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Speaker 1: And welcome in. Lake Kick is Live. It is Sunday Night,

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Speaker 1: August thirtieth, of Our Lord twenty twenty. When I say

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Speaker 1: jam packed, I mean we are in the wall to

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Speaker 1: a jam packed week, and we've got a jam packed

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Speaker 1: show tonight. Jamar Chase has opted out at LSU. We're

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Speaker 1: We're still playing college football, so we're going to pretty

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Speaker 1: much every conference tonight, and we'll give you some behind

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Speaker 1: some stuff you're curious about. I'm going to talk about

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Speaker 1: the biggest mystery team for my money in the Power

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Speaker 1: the latest on what has become an all too familiar

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Speaker 1: topic on this show, and that is just Big ten,

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Speaker 1: and we appreciate it, But it's some alternate universe where

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Speaker 1: actually being critical of the conference, and I think rightfully critical,

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Speaker 1: So let's get it started. Twenty twenty was it was

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Speaker 1: on full display today in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. If you

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Speaker 1: miss the news, Jamar Chase would have been a star

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Speaker 1: He is considered a consensus first round pick. Even if

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Speaker 1: this is the biggest challenge of edwar Juran's head coaching career.

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Speaker 1: did last year. But here's particularly what to look forward

430
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Speaker 1: Texas and now we tie it back to what's been

431
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Speaker 1: happening in these scrimmages in Austin. They are not what

432
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Speaker 1: LSU was at the quarterback position last year. Ellinger is

433
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Speaker 1: a multi year starter and he has a specific skill set.

434
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Speaker 1: He's not the passer that Joe Burrow was, but what

435
00:21:00,280 --> 00:21:02,399
Speaker 1: he gives up there maybe he makes up for a

436
00:21:02,440 --> 00:21:05,600
Speaker 1: little bit more with his toughness, with his running ability.

437
00:21:05,720 --> 00:21:08,040
Speaker 1: You can incorporate different run elements with a guy like

438
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Speaker 1: him that maybe you couldn't with Joe Burrow. Their running

439
00:21:10,760 --> 00:21:12,920
Speaker 1: backs are very good. They got three that they think

440
00:21:12,920 --> 00:21:14,520
Speaker 1: they can win with right now. And we've talked about

441
00:21:14,600 --> 00:21:16,720
Speaker 1: Rashan Johnson and the other two and we've talked about

442
00:21:16,760 --> 00:21:18,920
Speaker 1: them plenty. But I was listening to Tom Herman talk

443
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Speaker 1: the other day and this is what kind of caught

444
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Speaker 1: my ear when you tie it into what you know

445
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Speaker 1: they've been focused on in the off season. Versatility is

446
00:21:26,440 --> 00:21:28,600
Speaker 1: the name of the game. That's what allowed LSU to

447
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Speaker 1: do what they did last year. Talent and versatility and

448
00:21:31,680 --> 00:21:33,879
Speaker 1: being able to pretty much throw whatever you want to

449
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Speaker 1: from a personnel and pre snap look at a defense

450
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Speaker 1: and never have the substitute. You got to have really

451
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Speaker 1: versatile pieces at running back and at tight end specifically

452
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Speaker 1: to do that. And so with that in mind, Tom

453
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Speaker 1: Herman steps to the podium the other day and says,

454
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Speaker 1: you know what I really like about our tight ends.

455
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Speaker 1: They can play fullback, they can play tight end, they

456
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Speaker 1: can play slot receiver. Combining that with what we know

457
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Speaker 1: they have in the versatility department at running back, that

458
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Speaker 1: would excite me if I was a Texas fan, knowing

459
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Speaker 1: that it doesn't look like we're giving up forty points

460
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Speaker 1: per game defensively this year. Looks like we're really good there,

461
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Speaker 1: so we don't have to hang fifty to try and

462
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Speaker 1: win a game. Even in the Big Twelve, We're not

463
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Speaker 1: going to have to this year. And for that matter,

464
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Speaker 1: I think there's a little bit of a defensive overhaul

465
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Speaker 1: happening in Austin and Norman. Just something to tuck away

466
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Speaker 1: for future Big Twelve reference. But depth is great. Depth

467
00:22:20,880 --> 00:22:24,160
Speaker 1: is a wonderful thing to have, But in today's college football,

468
00:22:24,240 --> 00:22:26,560
Speaker 1: if you want to win national championships, you better have

469
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Speaker 1: versatility along with that depth. Cause if you've got seventeen

470
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Speaker 1: dudes at running back who were all former five stars,

471
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Speaker 1: but they have the exact same skill set and it

472
00:22:35,320 --> 00:22:37,359
Speaker 1: doesn't really translate to being a good receiver out of

473
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Speaker 1: the backfield. I'm not so sure you're going where you

474
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Speaker 1: think you're going, regardless of how much talent you have

475
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Speaker 1: on that roster. Give me some versatility. I think Texas

476
00:22:45,880 --> 00:22:49,159
Speaker 1: has about as good a versatile group of offensive players

477
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Speaker 1: this year as they've had in quite a while. So

478
00:22:51,480 --> 00:22:55,480
Speaker 1: there is definite reason to be excited about Texas. Now,

479
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Speaker 1: as I told you to start the show, we have

480
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Speaker 1: several different features coming up. We won't even be able

481
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Speaker 1: to fit on this show, so you'll want to subscribe

482
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Speaker 1: to the twenty four seven Sports YouTube channel. It's easy.

483
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Speaker 1: click subscribe. It's free. We never ask you to do

485
00:23:10,800 --> 00:23:14,159
Speaker 1: anything that cost any money. And so I told you

486
00:23:14,200 --> 00:23:16,960
Speaker 1: that we're going to start doing grand season previews. These

487
00:23:16,960 --> 00:23:18,960
Speaker 1: are really fun, like they're really in depth. It takes

488
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Speaker 1: a little while to produce them, but they're really fun.

489
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Speaker 1: We do everything in these grand season previews. We do

490
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Speaker 1: our own strength of schedule breakdown, which is much different

491
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Speaker 1: than most other people's strength of schedule. We do the

492
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Speaker 1: biggest questions, We do depth chart analysis, We do a

493
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Speaker 1: best worst, and most likely projection for your final record,

494
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Speaker 1: and so I've been doing some pre work on that,

495
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Speaker 1: and I was looking at Auburn yesterday and it occurred

496
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Speaker 1: to me that, yet again, this looks like the most

497
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Speaker 1: unpredictable team in the entire Power five level of college football.

498
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Speaker 1: This year. Auburn always presses the threshold on our best,

499
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Speaker 1: worst and most likely. It's easy to say, oh, your

500
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Speaker 1: best case is ten, No, your worst case is two

501
00:24:01,240 --> 00:24:02,800
Speaker 1: and eight. Well, there's not a whole lot of skill

502
00:24:02,840 --> 00:24:04,720
Speaker 1: in that. So normally I don't like to have any

503
00:24:04,720 --> 00:24:07,359
Speaker 1: more than maybe a four or five game threshold between

504
00:24:07,359 --> 00:24:10,640
Speaker 1: the best and the worst case. Auburn always pushes that

505
00:24:10,960 --> 00:24:13,800
Speaker 1: because it seems like every year they're capable of having

506
00:24:13,840 --> 00:24:15,800
Speaker 1: what we call a pop season, which is where you

507
00:24:15,840 --> 00:24:18,680
Speaker 1: know they pop up in the college football playoff conversation

508
00:24:18,760 --> 00:24:20,600
Speaker 1: until very late in the year, or they could have

509
00:24:20,600 --> 00:24:24,439
Speaker 1: a total disaster. And it always inevitably Auburn is that

510
00:24:24,480 --> 00:24:27,160
Speaker 1: team where you're sitting there in late August as we are,

511
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Speaker 1: and you're saying, you know what Auburn could do this year.

512
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Speaker 1: They could sneak around and they could wind up in

513
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Speaker 1: Atlanta playing for the SEC title. But I'll tell you

514
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Speaker 1: what else Auburn could do. Auburn could also crater horrifically

515
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Speaker 1: into the ground and have caused to fire every single

516
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Speaker 1: coach in that staff. Twenty twenty is no different. I

517
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Speaker 1: have no clue. No one, This is the point, No

518
00:24:45,560 --> 00:24:49,119
Speaker 1: one even associated with Auburn has any clue what to expect. Normally,

519
00:24:49,160 --> 00:24:51,520
Speaker 1: the people you would lean on for what you would

520
00:24:51,520 --> 00:24:54,520
Speaker 1: call inside information, they don't even know. And I don't

521
00:24:54,520 --> 00:24:57,040
Speaker 1: have a whole lot of inside information because Gus Malsan

522
00:24:57,080 --> 00:24:59,200
Speaker 1: has that place locked down tight in the Gemo right now,

523
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Speaker 1: So let's just set the stage. Think amongst yourselves. If

524
00:25:03,240 --> 00:25:06,040
Speaker 1: you're watching or listening right now, you probably have some

525
00:25:06,200 --> 00:25:08,440
Speaker 1: opinion of Auburn. If you're an Auburn fan, certainly you do.

526
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Speaker 1: What is it you think? Along with me? Because I'm

527
00:25:11,600 --> 00:25:13,639
Speaker 1: telling you right now, I have not heard many of

528
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Speaker 1: you tell me, Josh, I like them, I like them

529
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Speaker 1: to win the West, I like them to contend for

530
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Speaker 1: a playoff spot. Very few of you, a fringe minority

531
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Speaker 1: may have said that, but most of you haven't. But

532
00:25:23,240 --> 00:25:25,479
Speaker 1: most of you have also not told me are going

533
00:25:25,520 --> 00:25:27,600
Speaker 1: to be terrible this year. They are going to suck

534
00:25:27,640 --> 00:25:29,919
Speaker 1: water through a garden hose. No one's told me that,

535
00:25:30,200 --> 00:25:32,119
Speaker 1: which is kind of a convenient way of just saying

536
00:25:32,440 --> 00:25:34,960
Speaker 1: I don't know, kind of shrug your shoulders, I don't know.

537
00:25:35,280 --> 00:25:38,679
Speaker 1: Anything's possible. And yes, Kevin Garnett, anything is possible with

538
00:25:38,720 --> 00:25:41,000
Speaker 1: the Auburn Tigers this year. So no one's picking them

539
00:25:41,040 --> 00:25:44,240
Speaker 1: to bomb, no one's picking them to shine. So let

540
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Speaker 1: me tell you, as I was working through our best, worst,

541
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Speaker 1: and most likely for Auburn that will be coming up

542
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Speaker 1: in the Auburn Grand season preview in the next couple

543
00:25:51,720 --> 00:25:54,280
Speaker 1: of weeks, you've got sort of the angel devil on

544
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Speaker 1: either shoulder scenario. And let me tell you what the angel,

545
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Speaker 1: the little Orange and Blue angel is telling me. The

546
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Speaker 1: Orange and Blue angel who is presenting the best case

547
00:26:02,240 --> 00:26:04,679
Speaker 1: for Auburn, is telling me, Hey, Bo Nicks is returning

548
00:26:04,720 --> 00:26:08,400
Speaker 1: at quarterback. And that's a guy who is very underappreciated

549
00:26:08,800 --> 00:26:11,160
Speaker 1: just in terms of a raw skill set. I watched

550
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Speaker 1: him play in high school. He is extremely talented, and

551
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Speaker 1: last year he was pressed into duty starting action as

552
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Speaker 1: a true freshman, and he did exactly what a true

553
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Speaker 1: freshman did. He had some moments where he shined, and

554
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Speaker 1: he had some moments where he was horrible, so consistency

555
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Speaker 1: was a problem. But the Angel is telling me, well,

556
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Speaker 1: he's returning, and this is not last year. There is

557
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Speaker 1: no Tua, there is no Joe Burrow. There's a lot

558
00:26:33,320 --> 00:26:36,720
Speaker 1: of uncertainty, some solid pieces, but the SEC quarterback scene

559
00:26:36,760 --> 00:26:39,800
Speaker 1: preseason is not one where you have multiple sure fire

560
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Speaker 1: first round locks. Could Bo Nicks be a guy that

561
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Speaker 1: surpasses all expectation ended up being an all SEC quarterback?

562
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Speaker 1: That's what the Orange and Blue Angel is saying. He's

563
00:26:48,760 --> 00:26:52,720
Speaker 1: also saying, remember the offensive coordinator change. Chad Morris is

564
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Speaker 1: coming in, and the Angel is telling me, Josh, you

565
00:26:55,400 --> 00:26:58,639
Speaker 1: respect Chad Morris? Yeah? I do you respect his ability

566
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Speaker 1: to evolve their passing game if he's given the ability to.

567
00:27:01,359 --> 00:27:04,880
Speaker 1: I do you respect his ability to develop quarterbacks? Absolutely? Yes,

568
00:27:05,160 --> 00:27:08,320
Speaker 1: Orange Blue Angel, I do. Hey, Gus Malzam still the

569
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Speaker 1: head coach there. Seems like he's been there forty seven

570
00:27:10,880 --> 00:27:12,880
Speaker 1: years at this point, and he's been on the hot

571
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Speaker 1: seat forty six times out of those forty seven years.

572
00:27:15,200 --> 00:27:18,560
Speaker 1: Kevin Steele is still there too. That is probably the

573
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Speaker 1: most underappreciated assistant coach in America. Adequately compensated at this point,

574
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Speaker 1: but still underappreciated on a national level. And this is

575
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Speaker 1: more schedule granular based. It's an even number year, says

576
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Speaker 1: the orange and blue angel on the left shoulder or

577
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Speaker 1: right shoulder. But see the even number years are normally

578
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Speaker 1: deaf for Auburn because they have to go to Georgia

579
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Speaker 1: and to Alabama. But in this even number year, it

580
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Speaker 1: is a COVID year, which means those home field advantages

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Speaker 1: probably pretty much evaporate. You playing in front of twenty

582
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Speaker 1: five thousand people, you can pipe in more noise than

583
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Speaker 1: twenty five thousand people make. So maybe you caught If

584
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Speaker 1: there is a time to catch an pandemic, you caught

585
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Speaker 1: it at the right time. Now, that's what the orange

586
00:27:58,600 --> 00:28:02,040
Speaker 1: and blue angel is present. But then you know what

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Speaker 1: we have on the other shoulder. I don't know what

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Speaker 1: color you want him to be. We'll just make him

589
00:28:05,520 --> 00:28:08,560
Speaker 1: red or crimson or whatever, purple and gold for all

590
00:28:08,600 --> 00:28:11,560
Speaker 1: I care. But the devil on the other shoulder is

591
00:28:12,160 --> 00:28:14,439
Speaker 1: flicking away the orange and blue angel, and he's saying,

592
00:28:14,680 --> 00:28:17,439
Speaker 1: how much innovation can you really have offensively if you

593
00:28:17,480 --> 00:28:19,639
Speaker 1: didn't have a spring. This is not a problem unique

594
00:28:19,640 --> 00:28:23,639
Speaker 1: to Auburn, but it's a problem Nonetheless, here's also what

595
00:28:23,680 --> 00:28:27,879
Speaker 1: the devil says. Gus Malzon can be committed fully to

596
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Speaker 1: all of these changes, and he could say all the

597
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Speaker 1: right things about handing the keys to the offense over

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Speaker 1: to Chad Morris. But the devil whispers in my ear.

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00:28:35,119 --> 00:28:37,440
Speaker 1: You know as well as I do, this dude will

600
00:28:37,480 --> 00:28:40,000
Speaker 1: hit the emergency brake at the first sign of trouble,

601
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Speaker 1: because you've seen him do it in the past. And

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00:28:42,320 --> 00:28:45,600
Speaker 1: then you have kind of an eighty percent, twenty percent,

603
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Speaker 1: and then it's sixty forty, and then it's fifty to fifty.

604
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Speaker 1: And yes, I have to admit that has happened before,

605
00:28:50,600 --> 00:28:53,040
Speaker 1: so remains to be seen how he's going to handle

606
00:28:53,080 --> 00:28:55,720
Speaker 1: it this year. I'm also told by the devil on

607
00:28:55,760 --> 00:28:59,600
Speaker 1: the other shoulder, bo Nix extremely inconsistent last year. And

608
00:28:59,760 --> 00:29:03,560
Speaker 1: when has Auburn and Gus Malson ever developed their own

609
00:29:03,600 --> 00:29:06,320
Speaker 1: in house quarterback in their best years. They've been working

610
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Speaker 1: with a guy they got from the transfer market. And

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Speaker 1: I have to slowly nod my head and I have

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Speaker 1: to agree with that. I mean, I can tell him

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Speaker 1: I think Chad Morris is the difference there. I don't

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Speaker 1: know that Chad Morris is the difference there. Offensive line

615
00:29:19,440 --> 00:29:23,320
Speaker 1: has been a fear amongst those people inside that program

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Speaker 1: for two years now. They have known the twenty twenty

617
00:29:25,880 --> 00:29:30,800
Speaker 1: offensive line situation could be roof how roof? Well, there's

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Speaker 1: currently one offensive lineman on their entire roster who has

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00:29:33,560 --> 00:29:36,080
Speaker 1: started a game for Auburn, and that's Nick Broms center.

620
00:29:36,160 --> 00:29:38,080
Speaker 1: I believe now they got to transfer in there. So

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Speaker 1: it's not quite as dire as it sounds. But they

622
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Speaker 1: have one offensive lineman on that entire roster who has

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Speaker 1: started a game for the Auburn Tigers. Could be that

624
00:29:48,120 --> 00:29:51,680
Speaker 1: the other four just wildly surpass all expectation, could be.

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00:29:51,760 --> 00:29:53,520
Speaker 1: I mean, if they're starting at Auburn, they're good enough

626
00:29:53,520 --> 00:29:56,640
Speaker 1: to start at Auburn. However, you also have a first

627
00:29:56,680 --> 00:29:59,000
Speaker 1: year offensive line coach there, so you made a position

628
00:29:59,080 --> 00:30:02,040
Speaker 1: coach change, and so there's a lot of moving parts there,

629
00:30:02,120 --> 00:30:05,200
Speaker 1: and that devil whispers in my ear. Really you think

630
00:30:05,200 --> 00:30:06,720
Speaker 1: they're going to have it together right off the bat?

631
00:30:06,800 --> 00:30:08,920
Speaker 1: They're going to have to. They played Georgia in Week two,

632
00:30:09,120 --> 00:30:12,280
Speaker 1: they don't have an easy one in Week one against Kentucky,

633
00:30:12,760 --> 00:30:16,560
Speaker 1: and last but not least, Derek Brown, Marlon Davidson just

634
00:30:16,720 --> 00:30:19,239
Speaker 1: stallwarts on that defensive line. It seems like they were

635
00:30:19,240 --> 00:30:21,960
Speaker 1: there for a long time too. They're gone, and you

636
00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:25,000
Speaker 1: can tell me about all the junior and senior veteran

637
00:30:25,080 --> 00:30:27,440
Speaker 1: leadership that you have to plug in behind them. You

638
00:30:27,480 --> 00:30:30,440
Speaker 1: don't just replace guys like that. And that defense has

639
00:30:30,480 --> 00:30:32,000
Speaker 1: been the name of the game at Auburn. That's been

640
00:30:32,040 --> 00:30:34,680
Speaker 1: the identity. Even when you've got an offensive minded head

641
00:30:34,680 --> 00:30:38,160
Speaker 1: coach in Gus Malson, defense has been the identity. That's

642
00:30:38,160 --> 00:30:40,320
Speaker 1: been what they've leaned on to win. And so you

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Speaker 1: kind of gutted the middle of that defense. They're really

644
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Speaker 1: good at linebacker this year, make no mistake, but got

645
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Speaker 1: some holes there. And so with all that said, is

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Speaker 1: anyone watching or listening to this any more convinced one

647
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Speaker 1: way or the other as to what the Auburn Tigers

648
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Speaker 1: will do this year? I'm not. And I'm the one

649
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Speaker 1: who just ran my mouth for like seven minutes. So

650
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Speaker 1: that's what makes the Auba and Tigers to me the

651
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Speaker 1: biggest mystery team out of anyone even remotely close to

652
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Speaker 1: contention in the twenty twenty college football season. Nobody has

653
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Speaker 1: a good feel on them, speaking of just being totally

654
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Speaker 1: out of touch with any kind of feel. Let's talk

655
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Speaker 1: about the Big Ten. Could you imagine I was watching

656
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Speaker 1: last night, I was watching Central Arkansas, I was watching

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Speaker 1: Austin P. And I was thinking about the game, and

658
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Speaker 1: I was thinking about how great it was to just

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Speaker 1: see college football on TV. But then I said, I

660
00:31:27,400 --> 00:31:29,400
Speaker 1: wonder what Ryan Day's doing right now. I wonder what

661
00:31:29,520 --> 00:31:31,600
Speaker 1: James Franklin and Jim Harbor. I wonder what they're doing

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Speaker 1: right now. Could you imagine being Ryan Day last night?

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Speaker 1: Could you imagine being James Franklin and Jim Harbor and

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Speaker 1: turning on what was it ESPN, turning on a nationally

665
00:31:41,120 --> 00:31:45,160
Speaker 1: broadcast college football game, and it's Austin P and Central Arkansas,

666
00:31:45,160 --> 00:31:48,480
Speaker 1: and your conference has told you we cannot guarantee safety

667
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Speaker 1: of players. We just don't have the infrastructure in place

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Speaker 1: to put these fine young men on the field. However,

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Speaker 1: they possessed the ability at Austin P in Central Arkansas,

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Speaker 1: and they played in Montgomery no less. Oh nice neutral site, opener.

671
00:32:02,520 --> 00:32:04,880
Speaker 1: I got to give credit where it's due. And a

672
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Speaker 1: lot of you know who you are, too many to name,

673
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Speaker 1: there were many of you when we first started talking

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Speaker 1: about this. We've been pretty outspoken on this because we

675
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Speaker 1: feel very convicted in where we stand on this. Some

676
00:32:14,840 --> 00:32:16,920
Speaker 1: of you in Big ten Country reached out behind the

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Speaker 1: scenes through email and Twitter correspondence. Most of you were

678
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Speaker 1: civil about it, but you said we were out of

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Speaker 1: line and the other conferences would fall in line shortly,

680
00:32:25,720 --> 00:32:28,080
Speaker 1: and we were being very short sighted, and you defended

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Speaker 1: the Big Ten's position. I think more and more this

682
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Speaker 1: is where the credit is due. I have seen a

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Speaker 1: lot of you backtrack on that stance, and you have

684
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Speaker 1: expressed so via email in via Twitter, and the reason

685
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Speaker 1: is because the motivation here has become increasingly obvious. We

686
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Speaker 1: never ever ever get political on this show, and you

687
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Speaker 1: will pull every tooth out of my head before I

688
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Speaker 1: go the political route on this show. So I'm not

689
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Speaker 1: going to even do it tonight. But I can tell

690
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Speaker 1: because you're telling me a lot of you have observed

691
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Speaker 1: that a lot of this is far more political or

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Speaker 1: at the very very least legally based as opposed to

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Speaker 1: maintaining the health and the safety of student athletes. And

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Speaker 1: so you have Kevin Warren, and you have a lot

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Speaker 1: of university presidents, and it's really not one face that's

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Speaker 1: been tied on to this. If you've been reading and

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Speaker 1: following it day by day. It's bureaucracy. A lot of

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Speaker 1: you who work in the real world, you've experienced bureaucracy.

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Speaker 1: You know how it works. But here's the thing about bureaucracy.

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Speaker 1: It provides anonymity. So rarely do you need a plan

701
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Speaker 1: B if you're in that bureaucracy because Plan A normally works.

702
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Speaker 1: You run things, you control things. And here's the other

703
00:33:33,880 --> 00:33:37,400
Speaker 1: thing about bureaucracy. You never have to give an account

704
00:33:37,600 --> 00:33:41,200
Speaker 1: of your decision making. It's just take it and swallow it.

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Speaker 1: This is what we're saying, and this is what you're

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Speaker 1: going to accept. So when you do have to give

707
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Speaker 1: an account, and when the light is shown on you

708
00:33:49,920 --> 00:33:53,200
Speaker 1: and you are, for lack of a better term, exposed,

709
00:33:53,880 --> 00:33:56,400
Speaker 1: you're so inexperienced you have no clue what to do.

710
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Speaker 1: And as a result, you get the unmitigated pr disaster

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Speaker 1: that you currently have unfolding in the Big ten. And

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Speaker 1: as a result, with all those degrees on the wall,

713
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Speaker 1: and with all those six and seven figure salaries sitting

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Speaker 1: in these rooms making these decisions, they have managed to

715
00:34:12,200 --> 00:34:14,919
Speaker 1: hide their motives here about as well as a ziplockbag.

716
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Speaker 1: That is the state of affairs in the Big Ten.

717
00:34:17,880 --> 00:34:20,400
Speaker 1: You and I would be fired from running a lemonade

718
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Speaker 1: stand if we ran it half as poorly as the

719
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Speaker 1: Big Ten is currently being run. And yet here we

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Speaker 1: sit today, it is August thirtieth. We still don't know

721
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Speaker 1: anything about a vote total. We still don't know anything

722
00:34:32,600 --> 00:34:35,120
Speaker 1: about data that was used. We don't know anything. We

723
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Speaker 1: don't even know when the season is going to start.

724
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Speaker 1: And I'll tell you this, You don't owe me anything.

725
00:34:39,080 --> 00:34:42,480
Speaker 1: I'm just some dude sitting behind a microphone. But you've

726
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Speaker 1: got a lot of players out there, and parents of

727
00:34:44,640 --> 00:34:46,799
Speaker 1: players who are demanding answers, and you claim to be

728
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Speaker 1: making these decisions because of them. So if anyone in

729
00:34:49,400 --> 00:34:53,080
Speaker 1: their right mind is going to sit in anywhere up there, Chicago, Indianapolis,

730
00:34:53,080 --> 00:34:55,200
Speaker 1: wherever you want to sit, and you're going to tell

731
00:34:55,239 --> 00:34:57,440
Speaker 1: me they don't deserve answers, well I'm going to call

732
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Speaker 1: you a hypocrite, and I'm going to be right in that.

733
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Speaker 1: I think a lot of your constituency up there has

734
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Speaker 1: shifted to really placing more of the blame at your

735
00:35:05,200 --> 00:35:07,040
Speaker 1: feet as well, because I think a lot of them

736
00:35:07,080 --> 00:35:09,839
Speaker 1: had their eyes open to the fact that that's kind

737
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Speaker 1: of the way the decision making process was happening all along.

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Speaker 1: So now what happens moving forward? Because anyone can see

739
00:35:16,600 --> 00:35:19,880
Speaker 1: what we just talked about, what happens moving forward? You

740
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Speaker 1: know these lawsuits, you know this lawsuit that was filed

741
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Speaker 1: on behalf of the Nebraska parents last week, and it

742
00:35:25,640 --> 00:35:28,200
Speaker 1: was only like eight of them. So I saw one

743
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Speaker 1: of the Big Ten attorneys say, what are we gonna do.

744
00:35:30,360 --> 00:35:33,400
Speaker 1: We're gonna overturn our entire process, So we're gonna unveil

745
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Speaker 1: all of our decision making that publicly paid officials, public

746
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Speaker 1: university officials participated in. No God forbid we do that.

747
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Speaker 1: What are we gonna do over just eight people filing

748
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Speaker 1: a lawsuit, which, of course, again bureaucracy never have to

749
00:35:47,360 --> 00:35:49,839
Speaker 1: give an account open the floodgates. It was pretty much

750
00:35:49,840 --> 00:35:51,879
Speaker 1: a dog whistle for everyone in their mother to file

751
00:35:51,920 --> 00:35:54,800
Speaker 1: a lawsuit in Big ten country. And so guess what's happening.

752
00:35:55,200 --> 00:35:58,600
Speaker 1: They are in the process of doing it right now. Now.

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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna speculate here, as I didn't do the

754
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Speaker 1: other night and I haven't done yet. I just presented

755
00:36:02,880 --> 00:36:05,120
Speaker 1: it to you in rhetorical fashion, and then we left

756
00:36:05,160 --> 00:36:06,759
Speaker 1: it at that, And I'm still gonna leave it at

757
00:36:06,760 --> 00:36:10,239
Speaker 1: that tonight. Here's what I'm asking you. Could you make

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Speaker 1: any sense out of the reason that a conference would

759
00:36:12,880 --> 00:36:18,279
Speaker 1: collectively fight so hard against providing just the mere reasoning

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00:36:18,360 --> 00:36:22,960
Speaker 1: and basis behind their decision. Who voted, what, what data

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00:36:23,280 --> 00:36:26,600
Speaker 1: was used? Why the abrupt decision on what was at

762
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Speaker 1: August eleventh? Could you figure that out? Because I can't

763
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Speaker 1: figure that out. But just because we can't figure it

764
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Speaker 1: out doesn't mean there isn't a good reason. Well scratch

765
00:36:36,040 --> 00:36:38,600
Speaker 1: that doesn't mean there isn't a reason. Whether it's good

766
00:36:38,719 --> 00:36:41,600
Speaker 1: or not is up for interpretation. But as these lawsuits

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Speaker 1: move forward, and I am not a legal analyst and

768
00:36:44,480 --> 00:36:46,719
Speaker 1: I am not a lawyer, and I'm currently on track

769
00:36:46,760 --> 00:36:51,480
Speaker 1: to never becoming one. But that d word discovery. If

770
00:36:51,520 --> 00:36:54,239
Speaker 1: you've just followed college football for any length of time

771
00:36:54,480 --> 00:36:57,200
Speaker 1: and you've seen the occasional high profile lawsuits that pop

772
00:36:57,280 --> 00:36:59,960
Speaker 1: up in this sport, you know what discovery has provided

773
00:37:00,200 --> 00:37:02,880
Speaker 1: in the past. It's this thing that happens in the

774
00:37:02,960 --> 00:37:08,399
Speaker 1: legal process, and sometimes from areas and portions of your

775
00:37:08,400 --> 00:37:11,719
Speaker 1: conference where you least expect it, you get news that

776
00:37:11,880 --> 00:37:14,960
Speaker 1: totally rocks the foundation of the sport or a program

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00:37:15,080 --> 00:37:18,439
Speaker 1: or a conference. So I'm not speculating about what could

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00:37:18,560 --> 00:37:21,360
Speaker 1: unfold over the next week or even forty eight hours

779
00:37:21,360 --> 00:37:23,520
Speaker 1: into Big Ten. Who in the world knows most of

780
00:37:23,520 --> 00:37:25,040
Speaker 1: the head coaches up there have been in the dark,

781
00:37:25,120 --> 00:37:27,440
Speaker 1: So how would I be any wiser to the process

782
00:37:27,480 --> 00:37:30,759
Speaker 1: than they would. But from people who do understand the

783
00:37:30,840 --> 00:37:33,839
Speaker 1: legal side of things, they keep telling us the same thing.

784
00:37:34,239 --> 00:37:36,960
Speaker 1: They keep saying, it may not happen as quick as

785
00:37:37,000 --> 00:37:39,600
Speaker 1: you want it to. But watch that process with those

786
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Speaker 1: lawsuits and how many of them are filed, and how

787
00:37:42,520 --> 00:37:45,840
Speaker 1: hard the Big Ten fights against it, And then ask yourself,

788
00:37:46,080 --> 00:37:49,279
Speaker 1: with so little being demanded, why are they fighting so

789
00:37:49,440 --> 00:37:52,640
Speaker 1: hard to protect that information? Your guess is as good

790
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Speaker 1: as mine. We got a really good viewership tonight. Remember

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Speaker 1: we are going to three nights per week starting this week,

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Speaker 1: a very busy week for us. We're very excited because

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Speaker 1: college football is coming, whether some people like it or not.

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Speaker 1: So for director Colin, for Jordan and Tani on the

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Speaker 1: really excited college football is back and we're excited to

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