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Speaker 2: We are loaded, sham packed as always because it's National

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Speaker 2: We sat here earlier in the day and we looked

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Speaker 3: Well, that's the impressive part about it. We went into

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Speaker 3: But he doesn't sign today. So when you take a

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Steve in Nashville today, by the way, could have

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Speaker 2: that I'm used to Steve. When you look at the

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Speaker 4: He's the best high school football player in college football.

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Speaker 2: All right, so your boy here has to catch a

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Speaker 1: I want to go to the number two class, Steve.

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Speaker 2: Actually, I want to stick with you for just a

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Speaker 2: So, Cooper Protect, I got good news for you before

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Speaker 3: I love Georgia's signing class. You definitely threw me off there,

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Speaker 2: I love those tight ends, man, because those tight ends,

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna make one last point on Oregon because it

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Speaker 3: Yeah, are you in?

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Speaker 2: Here's the thing, Okay, a lot of people are rubbed

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Speaker 3: Oregon or losing a guy like Keon Keeley to a

440
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Speaker 3: place like Alabama. If you get those guys in your program,

441
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Speaker 3: they change the whole perception in trajectory of your program.

442
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Speaker 3: And on the other side, listen, there is a lot

443
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Speaker 3: of questions about Brian Kelly. A lot of videos out

444
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Speaker 3: there him dancing, A lot of people question marks the guy.

445
00:19:36,440 --> 00:19:38,720
Speaker 3: His entire life has been a winner, and I think

446
00:19:38,760 --> 00:19:42,720
Speaker 3: it's fair to question his fit at LSU as a recruiter.

447
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Speaker 3: That being said, those questions to me have undoubtedly been

448
00:19:47,119 --> 00:19:50,960
Speaker 3: answered this year, this cycle, the number six ranked class

449
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Speaker 3: as of today right now. He did a tremendous job

450
00:19:53,920 --> 00:19:56,040
Speaker 3: on the offensive line. We talked about that, did a

451
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Speaker 3: really good job on the defensive line. You know the

452
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Speaker 3: other thing about this, three to four years from now,

453
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Speaker 3: when you look back on this class for Brian Kelly

454
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Speaker 3: and LSU top to bottom, is probably going to be

455
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Speaker 3: one of the best classes that they have because I

456
00:20:06,760 --> 00:20:09,640
Speaker 3: think the guys that they have signed here today are

457
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Speaker 3: going to state and develop. Sure, he lose a couple,

458
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Speaker 3: but I think these guys fit exactly what Brian Kelly

459
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Speaker 3: wants to do. I love what they're doing in baton rouge,

460
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Speaker 3: and I think, right now, this is what they need it.

461
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Speaker 3: And listen, a lot of people they get lost in

462
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Speaker 3: one through eight and a twenty five person class. It's

463
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Speaker 3: really about nine through twenty five. You got to have depth.

464
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Speaker 3: You've got to have too deep, especially when you get

465
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Speaker 3: in December.

466
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Speaker 2: Steve, I want toss it back to you now. Look,

467
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Speaker 2: this is the final time that I can talk to

468
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Speaker 2: you before we wrap the show, So I love you

469
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Speaker 2: in advance, but I want you to finish by talking

470
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Speaker 2: about this Penn State class. Because they're sitting here number thirteen.

471
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Speaker 2: It feels like they snuck around. They kind of lurked

472
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Speaker 2: in the conversation all day. They're not going to be

473
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Speaker 2: on the front of any kind of promotional headline.

474
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Speaker 1: Or graphic or whatnot.

475
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Speaker 2: This looks like a pretty good class, and we're also

476
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Speaker 2: building on top of the foundation that includes bona fide

477
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Speaker 2: five star talent at quarterback from the last class for

478
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Speaker 2: the next couple of years.

479
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Speaker 1: What do you think about him.

480
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Speaker 4: And perhaps the best running back room in college football?

481
00:21:04,160 --> 00:21:08,640
Speaker 4: You know, true freshman those guys, but Javin Williams, Alex Burtschmeier.

482
00:21:08,680 --> 00:21:10,920
Speaker 4: They go out and arguably land one of the best

483
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Speaker 4: tackle interior offensive lineman combinations in the country. They also

484
00:21:15,400 --> 00:21:19,159
Speaker 4: hit big at the linebacker position Tony Rojas, Kvan Keys.

485
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Speaker 4: I think they're guys that can keep the linebacker U

486
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Speaker 4: mantra in place for them. And even though they're still

487
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Speaker 4: waiting on a letter intent from Conrad Hussey, a top

488
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Speaker 4: two four to seven defensive back from the state of

489
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Speaker 4: Florida that Florida State's in the middle of it for.

490
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Speaker 4: They really hit big on some big time defensive backs,

491
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Speaker 4: King Mac from the Sunshine State, Elliott Washington, a former

492
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Speaker 4: Alabama commit, and then Cooper and I saw Dacari Nelson

493
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Speaker 4: at the Alabama Mississippi All Star Game. He's six foot three,

494
00:21:46,240 --> 00:21:48,600
Speaker 4: he's two hundred and three pounds. He had an outstanding

495
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Speaker 4: season on both sides of the ball. This is a

496
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Speaker 4: Penn State class that I think is one of the

497
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Speaker 4: better ones of the James Franklin era. You see guys

498
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Speaker 4: with a lot of traits, a lot of guys that

499
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Speaker 4: can run length, speed, and then you know they lost

500
00:22:01,760 --> 00:22:04,679
Speaker 4: their quarterback early on, but was able to go into

501
00:22:04,760 --> 00:22:07,720
Speaker 4: Iowa and get Jackson Smollick a nice pivot for them.

502
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Speaker 4: He came out to the elite eleven finals and had

503
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Speaker 4: a strong showing. So I think that this is a class.

504
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Speaker 4: You know. Look, Penn State, they're a program. They've been

505
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Speaker 4: in New Year sixteen. Now this is the fourth time

506
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Speaker 4: under James Franklin, and you mentioned it, Drew Aller. They

507
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Speaker 4: got maybe their franchise quarterback, potential first rounder down the road.

508
00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:27,399
Speaker 4: The time is now if they're ever going to bust

509
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Speaker 4: through and win the Big Ten again and get into

510
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Speaker 4: a college football playoff and be competitive in that arena,

511
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Speaker 4: this is a recruiting class that I think can help

512
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Speaker 4: them get there.

513
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Speaker 2: Steven unbutton those top buttons, have a safe drive back

514
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Speaker 2: to Indianapolis. Enjoy the foot or so if snowfall you

515
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Speaker 2: have coming your way.

516
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Speaker 1: You're a soldier. We appreciate your service.

517
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Speaker 4: Guys, Happy holidays, Happy New Year. CFLs.

518
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Speaker 1: What a face of the organization. Unbelievable, I mean, complete machine.

519
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Speaker 2: Okay, So what if I told you there are two

520
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Speaker 2: teams in the top twenty we barely mentioned today, one

521
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Speaker 2: of them South Carolina.

522
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Speaker 1: One is TCU. You would say what to me? Shame

523
00:23:03,960 --> 00:23:06,760
Speaker 1: on us? Yeah? Okay, Well, I mean it's about time, man.

524
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Speaker 3: These are my guys. Listen. I think everybody gets to today,

525
00:23:10,640 --> 00:23:14,080
Speaker 3: and it's easy to gravitate towards teams like Oregon. It's

526
00:23:14,119 --> 00:23:17,920
Speaker 3: easy to gravitate towards teams like Auburn new coach Dan

527
00:23:18,000 --> 00:23:20,520
Speaker 3: Lannet going into a second year. A lot to be

528
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Speaker 3: excited about with those programs. But to me, this is

529
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Speaker 3: a twelve month process, and sometimes even the twenty four

530
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Speaker 3: to thirty six month process in terms of building a

531
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Speaker 3: board coming all the way to this date and a

532
00:23:32,880 --> 00:23:35,120
Speaker 3: lot of sweat equity, a lot of work comes into it.

533
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Speaker 3: And the team. Two teams that I really wanted us

534
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Speaker 3: to talk about. For me, we're TCU in South Carolina,

535
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Speaker 3: and I love looking at the marriage of on field

536
00:23:45,800 --> 00:23:49,639
Speaker 3: success and can you carry that to recruiting success. And

537
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Speaker 3: when I look at TCU, you look at them last

538
00:23:51,480 --> 00:23:54,160
Speaker 3: year number forty five in the country, and you look

539
00:23:54,200 --> 00:23:56,080
Speaker 3: at the potential this year. Right now they're sitting at

540
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Speaker 3: number sixteen. I love what Sonny Dykes has obviously done

541
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Speaker 3: on the field this year. If you're a TCUFA, you

542
00:24:01,080 --> 00:24:03,480
Speaker 3: got to be a static about that. But looking at

543
00:24:03,480 --> 00:24:06,440
Speaker 3: TCU Marcus Deal, top two four to seven defensive lineman,

544
00:24:06,440 --> 00:24:09,320
Speaker 3: that's certainly going to help in the long term. Cordeale

545
00:24:09,359 --> 00:24:11,320
Speaker 3: Russell another guy out of the state of Texas that

546
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Speaker 3: I really love. Avian Carter helps beef up the front seven,

547
00:24:14,800 --> 00:24:18,000
Speaker 3: Jamel Johnson, a former Texas commit, the safety. And then

548
00:24:18,040 --> 00:24:21,639
Speaker 3: this kid, Max Carroll out of Tennessee TCU for whatever reason,

549
00:24:21,880 --> 00:24:23,719
Speaker 3: all the way going back to Jerry Hughes as a

550
00:24:23,760 --> 00:24:26,960
Speaker 3: reputation of taking these big jumbo athletes, they are two

551
00:24:26,960 --> 00:24:29,399
Speaker 3: way guys or three phase players and they figure him

552
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Speaker 3: out at the next level. I think this kid is

553
00:24:31,320 --> 00:24:34,000
Speaker 3: the next version of that. But to me, what I

554
00:24:34,080 --> 00:24:36,680
Speaker 3: love about TCU is what they've done in the transfer portal.

555
00:24:36,680 --> 00:24:38,600
Speaker 3: And I know this is a signing day show, but

556
00:24:38,760 --> 00:24:41,800
Speaker 3: already you match up with what they've done on the

557
00:24:41,840 --> 00:24:44,040
Speaker 3: high school acquisition side with what they've done on the

558
00:24:44,040 --> 00:24:49,520
Speaker 3: collegiate side. Tommy Brockmar highly recruited, goes to Alabama, bounces back.

559
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Speaker 3: He's at TCU. Jojo Earle same deal. Another guy highly recruited,

560
00:24:53,760 --> 00:24:56,640
Speaker 3: didn't work out, Now he's back at TCU. Jack Besh

561
00:24:56,680 --> 00:25:00,440
Speaker 3: from LSU had a great freshman season, talented room attritionan

562
00:25:00,480 --> 00:25:03,440
Speaker 3: there right. And then Avery Helm from Florida, another talented

563
00:25:03,480 --> 00:25:06,639
Speaker 3: guy out of Texas and guess what kicking the tires

564
00:25:06,640 --> 00:25:09,560
Speaker 3: on former five star receiver Chris Marshall to me, if

565
00:25:09,600 --> 00:25:11,959
Speaker 3: you're TCU and you want to say, how do we

566
00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:14,439
Speaker 3: stay in the conversation, this is it. You don't go

567
00:25:14,520 --> 00:25:16,359
Speaker 3: any further than what they're doing right now. I love

568
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Speaker 3: what they're doing.

569
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Speaker 1: It's a perfect confluence of events.

570
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Speaker 2: One of our favorite words on the show, because you

571
00:25:21,119 --> 00:25:23,480
Speaker 2: are well, you're in the Big Twelve. That happened a

572
00:25:23,520 --> 00:25:26,840
Speaker 2: while ago. Ou and Texas are exiting the Big Twelve,

573
00:25:26,880 --> 00:25:29,600
Speaker 2: which just leaves a ton of oxygen in the room

574
00:25:29,640 --> 00:25:32,320
Speaker 2: that used to not be there. You've also got yourself

575
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Speaker 2: in the middle of the transfer portal nil Era. Now

576
00:25:35,000 --> 00:25:37,199
Speaker 2: that means different things for different teams. If you've got

577
00:25:37,280 --> 00:25:39,240
Speaker 2: deep pockets, that's simple. That just means you can go

578
00:25:39,280 --> 00:25:42,199
Speaker 2: buy a class for TCU. What it means, especially in

579
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Speaker 2: the portal part of the transfer portal inil Era, is

580
00:25:45,520 --> 00:25:48,840
Speaker 2: there are fallback programs. What I mean by that is

581
00:25:48,960 --> 00:25:51,679
Speaker 2: someone who's pinpoint on the map just happens to be

582
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Speaker 2: perfectly located the Metroplex and the three hour radius around

583
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Speaker 2: said area.

584
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Speaker 1: Two areas in the safe sentence.

585
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Speaker 2: Is a place where a lot of kids come from. Naturally,

586
00:26:01,760 --> 00:26:04,280
Speaker 2: most of them leave, especially if you're talking about TCU,

587
00:26:04,280 --> 00:26:06,240
Speaker 2: and they go elsewhere, just like a lot of South

588
00:26:06,240 --> 00:26:08,240
Speaker 2: Florida kids leave, just like a lot of Southern California

589
00:26:08,280 --> 00:26:11,760
Speaker 2: kids leave. Well, inevitably a percentage of it won't work out,

590
00:26:11,960 --> 00:26:14,800
Speaker 2: and they will look to inevitably go somewhere else. In

591
00:26:14,800 --> 00:26:16,359
Speaker 2: the portal, well, a lot of them just want to

592
00:26:16,400 --> 00:26:18,960
Speaker 2: go back closer to home. You just happen to be there.

593
00:26:19,160 --> 00:26:21,560
Speaker 2: TCU just happens to be there. I think Miami's gonna

594
00:26:21,560 --> 00:26:24,280
Speaker 2: benefit from this. I think UCLA could end up being

595
00:26:24,320 --> 00:26:26,800
Speaker 2: a massive beneficiary from this. And it's not that those

596
00:26:26,800 --> 00:26:31,000
Speaker 2: programs have been radically overhauled. Sure there's differences there in

597
00:26:31,000 --> 00:26:34,119
Speaker 2: head coach and whatnot, but it's not that overall, if

598
00:26:34,160 --> 00:26:37,320
Speaker 2: you open up the hood it looks totally different. It's

599
00:26:37,359 --> 00:26:39,439
Speaker 2: that the road they're on is different now, which is

600
00:26:39,480 --> 00:26:41,159
Speaker 2: my most powerful metaphor of the day, and I'm right

601
00:26:41,160 --> 00:26:44,600
Speaker 2: in the middle of making proud of myself. But TCU

602
00:26:44,720 --> 00:26:47,119
Speaker 2: is someone you really better be careful with moving forward,

603
00:26:47,160 --> 00:26:49,760
Speaker 2: because they're going to be in a situation where they

604
00:26:49,760 --> 00:26:52,200
Speaker 2: can win the Big Twelve any year. Therefore, they're gonna

605
00:26:52,200 --> 00:26:54,720
Speaker 2: be in the conversation especially when we expand this thing

606
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Speaker 2: any year, and you know as well as anyone, I

607
00:26:57,240 --> 00:26:59,760
Speaker 2: push back on a lot of this playoff access is

608
00:26:59,800 --> 00:27:03,280
Speaker 2: going to lead to recruiting inflation for a lot of programs.

609
00:27:03,880 --> 00:27:05,800
Speaker 2: This is the kind of program that benefits from it.

610
00:27:05,920 --> 00:27:09,480
Speaker 2: Notice it's already happening before they expand the playoff.

611
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Speaker 3: They're a scary team. They can kind of sit back

612
00:27:12,200 --> 00:27:15,520
Speaker 3: and be very choosy about who they want. And you

613
00:27:15,560 --> 00:27:17,440
Speaker 3: talk about the influx of talent with a couple of

614
00:27:17,480 --> 00:27:20,080
Speaker 3: these guys coming over from the SEC, all of these

615
00:27:20,080 --> 00:27:23,199
Speaker 3: guys coming over from the SEC, We've talked about it.

616
00:27:23,240 --> 00:27:25,120
Speaker 3: I think this is the recipe for them going forward.

617
00:27:25,119 --> 00:27:26,639
Speaker 3: The other team, I wanted to talk about eight and

618
00:27:26,680 --> 00:27:30,680
Speaker 3: four this season, seven and six last season, and people say, okay, listen,

619
00:27:30,720 --> 00:27:32,199
Speaker 3: it was kind of an up and down road for

620
00:27:32,240 --> 00:27:36,080
Speaker 3: Shane Beemer year one, but they exceeded expectations. They win

621
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Speaker 3: seven games, They go out, they win the Duke's Mayo

622
00:27:39,200 --> 00:27:41,639
Speaker 3: Bowl against North Carolina, and what does he do. He

623
00:27:41,760 --> 00:27:44,760
Speaker 3: takes all that momentum from what he built last year

624
00:27:44,760 --> 00:27:47,240
Speaker 3: in twenty twenty one and takes it into the offseason.

625
00:27:47,280 --> 00:27:50,360
Speaker 3: They go eight and four, win one more game than

626
00:27:50,600 --> 00:27:53,360
Speaker 3: they did last season and they beat Clemson and now

627
00:27:53,400 --> 00:27:55,760
Speaker 3: you look at South Carolina, they have eight top two

628
00:27:55,800 --> 00:27:59,040
Speaker 3: four seven commitments, which for South Carolina, that's saying a

629
00:27:59,040 --> 00:28:02,080
Speaker 3: lot about the job Shane Beemer and his staff have done.

630
00:28:02,119 --> 00:28:04,119
Speaker 3: But to me, it's about what they've done in the

631
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Speaker 3: front seven, starting with top two four to seven defensive

632
00:28:07,280 --> 00:28:10,159
Speaker 3: lineman Xavier McLoud in the middle. Also a guy like

633
00:28:10,200 --> 00:28:12,920
Speaker 3: Pop Howard who they had to beat Florida, and Billy

634
00:28:12,960 --> 00:28:15,159
Speaker 3: napier On out of the state of Florida, Desmi and

635
00:28:15,240 --> 00:28:19,080
Speaker 3: Umiyuzulu from the DMV, A long six to six developmental

636
00:28:19,160 --> 00:28:22,520
Speaker 3: webside pass Rusher. I mean, I love their class, Kari Swain,

637
00:28:22,600 --> 00:28:24,480
Speaker 3: who it looks like they're going to hang on to.

638
00:28:25,720 --> 00:28:28,080
Speaker 3: We talk about high weight speed a lot, right, and

639
00:28:28,119 --> 00:28:30,359
Speaker 3: how do you break through if you're a team like

640
00:28:30,440 --> 00:28:32,879
Speaker 3: South Carolina, who's a team that's thought of as a

641
00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:37,119
Speaker 3: second tier challenger in the SEC East. This is how

642
00:28:37,200 --> 00:28:39,479
Speaker 3: you do it, and you take it cycle by cycle,

643
00:28:39,520 --> 00:28:42,160
Speaker 3: and you continue to stack these classes and you have

644
00:28:42,200 --> 00:28:44,320
Speaker 3: an upward trajectory and you got to make next year

645
00:28:44,360 --> 00:28:46,200
Speaker 3: better than this year. And if they continue to do that,

646
00:28:46,360 --> 00:28:47,680
Speaker 3: they're going to be a factor They're.

647
00:28:47,520 --> 00:28:49,240
Speaker 2: Going to be a factor in their own state. By

648
00:28:49,280 --> 00:28:51,400
Speaker 2: the way, I know they don't compete with Clemson in

649
00:28:51,440 --> 00:28:53,600
Speaker 2: the SEC, but every other day of the year they do.

650
00:28:54,160 --> 00:28:55,200
Speaker 1: They just beat them on the field.

651
00:28:55,240 --> 00:28:58,040
Speaker 2: This past year, these classes now start to look more

652
00:28:58,040 --> 00:29:00,240
Speaker 2: and more comparable. You need to stack those class is

653
00:29:00,280 --> 00:29:02,400
Speaker 2: as you just said. But I was just doing radio

654
00:29:02,560 --> 00:29:04,600
Speaker 2: in Greenville a little while ago, and we were talking

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Speaker 2: about how how that gap would close. Well, it closes

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Speaker 2: with days like today. It closes with days like what

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Speaker 2: happened during.

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Speaker 1: Rivalry week this past year. Okay, I got to get

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Speaker 1: to the airport really really soon.

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Speaker 2: But some final thoughts here, I think it's it's as usual.

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Speaker 2: It's staggering how much of the day we spend talking

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Speaker 2: about the SEC, but it's because largely those are the

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Speaker 2: programs that make the biggest move on signing day. I

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Speaker 2: was fascinated and continue to be with what happens in

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Speaker 2: the state of Florida. I really want to see what

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Speaker 2: happens with CORMONI McLain. I really want to see with

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Speaker 2: portal kids like Travis Hunter what happens. Some final thoughts

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Speaker 2: as we turn the lights out here on signing day.

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Speaker 3: I'm fascinated to see what happens with Miami. There's going

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Speaker 3: to be a lot of expectations for this team on

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Speaker 3: the field this season because a lot of the guys

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Speaker 3: that they're bringing in are really an anomaly. And what

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Speaker 3: I mean by that, guys like Francis Mauigoa, guys with

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Speaker 3: Samson Oakinwolla, they come with expectations. These guys are going

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Speaker 3: to be expected to play immediately in Quarrel Gables, Cormonia McClain.

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Speaker 3: On the other side, it is an immensely talented class

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Speaker 3: that he's got coming in. I'm fascinated to see Texas

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Speaker 3: a and m another team. I'm kind of wondering, all right,

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Speaker 3: how do they pick up the pieces from last year?

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Speaker 1: Right?

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Speaker 3: And they had a good class today. They didn't have

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Speaker 3: the volume of what they had last year it was

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Speaker 3: a historic class, but they still have really good pieces

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Speaker 3: coming into College. Station Ruben Owens, the number one running

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Speaker 3: back in the country, barely even talked about him. The

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Speaker 3: other thing I'll say, I thought it was a really

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Speaker 3: really good day for Texas, you know, to be able

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Speaker 3: to have Anthony Hill in the middle, a guy that

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Speaker 3: I think is a true modern three down linebacker. And

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Speaker 3: then be able to compliment him with a guy like

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Speaker 3: Tassilia Kna who you got to beat Oklahoma for, and

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Speaker 3: then Derek Williams from the state of Louisiana that you know,

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Speaker 3: there were a lot of teams pushing for LSU include

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Speaker 3: it to be able to get him in that class,

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Speaker 3: similar to how we talk about some of these other

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Speaker 3: teams about Josh Hipelin Tennessee that I'm not really concerned

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Speaker 3: with Texas in offensive firepower in how they stack up.

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Speaker 3: I think we've seen that they're very capable there. Can

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Speaker 3: they do it defensively on the biggest state when it counts,

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Speaker 3: That's my question. But a lot of fireworks, man. And

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Speaker 3: I'm excited about Oregon too.

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Speaker 1: Great day, nice, nicely spread by the way. You know,

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Speaker 1: we cover the country. There.

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Speaker 3: One last thing, go for it, Utah. They don't get

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Speaker 3: enough credit. I love the job that they do. Kyle Whittingham, Listen,

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Speaker 3: I worked in the PAC twelve.

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Speaker 1: There was no.

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Speaker 3: One man that I think people feared more in respect

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Speaker 3: it more than Kyle Whittingham. And every year what they

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Speaker 3: do they take players that, with all due respect, aren't

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Speaker 3: as highly recruited. They line up from you and they

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Speaker 3: take it to you for four quarters in sixty minutes.

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Speaker 3: And guess what. Four guys top two four to seven

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Speaker 3: this year. And there's a ton of guys that we're

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Speaker 3: not even going to talk about tonight that are going

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Speaker 3: to be really, really good players. But they're losing Clark Phillips,

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Speaker 3: this Smith Snowden kid that they got from Utah, another

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Speaker 3: five eight and a half nickel who plays a lot

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Speaker 3: bigger than his size. I love what the utes are doing, man,

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Speaker 3: I love just why these teams when they recruit to

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Speaker 3: their identity. That gets me fired.

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Speaker 1: I mean, they're hanging another PAC twelve championship band are

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Speaker 1: out there, so they're doing something.

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Speaker 3: Second year straight.

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Speaker 1: Take it to the airport in time, we'll see. We

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Speaker 1: appreciate you guys.

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Speaker 2: made some exceptions. That's one I highly encourage you to

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Speaker 2: the airport. I'm Josh Baiate. Thank you so much for watching.

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