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Speaker 1: Welcome to laking Is Live this Sunday night, November twenty seventh,

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Speaker 1: The over Lord twenty twenty two, and hear that no

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Speaker 1: matter how hard some of you try, this game cannot

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Speaker 1: be playing on paper, and a lesson continues to be

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Speaker 1: taught weekend and week out jam packed. We are high

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Speaker 1: atap a confused downtown Nashville, Tennessee. Why because the game

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Speaker 1: is not played on paper and there were a lot

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Speaker 1: of expectations going into Rivalry Saturday that did not exactly

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Speaker 1: pan out. I have got a lot to say about

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Speaker 1: Michigan versus Ohio State, a TVMA special in Columbus, Ohio yesterday.

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Speaker 1: We were there, We were on the sidelines for it.

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Speaker 1: We will discuss momentarily full Week thirteen reaction. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I'll go all the way back to Friday night. There

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Speaker 1: was some things that happened Friday night that I want

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Speaker 1: to discuss. There's plenty that happened yesterday. Don't miss this show.

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Speaker 1: This is not one to fast forward through. There is

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Speaker 1: a lot of meat on the bone.

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Speaker 2: Tonight.

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Speaker 3: Playoff could get put in a blender here now. Chalk holds.

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Speaker 3: Chalk holds, and I'm just wrong. But if anybody slips

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Speaker 3: up this week, as this sport is prone to have happen,

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Speaker 3: A healthy debate, scratch that, a very toxic debate will

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Speaker 3: unfold between the Bamas of the world and the Ohio

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Speaker 3: States of the world and the one lost non conference

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Speaker 3: champs of the world.

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Speaker 2: It could be gross.

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Speaker 3: We're gonna be here for it, though tons of coaching intel.

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Speaker 3: I've got my cell phone, my eye Josh turned face

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Speaker 3: up as opposed to the usual face down, because there's

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Speaker 3: stuff happening even during our show as we speak, so

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Speaker 3: I don't want to miss out. And if I have

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Speaker 3: things that I can pass along to you, I sure will.

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Speaker 3: Newport News, Virginia, they're watching us there. We appreciate that

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Speaker 3: they're watching and listening. In Jacksonville, Florida. I don't know

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Speaker 3: what happened to you guys's mascot there on the NFL level,

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Speaker 3: but in the college level, lot of fans that we

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Speaker 3: have down that way Durant, Oklahoma tuned in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

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Speaker 3: Probably a fun time up there, at least for the

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Speaker 3: Wolverine side of the fence yesterday. I can't stress enough

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Speaker 3: as we dive into the show tonight, how imperative it

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Speaker 3: is to be following the social channels at Late Kick Josh.

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Speaker 3: It's the same on Instagram as it is on Twitter.

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Speaker 3: You get different things on different platforms. But there is

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Speaker 3: a lot in addition to what I give you on

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Speaker 3: the show and the podcast that is especially pop in

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Speaker 3: this time of year. This time of year, the overlap

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Speaker 3: of conference championship week, coaching hot seats and coaching firings

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Speaker 3: and hirings, and also we have recruiting that's about to

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Speaker 3: really really heat up. Transfer portal season as we speak,

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Speaker 3: is really heating up. It doesn't all happen nice and

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Speaker 3: neatly right before our show, So make sure you're tuned

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Speaker 3: in there. Okay, let's dive in because we got so

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Speaker 3: many different places to go. The show could be four

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Speaker 3: hours tonight. It won't be, but I'm just saying it

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Speaker 3: could be. We could make it for if we wanted to.

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Speaker 3: But Collin's got to get home, he's got to bedtime.

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Speaker 3: Why don't we play these games? It's a question I'm

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Speaker 3: going to ask you a lot tonight, Colin.

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Speaker 2: Here's a better endpoint.

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Speaker 3: Why do we play these games? These college football games?

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Speaker 3: They look so nice and neat on paper. Why do

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Speaker 3: we play them well. Michigan forty five, Ohio State twenty three.

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Speaker 3: That's one reason why we play the games. I guess

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Speaker 3: Buck guys about a seven and a half or an

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Speaker 3: eight point favorite going into this game. I was on

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Speaker 3: the field for this. As you can imagine, it was

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Speaker 3: pretty jarring to witness. Pales in comparison to how jarring

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Speaker 3: it was for the Ohio State players. I want to

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Speaker 3: do is I'll go to a postgame press conference. I

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Speaker 3: actually went to Ryan Day's postgame press conference yesterday, and

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Speaker 3: So I did that yesterday. Two things I probably will

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Speaker 3: never forget. Number one, how defeated and how stunned. Ryan

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Speaker 3: Day was handled himself fine postgame, just saying, these folks

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Speaker 2: They thought they were going to run all over them.

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Speaker 3: You know, we see things you don't see, and one

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Speaker 2: It was a blowout game.

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Speaker 3: And then the game's over and they're starting to do

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Speaker 3: Contributors to Yesterday's when they just stayed there and watched,

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Speaker 3: not competition. The beautiful thing about games like this is

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Speaker 2: But it was never a problem.

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Speaker 3: Why because you knew you were going to eventually arrive

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Speaker 3: a playing surface. How was Michigan going to pull off

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Speaker 3: to pull off something impossible, all a team has to

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Speaker 3: We won the games without them doing it, but boy,

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Speaker 2: And it's also simple.

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Speaker 3: The game that was put in front of them is

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Speaker 3: Ohio State decided we're not letting Blake Corean beat us.

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Speaker 3: this is a Michigan passing attack that, as I said,

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Speaker 3: it was always there. As I said Thursday, you just listen,

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Speaker 2: How will you ever keep up with him?

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Speaker 3: He never changed. There's a fine line between cerebral and stubborn,

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Speaker 3: They never flinched. That's what confidence is. That program never flinched,

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Speaker 2: No, he's not.

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Speaker 3: He's the best they've had up there. He's the best

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Speaker 3: Likewise, in the backfield, they're playing with that their top

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Speaker 3: Michigan just kind of tacked on another touchdown, why because

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Speaker 3: And when Ryan Day was getting asked, I'm going to

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Speaker 2: What are the changes?

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Speaker 3: fourth and five, fourth and six, let's go for it.

437
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Speaker 2: Does he regret that?

438
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Speaker 3: Does he regret you know, several other things from a

439
00:21:54,880 --> 00:21:57,480
Speaker 3: play calling perspective. Does he regret any of the hires?

440
00:21:57,520 --> 00:21:59,760
Speaker 3: Does he think strength and conditioning needs to be overhauled?

441
00:22:00,119 --> 00:22:03,720
Speaker 3: All of these things are holistically normally given as the

442
00:22:03,920 --> 00:22:07,800
Speaker 3: reason why someone lost. It could be ten percent of

443
00:22:08,000 --> 00:22:10,320
Speaker 3: ten different things need to be overhauled.

444
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Speaker 2: This is a very very good program.

445
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Speaker 3: So this is not a treasure or trash situation as

446
00:22:15,640 --> 00:22:17,960
Speaker 3: it's normally made out to be. Ryan Day, It's not

447
00:22:18,000 --> 00:22:21,679
Speaker 3: treasure versus trash. The reality is about ninety eight percent

448
00:22:21,720 --> 00:22:25,320
Speaker 3: of the sport is somewhere between treasure and trash, and

449
00:22:25,440 --> 00:22:28,439
Speaker 3: Ryan Day's between treasure and trash, a lot closer to

450
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Speaker 3: treasure than he is trash.

451
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Speaker 2: The Ohio State.

452
00:22:30,760 --> 00:22:33,760
Speaker 3: Program right now somewhere between it a lot closer to

453
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Speaker 3: treasure than they are trash. There was talk last night,

454
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Speaker 3: mind you, not by serious people, but there was talk

455
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Speaker 3: last night that we got to get him out of here.

456
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Speaker 2: I normally don't even entertain.

457
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Speaker 3: This foolishness, but it was so widespread I feel like

458
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Speaker 3: I need to at least entertain it, if to do

459
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Speaker 3: nothing more than bat it down. Ryan Day is one

460
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Speaker 3: of the best head coaches in America. Ohio State is

461
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Speaker 3: one of the best programs in America. They got soundly

462
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Speaker 3: beaten yesterday by also one of the best head coaches

463
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Speaker 3: in America, and also one of the best programs in America.

464
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Speaker 3: I'm gonna say a sentence here, but you won't believe it.

465
00:23:08,400 --> 00:23:11,960
Speaker 3: It happens sometimes now. Ohio State fans should never accept that.

466
00:23:11,960 --> 00:23:15,040
Speaker 3: That coaching staff should never accept that, nor will they.

467
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Speaker 3: What I'm saying is you can go ahead and lose

468
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Speaker 3: it to him again next year, fire him if you

469
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Speaker 3: want to. And I was listening to Tom Fournelly talk

470
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Speaker 3: about this, and I don't think he's wrong. I think

471
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Speaker 3: there would be a big push to get rid of

472
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Speaker 3: Ryan Day next year if he were to lose to Michigan.

473
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Speaker 3: I'm not even gonna call your expectation level warped, because

474
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Speaker 3: the bottom line is you are one of two great

475
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Speaker 3: whites in your conference.

476
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Speaker 2: You played the other one yesterday.

477
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Speaker 3: Outside of that, you should soundly beat everybody that you play,

478
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Speaker 3: and so it really doesn't matter if you win ten

479
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Speaker 3: games or eleven games at Ohio State. If you lose

480
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Speaker 3: that one at the end of the year, it normally

481
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Speaker 3: means you're not gonna go play for the Big ten. Therefore,

482
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Speaker 3: you're not gonna go play for the national championship. And

483
00:23:59,600 --> 00:24:02,080
Speaker 3: you go oh for three on your goals, and this

484
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Speaker 3: is the second year in a row now that Ohio

485
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Speaker 3: State is going to go oh for three. And Collins

486
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Speaker 3: got a second piece of audio that I want to

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Speaker 3: play for you in just a second. But to tee

488
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Speaker 3: it up. Some people were taken aback nationally. I think

489
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Speaker 3: outside of the fan bases here, a lot of people

490
00:24:20,520 --> 00:24:23,440
Speaker 3: were taken by surprise that there was such a strong

491
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Speaker 3: and swift reaction this anti Ryan Day reaction, like, if

492
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Speaker 3: you guys have not trafficked in it, I'm not lying

493
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Speaker 3: to you when I say there is a non zero chunk,

494
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Speaker 3: like a sizeable chunk of the Ohio State fan base

495
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Speaker 3: that wants action taken against the head coach of the

496
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Speaker 3: program here, and if not the head coach, they want

497
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Speaker 3: sweeping changes made in the program. And you were taken

498
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Speaker 3: aback by that. For the reasons that I spoke about

499
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Speaker 3: last week, people simply had not allowed their mind to

500
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Speaker 3: go there because everybody associated with that program thought they

501
00:24:56,240 --> 00:25:00,399
Speaker 3: were going to beat Michigan comfortably. Yesterday, a big of

502
00:25:00,440 --> 00:25:04,320
Speaker 3: the nation thought that Ohio State was gonna beat Michigan comfortably. Therefore,

503
00:25:04,359 --> 00:25:07,119
Speaker 3: they had not allowed their mind to fathom what it

504
00:25:07,119 --> 00:25:10,119
Speaker 3: would be like if Ohio State lost. But on this show,

505
00:25:10,840 --> 00:25:13,879
Speaker 3: I had already gone there, and so it shouldn't have

506
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Speaker 3: been a surprise.

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Speaker 2: Colin, get it ready when this happened.

508
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Speaker 3: Do you understand how catastrophic that would be for Ryan Day?

509
00:25:20,760 --> 00:25:23,720
Speaker 3: Do you understand how catastrophic that would be, how big

510
00:25:23,720 --> 00:25:27,520
Speaker 3: a failure that would be for Ohio State football to

511
00:25:27,640 --> 00:25:31,399
Speaker 3: have had that collection of talent and two years in

512
00:25:31,440 --> 00:25:34,280
Speaker 3: a row be in a position to achieve all your

513
00:25:34,320 --> 00:25:37,280
Speaker 3: goals and have it wrecked by a Michigan team that

514
00:25:37,320 --> 00:25:40,080
Speaker 3: at one point you were dominating, and you got CJ.

515
00:25:40,160 --> 00:25:42,600
Speaker 3: Stroud at quarterback and you're not even going to play

516
00:25:42,640 --> 00:25:45,560
Speaker 3: for the Big Ten championship with him. Again, you got

517
00:25:45,560 --> 00:25:48,639
Speaker 3: a guy like Marvin Harrison. Heaven, in my minds, I

518
00:25:48,800 --> 00:25:52,800
Speaker 3: a blittan Akoff Award winning season right there with Jalen Hyatt,

519
00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:54,800
Speaker 3: and you're not even gonna play for the Big Ten

520
00:25:54,880 --> 00:25:59,080
Speaker 3: championship with him. Can you imagine those folks if they

521
00:25:59,160 --> 00:26:03,440
Speaker 3: lose that game. So there's pressure, there's always pressure, but man,

522
00:26:03,480 --> 00:26:05,760
Speaker 3: there's a different kind of pressure on Ohio State in

523
00:26:05,800 --> 00:26:09,199
Speaker 3: this game. That was the way it was always going

524
00:26:09,280 --> 00:26:12,120
Speaker 3: to be. It's totally over the cliff. It is burn

525
00:26:12,200 --> 00:26:14,080
Speaker 3: it to the ground and start over from scratch, and that,

526
00:26:14,119 --> 00:26:16,360
Speaker 3: in reality, is not the answer. But I'm not surprised

527
00:26:16,400 --> 00:26:20,399
Speaker 3: that that's the reaction. They had no answers yesterday. So

528
00:26:20,560 --> 00:26:24,240
Speaker 3: now I do want to suggest one thing, because everyone

529
00:26:24,280 --> 00:26:26,600
Speaker 3: wants to talk about Michigan and could they win a

530
00:26:26,680 --> 00:26:27,560
Speaker 3: national championship?

531
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Speaker 2: I got a really short answer for you.

532
00:26:29,240 --> 00:26:32,760
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, anybody who makes the playoff this year can

533
00:26:32,800 --> 00:26:35,239
Speaker 3: win the national championship. And the reason I'm kind of

534
00:26:35,280 --> 00:26:38,960
Speaker 3: reserving my take on Michigan moving forward is because I'm

535
00:26:38,960 --> 00:26:40,760
Speaker 3: going to talk about it a lot this week, like

536
00:26:41,840 --> 00:26:46,399
Speaker 3: it's incredible what Jim Harbaugh is doing with Ohio State.

537
00:26:46,680 --> 00:26:49,399
Speaker 3: I will tell you one thing, I gotta be careful

538
00:26:49,440 --> 00:26:51,080
Speaker 3: with my words here because it's going to sound like

539
00:26:51,080 --> 00:26:53,680
Speaker 3: I'm trying to be a hater of CJ. Stroud. I'm not.

540
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Speaker 2: I'm not a c J.

541
00:26:55,200 --> 00:27:00,080
Speaker 3: Stroud hater at all. I'm gonna speak generically. It's just

542
00:27:00,119 --> 00:27:02,159
Speaker 3: that watching this game kind of triggered this for me.

543
00:27:04,400 --> 00:27:07,840
Speaker 3: One thing and one direction that I think Ryan Day

544
00:27:07,880 --> 00:27:11,199
Speaker 3: will go and he should go. And one direction that

545
00:27:11,280 --> 00:27:13,800
Speaker 3: I think not only Ryan Day will go, but every

546
00:27:14,280 --> 00:27:16,560
Speaker 3: leader of an elite program should go, is there is

547
00:27:16,720 --> 00:27:20,280
Speaker 3: no excuse in twenty twenty two and beyond why you

548
00:27:20,320 --> 00:27:22,000
Speaker 3: don't have mobility at quarterback.

549
00:27:22,720 --> 00:27:24,160
Speaker 2: The quarterback position.

550
00:27:24,200 --> 00:27:28,200
Speaker 3: Has evolved so much over the last decade to fifteen years.

551
00:27:28,280 --> 00:27:32,000
Speaker 3: Lamar Jackson has been huge in this push. It used

552
00:27:32,040 --> 00:27:34,400
Speaker 3: to be that if you wanted a runner at quarterback,

553
00:27:34,640 --> 00:27:36,960
Speaker 3: you had to sacrifice arm talent to get it. He

554
00:27:37,080 --> 00:27:39,680
Speaker 3: was going to be a runner and he could throw,

555
00:27:39,880 --> 00:27:42,119
Speaker 3: but boy, you were really going to have to scheme

556
00:27:42,160 --> 00:27:44,520
Speaker 3: guys open because he's not going to be a precision passer.

557
00:27:45,280 --> 00:27:47,800
Speaker 3: That's not the case anymore. There is a generation of

558
00:27:47,880 --> 00:27:52,080
Speaker 3: kids now who are average two plus throwers of the football,

559
00:27:52,560 --> 00:27:55,600
Speaker 3: and you could even describe them as pass first guys.

560
00:27:55,840 --> 00:27:58,560
Speaker 3: Excellent in the pocket, but they can make plays with

561
00:27:58,600 --> 00:28:03,040
Speaker 3: their legs. And here's the most important part, they're willing to. CJ.

562
00:28:03,119 --> 00:28:05,800
Speaker 3: Stroud possesses exactly half of that package.

563
00:28:06,440 --> 00:28:06,760
Speaker 2: CJ.

564
00:28:06,800 --> 00:28:10,639
Speaker 3: Stroud's a phenomenal quarterback. He does not do what Bryce

565
00:28:10,680 --> 00:28:14,240
Speaker 3: Young does for Alabama. He does not possess the ability

566
00:28:14,920 --> 00:28:17,640
Speaker 3: to keep the defense up the night before they play him,

567
00:28:17,720 --> 00:28:20,000
Speaker 3: because they know, if all else fails, that guy's gonna

568
00:28:20,080 --> 00:28:23,080
Speaker 3: kill us with his legs. You've got to have it.

569
00:28:23,080 --> 00:28:27,000
Speaker 3: It's not a novelty concept anymore. In modern college football.

570
00:28:27,960 --> 00:28:30,960
Speaker 3: If you are an elite recruiting program, you should never

571
00:28:31,040 --> 00:28:33,560
Speaker 3: settle for just having a pocket passer on your team.

572
00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:34,879
Speaker 2: Never settle for it.

573
00:28:35,400 --> 00:28:37,919
Speaker 3: Do you understand how big a weapon, how big a

574
00:28:37,960 --> 00:28:41,440
Speaker 3: game changer it is? Look at JJ McCarthy. JJ McCarthy's

575
00:28:41,440 --> 00:28:44,200
Speaker 3: not a track guy. JJ McCarthy's not afraid to run

576
00:28:44,240 --> 00:28:46,640
Speaker 3: the ball. I think he had about thirty total rushing

577
00:28:46,680 --> 00:28:51,440
Speaker 3: yards yesterday. He transformed the football game because he's ability

578
00:28:51,600 --> 00:28:53,560
Speaker 3: to stick his face in the fan, or he's willing

579
00:28:53,560 --> 00:28:54,480
Speaker 3: to stick his face in the fan.

580
00:28:54,560 --> 00:28:57,360
Speaker 2: He can run the ball. He's willing to run the ball.

581
00:28:58,040 --> 00:29:02,000
Speaker 3: And Dylan Ray, for example, as a quarterback committed to them,

582
00:29:02,120 --> 00:29:04,680
Speaker 3: I think he fits this category. And I think that

583
00:29:04,760 --> 00:29:06,920
Speaker 3: they will have this taken care of in the future,

584
00:29:07,200 --> 00:29:09,640
Speaker 3: but they haven't had it this year. And the reality

585
00:29:09,720 --> 00:29:11,600
Speaker 3: is it wasn't going to bite them until this game

586
00:29:11,680 --> 00:29:14,600
Speaker 3: either way, but it bit them yesterday. Thirty one to

587
00:29:14,680 --> 00:29:17,680
Speaker 3: forty eight for three forty nine is a huge stat line.

588
00:29:18,360 --> 00:29:21,640
Speaker 3: It wasn't good enough, and it wasn't good enough in

589
00:29:21,680 --> 00:29:25,440
Speaker 3: the end because Ohio State they needed not just to

590
00:29:25,440 --> 00:29:27,200
Speaker 3: get to the red zone, they needed to punch it in.

591
00:29:27,720 --> 00:29:30,840
Speaker 3: And boy, that mobility at quarterback matters, and it matters

592
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Speaker 3: when you don't have it too. So that's one little

593
00:29:33,640 --> 00:29:36,360
Speaker 3: answer there. That's not your your cure all, but that

594
00:29:36,480 --> 00:29:39,240
Speaker 3: is one answer. There's a lot that's going to be

595
00:29:39,280 --> 00:29:41,520
Speaker 3: made out of this this week and in the coming

596
00:29:41,560 --> 00:29:45,280
Speaker 3: weeks because Ohio State season is done, I think, and well,

597
00:29:45,440 --> 00:29:47,600
Speaker 3: let me put a pause on that. I don't know

598
00:29:47,640 --> 00:29:51,200
Speaker 3: if their season's done, but I know whatever happens in

599
00:29:51,200 --> 00:29:53,680
Speaker 3: the future is gonna ring kind of hollow for them

600
00:29:54,160 --> 00:29:55,720
Speaker 3: at least the rest of this year because of what

601
00:29:55,760 --> 00:29:58,000
Speaker 3: happened yesterday. So I got plenty more on that game

602
00:29:58,000 --> 00:30:00,400
Speaker 3: coming up this week. We are just getting start here.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, Cole Colin.

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Speaker 3: search intel. I got some fresh intel for you. We

651
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Speaker 3: got hires being made like Wisconsin from the rafters today. Wisconsin,

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Speaker 3: Luke Fickle. That's not even what I'm about to talk about.

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Speaker 3: I will later. This one deserves a paper pop. The

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Speaker 3: paper pop on this show reserved only for the most

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Speaker 3: notable of topics. South Carolina beat Clemson yesterday thirty one

656
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Speaker 3: to thirty. Why do we play these games? I'll ask

657
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Speaker 3: you again, why why do.

658
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Speaker 2: We play these games?

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Speaker 3: Well? To shut people like me up who expect a

660
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Speaker 3: fourteen plus point Clemson win didn't take them long over

661
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Speaker 3: there on.

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Speaker 2: The Big Spur last night.

663
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Speaker 3: I needed Sherbert to delete the posts, but he didn't,

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Speaker 3: so I was just called out in front of God

665
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Speaker 3: and everyone, because those folks remembered, Yeah, he kinda sort

666
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Speaker 3: of predicted Clemson to beat us by seventeen or more,

667
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Speaker 3: not even just two touchdowns. In my defense, what I

668
00:32:55,280 --> 00:32:58,960
Speaker 3: would like you to remember is three weeks ago, South

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Speaker 3: Carolina does not score an offensive point in Gainesville. Thirty

670
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Speaker 3: eight to six was the final Florida rolls all over

671
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Speaker 3: South Carolina. And that answers my question, why do we

672
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Speaker 3: play the games? We play the games because the following

673
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Speaker 3: week they disposed of what looked to be a sure

674
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Speaker 3: fire participant in the playoff, just out of nowhere, sixty

675
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Speaker 3: three to thirty eight over Tennessee. Remember that, Well, if

676
00:33:25,360 --> 00:33:27,680
Speaker 3: you had forgotten that already, and let me take a

677
00:33:27,800 --> 00:33:31,720
Speaker 3: ceremonial sip of what is this orange blood? It might

678
00:33:31,760 --> 00:33:34,640
Speaker 3: as well be because everything that's orange that has been

679
00:33:34,680 --> 00:33:41,800
Speaker 3: put in South Carolina's path, Shane Beemer's just ah man,

680
00:33:41,880 --> 00:33:44,320
Speaker 3: it's illegal in some states what that guy's done thirty

681
00:33:44,320 --> 00:33:48,680
Speaker 3: one to thirty yesterday against Clemson. Do you realize Shane Beemer,

682
00:33:48,880 --> 00:33:52,880
Speaker 3: of all people, has disposed of half the potential playoff field?

683
00:33:53,640 --> 00:33:58,160
Speaker 3: Hoompstead defunk it, not even I, but it's happened this

684
00:33:58,360 --> 00:34:01,760
Speaker 3: right here, though after that Florida game. This is the

685
00:34:01,840 --> 00:34:05,720
Speaker 3: equivalent of like the Undertaker hand coming up through the

686
00:34:05,760 --> 00:34:09,160
Speaker 3: grass from the grave, from the buried, a live match

687
00:34:09,160 --> 00:34:11,960
Speaker 3: against mankind. I think Belcher was a ninety six. It

688
00:34:12,080 --> 00:34:15,480
Speaker 3: was in Philadelphia. I know that Where did this come from?

689
00:34:15,520 --> 00:34:18,120
Speaker 3: Where has this come from? Does anybody have an explanation

690
00:34:18,200 --> 00:34:21,200
Speaker 3: for me? I challenged the most dieheart of South Carolina fans.

691
00:34:21,600 --> 00:34:24,799
Speaker 3: Any of you who have documented proof following thirty eight

692
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Speaker 3: to six against Florida that you saw wins over Tennessee

693
00:34:29,080 --> 00:34:32,280
Speaker 3: and Clemson coming. I'm not going to call you a liar.

694
00:34:32,719 --> 00:34:35,279
Speaker 3: I simply want to see it, and I trust that

695
00:34:35,320 --> 00:34:38,040
Speaker 3: you know what I mean when I say documented. I'm

696
00:34:38,040 --> 00:34:40,440
Speaker 3: not going to take your cousin's word for it. I

697
00:34:40,560 --> 00:34:45,920
Speaker 3: need visual evidence. I need a paper trail. Please, single handedly,

698
00:34:46,000 --> 00:34:48,200
Speaker 3: man just wrecked half the playoff field here. You want

699
00:34:48,200 --> 00:34:52,920
Speaker 3: a padlock stat from this game? Three sixty to ninety nine.

700
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Speaker 3: Those were the respective passing totals from these two teams.

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Speaker 2: And it was Spencer Rattler.

702
00:34:58,880 --> 00:35:01,520
Speaker 3: Hanging three sixty, and it was DJ and it was

703
00:35:01,560 --> 00:35:05,319
Speaker 3: Clumson failing to hit the century mark. Ninety nine is

704
00:35:05,360 --> 00:35:09,080
Speaker 3: such an appropriate It just wouldn't ring as as fully

705
00:35:09,560 --> 00:35:12,760
Speaker 3: if they hit one hundred yards passing, so ninety nine

706
00:35:12,840 --> 00:35:17,840
Speaker 3: total yards passing they had I think eight completions. Dj

707
00:35:17,960 --> 00:35:23,480
Speaker 3: Uyangila lay was eight for twenty nine. You could play

708
00:35:23,719 --> 00:35:27,480
Speaker 3: quarterback for Navy some weeks and do better than that.

709
00:35:28,200 --> 00:35:30,600
Speaker 3: It's not just a DJ thing. This this is a

710
00:35:30,640 --> 00:35:33,120
Speaker 3: team issue, and it's not the first time it's popped

711
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Speaker 3: up this year. But this was a what I call

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00:35:36,239 --> 00:35:38,840
Speaker 3: a self talk special for me because I didn't go

713
00:35:38,880 --> 00:35:40,439
Speaker 3: to the game, I didn't get to watch it live.

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Speaker 3: So when I was leaving Columbus, Ohio last night, and

715
00:35:44,560 --> 00:35:46,759
Speaker 3: I big big thanks to Delta for getting me out

716
00:35:46,760 --> 00:35:48,680
Speaker 3: of there on time because it was pouring down rain

717
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Speaker 3: everywhere I.

718
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Speaker 2: Went except Columbus. This was the game that I dialed up.

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Speaker 3: This was the first game I watched on the flight,

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Speaker 3: and a self talk special is the kind of game

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Speaker 3: where I got my little earbuds so as to not

722
00:36:01,320 --> 00:36:06,760
Speaker 3: distract and disturb, and yet I'm watching something that grabs

723
00:36:06,840 --> 00:36:10,480
Speaker 3: me so much that I can't help but talk. I

724
00:36:10,600 --> 00:36:12,440
Speaker 3: feel bad for the lady that was sitting next to

725
00:36:12,480 --> 00:36:15,640
Speaker 3: me because I'm just steadily talking to myself the whole game.

726
00:36:15,960 --> 00:36:18,800
Speaker 3: Because that's how incredulous I am at what I'm seeing.

727
00:36:18,880 --> 00:36:21,120
Speaker 3: But here's what I expected. I knew what the final was.

728
00:36:21,200 --> 00:36:24,399
Speaker 3: I knew South Carolina had won. Trust me, every one

729
00:36:24,400 --> 00:36:26,719
Speaker 3: of my Carolina fans had let me know. The eye

730
00:36:26,800 --> 00:36:30,080
Speaker 3: Josh had had its battery drained from. I told you, sos.

731
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Speaker 3: But what I expected was thirty one to thirty. Okay,

732
00:36:34,200 --> 00:36:36,799
Speaker 3: how would this happen? Clemson favor by two ts noon

733
00:36:36,920 --> 00:36:39,480
Speaker 3: kickoff in Clemson? No less, I think they had won

734
00:36:39,560 --> 00:36:42,919
Speaker 3: like forty in a row there. How did this happen? Well?

735
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Speaker 3: The first thing, surely is South Carolina had multiple points

736
00:36:46,840 --> 00:36:48,719
Speaker 3: off turnovers and there had to be a lot of

737
00:36:48,760 --> 00:36:51,040
Speaker 3: hidden yardage here. And some of that's true, but the

738
00:36:51,080 --> 00:36:54,560
Speaker 3: other part is not true. In fact, it's the opposite.

739
00:36:54,600 --> 00:36:57,359
Speaker 3: This could have been a lot worse. South Carolina could

740
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Speaker 3: have won this thing a lot more handily than they did,

741
00:37:00,520 --> 00:37:02,680
Speaker 3: because I look at it, and if you tell me

742
00:37:02,719 --> 00:37:05,319
Speaker 3: Carolina wins thirty one thirty and that there was a

743
00:37:05,360 --> 00:37:07,920
Speaker 3: pick six in the game, and that that same team

744
00:37:08,040 --> 00:37:11,359
Speaker 3: also through an interception on the opponent's one yard line,

745
00:37:11,360 --> 00:37:12,600
Speaker 3: I would have said, that makes sense.

746
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Speaker 2: That must be how South Carolina won.

747
00:37:14,640 --> 00:37:17,120
Speaker 3: Then you tell me, No, No, it was South Carolina

748
00:37:17,160 --> 00:37:19,400
Speaker 3: that threw the pick six and still won. It was

749
00:37:19,440 --> 00:37:21,800
Speaker 3: Carolina that also threw a pick on the one yard

750
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Speaker 3: line and still found a way to win. They were

751
00:37:24,400 --> 00:37:27,080
Speaker 3: three of thirteen on third down and still found a

752
00:37:27,080 --> 00:37:29,640
Speaker 3: way to win. That's the kind of stuff that makes

753
00:37:29,680 --> 00:37:32,600
Speaker 3: you talk to yourself on an airplane because I still

754
00:37:32,640 --> 00:37:35,080
Speaker 3: really don't get it. But then I watched the game

755
00:37:35,440 --> 00:37:38,160
Speaker 3: and I see, hey, beember balls kind of still a

756
00:37:38,200 --> 00:37:38,960
Speaker 3: real thing, isn't it.

757
00:37:39,080 --> 00:37:41,759
Speaker 2: Special teams won in the football game. Spencer Ratler did

758
00:37:41,800 --> 00:37:42,440
Speaker 2: some good things.

759
00:37:42,440 --> 00:37:44,600
Speaker 3: He also made some really bad plays, but in the

760
00:37:44,719 --> 00:37:48,160
Speaker 3: end you saw what he threw for. Special teams won

761
00:37:48,239 --> 00:37:51,440
Speaker 3: miss game for Clemson. They had a great night punting.

762
00:37:51,760 --> 00:37:54,279
Speaker 3: But also when you look at that stat line for DJ,

763
00:37:55,680 --> 00:37:59,640
Speaker 3: don't misunderstand it. They were put in horrible field position.

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Speaker 3: All were the Clemson Tigers because of how good South

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Speaker 3: Carolina was in the punt game. And now they're an

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Speaker 3: eight win team. South Carolina started one and two. See

767
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Speaker 3: that's the other thing. If you told me they were

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Speaker 3: going to be an eight win team, certainly they had

769
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Speaker 3: to start two to one, but they didn't. They started

770
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Speaker 3: one and two. They got beat by Arkansas, they got

771
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Speaker 3: blasted by Georgia and still found a way to win

772
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Speaker 3: eight games. They beat back to back top ten teams

773
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Speaker 3: for the first time in program history. That just kind

774
00:38:31,080 --> 00:38:33,640
Speaker 3: of comes out of nowhere to me, but it happened,

775
00:38:34,040 --> 00:38:37,520
Speaker 3: and so it does end up being the case that

776
00:38:37,600 --> 00:38:40,640
Speaker 3: South Carolina has a better record than they did last year.

777
00:38:40,680 --> 00:38:43,319
Speaker 3: Seven wins last year, eight wins this year. As we

778
00:38:43,320 --> 00:38:46,560
Speaker 3: say on the show all the time, it's not always linear.

779
00:38:46,920 --> 00:38:50,000
Speaker 3: Progression is not always linear. And I told you I

780
00:38:50,000 --> 00:38:52,520
Speaker 3: thought they could go worse record wise this year and

781
00:38:52,520 --> 00:38:54,319
Speaker 3: be a better team. Well it turned out they went

782
00:38:54,400 --> 00:38:57,440
Speaker 3: better and were a better team this year. Now they

783
00:38:57,480 --> 00:39:00,200
Speaker 3: got Spencer Rattler in there via the portal, and that

784
00:39:00,320 --> 00:39:04,200
Speaker 3: was a big surprise last offseason. What will they do

785
00:39:04,320 --> 00:39:06,879
Speaker 3: this year? Because this was as big a recruiting tool

786
00:39:06,880 --> 00:39:08,160
Speaker 3: as it was a football.

787
00:39:07,760 --> 00:39:09,040
Speaker 2: Game for South Carolina.

788
00:39:09,080 --> 00:39:13,759
Speaker 3: I think everyone knows that, and LI not let me

789
00:39:13,840 --> 00:39:18,120
Speaker 3: discount the impact of beating Clumson. So it was a

790
00:39:18,160 --> 00:39:20,759
Speaker 3: big recruiting tool on top of being a football game.

791
00:39:20,920 --> 00:39:23,280
Speaker 3: I want to take that back because this was really

792
00:39:23,280 --> 00:39:26,080
Speaker 3: really huge for the program, really huge for the people there,

793
00:39:26,719 --> 00:39:27,640
Speaker 3: and they deserve it.

794
00:39:28,480 --> 00:39:30,239
Speaker 2: Really bought in fan base. They deserve it.

795
00:39:30,480 --> 00:39:33,800
Speaker 3: My love for the Carolina fan base is well documented, even.

796
00:39:33,640 --> 00:39:35,040
Speaker 2: Though I did pick them a lose yesterday and they

797
00:39:35,120 --> 00:39:35,799
Speaker 2: let me know about it.

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00:39:36,000 --> 00:39:39,480
Speaker 3: But then I also wonder, coming off of it, Okay, now,

799
00:39:39,560 --> 00:39:42,840
Speaker 3: what's that going to do for recruiting, Because now, unlike

800
00:39:42,920 --> 00:39:44,719
Speaker 3: last year, when you're trying to sell Hope and you're

801
00:39:44,719 --> 00:39:47,839
Speaker 3: trying to sell Vision and you do have at least

802
00:39:47,920 --> 00:39:50,680
Speaker 3: a decent season you're coming off of to sell, now

803
00:39:50,680 --> 00:39:52,280
Speaker 3: you've got to win over Clumson to sell.

804
00:39:53,480 --> 00:39:54,520
Speaker 2: That's a little bit different.

805
00:39:55,040 --> 00:39:57,640
Speaker 3: That's a little different ballgame when you got that and

806
00:39:57,719 --> 00:40:01,800
Speaker 3: two years in a row. Now you've exceeded expectation. Everybody

807
00:40:01,840 --> 00:40:04,040
Speaker 3: there loves the program. They love being in the program.

808
00:40:04,160 --> 00:40:06,759
Speaker 3: So you're never gonna have to convince folks and beg

809
00:40:06,800 --> 00:40:08,080
Speaker 3: folks to come to South Carolina.

810
00:40:08,120 --> 00:40:09,560
Speaker 2: Folks love it when they're there.

811
00:40:10,719 --> 00:40:13,120
Speaker 3: Now they got a reason to go there and also

812
00:40:13,320 --> 00:40:16,680
Speaker 3: expect to be able to compete. That's a pretty new concept.

813
00:40:17,160 --> 00:40:18,759
Speaker 3: I don't know what to make a Clemson right now.

814
00:40:18,920 --> 00:40:21,799
Speaker 3: I really don't. I think in some ways this was

815
00:40:21,800 --> 00:40:24,600
Speaker 3: a good year. In some ways it was a down year. Look,

816
00:40:24,719 --> 00:40:27,359
Speaker 3: they were on the fringes of the playoff conversation. They're

817
00:40:27,440 --> 00:40:30,360
Speaker 3: still going to go to the ACC Championship game. So

818
00:40:30,480 --> 00:40:35,640
Speaker 3: I'm not going to call that a wholesale failure, but

819
00:40:35,800 --> 00:40:39,040
Speaker 3: I am gonna call it reason to at least look

820
00:40:39,480 --> 00:40:42,080
Speaker 3: kind of side eyed and go all right, Dabo, what now?

821
00:40:42,560 --> 00:40:43,879
Speaker 2: What now?

822
00:40:44,160 --> 00:40:48,480
Speaker 3: And there's a public stubbornness to daboswenty, which I've never

823
00:40:48,719 --> 00:40:51,440
Speaker 3: bemoaned him for, because I think I'd kind of be

824
00:40:51,520 --> 00:40:54,160
Speaker 3: the same way, even if I do have some doubts

825
00:40:54,200 --> 00:40:57,200
Speaker 3: about what I'm doing right now, I'm just not giving

826
00:40:57,200 --> 00:40:59,799
Speaker 3: you the satisfaction of knowing it. And I think he's

827
00:40:59,800 --> 00:41:02,839
Speaker 3: been that same way sometimes. Now he came out and said, hey,

828
00:41:02,880 --> 00:41:06,479
Speaker 3: DJ's gonna start the ACC Championship game. That's this year.

829
00:41:06,520 --> 00:41:09,200
Speaker 3: I'm not even focused on this year. The ACC Championship

830
00:41:09,200 --> 00:41:11,839
Speaker 3: Game is going to be such an afterthought nationally. Even

831
00:41:11,920 --> 00:41:15,280
Speaker 3: I'm willing to admit that, then I'm already focused on, Okay,

832
00:41:15,320 --> 00:41:17,120
Speaker 3: what are you doing after this year? They're not going

833
00:41:17,120 --> 00:41:20,600
Speaker 3: to the playoff, They're ceiling is ACC Championship, and they're

834
00:41:20,600 --> 00:41:23,040
Speaker 3: favored I forgot what they're favored by. They're their favored

835
00:41:23,040 --> 00:41:26,440
Speaker 3: by a little bit. But his staff is his staff

836
00:41:26,480 --> 00:41:26,959
Speaker 3: good enough.

837
00:41:27,000 --> 00:41:29,360
Speaker 2: His roster. Is his roster good enough? I answer no

838
00:41:29,440 --> 00:41:29,680
Speaker 2: and no.

839
00:41:30,480 --> 00:41:34,120
Speaker 3: He may disagree on both fronts, and we'll see because

840
00:41:34,120 --> 00:41:35,640
Speaker 3: he'll went out there because he's the head coach.

841
00:41:36,160 --> 00:41:38,800
Speaker 2: But South Carolina.

842
00:41:38,360 --> 00:41:42,080
Speaker 3: Scored a big one yesterday, very very big. Now we'll

843
00:41:42,120 --> 00:41:44,719
Speaker 3: find out how big the ripple effect is.

844
00:41:45,040 --> 00:41:47,000
Speaker 2: When we watch the signing class they bring in and

845
00:41:47,040 --> 00:41:47,359
Speaker 2: then the.

846
00:41:47,280 --> 00:41:51,440
Speaker 3: Portal class they bring in. I'm gonna skip around here

847
00:41:51,480 --> 00:41:53,560
Speaker 3: a little bit, not on you, Colin. I'm going in

848
00:41:53,600 --> 00:41:56,440
Speaker 3: the order that you want me to make sure. Oh,

849
00:41:56,680 --> 00:41:58,760
Speaker 3: listen to this. This is sad.

850
00:41:59,160 --> 00:42:00,200
Speaker 2: This is really sad.

851
00:42:00,760 --> 00:42:04,200
Speaker 3: We've got almost six thousand people watching this thing and

852
00:42:04,320 --> 00:42:08,760
Speaker 3: less than one thousand likes. In what world is that? Okay,

853
00:42:09,280 --> 00:42:11,600
Speaker 3: do you know what happens if we don't get that

854
00:42:11,719 --> 00:42:15,319
Speaker 3: ratio up? Management Waltz is in here tomorrow. They would

855
00:42:15,400 --> 00:42:17,280
Speaker 3: never darken the door of this place on a Sunday.

856
00:42:17,400 --> 00:42:20,960
Speaker 3: They'll walk in here and they'll say that's not good enough.

857
00:42:21,560 --> 00:42:24,200
Speaker 3: Let's put it behind a paywall. Don't make them put

858
00:42:24,200 --> 00:42:27,239
Speaker 3: this behind a paywall, just like the video, and subscribe

859
00:42:27,280 --> 00:42:30,920
Speaker 3: to the channel. It's free. I'm only mildly irritated, but

860
00:42:31,000 --> 00:42:33,279
Speaker 3: it's so easy to do, and I know you're sitting there.

861
00:42:33,280 --> 00:42:36,000
Speaker 3: I have the evidence thumbs up. That's what like means,

862
00:42:36,040 --> 00:42:38,400
Speaker 3: and subscribe in the button says subscribe. So that's the

863
00:42:38,440 --> 00:42:42,080
Speaker 3: easy part. What is the latest? What is the latest

864
00:42:42,120 --> 00:42:45,680
Speaker 3: in the Auburn coaching search? Why do rumors persist? Remember

865
00:42:45,800 --> 00:42:49,960
Speaker 3: me Moo's three axioms of coaching searches. Why do rumors persist?

866
00:42:51,040 --> 00:42:55,160
Speaker 3: Option A they're true, Option B they're being used as

867
00:42:55,200 --> 00:42:57,759
Speaker 3: a smoke screen to hide what's really going on. Or

868
00:42:57,920 --> 00:43:02,239
Speaker 3: Option three they're being used as leverage, normally by a

869
00:43:02,280 --> 00:43:05,279
Speaker 3: candidate and or his agent. Well, what happened over the

870
00:43:05,320 --> 00:43:09,000
Speaker 3: weekend and what really was happening later last week is

871
00:43:09,080 --> 00:43:13,520
Speaker 3: Laane Kiffin's name was falling out of the Auburn coaching search.

872
00:43:13,760 --> 00:43:17,840
Speaker 3: It's never totally over until they've announced a higher but

873
00:43:17,960 --> 00:43:20,480
Speaker 3: that news started to break Friday night. Saturday morning, I

874
00:43:20,480 --> 00:43:22,960
Speaker 3: think that's when it broke publicly. A lot of folks

875
00:43:22,960 --> 00:43:25,840
Speaker 3: were hearing that. Even going into the Egg Bowl, he

876
00:43:26,040 --> 00:43:30,720
Speaker 3: was saying it, just not emphatically. It's been a bad

877
00:43:30,760 --> 00:43:33,680
Speaker 3: week for local TV anchors trying to break this story

878
00:43:33,680 --> 00:43:36,040
Speaker 3: in the state of Mississippi. I've told you guys who

879
00:43:36,040 --> 00:43:40,359
Speaker 3: to listen to listen to Chris Lowe. I'll tell you

880
00:43:40,719 --> 00:43:43,400
Speaker 3: the ones who are most connected and plugged in. And

881
00:43:43,440 --> 00:43:46,120
Speaker 3: I'm gonna tell you why the Pete Famils of the world,

882
00:43:46,120 --> 00:43:48,360
Speaker 3: and the Chris Lows of the world, and the Ross

883
00:43:48,360 --> 00:43:50,920
Speaker 3: Delingers of the world. Do you know why their word

884
00:43:51,000 --> 00:43:53,719
Speaker 3: is gospel in these coaching searches? And do you know

885
00:43:53,800 --> 00:43:57,959
Speaker 3: why local TV anchors normally with do you know why

886
00:43:58,640 --> 00:44:01,400
Speaker 3: podcasters normally? But do you know why I stay out

887
00:44:01,680 --> 00:44:04,319
Speaker 3: of the news breaking business because I know who their

888
00:44:04,320 --> 00:44:08,400
Speaker 3: sources are and their sources how should I say this

889
00:44:08,560 --> 00:44:11,759
Speaker 3: and not exactly give it away? Their sources are as

890
00:44:11,880 --> 00:44:15,759
Speaker 3: close to the situation as a source could possibly be.

891
00:44:16,800 --> 00:44:20,040
Speaker 3: The mirror is not closer to Lane Kiffen and the

892
00:44:20,040 --> 00:44:23,080
Speaker 3: coaching search there than Chris Lowe's sources. Have I been

893
00:44:23,160 --> 00:44:26,080
Speaker 3: clear enough there? Okay? Because I'm at these games and

894
00:44:26,120 --> 00:44:27,799
Speaker 3: I get to see some things you guys don't get

895
00:44:27,800 --> 00:44:30,160
Speaker 3: to see, So just wait until those guys report it.

896
00:44:30,480 --> 00:44:33,600
Speaker 3: But having said that, when that news starts to leak

897
00:44:33,640 --> 00:44:37,920
Speaker 3: out because Chris Lowe reported it that Lane Kiffen is

898
00:44:38,080 --> 00:44:41,439
Speaker 3: re upping with Ole miss and all of a sudden, well,

899
00:44:41,440 --> 00:44:42,680
Speaker 3: now where's Auburn going to turn.

900
00:44:43,120 --> 00:44:45,080
Speaker 2: Then the name Hugh Freeze.

901
00:44:44,680 --> 00:44:49,640
Speaker 3: Starts percolating a little bit more. And anyone who's watched

902
00:44:49,719 --> 00:44:52,759
Speaker 3: Late Kick knows that I've made my feelings known on

903
00:44:52,840 --> 00:44:55,600
Speaker 3: Hugh Freeze. I got no problem with you hiring him

904
00:44:55,800 --> 00:44:58,160
Speaker 3: at Pate State. I'd have no problem with hiring him,

905
00:44:58,560 --> 00:45:00,480
Speaker 3: but I know a lot of people would have problem.

906
00:45:00,800 --> 00:45:03,560
Speaker 3: So you've got to make your mind up before you

907
00:45:03,760 --> 00:45:08,080
Speaker 3: ever allowed the concept of hiring him to go public. Now,

908
00:45:08,960 --> 00:45:13,080
Speaker 3: what I don't necessarily know for certain, but what has

909
00:45:13,160 --> 00:45:17,960
Speaker 3: been speculated is Auburn had him high on their board.

910
00:45:18,680 --> 00:45:23,560
Speaker 3: I've got questions about that, Colex. Frankly, I don't necessarily

911
00:45:23,600 --> 00:45:26,280
Speaker 3: know that I buy that, But there are some reputable

912
00:45:26,280 --> 00:45:28,239
Speaker 3: people who disagree with that. So maybe they're right and

913
00:45:28,280 --> 00:45:32,080
Speaker 3: maybe I'm wrong. I've got some reasons to believe that

914
00:45:32,640 --> 00:45:35,279
Speaker 3: Hugh Freeze was never just the go to backup option.

915
00:45:35,560 --> 00:45:37,800
Speaker 3: I do believe there are some people close to Auburn

916
00:45:37,800 --> 00:45:40,000
Speaker 3: who want him to be that, but I don't know

917
00:45:40,040 --> 00:45:44,280
Speaker 3: if the decision makers thought that, because the decision makers

918
00:45:44,280 --> 00:45:48,120
Speaker 3: at Auburn are not talking, nor should they be. Remember that,

919
00:45:48,640 --> 00:45:51,480
Speaker 3: remember where information can come from only one of two places,

920
00:45:51,800 --> 00:45:55,719
Speaker 3: Either the Auburn side or the side of candidates and agents,

921
00:45:56,320 --> 00:45:59,520
Speaker 3: and right now one hundred percent of the information is

922
00:45:59,520 --> 00:46:02,600
Speaker 3: pretty much coming from that candidate agent side. That mean

923
00:46:02,640 --> 00:46:05,560
Speaker 3: it's all false, but it does mean there's an angle

924
00:46:05,560 --> 00:46:07,840
Speaker 3: there that's not being countered by.

925
00:46:07,640 --> 00:46:09,640
Speaker 2: Information coming from the Auburn camp. Anyway.

926
00:46:09,680 --> 00:46:10,960
Speaker 3: I say all that to say, there are a lot

927
00:46:11,000 --> 00:46:12,520
Speaker 3: of folks out there who think Hugh Freeze was a

928
00:46:12,560 --> 00:46:15,839
Speaker 3: slam dunk option B for Auburn. I don't necessarily think

929
00:46:15,880 --> 00:46:18,839
Speaker 3: it was that cut and dry, but for argument's sake,

930
00:46:19,280 --> 00:46:24,360
Speaker 3: let's say it's true. There is a widely held belief

931
00:46:24,440 --> 00:46:27,040
Speaker 3: right now that Auburn was ready to move on Hugh

932
00:46:27,080 --> 00:46:32,920
Speaker 3: Freeze and then they had to cool because of public backlash. Again,

933
00:46:33,160 --> 00:46:35,400
Speaker 3: I don't know if that's true. Let me say, if

934
00:46:35,440 --> 00:46:37,960
Speaker 3: it's true, you got the wrong folks running the show

935
00:46:38,000 --> 00:46:41,279
Speaker 3: over there. Let me say it one more time. I

936
00:46:41,320 --> 00:46:45,680
Speaker 3: don't know if it's true, but if it's true, you

937
00:46:45,800 --> 00:46:49,040
Speaker 3: have people who are in reactionary mode. You have reactors

938
00:46:49,040 --> 00:46:51,640
Speaker 3: instead of people who are proactive and who couldn't care

939
00:46:51,760 --> 00:46:55,239
Speaker 3: less what the fans say. There's a respectfully, there's a

940
00:46:55,280 --> 00:46:58,440
Speaker 3: reason why they pay to watch the product that you

941
00:46:58,520 --> 00:47:01,200
Speaker 3: put on the field, and there's a reason why you

942
00:47:01,280 --> 00:47:04,000
Speaker 3: are paid to put that product on the field, because

943
00:47:04,120 --> 00:47:08,680
Speaker 3: you allegedly are equipped, you're more qualified to make those

944
00:47:08,719 --> 00:47:15,200
Speaker 3: decisions if you're floating names out to gauge public backlash,

945
00:47:15,239 --> 00:47:19,880
Speaker 3: and your decision thereafter will totally depend on whether or

946
00:47:19,920 --> 00:47:21,080
Speaker 3: not people get mad at you.

947
00:47:21,920 --> 00:47:23,600
Speaker 2: If you're actually aware.

948
00:47:23,320 --> 00:47:25,400
Speaker 3: Of what folks are saying on message boards, if you're

949
00:47:25,480 --> 00:47:28,640
Speaker 3: aware of what is and isn't trending in the dark

950
00:47:28,760 --> 00:47:32,359
Speaker 3: dark recesses of Auburn Twitter, you've already lost your job.

951
00:47:32,440 --> 00:47:33,759
Speaker 2: It's not going to be taken from you.

952
00:47:33,719 --> 00:47:36,799
Speaker 3: Tomorrow, but you are on borrowed time now for the

953
00:47:36,840 --> 00:47:38,480
Speaker 3: third time, I'm going to reiterate, I don't know if

954
00:47:38,480 --> 00:47:40,320
Speaker 3: that's the case here, just let me say that generically,

955
00:47:40,400 --> 00:47:43,080
Speaker 3: for any coaching search from now until eternity, that happens.

956
00:47:43,480 --> 00:47:47,239
Speaker 3: But if it's true that Lane Kiffen and Hugh Freeze

957
00:47:47,280 --> 00:47:50,799
Speaker 3: are off the board, where does this coaching search turn?

958
00:47:52,239 --> 00:47:54,480
Speaker 3: Does anyone to have any ideas? Where does this coaching?

959
00:47:54,719 --> 00:47:56,920
Speaker 3: It ain't gonna be Luke Feckel. It turns out he

960
00:47:57,000 --> 00:47:59,520
Speaker 3: was in play all along, but not for Auburn because

961
00:47:59,520 --> 00:48:02,200
Speaker 3: he just signed with Wisconsin I know a lot of

962
00:48:02,239 --> 00:48:04,760
Speaker 3: you have been out and about today and that news

963
00:48:04,840 --> 00:48:08,359
Speaker 3: is taking you by surprise. Yes, Cincinnati's Luke Fickel is

964
00:48:08,360 --> 00:48:11,680
Speaker 3: now the head coach at Wisconsin. Just a bombshell move

965
00:48:11,680 --> 00:48:17,000
Speaker 3: for Wisconsin. I'll talk about that later. Remember, please remember,

966
00:48:17,840 --> 00:48:22,320
Speaker 3: the decision makers are not talking, Okay, Rich McGlenn, John Cohen,

967
00:48:22,400 --> 00:48:24,160
Speaker 3: those guys are not talking.

968
00:48:25,200 --> 00:48:26,560
Speaker 2: They are very tight lipped about this.

969
00:48:27,840 --> 00:48:32,239
Speaker 3: And so the information that you're getting is coming from elsewhere.

970
00:48:33,000 --> 00:48:35,080
Speaker 2: And the noise all coming from the other.

971
00:48:34,960 --> 00:48:40,240
Speaker 3: Side means that some of that information is being used

972
00:48:40,280 --> 00:48:46,239
Speaker 3: as a tool because said proprietors of that information understand

973
00:48:46,320 --> 00:48:49,680
Speaker 3: how to use it as leverage, and not everything you

974
00:48:49,760 --> 00:48:54,120
Speaker 3: hear is true. And in light of new information, it

975
00:48:54,200 --> 00:48:58,160
Speaker 3: creates a vacuum because there's an intense thirst for new info,

976
00:48:58,480 --> 00:49:00,399
Speaker 3: and when there's not a lot of new info, some

977
00:49:00,440 --> 00:49:03,480
Speaker 3: things get said. James Franklin's name is being thrown out

978
00:49:03,480 --> 00:49:05,960
Speaker 3: a lot right now. I have no knowledge as to

979
00:49:06,000 --> 00:49:08,960
Speaker 3: whether James Franklin is involved. I got knowledge of a

980
00:49:09,000 --> 00:49:12,680
Speaker 3: couple other guys whose names I can't give you, and

981
00:49:12,719 --> 00:49:14,880
Speaker 3: I know full well who they are, and it sucks

982
00:49:14,920 --> 00:49:16,400
Speaker 3: and I really want to be able to tell you,

983
00:49:16,680 --> 00:49:18,920
Speaker 3: because it makes you sound like a troll when you

984
00:49:18,960 --> 00:49:21,080
Speaker 3: say things like I'm saying right now. I know it does.

985
00:49:22,400 --> 00:49:25,719
Speaker 3: But James Franklin's name has been thrown out today. It

986
00:49:25,719 --> 00:49:27,640
Speaker 3: could be that James Franklin is about to be hired

987
00:49:27,680 --> 00:49:30,719
Speaker 3: by Auburn tomorrow. But it could also be that some

988
00:49:30,920 --> 00:49:35,520
Speaker 3: rando mentioned his name, and in light of no new information,

989
00:49:35,680 --> 00:49:37,360
Speaker 3: a lot of people just kind of grabbed onto it

990
00:49:37,360 --> 00:49:39,840
Speaker 3: and ran with it. And that's how that's how perception

991
00:49:39,960 --> 00:49:43,040
Speaker 3: becomes reality. Well not really, because that's not reality. So

992
00:49:43,080 --> 00:49:44,640
Speaker 3: you're gonna hear a lot of names, You're gonna see

993
00:49:44,640 --> 00:49:46,960
Speaker 3: a lot of things. But I will tell you the

994
00:49:47,120 --> 00:49:50,719
Speaker 3: same thing that I told you the day after Brian

995
00:49:50,760 --> 00:49:53,680
Speaker 3: Harrison got fired. I had a couple of names on

996
00:49:53,680 --> 00:49:57,399
Speaker 3: my list, and one of them has been mentioned very

997
00:49:57,600 --> 00:50:01,400
Speaker 3: very frequently with this job, and that's Lane Kiffin. I

998
00:50:01,440 --> 00:50:03,799
Speaker 3: got no problem personally with Hugh Freeze. I think a

999
00:50:03,800 --> 00:50:07,000
Speaker 3: lot of people over there do. The third name that

1000
00:50:07,239 --> 00:50:11,279
Speaker 3: no one's talking about is Chip Kelly. I'm gonna give

1001
00:50:11,320 --> 00:50:12,680
Speaker 3: you time to roll your eyes. I'm gonna give you

1002
00:50:12,760 --> 00:50:14,960
Speaker 3: time to push back on that scoff at it. See,

1003
00:50:14,960 --> 00:50:16,759
Speaker 3: a lot of folks are too married with the way

1004
00:50:16,800 --> 00:50:20,359
Speaker 3: college football has worked in the SEC. It doesn't work

1005
00:50:20,440 --> 00:50:23,160
Speaker 3: like that anymore. What's your number one push back on

1006
00:50:23,239 --> 00:50:26,399
Speaker 3: Chip Kelly? Oh, he doesn't like recruiting. You're right about that,

1007
00:50:26,880 --> 00:50:29,600
Speaker 3: and guess what, it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter anymore

1008
00:50:29,760 --> 00:50:33,520
Speaker 3: because you can buy your team. Chip Kelly is a

1009
00:50:33,560 --> 00:50:38,680
Speaker 3: phenomenal football coach, and it was once upon a time

1010
00:50:39,200 --> 00:50:40,640
Speaker 3: such that you needed more than that.

1011
00:50:41,239 --> 00:50:41,760
Speaker 2: You don't.

1012
00:50:42,160 --> 00:50:44,200
Speaker 3: You don't anymore, especially if I gave that guy an

1013
00:50:44,280 --> 00:50:47,680
Speaker 3: unlimited salary pool with which to put together a phenomenal

1014
00:50:47,680 --> 00:50:52,239
Speaker 3: recruiting staff. Chip Kelly really has to leave his office. Why,

1015
00:50:52,360 --> 00:50:55,719
Speaker 3: Because NIL allows you to assemble a team. It's a

1016
00:50:55,760 --> 00:50:58,759
Speaker 3: lot more like the NFL world than it ever has

1017
00:50:58,840 --> 00:51:02,600
Speaker 3: been before. Now he may not have interest in it,

1018
00:51:03,040 --> 00:51:05,200
Speaker 3: or maybe he does have interest in it. I'm just

1019
00:51:05,239 --> 00:51:08,880
Speaker 3: telling you, if I run things at Auburn, that's the

1020
00:51:09,000 --> 00:51:10,040
Speaker 3: kind of guy I'm making.

1021
00:51:10,120 --> 00:51:12,480
Speaker 2: Tell me no, That's what I'm telling you.

1022
00:51:12,640 --> 00:51:15,160
Speaker 3: I hadn't heard his name mentioned publicly at all outside

1023
00:51:15,160 --> 00:51:17,880
Speaker 3: of this show, But that's a guy that I'm gonna make.

1024
00:51:17,920 --> 00:51:21,120
Speaker 3: Tell me no before I move on, because I know

1025
00:51:21,320 --> 00:51:24,560
Speaker 3: that what I need this point moving forward is different

1026
00:51:24,600 --> 00:51:26,680
Speaker 3: than what I would have needed when I made my

1027
00:51:26,760 --> 00:51:30,320
Speaker 3: last hire or my last to last hire. Twenty sixteen

1028
00:51:30,360 --> 00:51:34,040
Speaker 3: college football and twenty twenty three college football are worlds different.

1029
00:51:34,200 --> 00:51:36,800
Speaker 3: Chip Kelly would have been a failure at Auburn or

1030
00:51:36,800 --> 00:51:39,959
Speaker 3: anywhere in the SEC quite frankly five or six years ago.

1031
00:51:40,200 --> 00:51:42,680
Speaker 3: I think it flourished now. If he doesn't want to

1032
00:51:42,719 --> 00:51:44,600
Speaker 3: come down here, make him tell you no. But that's

1033
00:51:44,640 --> 00:51:47,000
Speaker 3: the direction i'd go. Look, I don't think this thing's

1034
00:51:47,040 --> 00:51:47,920
Speaker 3: gonna linger.

1035
00:51:49,320 --> 00:51:50,120
Speaker 2: Many more days.

1036
00:51:50,440 --> 00:51:53,000
Speaker 3: So I think that there is resolution coming one way

1037
00:51:53,040 --> 00:51:56,000
Speaker 3: or the other. I do have that on pretty good authority.

1038
00:51:56,080 --> 00:51:57,600
Speaker 3: I just don't know who it's gonna be. Do you

1039
00:51:57,680 --> 00:51:58,960
Speaker 3: know who it's gonna be? Do you guys know who

1040
00:51:58,960 --> 00:52:01,000
Speaker 3: it's gonna be? If you do, please please let me know.

1041
00:52:01,160 --> 00:52:04,360
Speaker 3: I don't want guesses, though, I only want what the

1042
00:52:04,400 --> 00:52:06,560
Speaker 3: lady who works at the Chevron's cousin who knows a

1043
00:52:06,600 --> 00:52:09,759
Speaker 3: Board of Trustee member has told you. That and that

1044
00:52:09,920 --> 00:52:12,520
Speaker 3: only is the kind of concrete information with which this

1045
00:52:12,560 --> 00:52:20,759
Speaker 3: show runs on. Coaching searches can be wild. Wisconsin hired

1046
00:52:20,800 --> 00:52:23,520
Speaker 3: Luke Fickle today. I woke up this morning and had

1047
00:52:23,560 --> 00:52:26,879
Speaker 3: no clue that this was a possibility, and yet by

1048
00:52:27,000 --> 00:52:29,160
Speaker 3: four o'clock. By five o'clock today they had announced an

1049
00:52:29,160 --> 00:52:32,240
Speaker 3: emergency Board of Trustees meeting. Then they went closed session.

1050
00:52:32,480 --> 00:52:35,160
Speaker 3: Those are always intriguing because no one knows what happens

1051
00:52:35,160 --> 00:52:37,960
Speaker 3: in those. As it turns out, they were voting and

1052
00:52:38,000 --> 00:52:41,279
Speaker 3: to approve Luke Fickle as new Wisconsin head coach. I

1053
00:52:41,320 --> 00:52:44,239
Speaker 3: can't put into words how big a grand slam hire?

1054
00:52:44,400 --> 00:52:47,040
Speaker 3: What's a five run homer? Whatever it is? They hit

1055
00:52:47,080 --> 00:52:50,959
Speaker 3: one in Madison, Wisconsin. They just hit one. I guess

1056
00:52:51,000 --> 00:52:53,759
Speaker 3: I owe a little apology here, even though they haven't

1057
00:52:53,800 --> 00:52:57,239
Speaker 3: asked for one. See, South Carolina fans begged me, they

1058
00:52:57,280 --> 00:53:00,400
Speaker 3: demanded me apologize for picking Clemson. Wisconsin fans did not

1059
00:53:00,560 --> 00:53:03,880
Speaker 3: demand an apology. But I'm gonna give one anyway, because

1060
00:53:03,880 --> 00:53:07,360
Speaker 3: my question when they got rid of Paul Christ was simply,

1061
00:53:07,880 --> 00:53:10,560
Speaker 3: how serious are you about football? You know, if you

1062
00:53:10,600 --> 00:53:12,919
Speaker 3: know the behind the scenes up there, you know there

1063
00:53:12,960 --> 00:53:15,239
Speaker 3: are just a lot of things the other major programs

1064
00:53:15,280 --> 00:53:17,440
Speaker 3: have that they haven't had, not that.

1065
00:53:17,440 --> 00:53:18,120
Speaker 2: They can't have.

1066
00:53:18,480 --> 00:53:20,719
Speaker 3: If you're in the Big Ten, you're cashing those TV checks,

1067
00:53:20,760 --> 00:53:23,640
Speaker 3: you can have anything you want to. They've chosen not

1068
00:53:23,760 --> 00:53:26,640
Speaker 3: to beef up their staff, their strength and conditioning, their

1069
00:53:26,800 --> 00:53:30,200
Speaker 3: recruiting analysts and department. They've chosen to do that well.

1070
00:53:31,080 --> 00:53:34,600
Speaker 3: I would imagine Luke Fickle got all the assurances that

1071
00:53:34,640 --> 00:53:36,680
Speaker 3: he could possibly want before he.

1072
00:53:36,640 --> 00:53:37,440
Speaker 2: Took this job.

1073
00:53:37,719 --> 00:53:38,880
Speaker 3: But I had my doubts.

1074
00:53:39,400 --> 00:53:40,400
Speaker 2: I'll freely admit it.

1075
00:53:40,719 --> 00:53:43,520
Speaker 3: I had my doubts, and I especially had my doubts

1076
00:53:43,640 --> 00:53:46,359
Speaker 3: that they could go get Luke Fickle. Now, you may

1077
00:53:46,400 --> 00:53:47,880
Speaker 3: have been able to pay a lot of money and

1078
00:53:47,920 --> 00:53:51,000
Speaker 3: go get a guy with a name behind his resume,

1079
00:53:51,080 --> 00:53:52,279
Speaker 3: I didn't think that they were gonna be able to

1080
00:53:52,320 --> 00:53:55,480
Speaker 3: get Luke Fickle. So how serious is wisconsinant about football?

1081
00:53:56,400 --> 00:54:00,560
Speaker 3: Pretty darn serious. I was over on the twenty four

1082
00:54:00,560 --> 00:54:04,759
Speaker 3: to seven board over there, over on the Wisconsin message board,

1083
00:54:04,920 --> 00:54:08,799
Speaker 3: and Wilt Fong dropped in, And Wilfong knows Fickle pretty well,

1084
00:54:08,960 --> 00:54:11,799
Speaker 3: and I agree with everything he said. He came over

1085
00:54:11,840 --> 00:54:14,799
Speaker 3: there and said, you got a terrific culture guy. He's

1086
00:54:14,840 --> 00:54:17,759
Speaker 3: an elite recruiter, an elite evaluator. And by the way,

1087
00:54:17,800 --> 00:54:20,560
Speaker 3: everybody echoes that that's not just one man's opinion, that's

1088
00:54:20,600 --> 00:54:23,920
Speaker 3: like one hundred men's opinions. He gets strength and conditioning.

1089
00:54:24,239 --> 00:54:26,640
Speaker 3: If you've watched Cincinnati play, you know that that's true.

1090
00:54:26,880 --> 00:54:32,080
Speaker 3: Players love him. There's kind of the difficult task of

1091
00:54:32,120 --> 00:54:36,200
Speaker 3: spotting the downside here. The biggest downside here's how you

1092
00:54:36,239 --> 00:54:39,560
Speaker 3: know you hit a home run. The biggest pushback, the

1093
00:54:39,600 --> 00:54:43,160
Speaker 3: biggest point of criticism from Wisconsin fans is they're scared

1094
00:54:43,200 --> 00:54:45,759
Speaker 3: he'll go to Ohio State in a few years. That

1095
00:54:45,800 --> 00:54:48,920
Speaker 3: means you hired the guy, because I don't think anyone

1096
00:54:48,920 --> 00:54:51,560
Speaker 3: was worried about where Paul christ was going. If you

1097
00:54:51,600 --> 00:54:54,120
Speaker 3: got to worry, you know, if you're hiring a guy

1098
00:54:54,239 --> 00:54:56,640
Speaker 3: who is so highly thought of, you're worried that, oh,

1099
00:54:56,680 --> 00:54:58,360
Speaker 3: he's not gonna hang around a long time, You're not

1100
00:54:58,560 --> 00:55:01,680
Speaker 3: South Alabama. First off of all, due respect to the

1101
00:55:01,760 --> 00:55:04,759
Speaker 3: Jackson God bless them. They may have a guy in

1102
00:55:04,760 --> 00:55:07,719
Speaker 3: this conversation pretty soon too. But you got to make

1103
00:55:08,200 --> 00:55:09,840
Speaker 3: you know how, you don't got to do anything. You

1104
00:55:09,960 --> 00:55:12,040
Speaker 3: have to make these kind of moves. If you're in

1105
00:55:12,040 --> 00:55:15,720
Speaker 3: the Big ten, you've got to And this is a blessing.

1106
00:55:16,040 --> 00:55:19,040
Speaker 3: Like Kevin Warren should be throwing a party at his

1107
00:55:19,120 --> 00:55:22,520
Speaker 3: house tonight, a red and white themed party, because his

1108
00:55:22,600 --> 00:55:24,959
Speaker 3: other member institutions need to get on the ball too.

1109
00:55:25,320 --> 00:55:26,440
Speaker 2: Nebraska just did it.

1110
00:55:26,520 --> 00:55:29,640
Speaker 3: Nebraska made a huge hire when they hired Matt Ruhle,

1111
00:55:29,960 --> 00:55:33,560
Speaker 3: Wisconsin hires Luke Fickle. You've got to get big time

1112
00:55:33,560 --> 00:55:38,880
Speaker 3: head coaches in your conference. You cannot have programs settling

1113
00:55:38,920 --> 00:55:42,000
Speaker 3: for what Wisconsin and Nebraska have settled for. You can't

1114
00:55:42,000 --> 00:55:45,200
Speaker 3: have programs settling for what Iowa is settling for. You've

1115
00:55:45,200 --> 00:55:47,799
Speaker 3: got to be better. It's a disaster. It's an embarrassment

1116
00:55:48,160 --> 00:55:51,160
Speaker 3: that the Big Ten West, an entire division half of

1117
00:55:51,200 --> 00:55:56,400
Speaker 3: your conference, has just settled into this Milaise of mediocrity.

1118
00:55:56,719 --> 00:55:59,680
Speaker 3: Should be a pretty good punk rock band name Malaise

1119
00:55:59,680 --> 00:56:03,719
Speaker 3: of Meat, and they will just play towns in the Midwest,

1120
00:56:03,960 --> 00:56:06,520
Speaker 3: mainly in the Big ten Western Division footprint. You got

1121
00:56:06,520 --> 00:56:08,480
Speaker 3: to make these kind of hires. This was a big move,

1122
00:56:09,320 --> 00:56:12,799
Speaker 3: possible domino effect coming, but a big move. And the

1123
00:56:12,840 --> 00:56:14,719
Speaker 3: other thing is as it relates to the Big Ten,

1124
00:56:15,040 --> 00:56:17,840
Speaker 3: I mean, when you're adding USC and you're adding UCLA,

1125
00:56:17,920 --> 00:56:20,480
Speaker 3: and then you got programs like Nebraska and Wisconsin get

1126
00:56:20,560 --> 00:56:23,879
Speaker 3: really serious about their coaching searches and their hires, which

1127
00:56:23,880 --> 00:56:25,959
Speaker 3: you can afford to do in the most literal sense

1128
00:56:25,960 --> 00:56:28,640
Speaker 3: of the word afford, because you are printing money as

1129
00:56:28,680 --> 00:56:33,080
Speaker 3: a conference and distributing that to member institutions freely. There's

1130
00:56:33,120 --> 00:56:35,759
Speaker 3: no reason not to. There's just no reason not to.

1131
00:56:36,480 --> 00:56:40,040
Speaker 3: I think that was Wilford Bremley's last message in the

1132
00:56:40,080 --> 00:56:41,200
Speaker 3: diabetes commercials.

1133
00:56:41,840 --> 00:56:43,160
Speaker 2: Check your blood sugar.

1134
00:56:43,000 --> 00:56:45,680
Speaker 3: Check it often, and pay your head coaches a lot

1135
00:56:45,680 --> 00:56:48,440
Speaker 3: of money. There's just no reason not to. Moving on,

1136
00:56:49,320 --> 00:56:51,320
Speaker 3: let's go back to some action on the field yesterday,

1137
00:56:51,320 --> 00:56:54,080
Speaker 3: shall we appreciate you guys being tuned in, especially if

1138
00:56:54,080 --> 00:56:56,399
Speaker 3: you're watching live. Let need get a little update account here.

1139
00:56:56,920 --> 00:56:59,080
Speaker 3: We had internal bets on the over under for how

1140
00:56:59,080 --> 00:57:00,640
Speaker 3: many people would tune in the show tonight.

1141
00:57:00,760 --> 00:57:02,839
Speaker 2: I think the over is gonna hip. Appreciate you guys,

1142
00:57:03,080 --> 00:57:04,120
Speaker 2: two thousand likes.

1143
00:57:03,960 --> 00:57:07,200
Speaker 3: All of a sudden. I appreciate that too. USC beat

1144
00:57:07,280 --> 00:57:10,560
Speaker 3: Notre Dame yesterday thirty eight to twenty seven. I got

1145
00:57:10,640 --> 00:57:13,960
Speaker 3: to tell you, I think you're right, and by you,

1146
00:57:14,080 --> 00:57:16,320
Speaker 3: I mean anyone out there who has been lecturing me

1147
00:57:16,400 --> 00:57:19,120
Speaker 3: on Caleb Williams and how he should be the Heisman

1148
00:57:19,160 --> 00:57:22,280
Speaker 3: front runner. Now. Yesterday kind of worked itself out on

1149
00:57:22,360 --> 00:57:26,280
Speaker 3: multiple fronts as it relates to the Heisman. Caleb Williams

1150
00:57:26,320 --> 00:57:28,480
Speaker 3: is probably the best player in the country right now.

1151
00:57:28,880 --> 00:57:30,640
Speaker 2: He's playing outside his mind.

1152
00:57:30,760 --> 00:57:33,440
Speaker 3: I saw him in person at the Rose Bowl against UCLA,

1153
00:57:34,520 --> 00:57:38,640
Speaker 3: and he is so dynamic. He is everything that you

1154
00:57:38,680 --> 00:57:40,520
Speaker 3: want in a quarterback. I was talking about Stroud a

1155
00:57:40,560 --> 00:57:42,640
Speaker 3: little while ago and how he does not do this

1156
00:57:42,720 --> 00:57:45,160
Speaker 3: kind of stuff. Right here, boy, Caleb Williams couldn't care

1157
00:57:45,280 --> 00:57:47,720
Speaker 3: less man. He will run at a moment's notice. And

1158
00:57:47,800 --> 00:57:50,720
Speaker 3: not only will he put up some yardage in the

1159
00:57:50,800 --> 00:57:56,800
Speaker 3: rushing category, that's a fraction of the value of his mobility.

1160
00:57:57,120 --> 00:57:59,520
Speaker 3: He makes so many plays. He's like Bryce Young. He

1161
00:57:59,600 --> 00:58:03,959
Speaker 3: makes so many plays unbroken place. He makes so many

1162
00:58:04,000 --> 00:58:06,600
Speaker 3: improv plays. And I'll tell you what he does better

1163
00:58:06,600 --> 00:58:10,120
Speaker 3: than anyone, including Bryce Young. There's nobody in this sport,

1164
00:58:10,520 --> 00:58:12,840
Speaker 3: and quite frankly, there aren't many of them in the

1165
00:58:12,960 --> 00:58:16,400
Speaker 3: NFL who have the ball come out of their hand

1166
00:58:16,640 --> 00:58:20,720
Speaker 3: off platform with the velocity that Caleb Williams does. If

1167
00:58:20,720 --> 00:58:24,120
Speaker 3: you've ever just watched him, please don't watch the set

1168
00:58:24,280 --> 00:58:28,080
Speaker 3: in the pocket three step, five step, drop, crow, hop

1169
00:58:28,120 --> 00:58:30,440
Speaker 3: it and turn it loose. A lot of guys have

1170
00:58:30,560 --> 00:58:32,360
Speaker 3: some juice and zip on the ball. When they do that,

1171
00:58:32,640 --> 00:58:37,520
Speaker 3: Caleb Williams strows across his body, body all contorted, and

1172
00:58:37,600 --> 00:58:41,000
Speaker 3: it's just it's on a rope. Receivers sitting there fanning

1173
00:58:41,000 --> 00:58:42,040
Speaker 3: their hands afterwards.

1174
00:58:42,320 --> 00:58:42,840
Speaker 2: He's good.

1175
00:58:43,000 --> 00:58:46,920
Speaker 3: He's got accuracy too, so that's also it's something that

1176
00:58:46,920 --> 00:58:49,600
Speaker 3: doesn't always show up in the box score. You need

1177
00:58:49,640 --> 00:58:52,200
Speaker 3: to watch his games. The box score doesn't always tell

1178
00:58:52,240 --> 00:58:55,320
Speaker 3: the entire tale for him. Padlockstat alert in this game,

1179
00:58:55,560 --> 00:58:59,640
Speaker 3: Big padlocks that important padlockstat as it relates to USC

1180
00:58:59,680 --> 00:59:03,160
Speaker 3: and where they may be headed. Two oh four to ninety.

1181
00:59:04,440 --> 00:59:07,120
Speaker 3: What was that, you may ask? Those were the rushing

1182
00:59:07,160 --> 00:59:10,480
Speaker 3: totals in yesterday's game. And if you tell me that

1183
00:59:10,680 --> 00:59:14,640
Speaker 3: USC is going to top Notre Dame two oh four

1184
00:59:14,720 --> 00:59:17,480
Speaker 3: to ninety on the ground, I'm going to tell you

1185
00:59:17,560 --> 00:59:20,120
Speaker 3: I think the Trojan's just won that game. Yes they did.

1186
00:59:20,280 --> 00:59:23,600
Speaker 3: Austin Jones, the replacement for Travis Dye. You know that's

1187
00:59:23,640 --> 00:59:26,960
Speaker 3: the one thousand yard rusher who they lost and was

1188
00:59:27,000 --> 00:59:29,840
Speaker 3: supposed to knock them off balance. Instead, they're just playing

1189
00:59:29,840 --> 00:59:31,640
Speaker 3: their best ball of the year. He went for one

1190
00:59:31,760 --> 00:59:34,520
Speaker 3: fifty four in a touchdown. I got a second padlock stat,

1191
00:59:34,560 --> 00:59:37,720
Speaker 3: a rare double padlock stat here. It's very simple and

1192
00:59:37,760 --> 00:59:40,280
Speaker 3: it's such a theme with Southern cal this year. Plus

1193
00:59:40,320 --> 00:59:43,800
Speaker 3: two in the turnover margin, plus two for those keeping

1194
00:59:43,840 --> 00:59:46,200
Speaker 3: track at home. That now puts them at plus twenty

1195
00:59:46,280 --> 00:59:49,439
Speaker 3: two turnovers on the year. We have now started keeping

1196
00:59:49,480 --> 00:59:54,640
Speaker 3: a separate stat here and it is points off turnover margin.

1197
00:59:54,880 --> 00:59:59,520
Speaker 3: They are plus one fourteen in net points off turnovers

1198
00:59:59,680 --> 01:00:03,600
Speaker 3: this year. That's actually a stat with USC. They were

1199
01:00:03,600 --> 01:00:07,400
Speaker 3: the more physical team. That's the big takeaway. Guys, they

1200
01:00:07,440 --> 01:00:10,960
Speaker 3: played Notre Dame. Notre Dame. Even if they lose, you're

1201
01:00:11,000 --> 01:00:13,080
Speaker 3: supposed to have watched the game and said, hey man,

1202
01:00:13,080 --> 01:00:15,959
Speaker 3: they bloody their nose. Southern calmeya won, but they're gonna

1203
01:00:15,960 --> 01:00:19,160
Speaker 3: feel this the next day. They were the more physical team.

1204
01:00:19,800 --> 01:00:21,840
Speaker 3: I mean, they should take immense amounts of pride in

1205
01:00:21,880 --> 01:00:22,200
Speaker 3: this thing.

1206
01:00:22,240 --> 01:00:22,440
Speaker 2: I know.

1207
01:00:22,480 --> 01:00:24,680
Speaker 3: Lincoln Riley, I think in this post game called the

1208
01:00:24,680 --> 01:00:27,520
Speaker 3: most complete game they've played so far this year, which

1209
01:00:27,560 --> 01:00:30,280
Speaker 3: means they're peaking at the right time, which is something

1210
01:00:30,320 --> 01:00:32,680
Speaker 3: he's got some experience with dating back to his days

1211
01:00:32,680 --> 01:00:36,480
Speaker 3: at Oklahoma. But that offensive line is up for the

1212
01:00:36,560 --> 01:00:39,320
Speaker 3: Joe Moore Award. And if you go back to the summer,

1213
01:00:39,360 --> 01:00:41,240
Speaker 3: I had some Southern cal fans push back on me

1214
01:00:41,560 --> 01:00:43,560
Speaker 3: when I said offensive line was gonna be a big

1215
01:00:43,640 --> 01:00:46,360
Speaker 3: question mark for the team. It turned out you guys

1216
01:00:46,360 --> 01:00:48,880
Speaker 3: were right. I didn't say it was going to be

1217
01:00:48,920 --> 01:00:50,840
Speaker 3: a weakness. I said I think it's a question mark. Well,

1218
01:00:50,840 --> 01:00:51,880
Speaker 3: that question has been answered.

1219
01:00:52,000 --> 01:00:52,800
Speaker 2: I mean they're that.

1220
01:00:53,000 --> 01:00:56,520
Speaker 3: You know, everybody got tired of the Tennessee to LSU

1221
01:00:56,600 --> 01:00:59,600
Speaker 3: twenty nineteen comparison. Will allow me to be even more

1222
01:00:59,600 --> 01:01:03,280
Speaker 3: irrespec Let me make the USC to LSU twenty nineteen comparison.

1223
01:01:03,400 --> 01:01:07,120
Speaker 3: I'm not talking about team versus team, but the twenty

1224
01:01:07,200 --> 01:01:09,920
Speaker 3: nineteen LSU team. I remember when we were in the summer,

1225
01:01:10,440 --> 01:01:12,600
Speaker 3: their offensive line was thought to be a big question

1226
01:01:12,680 --> 01:01:14,840
Speaker 3: mark and they went on to win the national title.

1227
01:01:15,240 --> 01:01:17,240
Speaker 3: And I think that team either won the Joe Moore

1228
01:01:17,240 --> 01:01:19,520
Speaker 3: Award or they were a finalist for it. Well, USC

1229
01:01:19,640 --> 01:01:22,640
Speaker 3: is the same way right now. They are tracking to

1230
01:01:22,720 --> 01:01:25,120
Speaker 3: be a playoff team if they win the Pac twelve

1231
01:01:25,200 --> 01:01:28,280
Speaker 3: championship game this Friday night in Las Vegas. I think

1232
01:01:28,320 --> 01:01:31,800
Speaker 3: they'll make the playoff. At least that's one man's opinion here.

1233
01:01:32,520 --> 01:01:35,280
Speaker 3: They're favored by three, by the way, against Utah. If

1234
01:01:35,280 --> 01:01:37,560
Speaker 3: they get in there, they got an o line playing

1235
01:01:37,680 --> 01:01:40,320
Speaker 3: very well. They're playing the most physical brand of ball

1236
01:01:40,360 --> 01:01:42,120
Speaker 3: they've played all year, and by the way, that will

1237
01:01:42,160 --> 01:01:45,040
Speaker 3: be put to the test again against Utah. That's a

1238
01:01:45,040 --> 01:01:47,480
Speaker 3: team they scored more than forty on and still lost

1239
01:01:47,800 --> 01:01:53,280
Speaker 3: earlier this year. So my advice is kind of use

1240
01:01:53,440 --> 01:01:55,960
Speaker 3: Utah's script against them. You just showed you got the

1241
01:01:55,960 --> 01:01:58,520
Speaker 3: capability to do it, so do it again. If they

1242
01:01:58,560 --> 01:02:03,000
Speaker 3: get in the playoff, especially this year, there is nothing

1243
01:02:03,040 --> 01:02:05,800
Speaker 3: that can't happen. There are gonna be some people out

1244
01:02:05,840 --> 01:02:07,840
Speaker 3: there foolishly who tell you, oh, they can't do that.

1245
01:02:08,000 --> 01:02:09,000
Speaker 2: They can't beat Georgia.

1246
01:02:09,040 --> 01:02:09,360
Speaker 3: They can't.

1247
01:02:09,440 --> 01:02:10,480
Speaker 2: They can beat everybody.

1248
01:02:10,840 --> 01:02:13,040
Speaker 3: Everybody in that playoff is going to be able to

1249
01:02:13,080 --> 01:02:16,520
Speaker 3: beat everybody. This is not like years past. This is

1250
01:02:16,560 --> 01:02:18,520
Speaker 3: not a one or two team field. It will be

1251
01:02:18,560 --> 01:02:21,840
Speaker 3: a true four team field because there's no elite team

1252
01:02:21,840 --> 01:02:23,040
Speaker 3: in college football this year.

1253
01:02:23,840 --> 01:02:25,040
Speaker 2: What I'm trying to say is.

1254
01:02:25,360 --> 01:02:31,240
Speaker 3: Twenty nineteen LSU twenty twenty Bama would completely ravage all

1255
01:02:31,280 --> 01:02:33,160
Speaker 3: four teams that are going to be in this playoff.

1256
01:02:33,320 --> 01:02:35,080
Speaker 3: That's what I'm trying to tell you. So it doesn't

1257
01:02:35,120 --> 01:02:36,880
Speaker 3: matter what they would do because they're not in the sport.

1258
01:02:36,960 --> 01:02:40,080
Speaker 3: This year. It's a good year to be TCU, it's

1259
01:02:40,080 --> 01:02:42,000
Speaker 3: a good year to be US. It's a good year

1260
01:02:42,040 --> 01:02:44,800
Speaker 3: to be Michigan. As long as you guys make the playoff.

1261
01:02:46,080 --> 01:02:47,680
Speaker 3: I got another result that I need to talk to

1262
01:02:47,760 --> 01:02:50,280
Speaker 3: you about. You can take a little sit from the challice.

1263
01:02:53,760 --> 01:02:54,080
Speaker 2: Texas.

1264
01:02:54,120 --> 01:02:56,160
Speaker 3: A and Ain't beat LSU thirty eight to twenty three

1265
01:02:56,240 --> 01:02:56,640
Speaker 3: last night?

1266
01:02:56,760 --> 01:02:59,960
Speaker 2: Use what thirty eight? Nonsense?

1267
01:03:00,000 --> 01:03:02,280
Speaker 3: Twenty four that had to be the total for A

1268
01:03:02,360 --> 01:03:05,280
Speaker 3: and M. Nope, they found a way to break that ceiling,

1269
01:03:05,880 --> 01:03:07,760
Speaker 3: and they broke through it in a big way thirty

1270
01:03:07,800 --> 01:03:12,040
Speaker 3: eight points. And what really blows the mind and boggles

1271
01:03:12,040 --> 01:03:16,480
Speaker 3: the mind is it tells you this was there all along.

1272
01:03:17,160 --> 01:03:19,640
Speaker 3: This kind of result was always possible. They didn't get

1273
01:03:19,680 --> 01:03:22,760
Speaker 3: like five players back last night they had been missing. Nope.

1274
01:03:23,160 --> 01:03:26,200
Speaker 3: They played with Devan a Chain, he went off. They

1275
01:03:26,200 --> 01:03:29,160
Speaker 3: played with Connor Wigman. He had a really good game.

1276
01:03:29,920 --> 01:03:35,000
Speaker 3: They physically owned LSU. Why couldn't that have happened earlier

1277
01:03:35,040 --> 01:03:37,360
Speaker 3: this year? You know what, let's keep it positive here

1278
01:03:37,720 --> 01:03:39,840
Speaker 3: because I'm gonna kind of tilt it negative at the

1279
01:03:39,920 --> 01:03:43,800
Speaker 3: very end. Well, I'm gonna hopefully tilted positive, but with

1280
01:03:43,880 --> 01:03:48,240
Speaker 3: a cautious message. But first off, paper pop, you want

1281
01:03:48,280 --> 01:03:50,720
Speaker 3: me to blow your mind. It's Sunday night. You want

1282
01:03:50,760 --> 01:03:53,480
Speaker 3: to take something to the water cooler tomorrow? You take

1283
01:03:53,520 --> 01:03:55,080
Speaker 3: this stat to the water cooler. A and M has

1284
01:03:55,080 --> 01:03:57,480
Speaker 3: been a disaster this year. Right, The record's a disaster.

1285
01:03:57,680 --> 01:03:59,400
Speaker 3: They're not even close to going to a bowl game.

1286
01:04:00,400 --> 01:04:04,120
Speaker 3: Texas A and M has three wins against AP top

1287
01:04:04,240 --> 01:04:07,920
Speaker 3: fifteen teams this year. That's the most this millennium for

1288
01:04:08,000 --> 01:04:12,800
Speaker 3: that program in a season. I know that that's accurate,

1289
01:04:12,920 --> 01:04:16,320
Speaker 3: and I have no idea how it's accurate. No idea.

1290
01:04:17,000 --> 01:04:18,200
Speaker 2: Who are the three teams now?

1291
01:04:18,360 --> 01:04:20,760
Speaker 3: No notice? I said AP top fifteen teams, and those

1292
01:04:20,760 --> 01:04:23,240
Speaker 3: are at the time they played. It was a long

1293
01:04:23,320 --> 01:04:26,600
Speaker 3: time ago, kids, But there was a moment this year

1294
01:04:26,640 --> 01:04:31,280
Speaker 3: where Miami was rated by the woeful AP in the

1295
01:04:31,320 --> 01:04:34,720
Speaker 3: top fifteen and ANN beat them. There was a time

1296
01:04:34,800 --> 01:04:38,640
Speaker 3: this year, kids where Arkansas was ranked in the top

1297
01:04:38,680 --> 01:04:42,600
Speaker 3: ten and they got beat by Texas A and M.

1298
01:04:42,960 --> 01:04:46,360
Speaker 3: And there was certainly a time twenty four hours ago

1299
01:04:46,520 --> 01:04:49,400
Speaker 3: when LSU was top five and they beat them thirty

1300
01:04:49,440 --> 01:04:52,720
Speaker 3: eight to twenty three. Yes, five and seven five and

1301
01:04:52,800 --> 01:04:56,480
Speaker 3: seven non Bowl eligible ANM has three top fifteen AP

1302
01:04:56,600 --> 01:05:00,280
Speaker 3: wins this year. That's the kind of staf that makes

1303
01:05:00,320 --> 01:05:03,360
Speaker 3: you want to fan yourself. Why do we play the games?

1304
01:05:03,480 --> 01:05:05,680
Speaker 3: I'll ask for the third time, why do we play

1305
01:05:05,680 --> 01:05:08,000
Speaker 3: the games. Ten and a half point favorite LSU already.

1306
01:05:07,720 --> 01:05:08,400
Speaker 2: Clinched the West.

1307
01:05:08,600 --> 01:05:11,280
Speaker 3: Because this kind of stuff can happen. A and M's

1308
01:05:11,320 --> 01:05:14,760
Speaker 3: had a bad season. Okay, no one's suggesting otherwise, but

1309
01:05:14,880 --> 01:05:16,840
Speaker 3: not all of Texas A and M has been bad,

1310
01:05:17,560 --> 01:05:20,720
Speaker 3: not all of it. In fact, that true freshman class

1311
01:05:21,040 --> 01:05:25,280
Speaker 3: has been a really good surprise this year. Not all

1312
01:05:25,280 --> 01:05:27,600
Speaker 3: of it, but some of it. Like Connor Wigman has

1313
01:05:27,600 --> 01:05:30,360
Speaker 3: had a really good year. Evan Stewart is turning into

1314
01:05:30,360 --> 01:05:33,480
Speaker 3: a phenomenal player. But I want to talk about the

1315
01:05:33,520 --> 01:05:36,959
Speaker 3: vibe from yesterday, and this is where the external doesn't

1316
01:05:36,960 --> 01:05:40,720
Speaker 3: always match the internal A and M just on its

1317
01:05:40,760 --> 01:05:45,360
Speaker 3: own Merit is often misunderstood nationally and labeled in ways

1318
01:05:45,360 --> 01:05:50,880
Speaker 3: that it shouldn't be. Whatever yesterday, if you woke up

1319
01:05:51,000 --> 01:05:53,680
Speaker 3: and you were a casual, you looked at this game,

1320
01:05:53,800 --> 01:05:56,520
Speaker 3: and then you looked right past this game, and you

1321
01:05:56,520 --> 01:05:58,800
Speaker 3: thought to yourself, it doesn't matter. It's a meaningless game,

1322
01:05:59,280 --> 01:06:02,160
Speaker 3: and for you there is probably no help. You need

1323
01:06:02,200 --> 01:06:04,960
Speaker 3: to go get help. But even for the more dialed

1324
01:06:05,000 --> 01:06:08,040
Speaker 3: in fan, you probably looked and you said LSU at

1325
01:06:08,240 --> 01:06:10,120
Speaker 3: A and M, Like, I know they don't like each other,

1326
01:06:10,240 --> 01:06:13,440
Speaker 3: but why should I watch that game, what's really on

1327
01:06:13,520 --> 01:06:17,160
Speaker 3: the line. But some of you turned it on and

1328
01:06:17,200 --> 01:06:19,880
Speaker 3: you saw one of the most jacked environments you saw

1329
01:06:19,880 --> 01:06:22,320
Speaker 3: on Saturday. I mean, there were some games where there

1330
01:06:22,320 --> 01:06:26,200
Speaker 3: were maximum postseason consequences riding on the outcome.

1331
01:06:26,800 --> 01:06:28,120
Speaker 2: This game had none of that.

1332
01:06:28,360 --> 01:06:32,160
Speaker 3: For amm and Kyle Field was packed and they were

1333
01:06:32,200 --> 01:06:36,160
Speaker 3: on fire. And I think when you're a part of

1334
01:06:36,200 --> 01:06:38,960
Speaker 3: that and you don't have a bowl game to play for,

1335
01:06:39,000 --> 01:06:40,640
Speaker 3: and you don't have playoff hopes on the line, you're

1336
01:06:40,680 --> 01:06:43,000
Speaker 3: not going to go to Atlanta, that becomes all of

1337
01:06:43,040 --> 01:06:45,680
Speaker 3: those things for you. So last night just becomes a

1338
01:06:45,920 --> 01:06:48,640
Speaker 3: M's Bowl game. It is their SEC championship game, it

1339
01:06:48,760 --> 01:06:51,080
Speaker 3: is their playoff super Bowl, whatever you want to call it.

1340
01:06:51,560 --> 01:06:53,640
Speaker 3: And they just they played with their hair on fire.

1341
01:06:54,120 --> 01:06:56,479
Speaker 3: They did what they've been capable of doing all year.

1342
01:06:57,120 --> 01:07:00,480
Speaker 3: Packed talented teams, even the ones who were underachieving, they've

1343
01:07:00,560 --> 01:07:04,040
Speaker 3: always got that in them. What Michigan's passing game did

1344
01:07:04,120 --> 01:07:06,680
Speaker 3: last night or yesterday afternoon was the same thing A

1345
01:07:06,720 --> 01:07:09,880
Speaker 3: and M's team did yesterday. Padlock stat by the way,

1346
01:07:10,240 --> 01:07:13,320
Speaker 3: A Chain had thirty eight carries. That's a Derrick Henry

1347
01:07:13,400 --> 01:07:16,480
Speaker 3: stat line. Thirty eight carries for two hundred and fifteen

1348
01:07:16,560 --> 01:07:20,880
Speaker 3: yards and that led to the other padlock stat which

1349
01:07:20,920 --> 01:07:23,400
Speaker 3: was an mbing ten to fifteen on third down.

1350
01:07:24,600 --> 01:07:25,640
Speaker 2: Listen to these numbers.

1351
01:07:26,280 --> 01:07:29,640
Speaker 3: Your Texas A and m Aggie's twenty four first downs.

1352
01:07:30,120 --> 01:07:33,240
Speaker 3: They had thirty eight points, They had two hundred and

1353
01:07:33,280 --> 01:07:35,880
Speaker 3: seventy four rushing yards, they had four hundred and twenty

1354
01:07:36,000 --> 01:07:39,440
Speaker 3: nine overall yards, and they ran the same number of

1355
01:07:39,480 --> 01:07:41,960
Speaker 3: plays as LSU did, I think, like sixty seven or

1356
01:07:42,000 --> 01:07:44,560
Speaker 3: sixty eight. This is the same team that could They

1357
01:07:44,600 --> 01:07:47,600
Speaker 3: failed to run forty total offensive plays against app State

1358
01:07:47,960 --> 01:07:51,400
Speaker 3: in a loss earlier this year. So moving forward for

1359
01:07:51,480 --> 01:07:55,200
Speaker 3: both of these teams. Yes, friends, LSU, who is still

1360
01:07:55,200 --> 01:07:57,680
Speaker 3: going to play in the SEC Championship game this Saturday,

1361
01:07:57,960 --> 01:08:00,000
Speaker 3: there is seventeen point dog against Jorde.

1362
01:08:00,400 --> 01:08:01,640
Speaker 2: That is the exact number.

1363
01:08:01,760 --> 01:08:03,720
Speaker 3: We told you that point spread would be right on

1364
01:08:03,720 --> 01:08:06,360
Speaker 3: the money, sixteen and a half or seventeen. As for

1365
01:08:06,400 --> 01:08:08,320
Speaker 3: Texas A and m I told you I was going

1366
01:08:08,360 --> 01:08:11,040
Speaker 3: to have a little negative opinion on this. It's not

1367
01:08:11,120 --> 01:08:15,240
Speaker 3: necessarily negative. I just have a concern, and this is

1368
01:08:15,280 --> 01:08:19,880
Speaker 3: my concern. I think it's apparent to anyone who's watched

1369
01:08:19,880 --> 01:08:23,400
Speaker 3: that team, especially Aggie fans, this year, things need to

1370
01:08:23,520 --> 01:08:26,880
Speaker 3: change offensively for them to ever do what they did

1371
01:08:26,960 --> 01:08:31,400
Speaker 3: yesterday on a consistent basis, Like yesterday doesn't mean anything changed.

1372
01:08:31,880 --> 01:08:35,400
Speaker 3: They just they got a big performance, an individual performance.

1373
01:08:37,439 --> 01:08:39,519
Speaker 3: But here could be the problem. I say could be

1374
01:08:39,520 --> 01:08:42,680
Speaker 3: because we don't know. Jimbo Fisher is the kind of

1375
01:08:42,680 --> 01:08:46,840
Speaker 3: person to dig his heels in when he gets even

1376
01:08:46,880 --> 01:08:51,679
Speaker 3: an ounce, even a modicum of perceived validation on his theory.

1377
01:08:51,880 --> 01:08:54,840
Speaker 3: His theory being his offense works. You just got to

1378
01:08:54,880 --> 01:08:58,439
Speaker 3: execute it. It's fine, We're fine, it's all fine. Well,

1379
01:08:58,439 --> 01:09:01,880
Speaker 3: it hadn't worked this year, has it? Until ya last night?

1380
01:09:02,000 --> 01:09:04,320
Speaker 3: And then A and M hangs thirty eight and that's

1381
01:09:04,320 --> 01:09:08,200
Speaker 3: the last game they're gonna play this year. Jimbo Fisher's

1382
01:09:08,240 --> 01:09:10,080
Speaker 3: the kind of guy if you're not careful, if no

1383
01:09:10,120 --> 01:09:12,760
Speaker 3: one gets to him very quickly. Jimbo's the kind of

1384
01:09:12,760 --> 01:09:16,160
Speaker 3: guy who walks in that locker room and doesn't blink.

1385
01:09:16,880 --> 01:09:18,880
Speaker 3: He may even rip his shirt a little bit. He

1386
01:09:18,960 --> 01:09:21,280
Speaker 3: unbuttons several buttons on it at the very least, and

1387
01:09:21,360 --> 01:09:23,519
Speaker 3: he lets the hamburger meat hang out. And he says

1388
01:09:24,160 --> 01:09:27,160
Speaker 3: what he won't to talk about offense? Now, what told

1389
01:09:27,200 --> 01:09:29,639
Speaker 3: y'all into work? Told y'all. I guarantee you the words

1390
01:09:29,680 --> 01:09:33,080
Speaker 3: told y'all came out of his mouth last night, probably quickly,

1391
01:09:33,280 --> 01:09:35,559
Speaker 3: but I bet they came out of his mouth. The

1392
01:09:35,600 --> 01:09:38,680
Speaker 3: worst result last night would not have been A and

1393
01:09:38,800 --> 01:09:40,800
Speaker 3: M losing, because at this point it just would have

1394
01:09:40,840 --> 01:09:43,679
Speaker 3: been another loss in a bad season. The best result

1395
01:09:43,720 --> 01:09:46,639
Speaker 3: would have been A and M winning, and the appropriate

1396
01:09:46,760 --> 01:09:50,720
Speaker 3: change is still being made. The worst result would be

1397
01:09:50,760 --> 01:09:53,880
Speaker 3: if A and M wins last night, and it just

1398
01:09:54,000 --> 01:09:57,679
Speaker 3: pushes Jimbo Fisher further into the corner, digging his heels

1399
01:09:57,680 --> 01:10:01,080
Speaker 3: in and defending a failing system.

1400
01:10:01,640 --> 01:10:02,839
Speaker 2: So last night's great.

1401
01:10:03,479 --> 01:10:06,360
Speaker 3: Ride, those ways, ride that vibe hopefully lock up a

1402
01:10:06,360 --> 01:10:10,320
Speaker 3: decent recruiting class. But if last night serves in any

1403
01:10:10,360 --> 01:10:13,960
Speaker 3: way to validate in Jimbo Fisher's mind that, hey, that

1404
01:10:14,040 --> 01:10:16,320
Speaker 3: offense actually in bad at all. Look, look it worked here.

1405
01:10:16,360 --> 01:10:18,280
Speaker 3: We'll just carry that in the next year. No, you won't.

1406
01:10:18,760 --> 01:10:19,400
Speaker 2: No, you won't.

1407
01:10:19,520 --> 01:10:21,560
Speaker 3: You'll have the players to do it. You'll have the

1408
01:10:21,600 --> 01:10:24,680
Speaker 3: overall talent roster to do it. You will not do it.

1409
01:10:25,160 --> 01:10:27,599
Speaker 3: They've got to have an offensive coordinator there, They've got

1410
01:10:27,600 --> 01:10:30,519
Speaker 3: to have somewhat of an offensive philosophy change. As I've

1411
01:10:30,520 --> 01:10:34,360
Speaker 3: told you before, and I'll tell you again, I am

1412
01:10:34,479 --> 01:10:37,519
Speaker 3: not going to diagram this on a grease board for you.

1413
01:10:37,880 --> 01:10:40,679
Speaker 3: I'm not a head coach, I'm not an offensive genius.

1414
01:10:40,880 --> 01:10:41,759
Speaker 2: I'm not a doctor.

1415
01:10:42,240 --> 01:10:44,559
Speaker 3: I just know the ugly baby when I see it.

1416
01:10:45,280 --> 01:10:47,200
Speaker 3: Don't have to break it down for you. I know

1417
01:10:47,280 --> 01:10:49,080
Speaker 3: a bad offense when I see it. A and M's

1418
01:10:49,080 --> 01:10:51,800
Speaker 3: offense has been bad. It didn't get fixed last night.

1419
01:10:52,200 --> 01:10:56,800
Speaker 3: It really didn't. It just happened last night. You ever

1420
01:10:56,960 --> 01:10:59,559
Speaker 3: been friends with someone who's just just an overall not

1421
01:10:59,720 --> 01:11:03,439
Speaker 3: great person, but you just have an incident or you

1422
01:11:03,520 --> 01:11:05,280
Speaker 3: have a day with them where you go home that

1423
01:11:05,360 --> 01:11:08,000
Speaker 3: night and say, huh, they weren't that bad today.

1424
01:11:08,640 --> 01:11:10,240
Speaker 2: How many times does that last?

1425
01:11:10,720 --> 01:11:14,960
Speaker 3: How often does one exception to a well established rule

1426
01:11:15,160 --> 01:11:19,000
Speaker 3: change the rule? The answer is hardly, ever, so let's

1427
01:11:19,000 --> 01:11:22,960
Speaker 3: all cross our fingers that the lessons have still been learned.

1428
01:11:25,439 --> 01:11:28,320
Speaker 3: I want to talk to you about an issue that

1429
01:11:28,760 --> 01:11:31,639
Speaker 3: is prevalent in our college football society. It's called the playoff,

1430
01:11:32,360 --> 01:11:34,400
Speaker 3: and I don't normally talk about it on the show,

1431
01:11:34,960 --> 01:11:37,200
Speaker 3: but it's kind of that time, so I'm gonna talk

1432
01:11:37,200 --> 01:11:38,519
Speaker 3: about it for a couple of minutes. Here.

1433
01:11:40,240 --> 01:11:41,519
Speaker 2: The college football playoff.

1434
01:11:42,080 --> 01:11:44,639
Speaker 3: The field will be announced what a week from today,

1435
01:11:45,040 --> 01:11:47,679
Speaker 3: less than a week now. We're counting down the hours.

1436
01:11:47,720 --> 01:11:51,000
Speaker 3: We're gonna know who's going to Arizona, who's going down

1437
01:11:51,080 --> 01:11:53,040
Speaker 3: to Georgia. The semi finals, by the way, are in

1438
01:11:53,080 --> 01:11:56,680
Speaker 3: Atlanta and Phoenix Glendale. To be exact, where will I be?

1439
01:11:56,840 --> 01:11:59,799
Speaker 3: Hoops knows who will be in the games? Also, Hoops,

1440
01:12:00,880 --> 01:12:05,160
Speaker 3: what changed yesterday? Because there is a chaos theory that's

1441
01:12:05,200 --> 01:12:07,200
Speaker 3: in play here, and what do we know? This is

1442
01:12:07,200 --> 01:12:08,760
Speaker 3: the way I like to break this down. There are

1443
01:12:08,760 --> 01:12:11,639
Speaker 3: some things we know. Georgia is in. I don't even

1444
01:12:11,640 --> 01:12:16,240
Speaker 3: care if they lose Saturday. They're in. It's all about seeding. Michigan,

1445
01:12:16,360 --> 01:12:18,880
Speaker 3: I believe, is in and I think it's all about

1446
01:12:18,880 --> 01:12:22,559
Speaker 3: seeding with them too. So they have they have bought

1447
01:12:23,000 --> 01:12:26,599
Speaker 3: that privilege through winning. I got some of you coming

1448
01:12:26,640 --> 01:12:30,360
Speaker 3: at me saying, well, how's a twelve team playoff gonna

1449
01:12:30,400 --> 01:12:32,799
Speaker 3: water down the regular season? Look at this, these conference

1450
01:12:32,840 --> 01:12:35,960
Speaker 3: title games are already meaningless. Georgia and Michigan will make

1451
01:12:36,000 --> 01:12:40,360
Speaker 3: it in even if they lose. Yes, friend, they have

1452
01:12:40,520 --> 01:12:43,760
Speaker 3: that privilege because of how good they were during the

1453
01:12:43,840 --> 01:12:47,439
Speaker 3: regular season. It's not a one two or two loss

1454
01:12:47,479 --> 01:12:51,200
Speaker 3: team that can also say we'll be in regardless. That

1455
01:12:51,240 --> 01:12:54,880
Speaker 3: world only exists in your expanded format. So Georgia has

1456
01:12:54,920 --> 01:12:57,800
Speaker 3: won every game, Michigan has won every game. That's why

1457
01:12:57,840 --> 01:13:00,559
Speaker 3: they'll be in even if they lose Saturday. They won't

1458
01:13:00,800 --> 01:13:02,920
Speaker 3: necessarily have a one or two seed if they lose,

1459
01:13:03,000 --> 01:13:04,160
Speaker 3: but they'll be in regardless.

1460
01:13:04,320 --> 01:13:05,080
Speaker 2: So that's what we know.

1461
01:13:05,160 --> 01:13:08,160
Speaker 3: Georgia Michigan pretty much look like they're in. What do

1462
01:13:08,240 --> 01:13:11,719
Speaker 3: we know about this week? We know if TCU wins,

1463
01:13:12,120 --> 01:13:17,439
Speaker 3: they're in. We know if USC wins, they're in. And

1464
01:13:17,479 --> 01:13:20,839
Speaker 3: if that were to happen, that's it. There is no drama.

1465
01:13:22,040 --> 01:13:24,840
Speaker 3: But you watch this sport just like I do. Is

1466
01:13:24,840 --> 01:13:28,080
Speaker 3: that how it's gonna happen? Is Kansas State rolling over?

1467
01:13:28,439 --> 01:13:31,040
Speaker 3: Is Utah rolling over? I don't know. The lines on

1468
01:13:31,080 --> 01:13:34,400
Speaker 3: these games are TCU minus two and a half against

1469
01:13:34,479 --> 01:13:38,719
Speaker 3: Kansas State in one game and the USC minus three

1470
01:13:39,000 --> 01:13:40,800
Speaker 3: against Utah in that other game.

1471
01:13:41,640 --> 01:13:44,200
Speaker 2: So if even one of them loses, then.

1472
01:13:44,080 --> 01:13:46,840
Speaker 3: We have a problem. Well you have a problem. I

1473
01:13:46,920 --> 01:13:48,960
Speaker 3: just sit back with my popcorn and prop my feet

1474
01:13:49,040 --> 01:13:50,840
Speaker 3: up and say, you guys go figure it out. Just

1475
01:13:50,880 --> 01:13:53,800
Speaker 3: let me know what you arrive at. What happened yesterday.

1476
01:13:53,840 --> 01:13:56,439
Speaker 3: So what changed yesterday? LSU's out of this thing. They

1477
01:13:56,479 --> 01:13:59,200
Speaker 3: lost again, So that's the three loss team. Even if

1478
01:13:59,200 --> 01:14:01,920
Speaker 3: they win the SEC championship game, they're not in. So

1479
01:14:02,040 --> 01:14:03,080
Speaker 3: that changed yesterday.

1480
01:14:03,320 --> 01:14:04,719
Speaker 2: Clemson they're out.

1481
01:14:05,000 --> 01:14:08,559
Speaker 3: Even if they win Saturday, two loss conference champ from

1482
01:14:08,600 --> 01:14:11,400
Speaker 3: a very bad conference, they will not sniff the playoff.

1483
01:14:11,640 --> 01:14:15,800
Speaker 3: So you remove both the Tigers. Actually they're gone. You

1484
01:14:15,880 --> 01:14:19,280
Speaker 3: got an important Tuesday ahead and I hate to promote

1485
01:14:19,360 --> 01:14:22,519
Speaker 3: that rankings reveal show, but it's a pretty important week

1486
01:14:22,560 --> 01:14:28,519
Speaker 3: coming up because of where Ohio State and Alabama are ranked.

1487
01:14:28,720 --> 01:14:31,360
Speaker 3: Some people out there are telling you Alabama can't make

1488
01:14:31,360 --> 01:14:32,160
Speaker 3: it to the playoff.

1489
01:14:32,200 --> 01:14:32,880
Speaker 2: They are wrong.

1490
01:14:33,360 --> 01:14:35,240
Speaker 3: Some people are going to tell you Ohio State can't

1491
01:14:35,280 --> 01:14:38,559
Speaker 3: make the playoff. Now, they are also wrong. Both of

1492
01:14:38,600 --> 01:14:41,800
Speaker 3: them won't. One of them absolutely could. Here's what you

1493
01:14:41,840 --> 01:14:45,240
Speaker 3: need to pay attention to. It's pretty simple. Who's ranked

1494
01:14:45,240 --> 01:14:48,840
Speaker 3: above who on Tuesday, because unlike some of these other

1495
01:14:48,880 --> 01:14:51,719
Speaker 3: teams that still have conference championship games to play, Bama's

1496
01:14:51,760 --> 01:14:56,439
Speaker 3: done and Ohio State's done. So what I'm telling you

1497
01:14:56,439 --> 01:15:00,160
Speaker 3: that for is wherever that committee ranks them this week.

1498
01:15:00,200 --> 01:15:04,120
Speaker 3: Theoretically it shouldn't change if Bama's behind Ohio State. There's

1499
01:15:04,160 --> 01:15:06,719
Speaker 3: nothing that could happen that would lead to them jumping

1500
01:15:06,760 --> 01:15:11,879
Speaker 3: them and vice versa. So that leads to the chaos scenario.

1501
01:15:12,160 --> 01:15:15,320
Speaker 3: And the chaos scenario is pretty simple. If USC loses

1502
01:15:16,120 --> 01:15:19,880
Speaker 3: or if TCU loses, who's.

1503
01:15:19,640 --> 01:15:20,400
Speaker 2: Taking that place?

1504
01:15:20,479 --> 01:15:22,840
Speaker 3: You're watching right now, if you're watching on YouTube, you're

1505
01:15:22,840 --> 01:15:25,920
Speaker 3: seeing those are the current playoff rankings. But we know

1506
01:15:26,000 --> 01:15:28,840
Speaker 3: that's not real because we know that Ohio State's going

1507
01:15:28,880 --> 01:15:29,559
Speaker 3: to drop from two.

1508
01:15:30,320 --> 01:15:31,800
Speaker 2: Do they drop to five or six?

1509
01:15:31,960 --> 01:15:34,200
Speaker 3: That's the question. USC is going to go up to

1510
01:15:34,280 --> 01:15:36,360
Speaker 3: number four. TCU is probably going to go up to

1511
01:15:36,400 --> 01:15:40,520
Speaker 3: number three. So I would think you have Georgia, Michigan, TCU,

1512
01:15:40,880 --> 01:15:46,640
Speaker 3: USC one through four this week. Who's number five? Is

1513
01:15:46,680 --> 01:15:49,080
Speaker 3: it Ohio State or is it Bama? Because that is

1514
01:15:49,160 --> 01:15:52,559
Speaker 3: answering you the question of who takes the place of

1515
01:15:52,640 --> 01:15:56,080
Speaker 3: TCU if they lose. Who takes the place of USC

1516
01:15:56,200 --> 01:15:58,679
Speaker 3: if they lose. Now, there is a school of thought

1517
01:15:58,680 --> 01:16:01,519
Speaker 3: out there that tc you can afford to lose and

1518
01:16:01,560 --> 01:16:02,240
Speaker 3: still make it in.

1519
01:16:02,280 --> 01:16:04,360
Speaker 2: And you guys may be right. I'm not pushing back

1520
01:16:04,400 --> 01:16:04,720
Speaker 2: on that.

1521
01:16:05,000 --> 01:16:07,360
Speaker 3: I'm saying the only shot Ohio State or Bama have

1522
01:16:07,840 --> 01:16:11,400
Speaker 3: is if at least one of those teams loses. I

1523
01:16:11,400 --> 01:16:15,360
Speaker 3: think if USC loses, they're absolutely out. So if USC

1524
01:16:15,520 --> 01:16:18,240
Speaker 3: were to lose to Utah again, they've already done it once.

1525
01:16:19,400 --> 01:16:22,400
Speaker 3: You've absolutely got a playoff spot opening up, and you've

1526
01:16:22,439 --> 01:16:27,439
Speaker 3: got a very very toxic, very gross, zero win situation

1527
01:16:27,920 --> 01:16:31,360
Speaker 3: Bama versus Ohio State debate that will unfold nationally for

1528
01:16:31,400 --> 01:16:36,560
Speaker 3: the world to see, and you will have expansionists ironically

1529
01:16:37,160 --> 01:16:40,240
Speaker 3: explaining to you why one or the other doesn't deserve

1530
01:16:40,280 --> 01:16:43,320
Speaker 3: to be in the playoff, all the while they're supporting

1531
01:16:43,360 --> 01:16:46,040
Speaker 3: the only playoff structure that would guarantee they both.

1532
01:16:45,880 --> 01:16:48,439
Speaker 2: Still make the playoff. So that's always fun.

1533
01:16:48,479 --> 01:16:50,840
Speaker 3: And please don't count on that waking anyone up to

1534
01:16:50,880 --> 01:16:53,519
Speaker 3: the ignorance of set argument, because it's not going to.

1535
01:16:54,960 --> 01:16:57,640
Speaker 3: But I will weigh in, like if you had me

1536
01:16:58,360 --> 01:17:00,840
Speaker 3: on the committee and you had me choosing between Ohio

1537
01:17:00,920 --> 01:17:04,360
Speaker 3: State and Bama, I'm going Bama. After yesterday, I'm going Bama.

1538
01:17:04,800 --> 01:17:07,479
Speaker 3: There are multiple big lies in this sport. I talk

1539
01:17:07,560 --> 01:17:11,160
Speaker 3: to you about them all the time, and please, before

1540
01:17:11,200 --> 01:17:13,800
Speaker 3: you school me on this, that is a flawed team.

1541
01:17:14,080 --> 01:17:16,720
Speaker 3: That Bama's at Bama team is as flawed as any

1542
01:17:16,720 --> 01:17:19,519
Speaker 3: team we've seen in a while. Ohio State's a flawed

1543
01:17:19,520 --> 01:17:22,440
Speaker 3: team as we saw yesterday. Got news for you. Everybody

1544
01:17:22,439 --> 01:17:25,519
Speaker 3: else is too, So save that argument for me. I'm

1545
01:17:25,560 --> 01:17:28,200
Speaker 3: just telling you, if you do resume A versus resume

1546
01:17:28,320 --> 01:17:32,240
Speaker 3: b there are some big lies involved. The first big

1547
01:17:32,280 --> 01:17:34,400
Speaker 3: lie is a win is a win, and a loss

1548
01:17:34,439 --> 01:17:34,920
Speaker 3: is a loss.

1549
01:17:35,040 --> 01:17:35,960
Speaker 2: That's not true.

1550
01:17:36,520 --> 01:17:40,519
Speaker 3: Like to me, Ohio State getting boat raced at home

1551
01:17:40,760 --> 01:17:43,599
Speaker 3: yesterday in their biggest game of the year is worse

1552
01:17:43,640 --> 01:17:46,759
Speaker 3: than BAMA losing two games by a combined four points.

1553
01:17:47,280 --> 01:17:50,400
Speaker 3: That's how I feel about that. The other big lie

1554
01:17:50,560 --> 01:17:52,960
Speaker 3: is you are what your record says you are. And

1555
01:17:53,040 --> 01:17:56,479
Speaker 3: again I disagree with that, only because everybody doesn't play

1556
01:17:56,479 --> 01:17:59,719
Speaker 3: the same schedule. So like, I don't know what Ohio

1557
01:17:59,760 --> 01:18:02,160
Speaker 3: State would have done going on the road the same

1558
01:18:02,240 --> 01:18:04,559
Speaker 3: times and same places that BAMA did, I don't know that.

1559
01:18:04,640 --> 01:18:05,680
Speaker 3: I think it would have been a whole heck of

1560
01:18:05,720 --> 01:18:08,760
Speaker 3: a lot more difficult for them than BAMA. Conversely, I

1561
01:18:08,760 --> 01:18:13,240
Speaker 3: think BAMA would have handled Northwestern and Rutgers quite comfortably.

1562
01:18:14,280 --> 01:18:16,680
Speaker 2: What I have to go on is the resume. That's

1563
01:18:16,720 --> 01:18:17,479
Speaker 2: what I have to go on.

1564
01:18:17,560 --> 01:18:19,720
Speaker 3: Okay, So I'm not gonna be upset or shed a

1565
01:18:19,760 --> 01:18:21,599
Speaker 3: tear for either one of them if they get left out.

1566
01:18:21,640 --> 01:18:24,559
Speaker 3: Because truth be told, I don't think you have four

1567
01:18:24,560 --> 01:18:26,840
Speaker 3: playoff worthy teams this year, but since you got to

1568
01:18:26,880 --> 01:18:28,640
Speaker 3: put four of them in there, and it's going to

1569
01:18:28,680 --> 01:18:31,160
Speaker 3: come down to that, if it does come down to that,

1570
01:18:31,880 --> 01:18:34,360
Speaker 3: I'll lean Bama. That's just my personal opinion on that.

1571
01:18:35,200 --> 01:18:37,719
Speaker 3: The other thing I think that happens sometimes with Alabama

1572
01:18:37,800 --> 01:18:40,280
Speaker 3: because they've been in the playoff like virtually every year

1573
01:18:41,360 --> 01:18:43,880
Speaker 3: is when I mentioned this last night, I had some

1574
01:18:43,960 --> 01:18:46,080
Speaker 3: people say, no, way they get in. Well, first off,

1575
01:18:46,080 --> 01:18:48,280
Speaker 3: that's categorically false. Yes, there is a way they get in,

1576
01:18:48,400 --> 01:18:52,479
Speaker 3: so stop. The second thing people do is, unlike any

1577
01:18:52,520 --> 01:18:56,720
Speaker 3: other team in this thing, people tend to judge Alabama

1578
01:18:57,000 --> 01:19:01,080
Speaker 3: against past Alabama teams. So if we were doing like

1579
01:19:01,120 --> 01:19:04,080
Speaker 3: some fun playoff where we put the best Bama teams

1580
01:19:04,120 --> 01:19:06,920
Speaker 3: over the past fifteen years in a playoff, no, this.

1581
01:19:06,920 --> 01:19:10,240
Speaker 2: Bama team's not going in there. That's not how this works.

1582
01:19:10,760 --> 01:19:13,759
Speaker 3: We're just asking if they have one of the foremost

1583
01:19:13,760 --> 01:19:15,960
Speaker 3: deserving resumes at the end of the year in that

1584
01:19:16,040 --> 01:19:19,360
Speaker 3: given year, and even as flawed as Bama team's been,

1585
01:19:19,840 --> 01:19:22,720
Speaker 3: there is a path not a wide one, but there's

1586
01:19:22,760 --> 01:19:24,600
Speaker 3: a path where they end up making it in. And

1587
01:19:24,640 --> 01:19:28,320
Speaker 3: I got news for you, given how given how infatuated

1588
01:19:28,479 --> 01:19:32,080
Speaker 3: some are with this expanded playoff, I hope they make

1589
01:19:32,120 --> 01:19:35,120
Speaker 3: it in because once Bama makes it in, think you

1590
01:19:35,160 --> 01:19:37,560
Speaker 3: guys know what could happen there. I just want to

1591
01:19:37,600 --> 01:19:40,040
Speaker 3: illustrate for you what you're going to be more and

1592
01:19:40,080 --> 01:19:43,880
Speaker 3: more likely to see happen in the future when you

1593
01:19:43,960 --> 01:19:46,640
Speaker 3: go to a format where Clemson would still be in

1594
01:19:46,760 --> 01:19:49,240
Speaker 3: right now, Ohio State would still be in right now,

1595
01:19:49,360 --> 01:19:50,639
Speaker 3: Bama would still be in right.

1596
01:19:50,560 --> 01:19:54,240
Speaker 2: Now, comfortably, comfortably in by the way, that all be

1597
01:19:54,320 --> 01:19:54,679
Speaker 2: in there.

1598
01:19:55,760 --> 01:19:58,559
Speaker 3: That's what you want. Huh Okay, couldn't be me. Some

1599
01:19:58,600 --> 01:20:02,040
Speaker 3: added takeaways yesterday and I got one to go back

1600
01:20:02,080 --> 01:20:07,800
Speaker 3: on with Friday's games. Florida State forty five, Florida thirty eight.

1601
01:20:08,560 --> 01:20:12,160
Speaker 3: This is the first time since twenty sixteen that FSU

1602
01:20:12,200 --> 01:20:17,400
Speaker 3: has beaten Miami and Florida in the same year. That's

1603
01:20:17,400 --> 01:20:20,200
Speaker 3: no small task for Mike Norvel. They closed on a

1604
01:20:20,240 --> 01:20:22,479
Speaker 3: five game win streak. I feel like they've been playing

1605
01:20:22,479 --> 01:20:26,400
Speaker 3: top ten caliber football down the stretch. Unfortunately, they lost

1606
01:20:26,439 --> 01:20:29,880
Speaker 3: too many games early in the year. But I notice

1607
01:20:29,960 --> 01:20:33,240
Speaker 3: a little shift happening, and it's very ironic that it

1608
01:20:33,280 --> 01:20:36,560
Speaker 3: involves these two teams because they played each other. Everybody's

1609
01:20:36,560 --> 01:20:40,400
Speaker 3: bought in on Mike Norvel now, and he's nine to

1610
01:20:40,439 --> 01:20:43,920
Speaker 3: three this year. Remember in the preseason I was talking

1611
01:20:43,920 --> 01:20:47,360
Speaker 3: about FSU and the general consensus among Seminole fans was

1612
01:20:47,400 --> 01:20:49,720
Speaker 3: eight wins. If we can get to eight wins, that's

1613
01:20:49,760 --> 01:20:51,920
Speaker 3: a big year. Well they got one past that. They

1614
01:20:51,920 --> 01:20:54,200
Speaker 3: got to nine wins this year, so no one's doubting

1615
01:20:54,280 --> 01:20:55,160
Speaker 3: Mike Norvell. Now.

1616
01:20:55,920 --> 01:20:58,960
Speaker 2: He's the toast of the town. They're out in Billy Napier.

1617
01:21:00,040 --> 01:21:02,160
Speaker 3: And I told you once and I'll tell you again,

1618
01:21:02,600 --> 01:21:05,519
Speaker 3: the same people who sold their Mike Norvel stock way

1619
01:21:05,520 --> 01:21:08,360
Speaker 3: too early are now going to double down and sell

1620
01:21:08,400 --> 01:21:11,559
Speaker 3: their BILLI Napier stock way too early. And to that,

1621
01:21:12,200 --> 01:21:14,040
Speaker 3: I will say to you the same thing I said

1622
01:21:14,040 --> 01:21:16,720
Speaker 3: when you started selling your Norvel stock, and that is,

1623
01:21:16,880 --> 01:21:19,840
Speaker 3: I'll buy it, give it to me. Norvell's a really

1624
01:21:19,880 --> 01:21:22,120
Speaker 3: good coach. You just needed to give him time. BILLI

1625
01:21:22,200 --> 01:21:24,320
Speaker 3: Nampier is a really good coach. You just need to

1626
01:21:24,320 --> 01:21:24,880
Speaker 3: give him time.

1627
01:21:25,520 --> 01:21:27,759
Speaker 2: Period. End the story. Good for Mike Norvel.

1628
01:21:28,360 --> 01:21:32,559
Speaker 3: Texas thirty eight, Baylor twenty seven now this one happened yesterday.

1629
01:21:32,800 --> 01:21:36,280
Speaker 3: What do we have here? We have that wide expanse

1630
01:21:36,680 --> 01:21:42,200
Speaker 3: in college football between trash and treasure. The casuals amongst

1631
01:21:42,280 --> 01:21:44,600
Speaker 3: us either got you as trash or treasure. There's no

1632
01:21:44,680 --> 01:21:47,719
Speaker 3: in between. Well, there's a lot of in between. Both

1633
01:21:47,760 --> 01:21:50,920
Speaker 3: of these programs are in between, and both these teams

1634
01:21:50,920 --> 01:21:54,080
Speaker 3: were in between this year. So where is Texas last

1635
01:21:54,160 --> 01:21:57,240
Speaker 3: year a little bit closer to trash than treasure? This

1636
01:21:57,400 --> 01:21:59,960
Speaker 3: year they went from five to seven to eight and four.

1637
01:22:00,800 --> 01:22:04,000
Speaker 3: That's good. That means you're closer to treasure. Still a

1638
01:22:04,040 --> 01:22:06,360
Speaker 3: ways away from it, but if it's a one to

1639
01:22:06,400 --> 01:22:08,599
Speaker 3: one hundred scale, you're like over there at sixty three

1640
01:22:08,680 --> 01:22:11,679
Speaker 3: or sixty four, whereas you were at like thirty last year.

1641
01:22:12,479 --> 01:22:14,519
Speaker 3: Chip Brown over on Horns twenty four to seven made

1642
01:22:14,560 --> 01:22:17,240
Speaker 3: a good point though, and I think it kindly keep

1643
01:22:17,280 --> 01:22:19,599
Speaker 3: this up right here. If you're looking at the graphic

1644
01:22:19,680 --> 01:22:21,599
Speaker 3: on your screen right now, it's just their schedule from

1645
01:22:21,600 --> 01:22:25,160
Speaker 3: this year. Do you notice one glaring difference aside from

1646
01:22:25,160 --> 01:22:28,080
Speaker 3: the fact that they just have more wins? What was

1647
01:22:28,120 --> 01:22:30,760
Speaker 3: their problem last year? Their problem was they had that

1648
01:22:30,880 --> 01:22:33,200
Speaker 3: four or five game losing streak to end the year

1649
01:22:33,560 --> 01:22:36,400
Speaker 3: and Sarkisian admitted I never got the team back. I

1650
01:22:36,400 --> 01:22:40,080
Speaker 3: mean they kind of lost them and they wanted a

1651
01:22:40,120 --> 01:22:42,879
Speaker 3: different outcome this year. Well, look at where the losses

1652
01:22:42,920 --> 01:22:50,280
Speaker 3: are on the schedule. Alabama, Texas Tech, Oklahoma State TCU.

1653
01:22:50,520 --> 01:22:53,160
Speaker 3: Those are the four losses. They don't come back to back.

1654
01:22:53,439 --> 01:22:56,519
Speaker 3: None of them come back to back. Texas followed every

1655
01:22:56,560 --> 01:22:59,439
Speaker 3: loss this year with a win. There was no string

1656
01:22:59,439 --> 01:23:02,559
Speaker 3: of losses. They didn't lose the team. They did stay

1657
01:23:02,600 --> 01:23:05,400
Speaker 3: bought in. They weren't the greatest team in America. I

1658
01:23:05,439 --> 01:23:08,720
Speaker 3: didn't really realize the Big Twelve Championship game was still

1659
01:23:08,800 --> 01:23:10,120
Speaker 3: kind of on the line yesterday.

1660
01:23:10,200 --> 01:23:13,280
Speaker 2: If Kansas would have beaten Kansas State. Be that as

1661
01:23:13,280 --> 01:23:13,639
Speaker 2: it may.

1662
01:23:14,160 --> 01:23:18,720
Speaker 3: Texas improved as a team this year. That's all you're

1663
01:23:18,760 --> 01:23:21,800
Speaker 3: asking for. So now what do you get to do.

1664
01:23:21,880 --> 01:23:24,040
Speaker 3: You get to look into next year and you get

1665
01:23:24,080 --> 01:23:26,360
Speaker 3: to know you got Arch Manning coming on campus. So

1666
01:23:26,520 --> 01:23:30,440
Speaker 3: once again we could have a quarterback competition, not controversy,

1667
01:23:30,760 --> 01:23:35,439
Speaker 3: competition between Quinn Yewers and Arch Manning. That's healthy, that's

1668
01:23:35,479 --> 01:23:39,040
Speaker 3: a good thing. Baylor returned to fumble for a touchdown.

1669
01:23:40,200 --> 01:23:43,040
Speaker 3: Speaking of Quinn years, Baylor returns a fumble for a

1670
01:23:43,080 --> 01:23:46,800
Speaker 3: touchdown and Steve Sarkisan pretty much said nope, not letting

1671
01:23:46,800 --> 01:23:49,400
Speaker 3: it happen. They ran the ball the next twenty two plays.

1672
01:23:49,439 --> 01:23:52,320
Speaker 3: They had twenty two runs in a row. Sorry, I said,

1673
01:23:52,360 --> 01:23:55,120
Speaker 3: I'm done watching this. We're just going to salt the

1674
01:23:55,120 --> 01:23:57,880
Speaker 3: game away and then we'll get into December. We'll recruit

1675
01:23:57,920 --> 01:24:00,559
Speaker 3: some and we'll be good. Here they outgained Baylor two

1676
01:24:00,680 --> 01:24:03,240
Speaker 3: hundred and sixty six to fifty six in the second half.

1677
01:24:03,240 --> 01:24:04,519
Speaker 2: Pretty good padlock stat there.

1678
01:24:04,760 --> 01:24:11,559
Speaker 3: Next up, I watched this game in the Columbus Airport, Columbus, Ohio,

1679
01:24:12,240 --> 01:24:15,599
Speaker 3: thirty eight to thirty four Oregon State beat Oregon I'm

1680
01:24:15,720 --> 01:24:18,000
Speaker 3: pretty stunned that this happened because when I sat down

1681
01:24:18,000 --> 01:24:20,200
Speaker 3: to watch it, it was thirty one to ten Ducks,

1682
01:24:20,720 --> 01:24:23,920
Speaker 3: and I thought, well, there they go, cruise.

1683
01:24:23,640 --> 01:24:25,280
Speaker 2: Into the PAC twelve Championship game.

1684
01:24:26,120 --> 01:24:28,720
Speaker 3: No no, and then you want to really have your

1685
01:24:28,800 --> 01:24:32,439
Speaker 3: mind blown. I don't even know what a padlock stat is.

1686
01:24:32,439 --> 01:24:36,240
Speaker 3: In this game. Oregon State was minus three turnovers and

1687
01:24:36,280 --> 01:24:41,920
Speaker 3: they won. Oregon State completed six passes and they won

1688
01:24:42,439 --> 01:24:45,320
Speaker 3: how well. To be honest, I really don't know still,

1689
01:24:45,360 --> 01:24:48,200
Speaker 3: but I will tell you one thing. When Oregon kept

1690
01:24:48,320 --> 01:24:51,000
Speaker 3: turning it over on downs and they gave Oregon State

1691
01:24:51,080 --> 01:24:54,639
Speaker 3: three short fields late and Oregon State converted that into

1692
01:24:54,720 --> 01:24:58,000
Speaker 3: twenty one points in the fourth quarter. That's a pretty

1693
01:24:58,000 --> 01:25:02,080
Speaker 3: good indication. They were three of nine on third down. Look,

1694
01:25:02,520 --> 01:25:06,679
Speaker 3: how about this telling padlocked stat from this game? Oregon

1695
01:25:06,760 --> 01:25:10,920
Speaker 3: went for it five times on fourth down gooseag oh

1696
01:25:11,080 --> 01:25:14,080
Speaker 3: for five. And then to add insult to injury, they

1697
01:25:14,120 --> 01:25:17,479
Speaker 3: lose Kenny Dillingham to Arizona State after the game, big

1698
01:25:17,520 --> 01:25:21,680
Speaker 3: pickup for Arizona State. Kenny Dillingham headed there as new

1699
01:25:21,720 --> 01:25:23,920
Speaker 3: Sun devil head coach. We'll talk about that more this week.

1700
01:25:24,600 --> 01:25:27,200
Speaker 3: So Oregon does not go to the Pact twelve championship game.

1701
01:25:27,240 --> 01:25:29,800
Speaker 3: That is USC and that is Utah, and that is

1702
01:25:29,800 --> 01:25:34,640
Speaker 3: set for Friday, five Pacific, eight eastern. Another game I

1703
01:25:34,680 --> 01:25:37,320
Speaker 3: wanted to talk about right quick. That was off your radar,

1704
01:25:37,400 --> 01:25:40,519
Speaker 3: and I understand if it was. Do you see what

1705
01:25:40,560 --> 01:25:43,519
Speaker 3: Penn State did? Do you see how Penn State closed?

1706
01:25:43,520 --> 01:25:45,439
Speaker 3: In fact, did you see what Penn State did the

1707
01:25:45,479 --> 01:25:48,200
Speaker 3: rest of the I'm stopping my sentence because the answer

1708
01:25:48,240 --> 01:25:51,120
Speaker 3: is no. You watched them get blown out by Michigan.

1709
01:25:51,680 --> 01:25:54,320
Speaker 3: You watched them lose to Ohio State, and you did

1710
01:25:54,360 --> 01:25:56,240
Speaker 3: not watch another Penn State game this year, did you.

1711
01:25:56,280 --> 01:25:57,479
Speaker 3: It's okay to admit it.

1712
01:25:57,479 --> 01:25:58,320
Speaker 2: It's why I'm here.

1713
01:25:59,520 --> 01:26:02,880
Speaker 3: This was one of the most razor sharp, consistent teams

1714
01:26:02,920 --> 01:26:06,240
Speaker 3: all season. They lost to the two teams that were

1715
01:26:06,240 --> 01:26:09,720
Speaker 3: better than them, and they beat everyone else. They went

1716
01:26:09,760 --> 01:26:13,040
Speaker 3: on the road and smashed Auburn. They took care of

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01:26:13,080 --> 01:26:15,880
Speaker 3: business emphatically down the stretch. I mean after that Ohio

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01:26:15,880 --> 01:26:19,599
Speaker 3: State game. They won forty five fourteen, thirty to fifty

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01:26:19,640 --> 01:26:22,559
Speaker 3: five to ten and thirty five to sixteen, ten and

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01:26:22,640 --> 01:26:26,360
Speaker 3: two and Drew Aller. That's all you keep saying to yourself,

1721
01:26:26,560 --> 01:26:29,320
Speaker 3: we just won ten games. Penn State's over under was

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01:26:29,320 --> 01:26:31,639
Speaker 3: eight and a half. I think they won ten games,

1723
01:26:32,000 --> 01:26:34,799
Speaker 3: which is our exact prediction from them back in August,

1724
01:26:36,320 --> 01:26:39,480
Speaker 3: and they got Drew Aller on deck, that five star quarterback.

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01:26:40,000 --> 01:26:42,799
Speaker 3: Things are looking up. Things are looking up. I think

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01:26:43,160 --> 01:26:46,080
Speaker 3: I'm pretty sure things are looking up. And the Big

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01:26:46,120 --> 01:26:48,040
Speaker 3: ten is only gonna get tougher, so things better be

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01:26:48,200 --> 01:26:52,760
Speaker 3: looking up. This was such, this was such a good

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01:26:52,840 --> 01:26:56,200
Speaker 3: sign for them, and it's off the radar, like people.

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01:26:55,960 --> 01:26:57,280
Speaker 2: Will not pay attention to this.

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01:26:57,840 --> 01:26:59,840
Speaker 3: I think you're surprised, maybe to even hear they won

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01:26:59,840 --> 01:27:02,479
Speaker 3: ten games because you just wrote them off. They stayed

1733
01:27:02,560 --> 01:27:05,120
Speaker 3: checked in like James Franklin got them right back in

1734
01:27:05,640 --> 01:27:08,080
Speaker 3: and they never lost focus, and they finished strong. They

1735
01:27:08,080 --> 01:27:09,800
Speaker 3: finished about as strong as any team in the country

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01:27:09,800 --> 01:27:13,439
Speaker 3: outside it like USC has so good for them. Some

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01:27:13,560 --> 01:27:15,280
Speaker 3: other things now, I just want to draw your attention

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01:27:15,360 --> 01:27:19,400
Speaker 3: to right quick. I find it interesting. I appreciate you

1739
01:27:19,400 --> 01:27:22,680
Speaker 3: guys watching live or listening to the replay. Hey, do

1740
01:27:22,760 --> 01:27:25,320
Speaker 3: me a favor. If you're listening to the podcast, or

1741
01:27:25,360 --> 01:27:28,640
Speaker 3: even if you're not, but you have a phone, just

1742
01:27:28,680 --> 01:27:32,640
Speaker 3: go follow or it's like the podcast version of subscribing.

1743
01:27:33,560 --> 01:27:34,519
Speaker 3: That's it. Just follow.

1744
01:27:35,800 --> 01:27:38,200
Speaker 2: Did you know trivia question here?

1745
01:27:39,120 --> 01:27:41,400
Speaker 3: You know Alabama and you know Auburn or in the

1746
01:27:41,400 --> 01:27:42,160
Speaker 3: state of Alabama.

1747
01:27:42,200 --> 01:27:43,560
Speaker 2: Forget about them for a second.

1748
01:27:44,320 --> 01:27:48,479
Speaker 3: Did you know there is a pair of teams that

1749
01:27:48,560 --> 01:27:50,920
Speaker 3: win a combined twenty and four in the state of

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01:27:50,960 --> 01:27:53,200
Speaker 3: Alabama this year. I'm talking to those of you out

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01:27:53,240 --> 01:27:57,400
Speaker 3: there looking for head coaches FBS teams. There are a

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01:27:57,439 --> 01:28:00,320
Speaker 3: couple of FBS teams in the state of Alabama that

1753
01:28:00,400 --> 01:28:02,880
Speaker 3: win a combined twenty and four this year. One of

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01:28:02,920 --> 01:28:05,880
Speaker 3: them is Troy and one of them is South Alabama.

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01:28:06,439 --> 01:28:09,120
Speaker 3: One of those guys is John Somerol and the other

1756
01:28:09,160 --> 01:28:13,400
Speaker 3: guys Caine Womack, and let me put it this way,

1757
01:28:13,880 --> 01:28:16,960
Speaker 3: they will not be in the G five ranks in

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01:28:17,000 --> 01:28:19,760
Speaker 3: the state of Alabama for very long. So someone's going

1759
01:28:19,800 --> 01:28:22,679
Speaker 3: to make the right move in hiring one or the other,

1760
01:28:24,280 --> 01:28:25,519
Speaker 3: and then the rest of you are going to look

1761
01:28:25,520 --> 01:28:26,840
Speaker 3: and say, boy, I wish we would have jumped on

1762
01:28:26,880 --> 01:28:30,720
Speaker 3: Kane Onemacker or John Sumral Troy and South Alabama, each

1763
01:28:30,720 --> 01:28:34,400
Speaker 3: of them ten and two big stories locally down there.

1764
01:28:34,920 --> 01:28:37,240
Speaker 3: Matt Rule to Nebraska. I didn't have a lot of

1765
01:28:37,280 --> 01:28:41,240
Speaker 3: time to put it in tonight's show. Obviously a gargantuan move.

1766
01:28:41,280 --> 01:28:44,000
Speaker 3: And Lincoln it looked like he had turned him down.

1767
01:28:44,200 --> 01:28:47,400
Speaker 3: They didn't take no for an answer. Strong Sabin Bama

1768
01:28:47,520 --> 01:28:50,960
Speaker 3: vibes circa two thousand and seven. So good for Trev

1769
01:28:51,000 --> 01:28:55,840
Speaker 3: Alberts and good for Nebraska. It's another necessary move. Wisconsin

1770
01:28:55,880 --> 01:28:58,880
Speaker 3: made one, Nebraska made one. I don't want to end

1771
01:28:58,920 --> 01:29:03,639
Speaker 3: the show with out telling you. Mike Elko left Texas

1772
01:29:03,680 --> 01:29:06,880
Speaker 3: a and m went to Duke and won eight games

1773
01:29:06,880 --> 01:29:09,760
Speaker 3: at Duke in his first year. Let me let me

1774
01:29:09,760 --> 01:29:12,760
Speaker 3: put it another way. Mike Elko leaves Texas A and

1775
01:29:12,880 --> 01:29:15,439
Speaker 3: M as the defensive coordinator, goes to Duke as the

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01:29:15,479 --> 01:29:19,000
Speaker 3: head coach and wins more games at Duke, like three

1777
01:29:19,040 --> 01:29:19,960
Speaker 3: more games at Duke.

1778
01:29:20,000 --> 01:29:21,719
Speaker 2: Then Jimbo won this year at Texas.

1779
01:29:21,760 --> 01:29:24,439
Speaker 3: A and M. Who predicted that? I don't think very

1780
01:29:24,439 --> 01:29:27,840
Speaker 3: many people did. Also, there is the small matter of

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01:29:27,880 --> 01:29:32,519
Speaker 3: Tennessee obliterating Vandy yesterday. They did check the calendar, they

1782
01:29:32,560 --> 01:29:37,439
Speaker 3: knew it was Doorvember or yeah, well it was. It ended.

1783
01:29:37,640 --> 01:29:42,680
Speaker 3: It's like the Chinese calendar, you know the ones when

1784
01:29:42,720 --> 01:29:44,960
Speaker 3: you go to the Chinese restaurant and they show you

1785
01:29:45,040 --> 01:29:48,639
Speaker 3: the Chinese calendar and it doesn't exactly sync up. It's

1786
01:29:48,720 --> 01:29:51,680
Speaker 3: like the zodiac signs. What am I looking for?

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01:29:51,760 --> 01:29:51,960
Speaker 2: Colin?

1788
01:29:52,040 --> 01:29:56,280
Speaker 3: What's that thing called the calendar? Whatever? It's not always

1789
01:29:56,320 --> 01:29:58,000
Speaker 3: like the beginning of the month and the end of

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01:29:58,000 --> 01:30:00,680
Speaker 3: the month. I know I'm a Sagittarius. That's about all

1791
01:30:00,720 --> 01:30:00,960
Speaker 3: I know.

1792
01:30:01,320 --> 01:30:02,240
Speaker 2: But I know that thing.

1793
01:30:02,120 --> 01:30:04,959
Speaker 3: Doesn't go December first to December thirty first. So apparently

1794
01:30:05,000 --> 01:30:08,559
Speaker 3: November does not just run the span of November. It

1795
01:30:08,680 --> 01:30:13,519
Speaker 3: ended sometime before yesterday. Because Tennessee they took it out

1796
01:30:13,560 --> 01:30:15,680
Speaker 3: on Vandy, Joe Milton and all. They took it out

1797
01:30:15,720 --> 01:30:18,240
Speaker 3: on Vandy fifty six to nothing. So I see you,

1798
01:30:18,280 --> 01:30:18,920
Speaker 3: Josh Haipel.

1799
01:30:19,400 --> 01:30:19,880
Speaker 2: I see you.

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01:30:20,479 --> 01:30:23,519
Speaker 3: Two best bets in conference championship week. One of them

1801
01:30:23,560 --> 01:30:26,080
Speaker 3: is not even a conference title game. You know. We

1802
01:30:26,080 --> 01:30:29,519
Speaker 3: were on Akron yesterday because we were going to be

1803
01:30:29,560 --> 01:30:31,560
Speaker 3: on them the week before and their game got postponed

1804
01:30:32,000 --> 01:30:35,519
Speaker 3: and Akron just blistered someone as a ten and a

1805
01:30:35,560 --> 01:30:38,759
Speaker 3: half point dog. They just won outright. We're on Akron

1806
01:30:38,800 --> 01:30:42,000
Speaker 3: again this week. They are playing Buffalo in the game

1807
01:30:42,040 --> 01:30:45,439
Speaker 3: they got postponed. They're plus thirteen and a half. Love Akron,

1808
01:30:45,640 --> 01:30:47,679
Speaker 3: think there is a decent shot that they could push

1809
01:30:47,840 --> 01:30:50,240
Speaker 3: to win the game outright. So we're taking Akron plus

1810
01:30:50,320 --> 01:30:53,040
Speaker 3: thirteen and a half and believe this is the Mac

1811
01:30:53,120 --> 01:30:53,559
Speaker 3: title game.

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01:30:53,560 --> 01:30:55,000
Speaker 2: We're taking Ohio plus three.

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01:30:55,640 --> 01:30:58,000
Speaker 3: Those are the only two so far, So stay tuned

1814
01:30:58,280 --> 01:31:03,800
Speaker 3: hour and a half minute show. I really appreciate you guys.

1815
01:31:04,120 --> 01:31:06,240
Speaker 3: Mister Coole just asked in the live chat, where am

1816
01:31:06,240 --> 01:31:09,240
Speaker 3: I going this weekend? Yes, if you'll notice there was

1817
01:31:09,280 --> 01:31:11,599
Speaker 3: no every given Saturday to our announcement on the show,

1818
01:31:12,800 --> 01:31:15,439
Speaker 3: I can tell you I'll be in Atlanta this week.

1819
01:31:15,720 --> 01:31:20,280
Speaker 3: We're doing the live show Thursday from Atlanta. But I

1820
01:31:20,320 --> 01:31:23,679
Speaker 3: didn't give you a destination this week, cause to be honest,

1821
01:31:23,800 --> 01:31:26,439
Speaker 3: I'm not sure where I want to go yet, so

1822
01:31:27,000 --> 01:31:30,439
Speaker 3: I rarely ever miss the SEC championship game. Maybe I'll

1823
01:31:30,479 --> 01:31:35,839
Speaker 3: be there. Big ten Championship yawner. A Big twelve championship

1824
01:31:35,920 --> 01:31:38,800
Speaker 3: game could be the game of the day. The PAC

1825
01:31:38,880 --> 01:31:40,320
Speaker 3: twelve's on a Friday night. I don't know if I

1826
01:31:40,320 --> 01:31:43,040
Speaker 3: can get out there and back in time, so we'll see. Well,

1827
01:31:43,080 --> 01:31:45,599
Speaker 3: it's not a classical every given Saturday tour because it's

1828
01:31:45,600 --> 01:31:48,639
Speaker 3: not the regular season, so we'll see until then. Really

1829
01:31:48,680 --> 01:31:52,080
Speaker 3: appreciate you guys again on the way out, make sure

1830
01:31:52,160 --> 01:31:55,400
Speaker 3: you like the video and subscribe to the channel and

1831
01:31:55,600 --> 01:31:59,559
Speaker 3: follow the pod, and it would not hurt you to

1832
01:31:59,600 --> 01:32:02,200
Speaker 3: make sure you're following on Twitter and Instagram. At Late Kick,

1833
01:32:02,320 --> 01:32:04,840
Speaker 3: Josh says, look, news could break in the coaching world

1834
01:32:04,880 --> 01:32:08,200
Speaker 3: any minute, and we don't just crank the YouTube channel

1835
01:32:08,280 --> 01:32:11,000
Speaker 3: up and go live after every bit of breaking news,

1836
01:32:11,160 --> 01:32:11,719
Speaker 3: like Chip.

1837
01:32:11,560 --> 01:32:13,280
Speaker 2: Patterson does that over and Cover three.

1838
01:32:13,439 --> 01:32:16,000
Speaker 3: He just puts that little red alert emoji up and

1839
01:32:16,240 --> 01:32:19,120
Speaker 3: they just man, they go emergency podcast. Well, we don't

1840
01:32:19,120 --> 01:32:21,760
Speaker 3: always do that, so you know when the show comes on,

1841
01:32:21,840 --> 01:32:23,760
Speaker 3: but if things happen in between, you just make sure

1842
01:32:23,760 --> 01:32:26,200
Speaker 3: you're following at late kick Josh, and you know what,

1843
01:32:26,280 --> 01:32:28,639
Speaker 3: tell your friends and family while you're at it. For

1844
01:32:28,920 --> 01:32:32,800
Speaker 3: producer Jesse, who's dealing with some things right now and

1845
01:32:32,840 --> 01:32:33,479
Speaker 3: we've got.

1846
01:32:33,360 --> 01:32:35,000
Speaker 2: Him in our heart's thoughts and prayers.

1847
01:32:36,920 --> 01:32:39,160
Speaker 3: It's personal, so he's dealing with some things.

1848
01:32:39,720 --> 01:32:42,479
Speaker 2: Put still the integral part of the show. For director Colin.

1849
01:32:42,880 --> 01:32:48,320
Speaker 3: For interim producer Bradley for I don't want to call

1850
01:32:48,400 --> 01:32:50,800
Speaker 3: nel chat. I just know they all lay talk those

1851
01:32:50,840 --> 01:32:53,639
Speaker 3: to that. That's what I'm for everyone here and myself,

1852
01:32:53,640 --> 01:32:55,920
Speaker 3: Thank you so much. Have a great start to your week.

1853
01:32:56,000 --> 01:32:57,000
Speaker 3: Take care of j us