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Speaker 1: a good endpoint. I like that line. Let's use that line.

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Speaker 1: I got a lot of things to say about the SEC.

427
00:22:17,480 --> 00:22:20,040
Speaker 1: We're post spring now, and let's just take it a

428
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Speaker 1: snapshot of the whole thing. Like, here's what I think

429
00:22:22,400 --> 00:22:25,200
Speaker 1: about some of these teams. Georgia. I think Carson Beck

430
00:22:25,440 --> 00:22:27,840
Speaker 1: is the most important football player in the conference this year,

431
00:22:28,359 --> 00:22:31,880
Speaker 1: because if I knew nothing more about the SEC this year,

432
00:22:32,560 --> 00:22:35,119
Speaker 1: then Carson Beck's gonna play at an A minus or

433
00:22:35,200 --> 00:22:38,240
Speaker 1: better level. I wouldn't need to know anything else. That's

434
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Speaker 1: the best team in the conference. They're gonna win it

435
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Speaker 1: and may go on to win it all. If Carson

436
00:22:42,680 --> 00:22:45,399
Speaker 1: Beck does nothing more, If I know nothing more than that,

437
00:22:45,480 --> 00:22:48,320
Speaker 1: dude's just gonna play to his full potential. He's gonna

438
00:22:48,600 --> 00:22:51,000
Speaker 1: justify everyone who's mocked him in the first round of

439
00:22:51,000 --> 00:22:54,120
Speaker 1: the NFL Draft next year. George is good enough everywhere else.

440
00:22:54,160 --> 00:22:59,240
Speaker 1: Georgia has got quarterback, head coach, offensive coordinator, defensive coordinator.

441
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Speaker 1: They got continent across the board. It's one of, if

442
00:23:01,640 --> 00:23:04,040
Speaker 1: not the best cultures in college football. They got a

443
00:23:04,119 --> 00:23:08,239
Speaker 1: really good and probably underrated crop of receivers, and that

444
00:23:08,280 --> 00:23:10,480
Speaker 1: includes the tight end position, and that includes that dude

445
00:23:10,480 --> 00:23:12,480
Speaker 1: out of the backfield. They got out of Florida the

446
00:23:12,560 --> 00:23:16,440
Speaker 1: number five offense last year. Guys, did you know that

447
00:23:16,440 --> 00:23:18,960
Speaker 1: that was the number five offense in the country scoring

448
00:23:19,119 --> 00:23:21,359
Speaker 1: or yards? Pick? They were number five in both. So

449
00:23:21,400 --> 00:23:24,879
Speaker 1: I think Carson Beck is an extremely important player, the

450
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Speaker 1: most important in the SEC. You may be able to

451
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Speaker 1: say is the most important player in the country, because

452
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Speaker 1: a lot of the hopes that any other team has

453
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Speaker 1: of getting through the SEC to Atlanta and winning has

454
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Speaker 1: to do with maybe there being a wobbly tire or

455
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Speaker 1: something along those lines in Athens. If there isn't, it's

456
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Speaker 1: gonna be a tough out. Ole Miss twenty twenty four.

457
00:23:51,119 --> 00:23:53,679
Speaker 1: I get the sense that some people think ole Miss,

458
00:23:53,800 --> 00:23:56,359
Speaker 1: no matter how highly they're ranked, are just a little

459
00:23:56,359 --> 00:23:59,400
Speaker 1: more sizzle than they are stake, like they're more gimmicky.

460
00:24:00,200 --> 00:24:03,680
Speaker 1: But in time they'll be flushed out and the traditional

461
00:24:03,680 --> 00:24:05,360
Speaker 1: big boys will be there at the end of the day.

462
00:24:06,080 --> 00:24:08,760
Speaker 1: I actually think they're more than just sizzle this year,

463
00:24:09,080 --> 00:24:10,680
Speaker 1: and that's going to be a struggle for some people

464
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Speaker 1: to wrap their minds around, because that doesn't mean there's

465
00:24:12,800 --> 00:24:15,840
Speaker 1: not a bust potential here. Very high risk, high reward

466
00:24:15,880 --> 00:24:17,800
Speaker 1: approach when you lean on the portal like they have.

467
00:24:18,359 --> 00:24:20,600
Speaker 1: But they did lean and they got the number one

468
00:24:20,600 --> 00:24:23,399
Speaker 1: portal class. They brought in eight Blue Chippers, They return

469
00:24:23,480 --> 00:24:27,640
Speaker 1: elite players like Jackson darts back. That receiver room could

470
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Speaker 1: be one of, if not the best, in the countries

471
00:24:29,320 --> 00:24:32,240
Speaker 1: they added countries, however many they are going to play

472
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Speaker 1: the sport this year, one of the best in the country.

473
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Speaker 1: They added several key defensive pieces defense. Ironically, I think

474
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Speaker 1: if they go on to maybe win this thing and

475
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Speaker 1: go deep in the playoffs, will be the reason why

476
00:24:44,880 --> 00:24:48,679
Speaker 1: they've got a workable schedule that opens against Furman and

477
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Speaker 1: then Middle Tennessee and they go to Wake Forest and Georgia,

478
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Speaker 1: Southern and Kentucky South Carolina. You will probably not watch

479
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Speaker 1: an ole Miss game. Just speaking at random, he got

480
00:25:00,600 --> 00:25:03,200
Speaker 1: folks washing in San Diego tonight. I bet you guys

481
00:25:03,240 --> 00:25:06,320
Speaker 1: don't see Ole Miss play a full game until maybe

482
00:25:06,359 --> 00:25:09,719
Speaker 1: the LSU game October twelfth. That's halfway through the season,

483
00:25:09,960 --> 00:25:11,680
Speaker 1: and in the back half you'll probably watch them against

484
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Speaker 1: Oklahoma and Georgia and Florida, So it's workable, it's doable.

485
00:25:16,480 --> 00:25:21,320
Speaker 1: I think Alabama with all the Saban transition and with

486
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Speaker 1: all the talk about what's going to happen long term, well,

487
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Speaker 1: let's talk about twenty twenty four. Bama's got the fourth

488
00:25:27,280 --> 00:25:31,400
Speaker 1: best odds to win the SEC in twenty twenty four. Georgia, Texas,

489
00:25:31,400 --> 00:25:34,359
Speaker 1: Ole Miss above him, and then it's Alabama. And I

490
00:25:34,400 --> 00:25:38,200
Speaker 1: think they need Cane Womack to be a superstar defensive coordinator.

491
00:25:38,240 --> 00:25:41,040
Speaker 1: He was the head coach of South Alabama. Debor came in,

492
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Speaker 1: hired him. We sat down with him when we went

493
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Speaker 1: to Alabama for twenty minutes last month and talked to

494
00:25:47,600 --> 00:25:50,520
Speaker 1: him a little bit more off camera. Love him. They

495
00:25:50,560 --> 00:25:52,360
Speaker 1: need him to be a rock star this year. They're

496
00:25:52,480 --> 00:25:55,720
Speaker 1: very young and inexperienced in the secondary. Now. They made

497
00:25:55,760 --> 00:25:58,800
Speaker 1: some moves in the portal keyon SAAB because it was

498
00:25:58,800 --> 00:26:01,280
Speaker 1: in that first window was a big move. They got

499
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Speaker 1: Demani Jackson from USC. I heard him talking about the

500
00:26:04,760 --> 00:26:07,639
Speaker 1: difference in a Southern Cal regular season game versus the

501
00:26:07,680 --> 00:26:10,720
Speaker 1: Bama spring game the other day. That's always fun sound.

502
00:26:11,520 --> 00:26:16,280
Speaker 1: Does the offense need time? That's where my mind wanders.

503
00:26:16,920 --> 00:26:19,959
Speaker 1: I don't doubt offensively, they'll eventually be a really good product,

504
00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:22,960
Speaker 1: even in year one. I don't doubt that, are they

505
00:26:22,960 --> 00:26:27,160
Speaker 1: initially And if they're not, can that defense step up

506
00:26:27,359 --> 00:26:29,680
Speaker 1: and buy him some time. It's the post saban Era.

507
00:26:29,760 --> 00:26:31,440
Speaker 1: People are already gonna be paying attention to how good

508
00:26:31,440 --> 00:26:35,320
Speaker 1: they are defensively. But also I remember following Washington last year.

509
00:26:36,040 --> 00:26:39,080
Speaker 1: They played close game after close game after close game.

510
00:26:39,760 --> 00:26:42,280
Speaker 1: Is that Bama in twenty twenty four, Colin, you have

511
00:26:42,320 --> 00:26:46,120
Speaker 1: their schedule? Yes, oh man synergy. They go to Wisconsin

512
00:26:46,160 --> 00:26:48,400
Speaker 1: in week three, They got Georgia. In week four, they

513
00:26:48,440 --> 00:26:50,760
Speaker 1: go to Tennessee a few weeks later, got Missouri. By

514
00:26:50,800 --> 00:26:53,080
Speaker 1: the way, Missouri is sandwiched, not really because there's a

515
00:26:53,080 --> 00:26:55,480
Speaker 1: bye week, but you got Missouri in between trips to

516
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Speaker 1: Kneelan and Tiger Stadium. They go to Oklahoma before the

517
00:26:59,280 --> 00:27:02,480
Speaker 1: Iron Bowl. It's just reeks of a schedule. It's got

518
00:27:02,480 --> 00:27:05,640
Speaker 1: a bunch of one possession games. Either way. Defense will

519
00:27:05,640 --> 00:27:08,160
Speaker 1: probably end up citing defense and turnovers. That's the name

520
00:27:08,160 --> 00:27:10,280
Speaker 1: of the game. It'll probably end up ciding it. So

521
00:27:10,720 --> 00:27:13,160
Speaker 1: I am on the record and continue to be as

522
00:27:13,200 --> 00:27:18,399
Speaker 1: saying Bama upgraded their defensive staff. Having said that, I

523
00:27:18,760 --> 00:27:21,440
Speaker 1: watched the NFL Draft along with you. You lose kool Aid,

524
00:27:21,440 --> 00:27:23,800
Speaker 1: you lose Terry and Arnold, like you lose those kinds

525
00:27:23,800 --> 00:27:28,199
Speaker 1: of guys. You don't just coach your way out of that.

526
00:27:28,320 --> 00:27:32,040
Speaker 1: It takes some time. What about LSU? Speaking of LSU,

527
00:27:32,080 --> 00:27:35,359
Speaker 1: Bama goes down there on November ninth. LSU's got an

528
00:27:35,359 --> 00:27:38,320
Speaker 1: over underwin total of nine and a half. And I

529
00:27:38,440 --> 00:27:42,200
Speaker 1: got a question for you. Are we sure about LSU?

530
00:27:42,760 --> 00:27:48,959
Speaker 1: This is me quite literally asking you. I love LSU backstory.

531
00:27:49,880 --> 00:27:53,560
Speaker 1: I could argue a large part of what got this

532
00:27:53,720 --> 00:27:56,399
Speaker 1: show where it is now is LSU. The twenty nineteen

533
00:27:56,560 --> 00:27:59,800
Speaker 1: LSU wave. We were early on and we wrote it

534
00:28:00,080 --> 00:28:03,320
Speaker 1: and LSU folks were there with us, and then CBS

535
00:28:03,320 --> 00:28:06,800
Speaker 1: called shortly thereafter. So there is a very very special

536
00:28:06,840 --> 00:28:10,240
Speaker 1: place in my heart carved out for LSU. So I

537
00:28:10,320 --> 00:28:14,080
Speaker 1: am asking you sell me on LSU because college football

538
00:28:14,119 --> 00:28:18,320
Speaker 1: nerds are buddies over there, who are the perennial you

539
00:28:18,400 --> 00:28:20,320
Speaker 1: know what in the punch bowl this time of year.

540
00:28:20,720 --> 00:28:22,840
Speaker 1: They did it again. They dropped a deuce in the

541
00:28:22,880 --> 00:28:25,560
Speaker 1: punch bowl again the other day. But I don't think

542
00:28:25,600 --> 00:28:27,800
Speaker 1: they made bad points. Here's what it says if you're

543
00:28:27,800 --> 00:28:30,280
Speaker 1: listening on podcasts, he said, or they said, because I

544
00:28:30,320 --> 00:28:32,760
Speaker 1: never know which one of them it is. They said, Honestly,

545
00:28:33,520 --> 00:28:36,400
Speaker 1: we don't understand the twenty twenty four LSU hype. They

546
00:28:36,440 --> 00:28:39,800
Speaker 1: lost four starters from an all time terrible defense. They

547
00:28:39,840 --> 00:28:43,400
Speaker 1: lost their OC, their heisman quarterback, and two first run

548
00:28:43,440 --> 00:28:46,880
Speaker 1: wide receivers, plus a starting offensive lineman. They needed thirty

549
00:28:46,880 --> 00:28:49,680
Speaker 1: plus points to win half of their games from twenty

550
00:28:49,720 --> 00:28:52,840
Speaker 1: twenty three. Four of their ten wins were Grambling Georgia

551
00:28:52,880 --> 00:28:56,440
Speaker 1: State Army in Mississippi State. They add USC and UCLA

552
00:28:56,480 --> 00:29:01,480
Speaker 1: out of conference this year, and I'm sitting there thinking, yeah,

553
00:29:01,480 --> 00:29:04,560
Speaker 1: but I can't push back on any of that. I can't.

554
00:29:04,600 --> 00:29:06,960
Speaker 1: And then they whiffed in the portal at defensive line,

555
00:29:07,320 --> 00:29:12,000
Speaker 1: so their secondary is still a question. Garrett Nussmeyer is

556
00:29:12,040 --> 00:29:14,400
Speaker 1: going to be the hope here. So Garrett Nussmeyer, here's

557
00:29:14,400 --> 00:29:16,360
Speaker 1: what I keep coming back to. I think they made

558
00:29:16,360 --> 00:29:18,640
Speaker 1: this point as well, but this is where my mind's been.

559
00:29:18,840 --> 00:29:21,880
Speaker 1: Let's say Garrett Nusmeyer is a great passer this year,

560
00:29:22,560 --> 00:29:26,160
Speaker 1: you're still losing your best runner. Jayden Daniels not only

561
00:29:26,240 --> 00:29:28,040
Speaker 1: was your best runner last year, I think he led

562
00:29:28,080 --> 00:29:30,360
Speaker 1: the SEC in rushing, he was one of the best.

563
00:29:30,360 --> 00:29:32,360
Speaker 1: In fact, he ended up better yards per carry than

564
00:29:32,400 --> 00:29:36,040
Speaker 1: Cam Newton had been. So you're just kind of kind

565
00:29:36,040 --> 00:29:38,440
Speaker 1: of lost in the glow of he was a first

566
00:29:38,560 --> 00:29:42,200
Speaker 1: rounder and he was a Heisman winner. Drilled down to

567
00:29:42,240 --> 00:29:45,840
Speaker 1: the specifics, man, you're losing a prolific runner. And even

568
00:29:45,880 --> 00:29:49,120
Speaker 1: if the quarterback who fills his shoes is a great passer,

569
00:29:49,280 --> 00:29:52,120
Speaker 1: nus Meyer's not changing the game on the ground. So

570
00:29:52,880 --> 00:29:54,640
Speaker 1: do you have the horses in the backfield? You got

571
00:29:54,640 --> 00:29:56,400
Speaker 1: the offensive tackles to pave the way? Do you have

572
00:29:56,480 --> 00:29:58,680
Speaker 1: the horses in the backfield? And then can we answer

573
00:29:58,720 --> 00:30:01,120
Speaker 1: all those other questions? Cause nine and a half is

574
00:30:01,160 --> 00:30:04,080
Speaker 1: the same win total Bama has. Nine and a half

575
00:30:04,120 --> 00:30:07,160
Speaker 1: is a really high wind total? Should it be that high?

576
00:30:07,680 --> 00:30:09,880
Speaker 1: I'm really asking because I would like you guys to

577
00:30:09,920 --> 00:30:12,920
Speaker 1: sell me on it. What if Oklahoma's a little bit

578
00:30:12,920 --> 00:30:15,360
Speaker 1: better than people think they are. Offensive Line's been the

579
00:30:15,400 --> 00:30:18,720
Speaker 1: thing everyone's talking about with Oklahoma. We still are. Offensive

580
00:30:18,760 --> 00:30:22,200
Speaker 1: line at Oklahoma is one of the biggest questions of

581
00:30:22,320 --> 00:30:25,840
Speaker 1: any major team in the country coming out of spring ball.

582
00:30:25,880 --> 00:30:27,600
Speaker 1: But let's just say, because we can afford to do

583
00:30:27,640 --> 00:30:31,320
Speaker 1: this in May, let's just say offensive line ends up

584
00:30:31,360 --> 00:30:35,200
Speaker 1: being average too, slightly above average for Oklahoma, not a

585
00:30:35,240 --> 00:30:37,440
Speaker 1: top ten unit. But let's just say it's not a

586
00:30:37,440 --> 00:30:40,680
Speaker 1: disaster like people think it's gonna be. Well, that's one

587
00:30:40,680 --> 00:30:43,040
Speaker 1: of the reasons their win total at fanduels only seven

588
00:30:43,040 --> 00:30:45,800
Speaker 1: and a half. The other reason that's schedule, So I

589
00:30:45,800 --> 00:30:48,040
Speaker 1: can't change the schedule. But let's just say that they

590
00:30:48,280 --> 00:30:52,240
Speaker 1: don't have a terrible offensive line well elsewhere, they could

591
00:30:52,280 --> 00:30:55,800
Speaker 1: be pretty good elsewhere. Jackson Arnold, for all the doubt

592
00:30:56,000 --> 00:30:58,560
Speaker 1: around him in the bowl game, I couldn't really care

593
00:30:58,640 --> 00:31:00,320
Speaker 1: less about it. I think he'll be a really good player.

594
00:31:00,320 --> 00:31:02,920
Speaker 1: I think there's a reason Dylan Gabriel found his way

595
00:31:02,920 --> 00:31:05,959
Speaker 1: out to Eugene, Oregon, and the reason is Jackson Arnold

596
00:31:06,200 --> 00:31:10,320
Speaker 1: was there. So Dion Burks a very very prolific addition

597
00:31:10,520 --> 00:31:13,880
Speaker 1: via the portal. But they made several portal moves. They're

598
00:31:13,920 --> 00:31:16,640
Speaker 1: one of our portal winners. They got an underrated wide

599
00:31:16,640 --> 00:31:19,880
Speaker 1: receiver room, not just Deon Burks, an underrated wide receiver room,

600
00:31:20,160 --> 00:31:25,120
Speaker 1: and yet they play seven top twenty five playoff odds teams.

601
00:31:25,440 --> 00:31:28,240
Speaker 1: There's no actual poll out yet, but we go to FanDuel,

602
00:31:28,280 --> 00:31:30,200
Speaker 1: we look at the team's odds to win the national title.

603
00:31:30,320 --> 00:31:33,520
Speaker 1: Oklahoma plays seven of them, but you only play one

604
00:31:33,520 --> 00:31:35,720
Speaker 1: of them per week. You don't play a schedule, as

605
00:31:35,760 --> 00:31:38,320
Speaker 1: MEMI used to say, No one plays a schedule on Saturday.

606
00:31:38,360 --> 00:31:41,000
Speaker 1: They play one team per Saturday. Well, if Oklahoma's got

607
00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:43,720
Speaker 1: a better offensive line, then we thought, maybe they give

608
00:31:43,720 --> 00:31:46,560
Speaker 1: themselves a better shot weekend and week out than we thought.

609
00:31:46,840 --> 00:31:49,080
Speaker 1: And all of a sudden, maybe instead of flirting with

610
00:31:49,120 --> 00:31:51,440
Speaker 1: six or seven wins, you're flirting with eight or nine

611
00:31:51,480 --> 00:31:55,960
Speaker 1: wins or better. I'm just telling you that's a top

612
00:31:56,040 --> 00:32:00,840
Speaker 1: ten recruiting program, top ten portal program. The talent roster

613
00:32:00,920 --> 00:32:03,720
Speaker 1: that they're gonna put on the field is good. It's

614
00:32:03,800 --> 00:32:06,200
Speaker 1: really good. There's just not an easy out. So I'm

615
00:32:06,280 --> 00:32:10,040
Speaker 1: refusing to write Oklahoma off because they have a questionable position,

616
00:32:10,480 --> 00:32:13,000
Speaker 1: even one as important as offensive line. There are some

617
00:32:13,080 --> 00:32:15,800
Speaker 1: players I can't wait to see this year. Leonora Sellers

618
00:32:16,240 --> 00:32:19,080
Speaker 1: at South Carolina quarterback. There is a kid we did

619
00:32:19,120 --> 00:32:22,120
Speaker 1: a whole feature on this time last year. I think

620
00:32:22,120 --> 00:32:24,000
Speaker 1: it may have been the Fall, and I said, now

621
00:32:24,040 --> 00:32:27,280
Speaker 1: he's not starting this year because Spencer Ratler was there.

622
00:32:27,880 --> 00:32:30,280
Speaker 1: But we kept hearing good things. We kept hearing that

623
00:32:30,320 --> 00:32:33,440
Speaker 1: the South Carolina staff thought immediately when they got him

624
00:32:33,440 --> 00:32:36,640
Speaker 1: on campus that, oh, we nailed it with this guy. Well, okay,

625
00:32:36,680 --> 00:32:40,600
Speaker 1: so we bookmarked that, and now we open the page again,

626
00:32:40,920 --> 00:32:43,760
Speaker 1: and here we go. It's Leonora Seller's time. Shane Biemer

627
00:32:43,840 --> 00:32:47,280
Speaker 1: named him the starting quarterback out of spring ball, and

628
00:32:48,160 --> 00:32:50,920
Speaker 1: it feels kind of like an inflection point. I don't

629
00:32:50,920 --> 00:32:53,600
Speaker 1: know if you feel this way about South Carolina, but

630
00:32:53,960 --> 00:32:57,640
Speaker 1: anytime you play in a conference as loaded as the SEC,

631
00:32:57,760 --> 00:33:01,000
Speaker 1: and anytime especially you do what Beamer did and they

632
00:33:01,120 --> 00:33:03,920
Speaker 1: overachieved by like one or two games in his first

633
00:33:03,960 --> 00:33:06,760
Speaker 1: two seasons, you buy yourself wiggle room to have a

634
00:33:06,800 --> 00:33:09,320
Speaker 1: bad year like they had last year. All right, so

635
00:33:09,880 --> 00:33:13,120
Speaker 1: what happens if they have another one versus what happens

636
00:33:13,160 --> 00:33:15,000
Speaker 1: if they have a really good one. That's called an

637
00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:20,200
Speaker 1: inflection point, and it vastly and drastically changes what twenty

638
00:33:20,240 --> 00:33:23,280
Speaker 1: twenty five and beyond feels like. So Lenora Sellers is

639
00:33:23,320 --> 00:33:27,000
Speaker 1: a really really big hinge point there. The Bobby Patrino

640
00:33:27,200 --> 00:33:31,160
Speaker 1: offense in general, he's not a player, but Bobby Patrino,

641
00:33:31,880 --> 00:33:35,400
Speaker 1: I keep realizing this is not a dream. This man's

642
00:33:35,400 --> 00:33:39,720
Speaker 1: actually back in Fayetteville. I have because of storm chasing.

643
00:33:39,800 --> 00:33:43,080
Speaker 1: I have flown out of Northwest Arkansas, just one of

644
00:33:43,080 --> 00:33:46,880
Speaker 1: the great underrated jewel airports of the South. By the way,

645
00:33:47,160 --> 00:33:48,480
Speaker 1: I have flown out of there a couple of times

646
00:33:48,480 --> 00:33:51,280
Speaker 1: in the spring already, which means I've been in Fayetteville secretly.

647
00:33:51,480 --> 00:33:53,720
Speaker 1: I was so secret I didn't even tell Trey Biddy

648
00:33:53,800 --> 00:33:55,720
Speaker 1: I was there. But I've been up there a couple

649
00:33:55,760 --> 00:33:58,120
Speaker 1: of times. And this is what people are talking about.

650
00:33:58,240 --> 00:34:03,040
Speaker 1: They have very, very mixed opinions about the team overall,

651
00:34:03,120 --> 00:34:06,520
Speaker 1: but every one of them says, but hey, it's Petrino man.

652
00:34:06,800 --> 00:34:09,520
Speaker 1: Anything could happen. It's Patrino. Anything could happen. And you

653
00:34:09,560 --> 00:34:13,240
Speaker 1: know what history has taught us in the most literal

654
00:34:13,280 --> 00:34:16,600
Speaker 1: sense of the phrase, anything can happen with Bobby Patrino.

655
00:34:16,960 --> 00:34:19,680
Speaker 1: Brock vandergriff is a kid. I'm really excited to watch

656
00:34:20,200 --> 00:34:24,839
Speaker 1: at Kentucky. See. I think maybe there are there are

657
00:34:24,880 --> 00:34:26,960
Speaker 1: people for whatever reason. I don't know what's going on

658
00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:28,719
Speaker 1: in your personal life. I just know that some of

659
00:34:28,719 --> 00:34:34,560
Speaker 1: you guys somehow don't stay glued to spring football. I know,

660
00:34:35,120 --> 00:34:38,839
Speaker 1: I know, but there are those amongst us who have

661
00:34:38,960 --> 00:34:42,719
Speaker 1: lives to live. Sounds terrible to me. But some of

662
00:34:42,719 --> 00:34:44,920
Speaker 1: you guys have things going on. You may not be aware.

663
00:34:45,239 --> 00:34:48,359
Speaker 1: Brock Vandergriff transferred to Kentucky. Not only did he transfer there,

664
00:34:48,760 --> 00:34:50,120
Speaker 1: they got a lot of They got a lot of

665
00:34:50,160 --> 00:34:52,839
Speaker 1: things happening up there Kentucky, as I said last year,

666
00:34:52,840 --> 00:34:55,840
Speaker 1: and got not demonized for it, but I got drug

667
00:34:55,920 --> 00:34:59,279
Speaker 1: for it. I said. Kentucky feels pretty good about where

668
00:34:59,280 --> 00:35:02,640
Speaker 1: they are. They did. They feel good again about where

669
00:35:02,680 --> 00:35:05,359
Speaker 1: they are, and they've made some coaching changes, and they've

670
00:35:05,360 --> 00:35:08,440
Speaker 1: made some philosophy changes. But that quarterback is going to

671
00:35:08,480 --> 00:35:11,200
Speaker 1: be really important. Devin Leary came in there last year

672
00:35:11,680 --> 00:35:13,279
Speaker 1: and there were high hopes for him. I got high

673
00:35:13,280 --> 00:35:14,759
Speaker 1: hopes for Brock vander Griff as well. I do too.

674
00:35:14,800 --> 00:35:18,360
Speaker 1: That's why we're talking about him here. What about Auburn Auburn?

675
00:35:19,200 --> 00:35:21,960
Speaker 1: How should I put this? Coming out of spring? I

676
00:35:21,960 --> 00:35:25,439
Speaker 1: feel like Auburn will be the SEC's most volatile team

677
00:35:25,480 --> 00:35:29,319
Speaker 1: week to week this year. By volatile, I mean they

678
00:35:29,320 --> 00:35:32,719
Speaker 1: could lose to a new Mexico State, just as they

679
00:35:32,719 --> 00:35:36,200
Speaker 1: could take Georgia and Alabama to the wire. Oh wait,

680
00:35:36,239 --> 00:35:39,319
Speaker 1: that happened last year. Yes, I think this year could

681
00:35:39,400 --> 00:35:42,279
Speaker 1: be that again, and it's going to be that way.

682
00:35:42,280 --> 00:35:44,160
Speaker 1: I think because of how many young guys they have,

683
00:35:44,239 --> 00:35:46,760
Speaker 1: they just brought in the number ten overall recruiting class.

684
00:35:46,800 --> 00:35:48,440
Speaker 1: I talked to Freeze about this when we had him

685
00:35:48,480 --> 00:35:50,680
Speaker 1: on the show last month. Here's what he had to say.

686
00:35:50,920 --> 00:35:52,560
Speaker 1: So I was walking down the hallway. You guys were

687
00:35:52,560 --> 00:35:55,799
Speaker 1: walking into a team meeting, and I'm asking folks, Hey,

688
00:35:55,800 --> 00:35:58,440
Speaker 1: who's that, Who's that? Who's that? And every one of

689
00:35:58,480 --> 00:36:02,120
Speaker 1: them I keep pointing out from an impressive, like physical standpoint.

690
00:36:02,200 --> 00:36:05,360
Speaker 1: I keep hearing as freshman, Yeah, seventeen, he's about to

691
00:36:05,400 --> 00:36:08,120
Speaker 1: be eighteen. How many of these guys, as much as

692
00:36:08,120 --> 00:36:10,680
Speaker 1: you can say in spring, are going to play meetingful

693
00:36:10,719 --> 00:36:12,080
Speaker 1: football for you this year.

694
00:36:12,560 --> 00:36:16,680
Speaker 2: More than I desire. But they're gonna have to. And

695
00:36:17,120 --> 00:36:20,239
Speaker 2: I do think they're really talented kids, But you know,

696
00:36:20,320 --> 00:36:24,880
Speaker 2: are they ready to step into the SEC and play.

697
00:36:24,920 --> 00:36:28,640
Speaker 2: Maybe not, but they're gonna have to and we'll see

698
00:36:28,680 --> 00:36:31,520
Speaker 2: how they do. I mean, the cam Coleman's of the world,

699
00:36:31,680 --> 00:36:37,160
Speaker 2: or He's been really impressive in spring. But you know, Amars,

700
00:36:37,200 --> 00:36:40,480
Speaker 2: Williams and Waller at defensive ends are going to have

701
00:36:40,480 --> 00:36:42,920
Speaker 2: to play some. They're going to give us some minutes

702
00:36:42,920 --> 00:36:46,560
Speaker 2: for sure, some inside guys the DBS I think are

703
00:36:46,640 --> 00:36:51,560
Speaker 2: talented young ones, you know, but some of them are

704
00:36:51,560 --> 00:36:52,640
Speaker 2: going to have to play for sure.

705
00:36:55,040 --> 00:36:58,759
Speaker 1: Yeah. So here's the thing about playing young guys. When

706
00:36:58,760 --> 00:37:02,000
Speaker 1: they look like cam Coleman, and not many do. They

707
00:37:02,080 --> 00:37:06,160
Speaker 1: can compete any given week, even in the SEC. And

708
00:37:06,200 --> 00:37:08,200
Speaker 1: they've got some young guys he just mentioned them by

709
00:37:08,239 --> 00:37:10,640
Speaker 1: name in some cases that are gonna start, whether they're

710
00:37:10,680 --> 00:37:14,360
Speaker 1: ready to or not, and they will have random moments

711
00:37:14,400 --> 00:37:17,600
Speaker 1: where it all comes together and they will look like

712
00:37:17,680 --> 00:37:20,600
Speaker 1: they are a borderline playoff contender, if not an outright

713
00:37:20,640 --> 00:37:23,759
Speaker 1: playoff contender, then they could lay a total egg on you.

714
00:37:23,800 --> 00:37:27,160
Speaker 1: That is the nature of playing young players. And you

715
00:37:27,200 --> 00:37:29,719
Speaker 1: know as well as I do. There's probably going to

716
00:37:29,760 --> 00:37:32,360
Speaker 1: be a week early in the season they play Alabama,

717
00:37:32,400 --> 00:37:35,760
Speaker 1: A and M, Cal and New Mexico. The first three weeks.

718
00:37:36,480 --> 00:37:39,640
Speaker 1: Those dudes are going to go off. Some combination of

719
00:37:39,680 --> 00:37:42,319
Speaker 1: them are going to go off. The hype balloon will

720
00:37:42,320 --> 00:37:47,120
Speaker 1: start to fill and then you'll realize Oklahoma at Georgia,

721
00:37:47,160 --> 00:37:49,880
Speaker 1: at Missouri at Kentucky Van dy Ulm, and then A

722
00:37:50,000 --> 00:37:52,200
Speaker 1: and M at Alabama to end the year. It's just

723
00:37:52,239 --> 00:37:56,000
Speaker 1: the reality of a conference schedule is coming and so

724
00:37:56,520 --> 00:37:59,360
Speaker 1: to me, they're over under win total seven and a half.

725
00:37:59,640 --> 00:38:02,799
Speaker 1: There is there's a world this year where Auburn wins

726
00:38:02,800 --> 00:38:05,040
Speaker 1: seven games and I feel good about it. There could

727
00:38:05,040 --> 00:38:07,200
Speaker 1: be a world where they win eight and I don't

728
00:38:07,239 --> 00:38:09,319
Speaker 1: feel good about it because if the four losses are

729
00:38:09,320 --> 00:38:14,200
Speaker 1: blowouts versus the five losses being close losses, Dude, Auburn's

730
00:38:14,239 --> 00:38:16,600
Speaker 1: not winning a national title this year. So I want

731
00:38:16,600 --> 00:38:18,319
Speaker 1: to build for the future, like I want to see

732
00:38:18,360 --> 00:38:20,920
Speaker 1: that true freshman class shine. I mean, I want to

733
00:38:20,960 --> 00:38:22,879
Speaker 1: get what I paid for. Let's call it what it is,

734
00:38:23,120 --> 00:38:25,239
Speaker 1: and then I want to feel good about twenty twenty five.

735
00:38:25,680 --> 00:38:27,560
Speaker 1: And I saw a lot of people talking the other

736
00:38:27,640 --> 00:38:31,040
Speaker 1: day cause Freeze talked about the quarterback position, and he

737
00:38:31,120 --> 00:38:34,840
Speaker 1: was talking about how they didn't decide to invest in

738
00:38:35,160 --> 00:38:38,399
Speaker 1: going in getting a quarterback and they stuck with Peyton Thorn.

739
00:38:38,760 --> 00:38:41,759
Speaker 1: And really that translates to we knew we were more

740
00:38:41,800 --> 00:38:43,640
Speaker 1: than a quarterback away, and they are more than a

741
00:38:43,719 --> 00:38:47,200
Speaker 1: quarterback away, and that's okay. Get you inherit, what you inherit.

742
00:38:47,920 --> 00:38:49,440
Speaker 1: I was talking to a head coach the other day.

743
00:38:49,480 --> 00:38:51,960
Speaker 1: He said, Man, that's the biggest thing that people never

744
00:38:51,960 --> 00:38:56,320
Speaker 1: pay attention to is when guys get fired, the public

745
00:38:56,480 --> 00:38:59,680
Speaker 1: just thinks, oh, everybody got fired because they suck. Well.

746
00:39:00,520 --> 00:39:03,239
Speaker 1: Coaches get fired for all kinds of reasons. Some of

747
00:39:03,280 --> 00:39:06,799
Speaker 1: them get fired, but they leave behind a whole lot

748
00:39:06,840 --> 00:39:10,280
Speaker 1: better talent roster than others that get fired. Well, Freeze

749
00:39:10,280 --> 00:39:12,880
Speaker 1: didn't inherit a good talent roster. Some of these other

750
00:39:12,920 --> 00:39:15,399
Speaker 1: folks do. Like some of these other folks, Your guy

751
00:39:15,400 --> 00:39:18,480
Speaker 1: gets fired and he was underachieving with the talent he

752
00:39:18,520 --> 00:39:21,520
Speaker 1: brought in, But there's some good players there. Freeze did

753
00:39:21,520 --> 00:39:25,680
Speaker 1: not necessarily have that situation. Mike Elko has that situation.

754
00:39:26,080 --> 00:39:28,319
Speaker 1: Mike Elcho is coming into a place where they got

755
00:39:28,320 --> 00:39:31,640
Speaker 1: good football players they can compete this year. I'm just

756
00:39:31,760 --> 00:39:34,640
Speaker 1: interested to see what the Elco effect is. You know what,

757
00:39:35,480 --> 00:39:37,919
Speaker 1: I think I know what the Elco effect is. I'm

758
00:39:37,920 --> 00:39:41,120
Speaker 1: interested to see how tangible that thing is in year one.

759
00:39:41,480 --> 00:39:44,000
Speaker 1: If I watch Texas A and M any given Saturday,

760
00:39:44,000 --> 00:39:46,520
Speaker 1: do I feel it? Does it feel different if you're

761
00:39:46,800 --> 00:39:49,640
Speaker 1: listening to a random broadcast crew who probably is there

762
00:39:49,760 --> 00:39:52,400
Speaker 1: once a year or maybe twice a year. Is it

763
00:39:52,520 --> 00:39:55,200
Speaker 1: something they pick up on? How's the fan base feel?

764
00:39:55,200 --> 00:39:57,759
Speaker 1: The fan base will be well upstream of just the

765
00:39:57,840 --> 00:40:02,120
Speaker 1: casuals figuring this thing out. There is stuff that Jimbo

766
00:40:02,200 --> 00:40:04,719
Speaker 1: Fisher was good at, and there's stuff he wasn't very

767
00:40:04,719 --> 00:40:07,200
Speaker 1: good at. You take the stuff in the bucket of

768
00:40:07,320 --> 00:40:09,560
Speaker 1: Jimbo wasn't very good at it, and Elko is a

769
00:40:09,640 --> 00:40:12,080
Speaker 1: master at a lot of that. And it's not all

770
00:40:12,080 --> 00:40:14,839
Speaker 1: stuff that you see on the surface, but people who

771
00:40:14,920 --> 00:40:18,560
Speaker 1: know the program intimately, they get it and they see

772
00:40:18,600 --> 00:40:21,240
Speaker 1: it really early. He hasn't coached a game there yet.

773
00:40:21,440 --> 00:40:23,280
Speaker 1: This is the kind of stuff you would see early.

774
00:40:23,640 --> 00:40:26,840
Speaker 1: There's just there is like a for lack of a

775
00:40:26,840 --> 00:40:30,520
Speaker 1: better term, there's an xbox mentality of thinking college football

776
00:40:30,640 --> 00:40:32,880
Speaker 1: is pretty rudimentary. You go and you get the players,

777
00:40:33,360 --> 00:40:35,400
Speaker 1: and then you coach them and put them on the

778
00:40:35,400 --> 00:40:37,919
Speaker 1: field and they just they play for you. Well, that's

779
00:40:37,960 --> 00:40:41,080
Speaker 1: not a team. That's just a bunch of pieces. You

780
00:40:41,160 --> 00:40:43,560
Speaker 1: got to understand how to make a football team. I

781
00:40:43,600 --> 00:40:46,080
Speaker 1: think Mike Elko understands how to make a football team.

782
00:40:46,360 --> 00:40:47,960
Speaker 1: And a lot of that is rolling up your sleeves

783
00:40:47,960 --> 00:40:50,040
Speaker 1: when no one's looking, and a lot of it is

784
00:40:50,800 --> 00:40:52,600
Speaker 1: going and sitting down at a dinner you may not

785
00:40:52,640 --> 00:40:54,439
Speaker 1: necessarily want to be at, but you know it serves

786
00:40:54,480 --> 00:40:56,719
Speaker 1: the greater good of your program. A lot of it

787
00:40:56,760 --> 00:41:00,120
Speaker 1: is fostering environment that guys want to be a part of,

788
00:41:00,239 --> 00:41:02,959
Speaker 1: and it cultivates them. And sometimes it comes through tough love.

789
00:41:03,239 --> 00:41:06,480
Speaker 1: It's not always raw, Ryan guys. Sometimes it's tough love.

790
00:41:06,520 --> 00:41:09,880
Speaker 1: But ultimately, again, it creates a more fertile layer of

791
00:41:09,960 --> 00:41:12,640
Speaker 1: top soil so that when you toss those four and

792
00:41:12,719 --> 00:41:16,239
Speaker 1: five star seeds in, they actually blossom instead of just

793
00:41:16,400 --> 00:41:19,160
Speaker 1: sitting there because they were planted in gravel, and then

794
00:41:19,200 --> 00:41:22,880
Speaker 1: they blow away almost like a parable. So, yeah, the

795
00:41:22,880 --> 00:41:25,880
Speaker 1: Mike Elcho impact, the Mike Elico effect year one. What

796
00:41:25,920 --> 00:41:29,520
Speaker 1: does that look like? Two coaching performances above and beyond

797
00:41:29,520 --> 00:41:33,320
Speaker 1: that that I got my eye on Eli Drinkwitz at Missouri.

798
00:41:33,520 --> 00:41:37,080
Speaker 1: They go eleven and two last year. Did you hear that? Everyone?

799
00:41:37,400 --> 00:41:40,480
Speaker 1: Missouri won eleven games last year? And yet here they are,

800
00:41:40,880 --> 00:41:43,600
Speaker 1: they're right back off to the side. Oh it's Missouri.

801
00:41:43,680 --> 00:41:46,920
Speaker 1: That was a one year thing. Well, the quarterback returns

802
00:41:47,400 --> 00:41:51,360
Speaker 1: that elite wide receiver returns returns. They've got a good defense.

803
00:41:51,600 --> 00:41:54,560
Speaker 1: I told you, I think they backfilled some big coaching

804
00:41:54,640 --> 00:41:59,400
Speaker 1: losses very effectively. And so Missouri is yet again going

805
00:41:59,480 --> 00:42:01,520
Speaker 1: to be a fact I believe that, and they're going

806
00:42:01,560 --> 00:42:03,120
Speaker 1: to be in a lot of close games, and they

807
00:42:03,120 --> 00:42:06,239
Speaker 1: are very very well coached, and you know, unlike some

808
00:42:06,280 --> 00:42:10,040
Speaker 1: of these guys out there who kind of watched the

809
00:42:10,719 --> 00:42:14,160
Speaker 1: Portal or Nil process kind of from a distance and

810
00:42:14,480 --> 00:42:16,840
Speaker 1: they just kind of show up at the end. Eli

811
00:42:16,960 --> 00:42:19,839
Speaker 1: Drinkwitz is in the trenches on that stuff. He has

812
00:42:19,920 --> 00:42:22,920
Speaker 1: to be, and he's really good at it. So that's one.

813
00:42:23,120 --> 00:42:26,160
Speaker 1: Billy Napier is the other one. We did our show

814
00:42:26,160 --> 00:42:29,200
Speaker 1: from Florida a few weeks ago and we had Napier

815
00:42:29,239 --> 00:42:32,200
Speaker 1: on the show and I told him. He actually asked

816
00:42:32,239 --> 00:42:34,719
Speaker 1: me on air because I said, Hey, what is Florida now?

817
00:42:34,719 --> 00:42:36,840
Speaker 1: He said, well, what do you think Florida is? And

818
00:42:36,880 --> 00:42:39,680
Speaker 1: I said, well, it feels to me like everyone doubts

819
00:42:39,719 --> 00:42:41,440
Speaker 1: you and everyone thinks you're going to fail, and you

820
00:42:41,480 --> 00:42:43,799
Speaker 1: got the toughest schedule in the country this year. Internally,

821
00:42:44,200 --> 00:42:46,799
Speaker 1: I don't feel that energy. Internally, it feels really good here.

822
00:42:46,840 --> 00:42:48,400
Speaker 1: It feels like things are on the right track. If

823
00:42:48,400 --> 00:42:49,960
Speaker 1: I didn't know any better, I think you won ten

824
00:42:50,000 --> 00:42:53,560
Speaker 1: games last year. And I got him talk about maybe

825
00:42:53,600 --> 00:42:55,839
Speaker 1: why this year could be different even in the face

826
00:42:55,840 --> 00:42:56,720
Speaker 1: of that tough schedule.

827
00:42:56,719 --> 00:42:59,439
Speaker 3: Here's what he said, And I would say we're two

828
00:42:59,480 --> 00:43:02,880
Speaker 3: years in and this is the first off season where

829
00:43:03,880 --> 00:43:06,840
Speaker 3: we feel like we're not solving a major problem or

830
00:43:06,920 --> 00:43:10,799
Speaker 3: building out a system, and it's been great. I think

831
00:43:10,840 --> 00:43:13,240
Speaker 3: we've been able to focus our time on the things

832
00:43:13,239 --> 00:43:16,440
Speaker 3: that really matter. It's been a lot of fun. It's

833
00:43:16,520 --> 00:43:19,719
Speaker 3: by far the best offseason that we've had. We're about

834
00:43:19,719 --> 00:43:23,880
Speaker 3: a halfway through, so at the best group of players

835
00:43:23,880 --> 00:43:26,120
Speaker 3: we have, and I'm really excited about the changes that

836
00:43:26,160 --> 00:43:31,279
Speaker 3: we've made the new staff additions, so so far, so good.

837
00:43:34,400 --> 00:43:37,640
Speaker 1: Tell you they got Graham Mertz to come back, and

838
00:43:37,680 --> 00:43:39,239
Speaker 1: that may not mean anything to a lot of you.

839
00:43:39,960 --> 00:43:44,840
Speaker 1: Graham Mertz is a very, very important player this year because,

840
00:43:44,960 --> 00:43:48,600
Speaker 1: like I said, with Oklahoma, you can either focus on

841
00:43:48,640 --> 00:43:51,960
Speaker 1: a schedule and totality and if you do it's tough,

842
00:43:52,640 --> 00:43:54,920
Speaker 1: or you can realize, hey, they play one game a week,

843
00:43:55,160 --> 00:43:57,960
Speaker 1: all right, So if Florida is incrementally better in a

844
00:43:57,960 --> 00:44:02,759
Speaker 1: few spots than general public expects them to be, all

845
00:44:02,800 --> 00:44:04,359
Speaker 1: of a sudden, they win a couple of games they're

846
00:44:04,400 --> 00:44:06,960
Speaker 1: not supposed to, and all of a sudden, they go,

847
00:44:07,160 --> 00:44:09,239
Speaker 1: let's Miami comes in their week one. I think it's

848
00:44:09,239 --> 00:44:11,759
Speaker 1: going to be I mean, there will be an insane

849
00:44:11,880 --> 00:44:14,400
Speaker 1: amount of focus put on that game for both programs,

850
00:44:14,840 --> 00:44:17,400
Speaker 1: and way too much will be made of it. But

851
00:44:17,440 --> 00:44:19,960
Speaker 1: that's why we love college football. So let's just say

852
00:44:20,000 --> 00:44:22,719
Speaker 1: Florida were to win that game, they got Samford the

853
00:44:22,800 --> 00:44:25,920
Speaker 1: following week A and m comes in the week after that.

854
00:44:26,280 --> 00:44:28,279
Speaker 1: They go to Mississippi State the week after that. You

855
00:44:28,360 --> 00:44:32,719
Speaker 1: notice about those first two conference games there is a commonality.

856
00:44:32,760 --> 00:44:35,279
Speaker 1: There's two first year staffs. I just told you, I

857
00:44:35,280 --> 00:44:37,719
Speaker 1: believe and think the world of Mike Elko, but it's

858
00:44:37,719 --> 00:44:40,520
Speaker 1: a couple of first year staffs. So what if they

859
00:44:40,520 --> 00:44:43,000
Speaker 1: start four and oh, what if they use UCF comes

860
00:44:43,040 --> 00:44:44,560
Speaker 1: into the swamp after that? What if they were to

861
00:44:44,560 --> 00:44:47,880
Speaker 1: go into Kneeland five and oh, it's unlikely, It's not

862
00:44:47,960 --> 00:44:54,279
Speaker 1: at all impossible. So at that point we would have

863
00:44:54,320 --> 00:44:57,000
Speaker 1: one of those situations where the back half of the

864
00:44:57,040 --> 00:44:59,480
Speaker 1: schedule is tougher. And so even in the best case

865
00:44:59,480 --> 00:45:02,040
Speaker 1: to Florida's, we're to start unfeed him. You'd have bunch

866
00:45:02,080 --> 00:45:05,799
Speaker 1: people apologizing Billy Napier. Then he'd lose a game, then

867
00:45:05,840 --> 00:45:08,000
Speaker 1: they would throw him under the bus again. Then he'd

868
00:45:08,000 --> 00:45:10,120
Speaker 1: win a game, and they'd pull his limp body out

869
00:45:10,120 --> 00:45:11,719
Speaker 1: from under the bus, and it would be one of

870
00:45:11,760 --> 00:45:14,839
Speaker 1: those up and down week to week hot seat, Oh,

871
00:45:14,920 --> 00:45:18,720
Speaker 1: hot seats cooled, Oh oh it's red hot again. Foolishness,

872
00:45:19,120 --> 00:45:22,880
Speaker 1: but it happens. So that is a coaching performance that

873
00:45:22,920 --> 00:45:25,920
Speaker 1: I'm excited to watch. Now. Texas, we were there. We

874
00:45:25,920 --> 00:45:28,319
Speaker 1: were there last week and we did our show live

875
00:45:28,360 --> 00:45:30,880
Speaker 1: from Austin. We sat down with Sark. He covered a

876
00:45:30,960 --> 00:45:33,719
Speaker 1: multitude of different things. But I am a believer that

877
00:45:33,760 --> 00:45:37,719
Speaker 1: Texas is entering the SEC in tier one of the SEC,

878
00:45:38,239 --> 00:45:40,719
Speaker 1: and that's something I don't think people thought would be

879
00:45:40,840 --> 00:45:43,279
Speaker 1: the case. When we heard the headline a couple of

880
00:45:43,320 --> 00:45:45,520
Speaker 1: years ago at SEC media days, we all of a

881
00:45:45,520 --> 00:45:48,040
Speaker 1: sudden find out, Oh you and Texas are joining in

882
00:45:48,080 --> 00:45:53,120
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four. A lot of people slyly grinned and said, oh,

883
00:45:53,160 --> 00:45:55,520
Speaker 1: we're about to find out about the SEC. Well, hey,

884
00:45:55,600 --> 00:45:57,399
Speaker 1: maybe they are, Maybe you're going to find out about

885
00:45:57,440 --> 00:46:00,319
Speaker 1: OU in Texas. But I bet you didn't think that

886
00:46:00,400 --> 00:46:03,759
Speaker 1: Texas was going to pull out one of those head

887
00:46:03,760 --> 00:46:06,200
Speaker 1: table chairs. You probably thought they were going to be

888
00:46:06,280 --> 00:46:08,600
Speaker 1: B tier and may have to work their way up. Well,

889
00:46:08,640 --> 00:46:10,120
Speaker 1: you look at the energy, you look at the attitude.

890
00:46:10,160 --> 00:46:13,799
Speaker 1: You look at the talent roster most specifically, there are

891
00:46:14,120 --> 00:46:18,440
Speaker 1: few equals to Texas, if any in this conference. In fact,

892
00:46:18,840 --> 00:46:20,400
Speaker 1: you go back a couple of years and compare it

893
00:46:20,440 --> 00:46:23,160
Speaker 1: to now, just the offensive line. Listen to what Sark

894
00:46:23,200 --> 00:46:25,319
Speaker 1: said the other day. There was a time not too

895
00:46:25,400 --> 00:46:28,160
Speaker 1: long ago where you guys couldn't even do spring games

896
00:46:28,200 --> 00:46:30,760
Speaker 1: as you wanted because the depth chart was a wreck.

897
00:46:31,239 --> 00:46:33,400
Speaker 1: And now this past spring, you guys had one of

898
00:46:33,440 --> 00:46:36,000
Speaker 1: the most entertaining spring games because you could go at

899
00:46:36,000 --> 00:46:38,560
Speaker 1: it the way you want to. Can you please, like

900
00:46:38,600 --> 00:46:40,880
Speaker 1: in Layman's terms, for the folks at home and me,

901
00:46:41,360 --> 00:46:43,719
Speaker 1: describe how different the depth is here compared to what

902
00:46:43,719 --> 00:46:44,240
Speaker 1: you inherited.

903
00:46:44,280 --> 00:46:47,640
Speaker 4: Well, just that was year one. Year two we couldn't

904
00:46:47,680 --> 00:46:49,640
Speaker 4: play a spring game, and the reason was I would

905
00:46:49,640 --> 00:46:54,439
Speaker 4: have seven maybe eight offensive lineman total. Yeah, that could

906
00:46:54,480 --> 00:46:56,520
Speaker 4: physically go compete in a game.

907
00:46:57,719 --> 00:46:58,719
Speaker 1: This year in.

908
00:46:59,280 --> 00:47:04,279
Speaker 4: Spring practice we had seventeen to nineteen to twenty. I

909
00:47:04,280 --> 00:47:06,560
Speaker 4: mean when you start adding up the walk ons and

910
00:47:06,640 --> 00:47:08,120
Speaker 4: so on and so forth. So now you can play

911
00:47:08,120 --> 00:47:11,239
Speaker 4: a real game. And that goes across the board, whether

912
00:47:11,280 --> 00:47:15,040
Speaker 4: it's having enough receivers, having enough defensive lineman. Now I

913
00:47:15,080 --> 00:47:18,359
Speaker 4: think A couple things have contributed that. One, I think

914
00:47:18,400 --> 00:47:21,279
Speaker 4: we've structured our roster in a way to where we

915
00:47:21,400 --> 00:47:26,000
Speaker 4: have equality in depth across the board. It's not just

916
00:47:26,080 --> 00:47:29,359
Speaker 4: one or two position groups that are loaded. We've kind

917
00:47:29,400 --> 00:47:33,720
Speaker 4: of assembled it in a way that is lateral. But Two,

918
00:47:33,840 --> 00:47:35,279
Speaker 4: I think the portal has helped that.

919
00:47:39,160 --> 00:47:42,640
Speaker 1: What is happening as I sit here, I'm watching the

920
00:47:42,680 --> 00:47:44,640
Speaker 1: live chack because I don't have anything better to do

921
00:47:44,640 --> 00:47:47,720
Speaker 1: when those shots are playing. Two people just said Texas

922
00:47:47,800 --> 00:47:51,239
Speaker 1: is overrated. They just went to the playoff last year.

923
00:47:51,320 --> 00:47:54,520
Speaker 1: So anyway, we have to ask anytime the word is

924
00:47:54,560 --> 00:47:58,080
Speaker 1: thrown out, not off season, but overrated. Anytime overrated is

925
00:47:58,080 --> 00:48:03,239
Speaker 1: thrown around. Two questions. One, what is Texas rated? I

926
00:48:03,280 --> 00:48:06,680
Speaker 1: don't know. The polls aren't even out. Number Two, what

927
00:48:06,840 --> 00:48:10,719
Speaker 1: should they be rated? They weren't overrated last year. They

928
00:48:10,719 --> 00:48:13,400
Speaker 1: were one of the four teams in the playoff, So

929
00:48:13,600 --> 00:48:16,759
Speaker 1: what should they be rated? Anyway? I move on, how

930
00:48:16,760 --> 00:48:19,880
Speaker 1: about the quarterback depth at Texas? I guess that's overrated

931
00:48:19,880 --> 00:48:23,640
Speaker 1: as well. Tennessee will have their best team under Josh

932
00:48:23,719 --> 00:48:27,280
Speaker 1: Hipel this year. Tennessee's over underwent totals nine and a half.

933
00:48:27,480 --> 00:48:30,160
Speaker 1: I think he's got his best quarterback there, and Nico

934
00:48:30,320 --> 00:48:34,160
Speaker 1: checks all the boxes mentally and physically. They have complete

935
00:48:34,200 --> 00:48:37,120
Speaker 1: and full confidence in him to lead the program. Sneaky

936
00:48:37,120 --> 00:48:42,160
Speaker 1: good defense, sneaky good defensive staff at Oklahoma September twenty

937
00:48:42,200 --> 00:48:44,240
Speaker 1: first is going to be one of the most entertaining

938
00:48:44,280 --> 00:48:47,560
Speaker 1: games in the conference this year. It is where Hypel played.

939
00:48:48,160 --> 00:48:51,239
Speaker 1: I don't think there's much love lost, and I think

940
00:48:51,320 --> 00:48:53,880
Speaker 1: that that's also their opener if I'm not mistaken, and

941
00:48:53,960 --> 00:48:57,399
Speaker 1: Colin would know, I think that's their opener in conference play.

942
00:48:57,520 --> 00:49:01,480
Speaker 1: And I also think Jesse check me on this. I

943
00:49:01,520 --> 00:49:06,480
Speaker 1: think I'm right. I think that's Oklahoma's introduction into the

944
00:49:06,600 --> 00:49:09,799
Speaker 1: SEC is playing Tennessee at home. I don't know what

945
00:49:09,840 --> 00:49:12,880
Speaker 1: the rest of the schedule looks like that day, but I,

946
00:49:13,680 --> 00:49:17,480
Speaker 1: in highly and embarrassingly documented fashion, have never been to

947
00:49:17,520 --> 00:49:21,080
Speaker 1: an Oklahoma game, which is something I have to rectify.

948
00:49:21,360 --> 00:49:23,919
Speaker 1: I just have to. I shouldn't have a bucket list

949
00:49:24,000 --> 00:49:25,719
Speaker 1: for game attendants because I get to go where I

950
00:49:25,719 --> 00:49:28,759
Speaker 1: want every week, and yet I do because somehow, some way,

951
00:49:28,760 --> 00:49:32,879
Speaker 1: we've missed a game at Oklahoma. So, yeah, Tennessee this year,

952
00:49:32,960 --> 00:49:36,600
Speaker 1: Tennessee could be a legitimate Like I'm gonna stop short

953
00:49:36,640 --> 00:49:38,040
Speaker 1: of saying that. I don't want to say that. I

954
00:49:38,080 --> 00:49:40,920
Speaker 1: don't want to have said that in May a bona

955
00:49:40,960 --> 00:49:44,000
Speaker 1: fide playoff contender. How about that their preseason win totals

956
00:49:44,080 --> 00:49:48,320
Speaker 1: nine and a half. That's the same as Bama, LSU, Ole, Miss, Missouri, Tennessee.

957
00:49:48,719 --> 00:49:51,040
Speaker 1: And yet I know good andwell Old Miss and Alabama

958
00:49:51,080 --> 00:49:54,160
Speaker 1: will probably get more run than Tennessee will, but they

959
00:49:54,160 --> 00:49:56,880
Speaker 1: shouldn't because Tennessee is a legit player this year. I

960
00:49:56,920 --> 00:50:02,200
Speaker 1: think also, and this doesn't have anything to do with

961
00:50:02,239 --> 00:50:04,759
Speaker 1: any one team in particular, and this could be its

962
00:50:04,760 --> 00:50:07,359
Speaker 1: own segment, really, but the whole you are what your

963
00:50:07,400 --> 00:50:11,319
Speaker 1: record says you are. Mantra has always been a lie

964
00:50:11,320 --> 00:50:13,560
Speaker 1: in college football, but it's really going to get tested

965
00:50:13,560 --> 00:50:17,720
Speaker 1: this year. You are hardly, ever, just what your record

966
00:50:17,760 --> 00:50:20,759
Speaker 1: says you are in this sport. So I've been a

967
00:50:20,760 --> 00:50:22,399
Speaker 1: big believer in that that's one of the big lies

968
00:50:22,400 --> 00:50:24,239
Speaker 1: about college football. But I want you to think about

969
00:50:24,239 --> 00:50:27,120
Speaker 1: something as we wrap this part of the show up.

970
00:50:27,719 --> 00:50:31,040
Speaker 1: I want you to think about how you think the

971
00:50:31,080 --> 00:50:34,200
Speaker 1: Playoff's going to go. So think about how you believe

972
00:50:34,239 --> 00:50:36,759
Speaker 1: the expanded Playoff's going to go. And I think one

973
00:50:36,800 --> 00:50:38,680
Speaker 1: of your biggest fears. For many of you, knowing you

974
00:50:38,800 --> 00:50:40,800
Speaker 1: like I think I do, a lot of your biggest

975
00:50:40,840 --> 00:50:43,680
Speaker 1: fears are, yeah, we're going to twelve teams in the playoffs,

976
00:50:43,680 --> 00:50:45,200
Speaker 1: but the SEC is just going to get a ton

977
00:50:45,239 --> 00:50:49,920
Speaker 1: of teams in. Well, that's your biggest fear. It actually

978
00:50:49,960 --> 00:50:53,400
Speaker 1: may be worse. Okay, that's not the worst thing that

979
00:50:53,440 --> 00:50:55,680
Speaker 1: could happen. The worst thing that could happen is the

980
00:50:55,680 --> 00:50:59,600
Speaker 1: Committee misinterprets strength to schedule, strength of record, whatever you

981
00:50:59,600 --> 00:51:02,360
Speaker 1: want to go by, and they actually end up screwing

982
00:51:02,360 --> 00:51:05,640
Speaker 1: some SEC teams, and the SEC gets pissed about it,

983
00:51:06,600 --> 00:51:10,560
Speaker 1: and they end up resolving in their mind, hey, couple

984
00:51:10,640 --> 00:51:13,680
Speaker 1: of years down the road from now, maybe Big ten

985
00:51:13,719 --> 00:51:15,439
Speaker 1: wants to come, maybe they don't. We're gonna do something

986
00:51:15,480 --> 00:51:18,720
Speaker 1: about this, because here's what's going to happen. The SEC

987
00:51:18,760 --> 00:51:20,320
Speaker 1: and the Big ten are parentally going to play the

988
00:51:20,360 --> 00:51:23,359
Speaker 1: toughest schedules in the country. The SEC will probably end

989
00:51:23,400 --> 00:51:26,959
Speaker 1: up playing a tougher schedule on average than anyone will,

990
00:51:27,520 --> 00:51:31,040
Speaker 1: and as a result, nine and three in that conference

991
00:51:31,080 --> 00:51:32,920
Speaker 1: could be equal to ten and two or eleven and

992
00:51:33,000 --> 00:51:35,760
Speaker 1: one in some other conferences. And if you get down

993
00:51:35,880 --> 00:51:38,960
Speaker 1: to what we would call nut cutting time at the

994
00:51:39,040 --> 00:51:41,959
Speaker 1: end of the year, and the committee looks and says,

995
00:51:42,000 --> 00:51:44,480
Speaker 1: we can't put nine and three teams in over ten

996
00:51:44,520 --> 00:51:47,480
Speaker 1: and two and eleven and one teams. They're gonna get

997
00:51:47,520 --> 00:51:52,000
Speaker 1: asked why. And if they say record, then the SEC

998
00:51:52,080 --> 00:51:53,960
Speaker 1: is going to look back and say, do you have

999
00:51:54,000 --> 00:51:56,520
Speaker 1: any idea who our teams are playing versus who their

1000
00:51:56,560 --> 00:51:58,480
Speaker 1: teams are playing? And if that committee says we don't

1001
00:51:58,520 --> 00:52:01,640
Speaker 1: care you are what you're record says you are, that

1002
00:52:01,680 --> 00:52:03,560
Speaker 1: piece of paper is gonna get wadded up and thrown

1003
00:52:03,560 --> 00:52:06,640
Speaker 1: in their faces and the SEC will eventually, somehow, some

1004
00:52:06,680 --> 00:52:09,560
Speaker 1: way figure out how to take matters into their own hands.

1005
00:52:10,000 --> 00:52:12,879
Speaker 1: Saying all that to say this, and apologies to MEMA

1006
00:52:12,960 --> 00:52:14,880
Speaker 1: for saying nut cutting on air, but I'm saying all

1007
00:52:14,960 --> 00:52:18,560
Speaker 1: that to say this, there is going to be a

1008
00:52:18,840 --> 00:52:22,600
Speaker 1: lesson learned or taught either way this year when it

1009
00:52:22,600 --> 00:52:26,239
Speaker 1: comes to how strength of schedule is interpreted by that committee.

1010
00:52:26,520 --> 00:52:28,720
Speaker 1: And I have no clue how it's gonna work, because

1011
00:52:28,800 --> 00:52:30,960
Speaker 1: you can say it all you want to. You can

1012
00:52:31,040 --> 00:52:34,200
Speaker 1: say a nine to three SEC team may be better

1013
00:52:34,320 --> 00:52:36,680
Speaker 1: than or more deserving than a ten and two or

1014
00:52:36,719 --> 00:52:40,479
Speaker 1: eleven in one, but remember the climate We just had

1015
00:52:40,520 --> 00:52:44,480
Speaker 1: Florida State left out in favor of a one loss

1016
00:52:44,600 --> 00:52:48,839
Speaker 1: SEC team, and a lot of people got been out

1017
00:52:48,880 --> 00:52:50,759
Speaker 1: of shape about it as they as they should, they

1018
00:52:50,760 --> 00:52:55,280
Speaker 1: got every right to, and so camps have already formed

1019
00:52:55,320 --> 00:52:58,200
Speaker 1: on this as a concept. So then if we get

1020
00:52:58,560 --> 00:53:02,480
Speaker 1: forward and we have SEC teams, may be with two

1021
00:53:02,560 --> 00:53:05,160
Speaker 1: more losses. Just want you to think about it. What

1022
00:53:05,239 --> 00:53:08,080
Speaker 1: if an SEC team we're looking at that final seat

1023
00:53:08,080 --> 00:53:10,839
Speaker 1: at the table and there is a nine and three

1024
00:53:10,880 --> 00:53:13,439
Speaker 1: what if Florida this year? Just think this out loud

1025
00:53:13,480 --> 00:53:16,120
Speaker 1: with me. What if Florida went nine and three this

1026
00:53:16,239 --> 00:53:19,520
Speaker 1: year against by a mile, the toughest schedule in the country,

1027
00:53:20,800 --> 00:53:24,480
Speaker 1: and at the end of the day we've got them,

1028
00:53:24,680 --> 00:53:29,040
Speaker 1: or we've got an eleven and one Sun Belt team

1029
00:53:29,719 --> 00:53:31,520
Speaker 1: or a big twelve team for that matter, or an

1030
00:53:31,560 --> 00:53:35,000
Speaker 1: AAC team for the final seat at the playoff table.

1031
00:53:35,160 --> 00:53:37,200
Speaker 1: Who are you putting in there? A lot of you

1032
00:53:37,239 --> 00:53:40,240
Speaker 1: hate the SEC, so that's what will constitute your answer.

1033
00:53:40,239 --> 00:53:43,759
Speaker 1: But think about it as a committee member nine and

1034
00:53:43,800 --> 00:53:46,000
Speaker 1: three team eleven and one team you're really willing to

1035
00:53:46,000 --> 00:53:50,000
Speaker 1: do it, because if you're not, I'm just somehow, some

1036
00:53:50,080 --> 00:53:51,759
Speaker 1: way I think that conference would end up taking matters

1037
00:53:51,760 --> 00:53:53,040
Speaker 1: into their own hands down the road, and I don't

1038
00:53:53,080 --> 00:53:55,920
Speaker 1: know what that means either, but they're not about to

1039
00:53:55,960 --> 00:54:00,520
Speaker 1: sit back, play a tougher schedule and then get screwed

1040
00:54:00,560 --> 00:54:03,480
Speaker 1: out of spots they believe to be theirs, whether you

1041
00:54:03,560 --> 00:54:05,480
Speaker 1: agree with it or not, That's how that will go.

1042
00:54:05,760 --> 00:54:09,000
Speaker 1: They're watching us in Richmond Hill, Georgia, San Diego, California,

1043
00:54:09,280 --> 00:54:13,239
Speaker 1: and Thompson's Station, Tennessee, which a is suspiciously close to

1044
00:54:13,239 --> 00:54:15,840
Speaker 1: where management lives, and b is where an e F

1045
00:54:15,880 --> 00:54:19,320
Speaker 1: three tornado just to the south moved through and across

1046
00:54:19,400 --> 00:54:22,000
Speaker 1: I sixty five the other day, and I went and

1047
00:54:22,040 --> 00:54:27,040
Speaker 1: toured that tornado damage yesterday. It's tough times down there,

1048
00:54:27,200 --> 00:54:31,840
Speaker 1: tough times, but rebuild we will. Bold prediction time, Bold

1049
00:54:31,840 --> 00:54:34,880
Speaker 1: prediction season here at pet State. And that is simply

1050
00:54:35,120 --> 00:54:39,000
Speaker 1: put you finding out what you believe enough to have

1051
00:54:39,160 --> 00:54:43,120
Speaker 1: it said publicly, because the Internet is forever. Guys and girls,

1052
00:54:43,120 --> 00:54:45,880
Speaker 1: I hope you remember that. So your pride is on

1053
00:54:45,960 --> 00:54:48,440
Speaker 1: the line here. I said what I said about the portal.

1054
00:54:48,520 --> 00:54:50,279
Speaker 1: It was wrong. I had to wear the clown nose

1055
00:54:50,320 --> 00:54:53,160
Speaker 1: on air. I hope that you don't suffer the same fate.

1056
00:54:53,600 --> 00:54:57,480
Speaker 1: Let's dive in first prediction tonight from Sean Penn State

1057
00:54:57,960 --> 00:54:59,719
Speaker 1: will only have one loss at the end of the

1058
00:54:59,719 --> 00:55:04,160
Speaker 1: reg regular season. Well on the boldness scale, Sean, I

1059
00:55:04,200 --> 00:55:06,440
Speaker 1: don't think that's terribly bold. I think that's a seven

1060
00:55:06,480 --> 00:55:10,080
Speaker 1: and three quarters on the boldness scale of one to ten. Tough,

1061
00:55:10,640 --> 00:55:14,840
Speaker 1: but it's doable. So this year, if you're listening on podcast,

1062
00:55:14,960 --> 00:55:16,360
Speaker 1: you can't see it, but let me give you the

1063
00:55:16,400 --> 00:55:20,600
Speaker 1: notable games. Penn State plays Illinois and UCLA at home,

1064
00:55:20,640 --> 00:55:25,600
Speaker 1: they go to USC bye Week two, Wisconsin, Ohio State

1065
00:55:25,640 --> 00:55:28,600
Speaker 1: and Washington at home, and then the rest of the season.

1066
00:55:28,600 --> 00:55:32,000
Speaker 1: There's only one game where I'm fairly certain there'll be

1067
00:55:32,000 --> 00:55:33,960
Speaker 1: an underdog, and that's Ohio State, and they get them

1068
00:55:33,960 --> 00:55:38,319
Speaker 1: at home. They may be at Wisconsin or USC like

1069
00:55:38,520 --> 00:55:40,480
Speaker 1: they could be underdogs there, but if so, it's going

1070
00:55:40,520 --> 00:55:42,600
Speaker 1: to be a very very short number. But they'll probably

1071
00:55:42,600 --> 00:55:46,600
Speaker 1: be a dog against Ohio State eleven and one's doable here.

1072
00:55:47,160 --> 00:55:50,800
Speaker 1: They still have a very high level defense even with

1073
00:55:50,920 --> 00:55:54,279
Speaker 1: Manny Diaz leaving. The explosive play rate with Andy Colton

1074
00:55:54,320 --> 00:55:57,920
Speaker 1: Nicky coming in there from Kansas, I think will improve drastically.

1075
00:55:58,000 --> 00:55:59,919
Speaker 1: I don't know, but it will improve. They're over run

1076
00:56:00,040 --> 00:56:01,920
Speaker 1: win totals nine and a half, so this would clearly

1077
00:56:01,960 --> 00:56:05,080
Speaker 1: constitute an over I'm gonna call it a seven and

1078
00:56:05,320 --> 00:56:08,120
Speaker 1: three quarter seven point seventy five. And of course, if

1079
00:56:08,160 --> 00:56:10,719
Speaker 1: they go eleven and one, maybe they're playing for the

1080
00:56:10,760 --> 00:56:13,960
Speaker 1: Big Ten championship first off, so let's not just overlook that.

1081
00:56:14,280 --> 00:56:18,759
Speaker 1: But secondly, they are in the playoff. I guess win

1082
00:56:19,000 --> 00:56:22,400
Speaker 1: or lose the Big Ten title game. I would imagine

1083
00:56:22,440 --> 00:56:27,080
Speaker 1: a twelve and or eleven and two Penn State with

1084
00:56:27,200 --> 00:56:30,600
Speaker 1: a loss in Indianapolis. If they don't go to the playoff,

1085
00:56:30,600 --> 00:56:33,879
Speaker 1: it is a loaded playoff field. So and then James

1086
00:56:33,920 --> 00:56:37,440
Speaker 1: Franklin's a playoff coach. All of the sudden and nothing changed.

1087
00:56:37,480 --> 00:56:42,640
Speaker 1: We just expanded the field. Next up, Jordan in Florida

1088
00:56:42,680 --> 00:56:47,000
Speaker 1: says NC State will make the ACC Championship game. Well,

1089
00:56:47,000 --> 00:56:49,600
Speaker 1: they've got the fifth best odds in the ACC. Jordan

1090
00:56:50,520 --> 00:56:52,799
Speaker 1: at FanDuel, you can go bet that right now. I'm

1091
00:56:52,800 --> 00:56:54,560
Speaker 1: gonna call this an eight point twenty five on the

1092
00:56:54,560 --> 00:56:57,960
Speaker 1: boldness scale. I started to talk myself into this today.

1093
00:56:58,040 --> 00:57:00,040
Speaker 1: It's not a prediction. I don't have to do that.

1094
00:57:00,040 --> 00:57:02,719
Speaker 1: That's your job this time of year. I wait until

1095
00:57:02,719 --> 00:57:06,719
Speaker 1: the last minute. In August but I am closer to

1096
00:57:06,800 --> 00:57:09,080
Speaker 1: believing this could happen than I was at three pm

1097
00:57:09,120 --> 00:57:12,120
Speaker 1: this afternoon. Grayson McCall, for those of you who don't know,

1098
00:57:12,160 --> 00:57:14,600
Speaker 1: who is the quarterback at Coastal Carolina for a long time.

1099
00:57:14,760 --> 00:57:17,160
Speaker 1: He transferred here, so he's a quarterback there. This year,

1100
00:57:18,240 --> 00:57:22,160
Speaker 1: got a really good wide receiver corps. They miss five

1101
00:57:22,400 --> 00:57:25,640
Speaker 1: of the top six ACC teams in terms of odds,

1102
00:57:26,440 --> 00:57:29,280
Speaker 1: so they have a workable conference schedule. They play Tennessee

1103
00:57:29,320 --> 00:57:31,160
Speaker 1: in week two. That's not a conference game, but it

1104
00:57:31,200 --> 00:57:33,360
Speaker 1: does serve to show what's where they are. They go

1105
00:57:33,400 --> 00:57:37,320
Speaker 1: to Clemson in Week four, and after that their conference

1106
00:57:37,360 --> 00:57:42,600
Speaker 1: games are like Wake Sarah Hughes, Cal, Stanford. They do

1107
00:57:42,680 --> 00:57:45,240
Speaker 1: have to go to Cal because that's a conference game.

1108
00:57:45,520 --> 00:57:47,040
Speaker 1: We live in a world where that's a thing now

1109
00:57:47,840 --> 00:57:50,240
Speaker 1: at Georgia Tech at North Carolina to end the season,

1110
00:57:51,160 --> 00:57:55,640
Speaker 1: I mean disdoable defense without Peyton Wilson, let's take Let's

1111
00:57:55,720 --> 00:57:56,960
Speaker 1: keep an eye on that. They were twenty eighth in

1112
00:57:57,040 --> 00:57:58,600
Speaker 1: the S and P plus coming out of spring, but

1113
00:58:00,080 --> 00:58:02,680
Speaker 1: quarterback pans out and that schedule is workable. Anything could

1114
00:58:02,720 --> 00:58:06,320
Speaker 1: happen next up. This this is our first ten of

1115
00:58:06,360 --> 00:58:09,400
Speaker 1: the season. I thought we were gonna make it a

1116
00:58:09,440 --> 00:58:12,479
Speaker 1: lot deeper into May or even after that and before

1117
00:58:12,520 --> 00:58:15,720
Speaker 1: we got to a ten. But oh boy, okay, so

1118
00:58:16,080 --> 00:58:19,400
Speaker 1: think about think about where we're going here. Tyler from

1119
00:58:19,440 --> 00:58:24,240
Speaker 1: Cottonwood Shores, Texas said a school from Texas will be

1120
00:58:24,400 --> 00:58:28,520
Speaker 1: crowned champion in three of the four power conferences. Okay,

1121
00:58:28,560 --> 00:58:31,280
Speaker 1: so right off the bat, we know the three conferences

1122
00:58:31,320 --> 00:58:34,320
Speaker 1: he's talking about. So I'm at the SEC, the Big Twelve,

1123
00:58:34,360 --> 00:58:37,000
Speaker 1: and the ACC because Texas doesn't even have a team

1124
00:58:37,040 --> 00:58:40,760
Speaker 1: in the Big ten for now. That wasn't it wasn't

1125
00:58:40,840 --> 00:58:44,440
Speaker 1: code or anything. I'm just saying. So in the Big twelve,

1126
00:58:45,080 --> 00:58:47,640
Speaker 1: we've just got the best numbers here. We got Texas

1127
00:58:47,680 --> 00:58:51,960
Speaker 1: Tech Baylor TCU in Houston. Texas Tech has the fifth

1128
00:58:52,000 --> 00:58:54,880
Speaker 1: best odds to win the Big twelve, and everyone else

1129
00:58:54,960 --> 00:58:57,840
Speaker 1: is lower than that. All right, but at least we've

1130
00:58:57,840 --> 00:59:00,320
Speaker 1: got four candidates to win the Big twelve, so we

1131
00:59:00,360 --> 00:59:03,040
Speaker 1: would need one of them to win. We need either

1132
00:59:03,120 --> 00:59:05,840
Speaker 1: Texas or Texas A and M to win the SEC,

1133
00:59:06,480 --> 00:59:09,760
Speaker 1: and they've got the second and eighth best odds, respectively,

1134
00:59:10,320 --> 00:59:13,240
Speaker 1: and then we got no other shot. We just have

1135
00:59:13,320 --> 00:59:18,040
Speaker 1: to have SMU in year one in the ACC go

1136
00:59:18,120 --> 00:59:22,360
Speaker 1: past Miami and Louisville and NC State and FSU and Clemson.

1137
00:59:22,400 --> 00:59:23,880
Speaker 1: They got to go past all of them. They got

1138
00:59:23,880 --> 00:59:26,920
Speaker 1: to win the thing, and all of that has to happen.

1139
00:59:28,560 --> 00:59:30,360
Speaker 1: I don't believe in parlays. I think they're one of

1140
00:59:30,400 --> 00:59:32,720
Speaker 1: the many tools of the devil. But just for fun,

1141
00:59:32,960 --> 00:59:35,640
Speaker 1: we went over to FanDuel and we said, excuse me, FanDuel,

1142
00:59:36,000 --> 00:59:41,520
Speaker 1: what if we shot one of those three leg parlays Texas, Tech,

1143
00:59:42,160 --> 00:59:46,040
Speaker 1: Texas and SMU all win their conference. What kind of

1144
00:59:46,040 --> 00:59:48,640
Speaker 1: odds can we get? You can get plus eighty five

1145
00:59:48,680 --> 00:59:51,160
Speaker 1: thousand odds there right now, which means if you pull

1146
00:59:51,200 --> 00:59:53,880
Speaker 1: a ten dollars bill out of your pocket and place

1147
00:59:53,880 --> 00:59:56,720
Speaker 1: it on that three leg parlay, it returns eighty five

1148
00:59:56,840 --> 00:59:59,560
Speaker 1: hundred dollars. Actually a little bit north of that. I

1149
00:59:59,600 --> 01:00:03,760
Speaker 1: shaved change off for continuity's sake. This is a ten

1150
01:00:03,920 --> 01:00:06,480
Speaker 1: on the boldness scale. This is not happening. Don't waste

1151
01:00:06,520 --> 01:00:09,880
Speaker 1: your time. But it was fun while it lasted. And lastly,

1152
01:00:10,440 --> 01:00:12,280
Speaker 1: and this should be a ten, but for some reason

1153
01:00:12,320 --> 01:00:15,520
Speaker 1: I didn't make it a ten. Tony two Betts, who

1154
01:00:15,560 --> 01:00:18,640
Speaker 1: hails from planet Earth, said, if Ohio State doesn't win

1155
01:00:18,680 --> 01:00:21,640
Speaker 1: at all, next year Ryan Day is toast. This, of

1156
01:00:21,680 --> 01:00:25,800
Speaker 1: course is asen nine and ten and eleven and twelve.

1157
01:00:25,800 --> 01:00:28,240
Speaker 1: As Stephen A. Smith would say, Ryan Day is not

1158
01:00:28,280 --> 01:00:31,480
Speaker 1: getting fired for the mere offense of not winning a

1159
01:00:31,560 --> 01:00:34,920
Speaker 1: national championship. Can you imagine the audacity of this man

1160
01:00:35,200 --> 01:00:37,920
Speaker 1: to be fifty six and eight thirty nine and three

1161
01:00:38,120 --> 01:00:40,560
Speaker 1: in his last three years in the Big ten, top

1162
01:00:40,600 --> 01:00:44,000
Speaker 1: three recruiter, just doesn't win a national championship when I

1163
01:00:44,000 --> 01:00:46,480
Speaker 1: want him to. So get him out of here, you know,

1164
01:00:46,600 --> 01:00:49,560
Speaker 1: cause there's just a conveyor belt. There's a laundry list

1165
01:00:49,560 --> 01:00:54,240
Speaker 1: of guys. Ross Bjork probably has an Encyclopedia Britannica thick

1166
01:00:54,360 --> 01:00:56,200
Speaker 1: level book of of guys who can just he could

1167
01:00:56,200 --> 01:00:58,040
Speaker 1: get it down here tomorrow at Ohio State. What do

1168
01:00:58,120 --> 01:01:01,360
Speaker 1: we wasting time on Ryan Day for? I have a

1169
01:01:01,400 --> 01:01:06,800
Speaker 1: sneaking suspicion that Tony two Betts doesn't really believe what

1170
01:01:06,880 --> 01:01:10,560
Speaker 1: he's saying, because he didn't even say beat Michigan. In

1171
01:01:10,640 --> 01:01:14,200
Speaker 1: this scenario, Ryan Day and Ohio State could go twelve

1172
01:01:14,240 --> 01:01:16,840
Speaker 1: and zero, then win the Big Ten thirteen and oh

1173
01:01:17,320 --> 01:01:19,400
Speaker 1: then when fourteen and oh fifteen to oh went win

1174
01:01:19,400 --> 01:01:22,040
Speaker 1: a couple playoff games, get to the final and lose

1175
01:01:22,440 --> 01:01:25,440
Speaker 1: thirty to twenty seven in overtime against Georgia. He's gone.

1176
01:01:25,680 --> 01:01:29,120
Speaker 1: No one believes that. Not no, Ryan Day's worst enemy

1177
01:01:29,400 --> 01:01:33,120
Speaker 1: doesn't believe that. And so I'm gonna make it a

1178
01:01:33,200 --> 01:01:35,520
Speaker 1: nine point seventy five. And the only reason I didn't

1179
01:01:35,520 --> 01:01:37,760
Speaker 1: make it a ten, which is what it is on

1180
01:01:37,800 --> 01:01:41,240
Speaker 1: the surface, is there's always this world where a random

1181
01:01:41,400 --> 01:01:43,760
Speaker 1: scandal could break out. I don't know what it would be,

1182
01:01:44,360 --> 01:01:47,120
Speaker 1: but like, there's always a percentage chance that could happen.

1183
01:01:47,480 --> 01:01:50,280
Speaker 1: So there's something unforeseen that pops up. But short of

1184
01:01:50,320 --> 01:01:52,680
Speaker 1: something off the field or something health related which you

1185
01:01:52,680 --> 01:01:55,480
Speaker 1: wouldn't get fired for, Ryan Day's not getting fired just

1186
01:01:55,520 --> 01:01:57,040
Speaker 1: because he doesn't win a title. Now, if they go

1187
01:01:57,120 --> 01:01:58,960
Speaker 1: six and six this year, that'd be really weird, and

1188
01:01:59,000 --> 01:02:01,360
Speaker 1: we have a different conversation. But I also don't think

1189
01:02:01,360 --> 01:02:04,640
Speaker 1: that's gonna happen. Okay, let's move on. I got to

1190
01:02:04,680 --> 01:02:09,880
Speaker 1: say a pronunciation right quick, hold on Sentinalese that sounds right, sentinaliese.

1191
01:02:10,800 --> 01:02:13,320
Speaker 1: I have to pronounce a tribe in the remote parts

1192
01:02:13,320 --> 01:02:15,120
Speaker 1: of the Indian Ocean here in just a second. So

1193
01:02:15,240 --> 01:02:17,640
Speaker 1: I had to practice. And since we don't do a

1194
01:02:17,640 --> 01:02:19,960
Speaker 1: pre recorded show, I have to practice live. All right,

1195
01:02:20,000 --> 01:02:22,320
Speaker 1: here we go, Colin, here's your head point. Please don't

1196
01:02:22,320 --> 01:02:25,880
Speaker 1: include what I just said. Mood tracker time for FSU.

1197
01:02:26,120 --> 01:02:28,400
Speaker 1: How does the fan base feel right now? Forget about

1198
01:02:28,400 --> 01:02:30,400
Speaker 1: the rest of the world. How does the fan base feel?

1199
01:02:30,680 --> 01:02:34,760
Speaker 1: The mood for FSU fans right now? We currently have

1200
01:02:34,920 --> 01:02:40,000
Speaker 1: classified as sentinalese confidence, a mood we've never used. It's

1201
01:02:40,040 --> 01:02:42,640
Speaker 1: a category we've never even referenced on the show before.

1202
01:02:42,800 --> 01:02:46,520
Speaker 1: What does sentinalese conference or confidence mean? Well, that is

1203
01:02:46,560 --> 01:02:49,360
Speaker 1: a tribe. It's that tribe you've probably read about. You've

1204
01:02:49,360 --> 01:02:51,960
Speaker 1: probably seen them on the internet. They're in the remotest

1205
01:02:52,040 --> 01:02:54,880
Speaker 1: portions of the Indian Ocean, and you get close to

1206
01:02:54,920 --> 01:02:57,000
Speaker 1: them and they kill you, and you can see them

1207
01:02:57,040 --> 01:02:59,320
Speaker 1: from the air. And then they're wearing their loin cloths

1208
01:02:59,360 --> 01:03:02,000
Speaker 1: on the beach there and they have never been infiltrated

1209
01:03:02,040 --> 01:03:05,080
Speaker 1: by the outside world. They're just chilling. They have no

1210
01:03:05,160 --> 01:03:07,560
Speaker 1: clue what year it is, at least according to our calendars.

1211
01:03:08,000 --> 01:03:12,320
Speaker 1: And you know, they're fine, probably a little low on

1212
01:03:12,400 --> 01:03:15,919
Speaker 1: their immunization checkups, but they're okay. And so you get

1213
01:03:15,920 --> 01:03:18,960
Speaker 1: close and they wave the spears at you, and to them,

1214
01:03:19,360 --> 01:03:23,800
Speaker 1: that's their world and in Florida State circles. There is

1215
01:03:23,840 --> 01:03:27,200
Speaker 1: a very very similar vibe that is cropped up, and

1216
01:03:27,240 --> 01:03:30,040
Speaker 1: it's like this, it doesn't matter how close you get

1217
01:03:30,080 --> 01:03:32,200
Speaker 1: to that island that those dudes live on out there

1218
01:03:32,200 --> 01:03:34,560
Speaker 1: in the ocean. You can be as nice as you

1219
01:03:34,640 --> 01:03:37,360
Speaker 1: want to be. They're throwing a spear at your neck

1220
01:03:37,560 --> 01:03:39,400
Speaker 1: if you get close to them. And that's how Florida

1221
01:03:39,400 --> 01:03:41,120
Speaker 1: State fans are about a lot of folks right now,

1222
01:03:41,200 --> 01:03:44,720
Speaker 1: yours truly included. Now, not all Florida State fans, but

1223
01:03:44,840 --> 01:03:50,760
Speaker 1: there is a healthy collection of them that wander about

1224
01:03:50,760 --> 01:03:55,960
Speaker 1: the internet, a very very very small but very vocal

1225
01:03:56,480 --> 01:03:58,600
Speaker 1: portion of the FSU fan base who doesn't really care

1226
01:03:58,640 --> 01:04:00,240
Speaker 1: what you have to say about them because they remember

1227
01:04:00,280 --> 01:04:03,760
Speaker 1: how last year went down, and they remember anyone who

1228
01:04:03,960 --> 01:04:06,360
Speaker 1: said anything other than Florida State should be in the playoff.

1229
01:04:06,480 --> 01:04:09,000
Speaker 1: That's me. I did not agree with them that Florida

1230
01:04:09,000 --> 01:04:11,920
Speaker 1: State should just just be ushered into the playoff because

1231
01:04:11,960 --> 01:04:14,440
Speaker 1: of because of the circumstances that surrounded it, and I

1232
01:04:14,520 --> 01:04:18,360
Speaker 1: backtracked on an opinion, and they remembered it. So they've

1233
01:04:18,400 --> 01:04:21,640
Speaker 1: got the sentineleze confidence that they think they can win

1234
01:04:21,680 --> 01:04:24,240
Speaker 1: the acc again this year, which they can, and they

1235
01:04:24,320 --> 01:04:26,680
Speaker 1: know that Mike Norvel all the questions about him have

1236
01:04:26,720 --> 01:04:28,560
Speaker 1: been answered. He went from five to seven to ten

1237
01:04:28,560 --> 01:04:31,120
Speaker 1: and three to thirteen and one. Their recruiting has gone

1238
01:04:31,120 --> 01:04:34,080
Speaker 1: from twentieth to nineteenth to twelfth. Their portal classes have

1239
01:04:34,160 --> 01:04:36,919
Speaker 1: gone from tenth to sixth to I think their ranked

1240
01:04:36,960 --> 01:04:40,160
Speaker 1: sixth again. So like they've got all the benchmarks, they

1241
01:04:40,160 --> 01:04:42,840
Speaker 1: got all the indicators going in the right direction. So

1242
01:04:42,920 --> 01:04:46,280
Speaker 1: they believe in their program. It's just that if anyone

1243
01:04:46,320 --> 01:04:48,800
Speaker 1: else claims to believe in their program, they look in

1244
01:04:48,840 --> 01:04:50,840
Speaker 1: They almost they're like suspicion, what are you doing here?

1245
01:04:51,440 --> 01:04:53,000
Speaker 1: We don't care what you're saying. Get out of here,

1246
01:04:53,040 --> 01:04:55,400
Speaker 1: go go get That's kind of the attitude they have.

1247
01:04:55,480 --> 01:04:57,200
Speaker 1: This is saying, no soup kitchen, get out of here.

1248
01:04:57,680 --> 01:05:01,680
Speaker 1: And so the end of twenty twenty three has absolutely

1249
01:05:02,040 --> 01:05:04,120
Speaker 1: shaped the way that a lot of Florida State fans

1250
01:05:04,200 --> 01:05:08,160
Speaker 1: view the outside world. And you know what, I can't

1251
01:05:08,480 --> 01:05:11,400
Speaker 1: absolutely blame them for it. But as long as you're

1252
01:05:11,440 --> 01:05:13,880
Speaker 1: confident and as long as you're happy with the way

1253
01:05:13,920 --> 01:05:17,479
Speaker 1: things are going, I'm happy to use the megaphone from

1254
01:05:17,560 --> 01:05:21,400
Speaker 1: just Offshore and tell you peace be with you, Good day.

1255
01:05:22,120 --> 01:05:24,400
Speaker 1: Jo knowles. They're over under win total is nine and

1256
01:05:24,440 --> 01:05:27,600
Speaker 1: a half. They are a co favorite, Jesse. Are they

1257
01:05:27,640 --> 01:05:29,680
Speaker 1: favored right now? Are they right behind Clemson to win

1258
01:05:29,680 --> 01:05:33,040
Speaker 1: the ACC? They are the favorite? Yeah, I knows, they

1259
01:05:33,160 --> 01:05:34,720
Speaker 1: just all right. So they are the favorite to win

1260
01:05:34,760 --> 01:05:36,920
Speaker 1: the conference? Yeah, there you go. So that's changed actually

1261
01:05:36,920 --> 01:05:38,959
Speaker 1: in the past couple of weeks. So at FanDuel right now,

1262
01:05:39,160 --> 01:05:42,520
Speaker 1: it's FSU plus two seventy Clemson plus three hundred, Miami

1263
01:05:42,520 --> 01:05:45,120
Speaker 1: plus four to fifty Louisville plus six hundred to win

1264
01:05:45,120 --> 01:05:49,080
Speaker 1: the ACC. And there you go. If you were out

1265
01:05:49,080 --> 01:05:50,680
Speaker 1: there and you ever thought that I would not be

1266
01:05:50,720 --> 01:05:54,280
Speaker 1: able to mention the Sentinelice tribe somehow someway on the show,

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Speaker 1: if you haven't already. Okay, so so what was that?

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Speaker 1: What was that? Jesse? Okay, did you say corrupt? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: so we had a tweet. I'm gonna read the tweet

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Speaker 1: for you. But Jesse said the actual file is corrupted.

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Speaker 1: But instead of initially just saying the whole file is

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Speaker 1: he just said the word corrupt. Sounded like he was

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Speaker 1: calling me corrupt. But so here's the deal. One of

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Speaker 1: you asked the other day, with all the expansion and

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Speaker 1: what not going on in college football, can't we get

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Speaker 1: some new rivalries, like, can't we get cross conference rivalries?

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Speaker 1: And I've been a big believer in this for a

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Speaker 1: little while. However, I'm not sure it's going to happen

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Speaker 1: the way that the viewer was suggesting. The viewer was

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Speaker 1: suggesting something like the SEC and the Big Ten partner up,

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Speaker 1: you know, because they are on so many other fronts anyway,

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Speaker 1: but partner up in a scheduling model that is a

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Speaker 1: lot like the SEC Big Ten Challenge in college basketball,

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Speaker 1: and that's worked for a long time. There We've already

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Speaker 1: got out of conference matchups every year, like this year,

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Speaker 1: Miami goes to Florida, Georgia versus Clemson, LSU versus Southern

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Speaker 1: Cal that's just in week one. Week two, Texas goes

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Speaker 1: to Michigan. Week three, Bama goes to Wisconsin. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: we've got some big out of conference games. But you

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Speaker 1: were talking about an across the board line them up

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Speaker 1: and draw the lines and everyone plays someone. Well, I'm

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Speaker 1: not sure that's the way it would work. And I'm

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Speaker 1: not sure an official mandate is even necessary. You've got

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Speaker 1: conference in balance. Some folks have more teams than others.

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Speaker 1: There's fluctuation. Conference realignment's not done. For some reason, this

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Speaker 1: sport still thinks they need to schedule games several years out,

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Speaker 1: and so if they stick to that modus operandi, that's

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Speaker 1: one of several reasons that may not be smartest to

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Speaker 1: go about it that way. But here's the good news.

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Speaker 1: This could happen organically. You could get all your new

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Speaker 1: fancy rivalries and cross conference games organically if the committee

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Speaker 1: does the right thing. So teams need the strength of schedule.

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Speaker 1: You need the strength of schedule, not only because it

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Speaker 1: bolsters your resume if the committee does the right thing

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Speaker 1: and understands how to interpret strength to schedule. But number two,

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Speaker 1: And in many cases now we got big seventy eighty

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Speaker 1: ninety one hundred thousand seat stadiums where they don't sell

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Speaker 1: The schedule's just not good enough. So the schedule's got

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Speaker 1: be know that. So they've got to get better inventory

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Speaker 1: they get their money is worth there should be less

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Speaker 1: fear in doing it too. Firstly, you've got an expanded playoff,

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Speaker 1: so you know you don't have to go undefeated to

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Speaker 1: make the playoffs, so you can afford to beef up

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Speaker 1: your schedule a little bit. But here's where the committee

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Speaker 1: comes in. Talked about it earlier in the show. I

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Speaker 1: will continue to talk about it all year. It's one

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Speaker 1: of the biggest themes in this year in college football.

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Speaker 1: How does that committee make their decisions at the end

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Speaker 1: of the day. Because if I'm at Peyton State and

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Speaker 1: put Southern Cowl on my schedule, and I go one

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Speaker 1: I had was I beefed up my schedule, and you

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Speaker 1: leave me out of that playoff for an eleven and

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Speaker 1: one G five caliber team. I'm not doing it anymore

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Speaker 1: because I still have the same fear that we always had.

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Speaker 1: The old school fear is, well, we can't afford to

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Speaker 1: lose games because you get judged on your record and schedule.

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Speaker 1: Imbalance is so key in this sport. Right now that

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Speaker 1: and if they do, then television will be the winner,

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Speaker 1: fans will be the winners, and I think I think

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Speaker 1: games will happen organically because of that. All right, good

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Speaker 1: show tonight seventy two minutes. Wow. In May, who's to

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Speaker 1: the fuck it? Thank you guys so much. We will

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Speaker 1: Thursday night. And it's just business as usual around here

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Speaker 1: for us. And thanks so much for you for even

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Speaker 1: making that possible. For producer Jesse. For a director Colin,

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