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Speaker 1: shows and between recordings that that's where I go to

431
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Speaker 1: talk about and I'd like for you to be there

432
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Speaker 1: with me at Late Kick Josh. So Fred asks, there's

433
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Speaker 1: nothing that can really happen between now and the season

434
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Speaker 1: that could stop it from starting, at least in my opinion,

435
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Speaker 1: what do you think, Fred, That is a bold statement,

436
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Speaker 1: my friend, but I think I agree with you with

437
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Speaker 1: a small caveat there's always something that could happen. As

438
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Speaker 1: I said at the beginning of this podcast, I believe

439
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Speaker 1: that there is rapidly growing optimism that we're on track

440
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Speaker 1: to start. So with the understanding anything could happen, I

441
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Speaker 1: really like where we're at right now. I know you've

442
00:23:01,240 --> 00:23:03,960
Speaker 1: had some hiccups. I know you've had some programs have

443
00:23:04,040 --> 00:23:06,560
Speaker 1: to put some kids on the shelf for a second

444
00:23:06,640 --> 00:23:09,120
Speaker 1: because of positive testing. I know you've had some really

445
00:23:09,160 --> 00:23:13,800
Speaker 1: scary looking numbers about student body populations. That stuff will

446
00:23:13,800 --> 00:23:17,359
Speaker 1: work itself out, I believe, and the powers that be believe,

447
00:23:17,840 --> 00:23:21,280
Speaker 1: and you've got protocols in place, and ultimately, to be

448
00:23:21,280 --> 00:23:24,000
Speaker 1: honest with you, the more programs that are, the more

449
00:23:24,080 --> 00:23:27,320
Speaker 1: universities that send the student body home, the safer your

450
00:23:27,359 --> 00:23:29,640
Speaker 1: team is. No one wants to say that out loud

451
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Speaker 1: for a couple of different reasons, but that's what I'm

452
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Speaker 1: observing right now, and I think I agree with you frev.

453
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Speaker 1: Outside of having multiple outbreaks where you have like fifteen

454
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Speaker 1: or twenty players that all of a sudden can't go,

455
00:23:41,880 --> 00:23:43,920
Speaker 1: then you have to maybe reassess things, but right now

456
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Speaker 1: I do feel good about where we're at. Next question,

457
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Speaker 1: what do you think about Mike Bobo? Would he be

458
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Speaker 1: a good replacement for Will mus Champ. We just got

459
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Speaker 1: a five star quarterback commitment because of Bobo and Connorshaw

460
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Speaker 1: and his death. This is at South Carolina, by the way,

461
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Speaker 1: If not Bobo, then who can we at South Carolina

462
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Speaker 1: possibly get to compete with all the elite coaches that

463
00:24:05,080 --> 00:24:09,000
Speaker 1: surround us these days? And that question presented by old

464
00:24:09,080 --> 00:24:13,040
Speaker 1: school cock no further comment. Well, what we have here

465
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Speaker 1: is we have a situation where a lot of people

466
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Speaker 1: if you had the Q score that you have in

467
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Speaker 1: the media world, which is just how many people like you,

468
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Speaker 1: basically approval rating if you're in the political world, Mike

469
00:24:23,560 --> 00:24:26,359
Speaker 1: Bobo has a really high approval rating. He's the new

470
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Speaker 1: offensive coordinator at Carolina, hasn't coached a game there yet.

471
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Speaker 1: Will must Champ has a low approval rating. And so

472
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Speaker 1: it's one of those deals, kind of like with a

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Speaker 1: backup quarterback and a starting quarterback, where the backup quarterback's

474
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Speaker 1: more popular than the starting quarterback. Well, Mike Bobo people

475
00:24:40,040 --> 00:24:42,399
Speaker 1: like him, there's a lot of optimism around him, not

476
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Speaker 1: so much around Will must Champ. And the question here is, well,

477
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Speaker 1: what if we kind of just nudged Will must Champ

478
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Speaker 1: overboard And then it was Mike Bobo's team, and the

479
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Speaker 1: thinking is they just got a five star as was

480
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Speaker 1: mentioned here, a five star quarterback commitment out of the

481
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Speaker 1: state of Georgia. Again, and you know, if Bobo goes,

482
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Speaker 1: then he'll probably go. But if Bobo stays, then he stays.

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Speaker 1: It wouldn't be the craziest concept in the world. Mike

484
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Speaker 1: Bobo is a guy with head coaching experience. He is

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Speaker 1: very well respected. I mean, you cannot find anyone in

486
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Speaker 1: the coaching world to speak ill of Mike Bobo. When

487
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Speaker 1: those allegations recently surfaced about him at Colorado State, I've

488
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Speaker 1: never seen more people more forcefully come to the table

489
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Speaker 1: in defense of someone behind the scenes and publicly than

490
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Speaker 1: I did with Mike Bobo. And so that got shot

491
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Speaker 1: down or really quick. In fact, the kid who made

492
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Speaker 1: the allegations at Colorado State, his own teammates came out

493
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Speaker 1: and said ignore him, just no, no, no, no. This

494
00:25:40,720 --> 00:25:44,560
Speaker 1: dude was cool with us, he was always helpful. Ignore him.

495
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Speaker 1: And then everyone in the coaching world in a little

496
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Speaker 1: more forceful terms at times did as well. Mike Bobo.

497
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Speaker 1: I think would be an option there. I don't think

498
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Speaker 1: it's crazy to consider that now. We talked about this

499
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Speaker 1: on Late Kick Live the other night, but I just

500
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Speaker 1: kind of wonder with the whole hot seat talking to

501
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Speaker 1: extend off of this if it's going to matter this year.

502
00:26:03,960 --> 00:26:05,960
Speaker 1: We've spoken about this before, this is nothing new. But

503
00:26:06,280 --> 00:26:10,719
Speaker 1: if disaster strikes and Carolina goes two and eight this year, Uh,

504
00:26:11,200 --> 00:26:12,960
Speaker 1: you can talk about COVID all you want to. You

505
00:26:13,000 --> 00:26:15,560
Speaker 1: can talk about challenges all you want to. Missing Spring,

506
00:26:15,640 --> 00:26:18,159
Speaker 1: trying to install a new offense. I just don't know

507
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Speaker 1: if they're going to be able. If Will must Jamps

508
00:26:20,280 --> 00:26:22,800
Speaker 1: crew is going to be able to sell the administration

509
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Speaker 1: there on the idea that I deserve one more year.

510
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Speaker 1: What would save him is obviously lack of football revenue

511
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Speaker 1: PR nightmare. If you're trying to fire a coach in

512
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Speaker 1: this climate, that's what could save him. But someone's gonna

513
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Speaker 1: go rogue. I fully believe this. I fully believe at

514
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Speaker 1: least one Power five program out there is going to

515
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Speaker 1: go rogue. By that, I mean they're going to look

516
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Speaker 1: around and they're going to see that no one else

517
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Speaker 1: is willing to fire their coach, and so they may

518
00:26:50,119 --> 00:26:53,080
Speaker 1: look around and say, well, if no one else is

519
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Speaker 1: going to fire their coach, then we'll go ahead and

520
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Speaker 1: do it. And yeah, we'll get criticized for it, and

521
00:26:57,720 --> 00:27:00,040
Speaker 1: yeah it's gonna put a dent in our financials. But

522
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Speaker 1: what we're going to get to do here is we're

523
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Speaker 1: going to get to jump right to the front of

524
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Speaker 1: the line, and we're going to get to take our

525
00:27:05,280 --> 00:27:08,080
Speaker 1: pick of potential coaching candidates out there. We're not going

526
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Speaker 1: to have to stand behind USC and three or four

527
00:27:11,480 --> 00:27:14,400
Speaker 1: other major programs that have higher profile jobs than us.

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Speaker 1: We're going to be alone in the line. We get

529
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Speaker 1: to pick whoever we want to within reason. So you

530
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Speaker 1: could have Mike Bobo, or you could have your pick

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Speaker 1: of maybe other candidates that you wouldn't normally have your

532
00:27:25,560 --> 00:27:28,360
Speaker 1: pick from, or you could not make a move at all,

533
00:27:28,680 --> 00:27:30,640
Speaker 1: or Carolina could shock the world and go like six

534
00:27:30,640 --> 00:27:32,760
Speaker 1: and four, seven and three. A lot of options on

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Speaker 1: the table. Jay is next up, with only thirty nine

536
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Speaker 1: teams representing the Power five conferences this year, and the

537
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Speaker 1: SEC holding the reputation of being the toughest conference. Where

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Speaker 1: would you project the over under for most teams ranked

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Speaker 1: in the top twenty five of the playoff rankings at

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Speaker 1: any given point. Also, where might you project the over

541
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Speaker 1: under for the G five? Well, this is a fascinating question.

542
00:27:57,520 --> 00:27:59,480
Speaker 1: What Jay is asking is that at any given point,

543
00:27:59,840 --> 00:28:02,720
Speaker 1: how many SEC teams do you think could be ranked

544
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Speaker 1: in the top twenty five. I'm a believers talking to

545
00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:08,159
Speaker 1: our budd Elliott about this yesterday. I'm a believer that

546
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Speaker 1: the top twenty five is pretty irrelevant this year, for

547
00:28:10,840 --> 00:28:13,879
Speaker 1: every year. But if you're gonna shave the number of

548
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Speaker 1: teams that are still active down, why not shave to

549
00:28:16,880 --> 00:28:19,560
Speaker 1: a top fifteen, let's say, instead of a top twenty five,

550
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Speaker 1: and so in the top fifteen the answer would be different.

551
00:28:22,400 --> 00:28:25,000
Speaker 1: But Jay, if you're talking top twenty five, I mean

552
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Speaker 1: if I were to freeze things in like week eight

553
00:28:28,800 --> 00:28:31,960
Speaker 1: of the season, I think Alabama would be ranked. I

554
00:28:32,000 --> 00:28:35,600
Speaker 1: think Auburn would be ranked. I think LSU would be ranked.

555
00:28:35,680 --> 00:28:38,160
Speaker 1: I think A and M would be ranked. I think

556
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Speaker 1: Georgia would be ranked, Florida would be ranked. It is

557
00:28:42,320 --> 00:28:44,760
Speaker 1: very in a top twenty five, I think Tennessee would

558
00:28:44,760 --> 00:28:48,640
Speaker 1: be ranked. So that's what eight of your teams and

559
00:28:48,840 --> 00:28:53,920
Speaker 1: Kentucky absolutely stands a decent chance of being ranked there.

560
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Speaker 1: So that's five, six, seven, eight, let's say nine. I

561
00:28:57,120 --> 00:28:58,760
Speaker 1: don't think it's out of the realm of possibility. If

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Speaker 1: we're going to top twenty five, I don't think it's

563
00:29:00,920 --> 00:29:03,720
Speaker 1: out of the Roman possibility. Nine SEC teams could be

564
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Speaker 1: ranked at any given point. Ask for the other conferences

565
00:29:08,680 --> 00:29:11,320
Speaker 1: in G fives. You know, with the G fives, Central

566
00:29:11,360 --> 00:29:16,080
Speaker 1: Florida's obviously a candidate there, Cincinnati, Memphis, Houston. But to me,

567
00:29:16,240 --> 00:29:19,240
Speaker 1: this year, the fun thing to focus on, if you

568
00:29:19,280 --> 00:29:22,560
Speaker 1: care about such things, is how do people look back

569
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Speaker 1: on this season? How do people look back I know

570
00:29:24,520 --> 00:29:27,000
Speaker 1: everyone claims we're going to look at the national Championship

571
00:29:27,040 --> 00:29:29,720
Speaker 1: with an asterisk, but how do people look at rankings?

572
00:29:29,760 --> 00:29:32,280
Speaker 1: Because this could be a chance for a program that

573
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Speaker 1: normally would have finished number forty, number forty one, forty

574
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Speaker 1: two in the country to finish top twenty five, and

575
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Speaker 1: they get to tout that, you know, a coach gets

576
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Speaker 1: to put that on his resume, led so and so

577
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Speaker 1: to a top twenty five finish in twenty twenty, and

578
00:29:47,440 --> 00:29:49,800
Speaker 1: they kind of just hope you don't remember that. How

579
00:29:49,840 --> 00:29:52,200
Speaker 1: about saying I led so and so to a top

580
00:29:52,240 --> 00:29:54,800
Speaker 1: five finish in the last five years. That's how you

581
00:29:54,840 --> 00:29:56,600
Speaker 1: put it. That's how you do it. And then you

582
00:29:56,600 --> 00:29:58,480
Speaker 1: go out and you pitch that on the recruiting trail,

583
00:29:58,520 --> 00:30:00,720
Speaker 1: you take it to the negotiating table when you're trying

584
00:30:00,760 --> 00:30:03,480
Speaker 1: to extend your contract. So I know that's not at

585
00:30:03,520 --> 00:30:06,360
Speaker 1: all what you asked Jay, but I think that in

586
00:30:06,520 --> 00:30:08,480
Speaker 1: a conference like the SEC, which is the one you

587
00:30:08,520 --> 00:30:12,520
Speaker 1: asked about, easily you could have nine teams. You could

588
00:30:12,560 --> 00:30:14,960
Speaker 1: even push ten, like if Ole miss tries to pull

589
00:30:15,040 --> 00:30:17,720
Speaker 1: something crazy or Michael Leach pulls something crazy, you could

590
00:30:17,760 --> 00:30:22,240
Speaker 1: have ten for that matter. Chris is next. If Georgia

591
00:30:22,320 --> 00:30:25,040
Speaker 1: ends up having a more powerful offense, will people accuse

592
00:30:25,080 --> 00:30:28,960
Speaker 1: the Defense of taking a step back? Chris, I say

593
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Speaker 1: this respectfully. I'm not directing this towards you, but I'm

594
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Speaker 1: just more throwing it out there. I don't care. Like

595
00:30:34,680 --> 00:30:36,920
Speaker 1: if I were a Georgia fan, I don't care what

596
00:30:36,960 --> 00:30:39,040
Speaker 1: people accuse me of. Here's the only thing I care

597
00:30:39,080 --> 00:30:42,200
Speaker 1: about is our football team better with Todd Munkin and

598
00:30:42,280 --> 00:30:45,280
Speaker 1: whatever they're going to run offensively? Are we better than

599
00:30:45,320 --> 00:30:48,400
Speaker 1: we were last year and in previous years? Have we

600
00:30:48,560 --> 00:30:51,560
Speaker 1: upgraded the overall product we're putting on the field. If

601
00:30:51,560 --> 00:30:54,320
Speaker 1: the answer is yes, who cares what they say about

602
00:30:54,320 --> 00:30:57,280
Speaker 1: my defense. It's like LSU last year. I don't know

603
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Speaker 1: if people remember this, but in the first half of

604
00:30:59,680 --> 00:31:02,320
Speaker 1: the sea and people were pretty critical of LSU's defense.

605
00:31:02,480 --> 00:31:05,400
Speaker 1: How'd that team finish? They put up record numbers, they

606
00:31:05,400 --> 00:31:08,600
Speaker 1: won a national championship, they rewrote the college football record

607
00:31:08,600 --> 00:31:11,960
Speaker 1: books in the process. So you could either focus on

608
00:31:12,000 --> 00:31:14,000
Speaker 1: the fact that some people were critical of their defense,

609
00:31:14,480 --> 00:31:15,800
Speaker 1: or you could focus on the fact that they may

610
00:31:15,920 --> 00:31:17,520
Speaker 1: very well have had the best college football team of

611
00:31:17,560 --> 00:31:20,560
Speaker 1: all time last year, and we understand that they go

612
00:31:20,680 --> 00:31:23,600
Speaker 1: hand in hand with the better product on the field. Offensively,

613
00:31:24,400 --> 00:31:27,720
Speaker 1: you score quicker, you give yourself a lot more leeway

614
00:31:28,120 --> 00:31:31,120
Speaker 1: to do some things defensively and be more aggressive defensively.

615
00:31:31,160 --> 00:31:33,400
Speaker 1: That may involve giving up a few more points, but

616
00:31:33,720 --> 00:31:37,680
Speaker 1: if the cumulative effect and impact of the move is

617
00:31:37,720 --> 00:31:41,000
Speaker 1: that your team is better, that's all that matters. And

618
00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:43,520
Speaker 1: if George's team is better this year, Chris, I think

619
00:31:43,520 --> 00:31:47,200
Speaker 1: you would agree here. You'll probably smile all the way

620
00:31:47,240 --> 00:31:50,000
Speaker 1: to the podium, all the way to the confetti flying

621
00:31:50,040 --> 00:31:53,440
Speaker 1: around you. If someone's critical of your defense, I think

622
00:31:53,480 --> 00:31:55,440
Speaker 1: Georgia will have the best defense in the country this year.

623
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Speaker 1: But if they finished sixth in the country in total

624
00:31:58,520 --> 00:32:01,120
Speaker 1: defense and they win a national championship in the process,

625
00:32:01,680 --> 00:32:04,320
Speaker 1: I don't think many people will be shedding tears in Athens, Georgia.

626
00:32:05,360 --> 00:32:08,440
Speaker 1: David's next, what are the odds the current situation causes

627
00:32:08,480 --> 00:32:11,800
Speaker 1: the demise of the Big Ten? And what signs should

628
00:32:11,840 --> 00:32:13,680
Speaker 1: we look for? Well? I don't think the Big Ten's

629
00:32:13,720 --> 00:32:16,120
Speaker 1: going to see a demise anytime soon, David. I think

630
00:32:16,160 --> 00:32:20,160
Speaker 1: there will be a lot of noticeable changes to the conference,

631
00:32:20,600 --> 00:32:23,080
Speaker 1: some that are obvious and some that maybe are hidden

632
00:32:23,280 --> 00:32:26,400
Speaker 1: that we'll find out in the future. Together. Because of this,

633
00:32:27,080 --> 00:32:28,520
Speaker 1: I think a lot of it depends on what they're

634
00:32:28,560 --> 00:32:31,120
Speaker 1: able to do in the spring. I'm not optimistic about

635
00:32:31,120 --> 00:32:34,560
Speaker 1: their chances of getting anything worthwhile off the ground in

636
00:32:34,560 --> 00:32:37,920
Speaker 1: the spring. I certainly hope I'm wrong. Now. I want

637
00:32:37,960 --> 00:32:39,880
Speaker 1: my predictions to be right, But in this case, I

638
00:32:39,920 --> 00:32:42,640
Speaker 1: want them to be wrong because I'd love to be

639
00:32:43,040 --> 00:32:46,560
Speaker 1: talking about Ohio State and Michigan in March. That would

640
00:32:46,560 --> 00:32:48,680
Speaker 1: be and not on the basketball court. That would be really,

641
00:32:48,680 --> 00:32:51,280
Speaker 1: really fun. However, what are the signs that you should

642
00:32:51,320 --> 00:32:54,680
Speaker 1: look for? Well, obviously recruiting. I'll tell you what else

643
00:32:54,720 --> 00:32:56,800
Speaker 1: you should look for. And I don't think this is

644
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Speaker 1: going to be the case, but I could be wrong here.

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Speaker 1: Look for engagement when the product comes back, if it's

646
00:33:02,760 --> 00:33:07,400
Speaker 1: spring or if it's next fall. Just look for fan engagement.

647
00:33:07,760 --> 00:33:10,600
Speaker 1: Look at the shots in the upper levels of those stadiums.

648
00:33:10,840 --> 00:33:13,920
Speaker 1: Is every house packed like it normally is, or do

649
00:33:13,960 --> 00:33:17,720
Speaker 1: you see some chunks of open seats. Look at television numbers.

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Speaker 1: Look at the metered markets up there as an industry term,

651
00:33:21,080 --> 00:33:24,640
Speaker 1: but it's basically the bigger markets have TV meter numbers,

652
00:33:24,680 --> 00:33:26,840
Speaker 1: and you can get a more accurate read of how

653
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Speaker 1: many people are watching, and just see if they're off

654
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Speaker 1: a tick. And what that would indicate is some people

655
00:33:33,400 --> 00:33:35,320
Speaker 1: walked away from the table when you walked away, and

656
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Speaker 1: they never came back. Now, I don't think that's going

657
00:33:37,600 --> 00:33:40,320
Speaker 1: to happen. Full disclosure. I think when Big ten football

658
00:33:40,400 --> 00:33:43,560
Speaker 1: is back, I think Big ten fans will be back. However,

659
00:33:44,520 --> 00:33:47,200
Speaker 1: that's not a definite because I can tell you right

660
00:33:47,240 --> 00:33:50,280
Speaker 1: now some people up there have been badly turned off

661
00:33:50,560 --> 00:33:53,360
Speaker 1: by this. Now, if you're an alum of a Big

662
00:33:53,400 --> 00:33:57,280
Speaker 1: ten program like Wisconsin, you're always gonna be Wisconsin. But

663
00:33:57,360 --> 00:34:01,040
Speaker 1: if you just grew up in I don't know, Green

664
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Speaker 1: Bay for example, and yeah you're a big Packers fan,

665
00:34:03,760 --> 00:34:05,479
Speaker 1: and you didn't go to Wisconsin, but you just pull

666
00:34:05,560 --> 00:34:09,000
Speaker 1: form because they're the closest major college team. But I mean,

667
00:34:09,040 --> 00:34:11,719
Speaker 1: you could live without them. Maybe you walked away from

668
00:34:11,719 --> 00:34:14,160
Speaker 1: the table. Maybe you're disgusted enough this year to just

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Speaker 1: not come back. I don't know. I hope that's not

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Speaker 1: the case. Now. I don't, unlike some out there, I

671
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Speaker 1: don't say these things with glee and my voice at all. However,

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Speaker 1: I think a lot remains to be seen and it

673
00:34:28,160 --> 00:34:31,279
Speaker 1: hinges on what they're able to do in spring. And

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Speaker 1: here's what I think would really have some newborn good

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Speaker 1: faith with your fan base up there, your constituents, your audience,

676
00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:42,920
Speaker 1: if you cleaned house, if you had new leadership, if

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Speaker 1: you made changes up there that indicated the mistakes we

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Speaker 1: just made we will never make again. I think that

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Speaker 1: would go a long way in absolving you of a

680
00:34:52,640 --> 00:34:55,160
Speaker 1: lot of the rightful criticism that will be directed your

681
00:34:55,200 --> 00:34:57,080
Speaker 1: way if things go the way it looks like they

682
00:34:57,120 --> 00:35:01,360
Speaker 1: will go. Ryan next up, as a newly minted Iowa

683
00:35:01,440 --> 00:35:04,919
Speaker 1: State fan, what are our team's biggest hurdles to winning

684
00:35:04,920 --> 00:35:07,480
Speaker 1: a national title. Also, let me know your shirt size.

685
00:35:07,480 --> 00:35:10,360
Speaker 1: I'll send some teas your way. Extra large Ryan is

686
00:35:10,400 --> 00:35:13,239
Speaker 1: the shirt size, and I'll take any free Iowa State

687
00:35:13,239 --> 00:35:15,960
Speaker 1: merchandise I can get. As I have said on Lake

688
00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:18,719
Speaker 1: Kick Live many times, I don't leave the show with it,

689
00:35:18,719 --> 00:35:19,759
Speaker 1: but I slip it in there and a lot of

690
00:35:19,840 --> 00:35:21,960
Speaker 1: you have picked up on it. I have a fascination

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Speaker 1: with Iowa State. I feel a connection to Iowa State.

692
00:35:25,000 --> 00:35:27,480
Speaker 1: I've never been to Iowa. I've never been to the

693
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Speaker 1: state before yet I have said my favorite trophy, my

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Speaker 1: favorite rivalry trophy is Floyd of Rosedale, which is Iowa Minnesota.

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Speaker 1: My favorite team that I have really never had an

696
00:35:38,600 --> 00:35:42,000
Speaker 1: attachment to growing up is Iowa State. And my favorite

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Speaker 1: movie is Field of Dreams, set in the state of Iowa.

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Speaker 1: So I wasn't born in IOA, have never been there,

699
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Speaker 1: but I just feel like maybe in another life, like

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00:35:50,520 --> 00:35:52,680
Speaker 1: you know what I just realized. Now this is pure

701
00:35:52,719 --> 00:35:55,720
Speaker 1: NERD alert and I won't spend more than fifteen seconds

702
00:35:55,719 --> 00:35:57,799
Speaker 1: on this, but growing up I was a pro wrestling fan.

703
00:35:57,840 --> 00:36:00,560
Speaker 1: I really like Triple h His first ward Old title

704
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Speaker 1: win was in Ames, Iowa, the night after Summer Slam

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Speaker 1: nineteen ninety nine, which was in the Target Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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00:36:06,360 --> 00:36:08,920
Speaker 1: All right, fifteen seconds is up on that. So with

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Speaker 1: Iowa State, I don't know where the fascination comes from,

708
00:36:11,840 --> 00:36:14,640
Speaker 1: is my point. Like, I like the head coach there

709
00:36:14,719 --> 00:36:16,759
Speaker 1: in Matt Campbell. They got a really good quarterback and

710
00:36:16,800 --> 00:36:19,640
Speaker 1: brought purty right now, But I think what kind of

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00:36:19,680 --> 00:36:22,160
Speaker 1: peauked my interest in Iowa State is I watch a

712
00:36:22,160 --> 00:36:24,520
Speaker 1: lot of games, as do most of you, and so

713
00:36:24,560 --> 00:36:25,960
Speaker 1: I watch a lot of games and there are some

714
00:36:26,080 --> 00:36:30,120
Speaker 1: places that I've watched and it's always been fascinating to

715
00:36:30,160 --> 00:36:33,520
Speaker 1: me how hard it feels like it is to play there. Now,

716
00:36:33,560 --> 00:36:35,840
Speaker 1: I grew up covering the SEC and going to games

717
00:36:35,840 --> 00:36:38,279
Speaker 1: in the SEC, So every stadium you go in down here,

718
00:36:38,560 --> 00:36:42,000
Speaker 1: it's ninety one hundred thousand people. Obviously, it's hard to

719
00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:44,880
Speaker 1: play at all these places. But then I'll turn on

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00:36:44,920 --> 00:36:48,160
Speaker 1: an Iowa State game and it'll be, you know, eleven

721
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Speaker 1: o'clock am kickoff their local time, and it's the capacity

722
00:36:52,120 --> 00:36:54,720
Speaker 1: of the stadium is not one hundred thousand by any stretch,

723
00:36:55,000 --> 00:36:57,520
Speaker 1: but it just for some reason, it's kind of the

724
00:36:57,560 --> 00:36:59,920
Speaker 1: same way when you watch a game at Utah bya

725
00:37:00,160 --> 00:37:03,320
Speaker 1: for some reason, it just feels like, boy, those places,

726
00:37:03,440 --> 00:37:06,080
Speaker 1: it does not feel very hospitable. It does not feel

727
00:37:06,120 --> 00:37:08,440
Speaker 1: like that opposing team is having a good run of

728
00:37:08,480 --> 00:37:10,680
Speaker 1: things right now. I don't know what that is, but

729
00:37:10,719 --> 00:37:13,080
Speaker 1: it's palpable. It even comes through the TV. And so

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00:37:13,160 --> 00:37:14,840
Speaker 1: I would imagine if I could ever get to a

731
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Speaker 1: game there in a year where we could have full capacity,

732
00:37:17,440 --> 00:37:19,439
Speaker 1: which is on my bucket list, it's a goal of mine,

733
00:37:19,640 --> 00:37:22,319
Speaker 1: then I would imagine that it would probably come through

734
00:37:22,360 --> 00:37:25,560
Speaker 1: if you're standing on the sideline too. So Ryan asked,

735
00:37:25,880 --> 00:37:29,000
Speaker 1: what are the biggest hurdles to winning a title? Roster deficit?

736
00:37:30,160 --> 00:37:32,480
Speaker 1: Iowa States probably in as good a roster position right

737
00:37:32,520 --> 00:37:35,560
Speaker 1: now as they've been, you could argue, as they've ever been,

738
00:37:35,680 --> 00:37:37,759
Speaker 1: to be honest with you, with what Matt Campbell's done there,

739
00:37:38,280 --> 00:37:41,040
Speaker 1: And you got a quarterback there that is a bonafide

740
00:37:41,600 --> 00:37:45,960
Speaker 1: postseason Big Twelve Player of the Year kind of candidate.

741
00:37:46,280 --> 00:37:49,440
Speaker 1: He could be in that conversation. So roster wise, they're there.

742
00:37:49,520 --> 00:37:52,440
Speaker 1: But when you're talking about your twos, like this is

743
00:37:52,480 --> 00:37:54,120
Speaker 1: a game where you play eleven at a time, but

744
00:37:54,160 --> 00:37:57,560
Speaker 1: when you're talking about your next wave that's where it's tough,

745
00:37:57,800 --> 00:38:01,640
Speaker 1: because if you're Oklahoma or even ten axis, even when

746
00:38:02,000 --> 00:38:06,600
Speaker 1: a Texas for example, is not elite quote unquote, it's

747
00:38:06,920 --> 00:38:10,239
Speaker 1: really hard to match their twos. It's really hard to

748
00:38:10,280 --> 00:38:14,319
Speaker 1: match their backup defensive ends and their backup receivers. And

749
00:38:14,360 --> 00:38:16,520
Speaker 1: then if you're talking about wading into the pool of

750
00:38:16,600 --> 00:38:19,600
Speaker 1: college football playoff contenders, I mean, can you imagine right

751
00:38:19,680 --> 00:38:23,560
Speaker 1: now Iowa State going up against a team like Georgia

752
00:38:24,080 --> 00:38:27,560
Speaker 1: excuse me, or a team like Alabama and not the

753
00:38:27,600 --> 00:38:29,840
Speaker 1: starters they put out there. The starters are good enough,

754
00:38:30,400 --> 00:38:33,520
Speaker 1: but those are teams that when they lose their number ones,

755
00:38:33,600 --> 00:38:35,839
Speaker 1: and if you lose your number ones and you play

756
00:38:35,880 --> 00:38:38,520
Speaker 1: backups on backups, which is gonna happen over the course

757
00:38:38,520 --> 00:38:42,799
Speaker 1: of a season at certain positions, you understand how wide

758
00:38:42,840 --> 00:38:45,440
Speaker 1: the gap is there, Like there's a there's a gap

759
00:38:45,600 --> 00:38:48,160
Speaker 1: between your number ones and their number ones. But the

760
00:38:48,200 --> 00:38:50,920
Speaker 1: big gaps and where the separation really happens in this

761
00:38:51,000 --> 00:38:55,160
Speaker 1: sport is is how good are their twos and how

762
00:38:55,160 --> 00:38:58,680
Speaker 1: good are your twos? And you'll notice with teams that

763
00:38:58,719 --> 00:39:01,680
Speaker 1: float in the fifteen to twenty five versus teams that

764
00:39:01,880 --> 00:39:04,360
Speaker 1: hang out in the top five in America year in

765
00:39:04,400 --> 00:39:08,440
Speaker 1: and year out, their backups. The gap between their backups

766
00:39:08,440 --> 00:39:11,840
Speaker 1: and your backups is infinitely larger than the gap between

767
00:39:11,960 --> 00:39:15,319
Speaker 1: their starters and your starters. That is the biggest hurdle

768
00:39:15,360 --> 00:39:19,319
Speaker 1: at Iowa State. Ryan. Next up is h Miller. Do

769
00:39:19,360 --> 00:39:23,040
Speaker 1: you think Bryce Young will be QB one for Bama

770
00:39:23,160 --> 00:39:26,640
Speaker 1: at any point in the twenty twenty season. Essentially, he's asking,

771
00:39:26,719 --> 00:39:28,279
Speaker 1: is Bryce Young going to start at any point at

772
00:39:28,360 --> 00:39:32,719
Speaker 1: quarterback for Alabama this year? I think the answer is yes.

773
00:39:33,840 --> 00:39:37,120
Speaker 1: I think at some point in this college football season,

774
00:39:37,360 --> 00:39:40,879
Speaker 1: Bryce Young will start at quarterback for Alabama. Can't give

775
00:39:40,920 --> 00:39:43,640
Speaker 1: you any more accurate prediction, or can't give you any

776
00:39:43,640 --> 00:39:46,520
Speaker 1: more informed prediction I guess than that, But yes, I

777
00:39:46,600 --> 00:39:50,920
Speaker 1: do believe that will happen. Next up is Johnny He

778
00:39:51,080 --> 00:39:54,479
Speaker 1: asks what is the ceiling for Chase Bryce at Duke

779
00:39:54,600 --> 00:39:56,920
Speaker 1: over the next two years? Well, it's a good question.

780
00:39:56,960 --> 00:39:59,520
Speaker 1: First off, thank you for the Duke football question. They

781
00:39:59,560 --> 00:40:02,239
Speaker 1: were bad offensively last year, especially at the end of

782
00:40:02,239 --> 00:40:04,839
Speaker 1: the year. I want to say the stat was like

783
00:40:04,880 --> 00:40:07,359
Speaker 1: they scored forty five or forty four points over their

784
00:40:07,360 --> 00:40:10,279
Speaker 1: past or last four games. They were in the one

785
00:40:10,360 --> 00:40:15,279
Speaker 1: twenties offensively and various metrics that are very important to

786
00:40:15,320 --> 00:40:19,759
Speaker 1: winning football games, and their receiver corps is very lackluster.

787
00:40:20,120 --> 00:40:22,600
Speaker 1: Was last year is going to enter this year unproven.

788
00:40:22,840 --> 00:40:25,040
Speaker 1: And so I say all that to say, even if

789
00:40:25,120 --> 00:40:27,880
Speaker 1: Chase Bryce is a stud, he's walking into a situation

790
00:40:27,960 --> 00:40:31,600
Speaker 1: where there is significant improvement that needs to be made

791
00:40:31,920 --> 00:40:34,560
Speaker 1: for them to be an offense that can compete and

792
00:40:34,600 --> 00:40:37,000
Speaker 1: can push people over there. Now, the good news is

793
00:40:37,480 --> 00:40:40,440
Speaker 1: I think he is talented. They had scrimmage Saturday and

794
00:40:40,600 --> 00:40:42,560
Speaker 1: heard some good things about him out of that scrimmage.

795
00:40:42,600 --> 00:40:45,439
Speaker 1: But I mean, you put a stud quarterback and that's

796
00:40:45,480 --> 00:40:47,560
Speaker 1: a stretch. Now I'm saying, even if he is a

797
00:40:47,600 --> 00:40:50,319
Speaker 1: stud quarterback, if you put him on the field and

798
00:40:50,440 --> 00:40:53,000
Speaker 1: he doesn't have really many options to throw to, We've

799
00:40:53,040 --> 00:40:55,360
Speaker 1: seen that happen before. So my question is not so

800
00:40:55,480 --> 00:40:58,360
Speaker 1: much about Chase Bryce. The question about Duke is ultimately

801
00:40:58,400 --> 00:41:01,960
Speaker 1: going to be what the supporting cast. And I'm very,

802
00:41:02,160 --> 00:41:06,880
Speaker 1: very unsold on the supporting cast right now. I really

803
00:41:06,920 --> 00:41:09,480
Speaker 1: wish that Duke could be more active in going to

804
00:41:09,520 --> 00:41:12,600
Speaker 1: transfer route. It's a lot tougher to be getting kids

805
00:41:12,640 --> 00:41:14,680
Speaker 1: into Duke. And the reason I say that is because

806
00:41:14,960 --> 00:41:16,840
Speaker 1: if I were to have that guy for two years.

807
00:41:16,960 --> 00:41:19,240
Speaker 1: And I were Dave Cutcliffe, I'd look around and say,

808
00:41:19,480 --> 00:41:21,759
Speaker 1: let's go bring half a dozen transfers in here, let's

809
00:41:21,800 --> 00:41:23,839
Speaker 1: go for it in twenty twenty one, let's just go

810
00:41:23,920 --> 00:41:26,719
Speaker 1: for it. But I don't know that that's necessarily realistic.

811
00:41:26,719 --> 00:41:28,399
Speaker 1: There so going to have to do it the old

812
00:41:28,440 --> 00:41:32,920
Speaker 1: fashioned way. Development, development, development, and believe it or not,

813
00:41:33,440 --> 00:41:35,520
Speaker 1: Dave Cutcliffe has done that a time or two in

814
00:41:35,560 --> 00:41:39,319
Speaker 1: his career. Next up, we've got a screen shot I

815
00:41:39,360 --> 00:41:41,920
Speaker 1: put in my notes, screenshot on the home screen. So

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00:41:42,840 --> 00:41:46,840
Speaker 1: this is fascinating podcasting. Here I'm killing time while I

817
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Speaker 1: get to the home screen. Okay, here we go. So

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Speaker 1: I noticed a lot of you. When you leave your

819
00:41:50,680 --> 00:41:53,680
Speaker 1: reviews in the Apple podcast review section, leave a five

820
00:41:53,719 --> 00:41:55,680
Speaker 1: star review, by the way, if you haven't already. My

821
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Speaker 1: sister hadn't even left one. I was in her kitchen

822
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Speaker 1: last night, we were talking to stuff. I say, give

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Speaker 1: me your phone. She said, no, I say give me

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00:42:03,760 --> 00:42:05,400
Speaker 1: your phone. She said, what do you want to look at?

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00:42:05,440 --> 00:42:07,560
Speaker 1: I'll pull it up. And so we pulled up Apple

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Speaker 1: Podcast and not only was she not subscribe, but she

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Speaker 1: hadn't even left a five star review. So I have

828
00:42:13,680 --> 00:42:16,840
Speaker 1: cheated and I have doctored one to five star review

829
00:42:16,880 --> 00:42:19,400
Speaker 1: for our show. But what I noticed is a lot

830
00:42:19,480 --> 00:42:21,879
Speaker 1: of you guys. When you drop the review, you don't

831
00:42:21,880 --> 00:42:24,399
Speaker 1: even necessarily submit a question with your review, just leave

832
00:42:24,400 --> 00:42:26,759
Speaker 1: a comment. And since this is a Q and A,

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Speaker 1: I normally don't read the comments, but I wanted to

834
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Speaker 1: read one because it'll really raise my self esteem early

835
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Speaker 1: on this Wednesday morning, Let's be honest. And secondly, I

836
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Speaker 1: want to acknowledge in reading this one comment that I

837
00:42:38,840 --> 00:42:41,720
Speaker 1: read every one of them and I really appreciate him.

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Speaker 1: So this is very fascinating because it's a five star

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Speaker 1: review and BC one Cam says, dear sponsors, are you

840
00:42:49,719 --> 00:42:54,920
Speaker 1: guys listening? Ford Chevy Coke, You guys out there listening?

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Speaker 1: He says, dear sponsors, Josh and the team have the

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Speaker 1: best show in the market, and since we're not doing radio,

843
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Speaker 1: I can only assume that the market means the entire world,

844
00:43:04,520 --> 00:43:08,319
Speaker 1: and that is very big if true. If true, he says,

845
00:43:08,360 --> 00:43:10,520
Speaker 1: please give them all the money so we can have

846
00:43:10,600 --> 00:43:13,319
Speaker 1: more time with them. This is real. Now I'm not

847
00:43:13,320 --> 00:43:15,120
Speaker 1: making this up. You can go look at it yourself.

848
00:43:15,239 --> 00:43:17,520
Speaker 1: The show is so good. In fact, I bought an

849
00:43:17,520 --> 00:43:21,239
Speaker 1: iPad just to review the podcast. I literally did not

850
00:43:21,440 --> 00:43:24,800
Speaker 1: own one Apple product ever until I needed to review

851
00:43:24,840 --> 00:43:28,359
Speaker 1: this show. Now that you mention it, Tim Cook, I've

852
00:43:28,360 --> 00:43:30,400
Speaker 1: stood next to you at a couple of Auburn games.

853
00:43:31,000 --> 00:43:34,160
Speaker 1: I'm selling iPads for you guys. We're selling product for

854
00:43:34,239 --> 00:43:36,520
Speaker 1: you guys. So maybe that's the next sponsor we need

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Speaker 1: to talk about. I already use an Apple product on

856
00:43:39,320 --> 00:43:41,880
Speaker 1: set every show anyway. I just have a twenty four

857
00:43:41,920 --> 00:43:43,600
Speaker 1: to seven sticker over the front of it. I could

858
00:43:43,600 --> 00:43:46,280
Speaker 1: peel that sticker off for the right price. And then

859
00:43:46,440 --> 00:43:49,479
Speaker 1: BC onecam goes on to say, keep up the wonderful work.

860
00:43:49,880 --> 00:43:52,839
Speaker 1: I guess if I had a question, I would ask

861
00:43:52,880 --> 00:43:56,840
Speaker 1: that you mentioned the whole NCAA Tennessee transferred debacle. And

862
00:43:56,880 --> 00:43:59,840
Speaker 1: he's talking about Cade Mays five star offensive lineman that

863
00:44:00,600 --> 00:44:03,840
Speaker 1: was from Tennessee, committed to Georgia has now transferred to Tennessee,

864
00:44:04,160 --> 00:44:08,760
Speaker 1: had his immediate eligibility waiver denied. Listen, on the surface,

865
00:44:08,760 --> 00:44:11,600
Speaker 1: it looks inexplicable to me, not by the letter of

866
00:44:11,640 --> 00:44:13,719
Speaker 1: the law. If they're strictly going by the letter of

867
00:44:13,719 --> 00:44:16,600
Speaker 1: the law, he probably shouldn't be playing this year. But

868
00:44:16,680 --> 00:44:19,279
Speaker 1: that's the whole thing. That's not what they go by.

869
00:44:19,600 --> 00:44:21,319
Speaker 1: It's like someone has to wake up on the right

870
00:44:21,360 --> 00:44:24,440
Speaker 1: side of the bed in Indianapolis and Okay, well, you

871
00:44:24,520 --> 00:44:26,880
Speaker 1: either made enough noise, or you play the right position,

872
00:44:27,080 --> 00:44:28,759
Speaker 1: or I'm just in a good mood today, so I

873
00:44:28,760 --> 00:44:32,279
Speaker 1: think I'll approve your waiver. So, yeah, I get what

874
00:44:32,280 --> 00:44:34,680
Speaker 1: you're saying there. The next one is he wants me

875
00:44:34,719 --> 00:44:38,440
Speaker 1: to acknowledge that vallfans are the best. Well, you certainly

876
00:44:38,480 --> 00:44:40,640
Speaker 1: are the best PC one cam and my mom's a

877
00:44:40,680 --> 00:44:44,160
Speaker 1: Tennessee fan too, so I certainly would never suggest otherwise.

878
00:44:44,880 --> 00:44:47,080
Speaker 1: And then he asks, also, is there any way twenty

879
00:44:47,120 --> 00:44:49,000
Speaker 1: four to seven can send some Tennessee film to my

880
00:44:49,040 --> 00:44:51,719
Speaker 1: Twitter account? Well, it would not be a twenty four

881
00:44:51,719 --> 00:44:54,120
Speaker 1: to seven call, unfortunately, it would be a CBS call.

882
00:44:54,200 --> 00:44:57,560
Speaker 1: And they're very particular, as you could understand about just

883
00:44:57,920 --> 00:45:01,279
Speaker 1: sending their media out with no license. So hey, if

884
00:45:01,280 --> 00:45:03,080
Speaker 1: it were up to me, I do it. But then again,

885
00:45:03,080 --> 00:45:06,400
Speaker 1: that's probably why I'm not running a major media organization

886
00:45:06,480 --> 00:45:09,520
Speaker 1: right now. But in austincerity, I appreciate that comment, and

887
00:45:09,560 --> 00:45:11,719
Speaker 1: I appreciate the comment that we are Comments like that

888
00:45:11,719 --> 00:45:13,080
Speaker 1: that we get from a lot of you. It doesn't

889
00:45:13,080 --> 00:45:15,960
Speaker 1: mean a lot, and I read every single one of them.

890
00:45:16,280 --> 00:45:19,680
Speaker 1: Next up is Jay Ferg despite no immediate evidence in

891
00:45:19,719 --> 00:45:21,920
Speaker 1: the fall of twenty twenty, because we can't play. Do

892
00:45:22,000 --> 00:45:23,840
Speaker 1: you think Penn State is going to shift to a

893
00:45:23,880 --> 00:45:26,920
Speaker 1: more pass heavy attack under Kirk Soraka or do they

894
00:45:27,000 --> 00:45:29,640
Speaker 1: lean more on urpo. That's a good question, and I

895
00:45:29,640 --> 00:45:31,640
Speaker 1: think it's going to be a case by case. Soraka

896
00:45:31,719 --> 00:45:33,320
Speaker 1: is a guy, and I don't think Franklin would have

897
00:45:33,400 --> 00:45:37,360
Speaker 1: hired him otherwise. Who can tailor his system to the personnel.

898
00:45:37,760 --> 00:45:39,920
Speaker 1: You've got to be able to do that today. Gone

899
00:45:40,160 --> 00:45:43,120
Speaker 1: are the days in college football where you had a

900
00:45:43,239 --> 00:45:47,719
Speaker 1: system and it's very rigid and it's not flexible, and

901
00:45:47,960 --> 00:45:50,440
Speaker 1: whatever personnel we have, they're going to have to bend

902
00:45:50,560 --> 00:45:53,480
Speaker 1: to fit this system or else we're going four and eight.

903
00:45:53,760 --> 00:45:56,480
Speaker 1: That's not how you do it. The times have changed,

904
00:45:56,520 --> 00:45:59,680
Speaker 1: and now you have got offensive coordinators who are flexible

905
00:45:59,760 --> 00:46:02,359
Speaker 1: enough at the highest level and who are good, who

906
00:46:02,440 --> 00:46:04,640
Speaker 1: are flexible enough with their system to tailor it to

907
00:46:04,680 --> 00:46:07,319
Speaker 1: the personnel. And if you're being paid what they're paid,

908
00:46:07,360 --> 00:46:09,160
Speaker 1: and you spend the amount of time that you spend

909
00:46:09,360 --> 00:46:11,680
Speaker 1: on this craft, there's no reason why you shouldn't be

910
00:46:11,719 --> 00:46:14,120
Speaker 1: able to do that. So the answer there is I

911
00:46:14,120 --> 00:46:15,759
Speaker 1: wish we could have found out this year. I mean,

912
00:46:15,760 --> 00:46:17,440
Speaker 1: this is one of the things when you start thinking

913
00:46:17,480 --> 00:46:21,080
Speaker 1: about it at a more granular level, it's so frustrating

914
00:46:21,239 --> 00:46:23,560
Speaker 1: because there were so many things I was excited about.

915
00:46:23,680 --> 00:46:25,640
Speaker 1: Penn State was one of them. I talked about them

916
00:46:25,680 --> 00:46:28,600
Speaker 1: countless times. I was so excited to see what their

917
00:46:28,600 --> 00:46:31,600
Speaker 1: offense was going to be. And now instead you just

918
00:46:31,680 --> 00:46:34,640
Speaker 1: have to wonder what could have been, what would have been,

919
00:46:35,320 --> 00:46:39,160
Speaker 1: What would Penn State's record be right now? Pathetic? Not

920
00:46:39,239 --> 00:46:41,200
Speaker 1: the record I'm saying, the fact that I can't see

921
00:46:41,239 --> 00:46:45,279
Speaker 1: it is pathetic. H puff eleven. Next up, how do

922
00:46:45,320 --> 00:46:47,800
Speaker 1: you see Tennessee finishing with the new schedule and opponents

923
00:46:47,840 --> 00:46:51,879
Speaker 1: they were given. Well, I'm not going to give out

924
00:46:51,920 --> 00:46:54,360
Speaker 1: predictions quite yet, although that's coming in the near future.

925
00:46:54,680 --> 00:46:57,240
Speaker 1: And a quick reminder, we are going to be doing

926
00:46:57,320 --> 00:46:59,759
Speaker 1: what I call grand season predictions for all the big

927
00:46:59,800 --> 00:47:03,440
Speaker 1: teams Tennessee included in the very near future on the

928
00:47:03,440 --> 00:47:06,120
Speaker 1: twenty four to seven Sports YouTube channel. You're gonna want

929
00:47:06,120 --> 00:47:08,600
Speaker 1: to subscribe there if you haven't already telling you we

930
00:47:08,680 --> 00:47:12,200
Speaker 1: got some really good stuff coming and selfishly I think

931
00:47:12,200 --> 00:47:14,359
Speaker 1: we already have good stuff out there. But even if

932
00:47:14,400 --> 00:47:16,799
Speaker 1: you're not already subscribed, do it. It's free, doesn't cost

933
00:47:16,800 --> 00:47:18,600
Speaker 1: a thing. You have to watch an ad every now

934
00:47:18,640 --> 00:47:20,319
Speaker 1: and then, but that's about it, and you do that

935
00:47:20,360 --> 00:47:23,239
Speaker 1: on TV anyway. And we will do best, worst, and

936
00:47:23,320 --> 00:47:27,960
Speaker 1: most likely record scenarios for every team Tennessee included, and

937
00:47:28,360 --> 00:47:30,520
Speaker 1: what I think we'll be looking at there is there's

938
00:47:30,520 --> 00:47:33,359
Speaker 1: a possibility that Tennessee finishes below five hundred in their

939
00:47:33,400 --> 00:47:37,320
Speaker 1: worst case. The best case, they're pulling off some stunners

940
00:47:37,320 --> 00:47:39,960
Speaker 1: and they're in like eight and two, seven and three territory.

941
00:47:40,000 --> 00:47:42,879
Speaker 1: I think their win total was either it was five

942
00:47:42,960 --> 00:47:45,360
Speaker 1: or six, I can't remember which one it was. Tennessee

943
00:47:45,400 --> 00:47:47,839
Speaker 1: is in a position, as I said moments after the

944
00:47:47,880 --> 00:47:51,080
Speaker 1: SEC released the entire schedule, they're in a position to

945
00:47:51,160 --> 00:47:54,160
Speaker 1: shock some people because they're certainly not gonna be favored

946
00:47:54,160 --> 00:47:57,759
Speaker 1: against Georgia or Alabama, but they're in position where they

947
00:47:57,760 --> 00:48:01,799
Speaker 1: play those teams before and after they play each other.

948
00:48:02,400 --> 00:48:04,440
Speaker 1: So if you believe in a look ahead spot, if

949
00:48:04,480 --> 00:48:06,920
Speaker 1: you believe in a letdown spot, and not everyone buys

950
00:48:06,920 --> 00:48:09,560
Speaker 1: into that, but if you do buy into it, certainly

951
00:48:09,760 --> 00:48:12,800
Speaker 1: it doesn't hurt to have those teams at that spot.

952
00:48:12,880 --> 00:48:15,400
Speaker 1: They played Georgia early in the season. What if Georgia's

953
00:48:15,440 --> 00:48:19,040
Speaker 1: offense hasn't come together yet. What if Tennessee and Jeremy Pruten,

954
00:48:19,080 --> 00:48:21,480
Speaker 1: what if this offense, what if they're playing a style

955
00:48:21,480 --> 00:48:25,160
Speaker 1: of football this year that's ultra physical and they're trying

956
00:48:25,200 --> 00:48:27,800
Speaker 1: to bludgeon you, and they're doing it because they don't

957
00:48:27,800 --> 00:48:33,000
Speaker 1: believe that teams have adequately prepared in the different setting

958
00:48:33,080 --> 00:48:35,319
Speaker 1: that they've had in this offseason. They don't believe that

959
00:48:35,360 --> 00:48:37,880
Speaker 1: coaches have been able to get their teams prepared to

960
00:48:37,960 --> 00:48:40,120
Speaker 1: deal with that pounding like they normally would have been

961
00:48:40,160 --> 00:48:43,000
Speaker 1: able to. And as a result, Tennessee is able to

962
00:48:43,000 --> 00:48:47,319
Speaker 1: shorten games and really turn games into boxing matches, and

963
00:48:47,360 --> 00:48:50,000
Speaker 1: they've taken body blow after bloody blow to you. What

964
00:48:50,040 --> 00:48:52,080
Speaker 1: if that's Tennessee's style this year and what if they're

965
00:48:52,080 --> 00:48:53,560
Speaker 1: able to carry it out to perfection and win some

966
00:48:53,640 --> 00:48:57,520
Speaker 1: games seventeen to thirteen. I don't know, but that will

967
00:48:57,520 --> 00:49:00,719
Speaker 1: be covered in our Tennessee preview coming up next up.

968
00:49:00,760 --> 00:49:03,879
Speaker 1: In an extreme scenario, do you think universities could allow

969
00:49:03,920 --> 00:49:07,879
Speaker 1: athletes to use facilities and maintain their practice schedule while

970
00:49:07,880 --> 00:49:10,960
Speaker 1: the regular student body was sent home. I do believe that.

971
00:49:11,840 --> 00:49:14,480
Speaker 1: I don't believe in entire like a total college football

972
00:49:14,560 --> 00:49:16,920
Speaker 1: bubble as possible. I don't think you could do with

973
00:49:17,000 --> 00:49:20,040
Speaker 1: college football what they're doing with the NBA, for example. However,

974
00:49:20,320 --> 00:49:24,160
Speaker 1: I think it's much more attainable to a degree than

975
00:49:24,200 --> 00:49:27,120
Speaker 1: people realize, and it's happening at some places right now.

976
00:49:27,560 --> 00:49:31,359
Speaker 1: For instance, if you have sent the normal student body home,

977
00:49:31,480 --> 00:49:34,840
Speaker 1: or if you've sent them into an entire virtual learning mode,

978
00:49:35,360 --> 00:49:38,600
Speaker 1: so you don't have classroom settings and therefore you greatly

979
00:49:38,640 --> 00:49:41,640
Speaker 1: reduce human to human interaction on campus. And you already

980
00:49:41,640 --> 00:49:46,399
Speaker 1: had your football players majority taking virtual classes, and this

981
00:49:46,440 --> 00:49:49,480
Speaker 1: is where their discipline as paramount. You kind of got

982
00:49:49,520 --> 00:49:53,160
Speaker 1: them insulated in their own dorm settings. And I know

983
00:49:53,200 --> 00:49:55,680
Speaker 1: the dorm numbers and percentages of different campus to campus.

984
00:49:55,760 --> 00:49:58,000
Speaker 1: But if you can keep them at the facility, and

985
00:49:58,040 --> 00:50:00,799
Speaker 1: if you can just keep them kind of locked away

986
00:50:00,840 --> 00:50:04,319
Speaker 1: as much as you possibly can, I think that you

987
00:50:04,400 --> 00:50:08,759
Speaker 1: can borderline achieve kind of a pseudo bubble. If you will.

988
00:50:08,800 --> 00:50:11,400
Speaker 1: A bubble, it's got some holes in it, but you're

989
00:50:11,840 --> 00:50:15,200
Speaker 1: injecting more air into it than is exiting through the holes,

990
00:50:15,280 --> 00:50:17,640
Speaker 1: So the net effect is Hey, we still have a

991
00:50:17,640 --> 00:50:19,359
Speaker 1: bubble here. They're having to inject a lot of air

992
00:50:19,400 --> 00:50:20,920
Speaker 1: into it, but we still got a bubble. I think

993
00:50:20,960 --> 00:50:23,640
Speaker 1: it's possible. Yeah, And that's why I think optimism is growing.

994
00:50:24,160 --> 00:50:26,360
Speaker 1: So I think a lot of people have seen players

995
00:50:26,400 --> 00:50:29,080
Speaker 1: come back on campus and really really early on, there

996
00:50:29,080 --> 00:50:31,640
Speaker 1: were some bad numbers and they never were publicized. I

997
00:50:31,640 --> 00:50:33,120
Speaker 1: want to tell you this, and I'm not going to

998
00:50:33,120 --> 00:50:36,200
Speaker 1: publicize them now, but there were some major programs out

999
00:50:36,239 --> 00:50:39,440
Speaker 1: there that had a lot of positive COVID tests when

1000
00:50:39,480 --> 00:50:42,520
Speaker 1: players got back on campus from being at home, and

1001
00:50:42,760 --> 00:50:45,560
Speaker 1: it wasn't publicized, and they got it under control. They

1002
00:50:45,640 --> 00:50:47,720
Speaker 1: knew all the while they could get it under control,

1003
00:50:47,719 --> 00:50:50,520
Speaker 1: and they have. And now some of those same programs

1004
00:50:50,840 --> 00:50:53,719
Speaker 1: have gone several weeks without having a positive which goes

1005
00:50:53,760 --> 00:50:56,160
Speaker 1: to show you they know what they're doing. They're just

1006
00:50:56,239 --> 00:50:58,640
Speaker 1: worried about other folks not knowing what they're doing. And

1007
00:50:58,719 --> 00:51:01,600
Speaker 1: so that's why the's optimism. If they can keep them

1008
00:51:01,640 --> 00:51:04,840
Speaker 1: where they control the environment, they feel very good about

1009
00:51:04,840 --> 00:51:08,160
Speaker 1: getting the season underway and off the ground. Goose. Next up,

1010
00:51:08,719 --> 00:51:11,480
Speaker 1: what is the impact of quinn ewers commitment to Texas.

1011
00:51:11,520 --> 00:51:14,320
Speaker 1: I heard Steve Wilfong say, with his commitment, the future

1012
00:51:14,360 --> 00:51:18,040
Speaker 1: of Texas football is as bright as any program in America.

1013
00:51:18,440 --> 00:51:20,640
Speaker 1: Quinn Eewers, for those of you unfamiliar, is the number

1014
00:51:20,640 --> 00:51:24,160
Speaker 1: one rated quarterback in the twenty twenty two recruiting cycle,

1015
00:51:24,719 --> 00:51:27,200
Speaker 1: so not this one, but the next one. And he

1016
00:51:27,480 --> 00:51:30,040
Speaker 1: was obviously a five star talent and he committed to

1017
00:51:30,040 --> 00:51:33,520
Speaker 1: Texas and this is a really, really big deal for Texas. Obviously,

1018
00:51:34,000 --> 00:51:37,319
Speaker 1: I wouldn't disagree with what Steve Wilfong said. Actually, if

1019
00:51:37,320 --> 00:51:41,960
Speaker 1: you're listening on Wednesday or afterwards, you will probably be

1020
00:51:41,960 --> 00:51:43,400
Speaker 1: able to go to the twenty four to seven Sports

1021
00:51:43,400 --> 00:51:46,800
Speaker 1: YouTube channel and see our latest Wilfong recruiting whip around,

1022
00:51:46,840 --> 00:51:49,279
Speaker 1: and I would strongly advise you guys to watch that.

1023
00:51:49,360 --> 00:51:52,239
Speaker 1: We do it weekly. We normally release it on Wednesdays

1024
00:51:52,560 --> 00:51:55,600
Speaker 1: somewhere in the midweek area, and there's a lot of

1025
00:51:55,640 --> 00:51:58,440
Speaker 1: tidbits in that, and especially in today's episode, not so

1026
00:51:58,520 --> 00:52:01,279
Speaker 1: much Texas, but we got some Oklahoma and Georgia, a

1027
00:52:01,320 --> 00:52:04,200
Speaker 1: lot of interesting updates there. But back to Youwers in Texas,

1028
00:52:04,840 --> 00:52:07,359
Speaker 1: I think it's really really big. Now here's what it's

1029
00:52:07,400 --> 00:52:11,120
Speaker 1: contingent on. What it's contingent on is do something this year,

1030
00:52:11,200 --> 00:52:14,120
Speaker 1: because see, that really is what makes your future brighter

1031
00:52:14,360 --> 00:52:17,239
Speaker 1: if you show me that you're on track. This year.

1032
00:52:18,000 --> 00:52:20,920
Speaker 1: You got a fifteen year senior quarterback in Sam Allener.

1033
00:52:21,040 --> 00:52:24,800
Speaker 1: This year, you got a really deep stacked defensive line.

1034
00:52:24,880 --> 00:52:26,880
Speaker 1: This year, you got a talented enough team to win

1035
00:52:26,880 --> 00:52:29,359
Speaker 1: the Big Twelve this year. I don't want to wait

1036
00:52:29,400 --> 00:52:31,920
Speaker 1: until next year. What I'd love to see is I'd

1037
00:52:31,920 --> 00:52:34,560
Speaker 1: love to see a program that's already humming, that's already

1038
00:52:34,880 --> 00:52:37,279
Speaker 1: infused itself with a couple of new coordinators, and we're

1039
00:52:37,280 --> 00:52:40,680
Speaker 1: getting immediate results out of them, and then we're gonna

1040
00:52:40,719 --> 00:52:43,480
Speaker 1: plug in the number one overall quarterback in America and

1041
00:52:43,600 --> 00:52:47,479
Speaker 1: the next recruiting cycle. That's when I start to feel

1042
00:52:47,480 --> 00:52:49,399
Speaker 1: really good about their future being as bright as any

1043
00:52:49,400 --> 00:52:51,879
Speaker 1: program in America. But what the commitment of a guy

1044
00:52:51,920 --> 00:52:54,719
Speaker 1: like Youers does so far out is it does the

1045
00:52:54,760 --> 00:52:57,759
Speaker 1: same thing Caleb Williams is doing with Oklahoma right now,

1046
00:52:57,920 --> 00:52:59,640
Speaker 1: which is why I mentioned that, and we're going to

1047
00:52:59,640 --> 00:53:02,440
Speaker 1: talk about Caleb Williams later in the podcast. What it

1048
00:53:02,480 --> 00:53:06,200
Speaker 1: does is it has this magnetism. Guys obviously want to

1049
00:53:06,200 --> 00:53:10,080
Speaker 1: go play with other legit guys and quin Ewers being

1050
00:53:10,120 --> 00:53:11,960
Speaker 1: a five star quarterback is viewed as one of those.

1051
00:53:12,040 --> 00:53:13,759
Speaker 1: And so if I'm a high four star, five star

1052
00:53:13,800 --> 00:53:17,760
Speaker 1: receiver from Beaumont or Lake Charles or Mobile or Tallahassee,

1053
00:53:17,920 --> 00:53:22,400
Speaker 1: I'm looking at that situation very closely. So yes, definitely

1054
00:53:23,000 --> 00:53:25,640
Speaker 1: has the potential to have a snowball effect in a

1055
00:53:25,680 --> 00:53:30,160
Speaker 1: positive way for Texas. Go Tigers. Ninety seven asks what

1056
00:53:30,280 --> 00:53:33,640
Speaker 1: is your opinion of chip Kelly at UCLA? Could he

1057
00:53:33,719 --> 00:53:36,319
Speaker 1: ever get them to the level he had at Oregon? No,

1058
00:53:36,440 --> 00:53:38,360
Speaker 1: I don't think so. I think that a lot of

1059
00:53:38,360 --> 00:53:40,640
Speaker 1: the shine has long since worn off on chip Kelly.

1060
00:53:40,840 --> 00:53:44,000
Speaker 1: Chip Kelly is a classic example of a guy that

1061
00:53:44,080 --> 00:53:48,200
Speaker 1: was doing something revolutionary and he was really setting the

1062
00:53:48,200 --> 00:53:52,160
Speaker 1: pace at Oregon, and he redefined what could be done

1063
00:53:52,680 --> 00:53:54,960
Speaker 1: at what the time was thought of as a very

1064
00:53:55,000 --> 00:53:58,000
Speaker 1: second or even third tier program. And that was no

1065
00:53:58,160 --> 00:54:00,200
Speaker 1: knock on Oregon. It was just that there's no oh

1066
00:54:00,920 --> 00:54:04,239
Speaker 1: usually you know, justin Herbert notwithstanding, there's usually not a

1067
00:54:04,239 --> 00:54:07,239
Speaker 1: lot of in state talent in Oregon. And so what

1068
00:54:07,280 --> 00:54:09,440
Speaker 1: you were looking at back then out there is we

1069
00:54:09,520 --> 00:54:12,080
Speaker 1: got a recruiting It's usc No, you don't. What you

1070
00:54:12,160 --> 00:54:14,640
Speaker 1: do is you just run a different system, and you

1071
00:54:14,760 --> 00:54:17,960
Speaker 1: run a system wherein a USC three star is a

1072
00:54:18,000 --> 00:54:20,239
Speaker 1: five star for your purposes. You can get kids up

1073
00:54:20,239 --> 00:54:22,279
Speaker 1: there they didn't even offer, and you can beat them.

1074
00:54:22,360 --> 00:54:24,359
Speaker 1: You can run circles around them with the guys they

1075
00:54:24,360 --> 00:54:26,319
Speaker 1: didn't offer in a lot of cases, and then you

1076
00:54:26,400 --> 00:54:29,040
Speaker 1: raise the profile of your program and then you can

1077
00:54:29,080 --> 00:54:31,279
Speaker 1: start recruiting more heads up and folks want to come

1078
00:54:31,320 --> 00:54:33,239
Speaker 1: up there. And that's what chip Kelly did there. But

1079
00:54:33,239 --> 00:54:36,279
Speaker 1: the point is he was doing something offensively that was

1080
00:54:36,360 --> 00:54:40,160
Speaker 1: revolutionary at the time. The problem is nothing is revolutionary

1081
00:54:40,200 --> 00:54:43,319
Speaker 1: for long in any sport, college football or anything else.

1082
00:54:43,880 --> 00:54:46,719
Speaker 1: If it's working, then guess what people are doing. They're

1083
00:54:46,760 --> 00:54:49,560
Speaker 1: copying it, or at least versions of it. And so

1084
00:54:49,680 --> 00:54:52,200
Speaker 1: chip Kelly went to the NFL in the meanwhile, and

1085
00:54:52,239 --> 00:54:55,680
Speaker 1: then he came back and the sport had evolved and adapted,

1086
00:54:55,960 --> 00:54:58,680
Speaker 1: and defenses were no longer taken by surprise at what

1087
00:54:58,760 --> 00:55:00,839
Speaker 1: chip Kelly had been doing, and a bunch of other

1088
00:55:00,880 --> 00:55:04,000
Speaker 1: offenses were doing versions of what he was doing, and

1089
00:55:04,080 --> 00:55:08,839
Speaker 1: he did not adjust. There was no adjustment, and they're

1090
00:55:09,080 --> 00:55:12,759
Speaker 1: to my knowledge, hasn't been really much adjustment. And the

1091
00:55:12,880 --> 00:55:15,720
Speaker 1: second problem is there is not a lot of passion

1092
00:55:15,760 --> 00:55:19,600
Speaker 1: and enthusiasm. Where he is Oregon, they're rabid about college

1093
00:55:19,640 --> 00:55:22,920
Speaker 1: football UCLA. Oh do we have a game today? Or

1094
00:55:23,320 --> 00:55:26,320
Speaker 1: we're off this week? Okay? Who do we play next week?

1095
00:55:26,520 --> 00:55:29,719
Speaker 1: What time's the game? Oh it's a road game. Like

1096
00:55:30,239 --> 00:55:33,160
Speaker 1: that's a conversation that they have about UCLA football in

1097
00:55:33,239 --> 00:55:35,640
Speaker 1: Los Angeles. And that's just the way it is. And

1098
00:55:36,239 --> 00:55:38,839
Speaker 1: what aggravates a lot of you guys who are die

1099
00:55:38,920 --> 00:55:41,279
Speaker 1: hard UCLA football fans is you know what I just

1100
00:55:41,320 --> 00:55:44,000
Speaker 1: said is true. There aren't enough of you. There are

1101
00:55:44,120 --> 00:55:48,160
Speaker 1: passionate UCLA football fans, there aren't enough of you. And

1102
00:55:48,239 --> 00:55:52,680
Speaker 1: so the reason that matters is because it's really hard

1103
00:55:52,719 --> 00:55:56,239
Speaker 1: to recruit to a stadium that's forty percent full. And

1104
00:55:56,280 --> 00:56:00,000
Speaker 1: it's also hard to recruit when there's not enough pressure.

1105
00:56:00,080 --> 00:56:02,560
Speaker 1: You're really being placed like you're if you're the head

1106
00:56:02,560 --> 00:56:05,840
Speaker 1: coach at Auburn and you are falling short of expectation,

1107
00:56:06,360 --> 00:56:09,000
Speaker 1: the pressure is so immense you can't even imagine it.

1108
00:56:09,080 --> 00:56:12,160
Speaker 1: People will not allow you to underachieve for very long.

1109
00:56:12,400 --> 00:56:15,759
Speaker 1: The competition level elsewhere is too high and the expectation

1110
00:56:15,960 --> 00:56:19,640
Speaker 1: on you is too high, and they won't tolerate subpar

1111
00:56:19,760 --> 00:56:24,440
Speaker 1: performance for very long at UCLA, and you know, it

1112
00:56:24,480 --> 00:56:26,960
Speaker 1: is kind of is what it is, and maybe we'll

1113
00:56:27,280 --> 00:56:30,520
Speaker 1: maybe we'll be hired in basketball season, but hey, athletics

1114
00:56:30,520 --> 00:56:32,640
Speaker 1: and the grand scheme of things, I mean, that's not

1115
00:56:32,719 --> 00:56:36,200
Speaker 1: the most important thing in the world. Well, listen, maybe

1116
00:56:36,200 --> 00:56:38,879
Speaker 1: that's right, but if you're passionate about it, you don't

1117
00:56:38,880 --> 00:56:40,840
Speaker 1: want to hear that. And if you're listening to this,

1118
00:56:40,880 --> 00:56:44,239
Speaker 1: you're probably passionate about it. So for many reasons, No,

1119
00:56:44,440 --> 00:56:46,480
Speaker 1: I don't think Chip Kelly can achieve at UCLA what

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00:56:46,520 --> 00:56:48,719
Speaker 1: he did at Orgon. Are we going to take an

1121
00:56:48,719 --> 00:56:52,280
Speaker 1: ad break right quick? Got a really good question coming back,

1122
00:56:52,520 --> 00:56:56,560
Speaker 1: and it's about this gulf that has formed between the

1123
00:56:56,600 --> 00:56:59,640
Speaker 1: Big ten and the Pac twelve and other conferences. And

1124
00:56:59,680 --> 00:57:03,640
Speaker 1: when I say gulf, I'm specifically referring to what's gonna

1125
00:57:03,640 --> 00:57:07,080
Speaker 1: happen if we have a season in the big three

1126
00:57:07,160 --> 00:57:09,279
Speaker 1: that are left and they don't have a season in

1127
00:57:09,320 --> 00:57:12,280
Speaker 1: those conferences. What does it look like on the other side?

1128
00:57:12,400 --> 00:57:14,720
Speaker 1: Is there a big gap? You know? What what happens?

1129
00:57:14,719 --> 00:57:17,080
Speaker 1: What are the ramifications? We'll talk about it right after

1130
00:57:17,120 --> 00:57:19,520
Speaker 1: this and we're back and we kick it off with

1131
00:57:19,720 --> 00:57:23,160
Speaker 1: Jeff here, where would you say, right now, as of today,

1132
00:57:23,400 --> 00:57:26,880
Speaker 1: the three remaining Power five conferences stand on having a season.

1133
00:57:27,400 --> 00:57:32,120
Speaker 1: Are these university presidents listening to Big ten presidents, NCAA

1134
00:57:32,240 --> 00:57:34,920
Speaker 1: and the media. Have they paid attention to the backlash

1135
00:57:35,200 --> 00:57:37,960
Speaker 1: against the Big ten commissioner and presidents? Are they going

1136
00:57:38,000 --> 00:57:40,600
Speaker 1: to use positive tests of college football students as a

1137
00:57:40,600 --> 00:57:44,440
Speaker 1: reason to shut it all down? So, Jeff, basically, you're scared.

1138
00:57:45,040 --> 00:57:47,520
Speaker 1: You have a reason to be. I'm I'm scared too, Jeff.

1139
00:57:47,520 --> 00:57:51,240
Speaker 1: We're scared together. But as I said before, there's growing

1140
00:57:51,240 --> 00:57:55,840
Speaker 1: optimism every day, there's growing optimism that the ones remaining

1141
00:57:55,920 --> 00:57:58,160
Speaker 1: at the table. And this is an important point. The

1142
00:57:58,200 --> 00:58:01,960
Speaker 1: ones remaining at the table SEC, the Big Ten, the

1143
00:58:02,000 --> 00:58:05,920
Speaker 1: ACC and some G fives behind them. They are looking

1144
00:58:05,960 --> 00:58:09,480
Speaker 1: for reasons to play, whereas certain people in the Big

1145
00:58:09,520 --> 00:58:12,440
Speaker 1: ten were looking for any reason not to play. And

1146
00:58:12,520 --> 00:58:15,080
Speaker 1: when I say Big ten, I think you understand, but

1147
00:58:15,120 --> 00:58:17,440
Speaker 1: it's important if you don't understand, to note I'm not

1148
00:58:17,560 --> 00:58:21,200
Speaker 1: talking about ads. I'm not talking about coaches or players

1149
00:58:21,280 --> 00:58:24,160
Speaker 1: or parents. I'm talking about folks who really, at the

1150
00:58:24,240 --> 00:58:26,880
Speaker 1: end of the day, could take football or leave it.

1151
00:58:27,640 --> 00:58:30,800
Speaker 1: And so in the SEC, they're not having those conversations.

1152
00:58:31,000 --> 00:58:32,840
Speaker 1: The people who think like that have been pushed to

1153
00:58:32,880 --> 00:58:35,240
Speaker 1: the side, and the ACC in the Big twelve kind

1154
00:58:35,240 --> 00:58:38,280
Speaker 1: of similarly, so they are looking for every reason to play.

1155
00:58:38,520 --> 00:58:41,240
Speaker 1: They're doing it responsibly. Anyone who tells you they're not

1156
00:58:41,480 --> 00:58:44,240
Speaker 1: is lying to your face, and they're clueless because they're

1157
00:58:44,280 --> 00:58:46,160
Speaker 1: not in the room either, so they don't really know

1158
00:58:46,200 --> 00:58:49,080
Speaker 1: what they're talking about. They're just speculating, knowing that no

1159
00:58:49,080 --> 00:58:50,760
Speaker 1: one's going to really push back on it because they

1160
00:58:50,760 --> 00:58:54,360
Speaker 1: have a blue check mark next to their name on Twitter. However, No,

1161
00:58:54,520 --> 00:58:56,640
Speaker 1: I do not think anything is going to be weaponized

1162
00:58:56,880 --> 00:59:00,120
Speaker 1: in an effort not to play in those conferences. And

1163
00:59:00,160 --> 00:59:03,000
Speaker 1: so the odds, as you asked, I think the odds

1164
00:59:03,440 --> 00:59:06,400
Speaker 1: are far above fifty percent. I would put them far

1165
00:59:06,440 --> 00:59:09,240
Speaker 1: above I would put the odds right now of the

1166
00:59:09,320 --> 00:59:13,479
Speaker 1: other three conferences starting their college football seasons well above

1167
00:59:13,520 --> 00:59:16,360
Speaker 1: seventy five percent. Like that's how good I feel about

1168
00:59:16,360 --> 00:59:21,280
Speaker 1: it today. And then we'll see Joe asks probably the

1169
00:59:21,280 --> 00:59:24,880
Speaker 1: most important question in the history of this podcast. Joe asks, Hey,

1170
00:59:24,880 --> 00:59:28,400
Speaker 1: are there going to be any SEC SNOW games this season? Well, Joe,

1171
00:59:28,480 --> 00:59:31,280
Speaker 1: I was looking at the schedule, and there is potential

1172
00:59:31,320 --> 00:59:34,560
Speaker 1: here because remember the SEC regular season is going to

1173
00:59:34,600 --> 00:59:37,720
Speaker 1: stretch into December, and there are a couple of dates

1174
00:59:37,800 --> 00:59:39,680
Speaker 1: right off the top of my head before even pulling

1175
00:59:39,760 --> 00:59:43,880
Speaker 1: up my helmet grid schedule here, I am fascinated by

1176
00:59:43,880 --> 00:59:48,520
Speaker 1: the prospect of Alabama playing at Arkansas. That's northwest Arkansas,

1177
00:59:48,600 --> 00:59:50,800
Speaker 1: or as we like to say, in the South halfway

1178
00:59:50,800 --> 00:59:54,880
Speaker 1: to Canada. And they're going to play in Fayettville December fifth. Okay,

1179
00:59:54,960 --> 00:59:57,640
Speaker 1: so there's potential, there's going to be it's going to

1180
00:59:57,680 --> 01:00:03,520
Speaker 1: be miserable weatherwise either way. But also Florida plays at Tennessee.

1181
01:00:04,640 --> 01:00:08,080
Speaker 1: That doesn't figure to be too fun for kids from Gainesville,

1182
01:00:08,520 --> 01:00:11,640
Speaker 1: some of whom never left the state of Florida growing up.

1183
01:00:11,680 --> 01:00:14,040
Speaker 1: And I'm not knocking that lifestyle because I wouldn't either

1184
01:00:14,160 --> 01:00:17,080
Speaker 1: if I grew up in Florida. And we have a

1185
01:00:17,120 --> 01:00:20,680
Speaker 1: game where South Carolina plays at Kentucky. So you've got

1186
01:00:20,680 --> 01:00:23,520
Speaker 1: games in Lexington, Fayetteville, and Knoxville the last week of

1187
01:00:23,560 --> 01:00:26,480
Speaker 1: the season. And that's essentially the SEC schedule maker just

1188
01:00:26,520 --> 01:00:30,240
Speaker 1: snickering and saying I'm gonna get all this criticism on

1189
01:00:30,280 --> 01:00:32,480
Speaker 1: the front end, but wait until we get into December

1190
01:00:32,480 --> 01:00:34,080
Speaker 1: and see what I threw at him. So yeah, Joe

1191
01:00:34,080 --> 01:00:36,880
Speaker 1: we could have it in the odds when we have

1192
01:00:37,080 --> 01:00:41,000
Speaker 1: three games in areas, you know, kind of above the

1193
01:00:41,040 --> 01:00:43,360
Speaker 1: state line of Tennessee and Alabama and Georgia. We got

1194
01:00:43,400 --> 01:00:45,320
Speaker 1: three games up there. Yet it could happen. It could

1195
01:00:45,400 --> 01:00:49,560
Speaker 1: very well happen. Next up, the number one recruit in

1196
01:00:49,600 --> 01:00:52,160
Speaker 1: the country always seems to be a quarterback or a

1197
01:00:52,160 --> 01:00:57,439
Speaker 1: defensive lineman. Do you know why. I don't necessarily know why.

1198
01:00:57,520 --> 01:00:59,720
Speaker 1: I think there's a premium placed on in those positions

1199
01:01:00,280 --> 01:01:04,680
Speaker 1: for obvious reasons. I think also that this is something

1200
01:01:04,720 --> 01:01:07,200
Speaker 1: that is better suited for a member of the rankings

1201
01:01:07,200 --> 01:01:09,040
Speaker 1: Council to answer. So what I'm going to do is

1202
01:01:09,080 --> 01:01:12,000
Speaker 1: I'm going to seamlessly pass this one off to Bud

1203
01:01:12,040 --> 01:01:14,920
Speaker 1: Elliott and Barton Simmons, and hopefully one of them is

1204
01:01:14,960 --> 01:01:19,360
Speaker 1: eavedropping right now. So Barton, Bud, why does the number

1205
01:01:19,360 --> 01:01:20,800
Speaker 1: one recruit in the country always seem to be a

1206
01:01:20,880 --> 01:01:25,440
Speaker 1: quarterback or a defensive lineman? Explain yourself. Next up, Travdai,

1207
01:01:25,880 --> 01:01:28,640
Speaker 1: in the interest of fairness in the FBS, what do

1208
01:01:28,680 --> 01:01:32,080
Speaker 1: you think of conferences having a relegation system similar to

1209
01:01:32,120 --> 01:01:35,280
Speaker 1: the ones they use in overseas soccer. Take the SEC

1210
01:01:35,680 --> 01:01:38,600
Speaker 1: and the American Athletic Conference. For example, Let's say they

1211
01:01:38,640 --> 01:01:41,680
Speaker 1: formed an alliance, kind of a super alliance, where the

1212
01:01:41,720 --> 01:01:44,400
Speaker 1: top two teams from the AAC at the end of

1213
01:01:44,440 --> 01:01:48,000
Speaker 1: the season replaced the bottom two teams in the SEC.

1214
01:01:48,480 --> 01:01:50,920
Speaker 1: I would love it for the simple fact that everyone

1215
01:01:51,000 --> 01:01:54,360
Speaker 1: in FBS could realistically be no more than two years

1216
01:01:54,400 --> 01:01:58,760
Speaker 1: away from the playoff. Please be gentle with me. I

1217
01:01:58,760 --> 01:02:00,240
Speaker 1: think we had a version of this question in a

1218
01:02:00,240 --> 01:02:03,800
Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago. Conceptually, this would be so fun.

1219
01:02:04,120 --> 01:02:06,360
Speaker 1: Conceptually I say conceptually because we have to get to

1220
01:02:06,360 --> 01:02:09,000
Speaker 1: reality in a second. But conceptually, oh, this would be

1221
01:02:09,040 --> 01:02:12,200
Speaker 1: a blast to watch, and you'd finally have real heat

1222
01:02:12,600 --> 01:02:16,440
Speaker 1: on programs like Vanderbilt. Vanderbilt. As I said on Twitter

1223
01:02:16,480 --> 01:02:19,320
Speaker 1: with Mike Griffith yesterday, Vanderbilt, some of you may not

1224
01:02:19,440 --> 01:02:24,200
Speaker 1: know this, there are multiple Texas high school football programs

1225
01:02:24,320 --> 01:02:27,960
Speaker 1: with better facilities than Vanderbilt. That is not sarcasm. That

1226
01:02:28,080 --> 01:02:31,440
Speaker 1: is a sad reality. And the reason, obviously is that

1227
01:02:31,480 --> 01:02:33,640
Speaker 1: they know they can cash that check every year and

1228
01:02:33,720 --> 01:02:36,320
Speaker 1: really not have to invest in football. And it's a

1229
01:02:36,320 --> 01:02:39,160
Speaker 1: shame to watch. It's why you would never, ever, ever,

1230
01:02:39,440 --> 01:02:41,480
Speaker 1: even if they go winless ten years in a row,

1231
01:02:41,720 --> 01:02:44,520
Speaker 1: hear me call for the head coach of Vanderbilt to

1232
01:02:44,520 --> 01:02:48,400
Speaker 1: be fired. Never would it's not even a fair proposition. Well,

1233
01:02:48,440 --> 01:02:51,440
Speaker 1: this would put heat on a program like Vanderbilt to

1234
01:02:51,560 --> 01:02:54,080
Speaker 1: invest or get out and no longer be able to

1235
01:02:54,080 --> 01:02:58,240
Speaker 1: cash that check. And conversely, it would give incentive to

1236
01:02:58,320 --> 01:03:03,000
Speaker 1: programs like Central Florida, like Memphis, an added incentive on

1237
01:03:03,040 --> 01:03:06,160
Speaker 1: top of what they already have to keep winning and

1238
01:03:06,160 --> 01:03:07,960
Speaker 1: then get a spot at the big boy table. And

1239
01:03:08,000 --> 01:03:10,800
Speaker 1: then come prove yourself, try and do what people say

1240
01:03:10,800 --> 01:03:14,040
Speaker 1: you're incapable of doing now for contractual reasons and a

1241
01:03:14,040 --> 01:03:18,160
Speaker 1: million other reasons, conference affiliations whatnot. No, this can't happen,

1242
01:03:18,600 --> 01:03:21,760
Speaker 1: But boy, it would be fun if we just reinvented

1243
01:03:21,760 --> 01:03:25,440
Speaker 1: the sport today and we reworked the TV deals today

1244
01:03:25,480 --> 01:03:29,000
Speaker 1: in conference affiliation today. I'm not so sure. I wouldn't

1245
01:03:29,000 --> 01:03:31,320
Speaker 1: be right there along with you. I would love to

1246
01:03:31,360 --> 01:03:35,560
Speaker 1: watch that Boe Evil is next up. Why couldn't the

1247
01:03:35,640 --> 01:03:39,920
Speaker 1: SEC let Clemson play South Carolina? Both teams wanted to play.

1248
01:03:40,200 --> 01:03:42,680
Speaker 1: They could have made an exception for that game. Well,

1249
01:03:42,720 --> 01:03:44,680
Speaker 1: they probably could, and I was rooting for it to happen.

1250
01:03:44,720 --> 01:03:48,040
Speaker 1: But you got to extend things beyond just that you

1251
01:03:48,120 --> 01:03:51,280
Speaker 1: got to extend things to well, what would you have

1252
01:03:51,360 --> 01:03:54,880
Speaker 1: done with Georgia Georgia Tech? What would you do in FSU, Florida?

1253
01:03:55,280 --> 01:03:57,600
Speaker 1: What would you done Kentucky, Louisville? Would we have matched

1254
01:03:57,600 --> 01:04:00,720
Speaker 1: all those up? And for the teams that needed a

1255
01:04:00,800 --> 01:04:04,240
Speaker 1: game in the final weekend that weren't part of a

1256
01:04:04,240 --> 01:04:07,080
Speaker 1: traditional in state rivalry, what would you have done with them?

1257
01:04:07,680 --> 01:04:10,960
Speaker 1: Who would Auburn have played? Who would Mississippi State have played?

1258
01:04:11,120 --> 01:04:14,600
Speaker 1: Would you have added another conference game onto some schedules

1259
01:04:15,000 --> 01:04:17,480
Speaker 1: and an out of conference game for others? And then,

1260
01:04:17,600 --> 01:04:20,840
Speaker 1: of course you come to the big hurdle, which is

1261
01:04:21,040 --> 01:04:23,880
Speaker 1: understanding if you keep your schedule in a bubble and

1262
01:04:23,920 --> 01:04:26,280
Speaker 1: you play an all conference schedule, you don't have to

1263
01:04:26,320 --> 01:04:28,640
Speaker 1: worry about what happens elsewhere, and you don't have to

1264
01:04:28,640 --> 01:04:31,560
Speaker 1: worry about rescheduling elsewhere. Like if Clemson were to have

1265
01:04:31,600 --> 01:04:34,000
Speaker 1: a game in Week six that they can't play and

1266
01:04:34,000 --> 01:04:36,560
Speaker 1: then they need to place that one somewhere else, does

1267
01:04:36,600 --> 01:04:40,320
Speaker 1: it overlap with Carolina and that game they have scheduled there?

1268
01:04:40,360 --> 01:04:43,240
Speaker 1: And you have all sorts of potential hiccups that you

1269
01:04:43,280 --> 01:04:45,440
Speaker 1: don't have to worry about as much if you have

1270
01:04:45,720 --> 01:04:50,960
Speaker 1: just a regular conference only schedule. Fifteen P. Stevenson is

1271
01:04:51,000 --> 01:04:54,040
Speaker 1: next up. With recruiting being in a dead period for

1272
01:04:54,080 --> 01:04:57,560
Speaker 1: the foreseeable future, do you think what Caleb Williams just

1273
01:04:57,600 --> 01:05:00,560
Speaker 1: did for Oklahoma will become a trend? Your thoughts on

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Speaker 1: the Sooner Summit very good, idea, really interesting. What happened

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Speaker 1: there the Sooner Summit for those of you unfamiliar, And

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Speaker 1: Caleb Williams, for those of you unfamiliar, is the number

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Speaker 1: one rated quarterback in this recruiting cycle per the twenty

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Speaker 1: four to seven Sports Team or not Team player recruiting rankings.

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Speaker 1: And Caleb Williams, number one quarterback in America, has committed

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Speaker 1: to Oklahoma. Think you committed on July fourth? And no

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Speaker 1: one's taking visits right now because it's a dead period.

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Speaker 1: They've extended it and you can't be taking official visits. Well,

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Speaker 1: Caleb Williams took it upon himself to organize an unofficial

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Speaker 1: visit weekend and they brought a bunch of top prospects

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Speaker 1: to Norman kind of unofficially. They had to come on

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Speaker 1: their own dime. And it looks like it has already

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Speaker 1: or will soon pay dividends for them. And it already did.

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Speaker 1: I think they got a commitment or two over the weekend.

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Speaker 1: But if they didn't already, it soon will. And Georgia

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Speaker 1: did this too, and yes, I think it's going to

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Speaker 1: become a trend. And this is why I was talking

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Speaker 1: about what I did with quinn Ewers. It is really

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Speaker 1: important to have those sort of alpha dogs in your

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Speaker 1: recruiting class. Normally it's a quarterback, not always, but normally,

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Speaker 1: especially like Triple, especially in an unprecedented time like this

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Speaker 1: where coaches can only do so much because it's a

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Speaker 1: dead period. Well, if you've got a player acting as

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Speaker 1: a coach, then you can imagine what that does for

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Speaker 1: your overall recruiting effort. Next up is Dustin dave A

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Speaker 1: Randa at Baylor. Good hire, great hire. Just how good

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Speaker 1: of a head coach do you see him being in

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Speaker 1: an offense dominated Big twelve. I think he'll do okay

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Speaker 1: for himself, or if he does, or if he doesn't, rather,

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Speaker 1: I don't think it'll be because of his philosophy. Maybe

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Speaker 1: he's just not a good head coach, or maybe you know,

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Speaker 1: he's not equipped to run a program or manage people

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Speaker 1: that we can't know. I'm not speculating. I'm just saying

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Speaker 1: we can't know that, but him being a defensive coach,

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Speaker 1: I couldn't care less about that. I mean I look

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Speaker 1: at the style of play, not necessarily the philosophy, but

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Speaker 1: the style of play that Matt Campbell has employed at

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Speaker 1: Iowa State. Iowa State. To go back to the Cyclones again,

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Speaker 1: that's not a program that's playing basketball on grass. I mean,

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Speaker 1: they play pretty physical up there, and they play pretty

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Speaker 1: hard nose smash mouth up there, and they got a

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Speaker 1: good defensive profile up there, and they don't get to

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Speaker 1: recruit Texas as readily as you do at Baylor. So

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Speaker 1: maybe he doesn't do it in year one, but I

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Speaker 1: think Dave Randall could be okay there if you got

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Speaker 1: the right offensive system and staff in place, I think

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Speaker 1: he absolutely could be okay there. All right, a reminder,

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Speaker 1: is kind of an oasis that we can build in

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Speaker 1: you don't like anymore. I'm right there with you. I

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Speaker 1: I know you guys. I know my audience intimately because

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Speaker 1: exactly how I think. That's why I understand what you

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Speaker 1: This is where we want to house it, and we

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Speaker 1: can do it with your help, and we will do

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Speaker 1: it with your help. So again, I appreciate you listening.

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Speaker 1: Went a little over an hour, apologize, slap my own

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Speaker 1: self on the wrist. There Soon you will have a

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Speaker 1: podcast product from us in your feed five days a week,

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Speaker 1: And as I said, it's because of you, So again,

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Speaker 1: thanks for listening wherever you have been. I'm Josh Paate.

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Speaker 1: This is the Late Kick Extra podcast have a great

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Speaker 1: rest of your week and God bless