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Speaker 1: Kenna, Welcome into Lakekick is Live. It is Thursday night,

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Speaker 1: June second, the year of our Lord, twenty twenty two.

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Speaker 1: Who really has the power in our sport? Dive deep

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Speaker 1: into that tonight with your jampacked HIA topbook can only

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Speaker 1: be described as an anticipatory downtown Nashville, Tennessee. Who are

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Speaker 1: the most powerful head coaches in college football? Not the

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Speaker 1: ones with the best resumes, not the ones with the

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Speaker 1: deepest trophy case. But when they speak, the needle moves

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Speaker 1: you shut up and pay attention to what they say.

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Speaker 1: Who are those five coaches? We'll dive into that. I've

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Speaker 1: also got a lot of stuff that's really kind of

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Speaker 1: breaking late this afternoon about everything from playoff expansion to

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Speaker 1: how conferences are going to handle innio. I'm not going

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Speaker 1: to spend twenty minutes on it, but I'm going to

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Speaker 1: get you updated scheduling too. What do you need to

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Speaker 1: know in a very very cliff notes version so you

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Speaker 1: don't have to wade through all that BS that's being

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Speaker 1: reported by pretty much everyone. Also Chapter thirteen of Bold Predictions. Yes,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna go as long as you care about that,

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Speaker 1: and we're gonna give you some portal Sleepers. I got

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Speaker 1: four names out of the transfer portal that I don't

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Speaker 1: think we've discussed on the show. You probably haven't heard

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Speaker 1: discussed a lot nationally that you really need to know.

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Speaker 1: One of them, in particular, just could outright flip your

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Speaker 1: totals bets over underwin totals on a specific team. They're

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Speaker 1: watching us in lumber City, Georgia, as they should be.

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Speaker 1: It's my home state, although I have not visited lumber City,

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Speaker 1: but I gotta make that in a destination. Now, how

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Speaker 1: about Guatemala City, Guatemala. They are tuned in. Also, let

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Speaker 1: me get the name right. Ludoviso is tuned in in Syracusa, Italy,

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Speaker 1: not upstate New York. Italy is where Syracusa is. Thank you,

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Speaker 1: and last but not least, before we dive in tonight,

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Speaker 1: happy birthday to a very near and dear friend of ours.

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Speaker 1: Management are people too, and that's one of the focal

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Speaker 1: points around which we present this show. Management are people

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Speaker 1: to even the high level mustache types. In Thompson Station, Tennessee. Tonight,

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Speaker 1: a young man we will call him Adam, is celebrating

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Speaker 1: a birthday. Happy birthday, high level mustache Adam. I hope.

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Speaker 1: It's everything that you could have dreamed of, and then

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Speaker 1: some You know, I tell you all the time, you're

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Speaker 1: not wasting your time watching this show. And I've got

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Speaker 1: Exhibit four hundred and eighty seven. There's the paper pop,

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Speaker 1: So you know something significant's about to be shown to

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Speaker 1: you as to why you're not wasting your time. Remember

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Speaker 1: when we've been talking about NIL and we've kind of hesitated,

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Speaker 1: and I've told you probably for about the past two months,

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Speaker 1: it's not going to be an NCAA thing. The conferences

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Speaker 1: have to do it. That was everything that we've been

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Speaker 1: hearing behind the scenes. Here's Ross Dellinger if you're listening

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Speaker 1: on podcast. This was a headline from yesterday. Quote. SEC

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Speaker 1: lawyers are exploring ways that the league could provide inner

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Speaker 1: at least for now waiting on on the application of

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Speaker 1: the interim NIL guidelines from the NCAA. Allow me to

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Speaker 1: translate the nc DOUBLEA put out a bunch of you know,

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Speaker 1: that's not a surprise to you. Okay, let's dive into

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Speaker 1: the show tonight. What do we see around the corner

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Speaker 1: something that I think we're going to expand on closer

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Speaker 1: of the folks in the comment section. When I ask

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Speaker 1: talking about everything from resume to reputation. How much does

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Speaker 1: Number One's pretty easy, that's Nick Saban. This won't change.

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Speaker 1: No one does it more than Nick Saban. He could

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Speaker 1: So number one's easy. Here's where it gets a little murky.

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Speaker 1: So this could be where Dablos twenty peaks. Or imagine this.

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Speaker 1: you notice who the media ran to to get a comment.

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Speaker 1: It was that guy. It was Kirby Smart. That is,

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Speaker 1: Caleb Williams, recently of Oklahoma, now of USC fame. Caleb

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Speaker 1: Williams production will not match the astronomical high piece getting.

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Speaker 1: And this is a prediction from you, guys, and you

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Speaker 1: claim that you believe these and you would bet your

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Speaker 1: money on it. I rated this an eight on the

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Speaker 1: boldness scale. I got a lot of confidence in Caleb

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Speaker 1: Williams this year. But first we have to define what

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Speaker 1: the expectation is. Before you tell me he's not going

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Speaker 1: to meet the hype, he's not going to meet the expectation. Well,

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Speaker 1: we got to define what the expectation is. So if

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Speaker 1: I were to poll ten thousand college football fans, including

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Speaker 1: southern Cali fans, I think we would agree that last

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Speaker 1: year at Oklahoma, as a freshman, in eleven games, he

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Speaker 1: had a really good year, sixty four and a half

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Speaker 1: percent completion percentage. He was a twenty one touchdown to

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Speaker 1: four interception. Guy he threw for nineteen hundred yards, he

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Speaker 1: ran for four hundred and forty. So that was a

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Speaker 1: good year last year, very good year. I think it's

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Speaker 1: a reasonable expectation and a widely held expectation that he

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Speaker 1: will somewhat improve upon those numbers this year. And there's

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Speaker 1: good reason to believe that, everything from Travis Dye coming

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Speaker 1: in from Oregon in the backfield to Mario Williams transferring there.

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Speaker 1: Also you got the Bolitanikough winner Jordan Addison. Both of

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Speaker 1: those are wide receivers they transferred in. There's a lot

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Speaker 1: of reason, not in the least of which is it's

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Speaker 1: his second year in Lincoln Riley's offensive system, to believe

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Speaker 1: that Cayleb Williams is going to have a really good

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Speaker 1: year this year. Whether he's in New York City for

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Speaker 1: the Heisman or not, you can miss out on that

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Speaker 1: still have a really good year. Here's the only point

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Speaker 1: of concern, outside of injury, which no one can predict.

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Speaker 1: The only point of concern is offensive line is not

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Speaker 1: something they have figured out yet and no one really

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Speaker 1: suggests otherwise. But at the same time, Caleb Williams is

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Speaker 1: no statue in the pocket. So unless you have a

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Speaker 1: crystal ball that can predict injury or something like that.

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Speaker 1: If that guy's starting twelve games for Southern cal. They

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Speaker 1: opened against Rice. You know what, the number one rule

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Speaker 1: in the show is don't lose to food. But after that,

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Speaker 1: they got Stanford, they got Fresno, they got Oregon State,

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Speaker 1: they get into the conference play, then they do not

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Speaker 1: play Oregon in the regular season. This is a very

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Speaker 1: very workable slate and it's a very very fortuitous situation

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Speaker 1: for Caleb Williams to be in. So I rated it

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Speaker 1: an eight. I think he's gonna do really good this year.

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Speaker 1: Next up. This one's bold too. They all are, Nathan said,

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Speaker 1: the Florida Gators, they're just gonna win the East. That's

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Speaker 1: from Charlotte, North Carolina, Florida winning the SEC East. The

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Speaker 1: Florida Gators, in Billion Napier's first year on the job,

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Speaker 1: are in Atlanta for the SEC championship game. That is

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Speaker 1: an eight on the boldness scale, and I contemplated going

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Speaker 1: to a nine. So what a hiccup. That was a

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Speaker 1: bad one, Jesse. You see that over under win totals

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Speaker 1: here in the SEC East, Georgia's at eleven and a

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Speaker 1: half coming off a national championship. Literally, if they lose

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Speaker 1: one game this year, the underhits, so they're at eleven

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Speaker 1: and a half. Kentucky not Florida is second at an

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Speaker 1: over under of eight and a half. Tennessee not Florida

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Speaker 1: is third at an over under of seven and a half,

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Speaker 1: and then it's Florida at fourth with an over under

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Speaker 1: of seven. So they're a solid four and a half

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Speaker 1: games back of the preseason favorite to win the or

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Speaker 1: to win the division in terms of over under win total.

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Speaker 1: Does that mean everything in the world. No, but it's

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Speaker 1: a pretty good indicator, about as good an indicator as

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Speaker 1: we're going to get in June. The other thing I

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Speaker 1: want to bring to your attention is there are depth

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Speaker 1: issues on this team that no amount of portaling can

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Speaker 1: fully address. They also have to play LSU and Texas

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Speaker 1: A and M from the West, so there are a

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Speaker 1: lot of things working against Billy Napier in year one. Ultimately,

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Speaker 1: as you know, if you've listened to the show, I've

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Speaker 1: got all the confidence in the world in Billy Napier,

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Speaker 1: And even if I didn't, people who are far more

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Speaker 1: reputable than me inside the game have all the confidence

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Speaker 1: in the world in them, So it's not one of

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Speaker 1: those they're never going to do anything. But we're talking

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Speaker 1: about this year now. This year, it's tough for me

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Speaker 1: to see that. Let's just say Georgia were to drop

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Speaker 1: two games, but one of them isn't the cocktail party,

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Speaker 1: So let's say we don't know the outcome of that game.

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Speaker 1: It would still be a tall task to ask Florida

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Speaker 1: to have that kind of resume to be able to

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Speaker 1: make it to Atlanta. Crazier things have happened, but wide

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Speaker 1: receiver is not a position group that I'm overly excited

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Speaker 1: about with them this year. They couldn't practice the way

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Speaker 1: they wanted to in spring because of a lack of

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Speaker 1: depth a critical areas. I just think about them in

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Speaker 1: week ten, Week eleven, week twelve. Unless they have totally

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Speaker 1: threaded the needle and their healthy wire to wire and

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Speaker 1: the natural attrition which hits everybody hits them, it's going

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Speaker 1: to be tough. It's gonna be really tough for Florida

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Speaker 1: in year one. That is a key indicator as to

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Speaker 1: why they have a new staff in place. Next up, now,

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Speaker 1: we're talking about playoff a little bit here. Remember last year,

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Speaker 1: who do we have Bama, Cincinnati, Michigan, Georgia in no

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Speaker 1: particular order. Joe Cook says, Michigan repeats, and Georgia repeats.

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Speaker 1: I'm taking that to mean both of them are in

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Speaker 1: the playoff again this year, both of them in the playoff.

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Speaker 1: That's an eight on the boldness scale out of one

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Speaker 1: to ten. But it's not out of the realm of

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Speaker 1: possibility for any one of them. See, this is where

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Speaker 1: the big difference is. I mean, it makes such a

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Speaker 1: big difference if Joe Wortu have said one of them

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Speaker 1: is going to make the playoff again versus both of

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Speaker 1: them are going to make the playoff again. What are

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Speaker 1: the National Championship odds right now? You may be wondering

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Speaker 1: that we're talking about teams making the playoff? What are

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Speaker 1: the odds? Well, luckily Statson Info has it prepared for us.

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Speaker 1: Georgia has the second best odds to win the national

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Speaker 1: Championship in the country right now. They're at plus three

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Speaker 1: twenty five. Only Alabama is listed ahead of them, but

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Speaker 1: you don't have to go too far down the list

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Speaker 1: to find Michigan. Michigan is three four five six eighth.

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Speaker 1: They're in a multi way tie for eighth. Theyre at

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Speaker 1: plus four thousand. So point is, both of these teams

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Speaker 1: are in the top ten of the preseason National Championship odds,

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Speaker 1: so it's not crazy. But then you have to understand

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Speaker 1: we're predicting half the playoff field here. Think about with

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Speaker 1: no parameters in place, how hard that's proven to be.

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Speaker 1: You know, this is a sport where folks claim that

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Speaker 1: the playoff is so predictable, and yet with your life

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Speaker 1: on the line. Last year, I guarantee you if you

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Speaker 1: had to predict two of the four teams with your

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Speaker 1: life on the line, there would have been a lot

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Speaker 1: of Ohio State broken hearts. There would have been a

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Speaker 1: lot of Clemson Oklahoma broken hearts. So we're trying to

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Speaker 1: in June predict half of this thing. The difficulty in

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Speaker 1: any given season to do that is one thing, But

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Speaker 1: then you also have to take into account. Georgia, like

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Speaker 1: any title winning team, could have the natural complacency thing

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Speaker 1: creep in. For all we know, they could have the

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Speaker 1: natural effect of losing, like an entire All Pro Awards

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Speaker 1: teams worth of NFL draft talent that you had last

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Speaker 1: year that you want to have this year. And at Michigan,

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Speaker 1: while I have told you people are confident that the

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Speaker 1: whole flirtation with the Vikings thing won't affect Jim Harbaugh.

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Speaker 1: We don't know that. We also don't know that losing

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Speaker 1: both coordinators won't negatively impact them. So with that being said,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna say that's an eight both of them in

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Speaker 1: the playoff. That's an eight on the boldness scale, not crazy,

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Speaker 1: but bold. Next up, Yes, this is kind of mean. Actually,

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Speaker 1: Hugh said, Kansas is going to end with a better

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Speaker 1: record than Nebraska and Scott Frost is going to get fired.

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Speaker 1: I did some radio in Omaha yesterday. I have never

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Speaker 1: in my life talked about a week zero game in

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Speaker 1: Ireland more than I talked about it with good reason

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Speaker 1: with the guys up there at ESPN Radio in Omaha yesterday.

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Speaker 1: Before the record, Nebraska is playing Northwestern in Iowa in

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Speaker 1: late August. I hear it's lovely there that time of year.

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Speaker 1: That's about as far as I'll go. If you want

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Speaker 1: my thoughts on international college football, listen to this week's

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Speaker 1: Late Kick Extra podcast. Find it anywhere you got your podcast.

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Speaker 1: So this is a nine to project Kansas with a

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Speaker 1: better record than Nebraska and Frost getting fired. That's a nine. Okay,

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Speaker 1: it's not gonna happen. Spoiler alert. I'm sorry when I

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Speaker 1: tell you what's gonna happen. Sometimes I forget to give

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Speaker 1: you a spoiler alert. The over underwin totals here two

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Speaker 1: and a half for Kansas. That's up from one and

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Speaker 1: a half. By the way, it's been bet up. They

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Speaker 1: opened it one and a half. Now it's to two

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Speaker 1: and a half. Nebraska over underwent total seven and a half.

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Speaker 1: Now Frost has not made a bowl game at Nebraska,

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Speaker 1: So this shows you the odds makers think number one,

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Speaker 1: that drought may very well come to an end this year.

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Speaker 1: Number two, they were three and nine last year. They

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Speaker 1: over under win total seven and a half. A lot

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Speaker 1: of folks that have to be right on this stuff

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Speaker 1: when they're setting their numbers believe there's a big bounce

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Speaker 1: back coming for Nebraska this year. I believe that too.

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Speaker 1: But if I'm wrong, and if the under hits by

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Speaker 1: a mile, okay, let's just go with the total disaster

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Speaker 1: scenario to show you how to me out of the

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Speaker 1: realm of reasonability. This is let's say Nebraska does not

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Speaker 1: make a bowl. Let's say they go four and eight. Yes,

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Speaker 1: Scott Frost is out unequivocally if they go four and eight,

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Speaker 1: so that part of the prediction will validate. But you've

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Speaker 1: still got to find me five wins for Kansas, and

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Speaker 1: that's just not happening. Kansas, by the way, they've lost

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Speaker 1: at least nine games every year since twenty twelve. I

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Speaker 1: had stats in Info run the numbers. That's an entire

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Speaker 1: decade where they've lost at least nine games. We're showing

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Speaker 1: watching on YouTube right now. Here are their win totals

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Speaker 1: two zero three three one two zero three three one

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Speaker 1: that it's like a locker combination. I guess, well, that

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Speaker 1: is not a formula for all of a sudden popping a

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Speaker 1: five or six win season on me this year. And

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Speaker 1: believe it or not, I'm kind of high on Kansas

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Speaker 1: by Kansas standards this year, but that may mean a

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Speaker 1: four win season. Look, I think Nebraska is going to

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Speaker 1: make a bowl game, so this one not happening. It's Nebraska.

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Speaker 1: Last year was three and nine, right, but Nebraska is close.

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Speaker 1: Nebraska is like the All State commercial where the dollar

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Speaker 1: bills on the fishing line gotta be quicker than that.

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Speaker 1: But she's close. Kansas is sleeping in a box car

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Speaker 1: down the road. They're not close. So I expect things

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Speaker 1: from Nebraska this year. I don't necessarily expect those same

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Speaker 1: things from Kansas. It sounds like I have an irrational

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Speaker 1: hatred of Kansas. I don't. I just don't think this

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Speaker 1: prediction is going to happen. Some of that was probably unwarranted,

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Speaker 1: but I said what I said. It's live. We move on.

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Speaker 1: Let's go to the Big twelve. To wrap things up here,

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Speaker 1: Texas Tech is going to be a top fifteen program

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Speaker 1: under Joey Maguire. You know what, I misread this. I

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Speaker 1: for some reason, I thought Landon had said this is

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Speaker 1: going to happen this season. So you know what, Landon,

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Speaker 1: you may very well be right in time. I have

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Speaker 1: to make an executive decision here. We are going to

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Speaker 1: play pretend. It's a very professional thing to do, and

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Speaker 1: I'm going to pretend that you said they're going to

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Speaker 1: be a top fifteen team this year. Okay, three two one, Landon,

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Speaker 1: that's one of the most ridiculous things I've ever heard,

640
00:32:11,200 --> 00:32:13,040
Speaker 1: and you should be ashamed for saying it. That's a

641
00:32:13,160 --> 00:32:15,760
Speaker 1: nine on the one to ten boldness scale. They were

642
00:32:15,760 --> 00:32:18,960
Speaker 1: seven and six last year. They fired the staff, obviously,

643
00:32:19,120 --> 00:32:22,520
Speaker 1: so Joey McGuire comes in. They love him out there,

644
00:32:22,720 --> 00:32:25,680
Speaker 1: so don't overlook this in time, don't overlook the Joey

645
00:32:25,760 --> 00:32:28,680
Speaker 1: McGuire factor. They love him in love. It a brand

646
00:32:28,760 --> 00:32:32,800
Speaker 1: new there, but they love him so far percent not

647
00:32:32,880 --> 00:32:36,000
Speaker 1: ninety percent. They're ninetieth in terms of returning production, so

648
00:32:36,120 --> 00:32:38,440
Speaker 1: there's not a lot to buy into this particular year.

649
00:32:38,520 --> 00:32:40,960
Speaker 1: Quarterbacks still kind of unsettled there too. They've got the

650
00:32:40,960 --> 00:32:44,000
Speaker 1: second worst odds in the Big Twelve. That's the bad news.

651
00:32:44,200 --> 00:32:46,360
Speaker 1: I guess the good news, the ray of sunshine and

652
00:32:46,400 --> 00:32:49,480
Speaker 1: hope here is so did Baylor last year. Guess who

653
00:32:49,480 --> 00:32:52,040
Speaker 1: won the conference. So there's that. If you're looking for

654
00:32:52,080 --> 00:32:54,680
Speaker 1: a very very bold futures bet, there's that. They got

655
00:32:54,680 --> 00:32:57,240
Speaker 1: the Big twelve schedule. They've also got a Houston and

656
00:32:57,360 --> 00:33:00,800
Speaker 1: NC State out of conference. So I am buying the

657
00:33:00,840 --> 00:33:03,360
Speaker 1: future of this program. To be clear, I'm just not

658
00:33:03,600 --> 00:33:08,440
Speaker 1: buying them being top fifteen this year. Now we return

659
00:33:08,520 --> 00:33:11,360
Speaker 1: to normalcy Landon. I'm sure you're a great guy with

660
00:33:11,400 --> 00:33:13,200
Speaker 1: a good heart, and I hate that I had to

661
00:33:13,240 --> 00:33:16,200
Speaker 1: do that to you. Okay, moving on, there are some

662
00:33:16,280 --> 00:33:18,960
Speaker 1: things happening, even what was this about three hours ago?

663
00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:21,720
Speaker 1: Even in the last three hours or so. This was

664
00:33:21,760 --> 00:33:23,920
Speaker 1: a late addition to the show. So that's why we

665
00:33:23,960 --> 00:33:27,960
Speaker 1: didn't lead with it. How well do you remember January tenth?

666
00:33:28,360 --> 00:33:31,520
Speaker 1: For many of you in our community, if you're a

667
00:33:31,520 --> 00:33:33,760
Speaker 1: real one. In other words, you remember, ooh, that was

668
00:33:33,800 --> 00:33:36,760
Speaker 1: the day they played the National Championship game. That's Alabama

669
00:33:36,840 --> 00:33:41,080
Speaker 1: versus Georgia. So I remember watching Georgia pull off a

670
00:33:41,280 --> 00:33:44,880
Speaker 1: historical win and it was the first championship in recent memory,

671
00:33:44,920 --> 00:33:47,280
Speaker 1: and the red and black confetti rained down over Kirby

672
00:33:47,280 --> 00:33:49,520
Speaker 1: Smart YadA YadA, YadA yah. That's what you should remember,

673
00:33:49,720 --> 00:33:53,360
Speaker 1: unless you're one of the casual seals who were clapping

674
00:33:53,920 --> 00:33:58,160
Speaker 1: in disamusement at the high level mustaches that run the

675
00:33:58,160 --> 00:34:02,040
Speaker 1: playoff not delivering your precious expansion that all of you

676
00:34:02,120 --> 00:34:06,360
Speaker 1: had been promised was imminent, and that happened. The audacity

677
00:34:06,400 --> 00:34:09,040
Speaker 1: to have that happen on the same morning of the

678
00:34:09,120 --> 00:34:13,640
Speaker 1: National Championship game. It was laughable then, it's laughable now.

679
00:34:13,719 --> 00:34:16,040
Speaker 1: It was laughable to me because I wasn't rooting for it.

680
00:34:16,080 --> 00:34:19,000
Speaker 1: But forget me for a second. It was laughable period

681
00:34:19,600 --> 00:34:23,120
Speaker 1: because anyone who had spoken to anyone with knowledge of

682
00:34:23,160 --> 00:34:26,000
Speaker 1: how this whole thing works, this whole playoff expansion thing works,

683
00:34:26,760 --> 00:34:28,520
Speaker 1: they were laughing because they knew they were going to

684
00:34:28,600 --> 00:34:30,640
Speaker 1: have to be right back at the table. See, a

685
00:34:30,680 --> 00:34:32,839
Speaker 1: lot of folks have been wrongly focused on the year

686
00:34:32,880 --> 00:34:37,640
Speaker 1: twenty twenty six because that's technically when there isn't a

687
00:34:37,680 --> 00:34:41,279
Speaker 1: format in place. But that's not the deadline, guys, that's

688
00:34:41,400 --> 00:34:44,400
Speaker 1: never been the deadline. The deadline's right around the corner.

689
00:34:44,680 --> 00:34:48,120
Speaker 1: They knew this when they broke off the talks in

690
00:34:48,160 --> 00:34:51,479
Speaker 1: Indianapolis this last January. Well that brings us to this

691
00:34:51,680 --> 00:34:56,640
Speaker 1: very afternoon January February March April May June, so essentially

692
00:34:56,680 --> 00:34:59,440
Speaker 1: a couple of days later, here we are in early June,

693
00:34:59,760 --> 00:35:03,399
Speaker 1: and Ross Dellinger of SI Today second reference for Ross

694
00:35:03,440 --> 00:35:08,840
Speaker 1: on the show tonight. He had a report that was

695
00:35:08,920 --> 00:35:11,399
Speaker 1: triggered by some things that he was told at the

696
00:35:11,440 --> 00:35:15,359
Speaker 1: SEC spring meetings down in Destin. I presume that's where

697
00:35:15,360 --> 00:35:18,239
Speaker 1: this came from. So here's what you need to know.

698
00:35:18,840 --> 00:35:22,319
Speaker 1: The execs around the College Football Playoff hope to have

699
00:35:22,360 --> 00:35:26,680
Speaker 1: a format in place by wait for it, next summer,

700
00:35:27,480 --> 00:35:30,080
Speaker 1: a year from Now that same group that couldn't even

701
00:35:30,120 --> 00:35:32,600
Speaker 1: agree on what to eat for brunch six months ago,

702
00:35:32,800 --> 00:35:34,319
Speaker 1: they're going to have this thing figured out, or at

703
00:35:34,400 --> 00:35:37,480
Speaker 1: least they hoped to by this time next year. I

704
00:35:37,480 --> 00:35:41,680
Speaker 1: guess what's different. You may ask, why are they expecting

705
00:35:41,680 --> 00:35:44,799
Speaker 1: a different result this time around? Well, I'm speaking in

706
00:35:44,800 --> 00:35:47,960
Speaker 1: a very mocking tone, but there are some differences. All

707
00:35:48,000 --> 00:35:49,360
Speaker 1: this is on si dot com if you want to

708
00:35:49,400 --> 00:35:51,000
Speaker 1: read it, but if you don't feel like reading it,

709
00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:54,880
Speaker 1: here's what's going on. They do not need unanimous consent

710
00:35:54,960 --> 00:35:57,440
Speaker 1: this time around from the college football Playoff Board, and

711
00:35:57,440 --> 00:36:01,080
Speaker 1: that is essentially the Ten Conference commissioner and Jack Swarbert,

712
00:36:01,080 --> 00:36:04,760
Speaker 1: the ad at Notre Dame. They had to unanimously agree

713
00:36:04,840 --> 00:36:07,160
Speaker 1: this last time around if they wanted to change the

714
00:36:07,160 --> 00:36:10,760
Speaker 1: playoff format before the contract ran out. So they stood

715
00:36:10,760 --> 00:36:13,600
Speaker 1: to make four hundred something million more dollars per year

716
00:36:13,600 --> 00:36:15,400
Speaker 1: if they would have gotten it done, well, they didn't

717
00:36:15,400 --> 00:36:19,040
Speaker 1: get it done. In the end, the ACC, the PAC twelve,

718
00:36:19,120 --> 00:36:22,080
Speaker 1: and the Big Ten, the alliance one of the weakest

719
00:36:22,120 --> 00:36:25,000
Speaker 1: alliances in the history of the world. They stood in

720
00:36:25,040 --> 00:36:27,720
Speaker 1: the way of it happening. Then you had angry folks

721
00:36:27,760 --> 00:36:30,240
Speaker 1: like Greg Sankie from the sec walk away and say,

722
00:36:30,360 --> 00:36:32,160
Speaker 1: all right, you kind of looked over his shoulder and said,

723
00:36:32,920 --> 00:36:35,200
Speaker 1: you'll never get us to the table in the way

724
00:36:35,239 --> 00:36:38,640
Speaker 1: we were this time again. Well, the reason that sounds

725
00:36:38,680 --> 00:36:42,280
Speaker 1: so fresh is because it just happened. Just happened in January.

726
00:36:43,360 --> 00:36:46,800
Speaker 1: So now you don't have to have unanimous consent anymore.

727
00:36:47,239 --> 00:36:50,120
Speaker 1: There's also a deadline that's approaching. That's another very very

728
00:36:50,160 --> 00:36:53,759
Speaker 1: key component here. The deadline is not twenty twenty six.

729
00:36:53,800 --> 00:36:57,080
Speaker 1: The deadline is essentially twenty twenty four. Why because the

730
00:36:57,080 --> 00:37:00,439
Speaker 1: contract runs out in the twenty twenty five season, and

731
00:37:00,480 --> 00:37:03,279
Speaker 1: in order to have something in place, you don't get

732
00:37:03,280 --> 00:37:06,399
Speaker 1: to change things on the fly. You've got to get

733
00:37:06,400 --> 00:37:09,360
Speaker 1: locations figured out first and foremost. And keep in mind,

734
00:37:09,560 --> 00:37:12,160
Speaker 1: this is an expanded playoff, so you don't just have

735
00:37:12,200 --> 00:37:14,040
Speaker 1: to figure out a couple of semi final sites and

736
00:37:14,080 --> 00:37:17,520
Speaker 1: the national championship site. You have to bid these things out.

737
00:37:17,600 --> 00:37:19,640
Speaker 1: If that's the route you're gonna go. If that's not

738
00:37:19,680 --> 00:37:20,920
Speaker 1: the route you're gonna go, you got to get the

739
00:37:20,960 --> 00:37:23,560
Speaker 1: bulls to sign off on how you're gonna work locations.

740
00:37:24,000 --> 00:37:27,200
Speaker 1: They've got this ridiculous concept that they're currently working off

741
00:37:27,200 --> 00:37:29,719
Speaker 1: of where the first round will be on campus, but

742
00:37:29,760 --> 00:37:31,280
Speaker 1: then the rest of them are going to be in

743
00:37:31,320 --> 00:37:34,680
Speaker 1: these lifeless NFL stadiums. And in case you can't tell,

744
00:37:34,840 --> 00:37:38,239
Speaker 1: I'm not happy about that. But if that's the way

745
00:37:38,239 --> 00:37:39,440
Speaker 1: it's gonna go, that's the way it's going to go.

746
00:37:39,520 --> 00:37:41,880
Speaker 1: They got to get it figured out regardless. In twenty

747
00:37:41,960 --> 00:37:44,239
Speaker 1: twenty four is when they really need to have this

748
00:37:44,280 --> 00:37:47,719
Speaker 1: thing figured out. And also there's this other pesky little

749
00:37:47,760 --> 00:37:53,000
Speaker 1: note that shouldn't be overlooked. Television contracts are in a

750
00:37:53,000 --> 00:37:55,279
Speaker 1: state of flux tright now. The Big ten's about to

751
00:37:55,320 --> 00:37:57,080
Speaker 1: announce a new one any second. I know. I keep

752
00:37:57,080 --> 00:37:59,200
Speaker 1: saying that that's the word on the street in our industry.

753
00:37:59,239 --> 00:38:01,759
Speaker 1: Any second. The SEC just did. But you've also got

754
00:38:01,800 --> 00:38:07,200
Speaker 1: a separate contract, a college football playoff television contract. ESPN,

755
00:38:07,480 --> 00:38:09,680
Speaker 1: I think, in October of twenty twenty four has an

756
00:38:09,760 --> 00:38:13,759
Speaker 1: exclusive window to negotiate that. But and this is where

757
00:38:13,800 --> 00:38:18,719
Speaker 1: I do align with the alliance. Some folks PAC twelve,

758
00:38:18,800 --> 00:38:22,359
Speaker 1: Big Ten, et cetera. They look at ESPN and they say,

759
00:38:22,400 --> 00:38:25,200
Speaker 1: hold on, we're not exactly on the best of terms

760
00:38:25,239 --> 00:38:28,520
Speaker 1: with that conference down south right now, same conference that

761
00:38:28,680 --> 00:38:31,200
Speaker 1: has signed exclusivity in terms of their own TV deal

762
00:38:31,280 --> 00:38:34,440
Speaker 1: with ESPN starting in twenty twenty four. Might we want to,

763
00:38:34,640 --> 00:38:37,600
Speaker 1: in the spirit of the free market, let this thing

764
00:38:37,680 --> 00:38:41,759
Speaker 1: go to market instead of just letting ESPN bid and

765
00:38:41,800 --> 00:38:43,839
Speaker 1: then look over their shoulder. Oh no one else. Okay,

766
00:38:43,840 --> 00:38:46,439
Speaker 1: I guess it's ours. Let's get Fox in the room,

767
00:38:46,560 --> 00:38:48,879
Speaker 1: you know, Let's get CBS in the room. Let's get

768
00:38:48,920 --> 00:38:50,719
Speaker 1: Amazon in the room. Let's get everyone in the room.

769
00:38:51,520 --> 00:38:54,160
Speaker 1: So at the very least we make the most money

770
00:38:54,200 --> 00:38:57,160
Speaker 1: we possibly can. But also maybe we divvy up the

771
00:38:57,200 --> 00:39:00,319
Speaker 1: inventory a little bit and not let one entity, one

772
00:39:00,360 --> 00:39:03,160
Speaker 1: network have a choke hold on it. In that sense,

773
00:39:03,520 --> 00:39:05,560
Speaker 1: you can count me as a fourth member of the alliance.

774
00:39:05,719 --> 00:39:08,000
Speaker 1: I'm all for that. The NFL does it the right

775
00:39:08,040 --> 00:39:10,759
Speaker 1: way there. You don't tune into one network to watch

776
00:39:10,840 --> 00:39:13,919
Speaker 1: NFL football. You tune into like five or six of them.

777
00:39:14,040 --> 00:39:16,640
Speaker 1: Everyone's got a piece of that pie. That is the

778
00:39:16,719 --> 00:39:18,880
Speaker 1: best for a number of reasons in terms of the

779
00:39:18,920 --> 00:39:21,400
Speaker 1: way to go about things there. But whatever they're going

780
00:39:21,440 --> 00:39:23,000
Speaker 1: to get figured out, they have to get figured out

781
00:39:23,040 --> 00:39:26,000
Speaker 1: pretty quickly. What are the potential snags here, like four

782
00:39:26,080 --> 00:39:29,000
Speaker 1: hundred of them. But to save you some time, one

783
00:39:29,080 --> 00:39:31,520
Speaker 1: of the biggest snags is where is Greg Sankie's head

784
00:39:31,560 --> 00:39:35,040
Speaker 1: at right now? Where is the SEC's collective attitude at

785
00:39:35,080 --> 00:39:38,440
Speaker 1: right now? You are not going to do anything worthwhile

786
00:39:38,480 --> 00:39:41,400
Speaker 1: without them. I know, technically you could look back at

787
00:39:41,400 --> 00:39:45,719
Speaker 1: me and say, uh oh, we don't need unanimous consent anymore. No,

788
00:39:45,719 --> 00:39:49,279
Speaker 1: no you don't, but you need the SEC. If you

789
00:39:49,280 --> 00:39:51,799
Speaker 1: want a product worth anything, you need the SEC. You

790
00:39:51,840 --> 00:39:54,160
Speaker 1: better find out whether they were just bluffing last week

791
00:39:54,200 --> 00:39:56,440
Speaker 1: when they talked about going down the road of figuring

792
00:39:56,440 --> 00:39:59,800
Speaker 1: out their own playoff. See how convoluted this gets really quickly.

793
00:40:00,080 --> 00:40:04,120
Speaker 1: Another thing is the ACC and Jim Phillips, the commissioner

794
00:40:04,200 --> 00:40:07,960
Speaker 1: over there. You might remember, since it was like yesterday

795
00:40:08,120 --> 00:40:11,760
Speaker 1: that they came out and said, we are not rubber

796
00:40:11,800 --> 00:40:15,960
Speaker 1: stamping any proposal for expansion until we get something in

797
00:40:16,000 --> 00:40:19,560
Speaker 1: writing pertaining to all of the other myriad issues we

798
00:40:19,600 --> 00:40:22,320
Speaker 1: have in this sport nil, the portal, all the stuff

799
00:40:22,320 --> 00:40:23,960
Speaker 1: that's out of whack right now that everyone's up in

800
00:40:24,040 --> 00:40:26,800
Speaker 1: arms about. Jim Phillips said, you're not getting our signature

801
00:40:26,840 --> 00:40:29,239
Speaker 1: on anything until we get all that figured out. That's

802
00:40:29,280 --> 00:40:35,000
Speaker 1: another potential snag. I also am strongly led to believe that,

803
00:40:35,160 --> 00:40:40,080
Speaker 1: unlike last time. I think TV executives will be a

804
00:40:40,120 --> 00:40:43,480
Speaker 1: lot more directly involved this time around. You know, you

805
00:40:43,520 --> 00:40:46,000
Speaker 1: may start hearing names that you're not used to hearing.

806
00:40:46,120 --> 00:40:48,200
Speaker 1: You don't know the name Jimmy Petarro, most of you

807
00:40:48,239 --> 00:40:51,520
Speaker 1: don't Burt Mangus. You don't know those names. You don't

808
00:40:51,560 --> 00:40:53,719
Speaker 1: need to know those names. You may start hearing those

809
00:40:53,800 --> 00:40:56,680
Speaker 1: names a little bit more. Because here's the thing we

810
00:40:56,760 --> 00:41:01,319
Speaker 1: do know about television networks. They bid on something, they

811
00:41:01,400 --> 00:41:03,359
Speaker 1: kind of want to know what they're bidding on. You know,

812
00:41:03,440 --> 00:41:06,759
Speaker 1: when there are nine and ten figure deals going down,

813
00:41:06,800 --> 00:41:09,880
Speaker 1: which this will be, they kind of want to know

814
00:41:09,960 --> 00:41:12,880
Speaker 1: what it is they're bidding on. You know, networks are

815
00:41:12,880 --> 00:41:15,160
Speaker 1: funny like that they're gonna PLoP down a couple of

816
00:41:15,160 --> 00:41:17,680
Speaker 1: billion dollars for some odd reason. They want to know

817
00:41:17,680 --> 00:41:21,120
Speaker 1: what it is they're spending that money on. And those

818
00:41:21,160 --> 00:41:23,520
Speaker 1: are just three of the snags that are potentially in

819
00:41:23,520 --> 00:41:29,440
Speaker 1: the way. You also have the caveat that did attitudes

820
00:41:29,560 --> 00:41:31,920
Speaker 1: change the last time around? You can talk about what

821
00:41:32,000 --> 00:41:33,919
Speaker 1: needs to happen and a deadline and a line drawn

822
00:41:33,960 --> 00:41:36,880
Speaker 1: in the sand. Have attitudes changed. If attitudes haven't changed,

823
00:41:37,480 --> 00:41:39,560
Speaker 1: I really don't know what the future of the sport holds.

824
00:41:39,800 --> 00:41:42,400
Speaker 1: You can tell I'm not sweating over it because I

825
00:41:42,400 --> 00:41:45,240
Speaker 1: don't put my faith in the postseason. So my regular

826
00:41:45,280 --> 00:41:47,160
Speaker 1: season's going to be there. I know on the third

827
00:41:47,239 --> 00:41:49,440
Speaker 1: Saturday in October, we're gonna have college football the way

828
00:41:49,480 --> 00:41:51,719
Speaker 1: we always have. I don't know what you guys have

829
00:41:51,800 --> 00:41:54,000
Speaker 1: coming in January. Call me when you figure it out.

830
00:41:54,400 --> 00:41:58,000
Speaker 1: I'll be there, not with bells on, but I wish

831
00:41:58,080 --> 00:42:00,359
Speaker 1: you the best of luck. I really do. You're watching

832
00:42:00,440 --> 00:42:04,480
Speaker 1: us in Melbourne, Florida. Birmingham, Alabama, and Hershey, Pennsylvania also

833
00:42:04,600 --> 00:42:09,640
Speaker 1: tuned in tonight. Speaking of the evil Dreaded SEC. I

834
00:42:09,680 --> 00:42:12,640
Speaker 1: had a question about something that I haven't really talked

835
00:42:12,640 --> 00:42:15,040
Speaker 1: about on the show because kind of think it's boring.

836
00:42:15,440 --> 00:42:17,560
Speaker 1: But you do care about it, so let's talk about it.

837
00:42:17,640 --> 00:42:18,920
Speaker 1: I'm just going to give you what you need to know.

838
00:42:19,400 --> 00:42:22,719
Speaker 1: Jimmy and Andalusia, Alabama, He said, can you explain what

839
00:42:22,760 --> 00:42:25,920
Speaker 1: the big hang up is with the SEC scheduling stuff.

840
00:42:25,960 --> 00:42:28,120
Speaker 1: I've heard like a thousand takes on it. It all

841
00:42:28,160 --> 00:42:30,960
Speaker 1: sounds like white noise at this point. Well there's a reason, Jimmy.

842
00:42:31,040 --> 00:42:34,120
Speaker 1: That's because it is. And so in lieu of making

843
00:42:34,160 --> 00:42:37,080
Speaker 1: you go to different websites and reading different articles with

844
00:42:37,360 --> 00:42:39,440
Speaker 1: just a bunch of word salad thrown at you. Essentially,

845
00:42:39,600 --> 00:42:42,799
Speaker 1: here's what you need to know right now. The Southeastern

846
00:42:42,800 --> 00:42:45,080
Speaker 1: Conference does not know what it wants to do with

847
00:42:45,120 --> 00:42:48,320
Speaker 1: its future schedule. What is it all about. They're about

848
00:42:48,360 --> 00:42:51,200
Speaker 1: to add two teams, Okay, Oklahoma, Texas, They're coming in

849
00:42:51,200 --> 00:42:53,279
Speaker 1: the back door, and all of a sudden, you're going

850
00:42:53,320 --> 00:42:56,040
Speaker 1: to have a sixteen team conference. Here's what I can

851
00:42:56,080 --> 00:42:58,920
Speaker 1: guarantee you. Divisions are going away. It's not going to

852
00:42:58,960 --> 00:43:02,560
Speaker 1: be an SEC East, SEC West world anymore. Pretty much

853
00:43:02,560 --> 00:43:06,400
Speaker 1: everyone in Destin this week agreed with that. What we

854
00:43:06,560 --> 00:43:09,880
Speaker 1: don't know yet is what the new scheduling format will be.

855
00:43:10,000 --> 00:43:13,120
Speaker 1: That's what they're arguing over, arguing maybe a strong term.

856
00:43:13,320 --> 00:43:17,080
Speaker 1: They are feverishly debating that and have been all week.

857
00:43:17,560 --> 00:43:20,560
Speaker 1: Brandon Marcelo from twenty four to seven are Brandon Marcelo.

858
00:43:20,600 --> 00:43:24,120
Speaker 1: He's down in Destin. Indicated late this afternoon. You should

859
00:43:24,200 --> 00:43:28,239
Speaker 1: not expect to vote on this tomorrow. Whereas previously there

860
00:43:28,280 --> 00:43:31,879
Speaker 1: was at least some guidance that maybe, if the week

861
00:43:31,960 --> 00:43:34,880
Speaker 1: goes well, we're gonna have an answer by Friday, doesn't

862
00:43:34,880 --> 00:43:36,719
Speaker 1: look like that's in the cards. So what are they

863
00:43:36,840 --> 00:43:39,080
Speaker 1: arguing about. There are two formats. It's not really all

864
00:43:39,120 --> 00:43:42,840
Speaker 1: that complicated in theory. There is the seven to one

865
00:43:42,880 --> 00:43:45,560
Speaker 1: format and there is the six to three format. The

866
00:43:45,600 --> 00:43:49,200
Speaker 1: seven to one format is very simple. The one represents

867
00:43:49,239 --> 00:43:52,359
Speaker 1: the number of fixed opponents you have. So Georgia would

868
00:43:52,360 --> 00:43:56,040
Speaker 1: play Florida every year. That's their fixed opponent, and then

869
00:43:56,160 --> 00:43:59,239
Speaker 1: you have seven other games that you just rotate through

870
00:43:59,320 --> 00:44:02,719
Speaker 1: conference games, so you pretty much play the entire conference

871
00:44:02,840 --> 00:44:06,600
Speaker 1: every two years. And then you have the other format,

872
00:44:06,640 --> 00:44:09,120
Speaker 1: and that's the six to three format, and that would

873
00:44:09,160 --> 00:44:13,400
Speaker 1: be three permanent fixed opponents, and then you rotate six

874
00:44:13,719 --> 00:44:17,040
Speaker 1: conference opponents through. I'm just going to give you very

875
00:44:17,080 --> 00:44:19,759
Speaker 1: quickly what stands out about each one of them. With

876
00:44:19,840 --> 00:44:23,319
Speaker 1: the seven to one format, a lot of folks, well

877
00:44:23,440 --> 00:44:26,319
Speaker 1: let me rephrase, some folks in the SEC like it

878
00:44:26,560 --> 00:44:30,200
Speaker 1: because it keeps them at eight conference games. There are

879
00:44:30,200 --> 00:44:33,480
Speaker 1: some opinions in the SEC that they should not expand

880
00:44:33,520 --> 00:44:36,040
Speaker 1: to nine games. We already play in the toughest conference.

881
00:44:36,520 --> 00:44:39,960
Speaker 1: Why should we voluntarily make it tougher on ourselves. That's

882
00:44:40,000 --> 00:44:42,160
Speaker 1: the talking point. It's not shared by everyone, but it

883
00:44:42,200 --> 00:44:46,000
Speaker 1: is shared by some people. This would the argument is

884
00:44:46,520 --> 00:44:49,279
Speaker 1: not force a lot of programs to cancel a lot

885
00:44:49,280 --> 00:44:51,719
Speaker 1: of already scheduled out of conference games. To give you

886
00:44:51,719 --> 00:44:55,240
Speaker 1: an idea, between twenty twenty five and twenty thirty seven,

887
00:44:55,880 --> 00:44:58,919
Speaker 1: the conference has a combined one hundred and eighty two

888
00:44:58,960 --> 00:45:02,839
Speaker 1: out of conference game schedule. Some of the thinking is, well,

889
00:45:02,840 --> 00:45:05,160
Speaker 1: if we're gonna change our conference schedule and we're gonna

890
00:45:05,160 --> 00:45:07,880
Speaker 1: play nine conference games, we're gonna have to cancel some

891
00:45:07,920 --> 00:45:12,000
Speaker 1: of our previously scheduled out of conference games. Also, this

892
00:45:12,160 --> 00:45:14,680
Speaker 1: is clearly the biggest hang up. If you're a casual fan,

893
00:45:14,760 --> 00:45:18,600
Speaker 1: excuse me, a normal fan, you cannot have all of

894
00:45:18,640 --> 00:45:23,200
Speaker 1: your longtime rivalries fixed with this model. You cannot. For example,

895
00:45:23,400 --> 00:45:26,959
Speaker 1: Texas and Oklahoma are coming into the conference. They will

896
00:45:27,000 --> 00:45:30,320
Speaker 1: play every year. They will be each other's fixed opponent

897
00:45:30,480 --> 00:45:32,440
Speaker 1: in the seven to one format. But you know what

898
00:45:32,480 --> 00:45:34,600
Speaker 1: you would not get. You wouldn't get Texas A and

899
00:45:34,760 --> 00:45:38,200
Speaker 1: M versus Texas every year, which is a no brainer

900
00:45:38,800 --> 00:45:41,840
Speaker 1: of what should happen when you're adding Texas to the conference.

901
00:45:41,880 --> 00:45:45,240
Speaker 1: That A and m'sm. You would not get Bama Tennessee

902
00:45:45,280 --> 00:45:47,439
Speaker 1: every year. I know some of you are twenty years

903
00:45:47,440 --> 00:45:50,640
Speaker 1: old and say, big deal, Well, once upon a time children,

904
00:45:50,719 --> 00:45:52,680
Speaker 1: it was a big deal and it could be again.

905
00:45:53,719 --> 00:45:56,640
Speaker 1: Point being, there are some rivalry games you'd have to

906
00:45:56,640 --> 00:45:59,400
Speaker 1: give up in this format. Now, the six to three

907
00:45:59,560 --> 00:46:02,080
Speaker 1: format has far more support. I think this is the

908
00:46:02,080 --> 00:46:03,880
Speaker 1: one that's ultimately going to win out. That's the one

909
00:46:03,920 --> 00:46:07,400
Speaker 1: where you play nine conference games. That's the biggest takeaway,

910
00:46:07,840 --> 00:46:11,320
Speaker 1: three permanent rivals, and then you've got six rotational games.

911
00:46:11,480 --> 00:46:14,680
Speaker 1: There's far more support for this. TV is rooting for it.

912
00:46:15,080 --> 00:46:17,399
Speaker 1: Most fan bases and fans would root for it because

913
00:46:17,440 --> 00:46:20,360
Speaker 1: it gives you a better inventory of games. It justifies

914
00:46:20,719 --> 00:46:23,879
Speaker 1: the rising price you pay for tickets. It does away

915
00:46:23,960 --> 00:46:27,359
Speaker 1: with one more cupcake game if you will, per year.

916
00:46:27,680 --> 00:46:32,279
Speaker 1: All rivalries are maintained in this format. What's the downside?

917
00:46:32,320 --> 00:46:34,239
Speaker 1: It just sounds like a bunch of positives, right, Well,

918
00:46:34,880 --> 00:46:40,200
Speaker 1: attrition is the downside, cause it's tough. It's easy to say,

919
00:46:40,360 --> 00:46:42,560
Speaker 1: let's just add a conference game. It's a lot tougher

920
00:46:42,600 --> 00:46:44,400
Speaker 1: to actually do it, especially if you play in a

921
00:46:44,440 --> 00:46:47,320
Speaker 1: stronger conference. They don't know what the college football playoff

922
00:46:47,360 --> 00:46:49,160
Speaker 1: situation is going to be. You know, a lot of

923
00:46:49,160 --> 00:46:52,680
Speaker 1: folks in the SEC have liked staying at eight because

924
00:46:52,719 --> 00:46:54,840
Speaker 1: they say, well, wait, As long as that playoff committee

925
00:46:54,880 --> 00:46:56,160
Speaker 1: just looks at a win as a win and a

926
00:46:56,160 --> 00:46:59,319
Speaker 1: loss as a loss, why would we voluntarily make it

927
00:46:59,360 --> 00:47:02,400
Speaker 1: tougher on our and lessen the percentage chance that the

928
00:47:02,440 --> 00:47:05,520
Speaker 1: team's going undefeated in our conference when we don't have to.

929
00:47:05,920 --> 00:47:08,000
Speaker 1: As long as that thing's at four teams. Now, if

930
00:47:08,000 --> 00:47:10,879
Speaker 1: it expands to twelve teams, a lot of people don't

931
00:47:10,880 --> 00:47:13,400
Speaker 1: have that reservation anymore. But we don't know. I just

932
00:47:13,440 --> 00:47:15,680
Speaker 1: told you five minutes ago. No one knows what the

933
00:47:15,680 --> 00:47:17,880
Speaker 1: playoff format is going to be. To give you an

934
00:47:17,880 --> 00:47:21,319
Speaker 1: idea of what I mean by attrition, though, I want

935
00:47:21,360 --> 00:47:23,760
Speaker 1: you to listen to this, don't want you to imagine

936
00:47:23,760 --> 00:47:27,399
Speaker 1: this with me. In twenty twenty six, not too long

937
00:47:27,400 --> 00:47:32,320
Speaker 1: from now. Georgia has three out of conference games already

938
00:47:32,320 --> 00:47:36,359
Speaker 1: scheduled against Georgia Tech. They play them every year, Louisville

939
00:47:36,560 --> 00:47:39,279
Speaker 1: and UCLA. All those games are happening in the same

940
00:47:39,360 --> 00:47:41,960
Speaker 1: year at least as of now. If you add a

941
00:47:42,400 --> 00:47:46,520
Speaker 1: ninth conference game. I just read you Georgia's entire schedule

942
00:47:46,920 --> 00:47:51,240
Speaker 1: nine SEC games Georgia Tech, Louisville, and UCLA. You notice

943
00:47:51,280 --> 00:47:54,560
Speaker 1: what there wasn't there? There wasn't a single G five team.

944
00:47:54,800 --> 00:47:58,240
Speaker 1: There certainly wasn't an FCS team. It's just twelve games

945
00:47:58,400 --> 00:48:02,359
Speaker 1: against power five competition. You may think to yourself, good, good,

946
00:48:02,400 --> 00:48:06,160
Speaker 1: what's the downside? The downside is if everyone else in

947
00:48:06,200 --> 00:48:08,919
Speaker 1: the country is not doing the same thing. I can't

948
00:48:08,920 --> 00:48:11,480
Speaker 1: believe I'm gonna say this, but it's not fair to

949
00:48:11,480 --> 00:48:14,359
Speaker 1: the poor little SEC program. And I'm sure that every

950
00:48:14,360 --> 00:48:17,719
Speaker 1: one of you share that cinement. My point is there

951
00:48:17,760 --> 00:48:19,440
Speaker 1: are some pros and cons with each that's why they

952
00:48:19,440 --> 00:48:21,279
Speaker 1: haven't arrived at a conclusion. But to go back to

953
00:48:21,320 --> 00:48:24,400
Speaker 1: the question, why does it sound like white noise? And

954
00:48:24,440 --> 00:48:26,600
Speaker 1: how do we slice through it? Well, that's it. There

955
00:48:26,600 --> 00:48:29,319
Speaker 1: are disagreements on two formats, and I just gave you

956
00:48:29,360 --> 00:48:32,759
Speaker 1: the essential pros and cons of each one. There you go.

957
00:48:32,880 --> 00:48:34,560
Speaker 1: I kind of get tired of talking about it, but

958
00:48:34,640 --> 00:48:36,799
Speaker 1: it doesn't really matter because it's your show. It's not

959
00:48:36,880 --> 00:48:39,719
Speaker 1: my show. Last thing I wanted to hit on here,

960
00:48:40,440 --> 00:48:43,720
Speaker 1: really good question. We should have thought about this before

961
00:48:43,719 --> 00:48:46,360
Speaker 1: one of you had to ask about it. Travis is

962
00:48:46,400 --> 00:48:49,359
Speaker 1: in Mason, Ohio. He said, are there any sleepers you're

963
00:48:49,400 --> 00:48:52,760
Speaker 1: watching from the transfer portal? Yes? Yes, yes, and yes

964
00:48:52,840 --> 00:48:54,919
Speaker 1: I've got four of them. I want you to write

965
00:48:54,960 --> 00:48:57,239
Speaker 1: these names down because these are big ones. These are

966
00:48:57,239 --> 00:49:01,439
Speaker 1: going to be impact players. Cameron Word is the first one.

967
00:49:01,440 --> 00:49:05,080
Speaker 1: He's a quarterback, he's from Incarnate Word, and he is

968
00:49:05,120 --> 00:49:07,880
Speaker 1: now going to play his college football at Washington State.

969
00:49:08,840 --> 00:49:11,240
Speaker 1: Why don't you know anything about him? The first clue

970
00:49:11,280 --> 00:49:14,640
Speaker 1: is Incarnate Word. Admittedly. The second reason is when he

971
00:49:14,680 --> 00:49:16,880
Speaker 1: came out of high school, he ran triple option offenses

972
00:49:17,120 --> 00:49:19,719
Speaker 1: and so he had one offer. He took it, but

973
00:49:19,760 --> 00:49:22,479
Speaker 1: then he became the Let's see, he was the top

974
00:49:22,600 --> 00:49:26,560
Speaker 1: FCS freshman in twenty twenty, he led FCS in touchdown

975
00:49:26,600 --> 00:49:29,600
Speaker 1: passes last year, and now he goes to Washington State.

976
00:49:29,600 --> 00:49:31,520
Speaker 1: And here's a little cherry on top that I don't

977
00:49:31,520 --> 00:49:34,040
Speaker 1: think many people are aware of. His head coach at

978
00:49:34,080 --> 00:49:36,840
Speaker 1: Incarnate Word went with him. He is now also the

979
00:49:36,880 --> 00:49:41,319
Speaker 1: offensive coordinator at Washington State, so there's some familiarity there.

980
00:49:41,760 --> 00:49:45,440
Speaker 1: You've got a guy who, although maybe raw, especially relative

981
00:49:45,480 --> 00:49:47,920
Speaker 1: to the Power five level, is viewed as a potential

982
00:49:48,000 --> 00:49:51,040
Speaker 1: NFL guy down the road. Hardly anyone knows about him

983
00:49:51,040 --> 00:49:53,880
Speaker 1: aside from diehard college football fans. So if you're wanting

984
00:49:53,920 --> 00:49:57,719
Speaker 1: to look out West, especially at a more obscure program,

985
00:49:57,960 --> 00:50:00,720
Speaker 1: all due respect and you're wanting to sound really smart

986
00:50:00,760 --> 00:50:03,759
Speaker 1: around that water cooler. Talk about Cameron Ward over the

987
00:50:03,760 --> 00:50:06,120
Speaker 1: next few weeks, because there will be, and I told

988
00:50:06,160 --> 00:50:08,200
Speaker 1: you some moment several of them. As a matter of fact,

989
00:50:08,200 --> 00:50:11,960
Speaker 1: this fall. Cameron Ward, that's the first one I'm looking at. Second,

990
00:50:12,520 --> 00:50:16,239
Speaker 1: Eric Gentry, linebacker, just went to Southern cal by way

991
00:50:16,239 --> 00:50:19,120
Speaker 1: of Arizona State. He was six six, two hundred coming

992
00:50:19,160 --> 00:50:22,239
Speaker 1: out of high school. He was in Philadelphia, so he

993
00:50:22,400 --> 00:50:25,839
Speaker 1: was He was a three star in our rankings only

994
00:50:25,840 --> 00:50:28,720
Speaker 1: because he didn't have the prototypical size and he probably

995
00:50:28,760 --> 00:50:31,440
Speaker 1: missed out on a lot of big offers because folks

996
00:50:31,480 --> 00:50:33,480
Speaker 1: looked at him as more a project. You're gonna have

997
00:50:33,480 --> 00:50:35,000
Speaker 1: to put some weight on him, probably not going to

998
00:50:35,080 --> 00:50:37,359
Speaker 1: play until a second or third year. Well, all he

999
00:50:37,400 --> 00:50:40,719
Speaker 1: did was garner true Freshman All American Award honors. Last

1000
00:50:40,760 --> 00:50:44,120
Speaker 1: year at Arizona State at linebacker, he had forty five tackles,

1001
00:50:44,160 --> 00:50:46,799
Speaker 1: five tackles for laws, had a sack. N He's going

1002
00:50:46,800 --> 00:50:48,920
Speaker 1: to USC. You know what they need at USC. They

1003
00:50:48,960 --> 00:50:51,680
Speaker 1: don't need any more receivers. They do need difference makers

1004
00:50:51,680 --> 00:50:54,239
Speaker 1: on defense, and Eric Gentry is going to be one

1005
00:50:54,280 --> 00:50:57,000
Speaker 1: of those. They added Shane Lee from Alabama to so

1006
00:50:57,239 --> 00:51:00,799
Speaker 1: I'm really interested to see what their linebacker core looks like.

1007
00:51:01,320 --> 00:51:02,719
Speaker 1: He could be an edge guy, he could be an

1008
00:51:02,760 --> 00:51:05,120
Speaker 1: inside linebacker. It just all depends on how it shakes

1009
00:51:05,160 --> 00:51:07,799
Speaker 1: out there. But he's got some versatility about himself. He's

1010
00:51:07,840 --> 00:51:11,120
Speaker 1: also got probably a much higher ceiling even than you've

1011
00:51:11,120 --> 00:51:14,480
Speaker 1: seen from him so far. He's probably still frame wise

1012
00:51:14,560 --> 00:51:19,160
Speaker 1: not what he can be ultimately. Jared Ivy is another

1013
00:51:19,239 --> 00:51:21,160
Speaker 1: name I want you to pay attention to. This is

1014
00:51:21,200 --> 00:51:25,040
Speaker 1: an edge rusher type. He was at Georgia Tech. I

1015
00:51:25,160 --> 00:51:29,000
Speaker 1: assume unless you were diehard Georgia Tech fan last year,

1016
00:51:29,160 --> 00:51:32,080
Speaker 1: you probably don't know a lot about him. In twenty

1017
00:51:32,120 --> 00:51:34,440
Speaker 1: twenty one, played eleven games. He had forty tackles, one

1018
00:51:34,480 --> 00:51:37,960
Speaker 1: and a half sacks. Everyone's talking about Jackson Dart at

1019
00:51:38,000 --> 00:51:40,399
Speaker 1: ole Miss. Everyone's talking about Zach Evans. We are too.

1020
00:51:40,440 --> 00:51:42,279
Speaker 1: I'm high on both of them. So those are the

1021
00:51:42,320 --> 00:51:45,720
Speaker 1: most high profile portal guys that ole Miss got. Jared

1022
00:51:45,800 --> 00:51:48,160
Speaker 1: Ivy is a big time get, but he's on the

1023
00:51:48,200 --> 00:51:50,560
Speaker 1: defensive side. He's out of Georgia Tech. He's an edge rusher,

1024
00:51:51,320 --> 00:51:54,640
Speaker 1: not a household name. He is a guy though that

1025
00:51:54,719 --> 00:51:57,239
Speaker 1: in the NFL circles and the scouting circles, a lot

1026
00:51:57,239 --> 00:52:00,840
Speaker 1: of folks already are looking at and they're saying, Okay,

1027
00:52:01,200 --> 00:52:05,240
Speaker 1: still need to see a lot, But the intangibles, the characteristics,

1028
00:52:05,239 --> 00:52:09,399
Speaker 1: the critical traits, they're all there. He's six six twenty five,

1029
00:52:09,520 --> 00:52:12,680
Speaker 1: is a junior, so he's played some ball. He is versatile.

1030
00:52:13,120 --> 00:52:16,400
Speaker 1: You know, they've got new coordinators there and Chris Partridge

1031
00:52:16,440 --> 00:52:20,680
Speaker 1: is the new defensive coordinator at ole Miss. Versatility the

1032
00:52:20,800 --> 00:52:23,000
Speaker 1: name of the game with him, and it just so

1033
00:52:23,080 --> 00:52:26,400
Speaker 1: happens to be what Jared Ivy gives. You can do

1034
00:52:26,440 --> 00:52:28,760
Speaker 1: a lot of things in a lot of different looks

1035
00:52:28,760 --> 00:52:31,000
Speaker 1: for you. So Jared Ivy at ole Miss, I think

1036
00:52:31,080 --> 00:52:33,719
Speaker 1: is a name to watch. And also Montreal Johnson is

1037
00:52:33,760 --> 00:52:37,719
Speaker 1: a running back at Florida. Montreal Johnson was at Louisiana

1038
00:52:37,760 --> 00:52:40,640
Speaker 1: with Billy Napier. He's coming over just like Billy Napier

1039
00:52:40,680 --> 00:52:43,239
Speaker 1: is to Florida. He was Sunbelt Freshman of the Year

1040
00:52:43,360 --> 00:52:46,239
Speaker 1: at running back. Napier is very comfortable with him, and

1041
00:52:46,320 --> 00:52:48,719
Speaker 1: if you watch the spring game, you know there was

1042
00:52:48,719 --> 00:52:50,520
Speaker 1: a lot of running. There will be a lot of

1043
00:52:50,600 --> 00:52:53,719
Speaker 1: running the ball for Florida this year. But also if

1044
00:52:53,760 --> 00:52:56,640
Speaker 1: you look at tailback. Just look at the running back

1045
00:52:56,680 --> 00:52:59,400
Speaker 1: position for Florida. You've got Linguard, you got right, you

1046
00:52:59,440 --> 00:53:03,240
Speaker 1: got Demark Bowman there. I don't know who the feature

1047
00:53:03,239 --> 00:53:05,919
Speaker 1: back is. They've all had injury concerns too, all three

1048
00:53:05,960 --> 00:53:10,799
Speaker 1: of them. My guess, maybe not immediately or maybe so,

1049
00:53:11,040 --> 00:53:14,160
Speaker 1: but eventually I think Montreal Johnson can end up being

1050
00:53:14,239 --> 00:53:18,160
Speaker 1: the feature tailback down there. It's easy to say Billy

1051
00:53:18,200 --> 00:53:20,319
Speaker 1: Napier is the most comfortable with him. He's the most

1052
00:53:20,320 --> 00:53:23,480
Speaker 1: comfortable in this system, and he's also shown the ability

1053
00:53:23,520 --> 00:53:25,840
Speaker 1: to be a feature bag. So those are four names,

1054
00:53:25,880 --> 00:53:30,359
Speaker 1: Cameron Ward, Eric Gentry, Jared Ivy, Montreal Johnson. Those are

1055
00:53:30,480 --> 00:53:33,480
Speaker 1: portal sleepers that I think stand a very good chance

1056
00:53:33,840 --> 00:53:38,240
Speaker 1: of being integral parts of those four teams come this fall. Okay,

1057
00:53:38,920 --> 00:53:41,879
Speaker 1: we are a little bit faster than I thought. We

1058
00:53:41,880 --> 00:53:44,880
Speaker 1: were closing in on one hundred thousand subs on the

1059
00:53:44,920 --> 00:53:49,200
Speaker 1: YouTube channel, and I maintain because of management telling me,

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Speaker 1: I maintain there is a surprise coming once we hit

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Speaker 1: one hundred thousand. So not gonna be demonstrative about it.

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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna bang my fists. I wait until we're

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Speaker 1: off air to do that. But if you haven't already

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Speaker 1: stubbed to the YouTube channel, please do so. We're getting

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Speaker 1: a lot of them every day, so I thank you

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Speaker 1: guys for that. Also, on the podcast side of things,

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Speaker 1: we have no business being a top ten football podcast

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Speaker 1: in the world because that's not even our main source

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Speaker 1: of traffic. But yet we are a top ten football

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Speaker 1: podcast in the world. Thank you guys for that. Appreciate that.

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Speaker 1: So the best way to help us it's free of charge.

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Speaker 1: Sub Just subscribe wherever you listen or if you watch

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Speaker 1: on YouTube, subscribe. That's it, and that's all. The show

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Speaker 1: is going to be free now until forever, as long

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Speaker 1: as we can maintain what we're doing right now. Thank

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Speaker 1: you so much to you guys for everything that you

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Speaker 1: do for the show. We had the best. We had

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Speaker 1: an insane name. Let me just push that way. For

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Speaker 1: producer Jase, for director Colin, I'm Josh Pat have yourselves

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Speaker 1: a great start to your weekend. We'll be back here

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Speaker 1: Sunday night, same time. Until then, Comeless