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Speaker 1: looking through what we were talking about last year. And

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Speaker 1: remember last year I did this thing where I just

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Speaker 1: wanted to know public opinion, and what I wanted to

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Speaker 1: do is I had to state my opinion. I've got

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Speaker 1: to give all my predictions. So we have a little

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Speaker 1: different audience dynamic around here. I want as many of

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Speaker 1: you on the record as possible. If you're right about things,

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Speaker 1: we send out chili of supremacy. We'll send out gas

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Speaker 1: cards once the gas station recruiting war is settled in

436
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Speaker 1: the pretty near future. Wink wink, and so hey, if

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Speaker 1: you're right, you're right, you deserve all of your kudos

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Speaker 1: and flowers. But if you're wrong, you need to suffer

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Speaker 1: right along with me, because December, while it does bring

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Speaker 1: my birthday and Christmas and the playoffs, is a really

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Speaker 1: dark time for me because no one cares where you

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Speaker 1: were right. They just care where you were wrong. And

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Speaker 1: so I am very interested in the praise. I don't

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Speaker 1: want any of the blame, but if I have to

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Speaker 1: shoulder the blame, I want to shoulder it with as

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Speaker 1: many of you as possible. So we started doing this

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Speaker 1: exercise last year. What is your opinion on filling the blank?

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Speaker 1: It was very fruitful, I think because a lot of

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Speaker 1: you made fools of yourselves. I did two on a

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Speaker 1: case by case basis, So I think we need to

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Speaker 1: do this again. So I asked you earlier at Late

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Speaker 1: kick Josh on Twitter, I said, hey, what do you

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Speaker 1: think of Brian Kelly? Brian Kelly you would think is

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Speaker 1: some rookie head coach or he's new to the game

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Speaker 1: and we're just still learning about him. Because as I

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Speaker 1: scrolled through the replies, it is a very very wide

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Speaker 1: range of thoughts for a guy who's been at this

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Speaker 1: thing over thirty years. Now. He is entering year three

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Speaker 1: at LSU. So we went to Atlanta in year one.

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Speaker 1: Last year was horrifically bad by LSU standards, because they

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Speaker 1: had a Heisman Trophy quarterback and couldn't get out of

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Speaker 1: their own way defensively, and so they wasted that in

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Speaker 1: many cases. So year three, you know, we've got plenty

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Speaker 1: of time to predict LSU's record in their season, But

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Speaker 1: what do you think about Brian Kelly? Brian Kelly suffers

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Speaker 1: from a perception problem because he's not happy, go lucky,

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Speaker 1: he doesn't backslap with the media a whole lot, and

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Speaker 1: his personality he doesn't feel Southern, even though he's at

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Speaker 1: a Southern program. None of these things I care about,

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Speaker 1: but many people do care about them. I just care

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Speaker 1: whether you get the job done and you're a good leader.

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Speaker 1: So I didn't ask myself. I asked you, what do

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Speaker 1: you think about him? Colin? You got that tweet by

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Speaker 1: the way, Tuck hit us and said, I can hear

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Speaker 1: the beginning of this segment already quote. I keep getting

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Speaker 1: told Brian Kelly's overrated. Well, my response to that is,

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Speaker 1: what is he rated? We may send him a challice

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Speaker 1: because Tuck nailed it exactly. I was told hundreds of

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Speaker 1: times today, just in the span of an hour, Brian

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Speaker 1: Kelly's overrated. Brian Kelly is very overrated. Brian Kelly's the

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Speaker 1: most overrated coach in major college football. And to what

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Speaker 1: do we say? Everyone? Together? What is he rated? I

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Speaker 1: must have asked ten of you and the replies, what

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Speaker 1: is he rated? If he's overrated? We first need to

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Speaker 1: know what he is rated before we can know if

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Speaker 1: he's overrated. Didn't get a single answer. The closest I

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Speaker 1: got was one of you sent me a cbssports dot

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Speaker 1: com article where one of our writers I don't even

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Speaker 1: know who rated him the number four coach in America

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Speaker 1: and you said, that's not even close. So I said, well,

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Speaker 1: where should he be rated? And then I was told

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Speaker 1: middle of the pack. And surely you don't mean in

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Speaker 1: the sixties, which mathematically is the middle of the pack

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Speaker 1: for college football. But you know what, let's just say

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Speaker 1: you meant outside the top ten. Okay, that's insane by

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Speaker 1: active head coaching standards. Even suggesting Kelly belongs outside the

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Speaker 1: top ten, to me is insane. The biggest criticism I

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Speaker 1: heard about this guy, and you'll never believe this, but

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Speaker 1: the biggest criticism I heard about Brian Kelly was he

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Speaker 1: does a lot of good, but you know what great

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Speaker 1: wins does he have? Josh? And more specifically, where's his

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Speaker 1: national championship? This guy's so good. He killed it at Cincinnati? Yep?

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Speaker 1: Sure did oh he crush? Did it? Notre name? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: He did. They're sarcastically saying that, But yet I'm saying no, no, no, no,

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Speaker 1: that's not the flex you think it is, because check

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Speaker 1: and check he did those and now he's at LSU.

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Speaker 1: But he's got an entire three decade plus track record

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Speaker 1: about himself. Now, what is he won? Though national championships?

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Speaker 1: What does he won? Do any of you think this

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Speaker 1: through those of you who say Brian Kelly's overrated because

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Speaker 1: he hadn't won a national championship. We have a grand

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Speaker 1: total of three active head coaches who have won a

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Speaker 1: national championship. One of them's Kirby, and he'd be number

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Speaker 1: one right now in most polls in college football. One

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Speaker 1: of them is Dabos Swinney, who would consensus be top ten,

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Speaker 1: maybe consensus top seven, but people fluctuate in their opinion

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Speaker 1: and what he was versus what he is. The third

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Speaker 1: one is Mac Brown, who's a massive friend of this program.

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Speaker 1: And I will never besmirch the good name of Mac Brown.

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Speaker 1: But I don't think most of you are power rating

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Speaker 1: Mac is a current top five head coach. What are

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Speaker 1: we talking about. That's the end of the list. I'm

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Speaker 1: looking one, two, three, that's the end of the list.

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Speaker 1: So if that's the criteria, Brian Kelly could reasonably be

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Speaker 1: as high as number four. And I don't really even

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Speaker 1: think most of you guys who claim that titles in

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Speaker 1: the end all be all are putting Mac Brown top three.

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Speaker 1: So again I ask what is he rated? What should

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Speaker 1: he be rated? Either way? Either way, we could do

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Speaker 1: that for days. This will radically shift in twenty twenty four,

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Speaker 1: which was my entire reason for asking it. Well, that,

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Speaker 1: plus we're going to see Brian Kelly tomorrow in Dallas.

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Speaker 1: Do you realize what could happen this year? So again,

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Speaker 1: they win the West in year one and they beat

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Speaker 1: Bama in the process, and so we're off to the races,

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Speaker 1: Brian Kelly era at LSU, Off to the races. Then

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Speaker 1: last year you had the worst defensive staff according to

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Speaker 1: our internal numbers in the conference. Defense was terrible, and

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Speaker 1: as a result, they had a Heisman Trophy winning quarterback

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Speaker 1: and still didn't really find themselves doing anything of note

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Speaker 1: at the end of the year. Should have been a

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Speaker 1: national championship team with that kind of offense, and it wasn't. Okay,

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Speaker 1: So we've gone to year three now and they didn't

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Speaker 1: do what they needed to do in the portal. They've

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Speaker 1: got Garrett nus Meyer, who's a program guy who's been

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Speaker 1: there a while. They got supreme confidence in their offensive line.

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Speaker 1: They feel they've backfilled the wide receiver position very well.

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Speaker 1: They did an incredible job, I'll grant them this of

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Speaker 1: upgrading their staff defensively. They did not do such a

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Speaker 1: good job of upgrading their personnel defensively. But we'll see,

551
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Speaker 1: like the experiment at USC, keep the same players and

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Speaker 1: just upgrade the staff and you'll improve. Just because of

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Speaker 1: how underachieving the previous staff was. That could very well

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Speaker 1: have merit to it. But when we go into this year,

555
00:28:52,960 --> 00:28:56,360
Speaker 1: we play a game that features an oddly shaped ball,

556
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Speaker 1: balances weird ways, and we score in threes and sevens

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Speaker 1: in this game, So you're gonna have maybe a lot

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Speaker 1: of one possession games either way. You know what the

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Speaker 1: difference is in ten and two versus seven and five

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Speaker 1: this year, Well, the answer is three bounces. But more specifically,

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Speaker 1: the answer is a grand canyon. That's the difference forget outsiders.

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Speaker 1: That's the difference in the way they judge him in

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Speaker 1: Lake Charles and Thibodeaux and Shreveport and Baton Rouge and

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Speaker 1: New Orleans, neverwhere in between. If he goes seven and

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Speaker 1: five this year on the heels of last year's defensive disaster,

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Speaker 1: you'd hear a lot of noise internally about Brian Kelly.

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Speaker 1: This is not all due respect. I'm not even gonna

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Speaker 1: mention him by name. This is not one of those

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Speaker 1: programs out there where you can afford to have a

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Speaker 1: few down years because you're you're hoping to build towards

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Speaker 1: one every few years. You win every year at LSU,

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Speaker 1: or they go find someone else that's the standard. This

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Speaker 1: is not telling Brian Kelly anything. He doesn't no. He

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Speaker 1: got much higher standards for himself than anyone else does.

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Speaker 1: I think a few things or in play here. Brian

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Speaker 1: Kelly is extremely smart, extremely cerebral. I wonder, and this

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Speaker 1: is me personally. I wonder number one about the internal

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Speaker 1: structure of that program and athletic department. A lot of

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Speaker 1: stuff no one ever sees. That's what I personally think

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Speaker 1: when I watch a team like LSU whiff on players

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Speaker 1: in the portal. Now, it could be that that has

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Speaker 1: nothing to do with it and it's just philosophy, or

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Speaker 1: it could be that they flat out had the resources

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Speaker 1: and missed on kids. I'm telling you what I wonder.

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Speaker 1: This is me speculating. I wonder about a lot of

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Speaker 1: the staff moves down there, and how much of it

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Speaker 1: is Brian Kelly versus how much of it is Brian

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Speaker 1: Kelly being dictated to. I wonder, you know, how different

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Speaker 1: internally outside the public eye, the LSU football program and

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Speaker 1: athletic department could look on January fourteenth, twenty twenty five

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Speaker 1: as opposed to twenty four How much of that is

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Speaker 1: out of his control, and how much of it could

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Speaker 1: improve his quality of life down there. I wonder all

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Speaker 1: those things doesn't matter on Saturday. Nobody cares about that

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Speaker 1: Two very very different ways that you could go on

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Speaker 1: a fork in the road this year. But perception is

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Speaker 1: going to change one way or the other on Brian

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Speaker 1: Kelly this year, I think in a pretty big way.

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Speaker 1: Three big what ifs for this upcoming season. Hey, I'm

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Speaker 1: this week. I'm just gonna throw it right at you,

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Speaker 1: high and inside. What if Oklahoma wins the SEC? Gasp? Shock, outrage, nonsense, clickbait.

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Speaker 1: You know, crazier things have happened. The over underwent total

641
00:33:22,560 --> 00:33:25,320
Speaker 1: does not look impressive. Seven and a half the odds

642
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Speaker 1: to win the SEC plus twenty seven hundred the odds

643
00:33:28,280 --> 00:33:31,240
Speaker 1: to make the playoff pretty long as well. But a

644
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Speaker 1: lot of that I think is because of this schedule

645
00:33:33,440 --> 00:33:36,560
Speaker 1: and how ridiculous it is. And their schedule sees them

646
00:33:36,600 --> 00:33:40,280
Speaker 1: playing Tennessee at Auburn, versus Texas and Dallas. They go

647
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Speaker 1: to Ole Miss, they go to Missouri, they got Alabama,

648
00:33:42,560 --> 00:33:47,760
Speaker 1: they go to LSU. Yeah, that's tough. If if somehow

649
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Speaker 1: they find their way through that and they end up

650
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Speaker 1: making it to Atlanta, who do they face their Georgia

651
00:33:55,000 --> 00:33:57,480
Speaker 1: or Alabama or something like that. They win in Atlanta,

652
00:33:57,960 --> 00:34:01,479
Speaker 1: that's one of the historic seasons in conference history, and

653
00:34:01,520 --> 00:34:04,200
Speaker 1: they'd be brand new in the conference. It also means

654
00:34:04,720 --> 00:34:07,640
Speaker 1: all these portal moves they may like Dion Burks for example,

655
00:34:07,640 --> 00:34:10,480
Speaker 1: Don Williams, all of those must have paid off. The

656
00:34:10,560 --> 00:34:15,560
Speaker 1: offensive line must have been the biggest false red flag

657
00:34:15,640 --> 00:34:18,359
Speaker 1: in the history of college football, or at least they

658
00:34:18,360 --> 00:34:22,360
Speaker 1: worked miracles during the season. Are they the College Football

659
00:34:22,400 --> 00:34:25,680
Speaker 1: playoff favorite? If they were to make it through all that?

660
00:34:25,719 --> 00:34:28,560
Speaker 1: Certainly they're not now, And even if they're hot the

661
00:34:28,560 --> 00:34:31,000
Speaker 1: first half of the year, you would view it as

662
00:34:31,120 --> 00:34:33,359
Speaker 1: a serious overreaction if all of a sudden you say, well,

663
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Speaker 1: are they the favorite to win the title? But if

664
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Speaker 1: they made it through all that and they went to

665
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Speaker 1: Atlanta and won, what is the playoff gonna throw at them.

666
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Speaker 1: You'd have an Ohio State or an Oregon out there. Yeah,

667
00:34:44,360 --> 00:34:47,000
Speaker 1: but no one will have done anything more impressive at

668
00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:49,719
Speaker 1: that point than Brenton Vinibles in Oklahoma. And that guy,

669
00:34:49,840 --> 00:34:53,000
Speaker 1: Brent Vinnibles would be just like an instant perma legend,

670
00:34:53,280 --> 00:34:56,120
Speaker 1: just a PL not an l a PL. If he

671
00:34:56,160 --> 00:34:59,880
Speaker 1: were to do this, it's a long shot, and chances

672
00:34:59,880 --> 00:35:02,680
Speaker 1: of there are chances are this segment never sees the

673
00:35:02,719 --> 00:35:07,080
Speaker 1: light of day again. However, as you guys know, we

674
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Speaker 1: have to be smart and tactical around here. And this

675
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Speaker 1: is what God made July for. Mima always told me, Joshua.

676
00:35:13,320 --> 00:35:16,480
Speaker 1: God made July for fireworks and making really off the

677
00:35:16,480 --> 00:35:19,320
Speaker 1: wall predictions that you can come back to in December

678
00:35:19,360 --> 00:35:22,879
Speaker 1: and clip if they happen to be right. If they don't,

679
00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:26,160
Speaker 1: no one cares. So it's a risk free world we

680
00:35:26,200 --> 00:35:31,080
Speaker 1: live in July. Now here's one that's maybe more realistic.

681
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Speaker 1: This could be a nightmare for me. You'll know when

682
00:35:35,200 --> 00:35:37,279
Speaker 1: I read it to you. What if we do get

683
00:35:37,280 --> 00:35:41,200
Speaker 1: a college football Playoffs Cinderella team? Why would that be

684
00:35:41,280 --> 00:35:44,080
Speaker 1: bad news for you? Josh what's wrong with that? You

685
00:35:44,120 --> 00:35:47,879
Speaker 1: got a problem with Cinderella? Yeah, in my past had

686
00:35:47,920 --> 00:35:52,040
Speaker 1: a checkered history with old Cinderella. What would this mean though?

687
00:35:52,239 --> 00:35:56,400
Speaker 1: What constitutes a college football playoff Cinderella? It's not just

688
00:35:56,440 --> 00:35:58,960
Speaker 1: a team that makes it. Certainly we've got to have

689
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Speaker 1: a team going too, at least the final four, if

690
00:36:02,280 --> 00:36:04,759
Speaker 1: not the title game. Maybe you don't have to win it,

691
00:36:04,840 --> 00:36:07,319
Speaker 1: but at least you've got to make a really really

692
00:36:07,320 --> 00:36:10,480
Speaker 1: deep run in the playoff. So is it a G

693
00:36:10,600 --> 00:36:13,840
Speaker 1: five team we're gonna have at least one in every year?

694
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Speaker 1: Is it Memphis making it this year and maybe getting

695
00:36:17,719 --> 00:36:20,440
Speaker 1: their first round by and then they draw a favorable

696
00:36:21,360 --> 00:36:23,800
Speaker 1: round two matchup against the team that's banged up, and

697
00:36:24,120 --> 00:36:26,319
Speaker 1: they happen to win that one thirty one to twenty nine,

698
00:36:26,360 --> 00:36:28,000
Speaker 1: and then they go to the semi final. They still

699
00:36:28,040 --> 00:36:31,920
Speaker 1: got to win two more games. So yes, yes, theoretically

700
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Speaker 1: that could happen. Or are you just counting any lower seed?

701
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Speaker 1: I love how we made the question up, but I'm

702
00:36:39,840 --> 00:36:43,760
Speaker 1: asking someone else what this constitutes. Do you just consider

703
00:36:44,360 --> 00:36:47,440
Speaker 1: Missouri as the ten seed making a run to the

704
00:36:47,440 --> 00:36:50,200
Speaker 1: final four? Is that a Cinderella? I don't know if

705
00:36:50,200 --> 00:36:56,200
Speaker 1: it feels like that. I think in NCAA basketball tournament terms,

706
00:36:56,760 --> 00:36:59,880
Speaker 1: if you were to have the equivalent of an eleven

707
00:37:00,120 --> 00:37:02,799
Speaker 1: seed go all the way to the title game, well, yeah,

708
00:37:02,880 --> 00:37:05,760
Speaker 1: that counts there. But see, in college football, it's different.

709
00:37:06,160 --> 00:37:11,560
Speaker 1: In college football. It's not Oakland University. In college football,

710
00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:15,799
Speaker 1: it's Tennessee with two losses getting in as the ten

711
00:37:15,880 --> 00:37:18,879
Speaker 1: seed and then just buzz sawing with Niko Yamaliav and

712
00:37:19,200 --> 00:37:21,200
Speaker 1: half a dozen receivers better than some of these G

713
00:37:21,320 --> 00:37:24,359
Speaker 1: five teams that make it in. That's a cinderella if

714
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Speaker 1: it is, Yeah, we could see one pretty quickly. I

715
00:37:27,200 --> 00:37:29,200
Speaker 1: don't know if I'd count it as that. But you

716
00:37:29,360 --> 00:37:31,239
Speaker 1: know what the worst part of this would be for me.

717
00:37:31,600 --> 00:37:35,080
Speaker 1: The worst part would be the expansionists who would be

718
00:37:35,120 --> 00:37:38,919
Speaker 1: in full off I told you so mode, not even

719
00:37:38,960 --> 00:37:42,520
Speaker 1: realizing the point they're making is not contradicting the point

720
00:37:42,560 --> 00:37:45,520
Speaker 1: any of us ever made. The point that I've always

721
00:37:45,600 --> 00:37:48,839
Speaker 1: made in being against playoff expansion is not that one

722
00:37:48,880 --> 00:37:51,600
Speaker 1: of these couldn't make a run. It's not that someone

723
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Speaker 1: outside the top four maybe wasn't even capable of winning

724
00:37:54,719 --> 00:37:57,920
Speaker 1: at all any given year. It's that I don't believe

725
00:37:57,960 --> 00:38:00,719
Speaker 1: the bar should be that low. I don't really care

726
00:38:00,760 --> 00:38:03,040
Speaker 1: about tons of inclusion in the playoff. I'd rather it

727
00:38:03,080 --> 00:38:06,200
Speaker 1: be exclusionary. I'd rather it be extremely hard to get

728
00:38:06,239 --> 00:38:09,560
Speaker 1: into because I love the regular season, so I don't

729
00:38:09,560 --> 00:38:11,400
Speaker 1: really feel like sacrifice and all that just because I

730
00:38:11,400 --> 00:38:14,399
Speaker 1: can throw thirty seven teams in the playoff, watch one

731
00:38:14,440 --> 00:38:17,759
Speaker 1: of them, which is mathematically inevitable, eventually make a run

732
00:38:18,040 --> 00:38:23,080
Speaker 1: and say, huh, told you, told you. Imagine Imagine what well,

733
00:38:23,120 --> 00:38:25,800
Speaker 1: imagine what could have been in years past. Yes, yes,

734
00:38:26,640 --> 00:38:30,000
Speaker 1: it is a statistical certainty that if you rewound the

735
00:38:30,040 --> 00:38:34,320
Speaker 1: college football clock and you expanded the field times three

736
00:38:34,480 --> 00:38:37,640
Speaker 1: for a decade, you probably would have gotten some upsets.

737
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Speaker 1: You probably would have gotten maybe a different champ a

738
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Speaker 1: time or two. That doesn't invalidate the way I feel.

739
00:38:45,200 --> 00:38:47,680
Speaker 1: It was never about whether the title would be the same.

740
00:38:48,120 --> 00:38:50,880
Speaker 1: It was about how stupid it would feel to watch

741
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Speaker 1: teams play big time late season games number four versus

742
00:38:55,320 --> 00:38:57,600
Speaker 1: number seven and have the commentators sitting there in the

743
00:38:57,600 --> 00:38:59,520
Speaker 1: fourth quarter as the clock wins now and saying, well,

744
00:39:00,040 --> 00:39:02,080
Speaker 1: it's not the end of the world for State U.

745
00:39:02,520 --> 00:39:06,080
Speaker 1: They'll still be in the playoff. It's just a lower seed. Now.

746
00:39:06,360 --> 00:39:09,480
Speaker 1: That is not college football. But I digress. It could

747
00:39:09,520 --> 00:39:13,360
Speaker 1: be moving forward and Lastly, you know a lot of

748
00:39:13,360 --> 00:39:16,000
Speaker 1: folks talking about Oregon in the Big Ten, and certainly

749
00:39:16,000 --> 00:39:19,600
Speaker 1: Michigan and Ohio State will usc making any noise. What's

750
00:39:19,640 --> 00:39:23,160
Speaker 1: Penn State gonna be Nebraska? It's really exciting. What if

751
00:39:23,200 --> 00:39:26,560
Speaker 1: Wisconsin makes the big year two jump up there? Under

752
00:39:26,640 --> 00:39:29,799
Speaker 1: Luke Fickle. I was very disappointed in him offensively last year.

753
00:39:30,239 --> 00:39:32,200
Speaker 1: You know, they brought in Phil Longo, they brought in

754
00:39:32,680 --> 00:39:35,960
Speaker 1: a number of transfers like Kennard Mordecai at quarterback. It

755
00:39:36,080 --> 00:39:40,640
Speaker 1: just never really gelled into anything that was formidable. So

756
00:39:40,760 --> 00:39:43,320
Speaker 1: now they brought in Tyler van Dyk via the transfer

757
00:39:43,360 --> 00:39:47,279
Speaker 1: portal from Miami. If he can be healthy and much

758
00:39:47,320 --> 00:39:50,720
Speaker 1: more consistent than he was last year, it's a better team.

759
00:39:51,120 --> 00:39:53,200
Speaker 1: Not to mention just the normal year one to year

760
00:39:53,239 --> 00:39:57,600
Speaker 1: two progression. Does this happen? First off? And then if

761
00:39:57,600 --> 00:40:02,200
Speaker 1: it does, does it coincide with any other of the

762
00:40:02,360 --> 00:40:05,279
Speaker 1: traditional Tier three programs and teams in the Big ten

763
00:40:05,560 --> 00:40:08,440
Speaker 1: making a jump? I think Tier two is very shallow

764
00:40:08,640 --> 00:40:12,600
Speaker 1: in the Big Ten. It's Penn State. Basically, you got Oregon,

765
00:40:12,600 --> 00:40:15,840
Speaker 1: you got Michigan, Ohio State, and then there's Penn State.

766
00:40:16,560 --> 00:40:19,760
Speaker 1: But there's not a robust tier two, you go down

767
00:40:19,920 --> 00:40:22,919
Speaker 1: quickly in caliber of team. And it's been that way

768
00:40:23,000 --> 00:40:26,040
Speaker 1: long before Oregon and USC and UCLA and Washington made

769
00:40:26,080 --> 00:40:28,160
Speaker 1: the move. It's kind of felt that way. Well. I

770
00:40:28,239 --> 00:40:31,640
Speaker 1: have believed that the key to better competitive balance there

771
00:40:32,560 --> 00:40:37,279
Speaker 1: is your Wisconsin's of the world, your Nebraska's of the world,

772
00:40:37,360 --> 00:40:39,960
Speaker 1: your Michigan states of the world. They got to invest,

773
00:40:39,960 --> 00:40:42,239
Speaker 1: they got to hire, and both of those they've done,

774
00:40:42,560 --> 00:40:44,839
Speaker 1: and then they've got to elevate to at least Tier

775
00:40:44,840 --> 00:40:47,640
Speaker 1: two status. I wonder if that would happen. If Wisconsin

776
00:40:47,719 --> 00:40:49,680
Speaker 1: is that much better this year. They got a shot

777
00:40:49,680 --> 00:40:52,680
Speaker 1: against Bama week three, Do they then take that bye.

778
00:40:52,719 --> 00:40:55,000
Speaker 1: We can go out to LA in week four and

779
00:40:55,160 --> 00:40:58,360
Speaker 1: serve one up to USC. They've got Penn State, They've

780
00:40:58,360 --> 00:41:01,440
Speaker 1: got Oregon at home as well. They go to Nebraska,

781
00:41:01,719 --> 00:41:04,399
Speaker 1: so they got a shot. If Wisconsin's improved this year,

782
00:41:05,360 --> 00:41:08,360
Speaker 1: maybe they themselves don't do anything overly special in the postseason,

783
00:41:08,520 --> 00:41:12,320
Speaker 1: maybe they ruin someone else's shot. Let's move right along.

784
00:41:12,760 --> 00:41:19,120
Speaker 1: We've got a fairly brisk pace. Do you realize what's

785
00:41:19,200 --> 00:41:21,919
Speaker 1: happening right now? One of the things I hate about

786
00:41:21,960 --> 00:41:24,600
Speaker 1: the recruiting calendar is it used to be that the

787
00:41:24,600 --> 00:41:29,200
Speaker 1: recruiting calendar was such that January was like a really

788
00:41:29,239 --> 00:41:33,680
Speaker 1: big final runway to the finish line, and it was

789
00:41:33,719 --> 00:41:37,480
Speaker 1: after the championship game, and then like National Signing Day

790
00:41:37,640 --> 00:41:40,760
Speaker 1: was the end of the college football season, quote unquote.

791
00:41:41,239 --> 00:41:44,960
Speaker 1: And now because of the early signing date, it's July,

792
00:41:45,719 --> 00:41:48,399
Speaker 1: which is okay. It's not like I'm ever tuned out,

793
00:41:48,600 --> 00:41:50,479
Speaker 1: but I feel like not as many people are paying

794
00:41:50,520 --> 00:41:54,120
Speaker 1: attention in July to recruiting as they would be in

795
00:41:54,160 --> 00:41:57,120
Speaker 1: the old school in December and January. Well, don't worry,

796
00:41:57,160 --> 00:41:58,920
Speaker 1: because we're here to pay attention to it for you.

797
00:41:59,360 --> 00:42:05,400
Speaker 1: So throw me that Bama tweet hoops to amongst us

798
00:42:05,400 --> 00:42:08,759
Speaker 1: saw this coming. Gregory hits me and says, let me

799
00:42:08,960 --> 00:42:12,720
Speaker 1: guess Alabama and Kaylin de Boor are gonna get gassed

800
00:42:12,800 --> 00:42:16,160
Speaker 1: up now just because they landed a few commitments in July.

801
00:42:16,280 --> 00:42:20,280
Speaker 1: That don't mean anything not falling for it. You better

802
00:42:20,360 --> 00:42:23,080
Speaker 1: fall for it, Gregory. And let me tell you why.

803
00:42:23,280 --> 00:42:26,719
Speaker 1: The Gregory's of the world, greg and people of his

804
00:42:26,840 --> 00:42:29,880
Speaker 1: ilk and we know because we looked up the tweet

805
00:42:30,000 --> 00:42:33,640
Speaker 1: history were the same folks in January throwing around terms

806
00:42:33,680 --> 00:42:37,800
Speaker 1: like husky harson. You went from Husky Harson to Seattle

807
00:42:37,880 --> 00:42:41,640
Speaker 1: Saban in record time. I'm not forgetting. In fact, I

808
00:42:41,719 --> 00:42:44,520
Speaker 1: bookmarked him by the dozens because your boy here had

809
00:42:44,560 --> 00:42:47,360
Speaker 1: the audacity and nothing but a white T shirt to

810
00:42:47,400 --> 00:42:49,520
Speaker 1: come on air and say, you know, I don't think

811
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Speaker 1: Kaylen de Bor is gonna be straight up trash recruiting

812
00:42:52,400 --> 00:42:56,799
Speaker 1: and that's okay. You sounded like jackhammer operators out there

813
00:42:56,840 --> 00:43:00,399
Speaker 1: yelling at me. That's okay. I've gotta be live. I've

814
00:43:00,400 --> 00:43:02,239
Speaker 1: got to state my opinion for the record, and for

815
00:43:02,320 --> 00:43:04,680
Speaker 1: better or for worse, it lives. I thought the transfer

816
00:43:04,760 --> 00:43:06,600
Speaker 1: portal was going to be fireworks in the spring. It

817
00:43:06,640 --> 00:43:09,239
Speaker 1: was a dud. I got trashed, I wore it, I

818
00:43:09,320 --> 00:43:11,479
Speaker 1: moved on. It is what it is. But I'm tired

819
00:43:11,520 --> 00:43:13,440
Speaker 1: of putting on the clown nose. I want someone else

820
00:43:13,480 --> 00:43:15,759
Speaker 1: to put on the clown nos So, Gregory, grab your

821
00:43:15,800 --> 00:43:19,440
Speaker 1: clown nose. What's he talking about? Well, since the last

822
00:43:19,440 --> 00:43:22,200
Speaker 1: time you and I spoke, which was only seventy two

823
00:43:22,200 --> 00:43:25,799
Speaker 1: hours ago, Alabama has landed five star wide receiver Caleb

824
00:43:25,880 --> 00:43:29,480
Speaker 1: Cunningham out of Mississippi, five star offensive tackle Ty Haywood

825
00:43:29,560 --> 00:43:32,440
Speaker 1: out of Denton, Texas. They also just for good measure

826
00:43:32,680 --> 00:43:36,799
Speaker 1: saw Keelan Russell Elite eleven MVP current committed quarterback to them.

827
00:43:36,960 --> 00:43:39,760
Speaker 1: They saw him elevate the five star status. They've got

828
00:43:39,800 --> 00:43:43,359
Speaker 1: ten players committed in the top one hundred right now.

829
00:43:43,680 --> 00:43:46,640
Speaker 1: They are pushing Ohio's state for the number one class,

830
00:43:46,960 --> 00:43:49,839
Speaker 1: which is a sentence that I feel is being set

831
00:43:49,840 --> 00:43:52,680
Speaker 1: in an alternate universe, because as highly as I think

832
00:43:52,719 --> 00:43:55,399
Speaker 1: of Debor or Courtney Morgan, that entire machine they've built

833
00:43:55,440 --> 00:43:59,440
Speaker 1: over there, Eve and I found that to be a

834
00:43:59,480 --> 00:44:02,759
Speaker 1: wild of the imagination. And yet there they are not

835
00:44:02,960 --> 00:44:06,200
Speaker 1: only breathing down the neck of Ohio state number two

836
00:44:06,280 --> 00:44:09,200
Speaker 1: class in the country. Right now, ninety four point six y'

837
00:44:09,239 --> 00:44:12,000
Speaker 1: eight average player rating is the highest in the nation

838
00:44:12,680 --> 00:44:19,799
Speaker 1: with twenty two commits. What happened? What happened, Gregory? What happened? Well,

839
00:44:19,840 --> 00:44:26,160
Speaker 1: it turns out that recruiting the South is very difficult,

840
00:44:26,480 --> 00:44:29,640
Speaker 1: but also not nearly as difficult or convoluted as some

841
00:44:29,680 --> 00:44:31,160
Speaker 1: of you make it sound. Some of you think, if

842
00:44:31,200 --> 00:44:33,719
Speaker 1: you don't know every highway and back road in Alabama,

843
00:44:34,040 --> 00:44:36,279
Speaker 1: then you're gonna be lost down here. And that is

844
00:44:36,360 --> 00:44:38,879
Speaker 1: not what it takes to recruit the South. Someone could

845
00:44:38,960 --> 00:44:41,759
Speaker 1: land here from Mars and if they're really good at

846
00:44:41,760 --> 00:44:44,680
Speaker 1: connecting with people, they're really good at selling their vision,

847
00:44:45,120 --> 00:44:49,239
Speaker 1: and they're grinders and understand what grinding really means. Not, man,

848
00:44:49,320 --> 00:44:52,560
Speaker 1: I've worked forty two hours this week. I'm exhausted. No,

849
00:44:52,680 --> 00:44:56,280
Speaker 1: if you're really a grinder, then you will recruit any

850
00:44:56,320 --> 00:44:59,879
Speaker 1: region of the country effectively, the South or the North.

851
00:45:01,160 --> 00:45:05,720
Speaker 1: If you grind, if you understand people, if you understand

852
00:45:05,760 --> 00:45:08,680
Speaker 1: your vision and how to sell it to them, and

853
00:45:08,719 --> 00:45:11,960
Speaker 1: you're well resourced, because NIL has a lot to do

854
00:45:12,080 --> 00:45:15,520
Speaker 1: with this, but not nearly as much as maybe some

855
00:45:15,560 --> 00:45:18,640
Speaker 1: outsiders are painting it as at the moment, then you

856
00:45:18,719 --> 00:45:22,160
Speaker 1: will recruit the South. You will recruit any region very effectively.

857
00:45:22,719 --> 00:45:27,800
Speaker 1: The list is just funny to look back now because

858
00:45:27,800 --> 00:45:29,880
Speaker 1: of what this means, you know, for the future of

859
00:45:29,920 --> 00:45:32,520
Speaker 1: their program, in the future of the SEC. This was

860
00:45:32,560 --> 00:45:35,399
Speaker 1: a forever question. What's Bama going to be like after

861
00:45:35,480 --> 00:45:40,200
Speaker 1: Nick Saban? I wondered, you wondered, I mean not, certainly,

862
00:45:40,200 --> 00:45:43,480
Speaker 1: They'll never find anyone to come in and replace Nick Saban. Certainly,

863
00:45:43,480 --> 00:45:46,400
Speaker 1: there's no one else out there that's gonna take advantage

864
00:45:46,440 --> 00:45:49,239
Speaker 1: of this machine and then continue it the way that

865
00:45:49,320 --> 00:45:51,759
Speaker 1: Saban and no one's gonna recruit at this level? Are

866
00:45:51,800 --> 00:45:55,880
Speaker 1: they gonna get anyone even close? And it takes a

867
00:45:55,960 --> 00:45:58,840
Speaker 1: lot of years for us to ultimately determine that the

868
00:45:58,920 --> 00:46:04,080
Speaker 1: early returns right. But the point is when this staff

869
00:46:04,120 --> 00:46:07,520
Speaker 1: got hired at Alabama. Okay, here's a list right here

870
00:46:07,600 --> 00:46:09,800
Speaker 1: of the people who question their coaching ability. It's a

871
00:46:09,800 --> 00:46:11,919
Speaker 1: blank piece of paper. I didn't hear the first one.

872
00:46:12,080 --> 00:46:15,279
Speaker 1: Even the biggest fool amongst us, never questioned Caylin de

873
00:46:15,360 --> 00:46:19,080
Speaker 1: Boor and his college football staff being able to coach

874
00:46:19,160 --> 00:46:22,840
Speaker 1: this game. The tactical side, the evaluation, the development, the

875
00:46:22,920 --> 00:46:25,440
Speaker 1: exes knows. No one questioned it. Over here, there's a

876
00:46:25,480 --> 00:46:29,399
Speaker 1: scroll a mile long of folks who thought they ain't

877
00:46:29,400 --> 00:46:31,880
Speaker 1: going to be able to recruit. Though they were wrong.

878
00:46:33,920 --> 00:46:36,200
Speaker 1: The people on this sheet were right, though. So if

879
00:46:36,239 --> 00:46:39,160
Speaker 1: you've got the football piece and you've got the talent

880
00:46:39,239 --> 00:46:41,440
Speaker 1: acquisition piece, what you're gonna have is you're gonna have

881
00:46:41,440 --> 00:46:44,640
Speaker 1: an elite program for a long time. But it's meaningless.

882
00:46:44,680 --> 00:46:47,719
Speaker 1: I was told today that's the last refuse for a

883
00:46:47,719 --> 00:46:50,840
Speaker 1: lot of you who are still clinging to this very

884
00:46:50,960 --> 00:46:54,000
Speaker 1: very tired notion that all of this is a mirage.

885
00:46:54,040 --> 00:46:57,120
Speaker 1: Like I've had a bad dream before too. Guys, this

886
00:46:57,239 --> 00:46:59,200
Speaker 1: is and a dream is just reality. But some of

887
00:46:59,239 --> 00:47:01,040
Speaker 1: you are telling me the old go to line of

888
00:47:01,080 --> 00:47:05,960
Speaker 1: it's meaningless. Verbal commitments are meaningless, and longtime viewers and

889
00:47:06,000 --> 00:47:08,080
Speaker 1: listeners to the show know what. I always love to

890
00:47:08,080 --> 00:47:11,680
Speaker 1: do with that. I've never actually collected on this because

891
00:47:11,760 --> 00:47:14,279
Speaker 1: no one's ever taken me up on it. They got

892
00:47:14,280 --> 00:47:17,160
Speaker 1: what Jesse, twenty two verbal commits. I'd actually call that

893
00:47:17,200 --> 00:47:19,000
Speaker 1: twenty one. I think there may be a de commit

894
00:47:19,080 --> 00:47:21,560
Speaker 1: coming down the road anyway, Let's call it twenty two

895
00:47:22,080 --> 00:47:24,919
Speaker 1: twenty two verbal commits for Alabama right now, I will

896
00:47:24,920 --> 00:47:29,399
Speaker 1: put one thousand dollars up per kid that decommits, if

897
00:47:29,440 --> 00:47:31,680
Speaker 1: you'll match it and put one thousand dollars up for

898
00:47:31,760 --> 00:47:35,359
Speaker 1: every kid that remains committed in this class. I want

899
00:47:35,400 --> 00:47:38,120
Speaker 1: you to show me how meaningless these verbal commits are

900
00:47:38,760 --> 00:47:41,560
Speaker 1: with your wallet. I'm happy to do this, you know what,

901
00:47:42,080 --> 00:47:45,560
Speaker 1: feeling brave tonight, I'll double it. I'll put up two

902
00:47:45,680 --> 00:47:48,319
Speaker 1: grand per de commitment, and you only got to put

903
00:47:48,400 --> 00:47:51,200
Speaker 1: up one grand for every kid that remains committed. They're

904
00:47:51,239 --> 00:47:55,960
Speaker 1: twenty two of them right now. Who's willing? Who? I'm

905
00:47:55,960 --> 00:47:58,480
Speaker 1: looking at the live chat Jesse's happy to take down

906
00:47:58,520 --> 00:48:02,320
Speaker 1: your contact information. Who's willing to do it? This list

907
00:48:02,360 --> 00:48:05,680
Speaker 1: is always really short. Now that's what's happening in Alabama.

908
00:48:06,000 --> 00:48:09,080
Speaker 1: There's another recruiting storyline that I don't think as many

909
00:48:09,120 --> 00:48:13,440
Speaker 1: people are following right now, and it's up at Penn State.

910
00:48:13,560 --> 00:48:16,319
Speaker 1: So Jonathan from Boston hit me. He said, Am I

911
00:48:16,440 --> 00:48:19,040
Speaker 1: crazy for thinking that Penn State might be in big

912
00:48:19,080 --> 00:48:22,200
Speaker 1: trouble in recruiting with all the top end state kids

913
00:48:22,320 --> 00:48:25,680
Speaker 1: leaving this cycle. I'm glad you mentioned this, Jonathan. This

914
00:48:25,840 --> 00:48:28,439
Speaker 1: is not a national story yet. No one outside of

915
00:48:28,800 --> 00:48:31,960
Speaker 1: that region's really talking about this. Hardcore recruiting types are,

916
00:48:32,320 --> 00:48:35,200
Speaker 1: but I don't think this is some national story. It's

917
00:48:35,239 --> 00:48:38,960
Speaker 1: really tough to judge. It's undeniable that they are whipping

918
00:48:39,000 --> 00:48:42,320
Speaker 1: in state this year. Zero of the top eight kids

919
00:48:42,719 --> 00:48:45,280
Speaker 1: in the state of Pennsylvania are committed to Penn State,

920
00:48:45,640 --> 00:48:47,560
Speaker 1: and all eight of them are committed, so it's not

921
00:48:47,600 --> 00:48:52,120
Speaker 1: a bunch of uncommitted kids. They're all committed elsewhere Missouri, Michigan,

922
00:48:52,719 --> 00:48:55,640
Speaker 1: three of them to Ohio State, one of them Tobama Duke.

923
00:48:57,520 --> 00:49:01,319
Speaker 1: It's hard to judge how big a problem it is, though,

924
00:49:01,480 --> 00:49:05,239
Speaker 1: because what I cannot know is I cannot know what

925
00:49:05,280 --> 00:49:07,840
Speaker 1: their internal strategy was for this cycle. Here's what we

926
00:49:07,880 --> 00:49:09,840
Speaker 1: do know. They got the number ten class in the

927
00:49:09,840 --> 00:49:13,120
Speaker 1: country right now. So it's not a disaster on the surface,

928
00:49:13,200 --> 00:49:16,040
Speaker 1: you know, twenty thousand feet you look at it, it's not.

929
00:49:16,120 --> 00:49:18,440
Speaker 1: That's the third highest rated class in the Big ten

930
00:49:18,560 --> 00:49:21,239
Speaker 1: right now, number ten overall. But what we know is

931
00:49:21,280 --> 00:49:25,760
Speaker 1: they have consistently recruited the state of Pennsylvania. Recently twenty

932
00:49:25,840 --> 00:49:28,560
Speaker 1: twenty four, they got number two, number three, and number

933
00:49:28,600 --> 00:49:31,319
Speaker 1: six in state. Twenty twenty three, number one, number two,

934
00:49:31,400 --> 00:49:34,719
Speaker 1: number four in state. Twenty twenty two players won three, five,

935
00:49:34,840 --> 00:49:37,440
Speaker 1: seven to nine in state, so they've they've gotten more

936
00:49:37,440 --> 00:49:39,359
Speaker 1: than their fair share of in state kids this year

937
00:49:39,400 --> 00:49:42,640
Speaker 1: with it on the top eight. Is it a problem, well,

938
00:49:42,920 --> 00:49:45,120
Speaker 1: it's got to be some kind of problem. Is it

939
00:49:45,160 --> 00:49:48,240
Speaker 1: an insurmountable problem or is it just something that bugs

940
00:49:48,280 --> 00:49:51,399
Speaker 1: them right now? That's what I don't know, and I'm

941
00:49:51,440 --> 00:49:53,480
Speaker 1: willing to wait and see how this class shakes out.

942
00:49:53,680 --> 00:49:55,960
Speaker 1: But one of these was a wide receiver and they

943
00:49:56,000 --> 00:49:59,440
Speaker 1: lost them to South Carolina and that stings to me

944
00:49:59,520 --> 00:50:02,359
Speaker 1: on the surface settings that it's a position they've been

945
00:50:02,719 --> 00:50:05,399
Speaker 1: badly in need at for a while up there. They

946
00:50:05,440 --> 00:50:07,799
Speaker 1: missed out on another wide receiver out of state this

947
00:50:07,840 --> 00:50:12,160
Speaker 1: past week. Their top their top five commits are all

948
00:50:12,160 --> 00:50:15,680
Speaker 1: out of state. So it's just different looking. It probably

949
00:50:15,760 --> 00:50:18,359
Speaker 1: is somewhat of a problem. It's different looking. They either

950
00:50:18,480 --> 00:50:21,400
Speaker 1: need to one of two things to happen. They either

951
00:50:21,840 --> 00:50:26,040
Speaker 1: need the offensive profile of that class to radically shift

952
00:50:26,480 --> 00:50:28,640
Speaker 1: in the coming months because most of their top committed

953
00:50:28,680 --> 00:50:31,120
Speaker 1: kids are defensive kids right now. They either need that

954
00:50:31,200 --> 00:50:34,040
Speaker 1: to change, or they need to do something they really

955
00:50:34,040 --> 00:50:36,640
Speaker 1: haven't been known to do, and that's make significant moves

956
00:50:36,640 --> 00:50:39,080
Speaker 1: in the portal. Now, we don't know the whole picture

957
00:50:39,360 --> 00:50:42,239
Speaker 1: James Franklin and his staff do. It could be that

958
00:50:42,239 --> 00:50:44,640
Speaker 1: they didn't particularly love the end state crop this year.

959
00:50:45,160 --> 00:50:46,880
Speaker 1: It could be they love some of them and whiffed

960
00:50:46,880 --> 00:50:49,160
Speaker 1: on them, but the others maybe weren't nearly as high

961
00:50:49,160 --> 00:50:52,160
Speaker 1: a priority. It could be that they wanted to load

962
00:50:52,239 --> 00:50:54,080
Speaker 1: up on defense and they are going to be a

963
00:50:54,120 --> 00:50:56,920
Speaker 1: whole lot more active in the portal. It could be

964
00:50:56,960 --> 00:50:59,440
Speaker 1: that nil is still a big time issue up there

965
00:50:59,440 --> 00:51:03,480
Speaker 1: for them. I've done this before. I will openly and

966
00:51:03,960 --> 00:51:08,960
Speaker 1: somewhat in an informed manner speculate again. I think they've

967
00:51:09,000 --> 00:51:12,640
Speaker 1: come a pretty good way up there. Anyone who suggests

968
00:51:12,800 --> 00:51:17,320
Speaker 1: Penn States in IL operation is anywhere close to matching

969
00:51:17,360 --> 00:51:19,680
Speaker 1: what they have at Ohio State or what they have

970
00:51:19,760 --> 00:51:22,400
Speaker 1: at Texas, what they have at places that you're going

971
00:51:22,480 --> 00:51:23,759
Speaker 1: to have to beat if you want to get where

972
00:51:23,760 --> 00:51:25,880
Speaker 1: you want to go, is kidding themselves. There's no way.

973
00:51:26,040 --> 00:51:30,160
Speaker 1: There's absolutely no way, and that's just an innocent bystanders

974
00:51:30,160 --> 00:51:32,280
Speaker 1: point of view. Then you start asking around a little

975
00:51:32,280 --> 00:51:34,960
Speaker 1: bit and you get it confirmed that, yes, your suspicions

976
00:51:34,960 --> 00:51:40,680
Speaker 1: are right. So let's wait again. It's not ranked thirtieth.

977
00:51:40,840 --> 00:51:43,200
Speaker 1: The class is ranked tenth right now. I am interested

978
00:51:43,200 --> 00:51:46,120
Speaker 1: to see where that goes. They're watching us in Addison, Alabama.

979
00:51:46,120 --> 00:51:49,520
Speaker 1: They're watching us in Marietta, Ohio, and Aurora, Colorado. Thank

980
00:51:49,560 --> 00:51:54,760
Speaker 1: you guys so much. Uh. We always have a bunch

981
00:51:54,760 --> 00:51:57,000
Speaker 1: of new viewers this time of year, any given show,

982
00:51:58,640 --> 00:52:01,560
Speaker 1: Thank you for watching. We do this all year and

983
00:52:01,680 --> 00:52:03,680
Speaker 1: we make it free and all we ask you to

984
00:52:03,719 --> 00:52:06,319
Speaker 1: do subscribe to the channel or the podcast, and then

985
00:52:06,480 --> 00:52:09,080
Speaker 1: recruit five of your friends, because as you just heard,

986
00:52:09,320 --> 00:52:12,600
Speaker 1: recruiting is very important. Where do you think South Carolina's

987
00:52:12,640 --> 00:52:17,359
Speaker 1: headed right now? Would how would you judge their trajectory,

988
00:52:17,480 --> 00:52:20,600
Speaker 1: the expectations are not high. They have the eleventh best

989
00:52:20,600 --> 00:52:23,560
Speaker 1: odds to win the SEC this year. They're over underwent

990
00:52:23,560 --> 00:52:26,840
Speaker 1: totals five and a half. They have seven games this

991
00:52:27,000 --> 00:52:30,719
Speaker 1: year against teams in the preseason top twenty according to

992
00:52:30,760 --> 00:52:36,879
Speaker 1: fan Duels odds. Beamers entering year four. So the first

993
00:52:36,960 --> 00:52:39,560
Speaker 1: year they overachieved and he went seven and six. The

994
00:52:39,600 --> 00:52:41,839
Speaker 1: next year they overachieved and he went eight and five.

995
00:52:42,080 --> 00:52:44,239
Speaker 1: Last year fell back a little bit, they went five

996
00:52:44,280 --> 00:52:47,120
Speaker 1: and seven. There are a million variables that go into

997
00:52:47,160 --> 00:52:51,120
Speaker 1: those sorts of things, not the least of which is injury.

998
00:52:51,480 --> 00:52:54,280
Speaker 1: You don't have the kind of depth one through forty

999
00:52:54,280 --> 00:52:56,720
Speaker 1: four at a place like South Carolina. They do it Georgia,

1000
00:52:56,800 --> 00:52:58,800
Speaker 1: or they do at Alabama, or they do it Texas.

1001
00:52:59,440 --> 00:53:02,080
Speaker 1: The ball bounce is a weird way. Just the schedule

1002
00:53:02,080 --> 00:53:04,000
Speaker 1: could be tougher, So there are a million different things

1003
00:53:04,040 --> 00:53:06,600
Speaker 1: that can happen there. How does twenty twenty four impact

1004
00:53:06,600 --> 00:53:09,399
Speaker 1: all This is my question because there are some undeniables

1005
00:53:09,440 --> 00:53:11,920
Speaker 1: about South Carolina, Like we were over there for the spring.

1006
00:53:12,200 --> 00:53:14,680
Speaker 1: We took the Speaker Series over there, and Shane Biemer

1007
00:53:14,760 --> 00:53:17,759
Speaker 1: his entire staff great to be around, but I spent

1008
00:53:17,800 --> 00:53:20,000
Speaker 1: the whole day over there, talked to like a couple

1009
00:53:20,040 --> 00:53:23,759
Speaker 1: dozen people. You work out with the strength staff, you

1010
00:53:23,840 --> 00:53:25,759
Speaker 1: meet with as many coaches as you can, you talk

1011
00:53:25,840 --> 00:53:28,640
Speaker 1: to as many off field personnel types as you can.

1012
00:53:29,520 --> 00:53:33,920
Speaker 1: It's a great environment. It's a great culture. Hey, media

1013
00:53:33,920 --> 00:53:35,600
Speaker 1: department over there does a heck of a job, just

1014
00:53:35,600 --> 00:53:39,040
Speaker 1: a bang up job. There's excellent vision, there's excellent buy in,

1015
00:53:39,160 --> 00:53:42,480
Speaker 1: all of the intangibles. It's a great place to be

1016
00:53:42,800 --> 00:53:44,839
Speaker 1: in the spring, in the summer, and you could walk

1017
00:53:44,880 --> 00:53:47,520
Speaker 1: away from there and you could be telling your buddies,

1018
00:53:47,560 --> 00:53:49,439
Speaker 1: you could be texting them on the plane ride home.

1019
00:53:49,880 --> 00:53:52,480
Speaker 1: South Carolina is a dark horse playoff contender. You'd feel

1020
00:53:52,480 --> 00:53:55,480
Speaker 1: that good if you were over there. And then you

1021
00:53:55,520 --> 00:53:57,880
Speaker 1: start to look around and you start to say, WHOA

1022
00:53:58,000 --> 00:54:01,800
Speaker 1: they played seventeen in the top twenty of the playoff odds.

1023
00:54:01,840 --> 00:54:03,920
Speaker 1: Those teams are pretty good as well. Those teams are

1024
00:54:03,920 --> 00:54:05,920
Speaker 1: out there busting their tail in the summer as well.

1025
00:54:06,080 --> 00:54:09,000
Speaker 1: Those teams got really good staffs as well. So what

1026
00:54:09,040 --> 00:54:11,719
Speaker 1: does Leonora Sellers bring me this year? At quarterback? They're

1027
00:54:11,760 --> 00:54:14,239
Speaker 1: sky high on him, they were last year. He's second

1028
00:54:14,320 --> 00:54:17,000
Speaker 1: year into the program, first year as a starter this year.

1029
00:54:17,120 --> 00:54:19,920
Speaker 1: Offensive line was really bad last year? How much does

1030
00:54:19,960 --> 00:54:22,359
Speaker 1: that improve? They went to the portal for some wide

1031
00:54:22,400 --> 00:54:25,720
Speaker 1: receiver help, who's their wide receiver one? Does that room?

1032
00:54:25,880 --> 00:54:28,160
Speaker 1: Do the past catchers fall in line? Does it matter?

1033
00:54:28,280 --> 00:54:30,600
Speaker 1: If the offensive line doesn't pan out, the defensive front

1034
00:54:30,600 --> 00:54:33,920
Speaker 1: could be pretty good for them. How's their secondary shakeout?

1035
00:54:34,040 --> 00:54:38,320
Speaker 1: You know, it's so easy to get drunk on hype.

1036
00:54:38,640 --> 00:54:41,920
Speaker 1: I'm not talking about them because they're doing everything they

1037
00:54:41,960 --> 00:54:43,520
Speaker 1: need to do. They've put in the work over there.

1038
00:54:43,880 --> 00:54:46,920
Speaker 1: Everyone talks glowingly about that. But the thing about it is,

1039
00:54:46,960 --> 00:54:51,640
Speaker 1: you don't win games statistically in July. You put in

1040
00:54:51,719 --> 00:54:53,759
Speaker 1: the work that's going to show up in the fall.

1041
00:54:54,200 --> 00:54:57,840
Speaker 1: But when it's twenty three to twenty three late against

1042
00:54:57,880 --> 00:55:00,839
Speaker 1: Texas A and M or Missouri or Ole miss all

1043
00:55:00,880 --> 00:55:03,319
Speaker 1: three of whom they play at home, the way those

1044
00:55:03,400 --> 00:55:08,520
Speaker 1: games go is the difference between six and six and

1045
00:55:08,680 --> 00:55:12,240
Speaker 1: nine and three, And it's just the perception is way

1046
00:55:12,280 --> 00:55:16,040
Speaker 1: different based on those outcomes. You never know. You can

1047
00:55:16,160 --> 00:55:19,600
Speaker 1: feel good that you've closed that gap, but you never know.

1048
00:55:20,160 --> 00:55:23,080
Speaker 1: You never know until those fall Saturdays arrive. So the

1049
00:55:23,120 --> 00:55:25,359
Speaker 1: South Carolina trajectory, I would say it's like in a

1050
00:55:25,360 --> 00:55:27,839
Speaker 1: holding pattern. It was green arrow up for a couple

1051
00:55:27,880 --> 00:55:32,160
Speaker 1: of years. And they've got either a really really daunting

1052
00:55:32,520 --> 00:55:35,160
Speaker 1: challenge ahead of them or they've got a great opportunity

1053
00:55:35,160 --> 00:55:37,960
Speaker 1: ahead of them, based on how you perceive a tough schedule.

1054
00:55:38,680 --> 00:55:43,879
Speaker 1: Next question outside the SEC. Nebraska's offense was terrible last year.

1055
00:55:43,960 --> 00:55:46,799
Speaker 1: That's not a question, that's just a fact. How much

1056
00:55:46,840 --> 00:55:49,319
Speaker 1: better will their offense be this year? How much could

1057
00:55:49,360 --> 00:55:54,080
Speaker 1: Nebraska's offense improve? And is it reasonable to be expecting that?

1058
00:55:54,520 --> 00:55:57,600
Speaker 1: So producer Jesse about once or twice a year comes

1059
00:55:57,600 --> 00:56:00,880
Speaker 1: into the office and he's got really really big eyes,

1060
00:56:00,960 --> 00:56:03,120
Speaker 1: and I know there's something on his mind. What is it, Jesse?

1061
00:56:03,160 --> 00:56:05,560
Speaker 1: He says, I've got a term. I've got a term

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Speaker 1: he said, no, no, no, no, no. Iowa is so bad

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Speaker 1: one that feels like it could profile way up this

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Speaker 1: year offensively. Denon Rayola, true freshman at quarterback. Yes, that's

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Speaker 1: the big key six three to two, twenty five star

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Speaker 1: hundred and twenty ninth in the country in past yards

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Speaker 1: It's certainly gonna be better. Is it like better as

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Speaker 1: these games in this schedule that we keep looking at

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Speaker 1: But if you've got a top let's just say, a

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Speaker 1: sure you're following on the socials bold prediction time again tonight?

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Speaker 1: What do you believe? Would you bet your own money

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Speaker 1: on this? What do you believe? First? Up? This? WHI

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Speaker 1: is this bold Buckeye rationalist of all people from Camp Pendleton,

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Speaker 1: Colorado said this year's Ohio State team will have the

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Speaker 1: best statistical defense of the entire playoff era. I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: stop there, just the entire playoff era, so that since

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Speaker 1: twenty fourteen, Georgia is the best. Twenty twenty one, Georgia

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Speaker 1: allowed ten point two points per game. Last year's Michigan

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Speaker 1: team next best ten point four points per game. Would

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Speaker 1: you believe it if I told you last year's Ohio

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Speaker 1: State team was third best eleven point two points per

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Speaker 1: game and it was viewed as a disappointment. Would you

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Speaker 1: believe that? I think you would. At Oregon this year

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Speaker 1: is the only time they'll face an offense that you

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Speaker 1: would preseason call elite. Whatever the regular season brings us,

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Speaker 1: whatever it brings, But look at that schedule. Outside of that,

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Speaker 1: you got Akron, Western, Michigan, Marshall on the out of conference,

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Speaker 1: and then it's it's Michigan State it's Iowa, it's Nebraska,

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Speaker 1: it's at Penn State, it's Purdue, it's Northwestern, it's Indiana,

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Speaker 1: it's Michigan at Oregon October twelfth. Does Oregon hang thirty

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Speaker 1: eight on them? Or is it a game played in

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Speaker 1: the twenties, Because if it is, this could be very

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Speaker 1: much in play. I think this is an eight on

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Speaker 1: the boldness scale. That crew they got up there could

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Speaker 1: very well be the best statistical defense we've seen in

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Speaker 1: the playoff era. So that's not that bold to me.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna call it an eight. Next up, this was

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Speaker 1: creative from Terre Haute, Indiana. No team from the old

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Speaker 1: SEC West will make it to the SEC Championship game.

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Speaker 1: We don't have divisions anymore, but we remember them semi fondly.

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Speaker 1: So Bama, LSU, Ole Miss, Auburn, A, and M. These

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Speaker 1: were all the teams of note this year that were

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Speaker 1: in the SEC West. None of them are top two

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Speaker 1: in the current FanDuel odds to win the SEC. So

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Speaker 1: Bama's third, Ole Miss is fourth, LSU's fifth, A and

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Speaker 1: M is sixth. So Georgia Texas are one, two, then three, four, five,

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Speaker 1: six are from the Old West, and then Auburn's down there, seven, eight, nine, ten.

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Speaker 1: I believe Georgia Texas being one two yes, makes this

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Speaker 1: pretty bold, but it doesn't make it overly bold because

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I think it is pretty bold that

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Speaker 1: even though number one and number two, if they faced off,

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Speaker 1: would make this come true. How often do we really

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Speaker 1: see that, like Bama, Ole, miss LSUA, and n one

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Speaker 1: of them is gonna have something to say about this.

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Speaker 1: I think so it's an eight point five on the

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Speaker 1: boldness scale. It's very creative. I liked it. It was

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Speaker 1: good Utah. What about this from Spring Lake, Michigan, Utah

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Speaker 1: will make the national title game? Well, that's a nine

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Speaker 1: point seventy five. That is chalice quality. That is chalice

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Speaker 1: of supremacy, earning boldness of a prediction if this comes true.

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Speaker 1: I was thinking about the best case. What's the best

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Speaker 1: case through Utah? Clearly they need to win the Big

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Speaker 1: twelve that gets them a bye in the first round,

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Speaker 1: and then they have a very favorable round two game.

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Speaker 1: Let's say even if all that happens, they still need

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Speaker 1: one more to get to the title game, and you're

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Speaker 1: not going through any kind of layup in the semi final.

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Speaker 1: That's not happening. Maybe someone gets really hurt at a

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Speaker 1: critical position en route to a win the week before

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Speaker 1: and they're a hobbled team and you face them. Maybe,

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Speaker 1: but no one can predict that. So they've got the

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Speaker 1: sixteenth best odds to win the whole thing. Cam Rising's

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Speaker 1: first round by. So I don't doubt Utah is going

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Speaker 1: to be in the picture. But to win it all, yeah,

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Speaker 1: he didn't just say make it, he actually said win

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Speaker 1: at all. So even if you get the first round by,

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Speaker 1: two more games. That's a nine point seventy five on

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Speaker 1: the boldness scale. And lastly, this is so sad. This

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Speaker 1: Falls Iowa said Iowa will have a top eighty offense

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Speaker 1: this year. The fact that this is bold is mind boggling.

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Speaker 1: Last year it was bad. Obviously it was bad last year,

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Speaker 1: So we're going yards per game. The reason we need

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Speaker 1: just go points per game, Iowa's defense is so good

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Speaker 1: that they can actually skew things to make it look

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Speaker 1: like the offense was better than it was. In twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty three, they were last in all of FBS in

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Speaker 1: yards per game two thirty four point six. That was

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Speaker 1: twenty eight yards worse than the next worst team in

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Speaker 1: college football, Western Michigan. So if we were asking what

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Speaker 1: does it take for Iowa to ascend from what they

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Speaker 1: that would be where Western Michigan finished last year. Western Michigan,

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Speaker 1: compared to Iowa's two thirty four per game, had three

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Speaker 1: hundred and sixty five yards per game. They've got to

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Speaker 1: be one hundred and thirty ish yards better per game

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Speaker 1: than they were last year. It's not happening. Offensive quartered

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Speaker 1: coordinator change, it's not happening. If it does, then you

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Speaker 1: know what, Jesse bumping up nine and a half. This

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Speaker 1: is a nine point five on the boldness scale. That's

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Speaker 1: where we are right now. You're telling me they only

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Speaker 1: have to have a top eighty offense to earn someone

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Speaker 1: a chalice's supremacy. But yet that's where we are, and

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Speaker 1: the words of Nick Saban It says, really we won't

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Speaker 1: want college football to be I guess. So that concludes

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Speaker 1: bold predictions. That concludes the show tonight. We have got

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