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Speaker 1: say that. There are some people who would think, hey man,

429
00:22:01,840 --> 00:22:04,399
Speaker 1: you know read the tea leaves. Have you heard this

430
00:22:04,440 --> 00:22:06,919
Speaker 1: about Florida? Have you heard that about Florida? Yeah? I have.

431
00:22:07,160 --> 00:22:10,159
Speaker 1: I'm not ready to say that. Well, at least you

432
00:22:10,200 --> 00:22:12,600
Speaker 1: can say he's gonna leave old Miss, right, No, I

433
00:22:12,640 --> 00:22:15,679
Speaker 1: can't say that. I don't know that. I don't know that.

434
00:22:16,320 --> 00:22:19,240
Speaker 1: I have talked to the dude every day, sometimes multiple

435
00:22:19,240 --> 00:22:21,679
Speaker 1: times per day for the past week. I got no

436
00:22:21,720 --> 00:22:24,199
Speaker 1: clue where he's going. So if you know more than me,

437
00:22:24,520 --> 00:22:26,840
Speaker 1: God bless you. I'd love to know what you know.

438
00:22:27,040 --> 00:22:29,600
Speaker 1: But so far I haven't heard anything from anyone, including him,

439
00:22:30,080 --> 00:22:32,800
Speaker 1: that makes me sure he knows where he's going. Because

440
00:22:32,840 --> 00:22:35,440
Speaker 1: where I think it is still on this Sunday night

441
00:22:35,840 --> 00:22:38,679
Speaker 1: is I don't think definitively Lane knows what he's gonna do.

442
00:22:39,920 --> 00:22:43,520
Speaker 1: And if you've ever had multiple options on tables in

443
00:22:43,560 --> 00:22:46,159
Speaker 1: front of you and they're all good, I think you

444
00:22:46,200 --> 00:22:49,480
Speaker 1: can kind of relate to this. It's very rare you

445
00:22:49,560 --> 00:22:52,720
Speaker 1: find yourself in these positions, very rarely in life. But

446
00:22:52,880 --> 00:22:56,840
Speaker 1: imagine you're Lane Kiffen for a second, stay where you are,

447
00:22:57,320 --> 00:22:59,919
Speaker 1: and you're at a great place that you yourself have claimed

448
00:22:59,920 --> 00:23:03,520
Speaker 1: you love, that is already made playoff destination. You don't

449
00:23:03,560 --> 00:23:05,000
Speaker 1: have to guess if you can make the playoff at

450
00:23:05,040 --> 00:23:08,399
Speaker 1: Ole Miss. You're already there. So if you stay boom

451
00:23:08,440 --> 00:23:11,439
Speaker 1: you're in the playoff. You don't have to move, you

452
00:23:11,440 --> 00:23:14,159
Speaker 1: don't have to pack up and go. People adore you

453
00:23:14,200 --> 00:23:16,640
Speaker 1: for the rest of your life. That's option one. Options

454
00:23:16,680 --> 00:23:20,120
Speaker 1: two and three are you go to one or the

455
00:23:20,200 --> 00:23:23,560
Speaker 1: other of some of the most historically relevant brands in

456
00:23:23,600 --> 00:23:27,159
Speaker 1: the past quarter century. In this sport, you go to

457
00:23:27,200 --> 00:23:30,440
Speaker 1: a place where Steve Spurryer's one big, an Urban Myers

458
00:23:30,480 --> 00:23:33,480
Speaker 1: one big. And by the way, that place has massively

459
00:23:34,080 --> 00:23:38,240
Speaker 1: reinvested in itself over the past five years. It's pretty

460
00:23:38,240 --> 00:23:42,160
Speaker 1: transformative how different Florida looks on the inside. I'm down

461
00:23:42,160 --> 00:23:45,159
Speaker 1: there multiple times a year. I can confidently attest to

462
00:23:45,160 --> 00:23:47,800
Speaker 1: this then it did five years ago. So you can

463
00:23:47,840 --> 00:23:50,800
Speaker 1: win big at Florida LSU. I don't think I need

464
00:23:50,800 --> 00:23:52,800
Speaker 1: to describe to people what you can do at LSU.

465
00:23:52,920 --> 00:23:56,400
Speaker 1: So if these are your options, my point is it's

466
00:23:56,480 --> 00:23:59,560
Speaker 1: not a slam dunk. It's like degrees of edges that

467
00:23:59,600 --> 00:24:03,199
Speaker 1: each of them have. And so if either of the

468
00:24:03,240 --> 00:24:07,120
Speaker 1: three options are winners, if the worst of the options

469
00:24:07,200 --> 00:24:09,840
Speaker 1: is really good and the best of the options is great,

470
00:24:10,359 --> 00:24:13,160
Speaker 1: I could see kicking the can down the road as

471
00:24:13,240 --> 00:24:16,639
Speaker 1: far as you possibly can. I don't know to what

472
00:24:16,840 --> 00:24:21,520
Speaker 1: degree the announcement by Keith Carter, the ole miss Athletic director,

473
00:24:21,640 --> 00:24:26,600
Speaker 1: delayed anything last week. Like there were some people who suggested, man,

474
00:24:26,600 --> 00:24:28,879
Speaker 1: maybe LSU was ready to lock this thing down, but

475
00:24:29,160 --> 00:24:32,080
Speaker 1: then Keith Carter put out his statement saying, oh, we'll

476
00:24:32,080 --> 00:24:33,600
Speaker 1: deal with this after the egg Bowl. We're going to

477
00:24:33,640 --> 00:24:36,000
Speaker 1: make an announcement after the egg Bowl. And maybe that's

478
00:24:36,040 --> 00:24:39,240
Speaker 1: the only thing that delayed us. I think there's probably

479
00:24:39,240 --> 00:24:41,720
Speaker 1: a lot more in play than that. You also got

480
00:24:41,760 --> 00:24:44,920
Speaker 1: to understand there's the small matter of the dude has

481
00:24:44,960 --> 00:24:48,080
Speaker 1: a game to coach Friday and is represented by the

482
00:24:48,080 --> 00:24:51,000
Speaker 1: most powerful agent in the sport right now in Jimmy Sexton.

483
00:24:51,520 --> 00:24:55,119
Speaker 1: So if that were the position I was in, I

484
00:24:55,160 --> 00:24:58,119
Speaker 1: would say, do what you got to do behind the scenes.

485
00:24:58,720 --> 00:25:00,960
Speaker 1: I'll make a decision when never I'm telling you, I'll

486
00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:03,120
Speaker 1: make a decision that could be five minutes from now,

487
00:25:03,359 --> 00:25:07,320
Speaker 1: that could truly be after the egg Bowl, but between

488
00:25:07,359 --> 00:25:11,080
Speaker 1: now and then. If you understand how your representation works

489
00:25:11,119 --> 00:25:14,800
Speaker 1: behind the scenes, it may make sense why things feel

490
00:25:14,840 --> 00:25:17,600
Speaker 1: like they continue to be changing and why you may

491
00:25:17,640 --> 00:25:21,320
Speaker 1: have one whisper over here one hour, then another whisper

492
00:25:21,359 --> 00:25:23,399
Speaker 1: over here the next hour. Well, it's because when there

493
00:25:23,400 --> 00:25:27,480
Speaker 1: are multiple parties involved. You're just basically taking offer from

494
00:25:27,520 --> 00:25:31,080
Speaker 1: party to party. Can you match this. Here's what they're

495
00:25:31,119 --> 00:25:33,480
Speaker 1: gonna do on this front. Here's what they're gonna do

496
00:25:33,560 --> 00:25:36,640
Speaker 1: on that front. Here's how they counter to your offer. Now, look,

497
00:25:36,680 --> 00:25:39,480
Speaker 1: you can think this is slimy. You could think this

498
00:25:39,600 --> 00:25:42,639
Speaker 1: is absolutely the way of the world. It works this

499
00:25:42,680 --> 00:25:44,879
Speaker 1: way and more than just college football. I can promise

500
00:25:44,920 --> 00:25:48,560
Speaker 1: you so like that's the way it is, as Bruce

501
00:25:48,560 --> 00:25:51,240
Speaker 1: Hornsby once saying, for better or for worse. But anyway,

502
00:25:51,320 --> 00:25:55,520
Speaker 1: my point is for anyone who thinks that, oh, there's

503
00:25:55,560 --> 00:25:57,640
Speaker 1: no way it's still up in the air, yeah there is.

504
00:25:57,800 --> 00:25:59,359
Speaker 1: I actually think it is up in the air. So

505
00:25:59,359 --> 00:26:02,399
Speaker 1: there's most certain away. Here's what will happen, though, I

506
00:26:02,440 --> 00:26:06,199
Speaker 1: promise you this part will happen. We will arrive at

507
00:26:06,200 --> 00:26:08,159
Speaker 1: a conclusion by the end of this upcoming week. I

508
00:26:08,200 --> 00:26:13,320
Speaker 1: strongly believe that's pretty obvious. The second part is someone's

509
00:26:13,359 --> 00:26:15,240
Speaker 1: gonna get a ton of fake e cred from this.

510
00:26:15,880 --> 00:26:17,800
Speaker 1: I played around about trying to get mine today. That

511
00:26:17,800 --> 00:26:21,000
Speaker 1: tweet was very clearly a joke. There are people on

512
00:26:21,119 --> 00:26:26,600
Speaker 1: various talk shows, various message boards, various other shows, and

513
00:26:26,680 --> 00:26:30,760
Speaker 1: other columns and whatnot that have stated to varying degrees. No,

514
00:26:30,840 --> 00:26:33,600
Speaker 1: it's a done deal. He's going to LSU. It's a

515
00:26:33,640 --> 00:26:36,160
Speaker 1: done deal. He's going to Florida. It's a done deal.

516
00:26:36,200 --> 00:26:38,679
Speaker 1: He's gonna stay at Old Miss. Well, there aren't fifteen

517
00:26:38,800 --> 00:26:42,000
Speaker 1: different options than the hat, So you got a thirty

518
00:26:42,040 --> 00:26:45,000
Speaker 1: three percent chance of just guessing right. If these are

519
00:26:45,080 --> 00:26:47,480
Speaker 1: indeed the three hats on the table, you've got a

520
00:26:47,480 --> 00:26:50,880
Speaker 1: thirty three percent chance of guessing right. Here, someone will

521
00:26:50,880 --> 00:26:54,000
Speaker 1: have blindfolded themselves and tried to throw a dart fifty

522
00:26:54,040 --> 00:26:59,280
Speaker 1: yards across the room and hit bullseye, and they will

523
00:26:59,320 --> 00:27:02,960
Speaker 1: achieve status on their local message board for the next

524
00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:07,080
Speaker 1: decade for having been inside the coaching search the entire time.

525
00:27:07,119 --> 00:27:10,960
Speaker 1: They weren't inside anything. They guessed right, They had wrong information,

526
00:27:11,160 --> 00:27:14,800
Speaker 1: right outcome. Be careful, be wary of that. You can

527
00:27:14,840 --> 00:27:17,439
Speaker 1: really get misled down the road from people like that.

528
00:27:17,960 --> 00:27:20,720
Speaker 1: The one thing I'll say about Florida is, I know

529
00:27:20,840 --> 00:27:23,840
Speaker 1: there seems to be a fraction of the noise coming

530
00:27:23,840 --> 00:27:27,600
Speaker 1: out of Florida that there is LSU. That maybe because

531
00:27:27,640 --> 00:27:30,119
Speaker 1: he ends up signing with LSU. For all I know

532
00:27:30,240 --> 00:27:33,280
Speaker 1: that may be the case. I would just caution you

533
00:27:33,760 --> 00:27:38,880
Speaker 1: do not confuse silence within action. Sometimes there's a lot

534
00:27:38,920 --> 00:27:41,600
Speaker 1: going on behind the scenes and it's just buttoned up

535
00:27:41,600 --> 00:27:46,120
Speaker 1: pretty tight. So I don't take the relative silence out

536
00:27:46,119 --> 00:27:49,280
Speaker 1: of Gainesville compared to Baton Rouge to mean Florida's just

537
00:27:49,320 --> 00:27:51,320
Speaker 1: cooked here. And I know a lot of the reporting

538
00:27:51,359 --> 00:27:53,520
Speaker 1: has been Florida's a distant third and this and that.

539
00:27:55,560 --> 00:27:58,480
Speaker 1: I still think they got a shot. That's all I'm saying.

540
00:27:59,080 --> 00:28:01,760
Speaker 1: Not a leader in the cluse, nothing like that. I'm

541
00:28:01,760 --> 00:28:03,800
Speaker 1: not making a pick on that. I'm just saying I

542
00:28:03,800 --> 00:28:05,840
Speaker 1: still think they're in it. I think he could stay

543
00:28:05,840 --> 00:28:09,320
Speaker 1: at Ole, miss Absolutely think he could go to LSU.

544
00:28:09,760 --> 00:28:15,120
Speaker 1: So yeah, there we are. But to reiterate sarcasm from

545
00:28:15,119 --> 00:28:17,040
Speaker 1: the tweet this morning, and if you don't get it,

546
00:28:17,160 --> 00:28:19,600
Speaker 1: I don't know what to tell you. I will tell

547
00:28:19,640 --> 00:28:21,399
Speaker 1: you this. If you're going to be in Atlanta, Georgia

548
00:28:21,680 --> 00:28:25,119
Speaker 1: the weekend of the SEC Championship game, I got something

549
00:28:25,119 --> 00:28:28,320
Speaker 1: for you to do Friday night, Friday night, December fifth,

550
00:28:28,880 --> 00:28:32,119
Speaker 1: over at the Buckhead Theater. They're in Atlanta, seven pm

551
00:28:32,160 --> 00:28:37,320
Speaker 1: Eastern Time. Our first true live event, our first live show,

552
00:28:37,960 --> 00:28:42,800
Speaker 1: not our show being broadcast live. I mean full. I

553
00:28:42,880 --> 00:28:45,800
Speaker 1: expect sold out buckhead theater. Ticket sales have gone like

554
00:28:46,280 --> 00:28:48,640
Speaker 1: shockingly well for that. That's why I haven't even pushed

555
00:28:48,640 --> 00:28:50,520
Speaker 1: it on social yet. I actually want the people who

556
00:28:50,560 --> 00:28:52,520
Speaker 1: watch and listen to the show to be the ones

557
00:28:52,560 --> 00:28:56,440
Speaker 1: grabbing up the tickets. But I know we're still kind

558
00:28:56,440 --> 00:28:58,960
Speaker 1: of waiting to see who plays in the game. But

559
00:28:59,040 --> 00:29:01,600
Speaker 1: many of you live in I'm from Georgia, so like,

560
00:29:01,600 --> 00:29:02,880
Speaker 1: we got a lot of folks who have followed the

561
00:29:02,880 --> 00:29:04,680
Speaker 1: show for a long time who have bought tickets. The

562
00:29:04,720 --> 00:29:07,760
Speaker 1: tickets are available at paintstatematerial dot com right now, there's

563
00:29:07,760 --> 00:29:11,240
Speaker 1: an entire live show tab. It looks like that. Truthfully,

564
00:29:11,280 --> 00:29:13,120
Speaker 1: I don't remember taking that picture, but I assume I

565
00:29:13,120 --> 00:29:15,680
Speaker 1: did at some point. Gonna be a lot of fun.

566
00:29:15,800 --> 00:29:17,800
Speaker 1: We're gonna have exclusive merch that you can only get

567
00:29:17,920 --> 00:29:21,720
Speaker 1: at the show. We're going to have surprise guests plural,

568
00:29:23,040 --> 00:29:25,920
Speaker 1: probably correlated with who plays in the SEC Championship Game,

569
00:29:26,600 --> 00:29:28,440
Speaker 1: but maybe not. Maybe there's some people who are just

570
00:29:28,440 --> 00:29:30,120
Speaker 1: in Atlanta. No matter what, we're gonna have a lot

571
00:29:30,160 --> 00:29:33,360
Speaker 1: of fun. It will not be broadcast anywhere, so you've

572
00:29:33,360 --> 00:29:35,200
Speaker 1: got to be there to see this. It will be

573
00:29:35,280 --> 00:29:38,200
Speaker 1: very interactive We'll have a lot of audience interaction, a

574
00:29:38,240 --> 00:29:40,520
Speaker 1: lot of Q and a you know, pass the mic around,

575
00:29:41,080 --> 00:29:43,160
Speaker 1: all the things you've always wanted to ask but can't

576
00:29:43,200 --> 00:29:45,760
Speaker 1: ask because I can't answer them on air. This is it,

577
00:29:45,840 --> 00:29:47,680
Speaker 1: this is that moment. It'll be a lot of fun.

578
00:29:47,920 --> 00:29:51,240
Speaker 1: Paintstatematerial dot Com tickets available there. Right now, let's continue.

579
00:29:51,320 --> 00:29:56,040
Speaker 1: We had more games. Yesterday. Oklahoma beat Missouri and only

580
00:29:56,040 --> 00:29:58,520
Speaker 1: scored seventeen points, and you know what, they still won

581
00:29:58,600 --> 00:30:01,720
Speaker 1: by double digits. This game was not the most esthetically

582
00:30:01,720 --> 00:30:04,600
Speaker 1: pleasing in the country yesterday. I know that. I know that,

583
00:30:04,640 --> 00:30:06,959
Speaker 1: but look, this is football. Some of you look at

584
00:30:06,960 --> 00:30:09,520
Speaker 1: a fifty two to forty eight game and you think

585
00:30:09,560 --> 00:30:11,960
Speaker 1: that's beautiful, and then some of you look at seventeen

586
00:30:12,000 --> 00:30:14,040
Speaker 1: to six and you think it's hideous. This game got

587
00:30:14,040 --> 00:30:17,640
Speaker 1: one and a half tily, so I know it won't

588
00:30:17,680 --> 00:30:20,280
Speaker 1: break the bank on ratings when they report them later

589
00:30:20,320 --> 00:30:24,760
Speaker 1: this week. But I just want to tell you Oklahoma's

590
00:30:24,800 --> 00:30:27,760
Speaker 1: developing a little bit of a team identity here. They're

591
00:30:27,800 --> 00:30:31,120
Speaker 1: past three games. Think this through as I think it

592
00:30:31,160 --> 00:30:35,120
Speaker 1: out loud. At Tennessee at Alabama, Missouri. Three ranked opponents,

593
00:30:35,160 --> 00:30:38,120
Speaker 1: two of them on the road, they are plus six turnovers.

594
00:30:39,200 --> 00:30:41,800
Speaker 1: They've been out gained by a combined three hundred and

595
00:30:41,880 --> 00:30:45,040
Speaker 1: twenty four yards in those games, and yet they're three

596
00:30:45,120 --> 00:30:48,240
Speaker 1: and zero. Now, I didn't say they have an offensive identity.

597
00:30:48,240 --> 00:30:52,240
Speaker 1: I got no clue what they are offensively, but team identity. Basically,

598
00:30:52,320 --> 00:30:54,160
Speaker 1: what they've become is a team that doesn't need offense

599
00:30:54,200 --> 00:30:57,120
Speaker 1: to win games. Really crazy where we are with Oklahoma

600
00:30:57,200 --> 00:31:00,960
Speaker 1: right now. The game played out almost precisely how we

601
00:31:01,040 --> 00:31:03,960
Speaker 1: laid it out in the game preview last Tuesday. Very

602
00:31:03,960 --> 00:31:06,760
Speaker 1: low scoring, that was pretty easy to see coming. Mattiir

603
00:31:06,920 --> 00:31:12,920
Speaker 1: had eighty six passing yards except for one play, and

604
00:31:13,080 --> 00:31:15,960
Speaker 1: on one play one cap buster. I think those were

605
00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:19,360
Speaker 1: my exact words. There could be one random capbuster. That's

606
00:31:19,400 --> 00:31:25,400
Speaker 1: the difference. Simple drag route Satania takes at eighty seven yards,

607
00:31:25,400 --> 00:31:27,640
Speaker 1: he had more passing yards on that one play than

608
00:31:27,640 --> 00:31:30,480
Speaker 1: he did the rest of the day combined. And that's enough.

609
00:31:30,680 --> 00:31:34,240
Speaker 1: When you hold Missouri to seventy yards rushing, that's enough

610
00:31:34,840 --> 00:31:37,480
Speaker 1: what they have. I think Hardy himself had over three

611
00:31:37,560 --> 00:31:40,320
Speaker 1: hundred on the ground against Mississippi State the week before.

612
00:31:40,680 --> 00:31:46,080
Speaker 1: Seventy Yeah, two interceptions, four sacks, eight tackles for loss,

613
00:31:46,280 --> 00:31:49,480
Speaker 1: Oklahoma has discovered that if you play high level defense,

614
00:31:49,520 --> 00:31:50,920
Speaker 1: you don't have to light the world on fire. This

615
00:31:50,960 --> 00:31:52,960
Speaker 1: is not the Big twelve anymore. We don't have to

616
00:31:52,960 --> 00:31:55,400
Speaker 1: outscore people. I do have a padlock stat for you,

617
00:31:56,160 --> 00:31:59,960
Speaker 1: paper popper of a padlock stat. Missouri had more pass

618
00:32:00,160 --> 00:32:03,080
Speaker 1: is then runs in this game. Yeah. I'm gonna let

619
00:32:03,120 --> 00:32:05,720
Speaker 1: that simmer for a second because you may think that's

620
00:32:05,760 --> 00:32:08,160
Speaker 1: not that big a padlocks. That is it? Well, if

621
00:32:08,200 --> 00:32:11,320
Speaker 1: it is, if you understand the state of the Missouri offense,

622
00:32:11,640 --> 00:32:15,080
Speaker 1: the way that they've been competing, if not winning games,

623
00:32:15,080 --> 00:32:17,920
Speaker 1: competing in games. The path for them to win this game,

624
00:32:17,960 --> 00:32:20,960
Speaker 1: I promise you was not Eli rolling in there saying, yeah,

625
00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:22,640
Speaker 1: we want to sling it all over the field this

626
00:32:22,680 --> 00:32:25,800
Speaker 1: Saturday in Norman. No, no, no, But they had to

627
00:32:26,240 --> 00:32:29,440
Speaker 1: because they ended up being put in catch up mode.

628
00:32:30,720 --> 00:32:33,640
Speaker 1: They needed a plan. I said the other day to

629
00:32:33,680 --> 00:32:35,520
Speaker 1: where twenty is good enough to win a game? And

630
00:32:35,560 --> 00:32:38,400
Speaker 1: you know what they got that game. They just didn't

631
00:32:38,440 --> 00:32:42,560
Speaker 1: score the twenty, held Oklahoma to seventeen. But they didn't

632
00:32:42,600 --> 00:32:46,800
Speaker 1: score the twenty, and so Missouri's defense kind of provided

633
00:32:46,840 --> 00:32:51,080
Speaker 1: them with the runway offense couldn't take off and that's

634
00:32:51,080 --> 00:32:53,880
Speaker 1: not because they shot themselves in the foot. It's because

635
00:32:53,920 --> 00:32:56,560
Speaker 1: Oklahoma is just really good. And I got to give

636
00:32:56,800 --> 00:33:01,040
Speaker 1: pretty supreme credit to Brent Venables. Earlier in the year,

637
00:33:01,200 --> 00:33:04,080
Speaker 1: it was very popular to be trashing Brent Venables and

638
00:33:04,200 --> 00:33:06,800
Speaker 1: some people, you know, since it became popular, all of

639
00:33:06,800 --> 00:33:09,920
Speaker 1: a sudden, the fire coaches. In October, some people after

640
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Speaker 1: the Texas game said, oh, here we go, here we go.

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00:33:13,280 --> 00:33:15,520
Speaker 1: Matier got his finger hurt and he's back and he

642
00:33:15,560 --> 00:33:18,160
Speaker 1: looks like a shell of himself. We lost to Texas,

643
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Speaker 1: and now what Now we got to run this gauntlet.

644
00:33:20,840 --> 00:33:23,479
Speaker 1: Now we got to leave home a couple of big games.

645
00:33:23,560 --> 00:33:26,920
Speaker 1: Oh what's going to happen? Well, imagine if I rewind

646
00:33:27,400 --> 00:33:30,840
Speaker 1: to going into the Red River shootout. You lose that

647
00:33:30,920 --> 00:33:34,600
Speaker 1: game on Saturday, and I were to tell you Matier's

648
00:33:34,640 --> 00:33:37,040
Speaker 1: not going to get any better. His health, you know,

649
00:33:37,120 --> 00:33:39,200
Speaker 1: his hand, it's going to be what it is the

650
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Speaker 1: rest of the year. And imagine me telling you that

651
00:33:43,080 --> 00:33:45,240
Speaker 1: you're going to have to go through that entire stretch

652
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Speaker 1: Texas at South Carolina, Ole miss at Tennessee, at Alabama, Missouri,

653
00:33:52,240 --> 00:33:54,920
Speaker 1: and you'll come out of all that despite lacking an

654
00:33:54,960 --> 00:33:59,360
Speaker 1: offensive identity of any kind with your college football playoff

655
00:33:59,360 --> 00:34:03,040
Speaker 1: destiny in your hands the last week of the regular season.

656
00:34:03,320 --> 00:34:06,360
Speaker 1: Imagine me telling you that, but tier's not gonna get

657
00:34:06,360 --> 00:34:09,040
Speaker 1: any better. Offensive identity is going to be non existent.

658
00:34:09,600 --> 00:34:12,760
Speaker 1: And yet you're gonna go Texas, South Carolina, Old miss Tennessee, Bama, Missouri,

659
00:34:12,840 --> 00:34:15,239
Speaker 1: and you're gonna have your fade in your hands, which

660
00:34:15,280 --> 00:34:18,040
Speaker 1: they absolutely do. Going into the last week. You're looking

661
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Speaker 1: at the odds to make the college football playoff on

662
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Speaker 1: your screen right now, courtesy of FanDuel. Oklahoma minus four

663
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Speaker 1: to twenty. So they are solidly favored to make the playoff.

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Speaker 1: Just got to beat LSU. And I'm sure there's some

665
00:34:32,520 --> 00:34:35,000
Speaker 1: path where even if they lose to LSU, but certainly

666
00:34:35,040 --> 00:34:37,400
Speaker 1: if they beat LSU. There in Jesse, do you remember

667
00:34:37,880 --> 00:34:39,319
Speaker 1: off the top of your head what the spread is

668
00:34:39,640 --> 00:34:43,239
Speaker 1: in the Oklahoma LSU game this Saturday. I don't think

669
00:34:43,239 --> 00:34:45,799
Speaker 1: we checked on it all right, Jesse is efforting that

670
00:34:46,160 --> 00:34:50,400
Speaker 1: as we speak. So anyway, look ten and a half. Oh,

671
00:34:50,480 --> 00:34:52,799
Speaker 1: you favored by ten and a half. Win that game.

672
00:34:52,840 --> 00:34:55,759
Speaker 1: They're in for sure. I'm just saying it could have

673
00:34:55,800 --> 00:34:59,200
Speaker 1: gone off the rails. It hasn't been ideal like I

674
00:34:59,239 --> 00:35:02,719
Speaker 1: had some Oklahom folks saying, look, you gotta trash our

675
00:35:02,760 --> 00:35:04,759
Speaker 1: offense a little bit on the show tonight. By the way,

676
00:35:04,800 --> 00:35:08,160
Speaker 1: this is commonplace. I know. Our show ends up in

677
00:35:08,239 --> 00:35:12,600
Speaker 1: these hype videos that teams play for the team on Fridays,

678
00:35:12,640 --> 00:35:14,960
Speaker 1: and half the time the staff has asked us to

679
00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:19,480
Speaker 1: say it on air disgusting. So yeah, man, Oklahoma would

680
00:35:19,520 --> 00:35:21,280
Speaker 1: love a little spark to be lit under the offense.

681
00:35:21,360 --> 00:35:23,279
Speaker 1: I don't know what's gonna happen there. I just think

682
00:35:23,280 --> 00:35:25,239
Speaker 1: you kind of got what you got right now. Is

683
00:35:25,280 --> 00:35:28,520
Speaker 1: it a flawed team, of course? Is it an imperfect team?

684
00:35:28,560 --> 00:35:31,560
Speaker 1: Of course. A third of the team is non functional

685
00:35:31,680 --> 00:35:34,440
Speaker 1: right now. But the other two thirds are really getting

686
00:35:34,440 --> 00:35:37,600
Speaker 1: the job done. Missouri. I'm going to talk about them

687
00:35:37,760 --> 00:35:40,800
Speaker 1: very briefly a little later in the show. I still

688
00:35:40,840 --> 00:35:43,040
Speaker 1: think they can salvage and win to end the season.

689
00:35:43,880 --> 00:35:45,960
Speaker 1: But it kind of is what it is. Bopra Bulick

690
00:35:46,080 --> 00:35:49,839
Speaker 1: came back yesterday. He did play They're seven and four

691
00:35:49,960 --> 00:35:52,319
Speaker 1: right now. They could finish eight and four if they

692
00:35:52,320 --> 00:35:56,719
Speaker 1: beat Arkansas. It's not a terrible season. Injury derailed it

693
00:35:56,760 --> 00:35:58,960
Speaker 1: a little bit. They had the close loss to Alabama

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00:35:59,520 --> 00:36:02,520
Speaker 1: and then and they look the Vanderbilt game's really where

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00:36:02,520 --> 00:36:04,600
Speaker 1: it turned. We were there for that game. You got

696
00:36:04,640 --> 00:36:07,719
Speaker 1: a fourth and goal situation and you don't make it,

697
00:36:07,840 --> 00:36:10,960
Speaker 1: and you lose your quarterback on that play, and then

698
00:36:11,080 --> 00:36:13,479
Speaker 1: Vandy breaks a long run I think on the next drive.

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00:36:13,680 --> 00:36:15,160
Speaker 1: That was the difference in that game, and that's been

700
00:36:15,200 --> 00:36:17,160
Speaker 1: the difference in the season really, because that's where the

701
00:36:17,160 --> 00:36:19,040
Speaker 1: playoff hopes kind of went out the window a little bit.

702
00:36:19,880 --> 00:36:22,319
Speaker 1: But it still not a bad season. They're watching us

703
00:36:22,360 --> 00:36:27,000
Speaker 1: in Columbia, South Carolina. A task a Seeda Texas. Perhaps

704
00:36:27,000 --> 00:36:30,480
Speaker 1: a young man by the name of Kenny in a Taskaseeda, Texas.

705
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Speaker 1: If you know, you know one person knows. And Dayton, Ohio.

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Speaker 1: We appreciate you guys watching. I've got the wrong screen

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Speaker 1: pulled up. All right, there we go, and I just

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Speaker 1: want to say hi to the live chat. A quick reminder,

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Speaker 1: subscribe to the channel and check if you are. Just

710
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Speaker 1: go ahead, check because a lot of you think you are.

711
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Speaker 1: Fifty point nine percent of you are still unsubscribed to

712
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Speaker 1: the channel, which makes no sense because nothing happens when

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00:36:57,440 --> 00:37:00,000
Speaker 1: you subscribe, except it helps us appreciate it. I witness

714
00:37:00,320 --> 00:37:05,920
Speaker 1: firsthand in Autson Stadium yesterday actually, several of our comrades

715
00:37:05,960 --> 00:37:08,960
Speaker 1: there in the crowd take someone else's phone, perhaps a

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Speaker 1: significant other, perhaps a wayward buddy that they had brought

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Speaker 1: to the game, and they subscribed on their phone for us.

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Speaker 1: And I was like, see it doesn't cost anything. See

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Speaker 1: your phone didn't blow up, See your email inbox didn't

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Speaker 1: get spammed into outer space. It just helped us. Thank you,

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Speaker 1: and then we were on our way. That's how we

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Speaker 1: get to five hundred K. What a headline I have

723
00:37:31,280 --> 00:37:35,960
Speaker 1: in my hand right now. Florida State is retaining Mike

724
00:37:36,000 --> 00:37:38,600
Speaker 1: Norvel for the twenty twenty six season. They made it

725
00:37:38,600 --> 00:37:40,960
Speaker 1: official today. Well, they put out a graphic today, so

726
00:37:41,000 --> 00:37:45,000
Speaker 1: I assume that makes it official. This kind of genuinely

727
00:37:45,040 --> 00:37:47,640
Speaker 1: surprised me. I really thought that there would be some

728
00:37:47,760 --> 00:37:50,360
Speaker 1: action on him after they lost to NC State the

729
00:37:50,360 --> 00:37:54,000
Speaker 1: other night. I'm talking about the most disastrous display of

730
00:37:54,040 --> 00:37:57,040
Speaker 1: special teams I think I've ever seen. There were three

731
00:37:57,080 --> 00:38:00,680
Speaker 1: different moments in a three minute period on Friday night

732
00:38:01,120 --> 00:38:02,759
Speaker 1: when we were watching this game in the hotel room

733
00:38:02,760 --> 00:38:05,000
Speaker 1: in Oregon, where I said, you cannot be serious. I

734
00:38:05,080 --> 00:38:08,239
Speaker 1: said those words three times. That phrase came out of

735
00:38:08,239 --> 00:38:10,200
Speaker 1: my mouth three times about Florida State in the span

736
00:38:10,280 --> 00:38:14,359
Speaker 1: of three minutes of game action. You're supposed to say

737
00:38:14,400 --> 00:38:16,920
Speaker 1: that like twice a year. I said it three times

738
00:38:16,960 --> 00:38:21,480
Speaker 1: in five minutes, and they lost the game. And here

739
00:38:21,520 --> 00:38:24,239
Speaker 1: we are, though we're five and six, could end up

740
00:38:24,280 --> 00:38:26,279
Speaker 1: six and six. They got to beat Florida on the

741
00:38:26,360 --> 00:38:30,240
Speaker 1: road to get there. Mike Norvell is going to be retained.

742
00:38:31,040 --> 00:38:34,720
Speaker 1: Very simple to understand what's happening here. No one wanted

743
00:38:34,719 --> 00:38:37,400
Speaker 1: to retain Mike Norvello there. It cost too much to

744
00:38:37,440 --> 00:38:40,160
Speaker 1: fire him. That's just the way it is. I like

745
00:38:40,280 --> 00:38:43,360
Speaker 1: Mike Norvel a lot. I love the dude as a person.

746
00:38:43,920 --> 00:38:46,239
Speaker 1: I actually think he can be a successful coach. I

747
00:38:46,280 --> 00:38:49,960
Speaker 1: think they got started down a slippery slope there when

748
00:38:49,960 --> 00:38:52,680
Speaker 1: it came to roster construction, and they've never been able

749
00:38:52,680 --> 00:38:55,560
Speaker 1: to get their footing. By that, I mean they leaned

750
00:38:55,600 --> 00:38:57,960
Speaker 1: on the portal heavy and they killed it one year,

751
00:38:58,840 --> 00:39:02,680
Speaker 1: that twenty twenty three year they killed it, and then

752
00:39:02,800 --> 00:39:05,240
Speaker 1: they doubled down on that approach and they never started

753
00:39:05,280 --> 00:39:08,280
Speaker 1: to build up through high school recruiting. And that's even

754
00:39:08,320 --> 00:39:11,160
Speaker 1: aside from the problem of maybe they're not capable of it.

755
00:39:11,360 --> 00:39:13,920
Speaker 1: But let's just assume they are capable of it. They

756
00:39:14,000 --> 00:39:16,560
Speaker 1: chose to continue going the portal approach because the thing

757
00:39:16,560 --> 00:39:19,040
Speaker 1: about going heavy portal is you got to keep going

758
00:39:19,080 --> 00:39:22,239
Speaker 1: heavy portal to backfill the portal losses that you originally

759
00:39:22,239 --> 00:39:24,520
Speaker 1: portaled in because a lot of them are one year guys,

760
00:39:24,520 --> 00:39:27,640
Speaker 1: maybe two year guys max, and it's it's just once

761
00:39:27,680 --> 00:39:31,840
Speaker 1: it gets going downhill, that's really hard to reverse that. Anyway,

762
00:39:31,880 --> 00:39:36,359
Speaker 1: that's where they are right now, and so that's why

763
00:39:36,400 --> 00:39:39,200
Speaker 1: he's being retained. It would have cost a ton of

764
00:39:39,280 --> 00:39:42,719
Speaker 1: money because they got played when Alabama had the job

765
00:39:42,760 --> 00:39:46,200
Speaker 1: opening and they got tricked into thinking Mike Norvell was

766
00:39:46,280 --> 00:39:48,759
Speaker 1: a serious candidate for the Alabama job. They were not

767
00:39:48,800 --> 00:39:51,320
Speaker 1: going to offer Mike Norvel the job. It was always

768
00:39:51,400 --> 00:39:54,600
Speaker 1: Kaelin de Bor's job, but the people at Florida State

769
00:39:54,640 --> 00:39:57,040
Speaker 1: were made to believe that it was Mike's job, to

770
00:39:57,239 --> 00:39:59,399
Speaker 1: the tune that he got a huge buyout. So it's

771
00:39:59,440 --> 00:40:01,960
Speaker 1: not the first time that's happened to someone. And if

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Speaker 1: he were to go on to win, it would be

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00:40:03,239 --> 00:40:05,439
Speaker 1: a moot point. But he hasn't gone on to win,

774
00:40:05,760 --> 00:40:08,200
Speaker 1: so it immediately makes you look at that buyout number

775
00:40:08,239 --> 00:40:11,400
Speaker 1: and say, we would owe him what How did that happen,

776
00:40:12,680 --> 00:40:16,560
Speaker 1: Alabama's job opening, and a certain mega agent out there

777
00:40:16,760 --> 00:40:23,000
Speaker 1: is how it happened. So the details are pretty obvious here.

778
00:40:23,640 --> 00:40:27,040
Speaker 1: My question is not, what did you say in your statement?

779
00:40:27,080 --> 00:40:30,000
Speaker 1: You're not aligned on this, not everyone's behind this. Everyone

780
00:40:30,080 --> 00:40:33,200
Speaker 1: knows why you're retaining him. Mike Norvell knows why he's

781
00:40:33,239 --> 00:40:37,319
Speaker 1: being retained. If he ends up winning, that's irrelevant, like

782
00:40:37,360 --> 00:40:39,400
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter. There's a look at this. Look at

783
00:40:39,400 --> 00:40:41,839
Speaker 1: how many words they're all over here. That's a that's

784
00:40:41,880 --> 00:40:44,279
Speaker 1: a that's a mighty big word salad to say we

785
00:40:44,320 --> 00:40:46,239
Speaker 1: can't afford to fire you right now, or we're not

786
00:40:46,280 --> 00:40:48,200
Speaker 1: willing to pay that money to fire you. No one's

787
00:40:48,239 --> 00:40:51,359
Speaker 1: reading that. That's the most TLDR I've ever seen in

788
00:40:51,400 --> 00:40:54,520
Speaker 1: my life. One paragraph would have been too long. Didn't

789
00:40:54,520 --> 00:40:59,399
Speaker 1: read that's one, two three, that's five paragraphs. So what's

790
00:40:59,440 --> 00:41:01,640
Speaker 1: Mike Norvell do about it? That's the only question that

791
00:41:01,680 --> 00:41:05,120
Speaker 1: matters here, sort of a stay of professional execution for

792
00:41:05,160 --> 00:41:06,920
Speaker 1: a little while. What's he going to do about it?

793
00:41:07,040 --> 00:41:10,200
Speaker 1: And my immediate follow up is, how do you recruit

794
00:41:10,239 --> 00:41:13,120
Speaker 1: to this environment? How do you recruit to a place

795
00:41:13,120 --> 00:41:15,759
Speaker 1: where everyone just assumes the head coaches on borrow time.

796
00:41:16,560 --> 00:41:18,279
Speaker 1: I think these are fair questions. I don't think this

797
00:41:18,320 --> 00:41:21,520
Speaker 1: is irresponsible to ask at all. In the best of worlds,

798
00:41:21,880 --> 00:41:25,880
Speaker 1: if you had just a staff full of assassin recruiters,

799
00:41:25,920 --> 00:41:28,560
Speaker 1: it would be tough. This staff is not known for

800
00:41:28,640 --> 00:41:31,399
Speaker 1: its ability to recruit the high school ranks, so it's

801
00:41:31,400 --> 00:41:33,719
Speaker 1: going to be an uphill battle. Now. The answer to

802
00:41:33,760 --> 00:41:35,759
Speaker 1: that is you've got to be willing to pay a

803
00:41:35,800 --> 00:41:39,720
Speaker 1: premium for talent. You could make the argument that, well,

804
00:41:39,760 --> 00:41:42,520
Speaker 1: since we're not spending the money on buyouts, we'll reinvest

805
00:41:42,560 --> 00:41:46,440
Speaker 1: that money into paying for players. They tried that at

806
00:41:46,440 --> 00:41:49,839
Speaker 1: Florida this past cycle didn't work, but that doesn't mean

807
00:41:49,840 --> 00:41:52,920
Speaker 1: it can't work. It just didn't work there. Also, it

808
00:41:52,960 --> 00:41:54,720
Speaker 1: feels like there are going to be several staff moves.

809
00:41:55,960 --> 00:41:58,920
Speaker 1: How do you staff like understand what we're talking about here.

810
00:41:58,960 --> 00:42:01,040
Speaker 1: It's not a video game, so you don't just get

811
00:42:01,080 --> 00:42:05,279
Speaker 1: to press buttons and imaginary people take over for other

812
00:42:05,320 --> 00:42:10,000
Speaker 1: imaginary people. If Gus Malson heads out the door, you

813
00:42:10,080 --> 00:42:13,760
Speaker 1: got to find an offensive coordinator that's willing to uproot

814
00:42:13,760 --> 00:42:16,359
Speaker 1: his family and his situation, and hopefully a good one

815
00:42:16,400 --> 00:42:19,200
Speaker 1: by the way, to come down to Tallahassee to maybe

816
00:42:19,280 --> 00:42:23,600
Speaker 1: live one year, or if you make player personnel department changes,

817
00:42:24,120 --> 00:42:26,959
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to get people willing to come down

818
00:42:26,960 --> 00:42:29,760
Speaker 1: there with the risk and the cloud over the staff's

819
00:42:29,800 --> 00:42:31,799
Speaker 1: head that you may only be there because they can't

820
00:42:31,800 --> 00:42:33,879
Speaker 1: afford to fire you right now. My point is, even

821
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Speaker 1: in the best of climates, if you've got a magnetic

822
00:42:37,719 --> 00:42:40,800
Speaker 1: head coach and you've got a great recruiting staff, it

823
00:42:40,840 --> 00:42:43,600
Speaker 1: would be tough to attract players and staffers here. This

824
00:42:43,640 --> 00:42:45,319
Speaker 1: is what has a lot of the Florida State fans

825
00:42:45,320 --> 00:42:47,719
Speaker 1: so up in arms because they're looking at it and saying,

826
00:42:47,760 --> 00:42:51,200
Speaker 1: everyone knows it's an inevitability. Why don't we rip the

827
00:42:51,200 --> 00:42:53,160
Speaker 1: band aid off right now? And you know the retort

828
00:42:53,200 --> 00:42:55,000
Speaker 1: to that's obvious, Well, do you guys want to stroke

829
00:42:55,040 --> 00:42:57,839
Speaker 1: a sixty plus million dollar check? Of course they can't

830
00:42:57,840 --> 00:43:01,880
Speaker 1: afford too. Very few single people can afford to do that,

831
00:43:02,120 --> 00:43:05,000
Speaker 1: very very few individual people. You may be single, I

832
00:43:05,000 --> 00:43:09,080
Speaker 1: don't know. But what was the talk we heard down there?

833
00:43:09,200 --> 00:43:12,399
Speaker 1: The talk was they had the money. Maybe they did,

834
00:43:12,400 --> 00:43:14,319
Speaker 1: maybe they didn't. If they did, they're not willing to

835
00:43:14,320 --> 00:43:18,600
Speaker 1: spend it. The biggest risk here is not anger. If

836
00:43:18,600 --> 00:43:20,840
Speaker 1: fans are angry, it's not the worst thing in the world.

837
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Speaker 1: That's the second worst thing in the world. The worst

838
00:43:23,160 --> 00:43:25,400
Speaker 1: thing in the world is apathy. The worst thing in

839
00:43:25,440 --> 00:43:29,759
Speaker 1: the world is a half full house. When you're in

840
00:43:29,800 --> 00:43:33,319
Speaker 1: a freshly renovated stadium and it's like week three or

841
00:43:33,320 --> 00:43:35,920
Speaker 1: week four next year, and already the season's given off

842
00:43:35,960 --> 00:43:40,280
Speaker 1: bad vibes, and already we realize all the good things

843
00:43:40,320 --> 00:43:42,759
Speaker 1: we said in the spring and summer are just cosmetic

844
00:43:42,840 --> 00:43:45,120
Speaker 1: and oh, it's the same old, same old. We're not

845
00:43:45,200 --> 00:43:48,880
Speaker 1: going through this again. That is the biggest danger here,

846
00:43:49,440 --> 00:43:52,080
Speaker 1: and hopefully it doesn't happen again. I'm gonna tell you,

847
00:43:52,480 --> 00:43:55,880
Speaker 1: like I'm dead serious when I say I like Mike Norvell.

848
00:43:56,040 --> 00:43:59,160
Speaker 1: I think he's a great person. I hope it works out.

849
00:44:00,080 --> 00:44:03,439
Speaker 1: Cannot state that strongly enough. I badly hope it works out.

850
00:44:03,840 --> 00:44:06,279
Speaker 1: I had a lot of hope after the Alabama game

851
00:44:06,320 --> 00:44:10,200
Speaker 1: this year that somehow, some way they had pressed the

852
00:44:10,280 --> 00:44:13,239
Speaker 1: right buttons and it was gonna work out. I mean,

853
00:44:13,239 --> 00:44:16,040
Speaker 1: they looked ultra impressive in that Week one, still one

854
00:44:16,080 --> 00:44:19,080
Speaker 1: of the most baffling results of the season. Given the

855
00:44:19,120 --> 00:44:22,920
Speaker 1: context that we ended up having at our disposal, I

856
00:44:23,000 --> 00:44:25,960
Speaker 1: was pulling for it to be true and it turns

857
00:44:25,960 --> 00:44:27,600
Speaker 1: out that it was a little bit of a mirage.

858
00:44:29,320 --> 00:44:32,319
Speaker 1: Who knows what the future holds. I do know what

859
00:44:33,560 --> 00:44:37,600
Speaker 1: a month and two days from now holds Christmas. We

860
00:44:37,640 --> 00:44:39,960
Speaker 1: celebrate it proudly at pet State and also in the

861
00:44:40,000 --> 00:44:43,800
Speaker 1: Peate State store. The Tiss the Season collection is setting records.

862
00:44:44,520 --> 00:44:47,800
Speaker 1: Our November store traffic is through the roof, and now

863
00:44:47,960 --> 00:44:50,640
Speaker 1: it doesn't take long for us to ship stuff. So

864
00:44:50,680 --> 00:44:52,279
Speaker 1: a lot of you have already got product in hand.

865
00:44:52,680 --> 00:44:55,120
Speaker 1: We just launched the Tiss the Season Collection like two

866
00:44:55,160 --> 00:44:57,120
Speaker 1: weeks ago, so like a lot of you are already

867
00:44:57,160 --> 00:44:59,960
Speaker 1: wearing your Christmas gear. I mean, look at that chuggy swa,

868
00:45:00,440 --> 00:45:04,319
Speaker 1: look at the merry Christmas, you filthy casual. Oh that

869
00:45:04,400 --> 00:45:08,800
Speaker 1: thing's great. Great idea on my part, I think Jesse great,

870
00:45:09,080 --> 00:45:11,919
Speaker 1: great creative idea for me to solely have come up

871
00:45:12,320 --> 00:45:15,279
Speaker 1: with that T shirt. So you know, we're not about

872
00:45:15,280 --> 00:45:18,120
Speaker 1: the credit around here. Really, it's a team effort. That's

873
00:45:18,160 --> 00:45:20,920
Speaker 1: why you never hear me ask for credit when something

874
00:45:20,920 --> 00:45:23,960
Speaker 1: good happens here at Paint State. We we just share

875
00:45:24,000 --> 00:45:26,800
Speaker 1: the credit collectively. I take all the blame, of course,

876
00:45:27,080 --> 00:45:29,560
Speaker 1: but we share the credit and a lot of credit

877
00:45:29,600 --> 00:45:32,840
Speaker 1: due because the store is on fire. So uh, I

878
00:45:33,000 --> 00:45:37,240
Speaker 1: just I just humbly invite you guys paintstantmaterial dot coments.

879
00:45:37,400 --> 00:45:40,560
Speaker 1: Right there is just splashed, not splattered or splashed all

880
00:45:40,600 --> 00:45:43,160
Speaker 1: over the home screen. But it's also a really really

881
00:45:43,200 --> 00:45:45,680
Speaker 1: good gift idea because if you're like me and you

882
00:45:45,719 --> 00:45:48,160
Speaker 1: have no idea what to buy people, just buy them that.

883
00:45:48,200 --> 00:45:49,880
Speaker 1: And if they don't like that, they're a loser. No

884
00:45:49,960 --> 00:45:53,680
Speaker 1: they're not. They could be, but not just because of that.

885
00:45:53,680 --> 00:45:56,600
Speaker 1: That's harsh language, but I think the point was made.

886
00:46:00,200 --> 00:46:02,839
Speaker 1: Let's continue. We've got still a few things to get

887
00:46:02,880 --> 00:46:07,239
Speaker 1: to here. Uh important text mesters, let me read this

888
00:46:09,040 --> 00:46:13,040
Speaker 1: blah blah blah blah blah blah. Okay, we continue. It's

889
00:46:13,080 --> 00:46:15,160
Speaker 1: a very look. We do the show live, so a

890
00:46:15,160 --> 00:46:17,080
Speaker 1: lot of times, very very important things happened during the

891
00:46:17,080 --> 00:46:19,000
Speaker 1: show that, as it turns out, was not one of them.

892
00:46:19,520 --> 00:46:21,719
Speaker 1: The AP pole is out for week thirteen, and I

893
00:46:21,719 --> 00:46:23,520
Speaker 1: think it's very very important. I think there are a

894
00:46:23,560 --> 00:46:26,359
Speaker 1: lot of blinking red lights on this week's AP pole,

895
00:46:27,280 --> 00:46:29,719
Speaker 1: so walk through me or walk through with me here.

896
00:46:30,760 --> 00:46:34,640
Speaker 1: SMU is number twenty five, Jesse. I think we boiled

897
00:46:34,640 --> 00:46:40,479
Speaker 1: this down earlier. Today. SMU controls their ACC Championship fate. Right,

898
00:46:41,239 --> 00:46:46,640
Speaker 1: if they win Saturday, they are in the ACC Championship game. Yes,

899
00:46:47,239 --> 00:46:50,759
Speaker 1: all right, I'm going to take that to mean that

900
00:46:50,960 --> 00:46:54,320
Speaker 1: SMU controls its college football playoff destiny. Now I can't

901
00:46:54,320 --> 00:46:58,200
Speaker 1: one hundred percent guarantee that, but I can pretty much

902
00:46:58,200 --> 00:47:02,920
Speaker 1: guarantee that Lashly and the boys once again in position

903
00:47:03,280 --> 00:47:04,759
Speaker 1: to go to Charlotte. I think they got to beat

904
00:47:04,800 --> 00:47:08,959
Speaker 1: Cal this Saturday, who just fired Justin Wilcox like five

905
00:47:09,040 --> 00:47:12,400
Speaker 1: minutes ago. And look, if you I don't want to

906
00:47:12,440 --> 00:47:14,680
Speaker 1: take anyone back to the COVID days, those are dark days.

907
00:47:14,680 --> 00:47:17,400
Speaker 1: But if you remember how it ended for Nick Rolovich

908
00:47:17,719 --> 00:47:20,200
Speaker 1: at Washington State and Wyatt ended that way, which I

909
00:47:20,200 --> 00:47:22,920
Speaker 1: thought was kind of bs. And you remember the Brian

910
00:47:23,000 --> 00:47:26,000
Speaker 1: Harrison era at Auburn, and you remember some of the

911
00:47:26,040 --> 00:47:29,600
Speaker 1: stories around Brian Harrison at Auburn who also never got

912
00:47:29,600 --> 00:47:32,279
Speaker 1: a fair shake at Auburn. The fact that both of

913
00:47:32,280 --> 00:47:36,600
Speaker 1: those guys are running the house at Cal Berkeley right now,

914
00:47:37,120 --> 00:47:41,640
Speaker 1: it just amazing. Only in college football, not even only

915
00:47:41,640 --> 00:47:45,160
Speaker 1: in America, only in America in college football. So that's

916
00:47:45,160 --> 00:47:48,120
Speaker 1: who plays SMU Saturday. Pitt is number twenty four, Georgia

917
00:47:48,160 --> 00:47:50,440
Speaker 1: Tech's number twenty three. That's where I want to stop.

918
00:47:50,560 --> 00:47:52,400
Speaker 1: Put on the E break for a second. I have

919
00:47:52,480 --> 00:47:57,080
Speaker 1: it on good authority. These teams played yesterday in Atlanta,

920
00:47:58,280 --> 00:48:02,120
Speaker 1: and the outcome was pretty defendive. AP voters looked at

921
00:48:02,120 --> 00:48:06,080
Speaker 1: that and said, give me Georgia Tech ahead of Pitt Anyway,

922
00:48:06,560 --> 00:48:09,920
Speaker 1: I have no words. I have no words. Tulane is

923
00:48:09,960 --> 00:48:13,360
Speaker 1: twenty two, North Texas is twenty one, and James Madison

924
00:48:13,440 --> 00:48:16,080
Speaker 1: is twenty. All right, So let's still ask the question

925
00:48:17,120 --> 00:48:20,719
Speaker 1: because you know the playoff rule. The playoff rule is

926
00:48:21,160 --> 00:48:26,839
Speaker 1: we take the five highest ranked conference champions and then

927
00:48:26,880 --> 00:48:30,240
Speaker 1: we take seven at larges all right, So it's known

928
00:48:30,280 --> 00:48:33,480
Speaker 1: that the Big ten champ will be one, the SEC

929
00:48:33,680 --> 00:48:37,000
Speaker 1: champ will be one, the Big twelve champ will be one.

930
00:48:37,120 --> 00:48:42,000
Speaker 1: That's three. The big question that we have asked is

931
00:48:42,320 --> 00:48:45,720
Speaker 1: could there be a world where let's say, oh, North

932
00:48:45,800 --> 00:48:50,640
Speaker 1: Texas wins the American and they're ranked really high. That's four.

933
00:48:51,560 --> 00:48:55,600
Speaker 1: And then JMU wins the Sun Belt and they're ranked

934
00:48:55,680 --> 00:48:59,520
Speaker 1: higher than the ACC conference champ. So that's five. That's it,

935
00:49:00,600 --> 00:49:03,840
Speaker 1: and we don't have room for the ACC champ. Is

936
00:49:03,880 --> 00:49:06,680
Speaker 1: there a world where that could happen? I'm still guessing no.

937
00:49:07,600 --> 00:49:10,879
Speaker 1: I'm still guessing no. But then Jesse again marched into

938
00:49:10,920 --> 00:49:15,080
Speaker 1: my office earlier today and showed me the various ACC

939
00:49:15,800 --> 00:49:20,960
Speaker 1: Conference championship scenarios, tiebreaker scenarios. I threw up. I had

940
00:49:20,960 --> 00:49:23,799
Speaker 1: no other recourse. I just threw up. Every other one

941
00:49:23,840 --> 00:49:26,240
Speaker 1: of these conferences is going to have like this premier

942
00:49:26,360 --> 00:49:28,720
Speaker 1: matchup in the Big Ten. It's going to be Ohio

943
00:49:28,719 --> 00:49:30,759
Speaker 1: State Indiana, who are ranked one two. By the way,

944
00:49:30,800 --> 00:49:32,160
Speaker 1: it's going to be a one to two matchup in

945
00:49:32,200 --> 00:49:38,200
Speaker 1: all likelihood, pending pending this Saturday, Ohio State Michigan. We

946
00:49:38,239 --> 00:49:40,480
Speaker 1: have that small matter to get through, and then we

947
00:49:40,520 --> 00:49:42,680
Speaker 1: could have A and M Alabama, or we could have

948
00:49:42,719 --> 00:49:44,960
Speaker 1: an M Georgia or Bama Georgia, and that's going to

949
00:49:45,000 --> 00:49:47,120
Speaker 1: be a great game no matter what. In the SEC

950
00:49:47,239 --> 00:49:49,839
Speaker 1: Championship game, and for all the world, it looks like

951
00:49:49,880 --> 00:49:52,759
Speaker 1: Texas Tech Brigham Young in a rematch in Dallas, and

952
00:49:52,880 --> 00:49:56,880
Speaker 1: I've just got this alphabet soup of mess in the ACC.

953
00:49:58,040 --> 00:50:00,319
Speaker 1: So who knows what the ACC is going to spit

954
00:50:00,360 --> 00:50:02,799
Speaker 1: out at us, But anyway, there is some drama there.

955
00:50:03,160 --> 00:50:06,200
Speaker 1: USC is still at nineteen. That is significant. They didn't

956
00:50:06,280 --> 00:50:09,680
Speaker 1: drop a whole lot Now the big question is do

957
00:50:09,760 --> 00:50:13,560
Speaker 1: the playoff rankings reflect the AP, especially with those G

958
00:50:13,680 --> 00:50:17,280
Speaker 1: five teams. Do the playoff rankings reflect the AP? Jesse,

959
00:50:18,280 --> 00:50:23,120
Speaker 1: to my knowledge, the College Football Playoff has not featured

960
00:50:23,440 --> 00:50:26,839
Speaker 1: in their rankings so far two G five teams from

961
00:50:26,960 --> 00:50:30,839
Speaker 1: different conferences. They've had G five teams in there, but

962
00:50:31,040 --> 00:50:33,719
Speaker 1: we haven't seen Oh, there's TWU Lane at twenty two

963
00:50:34,120 --> 00:50:37,600
Speaker 1: from the American Oh there's JMU at twenty fifth from

964
00:50:37,600 --> 00:50:40,120
Speaker 1: the Sun Belt, because then we'd kind of get an

965
00:50:40,160 --> 00:50:43,600
Speaker 1: idea of where they have those respective teams ranked. Therefore,

966
00:50:43,640 --> 00:50:45,880
Speaker 1: we would have an idea if those teams won their

967
00:50:45,880 --> 00:50:50,560
Speaker 1: conferences of relatively how high the conference champ would be ranked.

968
00:50:50,760 --> 00:50:53,480
Speaker 1: Hadn't seen that yet. So we'll see if that is

969
00:50:53,520 --> 00:50:56,560
Speaker 1: reflected this week in the Committee rankings, just like we'll

970
00:50:56,600 --> 00:50:59,200
Speaker 1: see if Oh, I don't know, Southern cal is still

971
00:50:59,200 --> 00:51:02,040
Speaker 1: as high as nineteen in the Committee rankings. Tennessee's eighteen,

972
00:51:02,120 --> 00:51:05,720
Speaker 1: Virginia seventeen, Texas sixteen. All right, there's Michigan at fifteen.

973
00:51:06,800 --> 00:51:09,439
Speaker 1: Michigan's going into Saturday, they're going to play Ohio State

974
00:51:09,480 --> 00:51:11,920
Speaker 1: if they beat them, and I think that line was

975
00:51:11,920 --> 00:51:14,200
Speaker 1: eleven and a half as I saw that game's in

976
00:51:14,239 --> 00:51:17,480
Speaker 1: ann arbor. So yes, Ohio State back to back to

977
00:51:17,520 --> 00:51:20,920
Speaker 1: back to back losses, still a double digit favorite in

978
00:51:20,960 --> 00:51:25,359
Speaker 1: Michigan's building. Yep. If Michigan wins the game, how high

979
00:51:25,360 --> 00:51:27,880
Speaker 1: do they climb? Is the question? And do they go

980
00:51:27,920 --> 00:51:30,000
Speaker 1: to the Big Ten title game? Which I assumed was

981
00:51:30,000 --> 00:51:32,560
Speaker 1: automatic But apparently there's some tiebreaker scenarios that make it

982
00:51:32,560 --> 00:51:35,520
Speaker 1: not automatic. But truthfully, those all are written in crayon,

983
00:51:35,600 --> 00:51:38,399
Speaker 1: so who knows what's true. But if Michigan beats Ohio State,

984
00:51:38,600 --> 00:51:42,720
Speaker 1: how high do they climb in the rankings? Like everyone

985
00:51:42,800 --> 00:51:45,680
Speaker 1: keeps thinking about these walls, like these little barriers, like, oh,

986
00:51:45,760 --> 00:51:48,480
Speaker 1: you can't jump ahead of Alabama, or you couldn't jump

987
00:51:48,480 --> 00:51:50,879
Speaker 1: ahead of Notre Dame. Of course you could. You could

988
00:51:50,880 --> 00:51:53,560
Speaker 1: put him seventh or eight. I don't know, Oh, use

989
00:51:53,600 --> 00:51:56,120
Speaker 1: a two loss team. Notre Dame is a two loss team.

990
00:51:56,360 --> 00:51:59,320
Speaker 1: Bama's a two loss team. As far as I could tell,

991
00:51:59,480 --> 00:52:01,399
Speaker 1: if Mischigan bet to Ohio State, that have a better

992
00:52:01,440 --> 00:52:04,080
Speaker 1: win than any of you. Now you could talk about

993
00:52:04,120 --> 00:52:06,480
Speaker 1: the rest of their strength of schedule, Okay, but we

994
00:52:06,560 --> 00:52:09,480
Speaker 1: know that baked in already. They're already fifteenth. How high

995
00:52:09,480 --> 00:52:14,439
Speaker 1: would they jump Utah's fourteenth. I'm going to talk about

996
00:52:14,520 --> 00:52:18,040
Speaker 1: Utah in a second. One of the most insane box

997
00:52:18,080 --> 00:52:20,600
Speaker 1: scores you will ever see in your life ended up

998
00:52:20,640 --> 00:52:25,480
Speaker 1: with the Utah win. Yesterday. Miami is at thirteen. Again,

999
00:52:25,719 --> 00:52:30,400
Speaker 1: we're wondering how closely do the AP rankings reflect the

1000
00:52:30,400 --> 00:52:34,560
Speaker 1: Committee rankings. Vandy's at twelve. I I'm gonna keep saying

1001
00:52:34,560 --> 00:52:37,080
Speaker 1: the same thing, where does the committee have Vandy? Vandy

1002
00:52:37,080 --> 00:52:39,799
Speaker 1: ought to get a lot of credit for just bodybagging

1003
00:52:39,880 --> 00:52:43,080
Speaker 1: Kentucky yesterday. Diego Pavia threw for half a mile on

1004
00:52:43,160 --> 00:52:48,480
Speaker 1: Kentucky and they won emphatically. And that was a game

1005
00:52:48,560 --> 00:52:50,400
Speaker 1: that some people had their eye on as like a

1006
00:52:50,400 --> 00:52:54,360
Speaker 1: potential upset. Alert US included Nope, bringing me Young is

1007
00:52:54,360 --> 00:52:59,360
Speaker 1: at eleven. Good Win yesterday, good Win top ten. I

1008
00:52:59,440 --> 00:53:02,080
Speaker 1: want to talk about BBAMA for a second. I am

1009
00:53:02,120 --> 00:53:06,360
Speaker 1: seeing some scenarios out there that I think are complete garbage.

1010
00:53:06,960 --> 00:53:10,239
Speaker 1: So if Alabama loses to Auburn, they're out of everything,

1011
00:53:10,360 --> 00:53:14,760
Speaker 1: and that's that takes care of itself. If Alabama beats

1012
00:53:14,800 --> 00:53:18,960
Speaker 1: Auburn and they win the SEC Championship game, there are

1013
00:53:19,000 --> 00:53:21,279
Speaker 1: some people who don't think they would jump into the

1014
00:53:21,320 --> 00:53:24,359
Speaker 1: top four guys, they're jumping into the top four. The

1015
00:53:24,400 --> 00:53:27,359
Speaker 1: SEC champ is going to be one of those top

1016
00:53:27,400 --> 00:53:30,360
Speaker 1: four teams, so they one hundred percent in my mind,

1017
00:53:30,760 --> 00:53:32,960
Speaker 1: will have a first round by they will be one

1018
00:53:33,000 --> 00:53:35,360
Speaker 1: of the top four teams if they beat Auburn and

1019
00:53:35,400 --> 00:53:38,920
Speaker 1: beat whoever they play in Atlanta. The real tricky part,

1020
00:53:39,120 --> 00:53:43,040
Speaker 1: according to the All State Playoff Predictor at least, is

1021
00:53:43,080 --> 00:53:47,200
Speaker 1: if Alabama beats Auburn, they go to Atlanta at ten

1022
00:53:47,239 --> 00:53:53,440
Speaker 1: and two and they lose the SEC Championship game. Apparently,

1023
00:53:53,480 --> 00:53:55,920
Speaker 1: the All State Playoff Predictor says they have like a

1024
00:53:56,000 --> 00:53:59,200
Speaker 1: fifty four percent chance of making the playoff at that point.

1025
00:53:59,640 --> 00:54:03,799
Speaker 1: I want to tell you, in no uncertain terms, if

1026
00:54:03,840 --> 00:54:08,359
Speaker 1: an SEC team enters Conference Championship Saturday inside the top

1027
00:54:08,400 --> 00:54:11,800
Speaker 1: ten and they lose and fall out of the playoff

1028
00:54:11,960 --> 00:54:15,319
Speaker 1: because they played in the SEC Championship game, they will

1029
00:54:15,360 --> 00:54:19,360
Speaker 1: burn the conference to the ground. The SEC greg SANKI

1030
00:54:19,440 --> 00:54:23,440
Speaker 1: may secede from college football if that happens. I struggle

1031
00:54:23,520 --> 00:54:26,160
Speaker 1: to see a planet where that is allowed to happen.

1032
00:54:26,560 --> 00:54:30,319
Speaker 1: The SEC's second best team, because they earned the right

1033
00:54:30,360 --> 00:54:33,400
Speaker 1: to play in what they would call the premier conference

1034
00:54:33,480 --> 00:54:36,120
Speaker 1: championship game in America. Now, look one to two in

1035
00:54:36,200 --> 00:54:38,239
Speaker 1: Big ten country this year. It's gonna be hard to

1036
00:54:38,320 --> 00:54:40,640
Speaker 1: argue with. But still that's gonna be a top ten

1037
00:54:40,719 --> 00:54:43,839
Speaker 1: matchup in the SEC Championship game. And if you sit

1038
00:54:43,840 --> 00:54:47,320
Speaker 1: there and have the audacity to drop Alabama out after

1039
00:54:47,360 --> 00:54:49,960
Speaker 1: they were in going into that Saturday because they lost

1040
00:54:50,000 --> 00:54:53,359
Speaker 1: the game, I know a lot of times you figuratively say,

1041
00:54:53,400 --> 00:54:55,480
Speaker 1: oh man, they're gonna riot. I really think that'd riot.

1042
00:54:56,120 --> 00:54:57,920
Speaker 1: I don't even know what building they would march on.

1043
00:54:58,040 --> 00:55:02,080
Speaker 1: I think they would riot, so fifty four percent, like

1044
00:55:02,280 --> 00:55:06,799
Speaker 1: I think if they go into Atlanta, they're in. I

1045
00:55:06,800 --> 00:55:09,960
Speaker 1: think no matter who in the SEC plays in the

1046
00:55:10,000 --> 00:55:12,319
Speaker 1: SEC Championship Game, they're in. I don't even know what

1047
00:55:12,360 --> 00:55:17,840
Speaker 1: other scenario there would be. Notre Dame's nine check. We

1048
00:55:17,920 --> 00:55:20,200
Speaker 1: had argument back and forth about Notre Dame Bama last week,

1049
00:55:20,239 --> 00:55:22,680
Speaker 1: but everyone spoke in their piece on that. OU is

1050
00:55:22,800 --> 00:55:28,000
Speaker 1: eight check. Texas Tech is number seven. Now here's another

1051
00:55:28,080 --> 00:55:31,960
Speaker 1: question to just ponder, because I've seen some disagreement back

1052
00:55:32,000 --> 00:55:33,520
Speaker 1: and forth on this. I really don't think there's a

1053
00:55:33,560 --> 00:55:37,440
Speaker 1: solid answer yet. Texas Tech at seven. First off, let's

1054
00:55:37,440 --> 00:55:40,880
Speaker 1: see where the committee has them. But what do you

1055
00:55:40,880 --> 00:55:43,160
Speaker 1: think is gonna happen. If Texas Tech wins the Big Twelve,

1056
00:55:44,360 --> 00:55:47,440
Speaker 1: do you think they jump into the top four if

1057
00:55:47,600 --> 00:55:51,680
Speaker 1: Alabama were to, let's say, make it to Atlanta and

1058
00:55:51,719 --> 00:55:53,920
Speaker 1: they lose to A and M. Because remember, for a

1059
00:55:53,960 --> 00:55:57,520
Speaker 1: long time, it just looked like the participants from the

1060
00:55:57,520 --> 00:55:59,719
Speaker 1: Big Ten in SEC Championship game are gonna be the

1061
00:55:59,719 --> 00:56:02,919
Speaker 1: top But then Bama lost to Oklahoma. They fell out.

1062
00:56:03,280 --> 00:56:06,080
Speaker 1: So there's this world now where Bama could play A

1063
00:56:06,160 --> 00:56:09,799
Speaker 1: and M ann beats Bama, So you know the one

1064
00:56:09,840 --> 00:56:12,480
Speaker 1: and two. You know those two teams are gonna have

1065
00:56:12,520 --> 00:56:15,440
Speaker 1: top four seeds unless they lose. So you'd have the

1066
00:56:15,600 --> 00:56:18,640
Speaker 1: Ohio State Indiana dynamic there and you'd have the SEC

1067
00:56:18,800 --> 00:56:21,920
Speaker 1: champ there. But that would leave one spot open. That

1068
00:56:22,000 --> 00:56:25,359
Speaker 1: fourth seed there would be open. And at that point

1069
00:56:25,400 --> 00:56:28,640
Speaker 1: you got a wonder would the committee put a Texas

1070
00:56:28,680 --> 00:56:31,360
Speaker 1: Tech Big Twelve champ all the way up into the

1071
00:56:31,400 --> 00:56:34,160
Speaker 1: four seed or would they put an at large team

1072
00:56:34,160 --> 00:56:36,480
Speaker 1: like Georgia. Well, they wouldn't be they would be a

1073
00:56:36,520 --> 00:56:39,440
Speaker 1: non conference champ. Would they put them up there? Would

1074
00:56:39,480 --> 00:56:43,680
Speaker 1: Oregon vault up there? I tend to think if Texas

1075
00:56:43,680 --> 00:56:47,120
Speaker 1: Tech wins the Big Twelve championship. They're gonna have enough

1076
00:56:47,239 --> 00:56:50,560
Speaker 1: juice given an extra data point of a conference champion

1077
00:56:50,840 --> 00:56:53,560
Speaker 1: chip to jump up there. But that is very very

1078
00:56:53,600 --> 00:56:55,719
Speaker 1: disagreed upon right now from what I can tell, So

1079
00:56:55,760 --> 00:56:58,680
Speaker 1: I'm just kind of guessing on that. Oregon's five and

1080
00:56:58,760 --> 00:57:02,919
Speaker 1: Georgia's four. Again, that's very important to note. Let's see

1081
00:57:02,920 --> 00:57:05,400
Speaker 1: what the Committee says about that. But Oregon jumped up

1082
00:57:05,400 --> 00:57:08,600
Speaker 1: to five, and it's very important. If a non conference

1083
00:57:08,680 --> 00:57:11,840
Speaker 1: chance is gonna get a bye, it could be Georgia,

1084
00:57:11,880 --> 00:57:15,720
Speaker 1: it could be Oregon. Georgia's got a chance against Georgia

1085
00:57:15,760 --> 00:57:19,200
Speaker 1: Tech this Saturday. That's a ranked team. I think there's

1086
00:57:19,240 --> 00:57:22,520
Speaker 1: an outside chance that Washington could maybe be on the

1087
00:57:22,520 --> 00:57:24,880
Speaker 1: fringes of being ranked by the committee this week, which

1088
00:57:24,880 --> 00:57:27,360
Speaker 1: means Oregon could face a ranked team. Let's see what

1089
00:57:27,400 --> 00:57:29,880
Speaker 1: they do. They're a and m Indiana Ohio State three

1090
00:57:29,920 --> 00:57:35,560
Speaker 1: to one. Let's move merrily along some more coaching search stuff. Well,

1091
00:57:35,560 --> 00:57:37,440
Speaker 1: I got a bunch of added takeaways from Saturday, So

1092
00:57:37,840 --> 00:57:40,200
Speaker 1: I mean we got to Sarah MacLaughlin special to end

1093
00:57:40,200 --> 00:57:44,520
Speaker 1: all Sarah McLaughlan specials coming up. The Auburn coaching search

1094
00:57:45,520 --> 00:57:48,360
Speaker 1: is continuing, and I think it's nearing a conclusion. I

1095
00:57:48,400 --> 00:57:50,800
Speaker 1: think Auburn's really really zeroing in on their guy. I

1096
00:57:50,840 --> 00:57:55,600
Speaker 1: got some pushback last week from Auburn fans for suggesting

1097
00:57:55,640 --> 00:57:58,800
Speaker 1: that this coaching search had been a well oiled machine.

1098
00:57:58,840 --> 00:58:01,560
Speaker 1: And I said that because has and I didn't just

1099
00:58:01,680 --> 00:58:05,520
Speaker 1: volunteer that. Like, I mean, I've got fairly good working

1100
00:58:05,600 --> 00:58:09,000
Speaker 1: knowledge of where the search has been, but I also

1101
00:58:09,080 --> 00:58:11,560
Speaker 1: have working knowledge of what other people involved in the

1102
00:58:11,600 --> 00:58:15,440
Speaker 1: search have thought. I've spoken to a bunch of people that,

1103
00:58:15,560 --> 00:58:17,680
Speaker 1: in some shape, form or fashion have been involved in

1104
00:58:17,720 --> 00:58:20,640
Speaker 1: the Auburn coaching search, but also people who have been

1105
00:58:20,680 --> 00:58:25,600
Speaker 1: involved in many coaching searches before, so they've seen clusters before,

1106
00:58:26,000 --> 00:58:29,320
Speaker 1: they've seen well oiled machines before, and they would describe

1107
00:58:29,360 --> 00:58:32,880
Speaker 1: the Auburn coaching search firmly in the latter category. And

1108
00:58:33,240 --> 00:58:35,840
Speaker 1: that's what I've heard as well. So I said that,

1109
00:58:35,960 --> 00:58:38,840
Speaker 1: and like, I don't know what it was. Some Auburn

1110
00:58:38,840 --> 00:58:42,200
Speaker 1: fans pushed back. It's almost like they have Stockholm syndrome

1111
00:58:42,560 --> 00:58:45,840
Speaker 1: from the ineptitude in that athletic department over the years

1112
00:58:46,120 --> 00:58:49,800
Speaker 1: that they crave being told it's a mess. And for once,

1113
00:58:50,600 --> 00:58:53,360
Speaker 1: at least, I'm sitting here telling you No, Auburn's really

1114
00:58:53,400 --> 00:58:55,600
Speaker 1: got a tag together on this thing. Now. They could

1115
00:58:55,600 --> 00:58:57,240
Speaker 1: screw it up at the eleventh hour, but I don't

1116
00:58:57,240 --> 00:59:00,280
Speaker 1: expect that, so I think they're really close. I mean,

1117
00:59:00,280 --> 00:59:03,120
Speaker 1: I think there's some eyes to dot, some teas to cross,

1118
00:59:03,160 --> 00:59:06,560
Speaker 1: but I really think they've zeroed in on a handful

1119
00:59:06,920 --> 00:59:09,840
Speaker 1: of qualified candidates for the job. So like that could

1120
00:59:09,880 --> 00:59:13,000
Speaker 1: be John Summrall and you could get that thing done

1121
00:59:13,040 --> 00:59:16,400
Speaker 1: immediately after Tulane's season is over. Now Tulane could be

1122
00:59:16,440 --> 00:59:19,200
Speaker 1: in a conference championship game, they could be in the playoff.

1123
00:59:20,200 --> 00:59:21,680
Speaker 1: I think there's a plan in place for how that

1124
00:59:21,680 --> 00:59:23,840
Speaker 1: would be handled if some are All gets the job,

1125
00:59:24,080 --> 00:59:26,200
Speaker 1: if some are All doesn't get the job. I think

1126
00:59:26,240 --> 00:59:28,560
Speaker 1: they've got their solid two and three options in place.

1127
00:59:28,640 --> 00:59:31,120
Speaker 1: I think they've vetted everyone. I think they've had this

1128
00:59:31,200 --> 00:59:34,360
Speaker 1: done for several days, so I think that's where they are.

1129
00:59:34,560 --> 00:59:37,360
Speaker 1: I also think because of that, this time next week

1130
00:59:37,640 --> 00:59:41,040
Speaker 1: will probably be on the precipice of getting an announcement

1131
00:59:41,120 --> 00:59:44,320
Speaker 1: from Auburn, or we will have an announcement from Auburn.

1132
00:59:45,080 --> 00:59:47,720
Speaker 1: I mean, I really would be surprised if by Sunday

1133
00:59:48,120 --> 00:59:52,040
Speaker 1: after the Iron Bowl we didn't have traction on that

1134
00:59:52,080 --> 00:59:55,640
Speaker 1: front or it wasn't imminent, So like I think they'll

1135
00:59:55,680 --> 00:59:58,320
Speaker 1: be ready for that. DJ Dirkin is the interim head

1136
00:59:58,320 --> 01:00:00,720
Speaker 1: coach down there right now. Now. It had been my

1137
01:00:00,840 --> 01:00:04,200
Speaker 1: personal opinion going off no information and just going on

1138
01:00:04,280 --> 01:00:07,040
Speaker 1: feel that I thought DJ Durkin was not really a

1139
01:00:07,080 --> 01:00:08,560
Speaker 1: candidate for the job. This is a couple of weeks

1140
01:00:08,600 --> 01:00:10,880
Speaker 1: ago when I was saying this, but I got corrected

1141
01:00:11,360 --> 01:00:14,160
Speaker 1: by people who would know because I didn't that he

1142
01:00:14,280 --> 01:00:16,640
Speaker 1: is very much in play. And I can tell you

1143
01:00:16,680 --> 01:00:19,200
Speaker 1: even right now, DJ Durkin is still very much in

1144
01:00:19,280 --> 01:00:23,560
Speaker 1: play for this. To what degree that's anyone's guess. I'm

1145
01:00:23,600 --> 01:00:26,080
Speaker 1: not John Cohen. I'm not running the search, but I'll

1146
01:00:26,080 --> 01:00:28,160
Speaker 1: tell you DJ has gotten a look and will get

1147
01:00:28,200 --> 01:00:30,560
Speaker 1: a look now. He is auditioning as the head coach

1148
01:00:30,640 --> 01:00:34,360
Speaker 1: right now for the job. I do think if you

1149
01:00:34,480 --> 01:00:37,440
Speaker 1: just kind of close your eyes and envision the future,

1150
01:00:38,440 --> 01:00:40,400
Speaker 1: I think we all could see a world where that

1151
01:00:40,480 --> 01:00:44,760
Speaker 1: place is just crazy Saturday night and Alabama's in town,

1152
01:00:45,200 --> 01:00:47,800
Speaker 1: and you do what you've done to them at Jordan

1153
01:00:47,840 --> 01:00:49,920
Speaker 1: Hare Stadium over the years, and you just make it

1154
01:00:49,960 --> 01:00:53,720
Speaker 1: a house of horrors. Defense rises up, you force some

1155
01:00:53,800 --> 01:00:57,360
Speaker 1: turnovers and offensively, you scratch out enough points and you

1156
01:00:57,400 --> 01:01:00,640
Speaker 1: win at twenty three to sixteen, and boom DJ Dirk

1157
01:01:00,680 --> 01:01:03,560
Speaker 1: and just carry it off the field on the player's shoulders.

1158
01:01:03,600 --> 01:01:08,200
Speaker 1: And there's this sudden late rush of momentum to make

1159
01:01:08,280 --> 01:01:10,440
Speaker 1: him the head coach, and it could make things really interesting.

1160
01:01:10,760 --> 01:01:13,360
Speaker 1: I could easily see that this is college football, and

1161
01:01:13,480 --> 01:01:16,720
Speaker 1: I could absolutely see that. My guess is it won't

1162
01:01:16,760 --> 01:01:19,720
Speaker 1: go that way, but not because he's not a serious candidate.

1163
01:01:19,840 --> 01:01:21,680
Speaker 1: So I didn't want to correct that from a couple

1164
01:01:21,720 --> 01:01:23,959
Speaker 1: of weeks ago. The other thing I wanted to say

1165
01:01:25,120 --> 01:01:27,320
Speaker 1: is I wanted to kind of correct, in my opinion,

1166
01:01:27,560 --> 01:01:30,800
Speaker 1: the misnomer about what kind of job this is. The

1167
01:01:30,840 --> 01:01:34,200
Speaker 1: Auburn job's a phenomenal job. The Auburn job gets painted

1168
01:01:34,240 --> 01:01:38,040
Speaker 1: with this broad brush from past stereotypes that I don't

1169
01:01:38,040 --> 01:01:40,760
Speaker 1: think reflects that place currently at all. I think the

1170
01:01:40,800 --> 01:01:43,840
Speaker 1: Auburn job's really a job where you're set up to succeed.

1171
01:01:44,240 --> 01:01:47,040
Speaker 1: The roster's good if you get the right guy in there.

1172
01:01:47,520 --> 01:01:50,840
Speaker 1: I think you'd have a surprising level of retention if

1173
01:01:50,840 --> 01:01:53,439
Speaker 1: you get the right front office folks in there. There's

1174
01:01:53,440 --> 01:01:56,600
Speaker 1: no lack of resource. The other good thing about Auburn.

1175
01:01:57,360 --> 01:02:00,600
Speaker 1: Just earmuff yourself in Tuscaloosa and Athens is Auburn sort

1176
01:02:00,640 --> 01:02:03,240
Speaker 1: of sells itself. It's a really good place. I grew

1177
01:02:03,320 --> 01:02:06,080
Speaker 1: up really close to Auburn, so Auburn kind of sells itself.

1178
01:02:06,120 --> 01:02:08,440
Speaker 1: You get folks on campus there. I mean, if you're

1179
01:02:08,480 --> 01:02:11,320
Speaker 1: even competitive. If I don't want to use a golf joke,

1180
01:02:11,360 --> 01:02:13,320
Speaker 1: this is no shot at Hugh Freeze. This is like

1181
01:02:13,720 --> 01:02:15,640
Speaker 1: a metaphor a lot of people use. If you can

1182
01:02:15,760 --> 01:02:18,680
Speaker 1: just get within a nine iron of the other places

1183
01:02:19,040 --> 01:02:23,480
Speaker 1: Auburn sometimes is enough to get Auburn across the finish line,

1184
01:02:23,720 --> 01:02:25,680
Speaker 1: especially if you got the right guy there, you got

1185
01:02:25,680 --> 01:02:28,280
Speaker 1: the right staff there. So it may very well be

1186
01:02:28,360 --> 01:02:31,360
Speaker 1: John Summrall. If it is, that's a huge win. That's

1187
01:02:31,360 --> 01:02:34,360
Speaker 1: a huge win because a John Summral or any of

1188
01:02:34,400 --> 01:02:36,720
Speaker 1: a number of these guys whose names have been at

1189
01:02:36,760 --> 01:02:42,120
Speaker 1: the forefront coaching for Auburn, as it's properly aligned, would

1190
01:02:42,160 --> 01:02:45,000
Speaker 1: be a home run, not a Grand Slam. We don't

1191
01:02:45,040 --> 01:02:49,080
Speaker 1: label hires grand slams anymore. Good solid home run though.

1192
01:02:49,600 --> 01:02:51,320
Speaker 1: I think that's what we could see there. I got

1193
01:02:51,360 --> 01:02:53,240
Speaker 1: to give credit have I got to go with the

1194
01:02:53,240 --> 01:02:55,440
Speaker 1: Tom Fournelli line, I got no clue if it will

1195
01:02:55,480 --> 01:02:58,120
Speaker 1: work out. None of us have the magic eight ball.

1196
01:02:59,000 --> 01:03:04,840
Speaker 1: Auburn University, from its standpoint, has put itself. Auburn University

1197
01:03:04,880 --> 01:03:07,880
Speaker 1: has put Auburn in as good a position in this

1198
01:03:08,040 --> 01:03:11,680
Speaker 1: coaching search as any of the last several coaching searches

1199
01:03:11,880 --> 01:03:14,880
Speaker 1: that they've operated there. And if you don't remember how

1200
01:03:14,960 --> 01:03:19,919
Speaker 1: those have gone, they've been varying degrees of disaster. Back

1201
01:03:19,920 --> 01:03:23,360
Speaker 1: in two thousand and nine, late two thousand and eight,

1202
01:03:23,400 --> 01:03:27,640
Speaker 1: they fired now a sitting senator, Tommy Tubberville. All this

1203
01:03:27,720 --> 01:03:30,920
Speaker 1: is real life, by the way, and then they operated

1204
01:03:30,920 --> 01:03:35,960
Speaker 1: a coaching search. Bama had hired Nick Saban, Bama was

1205
01:03:36,120 --> 01:03:39,040
Speaker 1: about to go win a national title, and they had

1206
01:03:39,120 --> 01:03:41,920
Speaker 1: resurrected their program. And there's a lot of heat on

1207
01:03:41,960 --> 01:03:44,320
Speaker 1: the powers that be down at Auburn. Ja Jacobs, I think,

1208
01:03:44,400 --> 01:03:47,160
Speaker 1: was the athletic director, their friend of the program, Jay Jacobs,

1209
01:03:47,200 --> 01:03:50,800
Speaker 1: And so they start their own coaching search. They go

1210
01:03:50,920 --> 01:03:54,400
Speaker 1: to ames, Iowa, which a lot of universities should be

1211
01:03:54,400 --> 01:03:57,280
Speaker 1: doing right now, to interview the sitting head coach at

1212
01:03:57,320 --> 01:03:59,760
Speaker 1: Iowa State. His name was Gene Chiswick. He was five

1213
01:03:59,840 --> 01:04:06,560
Speaker 1: and nineteen. The plane lands at Auburn, the administration gets

1214
01:04:06,600 --> 01:04:10,880
Speaker 1: off the plane, there's a dude standing at the airport hangars.

1215
01:04:11,000 --> 01:04:12,800
Speaker 1: There's a clip of this on YouTube. It's famous. We

1216
01:04:12,840 --> 01:04:13,920
Speaker 1: used to play it all the time when I did

1217
01:04:14,000 --> 01:04:18,320
Speaker 1: radio down in Columbus, and the guys just yelling, Boo,

1218
01:04:18,480 --> 01:04:21,960
Speaker 1: we need a leader, not a loser, just yelling that

1219
01:04:22,040 --> 01:04:24,640
Speaker 1: over and over again. Five and nineteen is not what

1220
01:04:24,680 --> 01:04:26,920
Speaker 1: we need. And then it would have been great if

1221
01:04:26,920 --> 01:04:30,400
Speaker 1: the SoundBite ended there, but the guy just torpedoed his

1222
01:04:30,520 --> 01:04:33,680
Speaker 1: reputation when he listed off all the coaches that he

1223
01:04:33,720 --> 01:04:39,360
Speaker 1: would rather Auburn hire, and it was Rodney Garner, Turner

1224
01:04:39,480 --> 01:04:42,800
Speaker 1: Gil I think Patrick Nicks got a look. This was

1225
01:04:42,840 --> 01:04:47,840
Speaker 1: pre Bo Nicks by several years. So yeah, the replacements

1226
01:04:47,840 --> 01:04:49,960
Speaker 1: that he had in mind wouldn't have exactly lit the

1227
01:04:49,960 --> 01:04:53,120
Speaker 1: world on fire there either. And then we had Malzan

1228
01:04:53,240 --> 01:04:57,400
Speaker 1: come in and Malzon did very well, and then Malson's

1229
01:04:57,440 --> 01:04:59,800
Speaker 1: out the door, and then we have the Brian Harrison

1230
01:04:59,800 --> 01:05:02,320
Speaker 1: air and Brian Harson. I don't know if he would

1231
01:05:02,320 --> 01:05:04,760
Speaker 1: have worked out there, but given the circumstance that he

1232
01:05:04,800 --> 01:05:06,720
Speaker 1: was dropped into, he had no shot of working out.

1233
01:05:07,080 --> 01:05:10,760
Speaker 1: And then they have another search if you want to

1234
01:05:10,760 --> 01:05:12,320
Speaker 1: call it that, and then he Hugh Freeze and you

1235
01:05:12,320 --> 01:05:15,600
Speaker 1: see how that worked out. So for me to say

1236
01:05:15,600 --> 01:05:17,680
Speaker 1: Auburn has its act together and a coaching search is

1237
01:05:17,720 --> 01:05:20,000
Speaker 1: a big deal, that is not normally the case. There,

1238
01:05:20,680 --> 01:05:25,040
Speaker 1: let's continue back to the field we go. Added takeaways

1239
01:05:25,040 --> 01:05:27,640
Speaker 1: from week thirteen. We got to start with this pit

1240
01:05:27,720 --> 01:05:31,520
Speaker 1: Georgia Tech game. It was a classic man of his

1241
01:05:31,600 --> 01:05:36,439
Speaker 1: word moment there at Grant Field, not by Brent Key.

1242
01:05:36,520 --> 01:05:38,400
Speaker 1: Brent Key a man of his word, no doubt, but

1243
01:05:38,920 --> 01:05:41,360
Speaker 1: Pat Nardoozi told you that the Notre Dame game was

1244
01:05:41,400 --> 01:05:44,120
Speaker 1: not must win, and he said that the Georgia Tech

1245
01:05:44,160 --> 01:05:47,040
Speaker 1: game was must win. And Buddy, they played like it.

1246
01:05:47,840 --> 01:05:50,240
Speaker 1: I hated this matchup for Georgia Tech. We put this

1247
01:05:50,280 --> 01:05:52,960
Speaker 1: game at a ten on the Upset Alert concern Meter

1248
01:05:53,160 --> 01:05:56,480
Speaker 1: the other day. Georgia Tech had three turnovers on downs,

1249
01:05:56,560 --> 01:05:59,560
Speaker 1: they had two more interceptions. At the end of the

1250
01:05:59,600 --> 01:06:02,520
Speaker 1: first quarter, it was twenty one to nothing and Pitt

1251
01:06:02,600 --> 01:06:06,400
Speaker 1: had a one seventy six to twenty one total yardage advantage.

1252
01:06:07,720 --> 01:06:13,680
Speaker 1: And Pitt is now responsible, not solely responsible, but primarily

1253
01:06:13,720 --> 01:06:16,680
Speaker 1: responsible for the complete and utter mess that is the

1254
01:06:16,760 --> 01:06:20,840
Speaker 1: ACC And to build off of that, let me also

1255
01:06:20,920 --> 01:06:23,800
Speaker 1: talk about Miami right quick. They beat Virginia Tech thirty

1256
01:06:23,800 --> 01:06:28,120
Speaker 1: four to seventeen. Carson Beck nice. I was in my

1257
01:06:28,160 --> 01:06:30,560
Speaker 1: hotel room getting ready to go to Austin Stadium yesterday,

1258
01:06:30,880 --> 01:06:32,560
Speaker 1: and I flip on the Miami game and it was

1259
01:06:32,640 --> 01:06:35,440
Speaker 1: first quarter and the first thing I saw was Carson

1260
01:06:35,480 --> 01:06:38,120
Speaker 1: Beck just rip a ball over the middle, nice twenty

1261
01:06:38,200 --> 01:06:42,040
Speaker 1: yard touchdown pass to Elijah Lofton. It was so refreshing.

1262
01:06:43,280 --> 01:06:45,880
Speaker 1: Not everything has to be thrown within five yards of

1263
01:06:45,880 --> 01:06:48,080
Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage or behind it. It was nice

1264
01:06:48,080 --> 01:06:51,520
Speaker 1: to see that's still part of what we do. Miami

1265
01:06:51,720 --> 01:06:55,000
Speaker 1: offensively twenty to three lead at the half. Carson Beck

1266
01:06:55,080 --> 01:06:58,800
Speaker 1: was twenty seven to thirty two, three twenty four touchdowns.

1267
01:06:59,400 --> 01:07:02,360
Speaker 1: Miami had five sacks. Miami had nine tackles for loss.

1268
01:07:02,360 --> 01:07:04,800
Speaker 1: They were seven to thirteen on third down. They came

1269
01:07:04,880 --> 01:07:06,520
Speaker 1: up there prepared and ready to win, and they took

1270
01:07:06,520 --> 01:07:09,240
Speaker 1: care of business. You remember what the fear was back

1271
01:07:09,280 --> 01:07:11,600
Speaker 1: in July, don't you. It was one hundred degrees outside.

1272
01:07:11,600 --> 01:07:13,200
Speaker 1: But we were looking at the calendar and we were saying,

1273
01:07:13,240 --> 01:07:17,400
Speaker 1: hold up, second, Miami's got to go to Blacksburg and Pittsburgh.

1274
01:07:17,800 --> 01:07:20,760
Speaker 1: In late November. That's going to be terrible. It was

1275
01:07:20,800 --> 01:07:24,120
Speaker 1: sixty two degrees at kickoff, So that's the best I

1276
01:07:24,120 --> 01:07:27,560
Speaker 1: could do. Now, that's where the good news ends, because

1277
01:07:27,640 --> 01:07:31,640
Speaker 1: it is my unfortunate duty to report to you that Miami,

1278
01:07:32,200 --> 01:07:36,439
Speaker 1: although favored by six and a half, will play at

1279
01:07:36,480 --> 01:07:41,680
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh this Saturday at high noon with a kickoff temperature

1280
01:07:41,760 --> 01:07:48,160
Speaker 1: of thirty three degrees. I can picture it now. You

1281
01:07:48,280 --> 01:07:50,360
Speaker 1: got to overcome it. You just got to sack up

1282
01:07:50,400 --> 01:07:54,040
Speaker 1: and overcome it. Utah. I don't know how this happened.

1283
01:07:54,160 --> 01:07:56,240
Speaker 1: I got no clue. I thought we were well on

1284
01:07:56,240 --> 01:07:58,240
Speaker 1: our way to making this the Sarah McLaughlin Special. But

1285
01:07:58,280 --> 01:08:03,120
Speaker 1: then I watched another game. Did you First off, did

1286
01:08:03,200 --> 01:08:07,240
Speaker 1: you see it? Did you see Utah Kansas State? If

1287
01:08:07,280 --> 01:08:11,840
Speaker 1: you didn't, Wow, You're gonna have some free time this week.

1288
01:08:12,640 --> 01:08:15,040
Speaker 1: It's a short week. A lot of you're gonna be traveling,

1289
01:08:15,240 --> 01:08:17,160
Speaker 1: a lot of you're gonna have some downtime, especially if

1290
01:08:17,160 --> 01:08:19,240
Speaker 1: the family's coming to your house. If you have like

1291
01:08:19,240 --> 01:08:22,680
Speaker 1: a spare twenty minutes, go find the condensed version of

1292
01:08:22,720 --> 01:08:26,759
Speaker 1: this game on YouTube and watch it. Here's what wasn't

1293
01:08:26,920 --> 01:08:30,280
Speaker 1: enough to win this game? Okay, Kansas State had forty

1294
01:08:30,360 --> 01:08:34,760
Speaker 1: seven points. That wasn't enough. They had I kid you not,

1295
01:08:35,439 --> 01:08:39,439
Speaker 1: four hundred and seventy two yards wait for it, wait

1296
01:08:39,439 --> 01:08:44,880
Speaker 1: for it, rushing four seventy two on the ground in

1297
01:08:44,960 --> 01:08:48,960
Speaker 1: a losing effort. They had runs Jesse, hold on, I

1298
01:08:48,960 --> 01:08:51,559
Speaker 1: got to pull this up right quick. I forgot to

1299
01:08:51,560 --> 01:08:53,639
Speaker 1: write all these down. This is one of the most

1300
01:08:53,640 --> 01:08:56,479
Speaker 1: insane things you will ever hear me say. Kansas State,

1301
01:08:56,560 --> 01:09:01,280
Speaker 1: in a loss, had runs of forty for thirty seven,

1302
01:09:01,439 --> 01:09:07,000
Speaker 1: sixty six, thirty three, fifty eight, eighty, thirty three, and

1303
01:09:07,120 --> 01:09:12,720
Speaker 1: twenty four and they lost the game. Utah found a way,

1304
01:09:12,960 --> 01:09:14,760
Speaker 1: I guess is the best compliment I can pay. And

1305
01:09:14,800 --> 01:09:17,880
Speaker 1: they needed half one hundred. They found a way. They

1306
01:09:17,960 --> 01:09:19,720
Speaker 1: dropped a little in the ap pole, but they're still

1307
01:09:19,800 --> 01:09:21,200
Speaker 1: nine and two. They're gonna be right up there in

1308
01:09:21,200 --> 01:09:24,360
Speaker 1: the playoff rankings, and they've got Kansas at Kansas to

1309
01:09:24,560 --> 01:09:28,040
Speaker 1: end the season. I just this most mind boggling statistic

1310
01:09:28,080 --> 01:09:30,439
Speaker 1: I've ever seen. I don't think Alabama's run for four

1311
01:09:30,479 --> 01:09:33,439
Speaker 1: hundred seventy two yards in the past month. Kansas State

1312
01:09:33,520 --> 01:09:37,120
Speaker 1: did it in one afternoon and lost. And then I

1313
01:09:37,120 --> 01:09:39,720
Speaker 1: thought Chris climb and cried at the press conference afterwards,

1314
01:09:40,000 --> 01:09:43,200
Speaker 1: I did too, for different reasons. I did too. Brigham

1315
01:09:43,240 --> 01:09:47,920
Speaker 1: Young one, I can count on them. Look, everyone was talking,

1316
01:09:48,240 --> 01:09:51,360
Speaker 1: everyone was saying, oh, that trip to Cincinnati, y'all gott

1317
01:09:51,360 --> 01:09:53,880
Speaker 1: to play in Cincinnati at night. And Brigham Young was like, yeah,

1318
01:09:53,880 --> 01:09:57,280
Speaker 1: they got to play us though, and they won twenty

1319
01:09:57,280 --> 01:10:01,000
Speaker 1: six to fourteen. They again went on the road and

1320
01:10:01,240 --> 01:10:05,520
Speaker 1: won the turnover battle, and they again outrushed an opponent significantly,

1321
01:10:05,760 --> 01:10:09,400
Speaker 1: two sixty five to eighty seven. It's Texas Tech, It's

1322
01:10:09,439 --> 01:10:13,240
Speaker 1: Brigham Young this Saturday. They don't play each other this Saturday,

1323
01:10:13,360 --> 01:10:17,599
Speaker 1: last games of the regular season. They're both three possession favorites.

1324
01:10:18,640 --> 01:10:21,640
Speaker 1: Big Texas Tech's favored by three touchdowns, Brigham Young by

1325
01:10:21,680 --> 01:10:24,879
Speaker 1: like eighteen and a half. And if they win those games,

1326
01:10:25,040 --> 01:10:27,639
Speaker 1: they're headed to Arlington, They're headed to the Big twelve

1327
01:10:27,720 --> 01:10:31,479
Speaker 1: Championship game. Odds to make the College Football Playoff Texas

1328
01:10:31,560 --> 01:10:34,200
Speaker 1: Tech overwhelming favorite to make it Brigham Young plus two

1329
01:10:34,320 --> 01:10:38,599
Speaker 1: h five. Now think this through with me, because I'm

1330
01:10:38,640 --> 01:10:40,519
Speaker 1: going to be really interesting to see how those odds

1331
01:10:40,640 --> 01:10:44,840
Speaker 1: change if they win Saturday. They're a big favorites, So

1332
01:10:44,880 --> 01:10:49,200
Speaker 1: you got to assume the assumption they win this Saturday

1333
01:10:49,320 --> 01:10:53,479
Speaker 1: is almost certainly already baked into this number, and they're

1334
01:10:53,479 --> 01:10:57,200
Speaker 1: still not favored to make the college football playoff, which

1335
01:10:57,240 --> 01:11:01,080
Speaker 1: means the folks at fan Duel slightly bel leave that

1336
01:11:01,160 --> 01:11:05,600
Speaker 1: there's possibility they go into Conference Championship Saturday inside the

1337
01:11:05,600 --> 01:11:10,080
Speaker 1: playoff bubble, lose and get dropped out, or maybe they're

1338
01:11:10,120 --> 01:11:12,519
Speaker 1: just outside the playoff bubble when they go into Conference

1339
01:11:12,600 --> 01:11:16,160
Speaker 1: Championship Saturday. Therefore, if they don't win, they were never

1340
01:11:16,160 --> 01:11:19,000
Speaker 1: bumped out because they were never in it. But there's

1341
01:11:19,040 --> 01:11:22,599
Speaker 1: no sure thing. My advice to Kalani Sataki and crew

1342
01:11:22,720 --> 01:11:25,800
Speaker 1: out there, win the Big Twelve and that'd mess some

1343
01:11:25,840 --> 01:11:27,760
Speaker 1: things up for someone else too, because I don't think

1344
01:11:27,800 --> 01:11:29,960
Speaker 1: Texas Tech has fallen out like they're gonna make it

1345
01:11:30,000 --> 01:11:34,360
Speaker 1: even if they lose the Big Twelve championship game. So yeah,

1346
01:11:34,640 --> 01:11:36,040
Speaker 1: is it gonna be a one bid league or a

1347
01:11:36,080 --> 01:11:38,400
Speaker 1: two bid league? That's still up in the air. Vandy

1348
01:11:38,680 --> 01:11:43,639
Speaker 1: just smoked Kentucky. There was a splattering in Nashville last night,

1349
01:11:43,800 --> 01:11:47,280
Speaker 1: never a doubt, never a doubt, six hundred and four

1350
01:11:47,320 --> 01:11:51,080
Speaker 1: total yards. It's obvious that now this may sound a

1351
01:11:51,080 --> 01:11:54,760
Speaker 1: little disrespectful to Vandy, but it's obvious there were about

1352
01:11:55,000 --> 01:11:58,200
Speaker 1: eleven or ten weeks worth of gas in Kentucky's tank.

1353
01:11:58,240 --> 01:12:00,840
Speaker 1: And when they ran out, they ran out. The e

1354
01:12:00,920 --> 01:12:03,160
Speaker 1: light did not come on. They didn't have time to

1355
01:12:03,200 --> 01:12:05,519
Speaker 1: find the next exit. They just died right there on

1356
01:12:05,560 --> 01:12:09,920
Speaker 1: the interstate. Diego Pavia for Heisman apparently is still a thing.

1357
01:12:11,520 --> 01:12:13,600
Speaker 1: It is still a thing. I don't know how you

1358
01:12:13,600 --> 01:12:15,840
Speaker 1: can watch him do what he did last night and

1359
01:12:15,920 --> 01:12:18,200
Speaker 1: say it otherwise. We're looking at the odds right now

1360
01:12:18,200 --> 01:12:20,559
Speaker 1: on the board from FanDuel to win the Heisman Trophy.

1361
01:12:20,880 --> 01:12:24,920
Speaker 1: It's Fernando Mendoza favored. It's Julian saying Jeremiah Love and

1362
01:12:24,960 --> 01:12:28,000
Speaker 1: Diego Pavia with the same odds. And then my guy

1363
01:12:28,400 --> 01:12:31,599
Speaker 1: Marcel Reed just waiting in the weeds there in fifth. Yeah,

1364
01:12:31,640 --> 01:12:35,320
Speaker 1: Diego Pavi is way up there again, low key. If

1365
01:12:35,320 --> 01:12:37,680
Speaker 1: I had to bet right now, Jeremiah Love, I think

1366
01:12:37,720 --> 01:12:39,439
Speaker 1: has been the best player in college football this year,

1367
01:12:39,800 --> 01:12:42,479
Speaker 1: so he would actually get my vote right now. I

1368
01:12:42,479 --> 01:12:45,320
Speaker 1: didn't bet on him a few weeks ago. Jeremi Love's

1369
01:12:45,320 --> 01:12:47,439
Speaker 1: best player in college football that I've seen this year.

1370
01:12:47,840 --> 01:12:50,120
Speaker 1: That's what I'll say, so he'd get my vote. I'm

1371
01:12:50,160 --> 01:12:53,200
Speaker 1: not responsible enough to have a Heisman vote. But if

1372
01:12:53,240 --> 01:12:57,320
Speaker 1: I did have one, it'll be Jeremiah Love and that

1373
01:12:57,360 --> 01:13:00,519
Speaker 1: brings Oh, by the way, Vandy plays Tennessee. Let me

1374
01:13:00,520 --> 01:13:02,559
Speaker 1: not bury that. Vandy goes to Tennessee this week. He's

1375
01:13:02,600 --> 01:13:05,200
Speaker 1: gonna be insane. It's gonna be a war in Kneeland Stadium.

1376
01:13:06,040 --> 01:13:08,799
Speaker 1: Vandy at Tennessee, Tennessee favored by two and a half.

1377
01:13:09,240 --> 01:13:12,880
Speaker 1: That is your opening line for a game. Does that

1378
01:13:13,040 --> 01:13:15,840
Speaker 1: rivalry game have a name? Someone to call Bill Martin.

1379
01:13:15,880 --> 01:13:19,160
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna do that. It's a big game, That's

1380
01:13:19,160 --> 01:13:25,439
Speaker 1: what it's gonna be. We generally do a kid friendly

1381
01:13:25,439 --> 01:13:28,559
Speaker 1: show here, like I don't use profanity on this show.

1382
01:13:29,920 --> 01:13:33,040
Speaker 1: Maybe I give a little veiled immunity every now and then,

1383
01:13:33,120 --> 01:13:35,479
Speaker 1: but largely, look, if you're a dad out there and

1384
01:13:35,520 --> 01:13:38,200
Speaker 1: you're driving to work on Monday morning, I structure the

1385
01:13:38,240 --> 01:13:40,960
Speaker 1: show in such a way where little Jeffrey could be

1386
01:13:41,000 --> 01:13:43,320
Speaker 1: in the passenger seat. You're safe if your kids are

1387
01:13:43,320 --> 01:13:48,000
Speaker 1: listening to the show. Except for right now, and it's

1388
01:13:48,040 --> 01:13:50,599
Speaker 1: not gonna be because of the language that things are

1389
01:13:50,640 --> 01:13:52,880
Speaker 1: about to go sideways. Things are about to take a

1390
01:13:52,880 --> 01:13:59,000
Speaker 1: little tvm a turn because of content I bring to

1391
01:13:59,080 --> 01:14:03,240
Speaker 1: you this week's Sarah McLaughlin special. Notre Dame beat Syracuse

1392
01:14:03,960 --> 01:14:07,080
Speaker 1: seventy to seven, and it was thirty five to nothing

1393
01:14:07,120 --> 01:14:09,960
Speaker 1: with time left to go in the first quarter. These

1394
01:14:10,000 --> 01:14:12,320
Speaker 1: are the most points Notre Dame has scored since the

1395
01:14:12,320 --> 01:14:15,840
Speaker 1: Great Depression in any game. They were up twenty one

1396
01:14:15,960 --> 01:14:22,040
Speaker 1: to nothing before their offense ever took the field. Syracuse

1397
01:14:22,240 --> 01:14:25,759
Speaker 1: somehow had an edge in total first downs in this game.

1398
01:14:26,200 --> 01:14:29,439
Speaker 1: They had more passing yards in this game, and they

1399
01:14:29,479 --> 01:14:34,720
Speaker 1: lost by sixty three. It is the worst Syracuse loss

1400
01:14:34,760 --> 01:14:38,599
Speaker 1: since they faced Union in eighteen ninety three. We assume

1401
01:14:38,680 --> 01:14:41,919
Speaker 1: that just means the entire army. They scrimmaged the Northern

1402
01:14:41,960 --> 01:14:46,240
Speaker 1: Troops in eighteen ninety three, and only then did they

1403
01:14:46,280 --> 01:14:49,599
Speaker 1: lose worse. The Union was strong back then, very strong crew.

1404
01:14:50,280 --> 01:14:54,960
Speaker 1: This is the first time since nineteen ninety six. That's

1405
01:14:55,000 --> 01:14:56,719
Speaker 1: as far back as we could go in record keeping.

1406
01:14:56,720 --> 01:14:58,680
Speaker 1: By the way, it's probably the first time ever that

1407
01:14:58,760 --> 01:15:02,400
Speaker 1: an FBS team has run for three hundred plus on

1408
01:15:02,600 --> 01:15:05,640
Speaker 1: less than twenty five carries. The only thing that was

1409
01:15:05,640 --> 01:15:09,120
Speaker 1: stopping Notre Dame was the wall in the back of

1410
01:15:09,160 --> 01:15:11,880
Speaker 1: the end zone. They could have run to Rochester if

1411
01:15:11,920 --> 01:15:17,800
Speaker 1: they wanted to. CJ. Carr winning quarterback CJ. Carr nine

1412
01:15:17,880 --> 01:15:22,599
Speaker 1: to fifteen for sixty seven yards. So, as it turns out,

1413
01:15:22,680 --> 01:15:26,360
Speaker 1: Notre Dame had more points than their quarterback had passing yards.

1414
01:15:26,479 --> 01:15:29,920
Speaker 1: Not a service Academy in South Bend, Notre Dame had

1415
01:15:30,000 --> 01:15:34,280
Speaker 1: thirty one more points than they had plays run. It's

1416
01:15:34,320 --> 01:15:40,640
Speaker 1: the most inexplicable, unimaginable TVMA Sarah MacLaughlin Special of the

1417
01:15:40,680 --> 01:15:47,120
Speaker 1: Modern Era, seventy to seven Prayers for everyone dressed in orange.

1418
01:15:49,200 --> 01:15:54,600
Speaker 1: Just let the music cook. All you can do is

1419
01:15:54,640 --> 01:15:57,960
Speaker 1: pray for those kids. That is someone's child out there

1420
01:15:57,960 --> 01:16:03,679
Speaker 1: wearing a Syracuse uniform. Terrible. I don't know how many

1421
01:16:03,800 --> 01:16:07,160
Speaker 1: Syracuse T shirts flew off the shelves at various Academy

1422
01:16:07,200 --> 01:16:11,840
Speaker 1: Sports and Outdoors yesterday. I'm saying, if you're a very,

1423
01:16:11,920 --> 01:16:15,640
Speaker 1: very very sadistic fan, you could go to Academy and

1424
01:16:15,640 --> 01:16:18,320
Speaker 1: buy one today. I'm told they have plenty and stop.

1425
01:16:19,520 --> 01:16:21,320
Speaker 1: But you could also go to Academy for a number

1426
01:16:21,360 --> 01:16:25,400
Speaker 1: of other things. Christmas season nearly upon us stocking stuffer season.

1427
01:16:25,720 --> 01:16:29,200
Speaker 1: Forget stocking stuffers, the big stuff, the good stuff under

1428
01:16:29,240 --> 01:16:32,280
Speaker 1: the tree. You could get it at Academy Sports and Outdoors.

1429
01:16:32,479 --> 01:16:34,760
Speaker 1: You're out there tailgating you need a grill, maybe to

1430
01:16:34,800 --> 01:16:37,479
Speaker 1: cook your food, maybe to keep warm. They've got it

1431
01:16:37,479 --> 01:16:40,240
Speaker 1: at Academy Sports and Outdoors. Also just you know, space heaters,

1432
01:16:40,439 --> 01:16:43,160
Speaker 1: a nice little chair to sit in, nice little canopy

1433
01:16:43,200 --> 01:16:46,840
Speaker 1: to keep you dry. It's all at Academy Tailgating headquarters,

1434
01:16:46,880 --> 01:16:52,240
Speaker 1: Fall Sports, Winter Sports headquarters, Social headquarters. Just go hang

1435
01:16:52,280 --> 01:16:55,760
Speaker 1: out there, don't loiter, don't I'm not encouraging loitering, but

1436
01:16:55,840 --> 01:16:57,519
Speaker 1: Academy has been a long time partner of the show.

1437
01:16:57,560 --> 01:17:00,479
Speaker 1: We appreciate them place to be this. I'm a year,

1438
01:17:00,800 --> 01:17:02,360
Speaker 1: got a couple more things to get to and then

1439
01:17:02,400 --> 01:17:04,920
Speaker 1: we will be out of here because I've got to

1440
01:17:04,920 --> 01:17:09,639
Speaker 1: sleep for like fourteen hours tonight. Where's the Penn State

1441
01:17:09,720 --> 01:17:12,160
Speaker 1: coaching search? Let me tell where. Penn State. The team

1442
01:17:12,280 --> 01:17:15,479
Speaker 1: is winning, one of the hottest teams in the country.

1443
01:17:15,520 --> 01:17:19,320
Speaker 1: We have made bank on Penn State games the second

1444
01:17:19,320 --> 01:17:21,439
Speaker 1: half of the year. We just waited for them to

1445
01:17:21,439 --> 01:17:24,760
Speaker 1: bottom out and we started betting them. So they beat

1446
01:17:24,800 --> 01:17:29,280
Speaker 1: Nebraska yesterday thirty seven to ten. There's a big ground

1447
01:17:29,280 --> 01:17:32,360
Speaker 1: swell of support up there to make the interiom. Terry Smith,

1448
01:17:32,760 --> 01:17:36,000
Speaker 1: the permanent head coach, I know a lot of Penn

1449
01:17:36,040 --> 01:17:38,800
Speaker 1: State fans have their thoughts on this. I've taken a

1450
01:17:38,800 --> 01:17:41,760
Speaker 1: lot of arrows from Penn State fans for sharing my

1451
01:17:41,880 --> 01:17:45,920
Speaker 1: thoughts on the coaching search, of which is fine, it's

1452
01:17:45,960 --> 01:17:48,800
Speaker 1: your program, it's not my program. I've given you guys

1453
01:17:48,840 --> 01:17:50,479
Speaker 1: that I thought are well cut out for the job.

1454
01:17:50,720 --> 01:17:54,519
Speaker 1: To this point, I haven't been given reason to believe

1455
01:17:54,520 --> 01:17:57,320
Speaker 1: that they've been involved in the search. Okay, cool. I

1456
01:17:57,360 --> 01:17:59,639
Speaker 1: also thought it was weird that they fired James Franklin.

1457
01:17:59,680 --> 01:18:01,439
Speaker 1: So we are already we're disagreeing on all that. So

1458
01:18:01,479 --> 01:18:05,040
Speaker 1: that's fine. So the people that want Terry Smith to

1459
01:18:05,080 --> 01:18:07,920
Speaker 1: have the permanent job totally get it, totally understand it.

1460
01:18:08,320 --> 01:18:11,040
Speaker 1: I don't think it would work long term. I've got

1461
01:18:11,040 --> 01:18:13,720
Speaker 1: several reasons for that, but it's nothing different than you

1462
01:18:13,800 --> 01:18:17,320
Speaker 1: guys have already hashed out amongst yourselves. So if you

1463
01:18:17,360 --> 01:18:20,000
Speaker 1: disagree with me on that front, you disagree with me

1464
01:18:20,040 --> 01:18:24,400
Speaker 1: on that front. Here's what I will say. I think

1465
01:18:24,439 --> 01:18:27,160
Speaker 1: they have zeroed in on their guy for the past

1466
01:18:27,200 --> 01:18:30,920
Speaker 1: several days. I think that guy may be Bob Chesney.

1467
01:18:31,360 --> 01:18:34,000
Speaker 1: That's who I think that guy may be. Now that's

1468
01:18:34,000 --> 01:18:36,000
Speaker 1: not the only one who's gotten a look here. I

1469
01:18:36,040 --> 01:18:38,639
Speaker 1: don't even think that's the only guy who they will

1470
01:18:38,680 --> 01:18:42,120
Speaker 1: have gotten well down the road in contract negotiation with

1471
01:18:42,920 --> 01:18:45,800
Speaker 1: whoever they hire, they will claim was the only guy

1472
01:18:45,840 --> 01:18:48,000
Speaker 1: they are for the job to which is what everybody

1473
01:18:48,040 --> 01:18:56,240
Speaker 1: does is because technically it's true. Big question here is, well,

1474
01:18:56,280 --> 01:18:58,559
Speaker 1: what about Bob Chesney Because he's the head coach at

1475
01:18:58,600 --> 01:19:01,960
Speaker 1: James Madison right now. They could be in the playoff,

1476
01:19:03,160 --> 01:19:05,800
Speaker 1: they could have their season extended. This is why I've

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1479
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Speaker 1: potentially be in this mess. Lane's just been way more

1480
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Speaker 1: performative about it. But there are other guys. Some are

1481
01:19:17,800 --> 01:19:21,120
Speaker 1: all could be in a position where his season is extended,

1482
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Speaker 1: but he gets a new job and he has to

1483
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Speaker 1: make a decision. Bob Jesney could be in that situation.

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Speaker 1: He gets a new job, team's in the playoff, He's

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Speaker 1: got to make a decision. So like a lot of

1486
01:19:31,880 --> 01:19:35,720
Speaker 1: these guys could be in this situation. I I think

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Speaker 1: that if you were to go and look at Bob

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Speaker 1: Jesney's Wikipedia page, it's really crazy. Now, if you're a winner,

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Speaker 1: you're a winner. I mean, Kurt SIGNITTI has taught us that,

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Speaker 1: So I'm not gonna doubt just because the guy's been somewhere,

1491
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Speaker 1: hasn't been somewhere, but to go look at Jesney's Wikipedia page. Look,

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Speaker 1: if he gets the Penn State job, where he will

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Speaker 1: have come from to where he will be going, because

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Speaker 1: that is a pretty steep ascension. If he can win,

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Speaker 1: he can win. I'm not pushing back on it. I

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Speaker 1: just want a caution. And look, I'm I'm an outsider.

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Speaker 1: Although I am wearing appropriate colors tonight. I know there's

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Speaker 1: a lot of former players support up there for Terry Smith,

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Speaker 1: the lot of fans support Terry Smith getting the job.

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Speaker 1: I get it. I understand how emotion works. I understand

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Speaker 1: the dynamics of the roster there, how the recruiting class

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Speaker 1: has fallen apart, how everyone rightfully is worried that if

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Speaker 1: we bring a total outsider in here, we're not starting

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Speaker 1: But we're gonna have a lot of attrition no matter what.

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Speaker 1: Our former guy just got hired at Virginia Tech. He's

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Speaker 1: going to snatch a lot of our players. He can

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Speaker 1: snatch a lot of our staffers. So like we're draining

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Speaker 1: right here, we're leaking right now. Maybe Terry Smith is

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Speaker 1: the guy who holds it together. There's a lot of

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Speaker 1: merit to those points. You've got to hire the guy

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Speaker 1: that is the long term face of a winning Penn

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Speaker 1: hire him. There's no way you can know that. How

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01:21:07,080 --> 01:21:09,000
Speaker 1: would you ever know that. The only thing you could

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Speaker 1: go on is how they've performed in the back half

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Speaker 1: of the season. It's very admirable. I had a guy

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01:21:14,840 --> 01:21:16,960
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1519
01:21:17,000 --> 01:21:22,160
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Speaker 1: It wasn't Patcraft, it wasn't this season. So they weren't

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Speaker 1: talking about Terry Smith, but they were talking about a

1522
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Speaker 1: similar situation where an interim got put in position and

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Speaker 1: the kids gave an inspired effort, really just played above

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Speaker 1: their skis, went over the cliff for the guy, and

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Speaker 1: they said, here's what that's like. That's like a sugar high.

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Speaker 1: Sugar highs don't last forever, but they're really powerful in

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Speaker 1: the moments where it's kicking, and it's the same energy

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Speaker 1: But he also put it in another way. He said,

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Speaker 1: He said, would you be comfortable or uncomfortable? I said,

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Speaker 1: what to expect. I want to fight what I've trained

1538
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Speaker 1: to fight. He said, yep, that's correct. It would make

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Speaker 1: everyone uncomfortable. But then he said, what if that same

1540
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Speaker 1: term sustainable strategy? And I said no. He said, yep, yep,

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Speaker 1: boxing expert. He said, that's kind of what it's like

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Speaker 1: when you fall in love with the interim, especially in

1544
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Speaker 1: this case, the interim was already there and you fired

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Speaker 1: That's why you fire a coach because you think you

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Speaker 1: can do better. In this event, you will be openly

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Speaker 1: all along, and if you believe that that was the

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Speaker 1: dynamic there, maybe you're right. I don't tend to think

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Speaker 1: that's the nor do I think that ever was a situation.

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Speaker 1: I think there's a good option for Penn State out there.

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Speaker 1: I just don't think the guy who would win their

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01:23:07,040 --> 01:23:11,719
Speaker 1: long term to the degree above and beyond what James

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01:23:11,760 --> 01:23:15,160
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Speaker 1: I don't personally think that. So if it's not Bob Chesney,

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Speaker 1: where do they go? That's actually a great question. I

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01:23:27,120 --> 01:23:29,679
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Speaker 1: but we really don't know. Sometimes that's just a hallmark

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Speaker 1: normal time. I don't think that is the playoff doing

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Speaker 1: sleep until then. For director Bradley, Producer Jesse, I'm Josh Pate.

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