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Speaker 1: Florida State has not held up there into the bargain.

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Speaker 1: Miami hasn't. Neither of the Virginia schools have. I think

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Speaker 1: North Carolina could have done a lot better than they've

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Speaker 1: done recently. So it's not just Virginia Tech. Young JP

431
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Speaker 1: happens to remember Virginia Tech. That VT meaning something nationally

432
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Speaker 1: and it hasn't in a while. And I you know,

433
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Speaker 1: you give me like thirty Christmas wishes this year. I'm

434
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Speaker 1: sure on that list somewhere we'll be. Please bring Virginia

435
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Speaker 1: Tech back, Santa. Please? What about Billy Napier at Florida.

436
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Speaker 1: We did the mood tracker for Florida the other day.

437
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Speaker 1: I'm not going to reference it. There were some videos

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Speaker 1: that were generated off of our video. There was also

439
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Speaker 1: a thread on a non twenty four to seven affiliated

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Speaker 1: Florida message board where someone actually lobbied for me to

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Speaker 1: become the ad down there because in their words, I

442
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Speaker 1: couldn't do worse than what's been done recently. I appreciate

443
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Speaker 1: the vote of confidence I really do. I think Scott

444
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Speaker 1: Strickland's doing okay, So I'm not going to put my

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Speaker 1: name in the hat for the Florida AD position, at

446
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Speaker 1: least not right now. They were six and seven last

447
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Speaker 1: year at Florida. We saw it all the first two weeks,

448
00:23:09,040 --> 00:23:11,840
Speaker 1: did we not? So they opened against Utah and they

449
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Speaker 1: won miraculously, come from behind, wind down to the swamp.

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Speaker 1: I thought it set the tone for a great season,

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Speaker 1: at least college football wise. But as for Florida, note

452
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Speaker 1: because one week later, Kentucky comes in there. And I'm

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Speaker 1: not sure why I remember this the way I do.

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you why. I remember. I was at Alabama

455
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Speaker 1: Texas in Week two last year, which was an eleven

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Speaker 1: am Central Time kickoff. So I had gone to the

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Speaker 1: Bama Texas game, gotten out of there, flown back to Nashville,

458
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Speaker 1: and I was in a public parking garage downtown as

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Speaker 1: that Florida Kentucky game was ending, and I remember listening

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Speaker 1: on the radio because I'd come straight from the airport.

461
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Speaker 1: I had to get the essentials and i'd come straight

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Speaker 1: from the airport, and I remember so vividly the announcers

463
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Speaker 1: talking about how Anthony Richardson has had such a subpar night,

464
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Speaker 1: he doesn't even know where the ball's going. So you

465
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Speaker 1: go from sky high Richardson's Heisman contender week one to

466
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Speaker 1: Steve Sachs playing quarterback for Florida in week two. Google it, Jesse.

467
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Speaker 1: And so it was the best of times in the

468
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Speaker 1: worst of times. And we weren't even halfway through September.

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Speaker 1: They finished six and seven back to back sub five

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Speaker 1: hundred seasons, first time that's happened at Florida since seventy

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Speaker 1: eight and seventy nine. Rumors came out in seventy seven,

472
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Speaker 1: just for reference out there, Jade and Rashada, that whole

473
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Speaker 1: deal did not do Billy Napier any perceptional favors. And

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Speaker 1: that is what it is. That's pretty much as it

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Speaker 1: appears on the surface, the whole Napier's in trouble because

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Speaker 1: he's losing coaches thing not so much. We covered that

477
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Speaker 1: at length on the show the other day. I thought

478
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Speaker 1: a lot of that was blown out of proportion. I

479
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Speaker 1: think a few things have been blown out of proportion,

480
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Speaker 1: maybe like twenty or thirty percent more than they should,

481
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Speaker 1: just because he's vulnerable right now, just because it's kind

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Speaker 1: of popular to attack BILLIY Napier, and that's that's not necessary. Look,

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Speaker 1: if I'm gonna talk critically about him, I'll just talk

484
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Speaker 1: about tangible things. I'll talk about how they need to

485
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Speaker 1: be better here, here, here, or there. And the reason

486
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Speaker 1: I said in multiple areas, much as he will tell

487
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Speaker 1: you himself, is because there are multiple areas they have

488
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Speaker 1: to improve. In recruiting's probably one of them. A more

489
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Speaker 1: firm understanding of nil is probably one of them. They

490
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Speaker 1: have that in common with a lot of folks right now.

491
00:25:31,640 --> 00:25:34,920
Speaker 1: It's a pretty wild West, open landscape, brand new era

492
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Speaker 1: in those fronts, so they don't have benefit of the doubt.

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Speaker 1: It's my point. If Napier had made it somewhere and

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Speaker 1: gone and coaching the NFL and flamed out and he

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Speaker 1: came back, if he were Matt Rule, you know, if

496
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Speaker 1: he came back to Florida or Nebraska. In that case,

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Speaker 1: Matt Rule will get benefit of the doubt. BILLI Napier

498
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Speaker 1: doesn't right now because for some reason, some people look

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Speaker 1: at the success he had at Louisiana and say, well,

500
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Speaker 1: that doesn't count because that's G five. Now. Mind you,

501
00:26:00,560 --> 00:26:04,399
Speaker 1: those same people hypocritically will walk up to me and say,

502
00:26:04,960 --> 00:26:07,800
Speaker 1: G five program should have the same chance to win

503
00:26:07,840 --> 00:26:10,840
Speaker 1: the same playoff that Power five program should. Meanwhile, I'm

504
00:26:10,840 --> 00:26:12,960
Speaker 1: over here lobbying, Hey, can we make up our minds

505
00:26:13,160 --> 00:26:15,359
Speaker 1: like is this all one sport? Do we have one

506
00:26:15,440 --> 00:26:18,560
Speaker 1: hundred and thirty whatever teams? Or do we have sixty

507
00:26:18,600 --> 00:26:21,840
Speaker 1: over here and another sixty over there. Apparently you can

508
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Speaker 1: just take it however you want it, depending on how

509
00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:26,480
Speaker 1: you're shaping an argument. I didn't know you could do.

510
00:26:26,480 --> 00:26:29,159
Speaker 1: That changes my outlook on life. If I know that

511
00:26:29,240 --> 00:26:31,639
Speaker 1: you can, you can just wiggle your weight in and

512
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Speaker 1: out of arguments that way. So I would look at Meltucker,

513
00:26:34,200 --> 00:26:39,280
Speaker 1: Brenton Vinables, Brint Prye, and Billy Napier. Not an exhaustive list.

514
00:26:40,160 --> 00:26:41,960
Speaker 1: I say that only because every time we do some

515
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Speaker 1: of these lists, someone pops down in the comments and says,

516
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Speaker 1: what about so and so? And they're probably going to

517
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Speaker 1: be right. That's why we only had room for four tonight.

518
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Speaker 1: And that's why God invented the comment section. Speaking speaking

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Speaker 1: of wonderful creations, could I talk to you about academy

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Speaker 1: sports and outdoors for just a second, just a second.

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Speaker 1: Strict Technically, I'm supposed to go forty five seconds. I

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Speaker 1: don't think we've ever limited the Academy read to forty

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Speaker 1: five seconds a single day in this show's existence. Uh,

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Speaker 1: probably not going to start tonight. Academy Sports and Outdoors.

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Speaker 1: We like to say your one stop shop for all

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Speaker 1: I would say that's pretty cookie cutter. So I take

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Speaker 1: it a step further, and I say most of your

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Speaker 1: needs in life can be met at Academy Sports and Outdoors.

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Speaker 1: And then you just fill out the remaining blanks. You

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Speaker 1: just go tie up the loose ends wherever else you

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Speaker 1: need to go. But this needs to be your first stop.

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Speaker 1: You live in a place where they don't have one,

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Speaker 1: No you don't, because you've got internet. Academy dot Com.

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Speaker 1: they don't sell that there, do they. You'd be shocked.

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Speaker 1: Keep encouraging you, guys, Go in one, take a picture

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Speaker 1: while you're there and post it. I'll probably retweet it.

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Speaker 1: But go in one and you'll be amazed. I have

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Speaker 1: National Inquirer, I see big League Chew. That is the

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Speaker 1: kind of partner we want to be in business with.

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Speaker 1: That's why Late Kick is not brought to you by

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Speaker 1: the National Inquirer is brought to you by Academy Sports

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Speaker 1: get there in person, thank you to them. They make

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Speaker 1: the show free of charge for you. They're watching us

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Speaker 1: in Provo, Utah. They're watching us in Ronda, North Carolina.

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Speaker 1: They're watching us in Prague, which is far as I know,

554
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Speaker 1: is in the Czech Republic. So wherever you're watching us,

555
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Speaker 1: if you could just do me a favorite little thumbs

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Speaker 1: up button, just click it and subscribe while you do it,

557
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Speaker 1: that would help us greatly. That would help us. I

558
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Speaker 1: saw in I want to say it was Minnesota. They

559
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Speaker 1: institute of free lunch, just statewide, no matter income. I

560
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Speaker 1: would love to do that around here for our crew.

561
00:28:59,160 --> 00:29:00,800
Speaker 1: Maybe a few more lives and a few more subs

562
00:29:00,800 --> 00:29:02,960
Speaker 1: than we could do it, so feed Bradley, feed Collin,

563
00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:06,320
Speaker 1: feed Jesse, like the video out of context late kick

564
00:29:07,720 --> 00:29:12,240
Speaker 1: speaking of certain members of our family. Here, I'm just

565
00:29:12,320 --> 00:29:15,440
Speaker 1: gonna do one of those good old garden variety say

566
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Speaker 1: it now so I can say I told you so

567
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Speaker 1: later segments. And I'm going to take a sip from

568
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Speaker 1: the chalice because I keep eyeing it and I overfilled

569
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Speaker 1: it a little bit. So frankly, I need to lower

570
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Speaker 1: the water level top of academy. I'll tell you what

571
00:29:31,880 --> 00:29:34,200
Speaker 1: if the partner of the company that turns this water

572
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Speaker 1: into the color it is right now ever came on board.

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Speaker 1: Oooh what a party that would be. But they haven't,

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Speaker 1: and so they remain nameless. Penn State in twenty twenty

575
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Speaker 1: three is a team. I think you need to have

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Speaker 1: your eye on. Just because something has not been doesn't

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Speaker 1: mean it cannot be. And the reason I say that

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Speaker 1: is because the eye Josh will light up with buddies

579
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Speaker 1: texting me before we go off the air. I promise

580
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Speaker 1: you this will happen. I'll say, you're wasting time talking

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Speaker 1: about Penn State some form of Everyone knows they can't win,

582
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Speaker 1: they can't make the playoff, they can't win the Big Ten.

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Speaker 1: They can't get past to Ohio State in Michigan, Well

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Speaker 1: they haven't. Well, they actually have won the Big Ten.

585
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Speaker 1: So you're talking about winning at the highest highest level

586
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Speaker 1: of the sport. That's what you're saying they can't do.

587
00:30:17,480 --> 00:30:19,720
Speaker 1: This is a wolf at the playoff door. That's what

588
00:30:19,840 --> 00:30:22,680
Speaker 1: Penn State is in Ohio State and Michigan have done

589
00:30:22,720 --> 00:30:24,760
Speaker 1: a good enough job pushing their back against the door

590
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Speaker 1: and keeping them out. They are what since twenty fifteen.

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Speaker 1: They're four and twelve against those two teams. They're forty

592
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Speaker 1: four and twelve against the rest of the Big Ten.

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Speaker 1: So they've handled things okay. They're coming off a Rose

594
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Speaker 1: Bowl trip, They're coming off a Rose Bowl victory. This

595
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Speaker 1: team is a threat to make the playoffs this year.

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Speaker 1: This team is a real threat to win the Big

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Speaker 1: Ten this year. And it's not going to be a

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Speaker 1: fizzle job. I really don't think this is a firecracker

599
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Speaker 1: scenario where they better get it done in twenty twenty three.

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Speaker 1: They are set up for a sustained run. These are

601
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Speaker 1: some of my favorite stories in college football, the programs

602
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Speaker 1: that build this way. In fact, a little bit later,

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Speaker 1: Colin has a very helpful graphic for you. I know,

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Speaker 1: because I drew it myself. That's right, that's right. Authentic

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Speaker 1: JP artwork will make its way onto the screen in

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Speaker 1: a little while. So all of that said, what does

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Speaker 1: this lead to, all this acquiring of talent. I'm gonna

608
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Speaker 1: talk about that in a second, But what does it

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Speaker 1: lead to? Because right now what I have is I

610
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Speaker 1: got a bunch of people saying the exact same things

611
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Speaker 1: they used to say about Kirby Smart. You just replace

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Speaker 1: Nick Saban in Alabama with Ohio State or playoff. Like what,

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Speaker 1: Kirby can't win the Big One. Kirby can't win the PLAF.

614
00:31:33,280 --> 00:31:35,960
Speaker 1: Kirby can't beat Saban, They can't beat Alabama. James Franklin

615
00:31:36,520 --> 00:31:38,320
Speaker 1: can't can't win the Big ten and get to the playoff.

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Speaker 1: Maybe he'll win it a down year. Well, they just

617
00:31:40,360 --> 00:31:43,080
Speaker 1: they can't beat Ohio State. They can't beat Michigan. Well

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Speaker 1: they have in years past, but your point is taken.

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Speaker 1: They haven't regularly, which is a very hard thing to do,

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Speaker 1: by the way, what you're demanding them do. But they've

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Speaker 1: got a high standard. So gonna I'm not gonna fault

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Speaker 1: you if you're a Penn State fan, and you're die hard,

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Speaker 1: and you're fully bought in. You pay your seat and tickets,

624
00:32:00,680 --> 00:32:03,480
Speaker 1: and you invest in the program emotionally and financially. You

625
00:32:03,560 --> 00:32:06,560
Speaker 1: should want a big return on that. James Franklin himself

626
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Speaker 1: wouldn't push back on that. Penn State wouldn't push back

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Speaker 1: on that. However, high your standard is for them this thing,

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Speaker 1: I promise you they got a higher standard for themselves

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Speaker 1: than you do. What has to happen degrees of difference,

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Speaker 1: that's what has to happen. They don't need the wholesale

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Speaker 1: changes there either. They are right on the doorstep. If

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Speaker 1: you're surprised in December if they make the playoff, If

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Speaker 1: you're surprised in December, it means I have failed you.

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Speaker 1: It means I haven't done my job. No one should

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Speaker 1: be surprised if this team pops this fall, and no

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Speaker 1: one should be surprised if Penn State goes on a

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Speaker 1: multi year run here where they're in the conversation every

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Speaker 1: year that you haven't had them in in years past.

639
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Speaker 1: They've got Drew Aler. That's a name that Jesse bows

640
00:32:52,800 --> 00:32:55,520
Speaker 1: his head before he even utters in the office. Right now,

641
00:32:55,880 --> 00:32:58,240
Speaker 1: that is the best quarterback prospect they've brought in there

642
00:32:58,480 --> 00:33:00,400
Speaker 1: under Franklin. But this is not going to be a

643
00:33:00,440 --> 00:33:02,840
Speaker 1: guy who has to shoulder an ultra heavy load. They

644
00:33:02,920 --> 00:33:05,520
Speaker 1: got two excellent running backs up there. It wasn't that

645
00:33:05,640 --> 00:33:08,040
Speaker 1: long ago we were talking about Penn State being void

646
00:33:08,160 --> 00:33:10,760
Speaker 1: of a legitimate run game. It is a sigh of

647
00:33:10,880 --> 00:33:13,960
Speaker 1: relief breathed across the Keystone State. They don't have to

648
00:33:13,960 --> 00:33:17,160
Speaker 1: talk like that anymore. They've got a ton of proven

649
00:33:17,280 --> 00:33:20,480
Speaker 1: production on the offensive line coming back defense returns seventy

650
00:33:20,480 --> 00:33:23,480
Speaker 1: five percent of its production. Abdul Carter is a name

651
00:33:23,600 --> 00:33:25,800
Speaker 1: that they know that the rest of the country will

652
00:33:25,880 --> 00:33:28,600
Speaker 1: know this year. Linebacker depth is good. You're a sicch

653
00:33:28,680 --> 00:33:32,360
Speaker 1: offensive coordinator back Manny Diaz was one of the sneakiest

654
00:33:32,480 --> 00:33:36,000
Speaker 1: best pickups last year by James Franklin at defensive coordinator,

655
00:33:36,040 --> 00:33:38,160
Speaker 1: and he's back now. I want you to think about this.

656
00:33:38,800 --> 00:33:43,000
Speaker 1: If I were advising Manny Diaz brutally honest here, he

657
00:33:43,080 --> 00:33:46,480
Speaker 1: gets fired from Miami. I didn't like, necessarily the way

658
00:33:46,480 --> 00:33:48,440
Speaker 1: they handled his exit down there. I would have told

659
00:33:48,480 --> 00:33:50,200
Speaker 1: him take a year off. In fact, I talked to

660
00:33:50,240 --> 00:33:53,840
Speaker 1: head coaches about this. It probably would shock you to

661
00:33:54,000 --> 00:33:56,760
Speaker 1: know that head coaches will reach out sometimes because a

662
00:33:56,800 --> 00:33:59,000
Speaker 1: lot of them think about getting in media, and so

663
00:33:59,120 --> 00:34:01,400
Speaker 1: they'll do their due diligence. I've talked to two of

664
00:34:01,520 --> 00:34:04,360
Speaker 1: them recently and they've asked, Hey, what do you think,

665
00:34:04,680 --> 00:34:06,720
Speaker 1: sounding board, What do you think? Should I go the

666
00:34:06,800 --> 00:34:08,959
Speaker 1: media route? Should I go take a coordinator job? Should

667
00:34:08,960 --> 00:34:10,359
Speaker 1: I get right back into it and take a lower

668
00:34:10,440 --> 00:34:13,720
Speaker 1: level head coaching job. I always tell him no one's

669
00:34:13,920 --> 00:34:18,000
Speaker 1: stock lowers by being on TV for a year. Dan

670
00:34:18,160 --> 00:34:20,480
Speaker 1: Mullen is writing the book on this right now. He's

671
00:34:20,480 --> 00:34:22,920
Speaker 1: putting on a clinic. Mack Brown put on a clinic.

672
00:34:23,600 --> 00:34:26,680
Speaker 1: It's like they get five percent better. Think about John Gruden.

673
00:34:26,960 --> 00:34:29,759
Speaker 1: Once upon a time, John Gruden got to the point

674
00:34:29,800 --> 00:34:32,759
Speaker 1: where every job opening college and NFL began with the

675
00:34:32,880 --> 00:34:34,799
Speaker 1: name John Gruden. So I thought many dida I should

676
00:34:34,840 --> 00:34:36,680
Speaker 1: have gone set in a TV studio for a year.

677
00:34:36,840 --> 00:34:39,680
Speaker 1: He didn't. He got right back in it and he

678
00:34:39,760 --> 00:34:42,560
Speaker 1: went to Penn State and they were a good product

679
00:34:42,640 --> 00:34:44,719
Speaker 1: last year. I think they'll be a great product defensively

680
00:34:44,800 --> 00:34:47,879
Speaker 1: this year. Four of their top five sack leaders are back.

681
00:34:48,719 --> 00:34:51,600
Speaker 1: The reason I'm giving you these bullet points is to

682
00:34:51,719 --> 00:34:55,359
Speaker 1: again emphasize there should be no surprise if this team

683
00:34:55,440 --> 00:34:57,560
Speaker 1: is good. This year should be no surprise at all.

684
00:34:57,920 --> 00:35:00,920
Speaker 1: I have been wearing this plane white T shirt for

685
00:35:01,080 --> 00:35:05,080
Speaker 1: years in preparation for this moment where I look like

686
00:35:05,200 --> 00:35:07,600
Speaker 1: the guy who is ahead of the curve on Penn State.

687
00:35:08,280 --> 00:35:11,120
Speaker 1: I am also very cheap, but I want that to

688
00:35:11,200 --> 00:35:13,200
Speaker 1: be forgotten. I want that to be in the background,

689
00:35:13,200 --> 00:35:16,279
Speaker 1: in the foreground. When you think of this white tea,

690
00:35:16,880 --> 00:35:19,239
Speaker 1: think of white out. What's the white out game this year, Jesse.

691
00:35:19,320 --> 00:35:25,839
Speaker 1: I'm looking at the schedule right now, probably the Michigan game. Yeah,

692
00:35:26,480 --> 00:35:30,000
Speaker 1: so look, I love Big Noon Kickoff. It's not my network.

693
00:35:30,080 --> 00:35:31,960
Speaker 1: I don't work for Fox, but I love Big Noon Kickoff.

694
00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:34,160
Speaker 1: Everyone in the Big Ten hates it, especially everyone at

695
00:35:34,200 --> 00:35:38,759
Speaker 1: Penn State hates it, and I understand why. But sometimes

696
00:35:39,400 --> 00:35:43,640
Speaker 1: sometimes the fine folks there costs Penn State one of

697
00:35:43,680 --> 00:35:46,799
Speaker 1: those nighttime spectacles. And you're looking at the schedule right now.

698
00:35:46,880 --> 00:35:49,520
Speaker 1: Could be Iowa early in the year, could be Michigan

699
00:35:49,640 --> 00:35:52,960
Speaker 1: later in the year. Probably not going to be Indiana,

700
00:35:53,080 --> 00:35:55,520
Speaker 1: but we'll see. Doesn't the Big Ten have a weird

701
00:35:56,040 --> 00:35:58,040
Speaker 1: clause about night games late in the year. I don't

702
00:35:58,040 --> 00:36:00,560
Speaker 1: know anyway, that's on down the road. I don't care

703
00:36:00,600 --> 00:36:02,239
Speaker 1: if they play in the parking lot at nine am.

704
00:36:02,320 --> 00:36:03,759
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, Penn State, it's going to be really

705
00:36:03,760 --> 00:36:07,120
Speaker 1: good this year. Success is not always linear. This is

706
00:36:07,160 --> 00:36:11,080
Speaker 1: where my artwork comes in, Colin Roll the artwork, because

707
00:36:11,320 --> 00:36:14,120
Speaker 1: I worked long and hard on this immunity. If you're

708
00:36:14,160 --> 00:36:16,439
Speaker 1: listening on podcasts, this means nothing to you, just please

709
00:36:16,480 --> 00:36:20,320
Speaker 1: bear with me. Everyone wants success to be linear. Everyone

710
00:36:20,520 --> 00:36:23,799
Speaker 1: wants everyone wants you to win five games one year,

711
00:36:24,160 --> 00:36:27,839
Speaker 1: seven games the next year, nine games, eleven games, conference title,

712
00:36:27,960 --> 00:36:29,920
Speaker 1: national title. It's just supposed to work that way. And

713
00:36:30,040 --> 00:36:32,359
Speaker 1: sometimes things don't take off right out of the gate.

714
00:36:32,719 --> 00:36:37,080
Speaker 1: Sometimes there's a slow build. The reason I'm familiar with

715
00:36:37,200 --> 00:36:40,160
Speaker 1: the trajectory of the black line on the chart you're

716
00:36:40,160 --> 00:36:43,120
Speaker 1: watching right now is because it's the way my career went.

717
00:36:43,800 --> 00:36:46,719
Speaker 1: And I watched a lot of folks who claim to

718
00:36:46,840 --> 00:36:49,120
Speaker 1: love the same things I love, and they went about it,

719
00:36:49,360 --> 00:36:51,880
Speaker 1: or they went into the same profession I did, and

720
00:36:52,040 --> 00:36:54,360
Speaker 1: they took off and left me in the dust, or

721
00:36:54,480 --> 00:36:58,160
Speaker 1: so it seemed. This sounds really braggadocious, but I don't

722
00:36:58,200 --> 00:36:59,480
Speaker 1: mean it to sound this way. I just mean it

723
00:36:59,520 --> 00:37:03,200
Speaker 1: matter of factly. Sometimes the guy, or the team or

724
00:37:03,280 --> 00:37:06,080
Speaker 1: the company that doesn't always set the world on fire.

725
00:37:06,160 --> 00:37:08,600
Speaker 1: Out of the gate is still doing things the right way.

726
00:37:09,280 --> 00:37:13,080
Speaker 1: It just for whatever reason, there's a unique confluence of

727
00:37:13,160 --> 00:37:18,120
Speaker 1: circumstances that mean they don't. They don't just mushroom cloud immediately.

728
00:37:18,440 --> 00:37:20,480
Speaker 1: Some folks do. That's great. I'll tell you what else

729
00:37:20,520 --> 00:37:25,440
Speaker 1: happens though, Sometimes folks, progress is linear and they're just

730
00:37:25,640 --> 00:37:28,640
Speaker 1: not moving at the trajectory that's gonna match you when

731
00:37:28,680 --> 00:37:31,600
Speaker 1: you finally do blow up. Now, here's what hasn't happened yet.

732
00:37:31,640 --> 00:37:33,680
Speaker 1: You see that curve to that really violent curve and

733
00:37:33,760 --> 00:37:36,439
Speaker 1: that spike there on the black line on the chart

734
00:37:36,480 --> 00:37:40,479
Speaker 1: on your screen. We may be at the curve point

735
00:37:40,640 --> 00:37:44,160
Speaker 1: for Penn State. You may be at the point where

736
00:37:44,320 --> 00:37:47,560
Speaker 1: everything finally comes together and they've got a dynamite run

737
00:37:47,640 --> 00:37:49,719
Speaker 1: game to go along with one of the best quarterbacks

738
00:37:49,719 --> 00:37:53,000
Speaker 1: in their conference, to go along with defensive depth and

739
00:37:53,280 --> 00:37:55,839
Speaker 1: quality of frontline player, the likes of which they haven't

740
00:37:55,920 --> 00:37:59,920
Speaker 1: all put together in the James Franklin era. And here

741
00:38:00,200 --> 00:38:03,520
Speaker 1: we are a decade, nearly a decade into his tenure there,

742
00:38:03,960 --> 00:38:06,400
Speaker 1: and sure enough, you mark my words, if Penn State's

743
00:38:06,400 --> 00:38:08,440
Speaker 1: a playoff team this year, if Penn State's in the

744
00:38:08,440 --> 00:38:10,719
Speaker 1: playoff picture. Every year for the next three or four years,

745
00:38:11,120 --> 00:38:13,480
Speaker 1: people are gonna say, Wow, Penn State kind of came

746
00:38:13,480 --> 00:38:16,160
Speaker 1: out of nowhere. They didn't come out of nowhere any

747
00:38:16,239 --> 00:38:18,360
Speaker 1: more than that apple tree comes out of nowhere. You

748
00:38:18,440 --> 00:38:20,239
Speaker 1: don't plant the seed and then get the harvest the

749
00:38:20,320 --> 00:38:22,799
Speaker 1: next day. I know it seems that way with some programs,

750
00:38:23,160 --> 00:38:25,200
Speaker 1: but not every one of them happens the way Kirby

751
00:38:25,239 --> 00:38:27,399
Speaker 1: happened at Georgia. Not every one of them can happen

752
00:38:27,680 --> 00:38:32,480
Speaker 1: the way that Saban turned Alabama around overnight. The stories

753
00:38:32,520 --> 00:38:36,080
Speaker 1: I love are the ones where folks just keep stacking

754
00:38:36,160 --> 00:38:38,760
Speaker 1: good days on top of each other. They've got a process.

755
00:38:38,880 --> 00:38:42,400
Speaker 1: They don't radically redefine it. Clemson under Dabos Swinny was

756
00:38:42,400 --> 00:38:45,520
Speaker 1: this way. Everyone knows. Clemson is a program that took

757
00:38:45,600 --> 00:38:48,239
Speaker 1: down Bama a couple of times, won multiple titles. You

758
00:38:48,360 --> 00:38:51,719
Speaker 1: go research their first four or five years, it was

759
00:38:51,880 --> 00:38:54,920
Speaker 1: not what Clemson ended up being. And I think we

760
00:38:55,040 --> 00:38:57,200
Speaker 1: may be seeing a similar song. Well, maybe some of

761
00:38:57,280 --> 00:38:59,160
Speaker 1: you will. I'm already singing a different song. I think

762
00:38:59,239 --> 00:39:01,399
Speaker 1: maybe people we'll sing a different song about Penn State

763
00:39:01,440 --> 00:39:03,960
Speaker 1: over the coming years than they have so far. I

764
00:39:04,120 --> 00:39:07,000
Speaker 1: just don't want you to be surprised, That's all I'm saying. Now,

765
00:39:08,040 --> 00:39:10,000
Speaker 1: there's another song that I need to sing you tonight,

766
00:39:10,120 --> 00:39:15,440
Speaker 1: figurative in nature, and it emanates from College Station Texas.

767
00:39:16,680 --> 00:39:18,680
Speaker 1: And I know I've already taken two SIPs from the challice,

768
00:39:18,719 --> 00:39:23,040
Speaker 1: but Buddy, I need a swig for this one, cause, Yeah,

769
00:39:24,040 --> 00:39:25,759
Speaker 1: we're gonna have another sound bite for you too in

770
00:39:25,800 --> 00:39:31,439
Speaker 1: a second, Colin, here's your endpoint. One of the most

771
00:39:31,480 --> 00:39:34,800
Speaker 1: important questions in college football this year is what's gonna

772
00:39:34,840 --> 00:39:37,040
Speaker 1: happen with Texas A and M's offense. This is what

773
00:39:37,160 --> 00:39:41,320
Speaker 1: we always call a keystone story because the reverberations based

774
00:39:41,360 --> 00:39:43,680
Speaker 1: on the way this turns out will affect the entire

775
00:39:43,719 --> 00:39:47,480
Speaker 1: sport because if it works out, hiring Bobby Petrino as

776
00:39:47,520 --> 00:39:49,840
Speaker 1: your offensive coordinator, if it works out, A and M

777
00:39:49,920 --> 00:39:52,279
Speaker 1: could contend for the West. And you laugh at me

778
00:39:52,440 --> 00:39:55,040
Speaker 1: right now. No, No, their talent roster's really that good.

779
00:39:55,480 --> 00:39:58,640
Speaker 1: They just screwed it up nine ways from Sunday last year.

780
00:39:58,880 --> 00:40:03,000
Speaker 1: They're that good. But if it goes sideways, it could

781
00:40:03,040 --> 00:40:06,360
Speaker 1: go really sideways. I don't think it's too hard for

782
00:40:06,520 --> 00:40:10,760
Speaker 1: you to envision Bobby Patrina, who's coached football since before

783
00:40:10,880 --> 00:40:13,640
Speaker 1: a lot of us were alive, Jimbo Fisher did, oh

784
00:40:14,440 --> 00:40:17,120
Speaker 1: and things coming to a boiling point after a subpar

785
00:40:17,280 --> 00:40:20,640
Speaker 1: performance in week three, and then I'm over on tech SAgs,

786
00:40:20,719 --> 00:40:25,040
Speaker 1: reading message board rumors and Billy Lucy's reporting every other

787
00:40:25,120 --> 00:40:27,200
Speaker 1: day about how things are just untenable and unworkable in

788
00:40:27,239 --> 00:40:31,080
Speaker 1: the athletic complex. And my point is it will radically

789
00:40:31,160 --> 00:40:32,920
Speaker 1: go one way or the other, I think this year,

790
00:40:33,360 --> 00:40:35,920
Speaker 1: and if it goes poorly, there will be changes out there,

791
00:40:36,320 --> 00:40:38,719
Speaker 1: and changes at any major program tend to have a

792
00:40:38,800 --> 00:40:42,920
Speaker 1: ripple effect throughout the entire sport. They are fourteen points

793
00:40:42,960 --> 00:40:46,680
Speaker 1: per game worse today than they were in twenty eighteen.

794
00:40:47,000 --> 00:40:49,960
Speaker 1: They are ten points per game worse today than they

795
00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:53,919
Speaker 1: were in twenty twenty. So there's been a precipitous drop

796
00:40:54,040 --> 00:40:57,840
Speaker 1: off in offensive production and it's been noticeable. It was

797
00:40:57,880 --> 00:41:02,000
Speaker 1: so noticeable that Jimbo Fisher, to his credit, went and

798
00:41:02,120 --> 00:41:06,440
Speaker 1: hired an offensive coordinator in Bobby Petrino. And a lot

799
00:41:06,520 --> 00:41:10,160
Speaker 1: of us assumed that that means play calling duties are

800
00:41:10,239 --> 00:41:14,160
Speaker 1: being handed over to Bobby Patrino. Now that sounds easy,

801
00:41:14,760 --> 00:41:18,600
Speaker 1: but if you have watched how hard Jimbo Fisher clings

802
00:41:18,920 --> 00:41:21,000
Speaker 1: to those ninety three laminated pieces of paper in his

803
00:41:21,080 --> 00:41:24,799
Speaker 1: hand every Saturday. That's no easy thing. Jimbo Fisher identifies

804
00:41:25,239 --> 00:41:29,360
Speaker 1: as the play caller, as the offensive mind for Texas

805
00:41:29,400 --> 00:41:31,600
Speaker 1: and in football. So if you think that's an easy decision,

806
00:41:31,640 --> 00:41:33,520
Speaker 1: it's not. And I'm not here to make light of it.

807
00:41:34,320 --> 00:41:36,880
Speaker 1: Maybe I'm a little bit, but I do understand the

808
00:41:36,960 --> 00:41:39,839
Speaker 1: ramifications of someone who's been in the game that long

809
00:41:40,560 --> 00:41:43,120
Speaker 1: having what he may very well define as his identity

810
00:41:43,880 --> 00:41:46,800
Speaker 1: stripped from him procedurally, even if it is for the

811
00:41:46,880 --> 00:41:50,960
Speaker 1: betterment of the organization. Which brings me to what we

812
00:41:51,160 --> 00:41:56,120
Speaker 1: heard yesterday. They also opened springball in College Station. And

813
00:41:56,880 --> 00:41:59,000
Speaker 1: I want you to know now if you think I

814
00:41:59,080 --> 00:42:01,360
Speaker 1: sound negative, there's been a lot of negativity about A

815
00:42:01,480 --> 00:42:04,040
Speaker 1: and M. I'm still on board with the idea that

816
00:42:04,160 --> 00:42:06,400
Speaker 1: this thing could work under Jimbo Fisher. I have not

817
00:42:06,560 --> 00:42:08,600
Speaker 1: given up. I have not punted. I think it was

818
00:42:08,640 --> 00:42:12,520
Speaker 1: a very very tactful and timely higher in bringing Patrino

819
00:42:12,600 --> 00:42:14,440
Speaker 1: on board. I think it can work. I think the

820
00:42:14,520 --> 00:42:18,480
Speaker 1: pieces are there. I think all those things. But what

821
00:42:18,680 --> 00:42:21,600
Speaker 1: I don't need to hear is this, and what about

822
00:42:21,640 --> 00:42:24,799
Speaker 1: who makes the play calls? That'd be him or you. Yeah,

823
00:42:24,840 --> 00:42:27,800
Speaker 1: I mean we'll go through that as we go, go

824
00:42:28,120 --> 00:42:31,200
Speaker 1: back to back on him call and play. They have

825
00:42:31,280 --> 00:42:36,440
Speaker 1: no problem with that at all. Josh, you heard him there.

826
00:42:37,120 --> 00:42:41,120
Speaker 1: Don't take it out of context. How dare you? He clarified,

827
00:42:41,880 --> 00:42:45,080
Speaker 1: he said, that's the plan. Well, remember what we've said

828
00:42:45,120 --> 00:42:47,600
Speaker 1: all along here. I didn't like what I heard yesterday

829
00:42:48,080 --> 00:42:50,600
Speaker 1: because what we've said all along here is we won't

830
00:42:50,719 --> 00:42:53,040
Speaker 1: know how this thing works out in spring. And that

831
00:42:53,719 --> 00:42:57,080
Speaker 1: was my opinion, assuming that Jimbo Fisher was going to

832
00:42:57,120 --> 00:43:01,040
Speaker 1: step to the podium and hold Patrino's hand like a boxer.

833
00:43:01,120 --> 00:43:04,000
Speaker 1: That just want to imagine, said our offensive play caller,

834
00:43:04,560 --> 00:43:08,919
Speaker 1: Robert Petrino. Even if he said that, I would tell you, yeah,

835
00:43:08,920 --> 00:43:11,279
Speaker 1: it sounds good. Now, let's see how they handle it

836
00:43:11,360 --> 00:43:13,839
Speaker 1: come fall. So if I've already got Jimbo Fisher having

837
00:43:13,840 --> 00:43:16,959
Speaker 1: a backtrack over his words in spring and in a movie,

838
00:43:17,080 --> 00:43:19,120
Speaker 1: obviously is not crazy about. And I don't think that's

839
00:43:19,120 --> 00:43:22,720
Speaker 1: a shock to anyone. I feel uneasy. I feel uneasy

840
00:43:22,719 --> 00:43:24,360
Speaker 1: because there are many ways we can go in college

841
00:43:24,360 --> 00:43:27,719
Speaker 1: station where we can't go as as whence we came from.

842
00:43:28,239 --> 00:43:30,080
Speaker 1: And I'm not sure that's proper. We're gonna go with

843
00:43:30,160 --> 00:43:32,680
Speaker 1: it anyway. We can't go backwards. We can't do that.

844
00:43:32,920 --> 00:43:35,279
Speaker 1: There's a reason the hire was made, and so this

845
00:43:35,480 --> 00:43:37,960
Speaker 1: could be. And I hope it is much to do

846
00:43:38,040 --> 00:43:41,560
Speaker 1: about nothing, but I have legitimate concerns about this because

847
00:43:41,600 --> 00:43:44,879
Speaker 1: again what I have maintained, and this is always the case,

848
00:43:44,960 --> 00:43:49,680
Speaker 1: is when there is an overhaul procedurally. In other words,

849
00:43:49,760 --> 00:43:52,959
Speaker 1: play calling duties are reassigned in a program. You don't

850
00:43:53,040 --> 00:43:55,680
Speaker 1: find out in spring whether it's for real. You don't

851
00:43:55,680 --> 00:43:57,719
Speaker 1: find out in summer. You don't find out in fall camp.

852
00:43:58,280 --> 00:44:00,719
Speaker 1: You don't fall out. You don't find out until things

853
00:44:00,800 --> 00:44:04,560
Speaker 1: go bad in the fall. So Jesse, could I see

854
00:44:04,640 --> 00:44:06,479
Speaker 1: or Colin, could I see their schedule right quick? Because

855
00:44:06,600 --> 00:44:07,839
Speaker 1: I don't know off the top of my head who

856
00:44:07,880 --> 00:44:11,799
Speaker 1: they play. I want you to picture it's September now,

857
00:44:12,760 --> 00:44:15,080
Speaker 1: and summer workouts are over and fall camps over, and

858
00:44:15,239 --> 00:44:18,120
Speaker 1: we've got A and M on the road. They're at

859
00:44:18,200 --> 00:44:25,440
Speaker 1: Miami week two and they beat Miami last year underachievement offensively,

860
00:44:25,520 --> 00:44:27,279
Speaker 1: but they beat Miami last year. Let's say they go

861
00:44:27,400 --> 00:44:29,919
Speaker 1: down there and they've got nine points on the board

862
00:44:29,960 --> 00:44:34,000
Speaker 1: at the half. That point is when you'll find out

863
00:44:34,400 --> 00:44:39,440
Speaker 1: how serious Jimbo Fisher is about totally relinquishing play calling duties.

864
00:44:39,680 --> 00:44:42,080
Speaker 1: That's the way it was always going to be. That's

865
00:44:42,239 --> 00:44:44,600
Speaker 1: not unique to him. That's the way it always has been.

866
00:44:44,880 --> 00:44:47,600
Speaker 1: When someone who is clinged to a role for so

867
00:44:47,760 --> 00:44:52,239
Speaker 1: long and is the head of the program voluntarily gives

868
00:44:52,280 --> 00:44:54,840
Speaker 1: it up, you don't know if they really gave it up.

869
00:44:55,360 --> 00:44:58,440
Speaker 1: They don't know. There have been times before we're a

870
00:44:58,560 --> 00:45:02,000
Speaker 1: head coach himself has been fully convinced yep, I'm done

871
00:45:02,040 --> 00:45:03,920
Speaker 1: with that, and then all of a sudden, what happens.

872
00:45:04,120 --> 00:45:06,360
Speaker 1: What happens is they're four and three going into the

873
00:45:06,400 --> 00:45:10,399
Speaker 1: bye week, and rumors start to circulate. It turns out

874
00:45:10,440 --> 00:45:13,440
Speaker 1: he's meddling in the offense again. Turns out he's meddling

875
00:45:13,520 --> 00:45:16,640
Speaker 1: in the defense again. This happens on Sundays just as

876
00:45:16,680 --> 00:45:19,080
Speaker 1: well as it happens on Saturdays, and so that was

877
00:45:19,160 --> 00:45:22,920
Speaker 1: already going to be where we are now, I add in,

878
00:45:23,320 --> 00:45:24,960
Speaker 1: we'll see, we'll just work it out as we go. No,

879
00:45:25,120 --> 00:45:28,920
Speaker 1: we won't. We will not, sir. You're being paid a

880
00:45:29,040 --> 00:45:32,440
Speaker 1: lot of money out there to make these decisions, and

881
00:45:32,640 --> 00:45:35,200
Speaker 1: one of the decisions that is it's not a it's

882
00:45:35,239 --> 00:45:38,160
Speaker 1: not an either or you know, it's not a choose

883
00:45:38,239 --> 00:45:43,360
Speaker 1: your page. It is a must is. I hired a

884
00:45:43,440 --> 00:45:45,279
Speaker 1: guy and he's got to call the plays. Now. That's

885
00:45:45,320 --> 00:45:46,960
Speaker 1: got to be the case at Texas A and M

886
00:45:47,000 --> 00:45:48,520
Speaker 1: this year for them to have a shot, because here's

887
00:45:48,520 --> 00:45:51,320
Speaker 1: the other part. They play in the SEC West. So

888
00:45:51,480 --> 00:45:54,560
Speaker 1: you see, even if he does bring Patrino in, and

889
00:45:54,719 --> 00:45:58,319
Speaker 1: even if he does fully relinquished play calling duties, even

890
00:45:58,360 --> 00:46:00,640
Speaker 1: if everything's handled the right way, it's going to be

891
00:46:00,760 --> 00:46:05,239
Speaker 1: a supreme challenge. It's hard enough to win when you're

892
00:46:05,320 --> 00:46:07,799
Speaker 1: doing everything you're the way you're supposed to be doing.

893
00:46:08,040 --> 00:46:10,880
Speaker 1: That's the highest level of competition. That's why it can

894
00:46:10,960 --> 00:46:14,600
Speaker 1: go so poorly when you're off pace. That's why it

895
00:46:14,640 --> 00:46:17,880
Speaker 1: can go so poorly when internally you're a mess, because

896
00:46:17,960 --> 00:46:20,240
Speaker 1: there are too many other programs that have their act together,

897
00:46:21,719 --> 00:46:24,880
Speaker 1: and in the SEC, enough programs are going to have

898
00:46:24,960 --> 00:46:27,759
Speaker 1: their act together to where we can't afford to have

899
00:46:27,880 --> 00:46:32,120
Speaker 1: hesitation here. So here's what I hope. I hope that

900
00:46:32,239 --> 00:46:34,480
Speaker 1: I am reading too much into this, and I hope

901
00:46:34,520 --> 00:46:38,359
Speaker 1: that come fall there's no doubt who's in charge when

902
00:46:38,400 --> 00:46:40,080
Speaker 1: it comes to deciding what we're going to run on

903
00:46:40,200 --> 00:46:42,480
Speaker 1: second and four and third and one, and it's Bobby

904
00:46:42,520 --> 00:46:45,840
Speaker 1: Petrino's animal out there for better or for worse, and

905
00:46:46,040 --> 00:46:47,800
Speaker 1: it turns out better, and Texas A and M's a

906
00:46:47,840 --> 00:46:49,520
Speaker 1: contender because that's what they should be and those fans

907
00:46:49,600 --> 00:46:54,040
Speaker 1: deserve that if it's anything less, though, I don't think

908
00:46:54,080 --> 00:46:56,200
Speaker 1: we'll remember the first press conference he had in the spring,

909
00:46:56,440 --> 00:46:59,560
Speaker 1: but maybe we should keep it in mind. All right,

910
00:46:59,600 --> 00:47:02,719
Speaker 1: since we're talking about moods, let's just continue. I've got

911
00:47:02,960 --> 00:47:08,600
Speaker 1: a mood tracker to bring you that is part cheerful

912
00:47:09,200 --> 00:47:12,200
Speaker 1: and part dreadful. I'm me give you like three seconds

913
00:47:12,200 --> 00:47:16,640
Speaker 1: to guess who I'm talking about. Yep, it's Ohio State,

914
00:47:17,840 --> 00:47:20,319
Speaker 1: the Ohio State mood tracker. What's the fan base thinking

915
00:47:20,360 --> 00:47:23,560
Speaker 1: right now? If we just slice Ohio State open figuratively,

916
00:47:23,880 --> 00:47:26,360
Speaker 1: how are people feeling up there? It's been twelve one

917
00:47:26,440 --> 00:47:29,680
Speaker 1: hundred and seven days since they beat Michigan. Do you

918
00:47:29,800 --> 00:47:33,320
Speaker 1: remember how long, by the way we had that running clock,

919
00:47:33,800 --> 00:47:36,840
Speaker 1: how long it's been since Michigan beat Ohio State? And

920
00:47:36,960 --> 00:47:39,120
Speaker 1: now the shoes on the other foot and A. Granted

921
00:47:39,160 --> 00:47:41,240
Speaker 1: they play once a year, so it's not too difficult

922
00:47:41,280 --> 00:47:43,400
Speaker 1: to see these numbers start to stack up twelve hundred

923
00:47:43,400 --> 00:47:46,880
Speaker 1: and seven days. Gotta do something about that. I get it,

924
00:47:47,200 --> 00:47:48,560
Speaker 1: they get it more than I get it, But I

925
00:47:48,640 --> 00:47:52,160
Speaker 1: get it too. Incredible pressure on this program this year.

926
00:47:52,520 --> 00:47:56,000
Speaker 1: The fan base knows it. There are generations of Ohio

927
00:47:56,080 --> 00:47:59,440
Speaker 1: State fans who don't know this feeling. And by this feeling,

928
00:47:59,560 --> 00:48:03,480
Speaker 1: I mean anything more than a once in a while

929
00:48:03,760 --> 00:48:07,719
Speaker 1: isolated loss to Michigan. They don't know. Consecutive losing, they

930
00:48:07,760 --> 00:48:10,399
Speaker 1: don't know. Potentially looking at back to back to back

931
00:48:10,480 --> 00:48:14,640
Speaker 1: losses to Michigan. Last time they lost consecutively ninety nine

932
00:48:14,680 --> 00:48:17,719
Speaker 1: to two thousand, the y two K era. We've been

933
00:48:17,760 --> 00:48:20,200
Speaker 1: talking about that weirdly a lot lately. That's the last

934
00:48:20,239 --> 00:48:24,719
Speaker 1: time Ohio State fans had to feel this translation. If

935
00:48:24,760 --> 00:48:26,839
Speaker 1: you're in college, if you're in Ohio State right now,

936
00:48:27,480 --> 00:48:31,879
Speaker 1: you don't know, and so what's your only recourse when

937
00:48:31,960 --> 00:48:34,960
Speaker 1: you see your guys, when you see your program lose

938
00:48:35,040 --> 00:48:38,640
Speaker 1: twice to the school up north. It's unacceptable. That's the

939
00:48:38,840 --> 00:48:41,520
Speaker 1: main thing at Ohio State. Which is why the mood

940
00:48:41,560 --> 00:48:44,520
Speaker 1: at Ohio State I have classified as the main thing

941
00:48:44,640 --> 00:48:47,200
Speaker 1: is the only thing. They've got a really good record

942
00:48:47,239 --> 00:48:50,440
Speaker 1: against Rutgers. They got a really good record against Indiana.

943
00:48:50,719 --> 00:48:55,200
Speaker 1: They have done fine against Purdue, mostly fine, but against

944
00:48:55,239 --> 00:48:57,440
Speaker 1: Michigan it hasn't been good enough. Hadn't won the Big

945
00:48:57,480 --> 00:48:59,640
Speaker 1: Ten championship the past couple of years, hadn't meet Michigan

946
00:48:59,680 --> 00:49:01,600
Speaker 1: the past couple of years. They still made the playoff

947
00:49:01,680 --> 00:49:03,960
Speaker 1: last year, but they have not won the national championship

948
00:49:03,960 --> 00:49:06,240
Speaker 1: the past couple of years. Boy, that's an insanely high standard,

949
00:49:06,320 --> 00:49:09,120
Speaker 1: isn't it, to which they would answer it, sure is.

950
00:49:10,040 --> 00:49:13,000
Speaker 1: This is an insanely high level program too, That's what

951
00:49:13,080 --> 00:49:16,279
Speaker 1: they would say in response, and they're right, well, at

952
00:49:16,320 --> 00:49:18,960
Speaker 1: the very least, they're not wrong. And the mood is

953
00:49:19,040 --> 00:49:22,720
Speaker 1: the main thing is the only thing, because they frankly

954
00:49:22,840 --> 00:49:26,279
Speaker 1: don't care about anything. If you don't get to that

955
00:49:26,360 --> 00:49:29,360
Speaker 1: finish line and break the tape at Ohio State, it

956
00:49:29,520 --> 00:49:32,080
Speaker 1: means you're not doing good enough. I don't care if

957
00:49:32,120 --> 00:49:34,560
Speaker 1: you have run up half a hundred on everybody else

958
00:49:34,600 --> 00:49:37,759
Speaker 1: in that conference, because the standard is not to run

959
00:49:37,880 --> 00:49:42,400
Speaker 1: over Indiana and Rutgers all due respect. The standard is

960
00:49:42,480 --> 00:49:45,880
Speaker 1: to own Michigan and to own the Big Ten. They

961
00:49:45,960 --> 00:49:48,640
Speaker 1: don't own Michigan or the Big Ten right now, and

962
00:49:48,800 --> 00:49:51,600
Speaker 1: there's no reason in their eyes why they shouldn't. So

963
00:49:51,719 --> 00:49:53,560
Speaker 1: the main thing is the only thing up there until

964
00:49:53,600 --> 00:49:56,080
Speaker 1: further notice. And that's why it really doesn't matter as

965
00:49:56,120 --> 00:49:58,520
Speaker 1: we enter this season. It doesn't matter that we're showing

966
00:49:58,560 --> 00:50:01,320
Speaker 1: you odds that Ohio State's favored to win the conference

967
00:50:01,520 --> 00:50:03,920
Speaker 1: they were the past two years. It doesn't matter that

968
00:50:04,000 --> 00:50:07,200
Speaker 1: in the futures market today, even in an arbor that

969
00:50:07,360 --> 00:50:09,719
Speaker 1: be favored against Michigan they were the last two years,

970
00:50:09,800 --> 00:50:15,040
Speaker 1: doesn't matter. It matters when they actually strap it up

971
00:50:15,160 --> 00:50:18,919
Speaker 1: and have to play that Thanksgiving week and it's gonna

972
00:50:18,960 --> 00:50:20,719
Speaker 1: come still a ways down the road, but it's gonna come,

973
00:50:20,760 --> 00:50:23,080
Speaker 1: and it's on the road this year. I don't know

974
00:50:23,520 --> 00:50:26,719
Speaker 1: a more pressure pack situation that we will have in

975
00:50:26,800 --> 00:50:29,879
Speaker 1: college football this year than the Ohio State Michigan game,

976
00:50:31,480 --> 00:50:35,759
Speaker 1: because I'm not sure what to expect if Ohio State

977
00:50:35,840 --> 00:50:38,960
Speaker 1: drops that game. And I'm the guy who never does

978
00:50:39,080 --> 00:50:42,400
Speaker 1: hot seat segments. I'm the guy who thinks it's ludicrous

979
00:50:42,880 --> 00:50:45,400
Speaker 1: to call for someone's job if they go eleven and

980
00:50:45,480 --> 00:50:47,759
Speaker 1: one in the regular season, and for the record, I

981
00:50:47,840 --> 00:50:50,960
Speaker 1: think it would be ludicrous this year. But as I've

982
00:50:51,000 --> 00:50:53,600
Speaker 1: always followed up on that statement with I'm not an

983
00:50:53,640 --> 00:50:57,000
Speaker 1: Ohio State fan, It's not my program. I don't have

984
00:50:57,160 --> 00:51:01,120
Speaker 1: ownership of the program. So my opinion does matter as

985
00:51:01,239 --> 00:51:04,640
Speaker 1: much as someone in Xenia, Ohio, or Akron, Ohio, or

986
00:51:04,800 --> 00:51:10,359
Speaker 1: Man's Field, Ohio or Columbus Ohio. There's matter, There's matter more.

987
00:51:10,920 --> 00:51:14,040
Speaker 1: They are maximum investors in their program. And if you

988
00:51:14,160 --> 00:51:17,960
Speaker 1: have clearly defined the standard of your program, and anyone

989
00:51:18,000 --> 00:51:21,040
Speaker 1: who takes that job accepts it, which Ryan Day certainly does,

990
00:51:21,480 --> 00:51:23,919
Speaker 1: then if you don't meet it, not once, not twice,

991
00:51:24,000 --> 00:51:26,880
Speaker 1: but three years in a row, you could see something

992
00:51:26,960 --> 00:51:28,840
Speaker 1: the likes of which you rarely see in this sport.

993
00:51:29,040 --> 00:51:31,680
Speaker 1: Now here's what I don't know. I don't know how

994
00:51:31,719 --> 00:51:32,960
Speaker 1: this year is gonna play out. I don't know if

995
00:51:32,960 --> 00:51:34,759
Speaker 1: Ohio still will be undefeated when they play that game.

996
00:51:34,760 --> 00:51:36,239
Speaker 1: I don't know if Michigan will be unfeated when they

997
00:51:36,239 --> 00:51:37,640
Speaker 1: play that game. I know that that's the way the

998
00:51:37,680 --> 00:51:40,000
Speaker 1: conference feels to me right now. But then again, we

999
00:51:40,120 --> 00:51:43,160
Speaker 1: also did a segment about Penn State like five minutes ago,

1000
00:51:43,239 --> 00:51:44,759
Speaker 1: where I think they're gonna have a lot to say

1001
00:51:45,080 --> 00:51:47,080
Speaker 1: about the outcome of this conference this year as well.

1002
00:51:47,440 --> 00:51:49,640
Speaker 1: But Ohio State sitting there, they're solid at wide receiver

1003
00:51:49,719 --> 00:51:51,879
Speaker 1: this year. They're solid at running back. They did lose

1004
00:51:51,920 --> 00:51:54,880
Speaker 1: some tackles, Kyle mccorr, Devin Brown, who's going to be

1005
00:51:54,920 --> 00:51:58,760
Speaker 1: the starter at quarterback. These are first world problems. Everyone

1006
00:51:58,880 --> 00:52:01,359
Speaker 1: knows that. Ohio State fans know that, so you're never

1007
00:52:01,440 --> 00:52:04,279
Speaker 1: going to sell them that, yeah, we lost this year,

1008
00:52:04,400 --> 00:52:07,279
Speaker 1: but it's a down year for us. It's a rebuilding year.

1009
00:52:07,480 --> 00:52:11,920
Speaker 1: Everyone in the Big Ten, from a pure talent roster standpoint,

1010
00:52:12,400 --> 00:52:16,319
Speaker 1: would take that year's down or that program's down years.

1011
00:52:16,440 --> 00:52:18,759
Speaker 1: Everyone would, So that's never going to be an excuse there.

1012
00:52:18,960 --> 00:52:21,279
Speaker 1: So the Ohio State mood amongst the fan base is

1013
00:52:22,000 --> 00:52:24,719
Speaker 1: main thing is the only thing. You come in there

1014
00:52:24,719 --> 00:52:27,359
Speaker 1: eleven and zero and you come home eleven and one.

1015
00:52:27,880 --> 00:52:30,720
Speaker 1: Not good enough for us. It's a very high standard.

1016
00:52:32,000 --> 00:52:34,080
Speaker 1: That's why it's the top of the food chain. Not

1017
00:52:34,160 --> 00:52:37,400
Speaker 1: a lot of people can survive in that climate. Like

1018
00:52:37,719 --> 00:52:41,560
Speaker 1: at Kentucky basketball right now, they want Cal. Some of

1019
00:52:41,600 --> 00:52:43,759
Speaker 1: them want Cal run out on a rail, and it's like,

1020
00:52:44,000 --> 00:52:46,120
Speaker 1: I know you've got high standards, do you know how

1021
00:52:46,200 --> 00:52:49,439
Speaker 1: few people are qualified and capable of holding that job

1022
00:52:50,040 --> 00:52:53,640
Speaker 1: given what kind of pressure cooker Kentucky basketball is. Ohio

1023
00:52:53,760 --> 00:52:56,480
Speaker 1: State is the same way. Alabama football is the same

1024
00:52:56,560 --> 00:52:58,680
Speaker 1: way Texas football is the same way. There are a

1025
00:52:58,680 --> 00:53:00,799
Speaker 1: few of them out there where you just got an

1026
00:53:00,840 --> 00:53:04,440
Speaker 1: added burden of responsibility because you have you are the

1027
00:53:04,520 --> 00:53:07,400
Speaker 1: head coach of an NFL franchise. It just happens to

1028
00:53:07,480 --> 00:53:13,279
Speaker 1: be in college. That's how broad and scope the magnitude

1029
00:53:13,280 --> 00:53:17,360
Speaker 1: of Ohio State football or Alabama football is. And you

1030
00:53:17,440 --> 00:53:19,600
Speaker 1: gotta beat Michigan. That's the long and short of it,

1031
00:53:22,080 --> 00:53:23,640
Speaker 1: all right. I wanted to talk to you about some

1032
00:53:23,760 --> 00:53:28,200
Speaker 1: individuals for a second. Here I saw today at twenty

1033
00:53:28,239 --> 00:53:31,200
Speaker 1: four seven Sports they released the top two four seven

1034
00:53:31,239 --> 00:53:33,399
Speaker 1: for the twenty twenty four class, or an updated top

1035
00:53:33,440 --> 00:53:35,080
Speaker 1: two four to seven for the twenty twenty four class,

1036
00:53:35,080 --> 00:53:38,240
Speaker 1: Which got me to thinking because one of you asked me, actually,

1037
00:53:39,640 --> 00:53:42,560
Speaker 1: we need to talk about a few impact players. So

1038
00:53:42,760 --> 00:53:45,280
Speaker 1: Colton hit me up and said, checking in from Fort Worth, Texas,

1039
00:53:45,360 --> 00:53:48,160
Speaker 1: in your opinion, who are some top freshmen to watch

1040
00:53:48,239 --> 00:53:51,960
Speaker 1: this season? Now, the way this is worded is not

1041
00:53:52,160 --> 00:53:55,000
Speaker 1: just who are the best true freshmen he wants to

1042
00:53:55,080 --> 00:53:56,680
Speaker 1: know about once to keep an eye on this season.

1043
00:53:56,719 --> 00:53:58,600
Speaker 1: I got some for you. I mean, these are guys

1044
00:53:58,640 --> 00:53:59,799
Speaker 1: who I don't think you're gonna have to wait two

1045
00:53:59,840 --> 00:54:02,879
Speaker 1: or thre years to know about Cormione McClain leads this list.

1046
00:54:03,200 --> 00:54:05,160
Speaker 1: And that's a guy whose recruitment was a circus. It

1047
00:54:05,239 --> 00:54:07,520
Speaker 1: was all over the place. But that's in the past.

1048
00:54:07,600 --> 00:54:09,640
Speaker 1: Now he's just a college football player now and he's

1049
00:54:09,680 --> 00:54:13,960
Speaker 1: at Colorado and he was the fourth highest rated recruit

1050
00:54:14,000 --> 00:54:17,000
Speaker 1: they've ever signed in program history. There, he will almost

1051
00:54:17,160 --> 00:54:21,000
Speaker 1: certainly start at corner day one for them, probably opposite

1052
00:54:21,040 --> 00:54:24,480
Speaker 1: Travis Hunter. Their defense at Colorado was the worst in

1053
00:54:24,680 --> 00:54:26,920
Speaker 1: FBS last year. They gave up forty four and a

1054
00:54:26,960 --> 00:54:30,120
Speaker 1: half points per game. That was like three points worse

1055
00:54:30,200 --> 00:54:33,759
Speaker 1: per game than whoever was next to last. They are

1056
00:54:33,880 --> 00:54:37,040
Speaker 1: overhauling their entire roster. Jesse pulled me up a depth

1057
00:54:37,160 --> 00:54:41,400
Speaker 1: chart today for Colorado and all the players that were

1058
00:54:41,440 --> 00:54:45,320
Speaker 1: outlined in gold were true freshmen and it looked like

1059
00:54:45,400 --> 00:54:49,239
Speaker 1: El Dorado. It was wild. So yeah, CORMIONI McLain is

1060
00:54:49,239 --> 00:54:51,000
Speaker 1: gonna be on the field. So one way or the other,

1061
00:54:51,239 --> 00:54:53,600
Speaker 1: that kid'll be an impact freshman this year. I'll tell

1062
00:54:53,600 --> 00:54:56,000
Speaker 1: you another one in the secondary who I don't care

1063
00:54:56,040 --> 00:54:57,799
Speaker 1: if he's going to a loaded program, will be an

1064
00:54:57,800 --> 00:55:02,560
Speaker 1: impact freshman. Caleb Downs at Alabama. I fully expect to

1065
00:55:02,600 --> 00:55:05,880
Speaker 1: be an impact freshman. Caleb Downs was the number one

1066
00:55:05,920 --> 00:55:09,719
Speaker 1: safety in the country, number eight overall player. I don't

1067
00:55:09,800 --> 00:55:13,360
Speaker 1: ever hear people compare high school recruits to Minkea Fitzpatrick

1068
00:55:13,400 --> 00:55:16,800
Speaker 1: at Alabama. That's almost like praise that is too lofty

1069
00:55:16,880 --> 00:55:19,120
Speaker 1: to even be uttered around there. Like a lot of

1070
00:55:19,160 --> 00:55:24,239
Speaker 1: those folks think MIKEA. Fitzpatrick's the best prospect, just pure prospect,

1071
00:55:24,440 --> 00:55:28,600
Speaker 1: regardless of position they ever got at Alabama. They're comparing

1072
00:55:28,680 --> 00:55:30,880
Speaker 1: Caleb Downs to Mekea Fitzpatrick is the reason I mentioned that,

1073
00:55:31,560 --> 00:55:35,920
Speaker 1: and I don't disagree. He is a monster, and I

1074
00:55:36,040 --> 00:55:38,719
Speaker 1: think that, especially when you look at him being Max

1075
00:55:38,800 --> 00:55:41,000
Speaker 1: Preps high School Player of the Year and all that.

1076
00:55:41,880 --> 00:55:46,040
Speaker 1: You've also got a depth chart situation that's pretty favorable

1077
00:55:46,120 --> 00:55:48,239
Speaker 1: for him to come in there and grab some playing time.

1078
00:55:48,280 --> 00:55:50,040
Speaker 1: I think Christian's story is going to be a big

1079
00:55:50,160 --> 00:55:52,800
Speaker 1: time player for them this year out of Lynette Alabama,

1080
00:55:52,880 --> 00:55:56,000
Speaker 1: by the way, but I think Caleb Downs could be

1081
00:55:56,239 --> 00:55:58,360
Speaker 1: a big time player for them too. We saw Malachi

1082
00:55:58,440 --> 00:56:00,880
Speaker 1: Starks getting on the field as a true freshman for Georgia.

1083
00:56:01,000 --> 00:56:03,920
Speaker 1: I think Caleb Downs will be the SEC West's version

1084
00:56:03,960 --> 00:56:06,879
Speaker 1: of that this year. Branch is gone. Hellm's is gone.

1085
00:56:06,960 --> 00:56:10,520
Speaker 1: And frankly, even if they were there, they were gonna

1086
00:56:10,560 --> 00:56:13,840
Speaker 1: have to knife fight to hold that kid off the

1087
00:56:14,360 --> 00:56:18,440
Speaker 1: number one rotation in practice. He's just that good, really good,

1088
00:56:18,600 --> 00:56:21,000
Speaker 1: so you avoid injury. I think that five star there

1089
00:56:21,080 --> 00:56:24,120
Speaker 1: from Mill Creek in Georgia, I think he's gonna be

1090
00:56:24,200 --> 00:56:27,000
Speaker 1: a big time player for Alabama this year. Francis Malgoa,

1091
00:56:28,239 --> 00:56:32,000
Speaker 1: that's one of those five star offensive tackles Miami signed.

1092
00:56:32,840 --> 00:56:34,800
Speaker 1: He was the number two offensive tackle in the country.

1093
00:56:35,239 --> 00:56:37,840
Speaker 1: He was the number six overall player in the country.

1094
00:56:38,360 --> 00:56:41,320
Speaker 1: I have never been more sure that a true freshman

1095
00:56:41,400 --> 00:56:43,759
Speaker 1: is going to play, even at offensive tackle. I've never

1096
00:56:43,840 --> 00:56:46,120
Speaker 1: been more sure in my life that a true freshman

1097
00:56:46,200 --> 00:56:48,520
Speaker 1: is gonna play. I remember when aj Green and Julio

1098
00:56:48,640 --> 00:56:51,040
Speaker 1: Jones came in and everyone knew, yep, those guys are

1099
00:56:51,040 --> 00:56:53,240
Speaker 1: going to play as freshman. Well, that was a receiver.

1100
00:56:53,800 --> 00:56:57,000
Speaker 1: This is an offensive tackle. But because Miami is so

1101
00:56:57,200 --> 00:56:59,680
Speaker 1: void of quality players at that position, and because he's

1102
00:56:59,719 --> 00:57:02,480
Speaker 1: so good at that position, six six, three point thirty,

1103
00:57:02,719 --> 00:57:05,319
Speaker 1: he will play, probably start at right tackle. In fact,

1104
00:57:05,560 --> 00:57:09,080
Speaker 1: early returns from Miami spring practices he's already running with

1105
00:57:09,160 --> 00:57:12,920
Speaker 1: the ones in spring at right tackle. So you've got

1106
00:57:12,960 --> 00:57:15,680
Speaker 1: a former offensive line coach who is the head coach there.

1107
00:57:15,800 --> 00:57:18,400
Speaker 1: Mario played offensive line there, he was an offensive line coach.

1108
00:57:18,840 --> 00:57:21,840
Speaker 1: And what I've noticed is when he has asked he's

1109
00:57:21,880 --> 00:57:27,000
Speaker 1: been asked about that guy, he smiles, which can mean

1110
00:57:27,080 --> 00:57:29,360
Speaker 1: different things for different coaches. But when you got a

1111
00:57:29,480 --> 00:57:32,080
Speaker 1: former guy who's coached and played your own position, who

1112
00:57:32,120 --> 00:57:34,640
Speaker 1: smiles when he talks about you before you've ever played

1113
00:57:34,680 --> 00:57:37,320
Speaker 1: down for him, it usually means they're pretty darn sure

1114
00:57:37,360 --> 00:57:39,360
Speaker 1: in what they have in you. And so Francis maw

1115
00:57:39,400 --> 00:57:41,480
Speaker 1: would go at very little surprise. I would be shocked

1116
00:57:41,680 --> 00:57:45,120
Speaker 1: if he's not starting for Miami at right tackle this year.

1117
00:57:45,320 --> 00:57:47,720
Speaker 1: John te Cook is a name that we've talked about

1118
00:57:47,760 --> 00:57:50,360
Speaker 1: a lot recently when we've referred to that Texas wide

1119
00:57:50,400 --> 00:57:54,520
Speaker 1: receiver room and it's loaded, and we've got we've got

1120
00:57:54,640 --> 00:57:56,160
Speaker 1: the you know, the Letia Carters of the world that

1121
00:57:56,200 --> 00:57:59,480
Speaker 1: they're disagreeing with me, but I maintain my stance it's loaded.

1122
00:58:00,800 --> 00:58:04,320
Speaker 1: I gotta quit pronouncing Worthy's name wrong. I go really

1123
00:58:04,400 --> 00:58:07,680
Speaker 1: really hard on the X and it's just Xavier. It's

1124
00:58:07,720 --> 00:58:11,400
Speaker 1: not x Xavier, but I had a kid Xavier Hall

1125
00:58:11,480 --> 00:58:13,720
Speaker 1: in fourth grade who wanted the hard X on his name,

1126
00:58:14,240 --> 00:58:17,280
Speaker 1: and I therefore have cursed every other Xavier that I've

1127
00:58:17,480 --> 00:58:20,320
Speaker 1: come across since then because of him. Hope Xavier is

1128
00:58:20,360 --> 00:58:23,920
Speaker 1: doing well, but Xavier worthy, Jordan Whittington, Ady Mitchell transferred

1129
00:58:23,920 --> 00:58:29,240
Speaker 1: from Georgia, Isaiah Nayor from Wyoming second year, and John

1130
00:58:29,280 --> 00:58:32,000
Speaker 1: Tay Cook. Everyone's just kind of saying, oh, John t Cook,

1131
00:58:32,120 --> 00:58:35,080
Speaker 1: red shirt him. Well, we'll see him next year. Well

1132
00:58:35,160 --> 00:58:37,800
Speaker 1: you will, but I think you'll see him this year too. Now,

1133
00:58:37,880 --> 00:58:41,320
Speaker 1: what we probably won't have here is we probably will

1134
00:58:41,400 --> 00:58:45,240
Speaker 1: not have the necessity to play him right out of

1135
00:58:45,280 --> 00:58:48,160
Speaker 1: the gate every other down. What you probably will have

1136
00:58:48,560 --> 00:58:50,840
Speaker 1: with the next player I'm gonna mention too is you'll

1137
00:58:50,840 --> 00:58:53,560
Speaker 1: probably have a flash player. Not a volume player this year,

1138
00:58:53,720 --> 00:58:57,520
Speaker 1: but a flash player. He is, I think, a guy

1139
00:58:57,560 --> 00:58:59,320
Speaker 1: who can get on the field regardless I know they're

1140
00:58:59,320 --> 00:59:01,520
Speaker 1: pretty loaded up, and at the very worst, he provides

1141
00:59:01,600 --> 00:59:04,760
Speaker 1: quality depth. And this is also man, it's the kind

1142
00:59:04,800 --> 00:59:07,000
Speaker 1: of guy Sark thrives with. Saw him do it with

1143
00:59:07,120 --> 00:59:09,560
Speaker 1: kids at Alabama. John Tay Cook is a kid who

1144
00:59:09,560 --> 00:59:12,200
Speaker 1: would fit in really well with that group that sarcad

1145
00:59:12,240 --> 00:59:15,800
Speaker 1: at Alabama. Zachariah Branch. Since we're talking about receivers here,

1146
00:59:16,080 --> 00:59:19,160
Speaker 1: the number one overall receiver in the class, seventh overall

1147
00:59:19,200 --> 00:59:21,960
Speaker 1: rated player in the class, one of the like five

1148
00:59:22,040 --> 00:59:24,120
Speaker 1: or ten highest rated recruits US he's ever signed. He's

1149
00:59:24,160 --> 00:59:26,280
Speaker 1: five to ten. He's won seventy Is he won seventy

1150
00:59:26,360 --> 00:59:30,720
Speaker 1: or one ninety Jesse, he's one seventies fast. That's what

1151
00:59:30,760 --> 00:59:32,960
Speaker 1: I want you to know. Even with as loaded as

1152
00:59:33,000 --> 00:59:36,160
Speaker 1: their receiver room is, they may not have a kid faster,

1153
00:59:36,400 --> 00:59:38,760
Speaker 1: may not. I haven't clocked it. And frankly, if you've

1154
00:59:38,800 --> 00:59:41,280
Speaker 1: seen us he's practice field today. No one's running a

1155
00:59:41,320 --> 00:59:44,200
Speaker 1: forty out there anytime soon. His brother's a dB at

1156
00:59:44,280 --> 00:59:49,120
Speaker 1: USC already out of this cycle. Cook at Texas and

1157
00:59:49,240 --> 00:59:52,800
Speaker 1: then Branch at USC. Those are two guys, because of

1158
00:59:52,840 --> 00:59:55,880
Speaker 1: their skill set, who can come into pretty established receiver

1159
00:59:56,040 --> 00:59:58,560
Speaker 1: rooms and carve out a role for themselves. I don't

1160
00:59:58,600 --> 01:00:00,439
Speaker 1: think he's going to be a freshman All America, cause

1161
01:00:00,800 --> 01:00:03,200
Speaker 1: what he may be, I don't see him having that

1162
01:00:03,520 --> 01:00:06,560
Speaker 1: volume of catches and yards. I don't think he's a

1163
01:00:06,600 --> 01:00:09,040
Speaker 1: thousand yard guy. What I think he'll be is someone

1164
01:00:09,080 --> 01:00:12,280
Speaker 1: who racks up like four hundred and fifty yards or

1165
01:00:12,320 --> 01:00:14,680
Speaker 1: five hundred yards or six hundred yards, and there are

1166
01:00:15,040 --> 01:00:17,840
Speaker 1: three or four moments during the season where you go

1167
01:00:17,960 --> 01:00:20,080
Speaker 1: back and say, wow, like what if we didn't have

1168
01:00:20,120 --> 01:00:21,560
Speaker 1: Johntay Cook on that third down? What if it didn't

1169
01:00:21,560 --> 01:00:24,479
Speaker 1: have Zachariah Branch on that second down? Remember the second quarter?

1170
01:00:24,760 --> 01:00:26,640
Speaker 1: That was a game changer. That's the kind of player

1171
01:00:26,680 --> 01:00:28,720
Speaker 1: he can be because he won't get a lion sure

1172
01:00:28,720 --> 01:00:31,120
Speaker 1: of the attention. Neither one of them will when they're

1173
01:00:31,120 --> 01:00:33,240
Speaker 1: on the field because they're true freshmen and they are

1174
01:00:33,320 --> 01:00:36,280
Speaker 1: surrounded by a really good supporting cast, so loaded receiver

1175
01:00:36,440 --> 01:00:40,000
Speaker 1: rooms both places. But they could still shine. How about that?

1176
01:00:40,480 --> 01:00:43,880
Speaker 1: How about on this Tuesday night when we don't even

1177
01:00:43,920 --> 01:00:46,640
Speaker 1: normally do shows this time of year, just a solid

1178
01:00:46,720 --> 01:00:51,200
Speaker 1: hour of imagine people like us left alone to our

1179
01:00:51,200 --> 01:00:54,800
Speaker 1: own devices to talk about college football together. I think

1180
01:00:54,840 --> 01:00:57,600
Speaker 1: it could work. I think the format could work all year. Remember,

1181
01:00:57,720 --> 01:01:00,360
Speaker 1: if you're watching live, which we appreciate, I mean, it's

1182
01:01:00,360 --> 01:01:02,720
Speaker 1: an atypical night and we still have twelve hundred watching

1183
01:01:02,800 --> 01:01:06,720
Speaker 1: live right now thumbs up, click the thumbs up, about

1184
01:01:06,760 --> 01:01:09,000
Speaker 1: about a third of you have right now. And I

1185
01:01:09,040 --> 01:01:11,000
Speaker 1: would just like it to be hired selfishly. I would

1186
01:01:11,040 --> 01:01:15,040
Speaker 1: like it to be hired until next time. Good producer

1187
01:01:15,120 --> 01:01:18,320
Speaker 1: Jess for director column. We are not live Thursday night,

1188
01:01:18,560 --> 01:01:20,800
Speaker 1: but I will have you a late Kick extra podcast

1189
01:01:20,920 --> 01:01:24,040
Speaker 1: in the feed by Thursday afternoon. Next live show is

1190
01:01:24,080 --> 01:01:26,760
Speaker 1: Sunday night. There you go. Until then for all of

1191
01:01:26,840 --> 01:01:28,240
Speaker 1: us here, I'm Josh pay take care. I have the

1192
01:01:28,240 --> 01:01:29,800
Speaker 1: great rest of your night. Than God bless