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Speaker 1: bit later than usual, but live nonetheless, Thanks so much

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Speaker 1: for being with us. Hit Is Sunday night, May twenty third,

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Speaker 1: the Yearborn Lord twenty twenty one. Hey, I can guarantee

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Speaker 1: you this, at least we're jam packed. Don't always know

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Speaker 1: I'm told that these are supposed to be the slowest

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Speaker 1: We may have like three hour long shows in the fall,

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Speaker 1: but we are, I mean, I'm looking at it right now,

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Speaker 1: literally jam packed. Tonight we're doing part two of our

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Speaker 1: Late Kick schedule draft. I was gonna put this off

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Speaker 1: So we're gonna do part two weeks seven through thirteen,

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Speaker 1: And that's where we're just picking one place to go

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Speaker 1: I've already been swayed on one of the games that

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Speaker 1: we picked for the first half of the season. I'm

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Speaker 1: going to give you some some of not all of them,

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Speaker 1: but the biggest questions for each Power five conference. We're

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Speaker 1: kind of going to start that list tonight. We certainly

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Speaker 1: won't end it. JT. Daniels is out in California and

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Speaker 1: he took like half of Georgia with him, all the

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Speaker 1: going to discuss that within the broader context of what

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Speaker 1: the Georgia offense this year? Hey, can they win a

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Speaker 1: national championship? That's really what we want to know. Also,

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Speaker 1: Chris Hummer put out like a million impact freshmen to watch,

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Speaker 1: and it is time around this time of year preview

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Speaker 1: on newsstands. It's got that new magazine smell to it

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Speaker 1: smells like college football to me and perhaps some delusion,

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Speaker 1: but nevertheless, college football season on deck. Impact freshmen are

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Speaker 1: is important a singular topic this time of year as

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Speaker 1: because freshmen have never been more ready just by and large,

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Speaker 1: they're case by cases, obviously, but by and large, your

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Speaker 1: They're just coming in on average more ready to play,

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Speaker 1: and so they will impact division and conference races this year.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to give you several names tonight before we

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Speaker 1: go off the air. To pay attention to three questions.

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Speaker 1: I get these every week. Let me quickly run down

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Speaker 1: the list. Merchandise, When is it coming? When I know

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Speaker 1: you'll know. Number two paid state mascot name? Did you

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Speaker 1: miss it? Did we name it? And you just missed that? No?

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Speaker 1: Got the name. Some of you who may have been

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Speaker 1: in one of the Show Owners Association meetings, you may

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Speaker 1: have caught me slip up and let that name out.

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Speaker 1: I will let you know when it's time to let

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Speaker 1: you know, so don't worry. We got a few weeks

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Speaker 1: for that, but that's coming. You have not missed anything.

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Speaker 1: And number three, and this is broad, but you guys,

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Speaker 1: Don't need that. What we do need is for you

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Speaker 1: Those things help us. And as I've told you the

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Speaker 1: past couple of weeks, more so than really anything else,

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Speaker 1: what helps us is sharing our content and really just

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Speaker 1: share it if you do. That's it. That's all you

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Speaker 1: I just hope that you were watching the PGA Championship

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Speaker 1: If you're watching this show, you're probably a hardcore college

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Speaker 1: Or how about this, how about we make the flight

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Speaker 1: it's final. How about Week eight? LSU is at Ole Miss.

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Speaker 1: We got several big questions in all the Power five conferences.

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Speaker 1: I want to pause. You know, I wasn't gonna say this,

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Speaker 1: but I'm gonna say it very nicely. I had someone

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Speaker 1: that's as specific as I'd like to get hope I

432
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Speaker 1: haven't given an identity away, that came into comments the

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Speaker 1: other day and said, hey, you're misleading the audience when

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Speaker 1: you say that you're doing every conference, but you don't

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Speaker 1: do the G fives. So let me just state this

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Speaker 1: clearly for the future record, unless otherwise noted, we will

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Speaker 1: not be talking about G five conferences on the show

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Speaker 1: in preview format. You have told me not to do it.

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Speaker 1: You guys have told me so. If there was this

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Speaker 1: huge rush of demand for sun Belt content, would be

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Speaker 1: pumping it out. I format the show for you, not

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Speaker 1: for myself. I could talk about ull all night. I

443
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Speaker 1: wouldn't have a problem with that. You guys have told

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Speaker 1: me at about a twenty to one click through ratio.

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Speaker 1: You care about the Power five content. Therefore, that's why

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Speaker 1: we go down these roads. So here we go. Biggest

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Speaker 1: questions in all the Power five conferences. This is the

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Speaker 1: beginning of this list. It's certainly not going to be

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Speaker 1: a conclusive list. Let's start in the acc and you

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Speaker 1: can answer these right along with me, and some of

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Speaker 1: you are going to answer these pretty quick. Is there

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Speaker 1: anyone who's ready to jump up and bite Clemson could

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Speaker 1: be North Carolina, could be Surprisingly, Virginia Tech, maybe Virginia,

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Speaker 1: Florida State, Miami. But I'm not talking collectively. You don't

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Speaker 1: get to field an all star team. You don't get

456
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Speaker 1: to take field Dr Covid from Boston College. You don't

457
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Speaker 1: get to take the linebacker corp from here and the

458
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Speaker 1: wide receiver corp from there. It would be fascinating and

459
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Speaker 1: may still end up the same way, sadly, But I

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Speaker 1: want to know, is there one team out there now?

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Speaker 1: You would obviously lean North Carolina in the preseason, I

462
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Speaker 1: would too, as giving one unit the best chance at

463
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Speaker 1: maybe be thrown in Clemson. I think it's been six

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Speaker 1: years in a row now for the Tigers. But I

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Speaker 1: just want to know you know right now, there is

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Speaker 1: there's common sense, and then there's reality. So common sense

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Speaker 1: would tell you if you've got a conference where thirty

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Speaker 1: I think the numbers, thirteen of fourteen starting quarterbacks are

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Speaker 1: returning and the one that's not as Clemson, which will

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Speaker 1: preseason be I would assume the all acc quarterback in

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Speaker 1: dj uyakal Le. So the other one every single program,

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Speaker 1: I mean that's one point the other points of every

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Speaker 1: single program it's got a returning quarterback. So what that

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Speaker 1: would indicate to you. Also, you've been beat on for

475
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Speaker 1: like over half a decade by the same team, that

476
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Speaker 1: would indicate to you it's probably time. That's what common

477
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Speaker 1: sense would tell you. But then you zoom in and

478
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Speaker 1: you try and find where it's actually going to happen.

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Speaker 1: It's hard. Now North Carolina doesn't play Clemson in the

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Speaker 1: regular season, so if that were to happen, it wouldn't

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Speaker 1: happen until the end of the year. But I really

482
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Speaker 1: wonder if you've got an answer better than North Carolina,

483
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Speaker 1: is it going to be Miami. It's Florida's taking to

484
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Speaker 1: shock people this year. It's crazier things have happened, But

485
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Speaker 1: you're going to be dealing from a roster deficit if

486
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Speaker 1: you do it, and you're not going to be doing

487
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Speaker 1: it in a year like maybe twenty seventeen where Kelly

488
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Speaker 1: Bryant was the quarterback there. They still made it to

489
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Speaker 1: the playoff. But that's a more vulnerable Clemson team. You

490
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Speaker 1: can talk all you want to about the inexperience of

491
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Speaker 1: dj Uyanglala. I'll tell you what. I'll take my chances

492
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Speaker 1: betting on him. If you want to take your chances

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Speaker 1: betting with me against him, I'd be happy to play

494
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Speaker 1: that role. What about in the SEC, I want to

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Speaker 1: talk about two of them, Texas A and M and Georgia.

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Speaker 1: I call it the springboard model. Basically, it's where you've

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Speaker 1: already got a really good program, you already got a

498
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Speaker 1: really good team, They are accomplished, you're sending guys to

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Speaker 1: the league, and so in a lot of ways, a

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Speaker 1: fan of maybe an inferior program would look at you

501
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Speaker 1: as one of the standards, one of the models with

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Speaker 1: which their program would hopefully follow. But that doesn't mean

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Speaker 1: that's how they feel in College Station or in Athens. Now,

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Speaker 1: these are not mirror image programs, and in fact, I

505
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Speaker 1: would argue they're at different stages, but yet same question remains.

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Speaker 1: At Texas A and M. You may look at him

507
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Speaker 1: and say, good for you, guys, you almost made the

508
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Speaker 1: playoff last year. Well, they just said we didn't make

509
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Speaker 1: the playoff, and you may look at him and say,

510
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Speaker 1: good job. Guys. You are like a top six, top

511
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Speaker 1: seven caliber program right now, and they're looking at you

512
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Speaker 1: and saying, you know who else is over here? You

513
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Speaker 1: see them? You see them over there? Yeah, we'd look

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Speaker 1: into the west. I guess camera camera east? Is that

515
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Speaker 1: camera east, Stage east or stage West. Well, there's this

516
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Speaker 1: crimson gorilla five hundred pound that sits in the corner

517
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Speaker 1: of our room constantly, and its name is Alabama. So

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Speaker 1: it doesn't really matter if we're the seventh best team

519
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Speaker 1: in the country if they're number one. I mean, all

520
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Speaker 1: due respect, we're paying our head coach this much money,

521
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Speaker 1: and we're recruiting this many good players, and our stadium

522
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Speaker 1: seats this many people, and our facilities are this nice.

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Speaker 1: There is no hamstring that's pulled around here in terms

524
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Speaker 1: of resource, and so we expect to be able to

525
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Speaker 1: compete and it's nice. It's a good story for number seven.

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Speaker 1: We want to be higher than that number seven may

527
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Speaker 1: not be good enough. So how do you springboard? Is

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Speaker 1: the question? The answer is offense. It's pretty simple. Defensively,

529
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Speaker 1: they've gotten where they need to be, They've recruited, they've developed,

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Speaker 1: and they got the right staff in place. They've been

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Speaker 1: able to keep that staff around. It's offense. I mean,

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Speaker 1: that's it. And that's why there's so much focus being

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Speaker 1: paid to guys like Haines King because that's really the

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Speaker 1: only way you can springboard at Georgia. What's the only

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Speaker 1: way they can really springboard there? What else can they

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Speaker 1: accomplish when the SEC East They've done it. Win the

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Speaker 1: SEC Championship, they've done it, win a playoff game, they've

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Speaker 1: done it. The only thing left, the only box left

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Speaker 1: to check is national championship. I want you to imagine

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Speaker 1: walking in the shoes of Kirby Smart. I'm not asking

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Speaker 1: you to feel sorry for him, nor would you even

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Speaker 1: if I did. But imagine entering every year, especially knowing

543
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Speaker 1: the history of the program, hadn't won a championship in

544
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Speaker 1: several generations, and yet knowing full well when you kick

545
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Speaker 1: it off week one in September, if this doesn't end

546
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Speaker 1: in a national championship, win. There's going to be a

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Speaker 1: large chunk of that little pie chart of my fan base.

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Speaker 1: It's going to be upset with me. How do you springboard?

549
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Speaker 1: How do you clear that final hurdle? It's quarterback, it's offense.

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Speaker 1: It's not hard to figure out. It's maybe a lot

551
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Speaker 1: harder to execute. It's not hard to figure out. In

552
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Speaker 1: the Big Ten, we have to ask the question about

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Speaker 1: Jim Harbaugh. We've been asking him about Scott Frost. It's

554
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Speaker 1: now time to ask it. We're not one year in anymore.

555
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Speaker 1: We're several years in. Now. We got to ask are

556
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Speaker 1: the dowters going to vanish or are they going to

557
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Speaker 1: be validated? Cause the dowters are there and I don't

558
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Speaker 1: really even need to recap what they say about Nebraska

559
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Speaker 1: or what they say about Michigan, But twenty twenty sure

560
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Speaker 1: will reveal a lot in this conference. You could say

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Speaker 1: that about every team. Well. I think one of the

562
00:26:03,960 --> 00:26:08,320
Speaker 1: more overused phrases in college football preview magazine season is

563
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Speaker 1: this is an important year for so and so. This

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Speaker 1: is a pivotal year. I got a breaking news. We

565
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Speaker 1: should have had a graphic. I got breaking news for everyone.

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Speaker 1: It's always an important year. No one ever does this

567
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Speaker 1: pro bono. No one ever goes to war on Saturday

568
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Speaker 1: for charity. It's an important year for everyone. It's a

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Speaker 1: pivotal year for everyone. Now, if we want to categorize it,

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Speaker 1: some more than others, Scott Frost feels a little bit

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Speaker 1: differently right now than let's say Nick Saban does. Yes,

572
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Speaker 1: we can grant ourselves that what did the doubters say?

573
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Speaker 1: The doubters say, Scott Frost, maybe he wasn't the right

574
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Speaker 1: guy for the job. I think that's pretty short sighted him.

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Speaker 1: I think the scarier version of the doubter is the

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Speaker 1: one who says, well, Scott Frost proved he can coach

577
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Speaker 1: and build a program. It's not like we haven't seen

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Speaker 1: him do it. We didn't pull him up from being

579
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Speaker 1: a coordinator at the high school level and just PLoP

580
00:26:57,320 --> 00:27:00,359
Speaker 1: him in the headman's chair at Nebraska. But if the

581
00:27:00,400 --> 00:27:03,640
Speaker 1: reality here is no one's capable of doing it anymore,

582
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Speaker 1: I refuse to believe that. By the way, I think,

583
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Speaker 1: maybe it may take longer to do it in Nebraska.

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Speaker 1: But it doesn't really matter what I think, because if

585
00:27:11,760 --> 00:27:14,359
Speaker 1: what I think is not attached to reality, I could

586
00:27:14,359 --> 00:27:17,760
Speaker 1: just be wrong. Has happened before, probably will happen again.

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00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:21,720
Speaker 1: The biggest fear in Lincoln, Nebraska and surrounding areas, of course,

588
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Speaker 1: is what if the doubters are right? What if they're

589
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Speaker 1: validated this year? So fingers crossed for every fan of

590
00:27:28,119 --> 00:27:31,639
Speaker 1: college football. Essentially the v word that happens there is vanish,

591
00:27:31,760 --> 00:27:35,040
Speaker 1: the doubter's vanish. They're not validated now at Michigan. This

592
00:27:35,160 --> 00:27:37,760
Speaker 1: has obviously been several more years in the making and

593
00:27:37,800 --> 00:27:40,479
Speaker 1: it's a lot higher profile as story. But are the

594
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Speaker 1: doubters right there? The doubters around Jim Harbaugh. Again, not

595
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Speaker 1: to rehash things that we talked about a thousand times,

596
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Speaker 1: but it's just we thought we had one thing when

597
00:27:49,640 --> 00:27:53,720
Speaker 1: we hired him. The game was pivoting kind of simultaneous

598
00:27:53,760 --> 00:27:57,120
Speaker 1: to us hiring him. And you look at Michigan's record

599
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Speaker 1: and their success relatively speaking under Jim Harbaugh. Twenty fifteen

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00:28:01,920 --> 00:28:05,040
Speaker 1: ten wins, twenty sixteen ten wins. I remember sitting in

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Speaker 1: the press box at Bryant Denny Stadium watching what I

602
00:28:08,080 --> 00:28:11,280
Speaker 1: thought was about to be a seminal moment, a win

603
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Speaker 1: for Michigan over Ohio State. You guys remember how that

604
00:28:14,359 --> 00:28:17,240
Speaker 1: game ended. They're still arguing about it, but things were

605
00:28:17,280 --> 00:28:19,160
Speaker 1: never the same after that. I got a Michigan buddy

606
00:28:19,160 --> 00:28:22,120
Speaker 1: back home that would swear to you the entire tide

607
00:28:22,240 --> 00:28:25,200
Speaker 1: of that rivalry and therefore the future trajectory of the

608
00:28:25,280 --> 00:28:29,959
Speaker 1: Michigan program forever changed for the worse that day. And

609
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Speaker 1: if you look at the evidence on your screen right now,

610
00:28:32,080 --> 00:28:35,800
Speaker 1: if you're watching after that, it kind of bears it out. Now.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what to make of twenty twenty. It

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Speaker 1: would be hypocritical for me to make excuses conveniently for

613
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Speaker 1: the programs that I believe in, like Penn State or

614
00:28:44,920 --> 00:28:49,640
Speaker 1: even LSU, and not a for Jim Harbaugh. The same excuses.

615
00:28:49,680 --> 00:28:52,680
Speaker 1: That's really what they are. We all understand that. So

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Speaker 1: I'm willing to push aside twenty twenty. I'm willing to

617
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Speaker 1: do that. Jim Harbaugh has not been a disaster there.

618
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Speaker 1: It's all about standard and expect The fact of the

619
00:29:01,240 --> 00:29:03,800
Speaker 1: matter is, if we were to have taken Michigan's results

620
00:29:04,120 --> 00:29:06,680
Speaker 1: and we put them at Purdue, they'd be thrilled. This

621
00:29:06,720 --> 00:29:09,400
Speaker 1: is not Purdue, this is Michigan. And so the doubters

622
00:29:09,400 --> 00:29:13,920
Speaker 1: say he's good, and that's where it ends. By today's standards.

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Speaker 1: He is a good head coach, not elite, not top caliber,

624
00:29:19,720 --> 00:29:22,360
Speaker 1: certainly not good enough to overtake Ohio State get us

625
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Speaker 1: in the playoff mix. So are they going to vanish

626
00:29:25,240 --> 00:29:27,560
Speaker 1: those doubters? Are they going to be validated in the

627
00:29:27,560 --> 00:29:30,440
Speaker 1: Big Twelve? It's really simple for me, is Oklahoma's defense

628
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Speaker 1: ready to win a championship? Because to me, this is

629
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Speaker 1: kind of the Georgia of the Big Twelve. There's nothing

630
00:29:36,280 --> 00:29:39,280
Speaker 1: else to talk about here with Oklahoma, there's nothing else

631
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Speaker 1: to talk about because they've also done it all. Can

632
00:29:41,440 --> 00:29:43,280
Speaker 1: they win the big rivalry games? When do they not?

633
00:29:43,840 --> 00:29:45,600
Speaker 1: Can they go to the Big Twelve championship game and

634
00:29:45,600 --> 00:29:48,120
Speaker 1: win it? Yeah? Can they make the playoff? Yeah? So

635
00:29:48,320 --> 00:29:50,680
Speaker 1: that's where their hold up spin. They got a couple

636
00:29:50,720 --> 00:29:53,080
Speaker 1: of blowout losses and then they got one overtime loss

637
00:29:53,080 --> 00:29:55,560
Speaker 1: instant Classic in the Rose Bowl. But the question has

638
00:29:55,640 --> 00:29:59,120
Speaker 1: always revolved around defense. Until we can play ex caliber

639
00:29:59,160 --> 00:30:02,160
Speaker 1: of defense, will not be able to achieve why. I

640
00:30:02,200 --> 00:30:05,240
Speaker 1: think they got the ex caliber defense, not excalibur ex

641
00:30:05,320 --> 00:30:09,520
Speaker 1: caliber defense. Now I think they can accomplish why. But again,

642
00:30:09,680 --> 00:30:11,960
Speaker 1: don't matter what I think. In some random studio in

643
00:30:12,040 --> 00:30:15,080
Speaker 1: Nashville in May matters what Alex Grinch and those kids

644
00:30:15,080 --> 00:30:17,360
Speaker 1: he's recruited matters what they can do when they tee

645
00:30:17,400 --> 00:30:20,880
Speaker 1: it up in September. My point with Oklahoma is now,

646
00:30:21,120 --> 00:30:22,480
Speaker 1: whereas a lot of you are still gonna have to

647
00:30:22,480 --> 00:30:24,880
Speaker 1: see it to believe it, I think it's there, just

648
00:30:24,920 --> 00:30:26,720
Speaker 1: like the ingredients have to be in the kitchen before

649
00:30:26,720 --> 00:30:29,360
Speaker 1: the meal's made. If the ingredients are there, the meals

650
00:30:29,360 --> 00:30:32,200
Speaker 1: capable of being made, you still got to go make it.

651
00:30:32,200 --> 00:30:34,640
Speaker 1: They got the ingredients. Now when you watch them, I'll

652
00:30:34,680 --> 00:30:36,200
Speaker 1: tell you the first thing that'll stand out if you

653
00:30:36,240 --> 00:30:39,200
Speaker 1: have not watched Oklahoma closely, you watch them closely first

654
00:30:39,200 --> 00:30:41,480
Speaker 1: few weeks of the year. If they got questions on defense,

655
00:30:41,520 --> 00:30:43,800
Speaker 1: it won't be upfront anymore. You won't see them being

656
00:30:43,800 --> 00:30:46,800
Speaker 1: blown off the ball. You won't see folks gash them

657
00:30:46,840 --> 00:30:49,720
Speaker 1: for eight yards per carry on the ground. Those days

658
00:30:49,720 --> 00:30:51,320
Speaker 1: are gone. You may be able to throw on them

659
00:30:51,360 --> 00:30:53,400
Speaker 1: early in the year before they get things settled in.

660
00:30:53,760 --> 00:30:55,640
Speaker 1: I think they eventually will get things settled in on

661
00:30:55,680 --> 00:30:57,840
Speaker 1: the back end of that defense too. They're going to

662
00:30:57,880 --> 00:31:01,280
Speaker 1: be a championship caliber product both sides of that ball.

663
00:31:01,520 --> 00:31:03,920
Speaker 1: For the first time since Lincoln Riley's been there by

664
00:31:03,920 --> 00:31:05,400
Speaker 1: the end of the year when it counts the most.

665
00:31:06,320 --> 00:31:09,880
Speaker 1: And in the PAC twelve, let's gather ourselves and let's

666
00:31:10,120 --> 00:31:13,720
Speaker 1: pack up and let's head out west. Not going to

667
00:31:13,760 --> 00:31:15,720
Speaker 1: sing a kid rock song, but I do want to

668
00:31:15,760 --> 00:31:18,520
Speaker 1: ask this. Everyone's excited about the PAC twelve having a

669
00:31:18,520 --> 00:31:22,240
Speaker 1: new commissioner. Everyone's excited in Eugene about Oregon's prospect for

670
00:31:22,400 --> 00:31:25,200
Speaker 1: maybe contending for oh, let's say, a playoff spot. And

671
00:31:25,280 --> 00:31:28,440
Speaker 1: I am too. But in the PAC twelve, the issue

672
00:31:28,520 --> 00:31:32,760
Speaker 1: out there has been USC. USC has been the issue.

673
00:31:33,160 --> 00:31:34,960
Speaker 1: This is me pausing so we can change the lower

674
00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:36,280
Speaker 1: third so I can make it look good when we

675
00:31:36,320 --> 00:31:41,240
Speaker 1: cut it up afterwards. And no, okay, so there we go.

676
00:31:41,480 --> 00:31:44,560
Speaker 1: In the PAC twelve, it's all on USC, the fact

677
00:31:44,600 --> 00:31:46,400
Speaker 1: of the matter, and they know it out West, even

678
00:31:46,400 --> 00:31:47,440
Speaker 1: though a lot of them don't want to say it

679
00:31:47,480 --> 00:31:51,880
Speaker 1: out loud. In the PAC twelve, it's USC, and then

680
00:31:51,920 --> 00:31:54,600
Speaker 1: it's everyone else. I don't mean they're the only one

681
00:31:54,600 --> 00:31:56,160
Speaker 1: that can win. I don't mean they're the only one

682
00:31:56,200 --> 00:31:59,200
Speaker 1: that's competitive or take football seriously. In fact, I would

683
00:31:59,280 --> 00:32:01,840
Speaker 1: argue there are entities out there recruiting at a higher

684
00:32:01,920 --> 00:32:04,960
Speaker 1: level than them and taking football more seriously than them.

685
00:32:05,120 --> 00:32:06,800
Speaker 1: What I mean is, if you want to save the

686
00:32:06,840 --> 00:32:09,680
Speaker 1: PAC twelve, if you want to resurrect the profile of

687
00:32:09,720 --> 00:32:13,040
Speaker 1: that conference, you can't do it without Southern cal Mario

688
00:32:13,160 --> 00:32:16,440
Speaker 1: Christobaul and the folks at Oregon can perform at as

689
00:32:16,520 --> 00:32:19,680
Speaker 1: high a level as they possibly can. Washington can do it,

690
00:32:19,880 --> 00:32:24,200
Speaker 1: Arizona State can do it. You're not collectively resurrecting the brand,

691
00:32:24,520 --> 00:32:28,440
Speaker 1: the PAC twelve brand until USC gets it right. And

692
00:32:28,480 --> 00:32:30,880
Speaker 1: that's on Clay Helton. I mean that's on his staff.

693
00:32:31,360 --> 00:32:33,680
Speaker 1: I look at their offensive line, I look at the

694
00:32:33,680 --> 00:32:37,120
Speaker 1: inconsistency at quarterback. Talk about names all you want to.

695
00:32:37,560 --> 00:32:40,080
Speaker 1: I don't care about names. I care about production. You

696
00:32:40,080 --> 00:32:41,720
Speaker 1: can have stars next to your name, you can have

697
00:32:41,760 --> 00:32:44,560
Speaker 1: all the preseason magazine accolades you want to. They turned

698
00:32:44,600 --> 00:32:46,560
Speaker 1: the ball over too much. They throw the ball to

699
00:32:46,600 --> 00:32:48,640
Speaker 1: the other team too much. You saw it happen in

700
00:32:48,680 --> 00:32:51,920
Speaker 1: the PAC twelve championship game. We sat right at this desk.

701
00:32:52,480 --> 00:32:55,080
Speaker 1: Turnovers are not supposed to be predictable. We sat right

702
00:32:55,080 --> 00:32:57,840
Speaker 1: here and said, a USC and turned the ball over

703
00:32:57,880 --> 00:33:00,400
Speaker 1: a hole out. This year, they've benefited from a lot

704
00:33:00,440 --> 00:33:03,720
Speaker 1: of turnover games. It's freakish, it's random. They'll turn it

705
00:33:03,760 --> 00:33:07,120
Speaker 1: over against Oregon. This thing will correct itself, it'll kind

706
00:33:07,120 --> 00:33:08,920
Speaker 1: of draw back to the norm. And what do you

707
00:33:09,000 --> 00:33:11,480
Speaker 1: know it did? And Oregon, I think there were points

708
00:33:11,480 --> 00:33:14,320
Speaker 1: spread underdog went and won PAC twelve championship game. Again,

709
00:33:14,360 --> 00:33:15,640
Speaker 1: they weren't even supposed to be playing in it. So

710
00:33:15,840 --> 00:33:18,480
Speaker 1: I say all that to say I don't have a

711
00:33:18,520 --> 00:33:21,400
Speaker 1: ton of brimming confidence about the mixture and the collection

712
00:33:21,440 --> 00:33:24,640
Speaker 1: they have at USC. I hope I'm wrong, because I

713
00:33:24,680 --> 00:33:26,920
Speaker 1: love to see all the big programs succeed, but I'd

714
00:33:26,920 --> 00:33:29,480
Speaker 1: certainly love to see this conference come back to what

715
00:33:29,560 --> 00:33:32,760
Speaker 1: we know it's capable of. It hasn't been forty years ago, guys,

716
00:33:32,800 --> 00:33:34,960
Speaker 1: it's only been about a decade and a half that

717
00:33:35,280 --> 00:33:37,960
Speaker 1: In a lot of ways, the attention of the nation

718
00:33:38,440 --> 00:33:40,880
Speaker 1: was focused on the PAC twelve kind of first and

719
00:33:40,920 --> 00:33:43,680
Speaker 1: foremost because the alpha program in America was Southern Cal

720
00:33:43,880 --> 00:33:45,760
Speaker 1: and so everyone else had to really work off of

721
00:33:45,800 --> 00:33:48,920
Speaker 1: what they were doing out there. So fingers crossed for

722
00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:51,800
Speaker 1: the PAC twelve and several fingers crossed. You know that

723
00:33:51,880 --> 00:33:54,720
Speaker 1: thing where you kind of there we go across all

724
00:33:54,720 --> 00:33:56,800
Speaker 1: four of them. That's me right now. When we're talking

725
00:33:56,840 --> 00:33:59,520
Speaker 1: Southern Cal. It's like a gang sign. If you just pause,

726
00:33:59,560 --> 00:34:05,120
Speaker 1: it's not pause it Let's continue. Speaking of California, I

727
00:34:05,160 --> 00:34:07,720
Speaker 1: know a lot of times when we're talking about SEC football,

728
00:34:08,120 --> 00:34:11,279
Speaker 1: the state of California only comes up in recruiting, and

729
00:34:11,400 --> 00:34:13,719
Speaker 1: more and more teams in the South have gone to

730
00:34:13,760 --> 00:34:16,359
Speaker 1: California to get talent. And I guess you could tie

731
00:34:16,360 --> 00:34:18,760
Speaker 1: it in loosely here because J T. Daniels was formerly

732
00:34:18,760 --> 00:34:21,880
Speaker 1: a California kid. He was at USC transferred to Georgia.

733
00:34:21,920 --> 00:34:24,280
Speaker 1: You know all that story. But I want to classify

734
00:34:24,360 --> 00:34:29,000
Speaker 1: what we're about to talk about under that it means something,

735
00:34:29,080 --> 00:34:31,759
Speaker 1: but we're not quite sure what it means. Header I

736
00:34:31,920 --> 00:34:34,359
Speaker 1: just know it doesn't mean nothing. So here's what I'm

737
00:34:34,360 --> 00:34:37,160
Speaker 1: talking about. J T. Daniels has been in California for

738
00:34:37,160 --> 00:34:38,560
Speaker 1: a few days, going to be out there for like

739
00:34:38,600 --> 00:34:42,000
Speaker 1: ten days. Big deal. If that's where the story ended,

740
00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:43,800
Speaker 1: then I would have just wasted two or three minutes

741
00:34:43,840 --> 00:34:46,520
Speaker 1: of your time. But then when I read this list

742
00:34:46,560 --> 00:34:50,240
Speaker 1: and I find out Demetrius Robertson's out there too, Kiris

743
00:34:50,280 --> 00:34:54,359
Speaker 1: Jackson's out there, Justin Robinson's out there, Donni Mitchell's out there,

744
00:34:54,440 --> 00:34:57,319
Speaker 1: Jermaine Burton's out there, Darnell Washington. Several more of them

745
00:34:57,320 --> 00:35:00,279
Speaker 1: are out there. What have we opened as out of

746
00:35:00,360 --> 00:35:02,719
Speaker 1: like campus in Berkeley, Well know we have not. What's

747
00:35:02,760 --> 00:35:05,600
Speaker 1: happened is JT. Daniels has just taken half of George's

748
00:35:05,640 --> 00:35:08,120
Speaker 1: offense out to California to work out. These are the

749
00:35:08,239 --> 00:35:11,200
Speaker 1: kinds of stories that you dismiss if your team's not

750
00:35:11,280 --> 00:35:13,440
Speaker 1: doing it, and then you bathe in these kinds of

751
00:35:13,480 --> 00:35:16,160
Speaker 1: stories if your team does do it, because it makes

752
00:35:16,200 --> 00:35:18,560
Speaker 1: you think that there's a togetherness and a bond and

753
00:35:18,600 --> 00:35:22,640
Speaker 1: a collective buy in. And I would argue that, yeah,

754
00:35:22,680 --> 00:35:26,600
Speaker 1: that's absolutely what it indicates. Consider the one eighty that

755
00:35:26,640 --> 00:35:29,719
Speaker 1: Georgia football and many other programs are finding themselves in

756
00:35:29,800 --> 00:35:32,719
Speaker 1: right now. When you did not have a spring and

757
00:35:32,800 --> 00:35:35,680
Speaker 1: you did not have a returning quarterback, and you had

758
00:35:35,719 --> 00:35:39,200
Speaker 1: a brand new offensive coordinator, and you had limited and

759
00:35:39,320 --> 00:35:43,400
Speaker 1: interrupted installation periods, and you had zero team chemistry, and

760
00:35:43,400 --> 00:35:45,880
Speaker 1: then you had a quarterback just throw up the deuces

761
00:35:45,920 --> 00:35:48,560
Speaker 1: and bounce. What a great decision that turned out to be.

762
00:35:48,600 --> 00:35:51,440
Speaker 1: By the way, there was a name noticeably absent from

763
00:35:51,480 --> 00:35:53,319
Speaker 1: the NFL draft couple of weeks ago, and it's the

764
00:35:53,320 --> 00:35:55,759
Speaker 1: same one I'm talking about right now not to be

765
00:35:55,800 --> 00:35:59,160
Speaker 1: over the critical consider now that we get a returning

766
00:35:59,239 --> 00:36:01,879
Speaker 1: quarterback and we got now a year under the belt

767
00:36:01,880 --> 00:36:04,319
Speaker 1: of Todd Monkin running this offense. Oh, by the way,

768
00:36:04,840 --> 00:36:07,480
Speaker 1: that chemistry got plenty of it, got loads of it.

769
00:36:07,640 --> 00:36:10,680
Speaker 1: And also you have unlimited installed time. And if you

770
00:36:10,719 --> 00:36:13,960
Speaker 1: do have limitations from the NCAA, who cares Because your

771
00:36:13,960 --> 00:36:15,719
Speaker 1: players just say we're gonna go to California and work

772
00:36:15,760 --> 00:36:18,400
Speaker 1: on some stuff. We'll be back in ten days. That's nice,

773
00:36:18,480 --> 00:36:20,880
Speaker 1: It's really nice to see. I went over to Dogs

774
00:36:20,880 --> 00:36:23,239
Speaker 1: twenty four to seven today. I wanted to hit up

775
00:36:23,239 --> 00:36:25,560
Speaker 1: the message board there and I was asking them, what

776
00:36:25,600 --> 00:36:27,200
Speaker 1: do you guys think about this? I didn't just want

777
00:36:27,239 --> 00:36:29,200
Speaker 1: to ask what they thought about players going to California.

778
00:36:29,280 --> 00:36:31,480
Speaker 1: What I said was, because where this is going to

779
00:36:31,520 --> 00:36:34,520
Speaker 1: matter is really a result. If they're terrible this year offensively,

780
00:36:34,520 --> 00:36:36,160
Speaker 1: if they're forty eighth in the nation, you don't really

781
00:36:36,160 --> 00:36:38,719
Speaker 1: care about a trip to California in May. But I

782
00:36:38,760 --> 00:36:42,520
Speaker 1: asked them to complete this sentence for me. In December,

783
00:36:42,640 --> 00:36:46,360
Speaker 1: we'll be saying what about Georgia's offense? And I got

784
00:36:46,400 --> 00:36:49,839
Speaker 1: several submissions. I think all of them are viable. We'll

785
00:36:49,840 --> 00:36:52,520
Speaker 1: see some of them were more stretches than others. Best

786
00:36:52,520 --> 00:36:56,160
Speaker 1: offense we've ever had good enough to win it all. Finally,

787
00:36:56,719 --> 00:37:00,440
Speaker 1: Kirby Smart handed over the keys to Todd Munkham. I

788
00:37:00,440 --> 00:37:03,520
Speaker 1: thought this was a really good one from Dogscape. Offense

789
00:37:03,560 --> 00:37:06,680
Speaker 1: with Daniels has a good beat and it's easy to

790
00:37:06,760 --> 00:37:09,600
Speaker 1: dance to. Now. There was also more than one poster

791
00:37:09,680 --> 00:37:11,680
Speaker 1: that said, you'll be saying we were the best offense

792
00:37:11,680 --> 00:37:14,239
Speaker 1: in the country. You give me top five or top ten.

793
00:37:14,320 --> 00:37:16,279
Speaker 1: I think you guys will be fine. Two things that

794
00:37:16,320 --> 00:37:20,640
Speaker 1: I'm feeling about Georgia right now. Number One, JT. Daniels

795
00:37:20,719 --> 00:37:22,960
Speaker 1: is who he is. This is where I always try

796
00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:26,200
Speaker 1: and caution folks. Now there's a kind of a caveat.

797
00:37:26,239 --> 00:37:28,120
Speaker 1: So I want to follow this up really quickly because

798
00:37:28,160 --> 00:37:30,279
Speaker 1: if you pause, then other people start talking. They don't hear.

799
00:37:30,320 --> 00:37:32,120
Speaker 1: The second part of what you say happened a lot

800
00:37:32,160 --> 00:37:35,000
Speaker 1: last week when we were talking about points spreads. JT.

801
00:37:35,160 --> 00:37:37,120
Speaker 1: Daniels is who he is. What I mean by that is,

802
00:37:37,400 --> 00:37:40,040
Speaker 1: this is not a guy who's only made sixty percent

803
00:37:40,040 --> 00:37:42,560
Speaker 1: of the way to his physical ceiling. He is who

804
00:37:42,560 --> 00:37:46,880
Speaker 1: he is. So anyone who's expecting a quantum twenty percent

805
00:37:46,960 --> 00:37:50,040
Speaker 1: leap in production a productivity. I don't think you're going

806
00:37:50,080 --> 00:37:52,719
Speaker 1: to get that. You've got the player you've got. But

807
00:37:52,800 --> 00:37:55,839
Speaker 1: Part two is that's not a problem because he wasn't

808
00:37:55,920 --> 00:37:58,120
Speaker 1: terrible last year, wasn't bad. He's very good and ed

809
00:37:58,160 --> 00:38:00,480
Speaker 1: Flash is a brilliance and so a lot of his

810
00:38:00,600 --> 00:38:03,319
Speaker 1: productivity is tied to what's around him, and you'll have

811
00:38:03,400 --> 00:38:06,279
Speaker 1: easily the best stable of wide receivers George Pickens or

812
00:38:06,280 --> 00:38:09,160
Speaker 1: not that Georgia has had under Kirby Smart. So Part

813
00:38:09,160 --> 00:38:11,400
Speaker 1: two there is I'm not worried about that because I

814
00:38:11,440 --> 00:38:15,640
Speaker 1: think if everything else falls into place, personnel wise, what JT.

815
00:38:15,800 --> 00:38:18,160
Speaker 1: Daniels is really good enough to win and do everything

816
00:38:18,239 --> 00:38:20,360
Speaker 1: Georgia wants to do. But here's the second thing that

817
00:38:20,400 --> 00:38:24,080
Speaker 1: I'm feeling with Georgia. Twenty twenty one could just be

818
00:38:24,200 --> 00:38:28,239
Speaker 1: a delayed gratification situation. And again, I think several programs

819
00:38:28,280 --> 00:38:32,280
Speaker 1: fall into this category. These changes that we're talking about,

820
00:38:32,320 --> 00:38:35,120
Speaker 1: they weren't made this past offseason. Guys, Kirby made a

821
00:38:35,160 --> 00:38:38,520
Speaker 1: lot of these changes before twenty twenty. The new offensive

822
00:38:38,520 --> 00:38:41,640
Speaker 1: coordinator that everyone demanded that they hire, well, he did that.

823
00:38:41,800 --> 00:38:43,600
Speaker 1: He didn't do it this past offseason. He did it

824
00:38:43,840 --> 00:38:46,000
Speaker 1: an off season ago. It's just that we had this

825
00:38:46,040 --> 00:38:48,920
Speaker 1: thing called COVID throw a wrench into everyone's plans. He

826
00:38:48,960 --> 00:38:51,319
Speaker 1: went and got quarterbacks JT. Daniels being one of them,

827
00:38:51,400 --> 00:38:53,760
Speaker 1: Jamie Newman being the other one off the transfer market.

828
00:38:53,920 --> 00:38:56,680
Speaker 1: It didn't work out. COVID made a lot of stuff

829
00:38:56,719 --> 00:38:59,600
Speaker 1: not be able to work out. I think that LSU

830
00:38:59,640 --> 00:39:02,080
Speaker 1: game will him up. That didn't happen last year, it

831
00:39:02,120 --> 00:39:04,960
Speaker 1: happened two years ago in the SEC Championship game. And

832
00:39:05,040 --> 00:39:07,239
Speaker 1: I think that he went into the offseason and he

833
00:39:07,320 --> 00:39:10,000
Speaker 1: was fully planning on what you'll eventually see from Georgia

834
00:39:10,040 --> 00:39:12,640
Speaker 1: this year. Happened in last year. It's just when you

835
00:39:12,640 --> 00:39:14,840
Speaker 1: get spring ripped from you and then you get a

836
00:39:14,920 --> 00:39:16,640
Speaker 1: quarterback that you thought was probably going to be your

837
00:39:16,680 --> 00:39:19,520
Speaker 1: starter not be your starter. Dewan mathis ends up starting

838
00:39:19,600 --> 00:39:21,959
Speaker 1: for you at Arkansas Week one. You get a lot

839
00:39:22,000 --> 00:39:24,200
Speaker 1: of the rug pulled out from under you, your default

840
00:39:24,200 --> 00:39:26,360
Speaker 1: to what you know. The fact of the matter is

841
00:39:26,400 --> 00:39:28,120
Speaker 1: what George is going to be this year. I really

842
00:39:28,120 --> 00:39:30,440
Speaker 1: think in his heart of hearts, Kirby had committed himself

843
00:39:30,440 --> 00:39:33,000
Speaker 1: to being last year. It's just when you got stetson

844
00:39:33,040 --> 00:39:35,239
Speaker 1: Bennett pulling the trigger for you. There's a lot of

845
00:39:35,239 --> 00:39:38,120
Speaker 1: stuff you can't be that you can be when JT.

846
00:39:38,239 --> 00:39:42,000
Speaker 1: Daniels is the man. Twenty twenty is going to be

847
00:39:42,040 --> 00:39:45,440
Speaker 1: looked at several years from now for a lot of programs.

848
00:39:45,520 --> 00:39:48,399
Speaker 1: I just think Georgia maybe one of him as saying, boy,

849
00:39:48,440 --> 00:39:51,960
Speaker 1: you know, hopefully Michigan fits this description. You know, there

850
00:39:52,040 --> 00:39:53,960
Speaker 1: was a lot that we had already done and our

851
00:39:54,000 --> 00:39:57,080
Speaker 1: head coach had already done that just wasn't able to

852
00:39:57,120 --> 00:39:59,919
Speaker 1: play itself out in twenty twenty. And boy, we really

853
00:40:00,520 --> 00:40:03,360
Speaker 1: we really wrung our fists over nothing, didn't we. Not

854
00:40:03,440 --> 00:40:05,720
Speaker 1: that a season doesn't matter, I know they all matter,

855
00:40:05,800 --> 00:40:08,840
Speaker 1: but I just think a lot of hay was in

856
00:40:08,920 --> 00:40:10,560
Speaker 1: the barn last year that you didn't get to reap

857
00:40:10,600 --> 00:40:12,200
Speaker 1: the benefits of that. Maybe this year you will be

858
00:40:12,239 --> 00:40:15,239
Speaker 1: able to. All right, the end, let's just put a

859
00:40:15,280 --> 00:40:18,120
Speaker 1: cap on that and let's move on. I could pick

860
00:40:18,160 --> 00:40:19,920
Speaker 1: a number of kids from Georgia to talk about here,

861
00:40:19,920 --> 00:40:21,840
Speaker 1: but since we already talked about the dogs and fair amount,

862
00:40:22,400 --> 00:40:24,920
Speaker 1: I wanted to talk about some impact freshmen. Chris Hummer

863
00:40:24,920 --> 00:40:27,280
Speaker 1: did a really good job. He put I think one

864
00:40:27,360 --> 00:40:31,160
Speaker 1: hundred true freshmen to watch impact freshmen to keep an

865
00:40:31,200 --> 00:40:33,040
Speaker 1: eye on. Now. I'm not gonna go down the full list.

866
00:40:33,080 --> 00:40:35,200
Speaker 1: That's on twenty four to seven sports dot Com if

867
00:40:35,200 --> 00:40:37,600
Speaker 1: you want to look at it. But as we enter

868
00:40:37,960 --> 00:40:41,160
Speaker 1: preview magazine season, I think the biggest blind spot in

869
00:40:41,200 --> 00:40:45,839
Speaker 1: preview magazine culture is just this which we luckily specialize

870
00:40:45,840 --> 00:40:49,399
Speaker 1: in here, and that is having intimate knowledge and familiarity

871
00:40:49,480 --> 00:40:52,080
Speaker 1: with true freshmen. It used to be it didn't matter.

872
00:40:52,080 --> 00:40:53,799
Speaker 1: It used to be freshman couldn't play back in the day,

873
00:40:54,040 --> 00:40:58,480
Speaker 1: but even semi recently, it didn't matter because the true

874
00:40:58,520 --> 00:41:01,120
Speaker 1: freshmen that were truly going to be impact players were

875
00:41:01,160 --> 00:41:04,800
Speaker 1: so few and far between, like a Jadevian Clowney for example.

876
00:41:04,840 --> 00:41:07,279
Speaker 1: You just figured, oh, I'll know their names. That's not

877
00:41:07,320 --> 00:41:10,279
Speaker 1: the way it is anymore, guys. It's just changed. The

878
00:41:10,320 --> 00:41:12,920
Speaker 1: game has changed, and I think what's happened is better

879
00:41:12,960 --> 00:41:16,279
Speaker 1: development across the spectrum of high school football, combined with

880
00:41:16,440 --> 00:41:19,919
Speaker 1: systems being built in a more simplified manner for younger

881
00:41:20,000 --> 00:41:22,080
Speaker 1: kids to be able to grasp. They've kind of meshed

882
00:41:22,360 --> 00:41:26,640
Speaker 1: into this formula, into this environment now where your average

883
00:41:26,640 --> 00:41:28,920
Speaker 1: freshman is more likely to get on the field early,

884
00:41:29,080 --> 00:41:31,279
Speaker 1: and because of that I mean, if you're gonna sit

885
00:41:31,280 --> 00:41:33,720
Speaker 1: around and want to know this game, especially double especially

886
00:41:33,719 --> 00:41:35,400
Speaker 1: if you're gonna want to bet on it, you better

887
00:41:35,440 --> 00:41:38,239
Speaker 1: know these true freshmen's names. This is not just for

888
00:41:38,280 --> 00:41:40,080
Speaker 1: the parents of the players. And I can assure you that.

889
00:41:40,280 --> 00:41:42,000
Speaker 1: Let's start at Ohio State. I'm gonna go down the

890
00:41:42,040 --> 00:41:43,879
Speaker 1: list here. I'm gonna I got about six or seven

891
00:41:43,960 --> 00:41:46,439
Speaker 1: names that I'm gonna rattle off here that I think

892
00:41:46,480 --> 00:41:48,360
Speaker 1: you need to know, and we'll probably do this segment

893
00:41:48,400 --> 00:41:51,040
Speaker 1: several times. There are two of them at Ohio State,

894
00:41:51,840 --> 00:41:56,000
Speaker 1: Jordan Hancock and Kaelin Johnson. These are both corners. Again,

895
00:41:56,040 --> 00:41:58,319
Speaker 1: if you follow recruiting, you're gonna know pretty much all

896
00:41:58,360 --> 00:42:01,440
Speaker 1: these names. The ratings are important here, and I'll get

897
00:42:01,440 --> 00:42:04,160
Speaker 1: back to the ratings in the second. Ohio State secondary

898
00:42:04,239 --> 00:42:07,319
Speaker 1: was bad last year. Inexcusably bad. It was inexcusably bad

899
00:42:07,360 --> 00:42:10,440
Speaker 1: for a team with fractions of their tradition and resource,

900
00:42:10,880 --> 00:42:13,800
Speaker 1: but it was. It was really reprehensible to see Ohio

901
00:42:13,840 --> 00:42:15,839
Speaker 1: State ripped up and down the field like they were.

902
00:42:16,239 --> 00:42:18,320
Speaker 1: They know the stat you may not one hundred and

903
00:42:18,400 --> 00:42:24,080
Speaker 1: twenty second in total pass yardage allowed, So let's fix

904
00:42:24,120 --> 00:42:26,440
Speaker 1: that this year. Now you look at the two projected

905
00:42:26,520 --> 00:42:30,279
Speaker 1: starters for them, Seven Banks and Cameron Brown. You didn't

906
00:42:30,280 --> 00:42:32,280
Speaker 1: see them in the spring because they were out dealing

907
00:42:32,280 --> 00:42:35,520
Speaker 1: with injury. But these two cats that I'm talking about

908
00:42:35,600 --> 00:42:36,920
Speaker 1: right now, you can see them. You can see the

909
00:42:36,960 --> 00:42:39,280
Speaker 1: full profile on the screen that Jesse's showing you right now.

910
00:42:40,040 --> 00:42:42,400
Speaker 1: What's important about these two guys. I was talking to

911
00:42:42,480 --> 00:42:45,040
Speaker 1: Dave Biddle before we came on air from bucknuts dot Com.

912
00:42:45,360 --> 00:42:48,839
Speaker 1: I asked him, do you think those guys are immediate contributors?

913
00:42:49,080 --> 00:42:51,839
Speaker 1: Are they depth providers? Where do you feel like they're

914
00:42:51,840 --> 00:42:54,360
Speaker 1: going to slide into the rotation? He said, I'd be

915
00:42:54,440 --> 00:42:58,200
Speaker 1: surprised if they're weak one starters, but they'll certainly be

916
00:42:58,320 --> 00:43:01,560
Speaker 1: in the mix. And what's important here is these are

917
00:43:01,600 --> 00:43:04,600
Speaker 1: two kids at a position that are the highest rated

918
00:43:04,840 --> 00:43:08,080
Speaker 1: that Ohio State has recruited at that position corner since

919
00:43:08,120 --> 00:43:11,560
Speaker 1: twenty seventeen. Maybe you've heard of these names, Jeff Okudah

920
00:43:11,560 --> 00:43:14,160
Speaker 1: and Sean Wade. Don't let what you saw from Sean

921
00:43:14,160 --> 00:43:16,280
Speaker 1: Wade last year fool you. You got him in the right position.

922
00:43:16,719 --> 00:43:19,440
Speaker 1: He's a baller. I don't have to brag about Jeff Okudah,

923
00:43:19,640 --> 00:43:21,840
Speaker 1: but you've had our net come through there you had Okudah,

924
00:43:21,840 --> 00:43:24,800
Speaker 1: you had Wade, and then you look around and you

925
00:43:25,120 --> 00:43:27,319
Speaker 1: can be hopeful for seven Banks and Cam. I mean,

926
00:43:27,480 --> 00:43:30,160
Speaker 1: you can be hopeful for guys I'm not saying I'm

927
00:43:30,200 --> 00:43:33,520
Speaker 1: not What I'm saying is these are guys. Hancock and

928
00:43:33,640 --> 00:43:35,480
Speaker 1: Johnson are guys that you look at in week one

929
00:43:36,080 --> 00:43:38,520
Speaker 1: and they're in the two deep maybe or maybe in

930
00:43:38,520 --> 00:43:40,560
Speaker 1: the three deep. But then you look again in week

931
00:43:40,600 --> 00:43:44,040
Speaker 1: eight and you say, oh, I didn't see him early

932
00:43:44,080 --> 00:43:46,640
Speaker 1: because they weren't early in rolies. But man, like, we're

933
00:43:46,680 --> 00:43:48,600
Speaker 1: halfway through the season now, I think these guys are

934
00:43:48,600 --> 00:43:51,040
Speaker 1: going to be like prime time contributors down the stretch

935
00:43:51,080 --> 00:43:52,920
Speaker 1: the rest of the way for us. Those are very

936
00:43:52,920 --> 00:43:55,759
Speaker 1: important players. I mean, those are legitimate corners that could

937
00:43:55,760 --> 00:43:57,960
Speaker 1: see the field a lot as true freshmen. Go up

938
00:43:57,960 --> 00:44:01,080
Speaker 1: to Michigan right quick. Donovan Edwards, Now, I was sitting

939
00:44:01,280 --> 00:44:03,120
Speaker 1: either at this desk or on one of our side

940
00:44:03,120 --> 00:44:06,320
Speaker 1: sets on National Signing Day, and this was a fight.

941
00:44:06,480 --> 00:44:09,080
Speaker 1: I mean, Donovan Edwards was one of the top running

942
00:44:09,080 --> 00:44:12,080
Speaker 1: backs in the country. They were they being Michigan. They

943
00:44:12,080 --> 00:44:15,000
Speaker 1: were fighting. At one point Bama, Ohio State was in

944
00:44:15,000 --> 00:44:17,359
Speaker 1: the mix, Notre Dame. I remember was strongly in the mix,

945
00:44:18,000 --> 00:44:22,000
Speaker 1: and Michigan kept him in State. I believe, I want

946
00:44:22,040 --> 00:44:24,719
Speaker 1: to say in State Edwards was somewhere up there. Let

947
00:44:24,719 --> 00:44:26,520
Speaker 1: me say that. So they got him. I felt like

948
00:44:26,520 --> 00:44:29,160
Speaker 1: they were the leader and they got him. There is

949
00:44:29,239 --> 00:44:31,759
Speaker 1: a huge fight here going in the signing day and

950
00:44:31,800 --> 00:44:34,359
Speaker 1: it's good and everyone around Michigan is talking about, Okay,

951
00:44:34,400 --> 00:44:37,880
Speaker 1: we got a game changer running back. Well, okay, and

952
00:44:37,960 --> 00:44:41,400
Speaker 1: I agree with that, But do you truly believe in

953
00:44:41,440 --> 00:44:44,239
Speaker 1: the definition game changer? And if you do, do you

954
00:44:44,320 --> 00:44:47,400
Speaker 1: believe in it being attached to Donovan Edwards? Because I

955
00:44:47,480 --> 00:44:49,799
Speaker 1: do so. That's why if I were to look at

956
00:44:49,800 --> 00:44:53,680
Speaker 1: Michigan's running back depth right now, I see Hassan Haskins,

957
00:44:53,960 --> 00:44:56,719
Speaker 1: I see Blake Krum And if you didn't know any better,

958
00:44:56,760 --> 00:44:59,160
Speaker 1: you'd say, okay, so Edwards comes in, he'll probably get

959
00:44:59,160 --> 00:45:01,400
Speaker 1: some mop up duty true freshman. Then we'll see him

960
00:45:01,400 --> 00:45:04,200
Speaker 1: as a sophomore. No, no, not if you believe in

961
00:45:04,239 --> 00:45:06,640
Speaker 1: the definition of game changer. If you believe in that,

962
00:45:07,719 --> 00:45:12,319
Speaker 1: all due respect to Haskins and Koram, Donovan Edwards has

963
00:45:12,360 --> 00:45:15,400
Speaker 1: got a talent profile. They don't have the biggest question

964
00:45:15,480 --> 00:45:17,439
Speaker 1: that comes into play as is the case with every

965
00:45:17,560 --> 00:45:20,160
Speaker 1: true freshman running back is do you have a ball

966
00:45:20,200 --> 00:45:22,600
Speaker 1: carrier or do you have a complete running back? Because

967
00:45:22,640 --> 00:45:25,680
Speaker 1: ball carriers lose games because ball carriers cannot do the

968
00:45:25,719 --> 00:45:27,640
Speaker 1: full complement of things that you need a running back

969
00:45:27,680 --> 00:45:29,640
Speaker 1: to do. But if you've got a complete running back,

970
00:45:29,840 --> 00:45:32,040
Speaker 1: doesn't matter how old they are. And in this case,

971
00:45:32,080 --> 00:45:34,320
Speaker 1: all things equal, Edwards is more likely to be on

972
00:45:34,360 --> 00:45:36,400
Speaker 1: the field because when you boil it down, he's the

973
00:45:36,400 --> 00:45:38,520
Speaker 1: most talented running back they have the second he steps

974
00:45:38,520 --> 00:45:40,960
Speaker 1: on campus. And so keep an eye on him because

975
00:45:41,040 --> 00:45:43,400
Speaker 1: once he earns that trust, he's not going to be

976
00:45:43,440 --> 00:45:46,279
Speaker 1: waiting behind. Folks. This is not a coaching staff that

977
00:45:46,360 --> 00:45:48,759
Speaker 1: has two or three years equity built up. They got

978
00:45:48,880 --> 00:45:51,680
Speaker 1: to win. They got to win. Now, let's go to Oklahoma.

979
00:45:52,040 --> 00:45:54,799
Speaker 1: Linebacker position. Gonna be talking about defense a whole lot

980
00:45:54,800 --> 00:45:58,920
Speaker 1: with Oklahoma this year. Great opportunity for a young man

981
00:45:58,960 --> 00:46:01,640
Speaker 1: by the name of Clayton's he's a linebacker. As I

982
00:46:01,719 --> 00:46:04,000
Speaker 1: just told you, coming into Oklahoma, the twenty four to

983
00:46:04,000 --> 00:46:08,120
Speaker 1: seven Sports Composite had this kid nearly in five star territory.

984
00:46:08,120 --> 00:46:10,479
Speaker 1: I mean he was in the thirty seven thirty eight range,

985
00:46:10,520 --> 00:46:12,640
Speaker 1: So he was right there but he's got a great

986
00:46:12,640 --> 00:46:16,040
Speaker 1: opportunity because Oklahoma's defense under Alex Grinch, they got a

987
00:46:16,040 --> 00:46:18,239
Speaker 1: ton of returning talent. I mean, they got a guy

988
00:46:18,280 --> 00:46:21,759
Speaker 1: in Nick Benito, for instance, at linebacker that could end

989
00:46:21,840 --> 00:46:24,320
Speaker 1: up being an All American and put up untold amounts

990
00:46:24,360 --> 00:46:27,160
Speaker 1: of sacks this year. And you get to slide into

991
00:46:27,200 --> 00:46:30,560
Speaker 1: that rotation. You're not some guy. Clayton Smith's not some

992
00:46:30,640 --> 00:46:33,000
Speaker 1: guy that comes in and everyone's saying, all right, you

993
00:46:33,000 --> 00:46:35,520
Speaker 1: got to be the savior here. Terrible defensively, you're our

994
00:46:35,520 --> 00:46:38,080
Speaker 1: only hope. Nope, got about fourteen or fifteen enough. I'm

995
00:46:38,080 --> 00:46:40,040
Speaker 1: over there, and he can just heed to slide in.

996
00:46:40,239 --> 00:46:43,720
Speaker 1: But here's what he brings. He brings a raw, pure

997
00:46:44,040 --> 00:46:47,439
Speaker 1: pass rush ability, the likes of which, even as good

998
00:46:47,440 --> 00:46:49,600
Speaker 1: as I like this defense, very few other cats on

999
00:46:49,600 --> 00:46:52,120
Speaker 1: that defense have. So he's a little bit raw. And

1000
00:46:52,480 --> 00:46:55,440
Speaker 1: the benefit is they're not relying on him. They don't

1001
00:46:55,880 --> 00:46:59,000
Speaker 1: need him. It's not do or die here. But the

1002
00:46:59,080 --> 00:47:01,399
Speaker 1: luxury is they're still going to get a lot from him.

1003
00:47:01,520 --> 00:47:03,160
Speaker 1: So again, kind of like we talked about with these

1004
00:47:03,200 --> 00:47:05,520
Speaker 1: corners at Ohio State, what you see in week one

1005
00:47:05,719 --> 00:47:08,440
Speaker 1: from Clayton Smith maybe a little different than what you

1006
00:47:08,480 --> 00:47:11,759
Speaker 1: see in Week eight from Clayton Smith. Running Back is

1007
00:47:11,800 --> 00:47:15,320
Speaker 1: also a big focus at Clemson right now. Travis Etn

1008
00:47:15,360 --> 00:47:19,239
Speaker 1: feels like he's been there since the Bush administration, and

1009
00:47:19,320 --> 00:47:23,759
Speaker 1: so he's gone now. Travis Etn out and Clemson you

1010
00:47:23,840 --> 00:47:25,840
Speaker 1: look at as being one of the programs, one of

1011
00:47:25,840 --> 00:47:30,200
Speaker 1: the very few programs that's still capable of duplicating production

1012
00:47:30,320 --> 00:47:33,160
Speaker 1: even though they lose you know, obviously a long established

1013
00:47:33,160 --> 00:47:36,960
Speaker 1: talent at the position. Will Shipley is a running back,

1014
00:47:37,000 --> 00:47:39,600
Speaker 1: so five star running back, and he's coming in And

1015
00:47:39,680 --> 00:47:42,239
Speaker 1: I want you to listen to these athletic comparables. So

1016
00:47:42,280 --> 00:47:45,400
Speaker 1: the athletic profile, as we call it, forty r dashtime

1017
00:47:45,560 --> 00:47:48,800
Speaker 1: with Travis Etn was a four four five and Shipley's

1018
00:47:48,800 --> 00:47:51,360
Speaker 1: a four four five guy. The vertical thirty three and

1019
00:47:51,400 --> 00:47:54,960
Speaker 1: a half for Etn, thirty six for Shipley. Shipley's a

1020
00:47:55,000 --> 00:47:58,960
Speaker 1: really good East West guy. His athleticism surprised even the

1021
00:47:58,960 --> 00:48:02,759
Speaker 1: Clemson staff. Dabo Sweeney was public about it. He I mean,

1022
00:48:02,800 --> 00:48:04,800
Speaker 1: he said he was better than we thought he'd be.

1023
00:48:05,200 --> 00:48:07,200
Speaker 1: And this is talking about a true freshman in his

1024
00:48:07,200 --> 00:48:10,600
Speaker 1: first spring practice physically. Also, Dabo said way ahead of

1025
00:48:10,600 --> 00:48:12,560
Speaker 1: where we thought he'd be. I mean, this is a

1026
00:48:12,600 --> 00:48:15,160
Speaker 1: guy that they can they can afford again once he

1027
00:48:15,200 --> 00:48:17,279
Speaker 1: earns that trust, they can afford to put him on

1028
00:48:17,320 --> 00:48:19,080
Speaker 1: the field this year, and he's going to be a

1029
00:48:19,120 --> 00:48:20,600
Speaker 1: guy that you look at and say, boy, I thought

1030
00:48:20,600 --> 00:48:22,880
Speaker 1: they were going to drop off at that position, and

1031
00:48:22,960 --> 00:48:25,960
Speaker 1: it turns out they really didn't. And so will Shipley

1032
00:48:26,000 --> 00:48:27,360
Speaker 1: is a name, and also I wanted to go a

1033
00:48:27,400 --> 00:48:31,360
Speaker 1: couple of wide receivers here really quick. James Blackstrain is

1034
00:48:31,360 --> 00:48:32,719
Speaker 1: a name that I don't know a lot of you

1035
00:48:32,800 --> 00:48:35,440
Speaker 1: were following on the recruiting trail. They certainly were in Atlanta.

1036
00:48:36,120 --> 00:48:39,240
Speaker 1: He was just inside our top three hundred in the composite.

1037
00:48:39,280 --> 00:48:42,839
Speaker 1: He went to Georgia Tech. Why is this name important? Well,

1038
00:48:42,920 --> 00:48:48,120
Speaker 1: Georgia Tech's returning receiver with the best measurables and really

1039
00:48:48,160 --> 00:48:51,360
Speaker 1: the best statistics is Jamiir Gibbs. But he's not a receiver,

1040
00:48:51,440 --> 00:48:54,160
Speaker 1: he's a running back, so they are really barren in

1041
00:48:54,239 --> 00:48:58,120
Speaker 1: terms of proven productivity in that receiver room. For his money,

1042
00:48:58,239 --> 00:49:01,319
Speaker 1: James Blackstrain, by the way, is the third highest rated

1043
00:49:01,320 --> 00:49:04,279
Speaker 1: wide receiver they've ever brought in to this program. So

1044
00:49:04,719 --> 00:49:06,839
Speaker 1: he's not an early enroll lead, but they feel around

1045
00:49:06,840 --> 00:49:09,919
Speaker 1: that program number one due to the opportunity that's bountiful there,

1046
00:49:10,000 --> 00:49:14,280
Speaker 1: and number two due to his more technically polished profile.

1047
00:49:14,600 --> 00:49:16,600
Speaker 1: I think he'll be on the field pretty early for them,

1048
00:49:16,920 --> 00:49:20,240
Speaker 1: and you'll see him as an early option in that offense.

1049
00:49:20,560 --> 00:49:23,160
Speaker 1: And lastly, but certainly not least in fact a kid

1050
00:49:23,160 --> 00:49:26,640
Speaker 1: we talked about a lot a Gi Hall at Alabama.

1051
00:49:26,719 --> 00:49:29,200
Speaker 1: I've been doing drills on his name, by the way,

1052
00:49:29,800 --> 00:49:33,920
Speaker 1: because we really ingrained in our mind a bad habit,

1053
00:49:34,080 --> 00:49:36,360
Speaker 1: and so you got to go a gi hole, A

1054
00:49:36,480 --> 00:49:38,520
Speaker 1: Gi Hall, A gi hole. I do it when I'm

1055
00:49:38,560 --> 00:49:41,640
Speaker 1: driving around town sometimes, just doing name drills. So we

1056
00:49:41,719 --> 00:49:44,360
Speaker 1: got that one, mister Hall. But what he's going to

1057
00:49:44,440 --> 00:49:47,480
Speaker 1: have is an integral role on this Alabama offense as

1058
00:49:47,480 --> 00:49:50,080
Speaker 1: a true freshman. Here's what the benefit you get with

1059
00:49:50,120 --> 00:49:53,000
Speaker 1: Hall is. You don't give up speed, you don't give

1060
00:49:53,040 --> 00:49:55,720
Speaker 1: up athleticism, You certainly don't give up hands. We're seeing

1061
00:49:55,920 --> 00:49:58,080
Speaker 1: highlights from the spring game. He had four catches for

1062
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Speaker 1: seventy two yards in the spring game. It felt like

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Speaker 1: more than that, to be honest with you, because all

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Speaker 1: of them were contested and he didn't let you down

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Speaker 1: in any one of them, and he wasn't even catching

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Speaker 1: balls from the number one quarterback there either. But what

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Speaker 1: you get from him is all the skill you've been

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Speaker 1: used to watching all those other guys have, but in

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Speaker 1: a six three to two hundred pound body instead of

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Speaker 1: the usual five to eleven right at six foot kind

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Speaker 1: of receiver that Alabama's had there. Oh, they certainly haven't

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Speaker 1: been hurting for anything at the wide receiver position. But

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Speaker 1: what you get from him is you get all the

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Speaker 1: benefits and the athleticism. Probably going to be a devastating

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Speaker 1: blocker for them. Nick Saban didn't even try and hide it.

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Speaker 1: They were on the field with him during the spring game,

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Speaker 1: asking who's this guy? He said, Well, he's a guy

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Speaker 1: you're going to see a lot this year. He's going

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Speaker 1: to play a lot for us, so I think he's

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Speaker 1: going to pop from day one. Those are just a

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Speaker 1: few of these, several names to keep an eye on

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Speaker 1: as true freshman. You go to twenty four seven sports

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Speaker 1: dot com. Chris Hummer still got that piece up. There

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Speaker 1: are a lot of names to familiarize yourself with. And

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Speaker 1: that's all we got for tonight. Also, I just want

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Speaker 1: to remind you I wanted to put it at the

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Speaker 1: end of the show I had I had a slot

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Speaker 1: open tomorrow, but I figured I'm going to open up

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Speaker 1: some more so those of you I got a waiting list,

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Speaker 1: but I told you I was going to hit the

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Speaker 1: reset button, so I'm being fair. I am opening up

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Speaker 1: some slots this week for Zoom consultations, So any of

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Speaker 1: you who want to get in on that that haven't

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Speaker 1: been able to, I know I got a little bit

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Speaker 1: of a waiting list. Well, it's going to be open

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Speaker 1: season right now, so I got some spots this week.

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Speaker 1: If you want one of those consultations, hit me up

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Speaker 1: via email Josh pat seven zero six at gmail dot

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Speaker 1: com and we could you set up. If it's podcasting,

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Speaker 1: you want to do sports media in general, written or otherwise,

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Speaker 1: start a YouTube channel, we'll talk about it. Thank you

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Speaker 1: so much for sticking around, by the way, tonight, those

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Speaker 1: of you who are watching live, we will make it

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Speaker 1: up to you somewhere down the road when we have

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Speaker 1: a commodity that we can actually put in your hands.

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Speaker 1: But until then, thank you. It's going to have to

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Speaker 1: be enough for Director Emeritus Colin, for Jesse and Company,

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Speaker 1: and in Connecticut, I'm Josh Pate. Have a great start to

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Speaker 1: your week. And God bless