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Speaker 1: first two opponents. Now, the trade off is you've got

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Speaker 1: to play a first round game, whereas Ohio State doesn't.

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Speaker 1: But I would argue that Bama versus Liberty and Oklahoma

429
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Speaker 1: State versus you know, Ohio State playing Georgia one time,

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Speaker 1: Ohio State's got a better chance of getting eliminated playing

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Speaker 1: a one game than Bama does play in those two games.

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Speaker 1: So I'd still rather have the first round by Yes,

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Speaker 1: i'd rather rest up. I'd rather all that. But I

434
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Speaker 1: think there's gonna be a year, maybe this year. Maybe

435
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Speaker 1: we realize it quickly, maybe we don't. Where we look

436
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Speaker 1: and we say, wow, that five seed in some is

437
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Speaker 1: actually better to have than the one seed. It shouldn't

438
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Speaker 1: be that way, but I could see a world where

439
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Speaker 1: it is that way. So that's what I'm waiting on.

440
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Speaker 1: That's that we keep saying that about the playoff. I

441
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Speaker 1: need to know how they value strength of schedule, and

442
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Speaker 1: I need to know, especially when we get to the

443
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Speaker 1: seeded portion of this, like where is it advantageous? Is

444
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Speaker 1: it really advantageous to be the five? Or does the

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Speaker 1: toll of having to play an extra game no matter

446
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Speaker 1: who it's against, does that really stack up to where

447
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Speaker 1: it doesn't make sense you really want the first round

448
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Speaker 1: by like, yeah, you want the buye, but how valuable

449
00:23:33,600 --> 00:23:39,440
Speaker 1: does it end up being? Next up? Caden from Boise, Idaho?

450
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Speaker 1: Who is your dark horse pick for Heisman? Now, I

451
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Speaker 1: don't want to go top five here, This wouldn't be fair,

452
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Speaker 1: So I went at the very least out of the

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Speaker 1: top five. Jesse, correct me if I'm wrong. Didn't we

454
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Speaker 1: say the other day the top twenty four something like

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Speaker 1: the top twenty four odds favorites over at FanDuel for

456
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Speaker 1: the Heisman or quarterbacks, Like the top twenty to twenty

457
00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:06,360
Speaker 1: five names are quarterbacks. So I'm not even gonna bother

458
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Speaker 1: with Travis Hunter. I'm not gonna bother with Caleb Downs, Like, yeah,

459
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Speaker 1: I could see me voting for one of them. If

460
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Speaker 1: they have like spectacular years, They're not gonna get enough.

461
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Speaker 1: They're starting way too far at the back of the pack.

462
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Speaker 1: That's not the way it's supposed to be, but that's

463
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Speaker 1: the way it is. So got a few names for you.

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Speaker 1: I think cam Ward, who's at seventh, so this is fair.

465
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Speaker 1: Cam Ward's seventh in the odds at FanDuel for the

466
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Speaker 1: Heisman quarterback down at Miami. I think he lets Shannon

467
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Speaker 1: Dawson do everything he wants to do with that offense.

468
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Speaker 1: I think there's a kid by the name of Elijah

469
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Speaker 1: Arroyo at tight end that's not going to be a

470
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Speaker 1: headline grabber. You know, Xavier Restrepo, guys like that, the

471
00:24:47,200 --> 00:24:49,840
Speaker 1: brown kid out of Houston. Those are the names at

472
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Speaker 1: wide receiver that will grab a lot of the attention.

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Speaker 1: Elijah Arroyo was going to be a breakout player for

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Speaker 1: them at tight end last year he got hurt. Okay,

475
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Speaker 1: so copy paste what I said about him last year

476
00:25:00,040 --> 00:25:02,480
Speaker 1: saying about him this year. That could be a really,

477
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Speaker 1: really valuable as set. They're going to be really good

478
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Speaker 1: running the ball. Offensive line could be the best one

479
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Speaker 1: in the ACC. But I need to see it. But

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Speaker 1: their depth on the offensive line is really, really, really

481
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Speaker 1: above and beyond what Christa Ball's had anywhere else he's been.

482
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Speaker 1: This will be better depth than he ever had with

483
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Speaker 1: his Oregon teams, and it'll be better than the first

484
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Speaker 1: two years at Miami. So I'm saying all that to

485
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Speaker 1: say it's all there on the plate for cam Ward.

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Speaker 1: I'm surprised that he's still that low, to be honest

487
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Speaker 1: with you, because we snatched up some money on him

488
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Speaker 1: a little while ago. Now I'm gonna go a little

489
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Speaker 1: bit deeper here immunity. Noah Fafida I think deserves some attention,

490
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Speaker 1: and he's down there in the twenty to twenty two

491
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Speaker 1: to twenty three range, depending on when you're looking, because

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Speaker 1: I don't know when you're listening to this. When we checked,

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Speaker 1: that's where he was. So Noah fafeeda comfortable in saying

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Speaker 1: he's in the twenties. He came back when Jetfish left Arizona.

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Speaker 1: He came back year seventy two point four percent completion guy,

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Speaker 1: twenty five passing TDS, six I iNTS. Ted McMillan, the

497
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Speaker 1: star wide receiver, future NFL guy. He stayed there as well,

498
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Speaker 1: and Arizona is a very sneaky good team. They're going

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Speaker 1: to be in enough high profile games like they got.

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Speaker 1: It's weird thing. They've got a non conference game against

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Speaker 1: Kansas State, who is in their conference, and it's a

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Speaker 1: Friday night game. It's fairly early in the season. I

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Speaker 1: think that's a really important game, Number one, because you're

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Speaker 1: playing a goodeam. Number two, it's a standalone game. That's that.

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Speaker 1: I think it's the Friday night Fox game, which means

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Speaker 1: the country's watching. And if they go off, like if

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Speaker 1: they went in there and hung you know, thirty eight

508
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Speaker 1: or something like that on Kansas State, at the very least,

509
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Speaker 1: that buys you the opportunity to be on the radar

510
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Speaker 1: this year, and then anything could happen. So I would

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Speaker 1: look at Fafida, the quarterback there at Arizona. I'd look

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Speaker 1: at Kyen Drones at Virginia Tech. He's in the thirties.

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Speaker 1: He's in the thirties. You asked for dark corses. Virginia

514
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Speaker 1: Tech's got an opportunity to be a playoff contender late

515
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Speaker 1: in the year. They got a chance to be an

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Speaker 1: acc title contender late in the year. They got a

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Speaker 1: chance to have a dynamite run game. Now, I don't

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Speaker 1: think Drones is going to have the passing numbers that

519
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Speaker 1: some of these guys do. He's gonna have to supplement

520
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Speaker 1: it with his work with his legs. Not that he's

521
00:27:17,480 --> 00:27:19,879
Speaker 1: gonna have, you know, like triple option passing numbers. But

522
00:27:20,040 --> 00:27:25,720
Speaker 1: last year seventeen to three touchdown to interception ratio he

523
00:27:25,760 --> 00:27:29,520
Speaker 1: ran for five needs to double that rushing touchdown number.

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Speaker 1: Completion percentage needs to bump up from fifty eight percent

525
00:27:32,880 --> 00:27:35,680
Speaker 1: into the sixties. But it absolutely could. It absolutely could,

526
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Speaker 1: and they're gonna have a really, really complimentary style to

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Speaker 1: help him. It's gonna take some watching him. It's gonna

528
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Speaker 1: take voters watching him. Don't be checking box scores, which

529
00:27:46,119 --> 00:27:48,840
Speaker 1: unfortunately a lot of Heisman voters do. But if that

530
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Speaker 1: ground game is churning, and as a voter, if we

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Speaker 1: really care about playing in a manner that best equips

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Speaker 1: your team to win football games, and we understand that

533
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Speaker 1: yards gained on the ground count just as much as

534
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Speaker 1: yards gaining through the air. If we understand all that

535
00:28:06,119 --> 00:28:09,199
Speaker 1: pregnant pause, if we understand all that, then Kirene Drones

536
00:28:09,240 --> 00:28:11,080
Speaker 1: should be in this thing as well. I don't have

537
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Speaker 1: the slightest bit of confidence that people will understand that.

538
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Speaker 1: And that's even if it comes to fruition up there.

539
00:28:16,680 --> 00:28:20,520
Speaker 1: But crazier things have happened, tough to predict, kind of

540
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Speaker 1: like this and welcome back. It wasn't so bad. Unexpected,

541
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Speaker 1: but it wasn't so bad. Next up, interesting question here.

542
00:28:31,680 --> 00:28:34,320
Speaker 1: I gotta be careful with this. David from Madison, Alabama.

543
00:28:34,720 --> 00:28:38,880
Speaker 1: Has pet State sent any consequences of success since becoming

544
00:28:38,920 --> 00:28:45,040
Speaker 1: so popular? Yeah? Yeah, Now these are not bad things, David,

545
00:28:45,320 --> 00:28:47,640
Speaker 1: These are not bad things, but they are things. So

546
00:28:47,800 --> 00:28:51,320
Speaker 1: when we first came here, it was director Colin and I.

547
00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:54,600
Speaker 1: COVID started like five minutes after I got here, so

548
00:28:54,840 --> 00:28:58,320
Speaker 1: he and I had emergency clearance into the building. Everyone

549
00:28:58,320 --> 00:29:00,720
Speaker 1: else was home, just like the rest of your offices

550
00:29:00,760 --> 00:29:03,360
Speaker 1: were off I plural of office, the rest of your

551
00:29:03,360 --> 00:29:06,239
Speaker 1: off I were working from home. Well, Director Colin and

552
00:29:06,280 --> 00:29:08,960
Speaker 1: I we just basically lived in the studio. And it

553
00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:12,280
Speaker 1: was twenty twenty and the show had just launched. Didn't

554
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Speaker 1: even know if we were gonna have a season. That fault,

555
00:29:14,600 --> 00:29:18,480
Speaker 1: so we built it ourselves. We came in. Shannon Terry

556
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Speaker 1: at the time, ran the company, and to his credit,

557
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Speaker 1: he said just go do your thing. I'm gonna make

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Speaker 1: sure you're not messed with. Here's a studio, here's a mic,

559
00:29:29,720 --> 00:29:32,440
Speaker 1: here's a power cord. Go do your thing. And we

560
00:29:32,520 --> 00:29:34,520
Speaker 1: had full confidence we could build a show. And I'll

561
00:29:34,520 --> 00:29:36,920
Speaker 1: tell you why, because I am no different than you guys.

562
00:29:37,280 --> 00:29:39,600
Speaker 1: I just immersed myself in this stuff all day. That's

563
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Speaker 1: what I did before I got in this business. And

564
00:29:41,520 --> 00:29:44,280
Speaker 1: so I thought to myself, I don't really think there's

565
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Speaker 1: a show out there that sounds exactly like how I

566
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Speaker 1: wish college football sounded. So instead of complaining about it,

567
00:29:50,240 --> 00:29:53,280
Speaker 1: once I got an opportunity, we tried to create that show.

568
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Speaker 1: And a lot of you apparently were like minded, because

569
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Speaker 1: you come here and you watch our shows and you

570
00:29:58,880 --> 00:30:00,960
Speaker 1: listen to our show, so we I appreciate all that well.

571
00:30:01,840 --> 00:30:04,080
Speaker 1: To Shannon's credit, he kind of saw that stuff early,

572
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Speaker 1: so they stayed out of the way and they let

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Speaker 1: us build and build and build. And so now four

574
00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:13,160
Speaker 1: years later we got a monster of a show. That

575
00:30:13,320 --> 00:30:16,000
Speaker 1: means more eyes are on the show. That means it

576
00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:18,520
Speaker 1: gets more attention. That means it's worth a whole lot more.

577
00:30:18,640 --> 00:30:23,720
Speaker 1: That means more opportunities are seen against the show, and

578
00:30:23,760 --> 00:30:25,880
Speaker 1: that's not a bad thing. That's a great thing. Like

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00:30:25,920 --> 00:30:29,320
Speaker 1: the folks at CBS have given us so much different

580
00:30:29,480 --> 00:30:32,640
Speaker 1: kind of opportunity because of how successful the show's been.

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Speaker 1: That's great. Here's the one trade off. If we want

582
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Speaker 1: to call this a consequence, we can because the show

583
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Speaker 1: is high profile. It's kind of like the tightrope walk

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Speaker 1: metaphor I use all the time. If you walk a

585
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Speaker 1: tight rope ten feet off the ground, no one cares

586
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Speaker 1: if you fall. If you walk a tightrope one hundred

587
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Speaker 1: stories off the ground, it is a bad thing if

588
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Speaker 1: you fall Street pizza. And so we're we're the second

589
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Speaker 1: one now. We used to be the first one. If

590
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Speaker 1: the show screwed up, no one cared. It's just scrap it.

591
00:30:59,760 --> 00:31:02,440
Speaker 1: Oh well it didn't work. We'll never hear from them again.

592
00:31:02,760 --> 00:31:05,160
Speaker 1: But now that the show is huge, we can't be

593
00:31:05,200 --> 00:31:07,760
Speaker 1: screwing up. So if we're changing something, if we want

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Speaker 1: to change a logo, if we want to bring on

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Speaker 1: a new ad partner, if we want to do this

596
00:31:12,560 --> 00:31:14,480
Speaker 1: or that, it has to go through thirty seven different

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00:31:14,560 --> 00:31:17,320
Speaker 1: checks and balances mechanisms, and sometimes those things take a

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Speaker 1: little while. So if we want to call that a

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Speaker 1: consequence we can, but I'll tell you this, it's a

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Speaker 1: consequence that I'm happy to have on our plate because,

601
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Speaker 1: believe me, I have lived the alternative. I have lived

602
00:31:30,640 --> 00:31:34,800
Speaker 1: a world where, for example, I'm in a studio in

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Speaker 1: another state that doesn't have a backup generator and we

604
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Speaker 1: take a power surge and the power goes out four

605
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Speaker 1: minutes before the show and we can't do the show.

606
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Speaker 1: And the worst thing is no one even notices because

607
00:31:46,320 --> 00:31:48,080
Speaker 1: you don't have an audience. We used to have like

608
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Speaker 1: twenty people watch this show back when I was in Columbus,

609
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Speaker 1: and if it didn't show up, they'd be like, oh, well,

610
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Speaker 1: let's go watch Matt Locke or something like that. And

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Speaker 1: it's not like that anymore. So if that's the trade off,

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Speaker 1: then that's the trade off. Also, I don't think I've

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Speaker 1: ever told this story before. There is a benefit to

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Speaker 1: your show making it big. Another night, Colin, I've never

615
00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:12,160
Speaker 1: even told you this story. Another night back in Columbus,

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Speaker 1: it was like ten minutes before the show. So I

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Speaker 1: was in the control room. This is down in a

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Speaker 1: local news station w LTZ and Columbus. I'm in the

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Speaker 1: control room. I'm talking to Bradley may have been there

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Speaker 1: actually talking to Bradley, because Bradley the associate worked there.

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Speaker 1: And then there was like a back way that you

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Speaker 1: could walk to get in the studio, and it went

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Speaker 1: past all this machinery and it was really loud, and

624
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Speaker 1: right as I got to the door, there's a snake

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Speaker 1: in the studio. Not a fake one which we did

626
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Speaker 1: to each other. Sometimes there's a real snake in the studio.

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Speaker 1: I can't do anything about it. We're about to go

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Speaker 1: on air, so we put a box over the snake.

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Speaker 1: We do the entire show with a snake in the studio,

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Speaker 1: hoping that it hasn't escaped the box, And then we

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Speaker 1: had to take care of the snake afterwards, and to

632
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Speaker 1: keep the show Pita approved. We did not kill the snake.

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Speaker 1: We boxed him up. We took him outside and dropped

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Speaker 1: him off with his brothers and sisters and cousins and whatnot. So, yeah,

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Speaker 1: we don't deal with that anymore. We're like sixteen stories

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Speaker 1: off the ground here, So no snakes, no snakes, at

637
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Speaker 1: least not the reptilian kind, if you know what I mean.

638
00:33:19,560 --> 00:33:24,720
Speaker 1: Next up, Cord said, is the regionality of college football

639
00:33:24,800 --> 00:33:30,360
Speaker 1: dead forever? Yes, slash. No. Yes, it's dead in a

640
00:33:30,440 --> 00:33:34,800
Speaker 1: sense that conferences don't look regional anymore. No, in a

641
00:33:34,880 --> 00:33:37,760
Speaker 1: sense that there are still pockets of fans that act

642
00:33:37,840 --> 00:33:39,800
Speaker 1: a certain way, that feel a certain way, that believes

643
00:33:39,800 --> 00:33:43,760
Speaker 1: certain things. I mean, listen to this now. I read

644
00:33:43,880 --> 00:33:47,720
Speaker 1: an article I think it was in Matt Brown's newsletter yesterday.

645
00:33:47,880 --> 00:33:50,160
Speaker 1: It just made me sick, like I took my index

646
00:33:50,240 --> 00:33:52,280
Speaker 1: finger and put it halfway down my throat. That's how

647
00:33:52,280 --> 00:33:57,840
Speaker 1: bad it was. He talked about conference expansion as it

648
00:33:57,960 --> 00:34:01,320
Speaker 1: relates to politics, and he's not wrong and what he's saying,

649
00:34:02,440 --> 00:34:04,520
Speaker 1: I will never get political on this show. I am

650
00:34:04,560 --> 00:34:07,040
Speaker 1: making a point to tell you how gross this is.

651
00:34:07,800 --> 00:34:09,480
Speaker 1: Let me tell you the point he made. None of

652
00:34:09,520 --> 00:34:12,200
Speaker 1: you would ever think about this, nor should you, because

653
00:34:12,239 --> 00:34:16,359
Speaker 1: you're normal people. But some folks aren't normal, and Matt

654
00:34:16,360 --> 00:34:18,359
Speaker 1: Brown was talking about some of them. Said, you know,

655
00:34:19,160 --> 00:34:23,360
Speaker 1: one of the hurdles in conference expansion, I'm not kidding

656
00:34:23,440 --> 00:34:26,279
Speaker 1: you is he was talking about the Big ten and

657
00:34:26,400 --> 00:34:31,040
Speaker 1: the Big ten. They've got certain numbers of states that

658
00:34:31,120 --> 00:34:34,239
Speaker 1: are blue and certain numbers of states that are red.

659
00:34:34,239 --> 00:34:37,800
Speaker 1: They've got universities and ultra blue areas. Universities and ultra

660
00:34:37,840 --> 00:34:41,200
Speaker 1: red areas, And one of the big talking points when

661
00:34:41,239 --> 00:34:45,000
Speaker 1: these university presidents meet is well, if we expand, are

662
00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:48,439
Speaker 1: we expanding in a red area? Are we bringing more

663
00:34:48,480 --> 00:34:50,719
Speaker 1: red into the map? Or are we bringing more blue

664
00:34:50,760 --> 00:34:54,760
Speaker 1: into the map? Shoot me with the water gun, shoot

665
00:34:54,800 --> 00:34:58,359
Speaker 1: me in the face, just super soaker me. What are

666
00:34:58,360 --> 00:35:02,360
Speaker 1: we even doing right now? So, yeah, that is not regionality.

667
00:35:02,520 --> 00:35:04,440
Speaker 1: That is not the way it used to sound in

668
00:35:04,480 --> 00:35:08,719
Speaker 1: the Southwest conference boardroom. That It's beautiful to me to

669
00:35:08,800 --> 00:35:11,759
Speaker 1: have differences of opinion and differences of culture all the

670
00:35:11,800 --> 00:35:15,200
Speaker 1: way across the map. I just wish it wasn't all

671
00:35:15,239 --> 00:35:19,200
Speaker 1: thrown in the same pot in terms of making up

672
00:35:19,719 --> 00:35:23,960
Speaker 1: a demographic of like a country. Wonderful. But then it's

673
00:35:24,040 --> 00:35:27,960
Speaker 1: really fun in something as simple and as non serious

674
00:35:28,040 --> 00:35:31,239
Speaker 1: as sports, it's fun to divide it up. And then

675
00:35:31,320 --> 00:35:34,160
Speaker 1: here's what's really fun. Those different pockets get to play

676
00:35:34,160 --> 00:35:37,400
Speaker 1: each other, Those different pockets of fans get to travel

677
00:35:37,560 --> 00:35:39,600
Speaker 1: and interact with each other. I mean, do you know

678
00:35:39,640 --> 00:35:42,799
Speaker 1: what it's like to watch the University of Washington fan

679
00:35:42,880 --> 00:35:47,200
Speaker 1: base visit Baton Rouge, Louisiana on a Saturday night. It's

680
00:35:47,280 --> 00:35:49,719
Speaker 1: great as long as you have neutral colors on it's

681
00:35:49,760 --> 00:35:53,920
Speaker 1: great to watch, so in that sense, Cord, Yeah, regionality

682
00:35:54,000 --> 00:35:57,520
Speaker 1: may be a thing of the past from a conference

683
00:35:57,680 --> 00:36:02,319
Speaker 1: structuring standpoint, although if you look at the SEC, the

684
00:36:02,360 --> 00:36:07,279
Speaker 1: SEC is still kind of sort of regional. I guess

685
00:36:07,320 --> 00:36:09,520
Speaker 1: you could say it's just a really big region, you know,

686
00:36:09,600 --> 00:36:12,319
Speaker 1: the Big twelve. I think matches this the best. Now

687
00:36:12,440 --> 00:36:14,960
Speaker 1: they've got the exception. They got like a team in Orlando,

688
00:36:15,480 --> 00:36:17,080
Speaker 1: they got a team in Well, they don't have a

689
00:36:17,120 --> 00:36:19,040
Speaker 1: team in Dallas cause SMU's and the they do have

690
00:36:19,080 --> 00:36:22,480
Speaker 1: one cause of TCU. But I don't know, Cord. I

691
00:36:22,600 --> 00:36:24,200
Speaker 1: like to hold on to bits and pieces of it.

692
00:36:24,280 --> 00:36:27,360
Speaker 1: But as we knew it, Yeah, regionality is not so

693
00:36:27,480 --> 00:36:34,040
Speaker 1: much anymore. Next up, rt R Frankie from Perrysburg, Ohio.

694
00:36:34,719 --> 00:36:37,120
Speaker 1: I need some off the radar players that could have

695
00:36:37,200 --> 00:36:39,640
Speaker 1: a big impact on this season. That's good. That's good

696
00:36:39,680 --> 00:36:41,759
Speaker 1: because I just so happened to have a piece of

697
00:36:41,760 --> 00:36:43,759
Speaker 1: paper in front of me. I wrote down four of

698
00:36:43,800 --> 00:36:46,839
Speaker 1: them earlier today. Nick Scourton at Texas A and M

699
00:36:47,120 --> 00:36:49,960
Speaker 1: is one of them. Nick Scleurton could have a really

700
00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:53,879
Speaker 1: really big impact year. Remember the way, Frankie, you're Abama fan.

701
00:36:53,960 --> 00:36:56,040
Speaker 1: Remember the way you guys used to talk about Will Anderson.

702
00:36:56,280 --> 00:36:59,080
Speaker 1: You talked about Dallas Turner coming into last season like this,

703
00:36:59,360 --> 00:37:01,719
Speaker 1: Well that's Nick Scurton out at Texas A and M.

704
00:37:01,760 --> 00:37:04,880
Speaker 1: I'm not saying he's a shot for shot robot, copy

705
00:37:04,920 --> 00:37:07,120
Speaker 1: and paste of those two players, but he could have

706
00:37:07,200 --> 00:37:11,120
Speaker 1: that kind of impact this season. Week one, they play

707
00:37:11,200 --> 00:37:14,480
Speaker 1: Notre Dame, they play a playoff contender Week one and

708
00:37:14,640 --> 00:37:17,200
Speaker 1: Notre Name just lost their left tackle for the season,

709
00:37:17,320 --> 00:37:19,839
Speaker 1: so they've had to reshuffle on the offensive line. They

710
00:37:19,880 --> 00:37:23,000
Speaker 1: were already losing two tackles to the NFL. Now they

711
00:37:23,040 --> 00:37:26,640
Speaker 1: lost one that was going to be a replacement. So

712
00:37:26,760 --> 00:37:29,879
Speaker 1: Nick Scalerton, my point is, could flash early and could

713
00:37:29,880 --> 00:37:33,080
Speaker 1: get some early consideration. Be on a lot of radars.

714
00:37:33,960 --> 00:37:36,280
Speaker 1: He is a very good player. He was at Perdue

715
00:37:36,360 --> 00:37:40,080
Speaker 1: last year. By the way, he had fifty tackles ten sacks.

716
00:37:40,400 --> 00:37:42,520
Speaker 1: Last year he was second team All Big Ten. I

717
00:37:42,520 --> 00:37:44,560
Speaker 1: think he could have a huge year. I think at

718
00:37:44,680 --> 00:37:49,560
Speaker 1: nc State, another transfer here, Grayson McCall at quarterback could

719
00:37:49,560 --> 00:37:51,800
Speaker 1: be one of the most important players in that conference

720
00:37:52,239 --> 00:37:56,000
Speaker 1: because the defense could regress a little bit there, but

721
00:37:56,040 --> 00:37:59,239
Speaker 1: the tradeoff is offensively, they could be more than they've

722
00:37:59,239 --> 00:38:01,400
Speaker 1: been in the last seven years. N C State's just

723
00:38:01,480 --> 00:38:05,359
Speaker 1: kind of been an are what they are. Operation offensively, well,

724
00:38:05,440 --> 00:38:10,040
Speaker 1: McCall's over there, got a ton of experience. Offensive line

725
00:38:10,080 --> 00:38:12,879
Speaker 1: should be good there, wide receiver corps should be good,

726
00:38:12,920 --> 00:38:15,920
Speaker 1: probably a little underrated. What does he have to give him?

727
00:38:15,960 --> 00:38:18,319
Speaker 1: He doesn't have to be a Heisman contender. All he's

728
00:38:18,320 --> 00:38:21,120
Speaker 1: got to do is give them that added bump in

729
00:38:21,320 --> 00:38:24,040
Speaker 1: the inevitable handful of one possession games they're going to

730
00:38:24,080 --> 00:38:26,799
Speaker 1: find themselves in this year. And if he does that,

731
00:38:26,840 --> 00:38:29,560
Speaker 1: there's a reason at FanDuel, when you're looking at odds,

732
00:38:29,680 --> 00:38:30,960
Speaker 1: you don't have to go too far down in the

733
00:38:30,960 --> 00:38:34,520
Speaker 1: ACC to find NC State. So I would circle him.

734
00:38:35,200 --> 00:38:38,960
Speaker 1: I would look at Gavin Sawchuck, the running back at Oklahoma.

735
00:38:39,400 --> 00:38:41,040
Speaker 1: Not a lot of people are talking about that position.

736
00:38:41,080 --> 00:38:45,480
Speaker 1: They're talking about offensive line questions. They're talking about Jackson Arnold.

737
00:38:46,120 --> 00:38:48,080
Speaker 1: Is he going to get rid of the turnover issue?

738
00:38:48,200 --> 00:38:51,640
Speaker 1: They're talking about like Berks transferring in at wide receiver,

739
00:38:51,800 --> 00:38:55,439
Speaker 1: And meanwhile, Gavin Sawchuck could be one of the most

740
00:38:55,480 --> 00:38:57,480
Speaker 1: important offensive pieces they have. He could be one of

741
00:38:57,480 --> 00:38:59,880
Speaker 1: the most important pieces on their team. Think about the

742
00:39:00,080 --> 00:39:02,520
Speaker 1: isle of play at Oklahoma this year. They're going to

743
00:39:02,520 --> 00:39:05,480
Speaker 1: be a defensive oriented team, so they're going to be

744
00:39:05,520 --> 00:39:09,080
Speaker 1: like a rich Man's Iowa in that they'll play solid defense.

745
00:39:09,680 --> 00:39:15,000
Speaker 1: Offense can do things, but the style of play that

746
00:39:15,040 --> 00:39:17,359
Speaker 1: will be predicated off of, you know, the overall team

747
00:39:17,360 --> 00:39:20,000
Speaker 1: philosophy will heavily rely on that five eleven, two hundred

748
00:39:20,040 --> 00:39:22,960
Speaker 1: pound red shirt sophomore there number seven running back in

749
00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:27,040
Speaker 1: the two twenty twenty two cycle. He was honorable All

750
00:39:27,040 --> 00:39:29,960
Speaker 1: Big twelve last year. So seven hundred and forty four

751
00:39:30,000 --> 00:39:33,799
Speaker 1: rushing yards last year, nine rushing touchdowns last year. I

752
00:39:33,840 --> 00:39:36,640
Speaker 1: think he's a thousand plus yard kind of guy this year.

753
00:39:36,920 --> 00:39:41,600
Speaker 1: And Tyler Warren. Tyler Warren, might I go up to

754
00:39:42,120 --> 00:39:45,239
Speaker 1: State College and throw Penn State's tight end there. He's

755
00:39:45,280 --> 00:39:48,919
Speaker 1: six six, two fifty seven. He was third team All

756
00:39:48,960 --> 00:39:52,200
Speaker 1: Big ten for last year. Had four hundred and twenty

757
00:39:52,200 --> 00:39:56,920
Speaker 1: two receiving yards last year. If Andy cole Nicki's offense

758
00:39:57,280 --> 00:40:00,799
Speaker 1: that he brings in from Kansas is anything like it

759
00:40:00,920 --> 00:40:04,680
Speaker 1: was at Kansas, that guy's going to doublest production this year.

760
00:40:04,760 --> 00:40:06,640
Speaker 1: I may not doublest production. That's a lot. Eight hundred

761
00:40:06,640 --> 00:40:08,600
Speaker 1: plus yards for a tight end. That's a lot. He

762
00:40:08,840 --> 00:40:12,759
Speaker 1: could see a substantial increase in his looks, and he

763
00:40:12,800 --> 00:40:15,560
Speaker 1: could see a substantial increase, especially in the red zone,

764
00:40:15,800 --> 00:40:17,880
Speaker 1: at how much they target him and how much production

765
00:40:18,040 --> 00:40:19,760
Speaker 1: he can put on the board. So I'd go Scourton,

766
00:40:19,800 --> 00:40:22,720
Speaker 1: I'd go McCall, I'd go Sawchuck, I go Tyler Warren.

767
00:40:22,760 --> 00:40:25,520
Speaker 1: I hope that's enough. That's four players. I think are

768
00:40:26,200 --> 00:40:28,239
Speaker 1: They're not under the radar for their fan bases. I

769
00:40:28,239 --> 00:40:32,720
Speaker 1: think they're under the radar nationally. All right, we move along.

770
00:40:34,120 --> 00:40:38,960
Speaker 1: Will from Carlisle, PA. Would you support college football super conferences?

771
00:40:40,640 --> 00:40:43,279
Speaker 1: I would accept them. Will, I don't know that I

772
00:40:43,280 --> 00:40:47,040
Speaker 1: would support them. If by support you mean am I

773
00:40:47,200 --> 00:40:50,319
Speaker 1: rooting for it? Certainly not. I am not rooting for it.

774
00:40:50,840 --> 00:40:52,360
Speaker 1: I always have to be kind of careful when I

775
00:40:52,400 --> 00:40:55,319
Speaker 1: talk about this stuff, because anytime you say anything other

776
00:40:55,400 --> 00:40:59,560
Speaker 1: than everything's great, anytime you say anything other than I

777
00:40:59,640 --> 00:41:03,920
Speaker 1: love the direction we're taking, someone calls you old school,

778
00:41:04,200 --> 00:41:08,520
Speaker 1: stuck in the past, not progressive enough, And I'm like,

779
00:41:09,239 --> 00:41:14,040
Speaker 1: that suggests that everything is bad, because the only way

780
00:41:14,080 --> 00:41:16,920
Speaker 1: that all change is good is if every current thing

781
00:41:17,000 --> 00:41:18,600
Speaker 1: is bad. Well, I happen to think a lot of

782
00:41:18,600 --> 00:41:20,680
Speaker 1: college football has been pretty good for a long time.

783
00:41:21,000 --> 00:41:25,840
Speaker 1: Therefore changing everything about the sport not the best strategy

784
00:41:25,880 --> 00:41:29,319
Speaker 1: in the world to me. And super conferences are one

785
00:41:29,320 --> 00:41:32,480
Speaker 1: of those things. And here's the part be to that.

786
00:41:33,400 --> 00:41:36,680
Speaker 1: You know, if you watch Castaway and you watch you

787
00:41:36,719 --> 00:41:39,239
Speaker 1: know Tom Hanks lose Wilson in the middle of the

788
00:41:39,239 --> 00:41:41,600
Speaker 1: South Pacific spoiler alert for those of you that haven't

789
00:41:41,600 --> 00:41:46,480
Speaker 1: seen twenty four year old Castaway. That's necessary. You know,

790
00:41:46,560 --> 00:41:50,360
Speaker 1: some things were necessary there. He had to lose his wife,

791
00:41:50,680 --> 00:41:56,120
Speaker 1: but ultimately he survives. These things are necessary. It wasn't

792
00:41:56,160 --> 00:41:58,759
Speaker 1: necessary for college football to get blown up. That's the

793
00:41:58,800 --> 00:42:01,520
Speaker 1: most aggravating part. Like when we get to wherever it

794
00:42:01,600 --> 00:42:04,920
Speaker 1: is we're going, Kyle Whittingham thinks it could happen tomorrow.

795
00:42:05,320 --> 00:42:07,279
Speaker 1: Some other writers out there think we're five or ten

796
00:42:07,360 --> 00:42:10,000
Speaker 1: years away from it. Whatever. Okay, let's pretend we're all

797
00:42:10,000 --> 00:42:13,000
Speaker 1: seventy years old and it's happened. We didn't have to

798
00:42:13,040 --> 00:42:15,880
Speaker 1: be that way. A bunch of people are shrugging their

799
00:42:15,880 --> 00:42:18,520
Speaker 1: shoulders and like, uh, what are you gonna do? Man?

800
00:42:18,600 --> 00:42:21,560
Speaker 1: Time marches on In the words of Tracy Lawrence, Yes,

801
00:42:22,120 --> 00:42:24,680
Speaker 1: that's a great country song, but it's not how it

802
00:42:24,719 --> 00:42:29,080
Speaker 1: always has to be in every walk of life. What

803
00:42:29,120 --> 00:42:33,200
Speaker 1: are we talking about here? So because some people were

804
00:42:33,239 --> 00:42:36,520
Speaker 1: really dumb on the front end, because college football lacked

805
00:42:37,040 --> 00:42:41,960
Speaker 1: solid leadership and foresight on the front end, I've got

806
00:42:41,960 --> 00:42:45,840
Speaker 1: to watch Oregon State and Washington State basically cease to exist.

807
00:42:46,120 --> 00:42:48,560
Speaker 1: I've got to watch an entire conference fade off into

808
00:42:48,560 --> 00:42:53,480
Speaker 1: the abyss in the PAC twelve. Why well, because of incompetence,

809
00:42:53,520 --> 00:42:55,920
Speaker 1: and not just one person. You could look at the

810
00:42:55,920 --> 00:42:59,920
Speaker 1: PAC twelve network, you could look at university presidents and inact,

811
00:43:00,400 --> 00:43:04,080
Speaker 1: you can look at the NCAA level at inaction they

812
00:43:04,120 --> 00:43:07,760
Speaker 1: took when common sense stared them in the face several

813
00:43:07,840 --> 00:43:10,440
Speaker 1: years ago. All of that could have been avoided. So

814
00:43:10,719 --> 00:43:12,440
Speaker 1: you can't go back in time. We do not have

815
00:43:12,520 --> 00:43:15,200
Speaker 1: the power to do that. But then the next thing

816
00:43:15,360 --> 00:43:19,040
Speaker 1: that should be asked, and I have confidence is being

817
00:43:19,080 --> 00:43:21,440
Speaker 1: asked right now, is Okay, well, we can't go back

818
00:43:21,480 --> 00:43:25,520
Speaker 1: in time. We screwed it up them. Which issues are

819
00:43:25,560 --> 00:43:28,759
Speaker 1: on the table now that we have to figure out

820
00:43:28,920 --> 00:43:31,920
Speaker 1: and handle the right way now so that we don't

821
00:43:32,120 --> 00:43:39,160
Speaker 1: further implode things ten years from now. That's the important part,

822
00:43:39,480 --> 00:43:41,040
Speaker 1: and that's why I made a pretty big deal the

823
00:43:41,040 --> 00:43:44,200
Speaker 1: other night when I said, sabans retired. Who's going to

824
00:43:44,239 --> 00:43:46,520
Speaker 1: fill that vacuum. Doesn't have anything to do with who's

825
00:43:46,520 --> 00:43:49,759
Speaker 1: going to win this year. Okay, which coach speaks up

826
00:43:49,800 --> 00:43:53,240
Speaker 1: on issues will not impact who wins the national title

827
00:43:53,400 --> 00:43:56,000
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty four or five or six. But what

828
00:43:56,040 --> 00:44:00,719
Speaker 1: it does do is it puts intelligent voice in the

829
00:44:00,800 --> 00:44:05,120
Speaker 1: room and it makes sure that there is a very,

830
00:44:05,400 --> 00:44:09,480
Speaker 1: very big platform. Head coaches have the biggest platforms in

831
00:44:09,480 --> 00:44:13,000
Speaker 1: the sport, and those platforms are being used to voice

832
00:44:13,040 --> 00:44:16,160
Speaker 1: the right message for the greater good of college football,

833
00:44:16,280 --> 00:44:19,680
Speaker 1: not just your school. Saban did that for a long time.

834
00:44:19,719 --> 00:44:21,399
Speaker 1: I don't care if you love him or hate him.

835
00:44:22,000 --> 00:44:26,440
Speaker 1: He was pretty universally respected amongst coaches because he advocated

836
00:44:26,520 --> 00:44:30,880
Speaker 1: for the sport, in some cases to the detriment of Alabama,

837
00:44:31,120 --> 00:44:33,960
Speaker 1: but at the very least for the benefit of the

838
00:44:33,960 --> 00:44:37,279
Speaker 1: sport overall. So who's going to do that? Because if

839
00:44:37,280 --> 00:44:40,160
Speaker 1: no one's doing that, you absolutely are guaranteed to have

840
00:44:40,200 --> 00:44:41,839
Speaker 1: a bunch of folks who have no clue what they're

841
00:44:41,840 --> 00:44:44,200
Speaker 1: doing that are willing to advocate for everything but the

842
00:44:44,200 --> 00:44:47,279
Speaker 1: betterment of the sport. So it's really important guys are

843
00:44:47,280 --> 00:44:50,000
Speaker 1: speaking up. It's truly important. I do whatever I can.

844
00:44:50,120 --> 00:44:51,520
Speaker 1: All I do is sit in a studio and talking

845
00:44:51,560 --> 00:44:54,359
Speaker 1: to microphone. You guys are the ones with a much

846
00:44:54,360 --> 00:44:56,640
Speaker 1: bigger platform. I say you guys, because I know a

847
00:44:56,719 --> 00:44:58,880
Speaker 1: number of you're listening to the show, and I know

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916
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917
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918
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974
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