconic run in the history

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Speaker 1: in the history college football. They will make many of those.

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Speaker 1: That's our show. We appreciate it so much. Make sure

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Speaker 1: sit downs. We'll have a couple of more coming up

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Speaker 1: next week. I can't tell you where quite yet. But

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