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Speaker 1: You're listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio Jason Smith Show

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Speaker 1: with Mike Carmon hanging out with you all the way

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Speaker 1: till two am Eastern Time. He's Buck Rising on Jason Fitz.

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Speaker 1: Part of the reason we're gonna be with you a

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Speaker 1: few times this week, it's because there's a huge college

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Speaker 1: football slate. That's right, the college football playoff is finally here,

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Speaker 1: and Buck, we've talked about this before. I will make

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Speaker 1: it clear yet again, I hate the college football playoff schedule.

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Speaker 1: I abhor everything about the delays and the gaps and

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Speaker 1: everything that has gotten us to hear. But here we

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Speaker 1: sit coming into a couple of days, New Year's even

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Speaker 1: New Year's Day, that are full of games. And what

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Speaker 1: I'm trying to figure out is will we actually get

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Speaker 1: the best of any of the Will the layoff that

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Speaker 1: we've seen where teams have gone almost a month without

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Speaker 1: playing any college football actually be an advantage? Is the

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Speaker 1: buy an advantage or is the lack of rhythm going

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Speaker 1: to be a disadvantage for games that Frankly, this year,

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Speaker 1: as opposed to last year, it feels like you got

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Speaker 1: a lot of really evenly matched teams, so suddenly what

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Speaker 1: you have is an Alabama team that's coming in having

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Speaker 1: played a game a week and a half ago, taking

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Speaker 1: on an Indiana team that will have been almost a

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Speaker 1: month since the last time they sat on a stood

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Speaker 1: on a football field. Like, I don't know what the

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Speaker 1: gap is going to do. I just know in the

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Speaker 1: first round we saw plenty of slow starts, and I'm

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Speaker 1: worried that slow starts could absolutely doom teams that are

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Speaker 1: supposed to have the advantage of a buye.

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Speaker 2: Well, that's an interesting way to look at it, because

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Speaker 2: it's the it's the rest versus rust argument, right, Like,

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Speaker 2: there's no disputing that Indiana just to take them as

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Speaker 2: an example before they host well, I guess yeah. I

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Speaker 2: mean they're hosting theoretically in Pasadena, hosting Alabama in the

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Speaker 2: Rose Bowl, that they needed that additional time off to

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Speaker 2: figure out what to do about their interior defensive line.

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Speaker 2: And forgive me, I'm blanking on the young man's name

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Speaker 2: that injured himself while he was just going through Well,

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Speaker 2: he was just a high fiving fans in the stands

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Speaker 2: on a freakish accident where kind of you know, one

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Speaker 2: hopped in the air to try to reach up and

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Speaker 2: So there in Indiana, where your talent disparity has been

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Speaker 2: something that they've been able to mask all year long,

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Speaker 2: which is one of the craziest things I've ever seen.

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Speaker 2: That they needed additional time to prepare for that defense

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Speaker 2: to look, you know, even a fraction of what it's

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Speaker 2: looked like all year long, which is one of the

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Speaker 2: most effective defenses in football so far this year. I

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Speaker 2: think that that should help them in that particular situation.

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Speaker 2: That's a very specific example. Ty Simpson and Alabama getting

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Speaker 2: pushed by Oklahoma, getting shut out by Oklahoma a couple

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Speaker 2: of weeks ago, then rallying back and ultimately coming at

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Speaker 2: coming back from down what was it, seventeen to nothing

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Speaker 2: at one period of time to go back and win

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Speaker 2: that game. I don't know if the momentum from that

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Speaker 2: moment is lost just because they've had a bit of

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Speaker 2: a layoff now before they go out and play an

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Speaker 2: Alabama team or rather an Indiana team that's not going

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Speaker 2: to give them that really not going to let up

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Speaker 2: on them the way that Oklahoma did. It is one

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Speaker 2: of the more interesting who do you think is the

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Speaker 2: most the biggest variable in the field right now as

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Speaker 2: we look at this quarterfinal bracket, FITZI.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I think Indiana because to your point,

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Speaker 1: it's Stephen Day was the name of the player you

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Speaker 1: were referencing that weirdest injury. I can remember just jumping

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Speaker 1: Ten championship game, and he was already supplementing injury on

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Speaker 1: have some things they're gonna have to clean up here.

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Speaker 1: I also think Alabama has looked really bad at times

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Speaker 1: this year, so there's so much prove it in these games,

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Speaker 1: and I think that's part of why Buck I care

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Speaker 1: so much about this layoff. Remember the teams that had

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Speaker 1: the bye last year all lost, right, So it's it's

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Speaker 1: But it does get weird to me when we're trying

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Speaker 1: and frankly with that in mind, I mean Indiana at

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Speaker 1: So you know, is that is that perfect? December sixth

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Speaker 1: how much continuity means in doing sort of the little

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Speaker 1: but that's that's just a long long time before, since

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Speaker 1: And I wanted to be this great I don't know,

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Speaker 1: cool moment where it's like, hey, they've had plenty of

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Speaker 1: I just that's a long time as opposed to somebody

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Speaker 2: And then there's there's the wild card idea of for example,

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Speaker 2: Texas Tech in the middle of this field, looking at Indiana.

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Speaker 2: Just looking at the teams that are left right Indiana,

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Speaker 2: Miami and Alabama who weren't really tested, I mean Miami

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Speaker 2: and Texas, A and m that came down to the wire.

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Speaker 2: The weather was outrageous, the field goals were being missed

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Speaker 2: all over the place at a high frequency, and it

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Speaker 2: boiled down to just basically survival in that specific game.

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Speaker 2: I don't know that the better team necessarily won between

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Speaker 2: Miami and Texas. All I know is that Miami ends

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Speaker 2: up surviving and gets the pleasure of playing Ohio State

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Speaker 2: as a result after the fact. I like that's the

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Speaker 2: biggest line of the quarter final weekend, is the difference

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Speaker 2: if it's been bet down at all at this point

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Speaker 2: in time. We can check on that for you here

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Speaker 2: in just a second. But the biggest opportunity for an

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Speaker 2: upset where does it lie on the board right now?

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Speaker 2: As we're sitting here looking at this is it ole

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Speaker 2: miss Georgia for the opportunity to get the revenge element?

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Speaker 2: But Lane Kiffn's not on the sideline, So is it

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Speaker 2: really revenge for somebody like Pete Golding in this situation?

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Speaker 2: I mean technically by seating it would be Miami over

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Speaker 2: Ohio State, I suppose, but that doesn't seem possible, Like

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Speaker 2: where does the most likely and most possible up set

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Speaker 1: Well to your point, Currently, according to the DraftKings Odds,

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Speaker 1: Ohio State is a nine and a half point favorite

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Speaker 1: half point favorite over Old miss which is which is

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Speaker 1: beefy line? Indiana is a seven point favorite over Alabama.

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Speaker 1: And you know, Kurt Signetti flat out he was asked about,

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Speaker 1: you know, the players in taking on the aura of

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Speaker 1: Alabama and he even said he's like, I don't think

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Speaker 1: our players even understand the history of Alabama YouTube, but

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Speaker 1: our players only know what they see on film. And

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Speaker 1: I think he's right, Like, so, you know, to the

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Speaker 1: honest answer is the closest game Oregon Texas Tech is

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Speaker 1: going to be the best game of all of these.

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Speaker 1: It's just it's a game that I think a lot

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Speaker 1: really call that an upset. Oregon's favored by two and

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Speaker 1: a half, by the way over a fifth seeded Oregon

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Speaker 1: should not be able to beat Indiana, And I think

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Speaker 1: what has to happen here is a mindset shift. And boy,

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Speaker 1: I had to make sure I really said that can

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Speaker 1: care for me? Thank you? A mindset shift. I'd just

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Speaker 1: tempted the gods twice because if we just changed the

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Speaker 1: jerseys to the Buck Risings versus the Jason Fitzes, here

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Speaker 1: it is. It is absolutely abundantly clear that Indiana is

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Speaker 1: better than Alabama. There is not a world this year

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Speaker 1: go back to as I told you before. For the

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Speaker 1: there with the dogs and I said, Okay, show me something,

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Speaker 1: show me what you got right, Prove me, proved something

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Speaker 1: to me, and Indiana did by god Like, I mean,

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Speaker 1: Indiana has now gone to Oregon this year and won,

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Speaker 1: and they beat Big Ten champion in the Big Ten

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Speaker 1: teams were reversed, we would be convinced Alabama's gonna roll.

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Speaker 1: I think sometimes because it's Indiana versus Alabama, that's the

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Speaker 1: game everybody points to. But to your point, really the

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Speaker 1: best shot at a notable upset might be Ole Miss

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Speaker 1: But man, I don't know. I think there's a very

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Speaker 2: Man, I don't think any of these games are gonna

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Speaker 1: To you. I think Ohio State's gonna roll Miami. I

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Speaker 1: think that's a three touchdown win for a high why.

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Speaker 2: Though, I mean, Miami's defense is awesome, and I know

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Speaker 2: that Carson Beck against the Ohio State defense is not

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Speaker 2: a favorable matchup, But it's not like Miami's a pushover.

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Speaker 1: No, Miami's defense is great. You're right, Carson Beck. I

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Speaker 1: don't trust worth a dang Like, I'm completely out on

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Speaker 1: Carson Beck being able to do anything in this And look,

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Speaker 1: I mean, yes, Miami got the win, and I was

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Speaker 1: But go back this year and just ask ourselves how

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Speaker 1: much we've actually seen. You know, to your point, yes,

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Speaker 1: this Miami defense has been great. Have they really played

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Speaker 1: anybody that's going to stretch them and stress them the

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Speaker 1: way Ohio State is? I don't think so. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I think this Ohio State offense is just too damn explosive. So,

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Speaker 1: a hole? Because in college football, way more than the NFL,

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Speaker 1: you can be down by seventeen and you can get

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Speaker 1: yourself right back into that game. The problem for Miami

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Speaker 1: is that if they are dug into a hole and

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Speaker 1: Carson Beck has to be the one that digs them out,

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Speaker 1: I don't think he can especially against this Ohio State defense,

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Speaker 1: So they got to keep it close to the entire way.

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Speaker 1: I don't think they will, so yeah, I think I

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Speaker 1: think Ohio State roles here.

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Speaker 2: The other component of that, what you just mentioned about

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Speaker 2: the idea of the quarterback being able to dig you

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Speaker 2: out of a hole. Does that case work in favor

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Speaker 2: of Alabama? Because Alabama at this point in time, despite

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Speaker 1: on on the scoreboard right now.

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Speaker 5: We've got overtime at the Alamo Bowl. USC was leading

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Speaker 5: TCU by ten with five minutes to go, and then

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Speaker 5: two long drives for the horn Frogs the last two

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Speaker 5: forum in regulation touchdown and then a short field goal

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Speaker 5: and the game is tied. At twenty four sc with

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Speaker 5: a second in goal on its overtime possession coming up.

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Speaker 5: Illinois edged Tennessee thirty to twenty eight in the Music

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Speaker 5: City Bowl on a short field goal final play, and

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Speaker 5: Louisiana Tech in Treeport today beat Coastal Carolina twenty three

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Speaker 5: to fourteen. Miami will play number two Ohio State on

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Speaker 5: New Year's Eve at the Cotton Bowl quarterfinal. Ohio State

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Speaker 5: head coach Ryan Day will call the offensive plays in

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Speaker 5: their playoff opener. Brian Hartline will leave later for USF.

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Speaker 5: Oregon faces Texas Tech in the Orange Bowl Quarterfinal on

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Speaker 5: New Year's Day. Texas Tech quarterback Baron Morton has practiced

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Speaker 5: fully this month. He's out of a walking boot. He'd

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Speaker 5: injured his leg two and a half half months ago.

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Speaker 5: Alabama will be in the Rose Bowl quarterfinal against number

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Speaker 5: one Indiana. There is a chance of rain steel for Pasadyen.

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Speaker 5: It will definitely rain on the parade. In fact, the

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Speaker 5: newest storm to southern California is coming tomorrow, but they're

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Speaker 5: saying right now that it's likely not going to rain

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Speaker 5: through the whole game. Nonetheless, a rarity a rainy Rose Bowl,

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Speaker 5: and we'll see what the turf is like for that

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Speaker 5: Rose Bowl. By the way, Alabama sophomore wide receiver Ryan

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Speaker 5: Williams said he does plan to return to the team

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Speaker 5: next season, and Ole miss will play Georgia in the

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Speaker 5: Sugar Bowl quarterfinal New Year's Night. Mississippi lost at Georgia

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Speaker 5: in October forty three to thirty five. Georgia scored seventeen

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Speaker 5: straight points in the fourth quarter to win. Northwestern's new

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Speaker 5: offensive coordinator is Chip Kelly. The new defensive coordinator at

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Speaker 5: Boston College is Ted Rufe. The Dallas Cowboys cut veteran

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Speaker 5: defensive back Trayvon Diggs. The Steelers are optimistic that pass

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Speaker 5: rusher TJ. Watt can play in the finale Sunday Night

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Speaker 5: against Baltimore. Drew Brees and Eli Manning are among the

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Speaker 5: fifteen Hall of Fame finalists to the NBA Scoreboard. Just

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Speaker 5: four games, Detroit still leading, but not by much at

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Speaker 5: the Lakers eighty six eighty one late in the third,

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Speaker 5: even though the Pistons are shooting sixty five percent from

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Speaker 5: the floor. The Lakers Lukadancic has twenty seven points in

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Speaker 5: twenty eight minutes on the court. Complete domination at the

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Speaker 5: Clippers Arena for the Clips seventy nine forty five over

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Speaker 5: Sacramento early in the third. Boston won again one twenty

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Speaker 5: nine to one nineteen at Utah despite thirty seven points

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Speaker 5: from Keyante George, and Philadelphia got an overtime victory at

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Speaker 5: Memphis one thirty nine, one thirty six, thirty four points

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Speaker 5: each for Joel Embiide and Tyrese Maxi in the loss,

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Speaker 5: forty points for John Morant. Denver Nuggets superstar Nikola Jokich

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Speaker 5: will miss at least a month with a hyper extended

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Speaker 5: knee suffered last night. He has a bone bruise in

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Speaker 5: the left knee as well. Bulls guard Josh Kitty could

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Speaker 5: reportedly miss a few weeks with the strained hamstring he

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Speaker 5: suffered last night. Hawk center Kristaps Porzinga will return from

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Speaker 5: illness on Wednesday. NHL Montreal one in overtime, three to

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Speaker 5: two at Florida the Angels in third basement. Anthony Rendon

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Speaker 5: reportedly restructured his contract. Sc has kicked a field goal

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Speaker 5: Trojans twenty seven, twenty four in overtime still against TCU

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Speaker 5: at the Alamobile Back to you.

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Speaker 1: in college football, for many of these programs you just

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Speaker 1: mentioned some of what we're going to learn. I just

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Speaker 1: want to remind everybody. According to On three Sports that

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Speaker 1: did a survey of the top spenders in college football,

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Speaker 1: number one was Texas. They're not in this, number two,

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Speaker 1: Texas Tech, number three, Ohio State number four, Oregon number five,

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Speaker 1: Texas A and m already eliminated and Miami tied. Right,

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Speaker 1: So you can go up and down the list and

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Speaker 1: see a pretty easy correlation between the amount of money

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Speaker 1: spent and the success they're having. It will be interesting

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Speaker 1: to see, though, Buck, because when you're putting that much

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Speaker 1: money on the line, I always call them the Buddy

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Speaker 1: Garritys for anybody that loves Friday Night Lights the way

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Speaker 1: I do. Like, if you remember the show, Buddy Garritty

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Speaker 1: was the used car dealer that was coming up to

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Speaker 1: Coach Taylor constantly being like, why are we playing this guy?

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Speaker 1: Why are we doing that? Like what's going to happen

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Speaker 1: for the program? You got a lot of Buddy Garritys

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Speaker 1: involved in all of these. So when you're spending that

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Speaker 1: much money, it is going to be interesting to see

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Speaker 1: how the teams that don't advance. When you're talking about

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Speaker 1: Texas Tech being the second highest amount of money in

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Speaker 1: Oregon being the fourth, how all of these fan bases

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Speaker 1: and how all of these collectives react to it. Because

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Speaker 1: this isn't just pride anymore. There's a lot of cash

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Speaker 1: being spent with the expectation of a national championship.

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Speaker 2: Two things on that front. Am I allowed to continue

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Speaker 2: in my profession as a sports NFL reporter and a

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Speaker 2: sports talk host. If I've never seen or read Friday Night.

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Speaker 1: Lights, yes you can. Here's what I would tell you

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Speaker 1: the movies. The movie's good. The movie's good, the book

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Speaker 1: is very good. The TV show is elite. It's one

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Speaker 1: of the best TV shows ever made. So Cavy show

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Speaker 1: better than the movie, far better than the movie. And

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Speaker 1: the TV show was really just like it's really about

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Speaker 1: a family in small town life, and football is the

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Speaker 1: backdrop on it. Friday Night Lights. The TV show is

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Speaker 1: just just started from the beginning to yourself that gift,

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Speaker 1: give yourself that New Year's gift. It will I don't

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Speaker 1: even like sports movies, Like as a general rule, I

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Speaker 1: don't like sports movies. If I want drama, just watch

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Speaker 1: actual sports. I don't need to watch Disney make a

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Speaker 1: sports movie when I can just watch an actual sporting event. Friday.

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Speaker 1: Oh well, what was that was that with what's his name? Yeah? Yeah, yeah?

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Speaker 1: Was that any given Sunday?

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Speaker 2: That sounds right, any given Sunday. It's one of the

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Speaker 2: most ridiculous football movies I've ever seen. It's delightful, but

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Speaker 2: it's just outrageous, like it's got, It's got when the

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Speaker 2: guy's eyeball pops out on the field is.

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Speaker 1: One of the most like this is where when everybody

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Speaker 1: like when everybody does their rankings a best sports movie.

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Speaker 1: My ranking is always they're all trash like it just

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Speaker 1: like for everybody else. Can't say that I just don't

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Speaker 1: like them.

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Speaker 2: I don't like them like remember the Titans.

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Speaker 1: Remember the Titans was fine, it was fine.

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Speaker 2: I will accept fine, I will accept fine. But you

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Speaker 2: cannot call it trash. It is not a trash movie.

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Speaker 2: There are many quotable lines to call it a trash movie.

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Speaker 1: We I was in school, I think it was middle school,

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Speaker 1: we had to write a report, like a character analysis

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Speaker 1: report on the movie Feel to Dreams. That was our

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Speaker 1: school assignment, and I instead wrote the report on what

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Speaker 1: a waste it was that we were watching a movie

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Speaker 1: in a class like it just did like I thought

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Speaker 1: it was stupid. And my parents got called in for

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Speaker 1: a parent teacher conference, and I remember my mom coming

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Speaker 1: in and mother f and the teacher up and down

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Speaker 1: because she thought I was right. So I'm just saying,

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Speaker 1: I've never, you know, always a sports CHUNKI never a

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Speaker 1: sports movie fan. Friday Night Lights, the TV show, the.

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Speaker 2: Access secondarily, okay, didn't Florida State just kind of go

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Speaker 2: through this where they spent big in the portal and

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Speaker 2: they went all in in the portal after having success

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Speaker 2: and being snubbed from the college Football Playoff picture because

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Speaker 2: it was a Jordan Travis the name of the quarterback.

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Speaker 2: Yeah at the time it snapped his leg and all

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Speaker 2: the controversy that came out of that. Then they come

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Speaker 2: back next year, they spend all this money on defensive

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Speaker 2: line help in the portal, and it goes straight to hell. Now,

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Speaker 2: Mike norvel is just kind of a lame duck coaching

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Speaker 2: situation because they spent their budget, their fans aren't spending

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Speaker 2: any more money on that program, to the point where

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Speaker 2: Florida State fans they're almost just kind of taking a

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Speaker 2: It's not a tanking year, almost because you can't tank.

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Speaker 2: What are you tanking for in college football? But you're

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Speaker 2: kind of just letting a season go by. So Norvelle's

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Speaker 2: buyout goes down, which to me is the equivalent of

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Speaker 2: college of tanking in college football, like just throwing away

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Speaker 2: a season because you've put yourself in a financial situation

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Speaker 2: that is not sustainable and now all of a sudden

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Speaker 2: you don't like your coach anymore and you want to

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Speaker 2: move on. But also that's going to cost a lot

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Speaker 2: more money and you've already asked all these boosters for

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Speaker 2: all this money, and they're not willing to give you anymore.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's that's the part of this. Like for everybody

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Speaker 1: that sits there and talks about the future of college football,

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Speaker 1: I think what doesn't necessarily get enough coverage because we're

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Speaker 1: all convinced, you know that not we're all there are

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Speaker 1: many people that are loudly convinced this sport is broken.

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Speaker 1: I'm not one personally. I think ratings are up, then

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Speaker 1: everybody's paying more attention, and it's kind of fun to me.

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Speaker 1: Like I also, at my core don't care about your

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Speaker 1: favorite football team. I just love the sports, so since

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Speaker 1: I don't care if one team is being sacrificed, like

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Speaker 1: I've had this argument with you know, Michael Junior obviously

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Speaker 1: passionate about college football and knows so much about it

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Speaker 1: and played it, and the number of times he and

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Speaker 1: I have argued about it, Like I just I don't

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Speaker 1: care if your program doesn't succeed, and I don't really

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Speaker 1: care if they level the playing field. I just want

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Speaker 1: to watch the best college football I can. So'm I'm

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Speaker 1: a big fan of free market capitalism. In capital capitalism,

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Speaker 1: so go out and get yours, buy yours, and if

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Speaker 1: you can't buy yours, that's not really my problem. So

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Speaker 1: I just like watching college football. With that being said,

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Speaker 1: I do think you raised an interesting point because at

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Speaker 1: some point, for any rich person, there has to be

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Speaker 1: some level of ROI or you stop giving money. Now,

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Speaker 1: maybe you can buy that ROI is a championship a

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Speaker 1: few times, but can you sustainably go in and find

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Speaker 1: tens of millions of dollars into the eventually hundreds of

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Speaker 1: millions of dollars that require over the course of decades.

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Speaker 1: Can you find billions of dollars from benefactors that have

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Speaker 1: no money to be made other than just watching their

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Speaker 1: favorite college football teams win. I think that that well

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Speaker 1: dries at some point. There has to be some way

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Speaker 1: that it's bringing back cash or it's bringing back results. Otherwise,

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Speaker 1: to your point, there's always going to be somebody that

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Speaker 1: for a year or two will give money, But will

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Speaker 1: they continue forever? I mean, it's just this isn't the

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Speaker 1: NFL where you've got owners that are turning around and

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Speaker 1: doing it because they're also making hundreds of millions of

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Speaker 1: dollars in profit. This is just a bunch of you know,

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Speaker 1: Buddy garrityes out there trying to find a way to

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Speaker 1: make sure that Indiana wins a championship and that that's

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Speaker 1: cute for a few years that I don't know how

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Speaker 1: sustainable that is.

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Speaker 2: There's never been a state that has more people named

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Speaker 2: Buddy Garrity in real life than Indiana.

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Speaker 1: That that is fair. TCU, by the way, has just

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Speaker 1: taken down USC in overtime. They have won the game

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Speaker 1: falls and just a reminder that USC isn't even in

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Speaker 1: the college football playoff. Conversation, guys, it is. It is

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Speaker 1: wild to me how some brands have figured out how

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Speaker 1: to compete and some brands just have it. We got

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Speaker 1: plenty more to break down on it, including like, let's

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Speaker 1: figure it out. Let's figure out for all of this,

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Speaker 1: who we actually think is worth watching the most and

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Speaker 1: who's gonna win this thing. We'll figure it out. He's

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Speaker 1: Buck Rising, I'm Jason fitz buckmfits hanging out with you

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Speaker 1: So Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon, But a Buck

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Speaker 1: and fits takeover Buck Rising. I'm Jason Fitz with you

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Speaker 1: all the way until two a m. Eastern time, hanging

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Speaker 1: out with you. We just watched USC lose in a

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Speaker 1: bowl game you're not paying attention to. But there is

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Speaker 1: consequence to all of this as we try and figure

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Speaker 1: out what the hell to make of who USC is

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Speaker 1: right now, Because, frankly, when you think about the teams

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Speaker 1: that you expect can be dominant across the landscape of

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Speaker 1: college football, USC is supposed to be on that list.

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Speaker 1: But earlier in the show, when we were talking about

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Speaker 1: money and where it's currently invested. When you're talking about

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Speaker 1: the top spenders in college football, you can go all

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Speaker 1: the way down to number ten and not see Oh

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Speaker 1: I correct myself, USC listed at number seven. So USC

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Speaker 1: out here spending number seven money for what a loss

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Speaker 1: in a bowl game. I know bowl games aren't significant,

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Speaker 1: but it feels like it's all significant right now for

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Speaker 1: a team that's just lost. Our producer, bo USC. You're

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Speaker 1: a US guy through and three you went to USC.

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Speaker 1: How we feeling like what has to happen for USC

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Speaker 1: in your mind to become nationally prominent again.

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Speaker 6: It's such a double edged sword at this point because

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Speaker 6: they have the number one recruiting class next year. That

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Speaker 6: is of course by volume, not by pure talent in there.

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Speaker 6: But so you can't really sit here and say fire

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Speaker 6: Lincoln Riley. But it's getting close to there. I don't

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Speaker 6: know if you guys have seen their schedule for next year.

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Speaker 6: They get Ohio State and Oregon at home, and they

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Speaker 6: go on the road to Indiana. So that's I think

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Speaker 6: three losses right there, and then of course you know

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Speaker 6: they have Maryland at home, they have watching It at home,

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Speaker 6: Penn State, Rutgers, Wisconsin, Ucla on the road next year.

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Speaker 6: That's probably five six losses given the way this team

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Speaker 6: has played, so he's probably gonna get fired next year.

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Speaker 6: So kind of if you're gonna do it anyway, you

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Speaker 6: might as well just do it. But the program is

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Speaker 6: not to where it needs to be for how much

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Speaker 6: Lincoln Rally' is getting paid and the talent that they have,

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Speaker 6: so they kind of do need to just hit reset.

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Speaker 6: I think this is just the latest embarrassing. Like I

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Speaker 6: don't know if you guys saw the play that they

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Speaker 6: lost on, but it was just bad tackling, which has

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Speaker 6: just been the thing with all of Lincoln Riley's teams.

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Speaker 6: So it's really just frustrating because, as we were talking

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Speaker 6: about in the break, like USC is the pro football

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Speaker 6: team out here, Like the support for the Rams has

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Speaker 6: gotten better as long as they've been here longer. But

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Speaker 6: when us he's good, like, the city goes absolutely nuts

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Speaker 6: for them, and we've been waiting for that to come

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Speaker 6: back and it just hasn't yet.

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Speaker 2: Well it's interesting because they they have and who is

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Speaker 2: that what is the name of the defensive coordinator of

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Speaker 2: that's leaving them for Penn State bo.

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Speaker 6: It's Dan Lynn, Okay, Dan Stanton, but everybody just calls

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Speaker 6: him Dan.

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Speaker 2: He's been there for a couple of years now and

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Speaker 2: he's actually helped kind of level out USC's defense. I mean,

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Speaker 2: they were they were not great by any stretch of

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Speaker 2: the imagination this year, but they were forty eighth overall

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Speaker 2: in the country. They were averaging or giving up twenty

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Speaker 2: two point four points per game, So you know, right

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Speaker 2: around the right around the South Carolina, Florida State Vandy line,

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Speaker 2: which is good enough to give your opportunity or give

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Speaker 2: your offense an opportunity. And all Lincoln Riley has to

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Speaker 2: show for his tenure so far in Los Angeles, is

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Speaker 2: wins in the Holiday Bowl, FITZI and the Las Vegas Bowl.

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Speaker 2: I think he is the biggest underachiever relative to expectation

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Speaker 2: in college football right now, Lincoln Riley. And maybe that's

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Speaker 2: easy for me to do because I'm not you know,

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Speaker 2: I don't watch USC day in and day out. I'm

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Speaker 2: not on the West Coast. I'm in Nashville, Tennessee. And

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Speaker 2: you know, it probably doesn't help to just to put

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Speaker 2: all the biases out there that I'm a Notre Dame fan,

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Speaker 2: and I don't love the way that he's talking about

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Speaker 2: the way that Notre Dame ended the USC Notre Dame

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Speaker 2: rivalry in his estimation, where he failed to follow through

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Speaker 2: on the pledge to play Notre Dame anytime anywhere. So

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Speaker 2: I look at Lincoln Riley and I look at his

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Speaker 2: at the time and earned by the way, Like those

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Speaker 2: Oklahoma teams that he was coaching were awesome. He got

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Speaker 2: the best out of Jalen Hurts by a mile. And

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Speaker 2: Jalen Hurts was also coached by Nick Saban in his

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Speaker 2: collegiate career. There's so much good that he has done.

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Speaker 2: But this is one of those things where I feel

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Speaker 2: like we've probably had this some version of this conversation before.

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Speaker 2: Where you are if you are good enough at a

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Speaker 2: couple of things, but you get promoted to the point

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Speaker 2: in your respective industry or profession where you cease to

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Speaker 2: be good at the job that you've been given because

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Speaker 2: you've just been promoted past the point of your competency.

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Speaker 2: It happens in a lot of industries. Hell, it happens

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Speaker 2: in our industry. Mean if it's your shining examples of

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Speaker 2: people who have been promoted beyond our competency on a

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Speaker 2: regular basis, I just feel like Lincoln Riley is that

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Speaker 2: in a big boy job with big boy stakes and

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Speaker 2: a huge amount of resources that he's done jack with.

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Speaker 1: For me, the resources are part of what I always

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Speaker 1: think of when I think of USC, because certainly I

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Speaker 1: didn't grow up in LA but I did grow up

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Speaker 1: in Vegas as a kid, and you grew up in

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Speaker 1: Vegas as a kid. You understand the brand of USC

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Speaker 1: from a college football standpoint and the ability to dominate

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Speaker 1: the entire West Coast from recruiting standpoint. Like, think of

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Speaker 1: how often you and I have talked about some of

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Speaker 1: the advantages that are perceived in the SEC when it

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Speaker 1: comes to recruiting. Now, I have made the argument a

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Speaker 1: lot in the last year that modern college football means

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Speaker 1: that you've got private jets and first class tickets to everything.

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Speaker 1: So I'm not sure having the most recruits in your

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Speaker 1: state matters as much. You just got to make sure

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Speaker 1: that you have a path and a plan that will

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Speaker 1: allow families to fly out and see the kids. I

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Speaker 1: find that there's less and less importance to regionality in

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Speaker 1: recruiting in college football when I talk to high school

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Speaker 1: kids right now. That being said, USC is supposed to

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Speaker 1: dominate the West Coast. Now, I'll give some of that

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Speaker 1: to Oregon, certainly, Dan Lanning has built a program. But

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Speaker 1: if you are turning around and you are a quarterback whisperer,

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Speaker 1: which is absolutely got to be part of Lincoln Riley's

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Speaker 1: sales pitch right like, come here and I'll help you

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Speaker 1: win a Heisman. If you are a wide receiver that

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Speaker 1: wants to play like you should be able to be

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Speaker 1: building the most explosive offense because you have just the

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Speaker 1: upper hand on the West Coast constantly. So I feel

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Speaker 1: like there's an advantage here that just isn't being taken

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Speaker 1: advantage of. So you're Lincoln Riley who's getting paid an

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Speaker 1: astronomical amount of money to be the head football coach

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Speaker 1: at USC, and you're doing what with it? Like, what

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Speaker 1: is the thing that USC is better than expected? What

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Speaker 1: is the winds above replacement that Lincoln Riley is bringing

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Speaker 1: to the table. And if the answer is none,