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Speaker 1: We will be hitting this man up. The NCAA has

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Speaker 1: now changed the rules again, So if you were tired

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Speaker 1: out of there. We ain't having no more of it.

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Speaker 1: And of course we gotta make our picks talk about

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Speaker 1: of the new moves that they made Ralph and one

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Speaker 1: And there was talk about eliminating the spring window, but

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Speaker 2: It's probably bad for the for the late window, right,

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Speaker 2: what choice do they have if they're going into both season,

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Speaker 2: Like limiting it to actual windows for people to get

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Speaker 1: Well, Milley, thing is all right. I believe that you're

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Speaker 1: something in place, But how does that help? Because coaches

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Speaker 1: To sign it in in June, so be it. Or

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Speaker 2: You started, if your junior year of high school is

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Speaker 1: I'm not I'm actually not mad at that bit because

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Speaker 2: I just it's never been about school. It's never been

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Speaker 1: Okay, it's like the third one that we've already had

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and it'll keep happening, right, because people want to

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Speaker 2: And if you don't play anymore, you don't play anymore.

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Speaker 2: But if you get an opportunity that that's too good

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Speaker 2: the way the IVY leagues have to recruit. And you've

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Speaker 2: though they will find money, but at the same time,

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Speaker 2: it's also about furthering the reputation of that institution. Therefore,

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Speaker 2: you know, it's not like the NCAA has said, Alabama,

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Speaker 2: you need to use ten of your twenty five scholarships

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Speaker 2: every single year on people who have a four point

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Speaker 1: It's never been they do that. They like yo, yo,

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Speaker 1: This dude has a lot of community service experience. It

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Speaker 1: watch him play play football. That's only community service that

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Speaker 2: Then, these schools want to win, and it is what

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Speaker 2: it is. We're you know, I'm not trying to pitch

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Speaker 2: The truth of the matter is these schools want to win.

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Speaker 2: And the second biggest lie in college football recruiting. Second

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Speaker 2: biggest lie now is well, let's get in the number

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Speaker 2: one real quick. If you're good enough, they'll find you.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Lies, that's definitely lie. The second one is commit to

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Speaker 2: this this idea, this overarching idea that people commit to

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Speaker 2: an institution and not the people the institution is paying

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Speaker 2: a lot more than they pay their most tenured faculty

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Speaker 1: Ralph, I've talked to multiple kids and we put out

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Speaker 2: Hell yeah, okay, so now they have fifty x the

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Speaker 1: I talked about that, and we talked about that with

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Speaker 2: Would you agree that the one way to get Greg

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Speaker 2: Sank out of any position of power is for somebody

436
00:26:00,400 --> 00:26:04,200
Speaker 2: to come in the biggest threat to these administrators right

437
00:26:04,240 --> 00:26:09,600
Speaker 2: now is unionization of the players.

438
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Speaker 1: Yep. That's the biggest threat to like yours, the biggest

439
00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:18,359
Speaker 1: threat to them, biggest threat to Amazon, biggest threat to

440
00:26:18,400 --> 00:26:19,280
Speaker 1: a bunch of companies.

441
00:26:19,280 --> 00:26:26,080
Speaker 2: Buddy, your wife's third g wagon, like San's relationship status.

442
00:26:26,119 --> 00:26:31,040
Speaker 2: But like if if whoever he's dating likes her lifestyle,

443
00:26:31,560 --> 00:26:34,000
Speaker 2: then you got better hope these kids don't unionize.

444
00:26:34,480 --> 00:26:37,960
Speaker 1: Yep. Yeah, that's what keeps him up at night. You

445
00:26:38,000 --> 00:26:41,520
Speaker 1: know what's keeping Alabama fans up at night, Kaitlin di

446
00:26:41,640 --> 00:26:45,399
Speaker 1: bors uniform. They hate it. They're like, oh, look at

447
00:26:45,440 --> 00:26:48,120
Speaker 1: him out there with his fucking T shirt. He's out

448
00:26:48,200 --> 00:26:53,480
Speaker 1: there looking sloppy and disheveled, and how dare he? You

449
00:26:53,520 --> 00:26:55,840
Speaker 1: know what, Ralph, they didn't give a damn about that

450
00:26:55,880 --> 00:26:58,800
Speaker 1: T shirt when they was playing against Georgia. When they

451
00:26:58,840 --> 00:27:00,960
Speaker 1: beat Georgia, they didn't give a damn about that T shirt.

452
00:27:01,200 --> 00:27:03,760
Speaker 1: But the fact that they've given up sixty seven points

453
00:27:03,760 --> 00:27:09,080
Speaker 1: in like three billion yards in the last six quarters. Now,

454
00:27:09,200 --> 00:27:11,919
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, it's it's little things that are

455
00:27:11,920 --> 00:27:16,320
Speaker 1: mattering again now or el little things. And I listened

456
00:27:16,320 --> 00:27:20,800
Speaker 1: to Pine to Paul fine Bomb on Monday because I

457
00:27:20,880 --> 00:27:24,080
Speaker 1: knew it was gonna be gold. I listened to him

458
00:27:24,240 --> 00:27:29,680
Speaker 1: a little bit yesterday. And Alabama fans they are mad

459
00:27:29,720 --> 00:27:33,679
Speaker 1: about two things. They are mad about his outfit. Well, sorry,

460
00:27:33,720 --> 00:27:36,720
Speaker 1: three things. They're mad about his outfit, but that's third

461
00:27:36,760 --> 00:27:38,720
Speaker 1: on the list. And then the second thing on the

462
00:27:38,800 --> 00:27:46,399
Speaker 1: list is the Malaki Moore situation where they said he

463
00:27:47,280 --> 00:27:52,440
Speaker 1: absolutely must punish this kid, like you can't kick the

464
00:27:52,560 --> 00:27:56,280
Speaker 1: damn ball, slam the quarterback's head in the ground, and

465
00:27:57,160 --> 00:28:00,200
Speaker 1: throw your mouthpiece, refuse to come out the game. And

466
00:28:00,800 --> 00:28:04,720
Speaker 1: I talked to a bunch of former players about this,

467
00:28:04,960 --> 00:28:08,639
Speaker 1: and a current coach in the SEC. I was like,

468
00:28:08,800 --> 00:28:12,160
Speaker 1: what would you do if your player, if your wide

469
00:28:12,240 --> 00:28:14,240
Speaker 1: receiver refused to come out of the game. So, yes,

470
00:28:14,280 --> 00:28:18,840
Speaker 1: it's a wide receiver. Coach, he was like, number one,

471
00:28:19,400 --> 00:28:22,200
Speaker 1: my kid coming out the game first and foremost. But

472
00:28:22,240 --> 00:28:25,639
Speaker 1: the second thing is, our head coach would have called

473
00:28:25,640 --> 00:28:29,200
Speaker 1: time out if need be, or taking a penalty, walked

474
00:28:29,240 --> 00:28:32,159
Speaker 1: out on the field and told the kid, either you

475
00:28:32,359 --> 00:28:35,120
Speaker 1: come off this field right now, or you will never

476
00:28:35,160 --> 00:28:38,760
Speaker 1: step back on it. So you can stay out here

477
00:28:38,800 --> 00:28:41,320
Speaker 1: if you want to. If you stay out here, you

478
00:28:41,360 --> 00:28:45,840
Speaker 1: will never put this uniform back on again. And honestly,

479
00:28:45,960 --> 00:28:50,200
Speaker 1: I'm not a rule by an iron fist, but this

480
00:28:50,440 --> 00:28:54,120
Speaker 1: is a symptom that something is going on at Alabama

481
00:28:54,240 --> 00:28:58,239
Speaker 1: because yes, he did the apology tour, but the but

482
00:28:58,320 --> 00:29:02,320
Speaker 1: the issue is is that Kaylen de Boor and their

483
00:29:02,360 --> 00:29:06,520
Speaker 1: defensive coordinator got up there and just, oh listen, Malachi.

484
00:29:06,560 --> 00:29:08,680
Speaker 1: He's had our back since we got here. He's a

485
00:29:08,720 --> 00:29:12,160
Speaker 1: model citizen, he's a captain. Nobody cares more than him.

486
00:29:12,400 --> 00:29:16,880
Speaker 1: None of that matters, Ralph. He screwed up. He screwed up,

487
00:29:16,880 --> 00:29:20,840
Speaker 1: and we're not asking nobody's asking, well, not reasonable people

488
00:29:21,080 --> 00:29:23,800
Speaker 1: aren't asking him to get kicked off the team. But

489
00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:26,920
Speaker 1: to keep your team together, you have to have some

490
00:29:26,960 --> 00:29:29,960
Speaker 1: sort of display of a little bit of power, bro

491
00:29:30,440 --> 00:29:35,080
Speaker 1: because what they did is unacceptable. It is it is it,

492
00:29:35,200 --> 00:29:37,480
Speaker 1: and I'm not sure how it's gonna play in that

493
00:29:37,640 --> 00:29:41,080
Speaker 1: locker room. But if that locker room does not feel

494
00:29:41,200 --> 00:29:45,120
Speaker 1: that it was handled adequately, somebody else will act out

495
00:29:45,160 --> 00:29:47,200
Speaker 1: and then Kaylen de Bor will have to deal with

496
00:29:47,240 --> 00:29:49,520
Speaker 1: it the same way. Or if he comes down with

497
00:29:49,560 --> 00:29:51,920
Speaker 1: an iron fist, then everybody can be like, oh, why

498
00:29:51,920 --> 00:29:57,800
Speaker 1: you ain't do Malachi like that? Yeah? I mean, do

499
00:29:57,840 --> 00:30:01,920
Speaker 1: you remember Makai Brown? That name sounds very familiar.

500
00:30:02,720 --> 00:30:07,320
Speaker 2: He played for Alabama. He got taken out because he

501
00:30:07,800 --> 00:30:12,040
Speaker 2: lost his mind during the National Championship back in twenty eighteen.

502
00:30:12,760 --> 00:30:17,280
Speaker 2: After the twenty seventeen season, and the next year he

503
00:30:17,400 --> 00:30:22,520
Speaker 2: was not at Alabama. He says he wasn't kicked off

504
00:30:22,560 --> 00:30:28,800
Speaker 2: the team, but that I mean, so, I don't know.

505
00:30:28,920 --> 00:30:32,480
Speaker 2: I sometimes I look at it, you know, I see

506
00:30:32,520 --> 00:30:38,000
Speaker 2: people saying, like, what would Saban have done? And I

507
00:30:38,040 --> 00:30:42,000
Speaker 2: want to answer, like Leaf, he left, he saw this coming.

508
00:30:42,720 --> 00:30:47,520
Speaker 2: The type of kids they're coaching have changed, the level

509
00:30:47,560 --> 00:30:49,320
Speaker 2: of accountability has changed.

510
00:30:49,720 --> 00:30:52,440
Speaker 1: Coaches. I don't think that would have happened with Nick

511
00:30:52,480 --> 00:30:54,960
Speaker 1: Saban either. They wouldn't have tried him like that.

512
00:30:56,360 --> 00:30:59,240
Speaker 2: Yeah maybe not, maybe not, But I but you know,

513
00:30:59,280 --> 00:31:03,640
Speaker 2: it's not like his the first issue Alabama's ever out

514
00:31:03,640 --> 00:31:07,400
Speaker 2: on the sideline. It's a very passionate sideline. So you know,

515
00:31:07,480 --> 00:31:09,360
Speaker 2: maybe they know him really, really well, and it just

516
00:31:09,400 --> 00:31:11,960
Speaker 2: comes down to the fact that, like they they were

517
00:31:11,960 --> 00:31:15,000
Speaker 2: getting embarrassed and he reacted the way that he reacted.

518
00:31:15,440 --> 00:31:18,840
Speaker 2: Time will tell who he is as a person. You

519
00:31:18,840 --> 00:31:22,000
Speaker 2: shouldn't it shouldn't all be earned. In one instance, for

520
00:31:22,120 --> 00:31:24,880
Speaker 2: people who were watching that game, especially people who tuned

521
00:31:24,920 --> 00:31:26,560
Speaker 2: into the end of that game to see if van

522
00:31:26,640 --> 00:31:28,120
Speaker 2: Bilt was gonna pull it off, this is the only

523
00:31:28,160 --> 00:31:31,440
Speaker 2: impression of him they'll ever have. But at the same time,

524
00:31:31,560 --> 00:31:33,760
Speaker 2: like coaches complained about a million different things, but I

525
00:31:33,800 --> 00:31:36,200
Speaker 2: do believe that they're right about this. The type of

526
00:31:36,320 --> 00:31:40,920
Speaker 2: kid out there in the world is a little.

527
00:31:40,640 --> 00:31:42,960
Speaker 1: Bit different now.

528
00:31:44,040 --> 00:31:46,880
Speaker 2: Kids haven't changed, And Kenny Dillingham said this, The kids

529
00:31:46,880 --> 00:31:49,520
Speaker 2: haven't changed, the adults have. And I believe that. I

530
00:31:49,560 --> 00:31:54,160
Speaker 2: believe what kids have been allowed to do is what

531
00:31:54,400 --> 00:32:00,000
Speaker 2: contributed to them changing. The standards, the level of adversity,

532
00:31:59,840 --> 00:32:02,240
Speaker 2: the ease of movement to get away from things that

533
00:32:02,320 --> 00:32:05,160
Speaker 2: are that are really really hard, like the fact that

534
00:32:05,160 --> 00:32:07,440
Speaker 2: you do have to be very intentional with a kid

535
00:32:07,440 --> 00:32:09,080
Speaker 2: that you're raising in today's day and age, and you

536
00:32:09,120 --> 00:32:10,840
Speaker 2: know this, George, you gotta wake your kid up in

537
00:32:10,840 --> 00:32:13,200
Speaker 2: the morning and say let's go do something hard today.

538
00:32:13,640 --> 00:32:17,000
Speaker 2: You have to opt into hard because I gotta be honest, man,

539
00:32:17,040 --> 00:32:19,360
Speaker 2: there are so many better options for these kids just

540
00:32:19,400 --> 00:32:22,320
Speaker 2: to spend their day than football.

541
00:32:22,400 --> 00:32:25,680
Speaker 1: Like some of these video games. You just step into

542
00:32:25,720 --> 00:32:26,080
Speaker 1: the game.

543
00:32:26,400 --> 00:32:28,640
Speaker 2: It's open world and you could just live there and

544
00:32:28,680 --> 00:32:30,360
Speaker 2: it's a better life than the one you live in

545
00:32:30,400 --> 00:32:34,080
Speaker 2: your house, and you don't have to sweat, and you

546
00:32:34,120 --> 00:32:37,440
Speaker 2: don't have to get cussed at. Though someone's twelve year

547
00:32:37,440 --> 00:32:39,160
Speaker 2: old son on there will be on there calling you

548
00:32:39,240 --> 00:32:41,720
Speaker 2: racial epithets, for sure, but you don't have to be

549
00:32:41,840 --> 00:32:44,040
Speaker 2: cussed at by anybody who has any power over you,

550
00:32:44,360 --> 00:32:47,200
Speaker 2: and you could just have fun like that. We've reached

551
00:32:47,280 --> 00:32:49,120
Speaker 2: kind of a level, and not to dump on kids,

552
00:32:49,120 --> 00:32:50,640
Speaker 2: but we've reached the level where the things that they

553
00:32:50,640 --> 00:32:53,440
Speaker 2: have access to, they have to choose what's hard, and

554
00:32:53,480 --> 00:32:55,960
Speaker 2: it gets harder and harder. And Nick Saban walked away

555
00:32:56,000 --> 00:32:58,240
Speaker 2: from it, and I think it was a confluence of things.

556
00:32:58,600 --> 00:33:02,480
Speaker 2: But just to go back to Alabama fans, they're not

557
00:33:02,640 --> 00:33:05,840
Speaker 2: used to Hart either, they're not used to losing to Vanderbilt.

558
00:33:07,280 --> 00:33:11,720
Speaker 2: To complain about Kaylen deborus shirt, that's the most relatable

559
00:33:11,760 --> 00:33:13,600
Speaker 2: thing in the world to me, and I.

560
00:33:13,600 --> 00:33:18,800
Speaker 1: Goes South Carolina this week. If they lose to South

561
00:33:18,840 --> 00:33:23,400
Speaker 1: Carolina two, Kaylen Debor is gonna be Oh I do,

562
00:33:23,680 --> 00:33:27,080
Speaker 1: They're gonna have to put him in witness protection in Tuscaloosa.

563
00:33:27,840 --> 00:33:30,920
Speaker 2: He actually like he might have to wear a suit

564
00:33:31,160 --> 00:33:38,600
Speaker 2: because it will be his funeral casket. Like, I've never

565
00:33:38,640 --> 00:33:40,880
Speaker 2: been able to relate to Alabama fans more than I

566
00:33:40,920 --> 00:33:43,480
Speaker 2: have over this freak out about Kaylen de Bor's shirt, though,

567
00:33:43,680 --> 00:33:46,960
Speaker 2: because I like, just think about think about your life, George, Like,

568
00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:48,520
Speaker 2: think about all the things you have going on. I

569
00:33:48,520 --> 00:33:49,960
Speaker 2: think about all the things that I have going on.

570
00:33:50,280 --> 00:33:53,400
Speaker 2: I got four kids who're in three sports, three of

571
00:33:53,440 --> 00:33:58,120
Speaker 2: them are teenagers. We're in the middle of you know,

572
00:33:58,200 --> 00:33:59,960
Speaker 2: this is a very fun job, but the most stressed

573
00:34:00,240 --> 00:34:02,320
Speaker 2: part of our year with everything we do with Unafraid Show.

574
00:34:02,520 --> 00:34:04,480
Speaker 2: You know, we're out here putting in sixteen seventeen hour

575
00:34:04,560 --> 00:34:09,400
Speaker 2: days on this. You know, our wives are both very accomplished,

576
00:34:09,480 --> 00:34:12,880
Speaker 2: very busy people with a lot going on. Not everything

577
00:34:12,920 --> 00:34:15,600
Speaker 2: goes great at their work all the time. Not everything

578
00:34:15,600 --> 00:34:17,200
Speaker 2: goes great to our work all the time. Not everything

579
00:34:17,239 --> 00:34:19,240
Speaker 2: goes great with our kids all the time. Not everything

580
00:34:19,280 --> 00:34:21,480
Speaker 2: goes great with our extended family all the time, stuff

581
00:34:21,480 --> 00:34:23,440
Speaker 2: in our homes is falling apart. There's a lot going on,

582
00:34:23,600 --> 00:34:26,239
Speaker 2: right and at the end of the day, at the

583
00:34:26,360 --> 00:34:28,160
Speaker 2: end of the day, if the one thing that I

584
00:34:28,200 --> 00:34:32,759
Speaker 2: can control is getting mad at my wife for leaving

585
00:34:32,760 --> 00:34:36,240
Speaker 2: a wine glass next to the bed on the bedside table,

586
00:34:36,480 --> 00:34:38,440
Speaker 2: and the thing that she can control is getting mad

587
00:34:38,440 --> 00:34:41,239
Speaker 2: at me for not ever once putting my socks in

588
00:34:41,239 --> 00:34:44,279
Speaker 2: the hamper in twenty years of our marriage, then that's

589
00:34:44,320 --> 00:34:46,919
Speaker 2: gonna be the one place where our frustration comes out,

590
00:34:47,760 --> 00:34:49,959
Speaker 2: like that's gonna be the only thing that we even

591
00:34:50,040 --> 00:34:53,600
Speaker 2: know to like. Life is overwhelming right now, Please put

592
00:34:53,600 --> 00:34:57,480
Speaker 2: your socks away like that. That's and that's what Alabama

593
00:34:57,480 --> 00:34:59,279
Speaker 2: fans are going through right now. And I just it.

594
00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:01,960
Speaker 2: It's funny to me because I get it. I'm not

595
00:35:02,040 --> 00:35:04,479
Speaker 2: mad at them at all. Keep yelling him about his shirt.

596
00:35:04,680 --> 00:35:07,320
Speaker 2: There's nothing you do about the fact that Diego Pavia

597
00:35:07,800 --> 00:35:14,240
Speaker 2: shredded you lost to Vanderbilt in the Cumberland River.

598
00:35:15,320 --> 00:35:19,400
Speaker 1: You guys. And there's a video about uh Diego Pavia

599
00:35:19,480 --> 00:35:22,680
Speaker 1: and who he is and how he got here. Bruh.

600
00:35:22,719 --> 00:35:25,920
Speaker 1: It is crazy, crazy, cool story, including the Mama that

601
00:35:25,920 --> 00:35:31,799
Speaker 1: wouldn't even talk to him after he lost. Connor Stallions

602
00:35:31,920 --> 00:35:36,319
Speaker 1: was on Busting with the Boys, and out of all

603
00:35:36,400 --> 00:35:39,040
Speaker 1: the things that he said, because it was a very interesting,

604
00:35:39,360 --> 00:35:42,279
Speaker 1: uh interview, I want him here on Unafraid show. I

605
00:35:42,360 --> 00:35:44,640
Speaker 1: will be hitting Connor Stallions up because we need to

606
00:35:44,680 --> 00:35:51,680
Speaker 1: talk to the man. I do not like he acute. Well,

607
00:35:51,719 --> 00:35:57,520
Speaker 1: he levied an allegation, but in such casual terms that

608
00:35:58,320 --> 00:36:00,480
Speaker 1: the way he said it, it wasn't like yo, I know

609
00:36:00,520 --> 00:36:03,480
Speaker 1: some No. He said that there has been a a

610
00:36:03,520 --> 00:36:07,600
Speaker 1: school that has been using bluetooth technology to talk to

611
00:36:07,680 --> 00:36:11,840
Speaker 1: their quarterback for a while. And mind you, this is

612
00:36:11,840 --> 00:36:17,279
Speaker 1: the first year that in helmet communication is legal. Do

613
00:36:17,440 --> 00:36:24,600
Speaker 1: you believe him? Ralph? Do you believe good old Connor?

614
00:36:29,880 --> 00:36:32,920
Speaker 2: If you had just given me this information and said

615
00:36:33,400 --> 00:36:37,560
Speaker 2: there's a team, not a Big ten team, that for

616
00:36:37,719 --> 00:36:42,560
Speaker 2: years has been using helmet communication with their quarterbacks, I

617
00:36:42,600 --> 00:36:47,480
Speaker 2: would say I could see that. I could see that,

618
00:36:47,600 --> 00:36:51,399
Speaker 2: especially after all like the Houston Astros. Yeah, allegations and

619
00:36:51,480 --> 00:36:55,480
Speaker 2: like yeah, but sure like that that could be possible.

620
00:36:56,800 --> 00:36:59,880
Speaker 2: I wouldn't. If you get caught, you get a lot

621
00:36:59,920 --> 00:37:03,319
Speaker 2: of trouble, But like I could see someone trying to

622
00:37:03,400 --> 00:37:06,040
Speaker 2: use that to their advantage, and then you tell me

623
00:37:06,120 --> 00:37:08,520
Speaker 2: Connor Stallion said it, and like something in me is

624
00:37:08,600 --> 00:37:12,400
Speaker 2: like no, like I don't know why. I can't explain

625
00:37:12,400 --> 00:37:14,120
Speaker 2: to you what it is. I can't explain you what

626
00:37:14,120 --> 00:37:17,759
Speaker 2: it is. And it's not that he's not believable, it's

627
00:37:17,920 --> 00:37:24,360
Speaker 2: just that there when he does stuff like this, it

628
00:37:24,560 --> 00:37:27,680
Speaker 2: makes it you know that there's been a lot of

629
00:37:27,680 --> 00:37:30,560
Speaker 2: stuff said about him that's not true, Like the legend

630
00:37:30,560 --> 00:37:35,120
Speaker 2: of Connor Stallion's like, you know, sure the manifesto is real.

631
00:37:35,880 --> 00:37:37,440
Speaker 2: Sure he was able to do.

632
00:37:38,640 --> 00:37:41,600
Speaker 1: Of George Washington and Paul Bunyan and.

633
00:37:41,840 --> 00:37:46,400
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, And when he says stuff like this, it

634
00:37:46,440 --> 00:37:48,760
Speaker 2: makes me feel like he's in on his own.

635
00:37:49,360 --> 00:37:54,480
Speaker 1: Yes, dude, it's legends, dragon catches bullets with his teeth.

636
00:37:56,719 --> 00:38:01,719
Speaker 2: It's it's getting to be very like Americans. And like,

637
00:38:01,800 --> 00:38:03,759
Speaker 2: I know that there's a lot of people who like

638
00:38:03,880 --> 00:38:06,680
Speaker 2: look at Chris Kyle as a hero. But if we

639
00:38:06,719 --> 00:38:09,120
Speaker 2: get into all of the claims about Chris Kyle, there's

640
00:38:09,160 --> 00:38:10,359
Speaker 2: some wild stuff in there.

641
00:38:10,480 --> 00:38:14,600
Speaker 1: Yes, you got, We're like bo Jackson. Bo Jackson is

642
00:38:14,640 --> 00:38:17,680
Speaker 1: the sports equivalent of that. I tell people all the time,

643
00:38:18,239 --> 00:38:21,280
Speaker 1: the legend of boj I'm talking about pro Bo Jackson,

644
00:38:21,320 --> 00:38:25,000
Speaker 1: not not college that the legend of Bo Jackson is

645
00:38:25,040 --> 00:38:29,399
Speaker 1: greater than Bo Jackson, because it is people out here

646
00:38:29,480 --> 00:38:32,280
Speaker 1: that believe that Bo Jackson is a Hall of Famer

647
00:38:32,360 --> 00:38:35,160
Speaker 1: or should have been a Hall of Famer, And you're like, no,

648
00:38:35,239 --> 00:38:38,000
Speaker 1: there's nothing about his career that that should have been

649
00:38:38,000 --> 00:38:40,840
Speaker 1: a Hall of Famer. And the fact that he got

650
00:38:40,960 --> 00:38:43,759
Speaker 1: hurt that's actually the best thing for the legend of

651
00:38:43,800 --> 00:38:47,560
Speaker 1: Bo Jackson, because he would have had to be a

652
00:38:47,600 --> 00:38:51,239
Speaker 1: godlike figure to live up to the legend that is

653
00:38:51,280 --> 00:38:54,759
Speaker 1: Bo Jackson. And the tall tales that are sad about him.

654
00:38:55,120 --> 00:38:58,239
Speaker 1: I mean, think about like the Dion Sanders story. They

655
00:38:58,239 --> 00:39:01,280
Speaker 1: talk about his forty yard dash like he was Willie

656
00:39:01,280 --> 00:39:06,080
Speaker 1: Mays Hayes from Jajor League, Like he walked out of

657
00:39:06,120 --> 00:39:09,200
Speaker 1: the limo in his sweats and just ran up to

658
00:39:09,239 --> 00:39:12,080
Speaker 1: the line, ran a forty at the combiny, and ran

659
00:39:12,160 --> 00:39:14,759
Speaker 1: right back out the door. That's the way they tell

660
00:39:14,840 --> 00:39:17,560
Speaker 1: the Deon Sanders story too. And this is the way

661
00:39:17,600 --> 00:39:22,200
Speaker 1: that the Connor Stallions stories are are growing. And Ralph

662
00:39:22,280 --> 00:39:25,360
Speaker 1: I do believe that he is in on the plot,

663
00:39:25,640 --> 00:39:28,400
Speaker 1: that he is in on the script writing, or that

664
00:39:28,520 --> 00:39:31,280
Speaker 1: he sees the script writing. He like, oh, yeah, baby,

665
00:39:31,480 --> 00:39:34,880
Speaker 1: if I grow this is marketing. If I grow the

666
00:39:35,040 --> 00:39:41,680
Speaker 1: legend now, because somebody is going to employ Connor Stallions

667
00:39:41,680 --> 00:39:44,279
Speaker 1: at some point in time after his punishments come out,

668
00:39:44,800 --> 00:39:48,399
Speaker 1: and he served him, oh, he will be somebody's consultant,

669
00:39:48,520 --> 00:39:53,080
Speaker 1: and then I book it. Ralph Connor Stallions will be

670
00:39:53,280 --> 00:39:55,840
Speaker 1: a college football head coach at some point in what

671
00:39:56,000 --> 00:40:01,040
Speaker 1: in top I would bet anything on that.

672
00:40:02,360 --> 00:40:05,520
Speaker 2: I just immediately start doing division in my head, though,

673
00:40:05,600 --> 00:40:08,360
Speaker 2: Like now, because if you said that and so, like

674
00:40:08,640 --> 00:40:12,239
Speaker 2: I hear Connor Stallion said that a non Big Ten

675
00:40:12,360 --> 00:40:17,800
Speaker 2: team has been using bluetooth for helmet communication four years.

676
00:40:18,239 --> 00:40:20,480
Speaker 2: And and when I say that out loud, what I

677
00:40:20,520 --> 00:40:25,480
Speaker 2: actually like, strip it down to its common denominator. I'm like, Okay,

678
00:40:25,560 --> 00:40:29,120
Speaker 2: six years ago, Connor Stallion talked to a coach who said,

679
00:40:29,440 --> 00:40:33,600
Speaker 2: I bet you could use bluetooth for helmet communications for

680
00:40:33,680 --> 00:40:38,399
Speaker 2: a quarterback. Wow, like that that's how I like, I'm

681
00:40:38,480 --> 00:40:42,799
Speaker 2: imagining that. It's probably some version of that, Like it's not.

682
00:40:43,600 --> 00:40:46,640
Speaker 2: There's so many people involved, and I just there's so

683
00:40:46,719 --> 00:40:51,640
Speaker 2: many people involved in college football that it is extraordinarily

684
00:40:51,920 --> 00:40:55,719
Speaker 2: hard to keep things covered up. Over time, we went

685
00:40:55,760 --> 00:40:59,280
Speaker 2: through this with the Antonio Pierce story last last week,

686
00:40:59,760 --> 00:41:02,319
Speaker 2: like you, you would have to be so focused and

687
00:41:02,360 --> 00:41:04,879
Speaker 2: not everybody in that that you work with that has

688
00:41:04,920 --> 00:41:08,719
Speaker 2: the same logo on their polo is for you. A

689
00:41:08,760 --> 00:41:12,000
Speaker 2: lot of these people, even your grad assistants, are gunning

690
00:41:12,040 --> 00:41:15,839
Speaker 2: for your job. Even your even position coaches are looking

691
00:41:15,880 --> 00:41:19,320
Speaker 2: at decoordinators in the middle of the season in a

692
00:41:19,400 --> 00:41:22,200
Speaker 2: one in five season saying like, if they get fired,

693
00:41:22,239 --> 00:41:24,560
Speaker 2: I wonder how I can position myself to get.

694
00:41:25,960 --> 00:41:26,040
Speaker 1: Like.

695
00:41:26,280 --> 00:41:28,759
Speaker 2: It's not like everybody's on some big team and if

696
00:41:28,800 --> 00:41:31,200
Speaker 2: they know that you're doing something wrong, they will use

697
00:41:31,239 --> 00:41:32,560
Speaker 2: it against you.

698
00:41:32,560 --> 00:41:36,560
Speaker 1: You are one hundred percent right about that. But Ralph,

699
00:41:36,600 --> 00:41:39,360
Speaker 1: we got to get to the picks this week. We

700
00:41:39,480 --> 00:41:41,560
Speaker 1: got to get to the picks this week in the

701
00:41:41,600 --> 00:41:48,080
Speaker 1: world of college football. And it looks like, Ralph, last

702
00:41:48,080 --> 00:41:51,959
Speaker 1: week I was two and three, you were four and one,

703
00:41:52,600 --> 00:41:55,920
Speaker 1: and some kind of way you are ahead right now

704
00:41:56,000 --> 00:41:58,680
Speaker 1: at twenty and eleven, I am seventeen and fourteen.

705
00:42:00,680 --> 00:42:02,960
Speaker 2: My wife asked me to start using real money, and

706
00:42:03,000 --> 00:42:04,200
Speaker 2: I'm like, that will ruin it.

707
00:42:06,680 --> 00:42:07,600
Speaker 1: Why would that ruin it?

708
00:42:09,000 --> 00:42:13,000
Speaker 2: If I start actually like betting on first of all,

709
00:42:13,040 --> 00:42:14,600
Speaker 2: I don't think it would be these games that I

710
00:42:14,640 --> 00:42:17,040
Speaker 2: bet on. I think I would be more like in

711
00:42:17,080 --> 00:42:19,120
Speaker 2: the Weeds on the ones that I thought were sure things,

712
00:42:19,160 --> 00:42:21,120
Speaker 2: because we talk about a lot of the high stakes games,

713
00:42:21,200 --> 00:42:23,839
Speaker 2: right Yeah, but yeah, she was like, no, just like

714
00:42:23,960 --> 00:42:26,880
Speaker 2: you're if you're on a heater, just put money on it.

715
00:42:26,920 --> 00:42:28,719
Speaker 2: And I'm like, that will be the thing.

716
00:42:29,280 --> 00:42:31,080
Speaker 1: That that knocks you off the heater.

717
00:42:32,080 --> 00:42:35,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, because like twenty and eleven is not it's not bad.

718
00:42:36,280 --> 00:42:40,240
Speaker 1: No, that's no, that's beyond not bad. That's very good, Ralph,

719
00:42:40,600 --> 00:42:45,279
Speaker 1: that is very good. All right, So let's talk about it.

720
00:42:46,320 --> 00:42:51,920
Speaker 1: Let's talk about these these games. We got Texas at Oklahoma,

721
00:42:52,760 --> 00:42:55,520
Speaker 1: and this is a game that I am super excited

722
00:42:55,520 --> 00:43:00,400
Speaker 1: about the Red River rivalry. This is gonna be a

723
00:43:00,480 --> 00:43:03,399
Speaker 1: special game. This is an opportunity for Texas to keep

724
00:43:03,440 --> 00:43:08,040
Speaker 1: it going. I'm excited about this Red River rivalry. You

725
00:43:08,120 --> 00:43:14,160
Speaker 1: have Texas, they are what plus fifteen? Oh no, yo, sorry,

726
00:43:14,239 --> 00:43:19,520
Speaker 1: Texas is minus fifteen. They're at Oklahoma technically, even though

727
00:43:19,520 --> 00:43:22,600
Speaker 1: this game is going to be played in the Cotton Bowl. Ralph,

728
00:43:22,840 --> 00:43:25,840
Speaker 1: I could not be any more excited. Who are you

729
00:43:25,960 --> 00:43:27,359
Speaker 1: taking in this football game?

730
00:43:30,120 --> 00:43:34,560
Speaker 2: I think I have to go with Oklahoma. I think

731
00:43:34,560 --> 00:43:41,279
Speaker 2: it would be probably irresponsible to not go with Oklahoma

732
00:43:41,440 --> 00:43:44,439
Speaker 2: if you just stacked talent against talent. If you took

733
00:43:44,480 --> 00:43:48,000
Speaker 2: all Oklahoma's players and you put them at Iowa State

734
00:43:48,760 --> 00:43:51,839
Speaker 2: or something like that, then I think you might take

735
00:43:51,880 --> 00:43:56,919
Speaker 2: that minus fifteen because Oklahoma can't run the ball, They're

736
00:43:56,960 --> 00:44:00,520
Speaker 2: starting a freshman at quarterback, and they're just they're awesome,

737
00:44:01,000 --> 00:44:04,360
Speaker 2: awesome on defense, but it hasn't really worked this complimentary football,

738
00:44:04,719 --> 00:44:06,200
Speaker 2: but this is the Red River rivalry.

739
00:44:07,200 --> 00:44:11,320
Speaker 1: Everything goes out the window there, bro and then quinn

740
00:44:11,360 --> 00:44:15,160
Speaker 1: Ewer's first game back live reps for the first time

741
00:44:15,200 --> 00:44:17,960
Speaker 1: in over a month, so he could be a little

742
00:44:18,000 --> 00:44:20,120
Speaker 1: bit rusty time, he could be a little bit off,

743
00:44:20,400 --> 00:44:22,880
Speaker 1: and that could throw things off. I am going to

744
00:44:22,960 --> 00:44:25,920
Speaker 1: take Oklahoma plus fifteen as well.

745
00:44:26,400 --> 00:44:29,160
Speaker 2: And you should too if you're listening to this. Ten

746
00:44:29,239 --> 00:44:31,560
Speaker 2: out of the last eleven of these games were decided

747
00:44:31,600 --> 00:44:34,319
Speaker 2: by less than twelve points. Almost all of those were

748
00:44:34,360 --> 00:44:35,239
Speaker 2: one score.

749
00:44:35,840 --> 00:44:40,400
Speaker 1: Yes, and both of these teams have been extremely close

750
00:44:40,440 --> 00:44:43,799
Speaker 1: in recruiting rankings over the last few years. And everything else.

751
00:44:43,840 --> 00:44:47,520
Speaker 1: So even though Texas is the sexy pick, don't fall

752
00:44:47,520 --> 00:44:49,840
Speaker 1: in love I know sex sales, but don't fall in

753
00:44:49,840 --> 00:44:52,799
Speaker 1: love with it all right. Next game up, we got

754
00:44:52,840 --> 00:44:57,399
Speaker 1: Penn State minus five and a half at USC, And

755
00:44:58,280 --> 00:45:02,239
Speaker 1: on one hand, it looks like you USC has improved

756
00:45:02,360 --> 00:45:06,760
Speaker 1: on defense. But this five and a half points Ralph

757
00:45:06,800 --> 00:45:11,160
Speaker 1: where Penn State is favorite, give me the Nitney Lions.

758
00:45:11,480 --> 00:45:14,440
Speaker 1: I think that USC falls to three and three and

759
00:45:14,640 --> 00:45:18,160
Speaker 1: everything starts coming apart at the seams out there in

760
00:45:18,200 --> 00:45:21,880
Speaker 1: trojan Land, because they're already I've been on their message board.

761
00:45:22,000 --> 00:45:24,359
Speaker 1: They are not real happy right now.

762
00:45:25,239 --> 00:45:29,040
Speaker 2: Well, you pointed out five and seven over the last twelve, yep.

763
00:45:30,160 --> 00:45:33,160
Speaker 2: And Clay Helton was what over his last twelve before

764
00:45:33,160 --> 00:45:34,160
Speaker 2: he got fired.

765
00:45:35,880 --> 00:45:39,439
Speaker 1: Eight and four? I believe, right, and that is correct. Yep.

766
00:45:40,160 --> 00:45:46,040
Speaker 2: So this is I don't imagine USC fans having the

767
00:45:46,080 --> 00:45:51,680
Speaker 2: same reaction to the name Lincoln Riley that most of

768
00:45:51,800 --> 00:45:56,200
Speaker 2: college football does. There are names in college football where

769
00:45:56,239 --> 00:45:59,839
Speaker 2: the shine stays shiny, except for the people who are

770
00:46:00,200 --> 00:46:01,040
Speaker 2: closest to it.

771
00:46:01,680 --> 00:46:01,919
Speaker 1: Yep.

772
00:46:02,080 --> 00:46:06,480
Speaker 2: Right, And ask people about Cliff Kingsbury, you know, and so,

773
00:46:06,800 --> 00:46:10,560
Speaker 2: and Lincoln Riley is one of them that you know.

774
00:46:10,600 --> 00:46:12,480
Speaker 2: There's a lot of people in Norman right now who

775
00:46:12,520 --> 00:46:16,040
Speaker 2: are who are loading up the biggest fattest I told

776
00:46:16,080 --> 00:46:19,000
Speaker 2: you so. In the history of the world and getting

777
00:46:19,040 --> 00:46:20,920
Speaker 2: ready to just package it and ship it to l A.

778
00:46:23,120 --> 00:46:25,320
Speaker 2: I love Penn State in this game and has nothing

779
00:46:25,320 --> 00:46:26,080
Speaker 2: to do with USC.

780
00:46:26,200 --> 00:46:26,439
Speaker 1: USC.

781
00:46:26,600 --> 00:46:29,000
Speaker 2: Actually, I think they're on the right path and they

782
00:46:29,000 --> 00:46:32,920
Speaker 2: deserve respect for the progress they've made. They don't want respect,

783
00:46:32,960 --> 00:46:37,600
Speaker 2: they want to win, that's fair. But USC has improved

784
00:46:37,719 --> 00:46:41,359
Speaker 2: so much over over last year. And I actually think

785
00:46:41,440 --> 00:46:44,280
Speaker 2: offensively what they're doing is pretty cool because Miller Moss

786
00:46:44,480 --> 00:46:48,440
Speaker 2: doesn't move a lot and they're still scoring. But this

787
00:46:48,600 --> 00:46:52,560
Speaker 2: Penn State team is like the exact It's like Superman Kryptonite,

788
00:46:53,120 --> 00:46:56,560
Speaker 2: but like not Superman, because USC is not Superman.

789
00:46:56,640 --> 00:47:00,680
Speaker 1: It's like they are Minnesota but a little better on offense.

790
00:47:04,080 --> 00:47:06,839
Speaker 2: But they average giving up two and a half yards

791
00:47:06,880 --> 00:47:10,560
Speaker 2: of rush and they themselves averaged like seven yards of rush.

792
00:47:10,719 --> 00:47:13,799
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, dude, this but this is the kind of

793
00:47:13,840 --> 00:47:16,800
Speaker 1: game that us. He can win though, Like, this is

794
00:47:16,840 --> 00:47:20,880
Speaker 1: the way their season has been, so upset is possible

795
00:47:21,400 --> 00:47:23,960
Speaker 1: and that would get them back ranked. But if they

796
00:47:24,000 --> 00:47:27,000
Speaker 1: lose this game, boy oh boy. I went on their

797
00:47:27,040 --> 00:47:29,600
Speaker 1: message board. They were like, if we lose three games

798
00:47:29,640 --> 00:47:33,920
Speaker 1: after six games, the season's overweight. We're never making the playoffs.

799
00:47:34,600 --> 00:47:37,919
Speaker 1: And they're right about that. Next game up number two

800
00:47:38,080 --> 00:47:42,319
Speaker 1: versus number three, the Ohio State Buck guys head out

801
00:47:42,360 --> 00:47:46,480
Speaker 1: to you, Jean baby, and Ohio State is a three

802
00:47:46,560 --> 00:47:50,239
Speaker 1: point favorite, as they had to Auton Stadium. People don't

803
00:47:50,239 --> 00:47:52,959
Speaker 1: think them sixty thousand folks at Aunton Stadium are gonna

804
00:47:52,960 --> 00:47:57,080
Speaker 1: be loud, Ralph, but you've been there. It is one

805
00:47:57,120 --> 00:48:00,239
Speaker 1: of that, and people have been like, listen, they've been

806
00:48:00,280 --> 00:48:03,000
Speaker 1: to the Big House, they've been down to Tusco Little So,

807
00:48:03,120 --> 00:48:05,680
Speaker 1: they've been to this and that. They've played in front

808
00:48:05,680 --> 00:48:09,839
Speaker 1: of one hundred thousand people in Beaver Stadium and Penn State, Like,

809
00:48:09,960 --> 00:48:16,040
Speaker 1: you don't understand the actual math. The science says it

810
00:48:16,160 --> 00:48:19,960
Speaker 1: is the second loudest recorded outdoor college football stadium that

811
00:48:20,000 --> 00:48:24,280
Speaker 1: has ever been recorded, one hundred and twenty seven decibels.

812
00:48:25,360 --> 00:48:27,960
Speaker 1: So so I don't care how many people are in there.

813
00:48:28,600 --> 00:48:32,960
Speaker 1: It is set up. Acoustics matter that the science. Do

814
00:48:33,120 --> 00:48:36,840
Speaker 1: not let your thoughts and your ideas get it in

815
00:48:36,880 --> 00:48:43,320
Speaker 1: the way of what is verifiable, verifiable. Bring your own decibel.

816
00:48:43,400 --> 00:48:46,280
Speaker 1: I will be in the stadium. Give me my ducks

817
00:48:46,800 --> 00:48:50,200
Speaker 1: plus three. Actually I don't even want no damn points.

818
00:48:50,200 --> 00:48:52,840
Speaker 1: We win it out right. Ralph's biggest game of the

819
00:48:52,960 --> 00:48:55,840
Speaker 1: year so far because it's the next game, according to

820
00:48:55,840 --> 00:48:56,400
Speaker 1: coach Landy.

821
00:48:58,520 --> 00:49:01,000
Speaker 2: So I was I was visiting some high school players

822
00:49:01,000 --> 00:49:03,640
Speaker 2: that I used to cover and they lived in They

823
00:49:03,680 --> 00:49:06,799
Speaker 2: played for Oregon State, so they lived in Corballis and

824
00:49:07,360 --> 00:49:10,319
Speaker 2: one of them was a backup quarterback who I think

825
00:49:10,680 --> 00:49:13,520
Speaker 2: was moved to safety or wide Receiver's name is Mason Moran,

826
00:49:13,920 --> 00:49:15,680
Speaker 2: and I hope I'm not diamond him out on this

827
00:49:15,719 --> 00:49:19,800
Speaker 2: because it's a funny story. So I'm visiting Mason Moran

828
00:49:19,840 --> 00:49:22,400
Speaker 2: and he is like an emergency backup quarterback and he

829
00:49:22,480 --> 00:49:28,239
Speaker 2: got in against Oregon in Aunsen and I was like,

830
00:49:28,280 --> 00:49:31,440
Speaker 2: how was it? And he said I couldn't hear my thoughts.

831
00:49:34,880 --> 00:49:37,440
Speaker 2: And I've heard that phrase before, right, like it's I

832
00:49:37,440 --> 00:49:39,360
Speaker 2: couldn't hear myself think. So I asked him. I was like,

833
00:49:39,840 --> 00:49:43,000
Speaker 2: so that's not just an expression, and he's like, no, man,

834
00:49:43,239 --> 00:49:48,320
Speaker 2: it was too loud to think. Yes, too loud to think,

835
00:49:49,400 --> 00:49:51,719
Speaker 2: and so I always think about it. He's like, he's

836
00:49:51,760 --> 00:49:54,080
Speaker 2: like you can't let He's like, you can't let onto

837
00:49:54,080 --> 00:49:54,480
Speaker 2: the rest.

838
00:49:54,320 --> 00:49:54,759
Speaker 1: Of your team.

839
00:49:54,800 --> 00:49:56,759
Speaker 2: But like he's like, I didn't know what was going on.

840
00:49:57,920 --> 00:50:00,680
Speaker 2: He said it was real bad and that was for

841
00:50:00,840 --> 00:50:04,880
Speaker 2: a civil war game that was probably already out of reach.

842
00:50:04,640 --> 00:50:05,200
Speaker 1: At that point.

843
00:50:05,320 --> 00:50:10,040
Speaker 2: So you know, I I don't know I'm anybody who

844
00:50:10,120 --> 00:50:12,399
Speaker 2: is arguing with the science of that is just part

845
00:50:12,400 --> 00:50:13,840
Speaker 2: of the course of the age we live in. I

846
00:50:13,840 --> 00:50:18,200
Speaker 2: guess I would stick with arguing who is gonna cover

847
00:50:18,360 --> 00:50:20,759
Speaker 2: a mecca like Buka and.

848
00:50:20,640 --> 00:50:22,200
Speaker 1: Bukah and Jeremiah Smith.

849
00:50:22,880 --> 00:50:24,720
Speaker 2: Yeah, like, will you tell me who.

850
00:50:32,680 --> 00:50:36,759
Speaker 1: Mohammet is? One guy? But the and and he'll do

851
00:50:36,880 --> 00:50:42,640
Speaker 1: well the other corner. You better pick it up, buddy.

852
00:50:42,719 --> 00:50:46,400
Speaker 1: I hope he ate tweedies. You You're gonna have a

853
00:50:46,440 --> 00:50:48,680
Speaker 1: long day. But but a lot of it is going

854
00:50:48,760 --> 00:50:53,319
Speaker 1: to depend on Will Howard because he is not He's

855
00:50:53,400 --> 00:50:55,560
Speaker 1: not as good of a passer as cal McCord is

856
00:50:55,600 --> 00:50:58,759
Speaker 1: who was there last year. And if Oregon's defensive line

857
00:50:58,800 --> 00:51:03,319
Speaker 1: can get pressure, make him make some throws. All right?

858
00:51:03,360 --> 00:51:05,600
Speaker 1: Next game up Kansas State State.

859
00:51:05,640 --> 00:51:06,880
Speaker 2: By the way, I just want to say I'm on

860
00:51:06,920 --> 00:51:07,479
Speaker 2: Ohio State.

861
00:51:08,680 --> 00:51:14,839
Speaker 1: Yuck. What a look, sir? Colorado? Kansas State at Colorado

862
00:51:15,080 --> 00:51:18,399
Speaker 1: plus four and a half. So Colorado is a four

863
00:51:18,400 --> 00:51:22,640
Speaker 1: and a half point underdog, and Ralph I am taking Colorado.

864
00:51:23,160 --> 00:51:26,600
Speaker 1: There are multiple people who asked me. They were like, George, please,

865
00:51:26,600 --> 00:51:30,359
Speaker 1: don't pick Colorado. You're a jinx for Colorado. Don't do it.

866
00:51:30,680 --> 00:51:36,920
Speaker 1: I'm picking Colorado. I believe that Dion Sanders, I might believe.

867
00:51:36,960 --> 00:51:40,080
Speaker 1: Now I might. I believe if they win this damn

868
00:51:40,120 --> 00:51:42,839
Speaker 1: football game against Kansas State, because Kansas State I think

869
00:51:43,280 --> 00:51:47,279
Speaker 1: has the inside track aside from BYU, to win the

870
00:51:47,280 --> 00:51:51,399
Speaker 1: conference or at least make the conference championship game. So

871
00:51:51,800 --> 00:51:56,080
Speaker 1: give me them. Give me Colorado. They're they're able to

872
00:51:56,280 --> 00:51:58,600
Speaker 1: their defense is able to get a few more stops.

873
00:51:58,640 --> 00:52:02,120
Speaker 1: They're doing much much better. Give me the Buffaloes.

874
00:52:03,800 --> 00:52:09,120
Speaker 2: Okay, So of when I'm twenty and eleven, I think

875
00:52:09,160 --> 00:52:12,040
Speaker 2: you're seventeen and fourteen. Yeah, and I think we're both

876
00:52:12,120 --> 00:52:17,239
Speaker 2: zero and three on Colorado. So this has nothing to

877
00:52:17,280 --> 00:52:20,960
Speaker 2: do with how I actually feel we're gonna find out

878
00:52:20,960 --> 00:52:25,759
Speaker 2: which one of us it is, because I do think

879
00:52:25,840 --> 00:52:28,640
Speaker 2: I think Colorado is a pretty good shot in this game.

880
00:52:31,480 --> 00:52:35,600
Speaker 2: But I'm gonna take Kansas State. I'm gonna take DJ Giddons.

881
00:52:38,200 --> 00:52:39,839
Speaker 2: I don't think he gets the ball enough, but he's

882
00:52:39,920 --> 00:52:44,759
Speaker 2: been fantastic for them for Kansas State. But I do

883
00:52:44,800 --> 00:52:47,719
Speaker 2: think this game sets up so nicely for Colorado to

884
00:52:47,719 --> 00:52:51,520
Speaker 2: do something special, considering they're playing in North Dakota State

885
00:52:51,600 --> 00:52:54,839
Speaker 2: defense and they've already played North Kota State YEP this year.

886
00:52:54,920 --> 00:52:57,919
Speaker 2: Considering that Kansas State's three teams they've played that can

887
00:52:58,000 --> 00:53:02,800
Speaker 2: pass all passed on them. But I'm very curious, Like

888
00:53:02,880 --> 00:53:05,400
Speaker 2: I'm just I've been wrong every time, and I feel

889
00:53:05,400 --> 00:53:07,879
Speaker 2: like Colorado is gonna win YEP. So I'm gonna pick

890
00:53:07,920 --> 00:53:08,600
Speaker 2: Kansas State.

891
00:53:08,960 --> 00:53:11,560
Speaker 1: You see what one of us will be? Right? All right?

892
00:53:11,640 --> 00:53:15,880
Speaker 1: Last game up Old Miss at LSU plus three and

893
00:53:15,880 --> 00:53:22,360
Speaker 1: a half Ralph, So this is our fifth game. Brian

894
00:53:22,480 --> 00:53:27,719
Speaker 1: Kelly is on thin ice with the LSU folks, and

895
00:53:27,800 --> 00:53:31,520
Speaker 1: losing this game would be bad. But Old Miss. I

896
00:53:31,600 --> 00:53:34,600
Speaker 1: still don't know everything about Old Miss. That South Carolina

897
00:53:34,640 --> 00:53:38,680
Speaker 1: game didn't teach me anything, didn't teach me anything. So

898
00:53:40,080 --> 00:53:44,680
Speaker 1: I'm going to go with LSU. And this game is

899
00:53:44,840 --> 00:53:50,640
Speaker 1: in Death Valley, oh boy. And if Ole Miss loses

900
00:53:50,680 --> 00:53:55,520
Speaker 1: this game, this sends the SEC into chaos because they're

901
00:53:55,520 --> 00:53:58,239
Speaker 1: gonna want to get you know, Old Miss into the

902
00:53:58,239 --> 00:54:01,520
Speaker 1: college football playoffs. Like like they are having a hard

903
00:54:01,560 --> 00:54:05,600
Speaker 1: time the AP voters dropping SEC teams, but as they

904
00:54:05,640 --> 00:54:09,480
Speaker 1: continue to drop games, they ain't gonna have a choice,

905
00:54:09,719 --> 00:54:11,960
Speaker 1: and one of these two teams is taking a tumble

906
00:54:13,080 --> 00:54:17,880
Speaker 1: and I am I think that if ole Miss doesn't

907
00:54:17,920 --> 00:54:21,040
Speaker 1: lose this game, they're gonna end up at eleven and one,

908
00:54:21,600 --> 00:54:24,120
Speaker 1: ten and two at the worst. But if they lose

909
00:54:24,160 --> 00:54:27,680
Speaker 1: this game, this is a nine to three season aiding

910
00:54:27,760 --> 00:54:30,160
Speaker 1: for coming up. I'm taking lsu.

911
00:54:32,480 --> 00:54:35,400
Speaker 2: Ole Miss has to be careful because I mean, there

912
00:54:35,400 --> 00:54:37,800
Speaker 2: are a lot of teams that are that are transfer heavy,

913
00:54:37,840 --> 00:54:41,400
Speaker 2: but ole Miss is like not just transfer heavy, but

914
00:54:41,480 --> 00:54:44,719
Speaker 2: like the best mercenaries play at ole Miss.

915
00:54:45,000 --> 00:54:45,280
Speaker 1: YEP.

916
00:54:46,320 --> 00:54:50,799
Speaker 2: And the last time we saw a team not really

917
00:54:50,800 --> 00:54:54,239
Speaker 2: live up to expectations with a lot of people who

918
00:54:54,320 --> 00:55:00,200
Speaker 2: are there for the for the extra athletic opportunities that

919
00:55:00,239 --> 00:55:04,080
Speaker 2: are afforded to them was Texas A and M. And

920
00:55:04,120 --> 00:55:07,759
Speaker 2: that was a twenty twenty one recruiting class YEP. When

921
00:55:07,760 --> 00:55:10,919
Speaker 2: that fell apart pretty quick. So I think ole Miss

922
00:55:10,920 --> 00:55:12,840
Speaker 2: has put themselves in a situation where they kind of

923
00:55:12,880 --> 00:55:18,160
Speaker 2: have to win or implode. I think those are the

924
00:55:18,160 --> 00:55:22,160
Speaker 2: only two options because right now, Lane Kiffen already is

925
00:55:22,200 --> 00:55:26,640
Speaker 2: getting his name bantied about for other jobs. He earned

926
00:55:26,680 --> 00:55:30,520
Speaker 2: that with the life he's lived in college football. Yeah,

927
00:55:30,680 --> 00:55:33,480
Speaker 2: but when you have to deal with people talking about

928
00:55:33,520 --> 00:55:36,120
Speaker 2: your head coach getting taken away when you have to

929
00:55:36,120 --> 00:55:38,319
Speaker 2: deal with a bunch of people who are at your

930
00:55:38,440 --> 00:55:43,560
Speaker 2: school that might not have as much school pride, It

931
00:55:43,640 --> 00:55:45,520
Speaker 2: might not have drank as much of the kool aid.

932
00:55:46,600 --> 00:55:50,040
Speaker 2: They might have champagne instead because they could afford champagne.

933
00:55:50,520 --> 00:55:55,360
Speaker 2: You know, like it's it's a volatile situation. So I

934
00:55:55,400 --> 00:55:59,000
Speaker 2: don't want to see that happen. But let's he's coming

935
00:55:59,000 --> 00:56:02,440
Speaker 2: off of bye week. Brian Kelly, for all his faults,

936
00:56:02,520 --> 00:56:05,640
Speaker 2: is very good at coaching football. This game is super

937
00:56:05,880 --> 00:56:07,480
Speaker 2: super important. What's the line again?

938
00:56:08,080 --> 00:56:12,920
Speaker 1: Plus four and a half? So no, sorry, excuse me,

939
00:56:13,640 --> 00:56:14,920
Speaker 1: L s U plus three and a half?

940
00:56:18,680 --> 00:56:28,960
Speaker 2: Gosh, give me LSU. What Someone's gonna be mad?

941
00:56:29,600 --> 00:56:32,960
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, some fan base is going to be extremely upset.

942
00:56:33,480 --> 00:56:37,640
Speaker 1: And you guys make sure that you guys did you

943
00:56:37,680 --> 00:56:42,120
Speaker 1: take Oh L s U? L s U? Easy? Easy

944
00:56:42,160 --> 00:56:42,600
Speaker 1: work for me.

945
00:56:43,160 --> 00:56:44,799
Speaker 2: Can I ask you one more question before we go

946
00:56:44,920 --> 00:56:47,160
Speaker 2: because I want to get this I'm gonna clip this one.

947
00:56:47,640 --> 00:56:51,960
Speaker 2: Do LSU fans have a like a rite based on

948
00:56:52,000 --> 00:56:55,360
Speaker 2: what's happened recently? Should Should they be more patient with

949
00:56:55,400 --> 00:56:56,000
Speaker 2: Brian Kelly?

950
00:56:57,200 --> 00:57:00,280
Speaker 1: No, they should not be more patient with Brian Kelly.

951
00:57:01,280 --> 00:57:07,040
Speaker 1: They are a team that doesn't rebuild, they reload, and

952
00:57:07,239 --> 00:57:10,200
Speaker 1: the fact that this defense is not and he's a

953
00:57:10,320 --> 00:57:15,279
Speaker 1: defensive guy, is not been consistent and good. That's been

954
00:57:15,320 --> 00:57:18,400
Speaker 1: a problem. So yes, they have a right to hold

955
00:57:18,440 --> 00:57:20,680
Speaker 1: his feet to the fire. I wouldn't be talking about

956
00:57:20,720 --> 00:57:23,680
Speaker 1: firing him and under that stuff, but he should be

957
00:57:23,800 --> 00:57:26,280
Speaker 1: under significant pressure at this point in time in his

958
00:57:26,360 --> 00:57:28,360
Speaker 1: career at LSU.

959
00:57:30,040 --> 00:57:32,920
Speaker 2: All right. I mean they have two seasons since twenty

960
00:57:33,000 --> 00:57:38,760
Speaker 2: ten where they lost less than three games. One of

961
00:57:38,800 --> 00:57:42,080
Speaker 2: them they won a national championship and the other they

962
00:57:42,120 --> 00:57:45,120
Speaker 2: lost in the National championship. The rest of the time,

963
00:57:45,320 --> 00:57:47,640
Speaker 2: it's not they lose sometimes.

964
00:57:47,960 --> 00:57:53,320
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, well listen, with all the talent in Louisiana,

965
00:57:54,280 --> 00:57:57,360
Speaker 1: the thing that they struggled with at times was offense.

966
00:57:57,680 --> 00:58:02,760
Speaker 1: It's the defense that is an issue. So it's not

967
00:58:02,880 --> 00:58:05,560
Speaker 1: that everything's going to be perfect. I think the fans

968
00:58:05,640 --> 00:58:08,080
Speaker 1: just want to see a more consistent brand of football,

969
00:58:08,560 --> 00:58:09,760
Speaker 1: especially on the defensive end.

970
00:58:10,560 --> 00:58:13,080
Speaker 2: They would let they rather lose thirteen to seven than

971
00:58:14,160 --> 00:58:18,280
Speaker 2: than forty five thirty eight. Yes, they'd rather go nine

972
00:58:18,320 --> 00:58:21,000
Speaker 2: and three in a bunch of rock fights.

973
00:58:21,360 --> 00:58:27,520
Speaker 1: Yes, and where their defense is stoning people. Yes, all right,

974
00:58:28,760 --> 00:58:31,920
Speaker 1: and you guys, that's the Unafraid Show. I'm George reis Er.

975
00:58:32,000 --> 00:58:36,160
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976
00:58:36,320 --> 00:58:37,600
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