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Speaker 1: And welcome to link Kick is Live. It is Sunday night,

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Speaker 1: April tenth, the Overloer in twenty twenty two. If it

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Speaker 1: is spring, intel and meat and potatoes you want. I

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Speaker 1: promise you you were going to leave this show full

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Speaker 1: for many reasons. Some spring games are wrapping up, but

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Speaker 1: we're finally starting to get some juice from our boots

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Speaker 1: on the ground, so to speak, extensive network of team

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Speaker 1: site insiders here at twenty four to seven Sports and beyond,

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Speaker 1: and so we're able to leverage that for your benefits.

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Speaker 1: So we're going to talk a lot about a lot

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Speaker 1: of programs tonight, a lot of them. You're gonna get

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Speaker 1: everything that you need. And then some here jam packed

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Speaker 1: Hi a top, sun soaked downtown Nashville, Tennessee. Got the

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Speaker 1: whispers and intel from Spring, but also a very very

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Speaker 1: stirring debate brought upon by one of your questions about

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Speaker 1: Miami's dynasty Alabama's dynasty and which one was hated more.

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Speaker 1: I'm in the minority, but I promise you I'm right.

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Speaker 1: We'll get to that in due time. Some quotes from

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Speaker 1: a certain SEC defensive coordinator that I'm really going to

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Speaker 1: need a lot of you to pay attention to. Also,

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Speaker 1: if you have a problem with Dabo Swinny, some of

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Speaker 1: you do. Some of you are on board with his

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Speaker 1: way of thinking. Some of you are just morally opposed

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Speaker 1: to everything that comes out of his mouth. That's fine,

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Speaker 1: but he's got some things to say, and I therefore

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Speaker 1: have some things to say about what he has to say. Tonight.

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Speaker 1: They're watching us in Dublin, Ireland. They're watching us in Richardson, Texas.

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Speaker 1: I'll be out that way apparently if the forecast models

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Speaker 1: hold a little bit later this week, jessup Georgia and

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Speaker 1: you know where else they're watching us, Jesse and Collin.

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Speaker 1: They're watching us in Houston. But they're not just watching

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Speaker 1: us any old where in Houston. They're watching us in

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Speaker 1: the Port of Houston. Take a look at this. Seeing

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Speaker 1: you need to know about me because we kick the

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Speaker 1: show off. And I've talked about this before. So I

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Speaker 1: don't like parties. I don't even celebrate my own birthday.

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Speaker 1: I try not even let people know it's my own birthday. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's us playing right there in the Port of Houston.

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Speaker 1: Had one of you send video, is that is a

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Speaker 1: container ship that is hauling containers intermodal containers that for

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Speaker 1: all I know, I ended up hopping when they eventually

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Speaker 1: made their way to rail travel. So it's always good

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Speaker 1: to hear from you guys. But we had not yet

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Speaker 1: heard from anyone at a port, and so I had

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Speaker 1: to include it. If you have video of any unique

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Speaker 1: I wanted to mention before we go on to shift

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Speaker 1: the tone entirely a lot of you, all of you

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Speaker 1: are aware by now Dwayne Haskins was killed yesterday down

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Speaker 1: in Florida, I believe, And so when we have especially

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Speaker 1: people pass away prematurely that were associated with our game,

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Speaker 1: I don't really like to take a somber tone on

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Speaker 1: the show. There's plenty of time for that. There are

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Speaker 1: plenty of places they're doing that. What I always like

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Speaker 1: mind when I remember Dwayne Haskins. I remember that season

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Speaker 1: not too long ago, that twenty eighteen season, when I

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Speaker 1: know many of you Buckeye fans felt the same way.

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Speaker 1: You're looking at Ohio State and if you were like me,

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Speaker 1: you were thinking how is this team thirteen and one? Like,

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Speaker 1: how did this happen? When did this happen? It was

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Speaker 1: because of Dwayne Haskins. And he starts one year and

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Speaker 1: and so it ends tragically. We all hate the way

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Speaker 1: Dwayne Haskins was a guy whose poster you would want

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Speaker 1: So rest in peace, Dwayne Haskins, and praised his family

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Speaker 1: and a lot of folks associated with the program up there.

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Speaker 1: how I'll choose to remember him. Wanted to wait for

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Speaker 1: the show tonight to really talk about that. Okay, let's

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Speaker 1: Spring Intel and Whisper is one of the best segments

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Speaker 1: we do, one of your favorite segments in Colin. He

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Speaker 1: is your endpoint Spring Whispers and Intel. Some Spring games

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Speaker 1: to get it to you really really quickly. Georgia. First off,

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Speaker 1: linemen of Maarrius Mems in the transfer portal. Ditto for

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Speaker 1: the transfer portal. And now you see what the consequences

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Speaker 1: of success are all about. Two things are true here.

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Speaker 1: Number one, Georgia will forever have to worry about talented

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Speaker 1: thing that's true is they're probably always going to be

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Speaker 1: fine even after it happens. This is number ten and

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Speaker 1: But I don't want to talk about that tonight so much.

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Speaker 1: I can surprize this is the same way Kirby Smart

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Speaker 1: Bennett and Kirby kept saying, I'm playing the guy who

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Speaker 1: There is a big difference in what you want to

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Speaker 1: Vandergriff to have taken the next step because they had

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Speaker 1: more stars next to their name. Maybe they got more

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Speaker 1: them to take the job by the throat. That's what

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Speaker 1: And Bennett probably still gives you the best chance to win.

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Speaker 1: But there's a ven diagram that basically makes up a

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Speaker 1: only way Georgia was gonna make any noise in the

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Speaker 1: playoff was JT. Daniels being inserted at quarterback and Stetson

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Speaker 1: And that is even after you've seen the National Championship win.

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Speaker 1: It's either got to be beck or vandergriff. I mean,

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Speaker 1: there's no way steps and Bennet can still be the

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Speaker 1: to Clemson. They had their spring game yesterday. About thirty

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Speaker 1: run through them. Defense had thirteen total sacks in this thing.

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Speaker 1: don't know therefore that you can draw any conclusions moving

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Speaker 1: the degree that it used to look because it ties

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Speaker 1: I listened to what Dablos Swiney said after the spring

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Speaker 1: game yesterday, which was quote dj Uyangolila is definitely our starter.

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Speaker 1: He had a great spring. He hasn't done anything to

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Speaker 1: not be the starter. I listened to that, and I

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Speaker 1: least I didn't when I watched the spring game yesterday. Now,

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Speaker 1: the spring game is the spring game. It's a fool's

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Speaker 1: errand to draw definitive conclusions from that, I'm doing quite

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Speaker 1: the opposite. I'm not drawing any conclusion. I'm sitting here

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Speaker 1: telling you I think that thing's wide open, and I

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Speaker 1: think k Klubnick definitely poses a real threat to ending

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Speaker 1: seem to be plaguing dj Ouyanglilay. It's not a bad quarterback.

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Speaker 1: this year than they were last year. Now they I mean,

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Speaker 1: what were they last year? So I understand that's not

431
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Speaker 1: exactly a loaded statement. But the quarterback competition here is

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Speaker 1: very real. We have talked about this before. Drake May

433
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Speaker 1: is a guy I think most people have still penciled

434
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Speaker 1: in to start for them. But Jacoby Criswell is not

435
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Speaker 1: a guy going away. We talked about this couple of

436
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Speaker 1: weeks ago. It sounds like we're going to be talking

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Speaker 1: about it for a while. Those are two guys they

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Speaker 1: can win with. I feel like, ultimately, come fall, those

439
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Speaker 1: are going to be two guys plenty capable enough to

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Speaker 1: win with. But let me just mention two names to you.

441
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Speaker 1: If you follow recruiting, you already know him. Zach Rice,

442
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Speaker 1: who was a five star offensive tackle they got. They

443
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Speaker 1: hit on him. They hit on him, true freshman starter,

444
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Speaker 1: they hit on him. The other one is five star

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Speaker 1: defensive lineman Travis Shaw. They hit on him a couple

446
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Speaker 1: of studs. You talk to people over there, it takes

447
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Speaker 1: him about five seconds before they say, yeah, quarterback whatever.

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Speaker 1: Let me tell you about Travis Shaw, let me tell

449
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Speaker 1: you about Zach Rice. Those guys are no doubters. So

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Speaker 1: the evals over there, the recruiting over there, it hasn't

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Speaker 1: dropped off. The expectations will That's okay, We're going to

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Speaker 1: take a shot on North Carolina this year. What about

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Speaker 1: Florida State. They had their spring game yesterday kind of

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Speaker 1: a practice format, so I had about thirty thousand folks there.

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Speaker 1: The overall feel I get after spring in Tallahassee is

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Speaker 1: Mike Norvel still does not have the horses he needs

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Speaker 1: to run Mike Norvell's offense. Every One is gonna watch

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Speaker 1: Florida State this year and at some point, whether they're

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Speaker 1: winning close or losing close, and I do think they'll

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Speaker 1: be competitive either way, they'll be saying to themselves, when's

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Speaker 1: Norvil gonna run that Memphis offense here? Well, he can't yet.

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Speaker 1: I don't think he has the players yet. I don't

463
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Speaker 1: think he has the receivers yet. Truth be told, I

464
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Speaker 1: don't think he has the quarterback. There's a lot of

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Speaker 1: hope that Aj Duffy eventually is that guy. Dude was

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Speaker 1: one for eighty yesterday. It's just not there yet. That

467
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Speaker 1: doesn't mean it won't be there, but he's very young,

468
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Speaker 1: so it's just not there yet. I don't know that.

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Speaker 1: I don't know that Jordan Travis, for example, who is

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Speaker 1: a QB one there, I don't know that he possesses

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Speaker 1: the perfect skill set to do what Mike Norvel wants

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Speaker 1: to do. Those are some of the bad news glass

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Speaker 1: half empty type takes, but also offensive line not exactly

474
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Speaker 1: a stellar unit there. You can talk about all that.

475
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Speaker 1: But here's the good news again. It looks like they

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Speaker 1: have hit across the board virtually via the transfer portal.

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Speaker 1: So yesterday, for example, Trey Benson is a running back

478
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Speaker 1: transfer who carried it what was it seven times for

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Speaker 1: seventy seven yards yesterday. He's a guy who's going to

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Speaker 1: be a big time contributor for them. I think Micah

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Speaker 1: Pittman receiver, big time contributor should be for them. Jared

482
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Speaker 1: Verse defensive en, big time contributor for them. They've got

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Speaker 1: I don't know, probably half a dozen or more out

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Speaker 1: of the portal this pass cycle who were going to

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Speaker 1: be immediate contributors. They're going to need them. That's good news.

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Speaker 1: The bad news is you're in a position where you

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Speaker 1: have to have them. They're also in a position where

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Speaker 1: there's no way they're done in the portal yet. I mean,

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Speaker 1: they've been banged up on the offensive line, but still,

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Speaker 1: even if fully healthy, I don't think they're where they

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Speaker 1: want to be. Along that position group. Same thing as

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Speaker 1: we talked about with Auburn. You don't just snap your

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Speaker 1: fingers after one or two years and make all the

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Speaker 1: problems that the other staff got fired for go away.

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Speaker 1: That's not the way it works. So they continue to

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Speaker 1: work down there at Florida State. But I'll tell you

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Speaker 1: the same thing that everyone close to the program says.

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Speaker 1: When you talk to folks close to Florida State, they

499
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Speaker 1: tell you a couple things. They'll tell you in some

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Speaker 1: combination of phrasing, the same thing I just did. Whether

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Speaker 1: it be this position group of that posion group, we're

502
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Speaker 1: not there yet. They're going to struggle here, they're going

503
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Speaker 1: to struggle there. But then they follow it up with

504
00:24:13,320 --> 00:24:17,080
Speaker 1: but they're improving, Like no one doubts that. Around Florida State,

505
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Speaker 1: everything is improving. It's not always linear, it's not always

506
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Speaker 1: completely in a perfect straight line, but they're improving. So

507
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Speaker 1: what do you do. Do you throw Mike Norvella and

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Speaker 1: his staff out the door if they don't win eight

509
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Speaker 1: or nine games this year, even if you see improvement,

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Speaker 1: I don't think so. So they've given him time and

511
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Speaker 1: space so far. I think they need to continue to

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Speaker 1: do so. It's not that there's any smoke down there

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Speaker 1: or hot seat talk. But I'm just saying, if they

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Speaker 1: win seven games this year, you know what the talk

515
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Speaker 1: will be. But yet, if they've shown improvement in doing so,

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Speaker 1: I'm thinking I think it's going to be a more

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Speaker 1: nuanced conversation. That's what I'm saying. What about Ole Miss?

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Speaker 1: Remember they had the top overall transfer portal class. Now

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Speaker 1: you all remember that, but you also remember that once

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Speaker 1: spring comes, not all of them pan out. Well, at

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Speaker 1: ole Miss, they're pretty much all panning out. Jackson Dart

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Speaker 1: was the most high profile in nature. That's the USC

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Speaker 1: quarterback who transferred to Old Miss. There's a big quarterback

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Speaker 1: competition here as well. The widely held assumption out there

525
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Speaker 1: is it's not if, but a win sort of scenario

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Speaker 1: is to win. Jackson Dart's eventually going to be the

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Speaker 1: starting quarterback at ol Miss. And I'll just put it

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Speaker 1: to you like this. I still also believe it'll ultimately

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Speaker 1: be Jackson Dark. But Old Miss insiders would tell you

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Speaker 1: they had to play a game today, it wouldn't be

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Speaker 1: it'd be Luke Altmeyer. Now that's not shocking. Altmeyer's been

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Speaker 1: in the system. Jackson Dark got there fifteen minutes ago.

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Speaker 1: But here is what you take solace him. If Jackson

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Speaker 1: Dart does not end up being the starting quarterback here,

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Speaker 1: it's not gonna be because he blew it. It's gonna

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Speaker 1: be because he just flat out got beat for the job.

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Speaker 1: That's a good thing because you know what competition breeds,

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Speaker 1: especially at that position. So sounds very good at ol

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Speaker 1: Miss right now. That's a program. Frankly, after last season

540
00:26:02,440 --> 00:26:05,040
Speaker 1: I had a ton of concern about There were questions

541
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Speaker 1: about whether the head coach was still going to be there.

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Speaker 1: And then of course you're losing Matt Carrall, You're losing

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Speaker 1: a lot of talent. And they rebounded in a big way.

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Speaker 1: It also lost coaches. It rebounded in a big way.

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Speaker 1: So Ole Miss looks to have steadied the ship and

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Speaker 1: they're going to be a serious player again this year.

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Speaker 1: Also wanted to hit on LSU a lot to talk

548
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Speaker 1: about quarterback down there. We've got plenty of time to

549
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Speaker 1: do that. But I'll tell you the biggest headline coming

550
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Speaker 1: out of Baton Rouge right now is the name John Emery.

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Speaker 1: John Emery is a guy that it feels like for

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Speaker 1: the last decade we have talked with each other, and

553
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Speaker 1: I've said, is this the year that John Emory is

554
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Speaker 1: going to be a true number one tailback in the SEC?

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Speaker 1: So far the answer has been no. All the returns

556
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Speaker 1: from down there are that that's changing. That's a big deal,

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Speaker 1: especially at a place where you don't have a sure

558
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Speaker 1: fire first round lock quarterback at your disposal. Got some

559
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Speaker 1: good options, but it really would be who of LSU

560
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Speaker 1: to have a strong run game. Now, I'll tell you

561
00:27:01,680 --> 00:27:04,760
Speaker 1: what else is happening down there. Will Campbell, former major

562
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Speaker 1: prospect there, has moved to left tackle, and they've got

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Speaker 1: wire in Dumerville, a couple of guys fighting for the

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Speaker 1: right tackle spot. Now, if you follow LSU closely, you'll

565
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Speaker 1: know how very hilarious this quote was from I think

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Speaker 1: it was the Go twenty four to seven board when

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Speaker 1: someone said, are we seriously moving tackles to guard? Because

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Speaker 1: it's always been the opposite down there. Someone said, the

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Speaker 1: quote for LSU football has been LSU where guards come

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Speaker 1: or where tackles come to play, where guards come to

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Speaker 1: be starting tackles. Since two thousand and eight, that's always

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Speaker 1: been the case. You've always read LSU practice reports and

573
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Speaker 1: this former left guard or this former center or right

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Speaker 1: guards out here playing right tackle, and people wonder when

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Speaker 1: in the world we finally gonna have tackles play and tackle. Well,

576
00:27:47,800 --> 00:27:50,720
Speaker 1: now not only do they have that, they got tackles

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Speaker 1: kicking down inside. How about that? What a day in

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Speaker 1: Baton Rouge. Those are some things that are happening right now.

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Speaker 1: We obviously have plenty more spring games to go. So

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Speaker 1: those are some of the whispers and intel that we're hearing.

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Speaker 1: Can't fit it in in an entire show where we

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Speaker 1: would literally be on air three hours a lot going

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Speaker 1: I've got something in front of me. So I just

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Speaker 1: want to let you know something. Okay, I don't ever

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Speaker 1: do it this way, but I do want to let

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Speaker 1: not to. At Academy Sports and Outdoors, they carry all

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Speaker 1: back into the show. I love reading the YouTube comments.

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Speaker 1: I read every single one of them. I reply to

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Speaker 1: I got this the other day. This is my kind

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Speaker 1: put together this, like this, mister potato head, conglomeration of

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Speaker 1: was it was, like I just said, it was a

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Speaker 1: if a franchise as shrewd and professional as Academy Sports

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Speaker 1: and Outdoors would have ever even partnered with such a

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Speaker 1: man or if these two are but more rantings of

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Speaker 1: Two things have become pretty obvious to me over the

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Speaker 1: past couple of months. The first is I believe in Arkansas.

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Speaker 1: I think they're going to do big things. The second

644
00:31:27,320 --> 00:31:29,320
Speaker 1: is not a lot of you are on board with me,

645
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Speaker 1: judging by my inbox, but we're not going to solve

646
00:31:33,640 --> 00:31:36,360
Speaker 1: that tonight, although I do want to play you something

647
00:31:36,400 --> 00:31:40,160
Speaker 1: because that's okay. Look, when we disagree, I'll be happy

648
00:31:40,200 --> 00:31:42,760
Speaker 1: to accept your apologies down the road. It's happened before,

649
00:31:42,920 --> 00:31:45,239
Speaker 1: it's going to happen again. You and I know it.

650
00:31:45,440 --> 00:31:48,400
Speaker 1: But I did have something on this Sunday night here

651
00:31:48,480 --> 00:31:50,920
Speaker 1: what April tenth year of our lower twenty twenty two

652
00:31:51,120 --> 00:31:52,840
Speaker 1: that I wanted you to hear. Now you know who

653
00:31:52,840 --> 00:31:56,080
Speaker 1: Barry Odem is if you don't. Burry Odem is the

654
00:31:56,200 --> 00:32:00,120
Speaker 1: current defensive coordinator at Arkansas. He's the former head coach

655
00:32:00,240 --> 00:32:04,000
Speaker 1: at Missouri. Guys been around the block guy's a lifer,

656
00:32:04,280 --> 00:32:07,840
Speaker 1: knows the game very well, and importantly, when we're about

657
00:32:07,840 --> 00:32:11,040
Speaker 1: to roll this clip, he has experienced the game from

658
00:32:11,120 --> 00:32:14,560
Speaker 1: multiple perspectives up to and including head coach. So with

659
00:32:14,640 --> 00:32:16,760
Speaker 1: that in mind, we're going to play you something here.

660
00:32:16,760 --> 00:32:18,600
Speaker 1: I want you to listen to it. This is Barry

661
00:32:18,600 --> 00:32:21,560
Speaker 1: odem Arkansas defensive coordinator and we will talk about it

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00:32:21,720 --> 00:32:22,440
Speaker 1: when we come back.

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Speaker 2: The culture that Sam Pittman has every day in our

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00:32:26,800 --> 00:32:29,360
Speaker 2: working environment, you can't beat it.

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Speaker 1: I don't know.

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00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:32,200
Speaker 2: I've not worked that many places, but you can't tell

667
00:32:32,200 --> 00:32:34,560
Speaker 2: me it's better somewhere else. I think we've got a

668
00:32:34,600 --> 00:32:39,160
Speaker 2: great administrative support. The fan base is the best I've

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Speaker 2: ever seen. It's it's unbelievable. I believe with the team

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Speaker 2: that we have, the way we've been able to recruit.

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Speaker 2: My family is really happy here. I'm excited and happy

672
00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:50,320
Speaker 2: to be here. I think we can achieve great success here.

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00:32:51,000 --> 00:32:55,840
Speaker 2: So all those things combined, if there's an opportunity for

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Speaker 2: me via you know, I had opportunity says you know,

675
00:32:58,600 --> 00:33:02,480
Speaker 2: and you know a couple of things this offseason to

676
00:33:02,480 --> 00:33:04,000
Speaker 2: be a head coach again. I'm not going to go

677
00:33:04,040 --> 00:33:06,080
Speaker 2: take a head coaching position again. Just to say I

678
00:33:06,120 --> 00:33:07,719
Speaker 2: did it. I don't need that.

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Speaker 1: My ego doesn't need it.

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00:33:09,160 --> 00:33:11,520
Speaker 2: I don't need it. I am having as fun as

681
00:33:11,560 --> 00:33:15,120
Speaker 2: I've ever had coaching being here, and I don't know

682
00:33:15,240 --> 00:33:17,200
Speaker 2: fun has anything to do with it, but I enjoy

683
00:33:17,240 --> 00:33:19,760
Speaker 2: getting up and going to work every day. The student

684
00:33:19,840 --> 00:33:21,760
Speaker 2: athletes that I've got a chance to coach right now,

685
00:33:22,320 --> 00:33:24,600
Speaker 2: they're bought in. They like to play ball, they like

686
00:33:24,680 --> 00:33:26,960
Speaker 2: to practice, they like to compete. They're doing a great

687
00:33:27,040 --> 00:33:30,720
Speaker 2: job academically. It's a fun group to be around some

688
00:33:30,960 --> 00:33:34,440
Speaker 2: days some year. If a head coaching opportunity presents itself,

689
00:33:36,080 --> 00:33:37,560
Speaker 2: then I may go make a run at it. But

690
00:33:37,600 --> 00:33:39,640
Speaker 2: it's got to be the right fit, with the right alignment.

691
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Speaker 2: And I feel like Arkansas is a special place.

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Speaker 1: It's pretty real. I mean pretty straightforward when I tell

693
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Speaker 1: you people with options are choosing Arkansas. Barry otom the

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Speaker 1: defensive coordinator there is exhibit A, and for that matter,

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00:33:54,320 --> 00:33:57,840
Speaker 1: Kendall Briles, the offensive coordinator, is exhibit one A. Those

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Speaker 1: are guys with options. These are not red they're not afterthoughts.

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00:34:01,360 --> 00:34:04,320
Speaker 1: Both of those guys could have left this past cycle

698
00:34:04,840 --> 00:34:09,000
Speaker 1: for what you may term greener pastures. That's what's changing.

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00:34:09,040 --> 00:34:12,160
Speaker 1: In college football right now, in particular in Fayettville, Arkansas.

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Speaker 1: Do you realize they are one of only eight Power

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00:34:15,480 --> 00:34:18,920
Speaker 1: five teams that have a pair of coordinators returning for

702
00:34:19,040 --> 00:34:22,359
Speaker 1: their third season or longer. It's a big deal and

703
00:34:22,400 --> 00:34:25,320
Speaker 1: that's a lot of consistency that is invaluable in nature.

704
00:34:25,840 --> 00:34:28,600
Speaker 1: They got a top ten portal class because, just like

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00:34:28,640 --> 00:34:33,000
Speaker 1: the coaches, players given options are choosing Arkansas. They got

706
00:34:33,000 --> 00:34:35,680
Speaker 1: a top five signing class right now for twenty twenty

707
00:34:35,719 --> 00:34:40,480
Speaker 1: three because players with options are choosing Arkansas. Why does

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00:34:40,520 --> 00:34:45,040
Speaker 1: your mind default to that being a red flag? Why

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00:34:45,040 --> 00:34:48,719
Speaker 1: does your mind default, for instance, to the way a

710
00:34:48,760 --> 00:34:51,360
Speaker 1: lot of you end up going when we talk about this.

711
00:34:51,440 --> 00:34:52,640
Speaker 1: I talk with a lot of you about this. I

712
00:34:52,640 --> 00:34:53,919
Speaker 1: got BUDDI as I talked to you on the phone

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00:34:53,920 --> 00:34:56,759
Speaker 1: about this. Think it through for a second. Why does

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00:34:56,800 --> 00:34:59,799
Speaker 1: your mind tend to default to thinking of Arkansas as

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Speaker 1: a backup option? Why do you kind of recoil a

716
00:35:02,600 --> 00:35:05,440
Speaker 1: little bit if anyone ever suggests Arkansas could contend one

717
00:35:05,520 --> 00:35:08,200
Speaker 1: day for the SEC West or college football playoff spot.

718
00:35:09,239 --> 00:35:12,280
Speaker 1: Your mind goes there because your mind defaults to Arkansas

719
00:35:12,320 --> 00:35:14,960
Speaker 1: being a backup option because they have been for top

720
00:35:15,040 --> 00:35:18,480
Speaker 1: level coaches for top level players, you haven't seen them

721
00:35:18,480 --> 00:35:21,279
Speaker 1: go to Arkansas a whole lot in recent years. You're

722
00:35:21,400 --> 00:35:24,719
Speaker 1: used to them being a secondary option. I think what's

723
00:35:24,800 --> 00:35:27,200
Speaker 1: changing right now. You hear it out of their mouths,

724
00:35:27,200 --> 00:35:30,319
Speaker 1: you see it in their actions, is college football is

725
00:35:30,360 --> 00:35:33,479
Speaker 1: slowly starting to realize what they realized a little while

726
00:35:33,480 --> 00:35:36,840
Speaker 1: ago in fable. They're not a backup option anymore. Arkansas

727
00:35:36,880 --> 00:35:38,960
Speaker 1: football used to be a backup option for a lot

728
00:35:38,960 --> 00:35:41,239
Speaker 1: of coaches and a lot of players. Arkansas is not

729
00:35:41,280 --> 00:35:44,160
Speaker 1: a backup option. They're a destination now and a lot

730
00:35:44,160 --> 00:35:45,959
Speaker 1: of people are going to continue to realize that. Look.

731
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Speaker 1: The good news for me, since I happen to believe

732
00:35:48,520 --> 00:35:51,279
Speaker 1: in the vision in there in the direction is I

733
00:35:51,320 --> 00:35:54,480
Speaker 1: don't really have to bank on something intangible, like we're

734
00:35:54,480 --> 00:35:56,320
Speaker 1: looking at the guys they just got in the transfer

735
00:35:56,320 --> 00:35:58,839
Speaker 1: a portal. Jaden hazel Wood could have gone to two

736
00:35:58,960 --> 00:36:02,279
Speaker 1: dozen programs. He went to Arkansas. He chose to go there.

737
00:36:02,400 --> 00:36:04,520
Speaker 1: Drew Sanders was one of the top prospects in the

738
00:36:04,560 --> 00:36:08,720
Speaker 1: country two cycles ago that went to Alabama. Drew Sanders

739
00:36:08,719 --> 00:36:11,600
Speaker 1: got banged up, and Dallas Turner, who's just a total

740
00:36:11,640 --> 00:36:15,120
Speaker 1: freak of nature, takes his job. That's the reason that

741
00:36:15,200 --> 00:36:18,000
Speaker 1: Drew Sanders wasn't going to be playing in Alabama as much.

742
00:36:18,239 --> 00:36:20,239
Speaker 1: Quite frankly, he was still going to be playing. I

743
00:36:20,320 --> 00:36:22,279
Speaker 1: say that to tell you Drew Sanders could have gone

744
00:36:22,280 --> 00:36:24,839
Speaker 1: pretty much anywhere in the country he wanted to. Those

745
00:36:24,920 --> 00:36:29,240
Speaker 1: are dudes with options who chose Arkansas. So moving forward,

746
00:36:29,440 --> 00:36:31,600
Speaker 1: you're going to continue to see this And look, if

747
00:36:31,640 --> 00:36:34,759
Speaker 1: you watch them the spring or if you end up

748
00:36:34,800 --> 00:36:38,440
Speaker 1: watching them this fall, they're going to be a version

749
00:36:38,480 --> 00:36:40,840
Speaker 1: of the same team you saw last year. kJ Jefferson

750
00:36:40,840 --> 00:36:42,879
Speaker 1: still at quarterback. He's coming back. But when you watched

751
00:36:42,920 --> 00:36:45,000
Speaker 1: them tee it up against Cincinnati in Week one and

752
00:36:45,040 --> 00:36:47,319
Speaker 1: they got South Carolina in Week two. They play A

753
00:36:47,400 --> 00:36:50,440
Speaker 1: and M in the first month of the season. You

754
00:36:50,480 --> 00:36:53,319
Speaker 1: know that guy we just heard from, Barry Odom can

755
00:36:53,400 --> 00:36:56,919
Speaker 1: have as much speed on defense as he's ever had there.

756
00:36:57,239 --> 00:37:00,520
Speaker 1: They're gonna have more weapons offensively than they've had. They're

757
00:37:00,560 --> 00:37:03,520
Speaker 1: including guys like Hazelwood coming in from the transfer portal.

758
00:37:04,120 --> 00:37:06,600
Speaker 1: They are going to be a very good team. I'll

759
00:37:06,600 --> 00:37:09,239
Speaker 1: tell you the other thing in your subconscious that's one

760
00:37:09,239 --> 00:37:12,720
Speaker 1: of the only remaining hurdles between you and your mind,

761
00:37:12,880 --> 00:37:16,080
Speaker 1: embracing Arkansas. The way that your boy here already has

762
00:37:16,960 --> 00:37:19,759
Speaker 1: is that SEC sticker on their helmet. You know who

763
00:37:19,840 --> 00:37:21,880
Speaker 1: they have to play every year. Fact of the matter is,

764
00:37:21,920 --> 00:37:24,040
Speaker 1: I think we all know this is true. If you

765
00:37:24,120 --> 00:37:26,160
Speaker 1: were to put a big twelve helmet sticker but keep

766
00:37:26,160 --> 00:37:28,760
Speaker 1: the program the same, or put an acc helmet sticker

767
00:37:29,000 --> 00:37:31,480
Speaker 1: but keep the rest of the program the same, it's

768
00:37:31,480 --> 00:37:34,279
Speaker 1: probably a playoff team last year, guys, and certainly could

769
00:37:34,320 --> 00:37:36,600
Speaker 1: be a playoff contender this year. If I took everything

770
00:37:36,640 --> 00:37:39,920
Speaker 1: about that program and I put them, I put him

771
00:37:39,960 --> 00:37:43,280
Speaker 1: in Lubbock, Texas, that'd be a playoff contender. You'd believe

772
00:37:43,280 --> 00:37:46,000
Speaker 1: in them too, because you know, even though some of

773
00:37:46,000 --> 00:37:49,960
Speaker 1: you claim otherwise, that schedule and strength thereof is extremely

774
00:37:49,960 --> 00:37:53,080
Speaker 1: disproportionate in this game. Therefore, you are not always what

775
00:37:53,120 --> 00:37:56,319
Speaker 1: your record says you are. Translation. Nine and four in

776
00:37:56,320 --> 00:37:59,160
Speaker 1: fay of Arkansas could have been eleven and one or

777
00:37:59,239 --> 00:38:03,560
Speaker 1: better in many other outposts in college football. So I'm excited.

778
00:38:03,880 --> 00:38:09,839
Speaker 1: I'm very excited, very very solid potential destination for our

779
00:38:09,960 --> 00:38:13,960
Speaker 1: yet to be named Week one tour this fall. We

780
00:38:14,000 --> 00:38:17,479
Speaker 1: are accepting names as we speak. Renaissance tour was good.

781
00:38:17,760 --> 00:38:19,839
Speaker 1: How do we make it even better. Hey, they're watching

782
00:38:19,920 --> 00:38:23,319
Speaker 1: us tonight in Rochester Hills, Michigan. I bet there's an

783
00:38:23,400 --> 00:38:26,680
Speaker 1: Arkansas man or two even up there. Shenjen, China is

784
00:38:26,719 --> 00:38:30,960
Speaker 1: tuned in, as is Cottonwood, Arizona. Before we move on

785
00:38:31,040 --> 00:38:32,840
Speaker 1: here to the Q and a portion of the show,

786
00:38:33,000 --> 00:38:40,080
Speaker 1: I want to tell you something. I fell to peer pressure. Now, kids,

787
00:38:40,080 --> 00:38:43,120
Speaker 1: if you're watching, don't ever fall victim to peer pressure,

788
00:38:44,320 --> 00:38:48,640
Speaker 1: except in very very specific circumstances like this one. So

789
00:38:48,920 --> 00:38:52,160
Speaker 1: for a long time, you guys, not all of you,

790
00:38:52,200 --> 00:38:54,400
Speaker 1: but a huge chunk of you, have begged me to

791
00:38:54,400 --> 00:38:57,920
Speaker 1: be on cameo. I have resisted, mainly because I just

792
00:38:57,960 --> 00:39:01,040
Speaker 1: didn't feel like it. What is cameo? Cameo is where

793
00:39:01,080 --> 00:39:03,120
Speaker 1: you drop a couple of coins on an app and

794
00:39:03,200 --> 00:39:06,000
Speaker 1: in exchange, I send you anything from a happy birthday

795
00:39:06,040 --> 00:39:07,960
Speaker 1: to a shout out to what many of you have

796
00:39:07,960 --> 00:39:10,000
Speaker 1: already booked me to do, and that is send a

797
00:39:10,080 --> 00:39:12,359
Speaker 1: video to one of your friends who is an expansionist

798
00:39:12,440 --> 00:39:14,640
Speaker 1: or a casual and you have things that you want

799
00:39:14,640 --> 00:39:18,439
Speaker 1: to say to them through me. I'm your puppet. Now

800
00:39:18,600 --> 00:39:22,279
Speaker 1: I'm on cameo. It happened. It's official. So if you

801
00:39:22,320 --> 00:39:25,480
Speaker 1: are so inclined, The link is on my Twitter profile

802
00:39:25,560 --> 00:39:28,799
Speaker 1: at late kick, Josh, we're moving on. We've got some

803
00:39:28,840 --> 00:39:30,920
Speaker 1: really good Q and A here tonight. I know what

804
00:39:31,000 --> 00:39:33,560
Speaker 1: that's about to do. Colin, you watch, Jesse, you mark

805
00:39:33,600 --> 00:39:37,680
Speaker 1: my words. My profile will be a disaster when we

806
00:39:37,719 --> 00:39:40,080
Speaker 1: get off the air tonight. But that's the name of

807
00:39:40,080 --> 00:39:45,560
Speaker 1: the game. Okay, So this actually requires me to pull

808
00:39:45,600 --> 00:39:49,839
Speaker 1: up this Twitter profile. I am beside myself with a

809
00:39:49,840 --> 00:39:52,480
Speaker 1: poll result from earlier today, just in the last couple

810
00:39:52,520 --> 00:39:55,840
Speaker 1: of hours, and it's still there after four thousand votes. Okay.

811
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Speaker 1: So Orlando Chiefs asked us a question. He said, why

812
00:39:59,719 --> 00:40:02,480
Speaker 1: does it it seemed like the Miami Dynasty was so

813
00:40:02,640 --> 00:40:06,560
Speaker 1: well received, but the Alabama dynasty is labeled as bad

814
00:40:06,680 --> 00:40:10,920
Speaker 1: for football? And he's checking in from Douglasville, Georgia. Now,

815
00:40:10,960 --> 00:40:13,719
Speaker 1: I looked at this question and I laughed at it.

816
00:40:13,800 --> 00:40:17,440
Speaker 1: I did not laugh at the question asker. I laughed

817
00:40:17,440 --> 00:40:20,719
Speaker 1: at the question because anybody who thinks the Miami Dynasty

818
00:40:20,840 --> 00:40:25,200
Speaker 1: was well received in its time either wasn't alive, is

819
00:40:25,239 --> 00:40:29,600
Speaker 1: suffering crippling amnesia, or is suffering from what I think

820
00:40:29,640 --> 00:40:31,239
Speaker 1: a lot of folks in this poe I'm about to

821
00:40:31,280 --> 00:40:33,400
Speaker 1: tell you about are suffering from, and that is some

822
00:40:33,640 --> 00:40:39,239
Speaker 1: hard core revisionist history and or recency biased. It's tough

823
00:40:39,320 --> 00:40:43,480
Speaker 1: to overstate how despised Miami was through the eighties and

824
00:40:43,600 --> 00:40:46,200
Speaker 1: nineties and even the early two thousands. It is impossible

825
00:40:46,200 --> 00:40:47,960
Speaker 1: for me to tell you, and I know good and

826
00:40:47,960 --> 00:40:50,840
Speaker 1: well some of you are nineteen years old, and outside

827
00:40:50,840 --> 00:40:54,400
Speaker 1: of the thirty for thirty documentary, you cannot have understood

828
00:40:54,560 --> 00:40:58,160
Speaker 1: properly what it was like when Jimmy Johnson or going

829
00:40:58,160 --> 00:41:00,000
Speaker 1: back to Howard Snullenberger were doing what they were doing.

830
00:41:00,880 --> 00:41:03,800
Speaker 1: It's very, very hard for me to put into words

831
00:41:04,000 --> 00:41:06,680
Speaker 1: how hated they were because it was about more than football.

832
00:41:07,320 --> 00:41:09,440
Speaker 1: And I think most of you understand exactly what I'm

833
00:41:09,480 --> 00:41:11,760
Speaker 1: talking about, but if you don't, I go on Twitter

834
00:41:11,760 --> 00:41:13,960
Speaker 1: about an hour before the show because I thought I

835
00:41:14,040 --> 00:41:15,520
Speaker 1: was sure where you guys were going to go, and

836
00:41:15,560 --> 00:41:17,799
Speaker 1: it looks like I just whiffed, and I went on

837
00:41:17,840 --> 00:41:22,000
Speaker 1: Twitter and I put out the following question, more hated

838
00:41:22,360 --> 00:41:27,960
Speaker 1: Dynasty Miami or modern day Alabama. I kid you not.

839
00:41:28,239 --> 00:41:30,879
Speaker 1: I expected this to be seventy thirty or even eighty

840
00:41:30,960 --> 00:41:36,000
Speaker 1: twenty Miami, and sure enough, it is the exact opposite.

841
00:41:36,480 --> 00:41:39,560
Speaker 1: Fifty eight point six percent of you, as of one

842
00:41:39,600 --> 00:41:44,479
Speaker 1: hour later, have voted Alabama as being more hated than Miami. Look,

843
00:41:44,520 --> 00:41:46,799
Speaker 1: I know it's your opinion, and I asked you for

844
00:41:46,880 --> 00:41:49,640
Speaker 1: your opinion. I don't know what else to say. You're wrong.

845
00:41:49,960 --> 00:41:53,240
Speaker 1: You're just wrong, Even those of you who are expressing

846
00:41:53,239 --> 00:41:55,960
Speaker 1: your own opinion. I've never said this before on air.

847
00:41:56,120 --> 00:42:00,319
Speaker 1: Your opinion is wrong. If you think Alabama the present

848
00:42:00,400 --> 00:42:04,080
Speaker 1: day is more hated or even close, I'm gonna be

849
00:42:04,200 --> 00:42:06,839
Speaker 1: that guy. I'm gonna be It's not even close, guy.

850
00:42:07,160 --> 00:42:10,880
Speaker 1: It's Miami. It's not even close. Not only was Miami

851
00:42:10,960 --> 00:42:16,400
Speaker 1: not accepted, Miami was despised nationally. Folks hate Alabama for

852
00:42:16,480 --> 00:42:20,680
Speaker 1: football reasons. Folks hated Miami for social reasons. Folks looked

853
00:42:20,680 --> 00:42:25,120
Speaker 1: at Miami and they were completely disgusted about everything they

854
00:42:25,160 --> 00:42:28,000
Speaker 1: stood for. People look at Alabama and they just get

855
00:42:28,000 --> 00:42:30,560
Speaker 1: pissed off because they can't beat them at Miami. It

856
00:42:30,680 --> 00:42:35,400
Speaker 1: extended well beyond football. The first time I was ever

857
00:42:35,600 --> 00:42:38,800
Speaker 1: allowed to stay up past my bedtime was the National

858
00:42:38,840 --> 00:42:41,799
Speaker 1: Championship game between these two programs. It was such a

859
00:42:41,840 --> 00:42:45,640
Speaker 1: huge deal in the South. Folks outside of Tuscaloosa, forget Alabama,

860
00:42:45,760 --> 00:42:49,279
Speaker 1: Folks in Athens. They'll never tell you, they'll never admit it.

861
00:42:50,000 --> 00:42:52,080
Speaker 1: There were some folks around Auburn who even pulled for

862
00:42:52,120 --> 00:42:56,040
Speaker 1: Alabama because they thought it meant so much culturally for

863
00:42:56,120 --> 00:43:01,719
Speaker 1: a Southern program that played hard no rock rib defense

864
00:43:02,760 --> 00:43:05,480
Speaker 1: to serve Miami. And they did right down there in

865
00:43:05,480 --> 00:43:08,279
Speaker 1: New Orleans thirty four to thirteen in the final. I

866
00:43:08,320 --> 00:43:11,120
Speaker 1: don't know what more to tell you. Look, people normally,

867
00:43:11,120 --> 00:43:13,480
Speaker 1: when they get mad at a dynasty, it could be

868
00:43:13,600 --> 00:43:16,720
Speaker 1: USC or it could be these two. Normally, the anger

869
00:43:16,800 --> 00:43:19,520
Speaker 1: is misguided. If you're really honest with yourself, most of

870
00:43:19,600 --> 00:43:23,160
Speaker 1: the time, when you hate these programs, you're really hating

871
00:43:23,200 --> 00:43:26,080
Speaker 1: your own program, not not hating your program. Your anger

872
00:43:26,560 --> 00:43:33,000
Speaker 1: is misguided. You are deflecting and rechanneling your anger towards

873
00:43:33,080 --> 00:43:37,880
Speaker 1: your own inept administration or your program's lack of ability

874
00:43:37,880 --> 00:43:39,719
Speaker 1: to recruit at a high level and develop, even though

875
00:43:39,760 --> 00:43:42,360
Speaker 1: they have all the resources and facilities at programs that

876
00:43:42,440 --> 00:43:44,400
Speaker 1: are being able to do it. And that's all that

877
00:43:44,520 --> 00:43:47,880
Speaker 1: is with Alabama modern day. I mean Alabama. Look how

878
00:43:47,920 --> 00:43:51,120
Speaker 1: many times lately think about the past year alone, have

879
00:43:51,200 --> 00:43:56,040
Speaker 1: you found yourself hating that crimson A but saying to yourself, man,

880
00:43:56,080 --> 00:43:58,680
Speaker 1: Savings has a lot of good stuff. I don't like

881
00:43:58,760 --> 00:44:02,799
Speaker 1: the guy at all. I wish you'd retire yesterday, But man,

882
00:44:03,040 --> 00:44:06,280
Speaker 1: I respect a lot about that organization. It's a model

883
00:44:06,400 --> 00:44:10,000
Speaker 1: for what I wish my workplace was. And he says

884
00:44:10,040 --> 00:44:12,560
Speaker 1: so many things that extend beyond football. Dude, no one

885
00:44:12,680 --> 00:44:15,960
Speaker 1: was saying that about Miami. I'm just telling you they weren't.

886
00:44:16,200 --> 00:44:19,600
Speaker 1: They were not. Ask people in Lincoln, Nebraska, Ask people

887
00:44:19,600 --> 00:44:23,200
Speaker 1: in South Bend, Indiana. Ask people in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Ask

888
00:44:23,320 --> 00:44:26,160
Speaker 1: the folks that ran up against Miami. What was your

889
00:44:26,200 --> 00:44:29,040
Speaker 1: motivation for beating them? It was so much more than

890
00:44:29,120 --> 00:44:31,680
Speaker 1: just winning a football game. Oh, it was so much more.

891
00:44:31,760 --> 00:44:33,840
Speaker 1: And if you could have taken a poll of America

892
00:44:34,280 --> 00:44:36,880
Speaker 1: back then, folks in South Florida know this better than anyone.

893
00:44:37,000 --> 00:44:39,000
Speaker 1: That's why they loved it so much. They embraced it

894
00:44:39,040 --> 00:44:41,160
Speaker 1: so much. I'd be the same way if I were you. Guys,

895
00:44:41,640 --> 00:44:44,200
Speaker 1: if you could have taken a pole nationally back then,

896
00:44:45,200 --> 00:44:47,080
Speaker 1: I guarantee you the results in this poll would have

897
00:44:47,120 --> 00:44:51,480
Speaker 1: been totally inverted, and even more harshly nationally. It was

898
00:44:51,680 --> 00:44:55,560
Speaker 1: hardcore anti Miami because you were watching Miami and you

899
00:44:55,600 --> 00:45:00,399
Speaker 1: were very, very mad at the prospect that are they

900
00:45:00,440 --> 00:45:02,680
Speaker 1: going to be able to keep all those South Florida

901
00:45:02,719 --> 00:45:06,640
Speaker 1: athletes from the rest of us forever? Because if they are,

902
00:45:07,239 --> 00:45:10,520
Speaker 1: when is this ever gonna stop? Now? Nothing perfect last

903
00:45:10,560 --> 00:45:12,880
Speaker 1: forever you see in the river runs through a poster

904
00:45:13,040 --> 00:45:15,840
Speaker 1: like I have nothing perfect last forever, excepting your memory.

905
00:45:15,920 --> 00:45:18,640
Speaker 1: That's what they're chasing down there right now. Mario christ

906
00:45:18,680 --> 00:45:20,919
Speaker 1: baul walks in the door. That's what they're chasing right now.

907
00:45:21,200 --> 00:45:25,520
Speaker 1: But man, to say that Miami's dynasty was well received

908
00:45:25,880 --> 00:45:30,880
Speaker 1: by Hoops, carl and Coral Gables, you know, Ned and Naples,

909
00:45:31,600 --> 00:45:34,880
Speaker 1: I can guarantee you outside of South Florida it was

910
00:45:34,960 --> 00:45:36,880
Speaker 1: not well received at all. Now I'm not telling you

911
00:45:36,920 --> 00:45:39,560
Speaker 1: the Bama dynasty has been any better received. But when

912
00:45:39,640 --> 00:45:42,439
Speaker 1: people recoil at the idea of Alabama, it's just cause

913
00:45:42,480 --> 00:45:44,120
Speaker 1: of football. It was, man, it was about so much

914
00:45:44,160 --> 00:45:47,359
Speaker 1: more with Miami. So I can't believe this. You know what,

915
00:45:47,400 --> 00:45:50,000
Speaker 1: Maybe it changed, Maybe it's a TYPEO. Let me hit refresh.

916
00:45:50,320 --> 00:45:54,560
Speaker 1: Three minutes later, the polls the exact same, fifty eight

917
00:45:54,560 --> 00:45:58,160
Speaker 1: point four percent think Alabama's the more despised dynasty. I

918
00:45:59,000 --> 00:46:04,520
Speaker 1: just I don't miss I don't miss like that on

919
00:46:04,560 --> 00:46:06,400
Speaker 1: our audience. I don't miss like that, and yet I

920
00:46:06,400 --> 00:46:09,640
Speaker 1: missed totally tonight. All right, let's move on a big

921
00:46:09,640 --> 00:46:13,160
Speaker 1: week here for Oregon. So let's get the question first.

922
00:46:13,640 --> 00:46:16,280
Speaker 1: Timmy at Eugene asks, how do you think Dan Lanning

923
00:46:16,280 --> 00:46:18,680
Speaker 1: will fare at Oregon. He's a young guy, but already

924
00:46:18,719 --> 00:46:22,520
Speaker 1: hitting on the recruiting trail. Hashtag pate state very important

925
00:46:22,800 --> 00:46:25,080
Speaker 1: to add on the end. This has been a big

926
00:46:25,120 --> 00:46:28,280
Speaker 1: week and a big weekend for Oregon. So Josh Connery,

927
00:46:28,360 --> 00:46:32,200
Speaker 1: for those unaware, was the final blue chip five star

928
00:46:32,239 --> 00:46:34,160
Speaker 1: guy that was in the twenty twenty two class. He's

929
00:46:34,160 --> 00:46:37,600
Speaker 1: a five star offensive tackle I believe, from Washington State

930
00:46:37,680 --> 00:46:41,719
Speaker 1: up there, and it looked for all the world over

931
00:46:41,760 --> 00:46:44,920
Speaker 1: the past couple of weeks like he was trending towards USC,

932
00:46:45,200 --> 00:46:47,759
Speaker 1: and he was, but you know where he landed. He

933
00:46:47,840 --> 00:46:50,760
Speaker 1: landed at the University of Oregon. And he told Brandon Huffman,

934
00:46:50,800 --> 00:46:54,080
Speaker 1: our West Coast guy told him afterwards it was USC

935
00:46:54,239 --> 00:46:57,000
Speaker 1: for a while, but in the end Oregon ended up

936
00:46:57,000 --> 00:47:00,680
Speaker 1: winning this thing. For me, that's a big deal. Perception's

937
00:47:00,760 --> 00:47:03,560
Speaker 1: huge here obviously, but the actual player equally is huge.

938
00:47:03,640 --> 00:47:06,279
Speaker 1: It's a big deal because of what Dan Lanning's been

939
00:47:06,320 --> 00:47:08,880
Speaker 1: talking about out there. You know, Mario Christball and that

940
00:47:09,000 --> 00:47:11,680
Speaker 1: era was very important. Like I know, some people are

941
00:47:11,719 --> 00:47:14,279
Speaker 1: still rubbed the wrong way for whatever reason that the

942
00:47:14,320 --> 00:47:16,640
Speaker 1: guy left you. He left you to go quite literally home.

943
00:47:17,040 --> 00:47:19,279
Speaker 1: I mean, it's not out of the realm of possibility.

944
00:47:19,280 --> 00:47:21,680
Speaker 1: But be that as it may. Okay, whether you like

945
00:47:21,760 --> 00:47:23,360
Speaker 1: the way he left or not, or like that he

946
00:47:23,440 --> 00:47:25,920
Speaker 1: left or not, it's important that he did what he

947
00:47:25,960 --> 00:47:29,000
Speaker 1: did while he was there, because what he did was

948
00:47:29,040 --> 00:47:32,680
Speaker 1: he changed perception nationally. Like I'm in Nashville, Tennessee, and

949
00:47:32,760 --> 00:47:35,440
Speaker 1: I can tell you people in the South think differently

950
00:47:35,480 --> 00:47:38,959
Speaker 1: about Oregon than they did five years ago. Five years ago,

951
00:47:39,360 --> 00:47:42,640
Speaker 1: the belief about Oregon football was, yeah, you could have

952
00:47:42,680 --> 00:47:45,680
Speaker 1: a Chip Kelly come through, but the way they're going

953
00:47:45,760 --> 00:47:48,920
Speaker 1: to have to win is the path that college football

954
00:47:49,239 --> 00:47:52,400
Speaker 1: dictates they have to take. In other words, there weren't

955
00:47:52,680 --> 00:47:56,080
Speaker 1: there weren't limitless possibilities. There's a very specific way you

956
00:47:56,120 --> 00:47:58,200
Speaker 1: have to win at Oregon. Well then christ of Ball

957
00:47:58,280 --> 00:48:01,360
Speaker 1: comes in and he said, as actually, what I'm just

958
00:48:01,400 --> 00:48:03,240
Speaker 1: gonna do is I'm going to go recruit elite athletes

959
00:48:03,280 --> 00:48:05,800
Speaker 1: coast to coast, and no state will be off limits,

960
00:48:06,040 --> 00:48:07,960
Speaker 1: and we're gonna win however we want to up here.

961
00:48:08,000 --> 00:48:10,239
Speaker 1: We're gonna get the kind of athletes we want, and

962
00:48:10,280 --> 00:48:13,200
Speaker 1: you're not gonna dictate anything for us. We will dictate

963
00:48:13,239 --> 00:48:15,600
Speaker 1: our terms of how we want to run the program,

964
00:48:15,640 --> 00:48:18,600
Speaker 1: what offense, what defense, what kind of athlete we want?

965
00:48:18,680 --> 00:48:21,200
Speaker 1: And you know what, they did it. They did it.

966
00:48:22,080 --> 00:48:25,239
Speaker 1: And that's why Dan Lanning entering at the time he

967
00:48:25,480 --> 00:48:28,120
Speaker 1: enters and with the profile he enters with, is so important.

968
00:48:28,280 --> 00:48:30,840
Speaker 1: And that's why this perception is very important, cause the

969
00:48:30,880 --> 00:48:34,279
Speaker 1: perception is to me reality, and that is if they

970
00:48:34,320 --> 00:48:38,239
Speaker 1: can continue to recruit at the level or even comparable

971
00:48:38,320 --> 00:48:41,880
Speaker 1: to the level they were under Chrystaball, what if they

972
00:48:42,000 --> 00:48:45,680
Speaker 1: hit home runs with this coaching staff on multiple fronts.

973
00:48:46,160 --> 00:48:48,680
Speaker 1: You know what if they do have a very dynamite

974
00:48:48,680 --> 00:48:51,920
Speaker 1: recruiting staff in there. What if we have an equal

975
00:48:51,960 --> 00:48:54,560
Speaker 1: to or better on field coaching product. You know what

976
00:48:54,600 --> 00:48:58,240
Speaker 1: if nil gets gets leveraged here like it should at Oregon.

977
00:48:58,600 --> 00:49:01,239
Speaker 1: And what if all of a sudden, what felt like

978
00:49:01,320 --> 00:49:04,320
Speaker 1: one time a big loss for us ends up being

979
00:49:04,800 --> 00:49:08,719
Speaker 1: a blessing in disguise. And don't forget this part because

980
00:49:08,800 --> 00:49:11,160
Speaker 1: of the guy who left us to go to Miami.

981
00:49:11,360 --> 00:49:13,279
Speaker 1: It's a big part of this, whether anyone wants to

982
00:49:13,360 --> 00:49:15,400
Speaker 1: admit it there or not. Mario Christapaul is a big

983
00:49:15,480 --> 00:49:18,120
Speaker 1: part of this. But this is Dan Lanning's program now,

984
00:49:18,480 --> 00:49:20,480
Speaker 1: and the fact that he just took a guy who

985
00:49:20,520 --> 00:49:24,239
Speaker 1: is trending heavily towards USC. It's one recruitment, so let's

986
00:49:24,280 --> 00:49:27,440
Speaker 1: pump the brakes there. It's one recruitment. But man, it's

987
00:49:27,440 --> 00:49:30,680
Speaker 1: such a big indicator because he's spoken. He being Dan

988
00:49:30,760 --> 00:49:34,120
Speaker 1: Lanning has spoken at length over the past month or

989
00:49:34,120 --> 00:49:38,920
Speaker 1: so about how Organ's unique, and I'm paraphrasing him. I

990
00:49:38,920 --> 00:49:40,640
Speaker 1: wish I had the exact quote, but he said something

991
00:49:40,640 --> 00:49:43,200
Speaker 1: to the effect of Organ's the only place that you're

992
00:49:43,200 --> 00:49:45,120
Speaker 1: going to come on the West Coast where you have

993
00:49:45,160 --> 00:49:49,200
Speaker 1: that college experience. You can go to USC, but they

994
00:49:49,239 --> 00:49:51,279
Speaker 1: don't have what we have to offer. They have some

995
00:49:51,360 --> 00:49:53,600
Speaker 1: things we don't have to offer. But if you want

996
00:49:53,600 --> 00:49:56,279
Speaker 1: what makes college football great and you don't have to

997
00:49:56,280 --> 00:49:59,359
Speaker 1: sacrifice the nil potential to come here and get it,

998
00:49:59,560 --> 00:50:02,319
Speaker 1: then Or is the place to go. They believe that,

999
00:50:02,360 --> 00:50:04,920
Speaker 1: they better believe it. They're gonna have to ultra aggressively

1000
00:50:04,960 --> 00:50:07,280
Speaker 1: take that message out on the recruiting trail, which obviously

1001
00:50:07,320 --> 00:50:09,719
Speaker 1: they're already doing. This is not a place that's gonna

1002
00:50:09,760 --> 00:50:12,480
Speaker 1: hurt on the NIL front. In fact, I think they

1003
00:50:12,480 --> 00:50:16,520
Speaker 1: should embrace it, and they have so I love everything

1004
00:50:16,560 --> 00:50:19,120
Speaker 1: I've heard up there, But it's words. I mean, Dan

1005
00:50:19,200 --> 00:50:21,480
Speaker 1: Lanning's never been the head coach for a college football

1006
00:50:21,480 --> 00:50:24,120
Speaker 1: game in his life, so it's words right now. But

1007
00:50:24,200 --> 00:50:28,160
Speaker 1: every box they can possibly have checked so far they

1008
00:50:28,200 --> 00:50:30,759
Speaker 1: have checked. So I can't think anything but good things

1009
00:50:30,760 --> 00:50:33,200
Speaker 1: about Dan Lanning right now. All right, we want to

1010
00:50:33,560 --> 00:50:36,560
Speaker 1: wrap it up here with something that's controversial, even though

1011
00:50:36,600 --> 00:50:39,360
Speaker 1: I don't really think it should be. Not my earpiece

1012
00:50:39,400 --> 00:50:43,000
Speaker 1: fallen out. There's no controversy there. It's just bad. But

1013
00:50:43,120 --> 00:50:47,879
Speaker 1: this is what I'm talking about. Tony Tiger talking had

1014
00:50:47,960 --> 00:50:50,759
Speaker 1: hit us up and said, why is Dabos Swiney so

1015
00:50:50,880 --> 00:50:53,160
Speaker 1: out of touch when it comes to the transfer portal

1016
00:50:53,239 --> 00:50:56,520
Speaker 1: and NIL? All these great programs go in there, and

1017
00:50:56,600 --> 00:50:59,440
Speaker 1: yet he refuses to get off his high horse to

1018
00:50:59,520 --> 00:51:02,240
Speaker 1: do it too. So there are a lot of takes

1019
00:51:02,280 --> 00:51:04,920
Speaker 1: out there. I saw some floating around today, and a

1020
00:51:04,960 --> 00:51:09,440
Speaker 1: lot of times they're so badly mischaracterized. I'm just giving

1021
00:51:09,480 --> 00:51:11,680
Speaker 1: you my opinion because that's what they tell me to

1022
00:51:11,680 --> 00:51:13,520
Speaker 1: do on this show. There are a lot of folks

1023
00:51:13,520 --> 00:51:15,080
Speaker 1: who would look you in the eye and swear to

1024
00:51:15,120 --> 00:51:19,160
Speaker 1: you that Daboswenny is on record as saying players shouldn't

1025
00:51:19,200 --> 00:51:22,160
Speaker 1: be paid, and that is not what he has said.

1026
00:51:22,600 --> 00:51:24,080
Speaker 1: And if he said it in the past, I can

1027
00:51:24,120 --> 00:51:27,319
Speaker 1: tell you his most recent comments are not that. So

1028
00:51:27,360 --> 00:51:30,080
Speaker 1: don't go check the tape. Go check his most recent comments.

1029
00:51:30,400 --> 00:51:33,600
Speaker 1: You will not find Dabo Swinny telling you players shouldn't

1030
00:51:33,600 --> 00:51:35,640
Speaker 1: be able to profit off nil. But let's get back

1031
00:51:35,640 --> 00:51:37,279
Speaker 1: to that in a second. Because the question was also

1032
00:51:37,280 --> 00:51:40,879
Speaker 1: about the transfer portal, you will also have people swear

1033
00:51:40,960 --> 00:51:44,720
Speaker 1: to you that Daboswenny will not go in the portal.

1034
00:51:45,200 --> 00:51:47,800
Speaker 1: He has said that he will never use the portal,

1035
00:51:48,520 --> 00:51:51,600
Speaker 1: and that's also not true. In fact, he's talked this

1036
00:51:51,760 --> 00:51:56,239
Speaker 1: spring extensively about what their plan is for evaluating kids

1037
00:51:56,239 --> 00:51:59,680
Speaker 1: in the portal. What his stance though is is he

1038
00:51:59,719 --> 00:52:03,239
Speaker 1: does don't want to use it, doesn't want to understands

1039
00:52:03,280 --> 00:52:05,080
Speaker 1: that the tide is shifting and he may have to.

1040
00:52:05,840 --> 00:52:08,359
Speaker 1: It's funny that they have taken one kid so far,

1041
00:52:08,680 --> 00:52:10,480
Speaker 1: and that I think was Hunter Johnson, who had left

1042
00:52:10,480 --> 00:52:12,440
Speaker 1: the program and who wanted to come back as a coach,

1043
00:52:12,760 --> 00:52:15,480
Speaker 1: and Dabo said, I still want to play. Did you

1044
00:52:15,520 --> 00:52:18,239
Speaker 1: know you have a year of eligibility you want to play? Yeah,

1045
00:52:18,239 --> 00:52:20,279
Speaker 1: I want to play. Okay, come still be a college

1046
00:52:20,280 --> 00:52:23,960
Speaker 1: football player. So it's not exactly the most the most

1047
00:52:24,120 --> 00:52:27,040
Speaker 1: radical of transfer portal editions, but they've done it. I

1048
00:52:27,040 --> 00:52:29,640
Speaker 1: don't doubt they'll end up adding kids out of the portal. Look,

1049
00:52:29,719 --> 00:52:32,239
Speaker 1: this guy has got principles and values he stands on

1050
00:52:32,400 --> 00:52:36,080
Speaker 1: just like anyone. Some people don't have any principles and values,

1051
00:52:36,360 --> 00:52:40,320
Speaker 1: and so their opinion tends to shift with the breeze

1052
00:52:40,640 --> 00:52:43,080
Speaker 1: and they just think whichever way the breeze is blowing.

1053
00:52:44,080 --> 00:52:48,480
Speaker 1: Here is my thought about this. I understand the sentiment.

1054
00:52:48,800 --> 00:52:51,480
Speaker 1: I understand where he's coming from. And the reason I

1055
00:52:51,480 --> 00:52:53,000
Speaker 1: don't get all bent out of shape even though I

1056
00:52:53,040 --> 00:52:55,440
Speaker 1: don't agree with daboswiney all the time. The reason I

1057
00:52:55,719 --> 00:52:59,680
Speaker 1: don't get bent out of shape is because I would

1058
00:52:59,719 --> 00:53:01,879
Speaker 1: be the biggest hypocrite in the world if I sat

1059
00:53:01,920 --> 00:53:04,520
Speaker 1: here behind this microphone and said, boy, I wish coaches

1060
00:53:04,520 --> 00:53:06,960
Speaker 1: would just be real with us. I wish they'd just

1061
00:53:07,040 --> 00:53:10,239
Speaker 1: be honest with us. And then when one does step up,

1062
00:53:10,600 --> 00:53:14,120
Speaker 1: and is totally brutally honest with you. You just castigate

1063
00:53:14,160 --> 00:53:16,000
Speaker 1: him left and right. I don't have to agree with

1064
00:53:16,040 --> 00:53:19,200
Speaker 1: everything that guy says. Find me someone I do agree

1065
00:53:19,200 --> 00:53:22,640
Speaker 1: across the board with. They're not out there, they don't exist.

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Speaker 1: But what I appreciate about Daboswiney is doesn't really waffle

1067
00:53:27,640 --> 00:53:30,520
Speaker 1: every time he opens his mouth on these subjects. It's

1068
00:53:30,560 --> 00:53:33,120
Speaker 1: the same general sentiment. He doesn't just tell you what

1069
00:53:33,239 --> 00:53:35,919
Speaker 1: he believes. He tells you why he believes it. Whether

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00:53:35,960 --> 00:53:38,719
Speaker 1: you agree or whether you disagree, Set that to the

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00:53:38,760 --> 00:53:40,839
Speaker 1: side for a second. What I'm telling you is I

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00:53:40,880 --> 00:53:44,640
Speaker 1: appreciate the honesty, even when it may not benefit him

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00:53:44,800 --> 00:53:47,920
Speaker 1: in terms of pr And the second thing I appreciate

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00:53:48,080 --> 00:53:52,120
Speaker 1: is I don't doubt his motivation truly is what's best

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00:53:52,160 --> 00:53:55,200
Speaker 1: for the game. I don't share that opinion that some

1076
00:53:55,239 --> 00:53:59,759
Speaker 1: people have about him in that he's just out for himself.

1077
00:54:00,080 --> 00:54:02,719
Speaker 1: He's just looking out for himself. He only wants what's

1078
00:54:02,760 --> 00:54:05,239
Speaker 1: best for Dablos Swinny. I don't believe that about him

1079
00:54:05,480 --> 00:54:09,759
Speaker 1: because I believe his actions support my opinion on this.

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00:54:10,360 --> 00:54:12,080
Speaker 1: He's been around quite a while. Guys, you don't have

1081
00:54:12,120 --> 00:54:15,399
Speaker 1: to guess about Dabloswinny. So anyway, that's part one of that.

1082
00:54:15,480 --> 00:54:18,960
Speaker 1: I appreciate his honesty. Part two, I would feel the

1083
00:54:19,000 --> 00:54:21,799
Speaker 1: same way about the transfer portal. I would go into

1084
00:54:21,800 --> 00:54:23,759
Speaker 1: that game kicking and screaming. I'm telling you the way

1085
00:54:23,760 --> 00:54:26,799
Speaker 1: I personally would run a program is I would understand

1086
00:54:27,400 --> 00:54:29,480
Speaker 1: that I'm probably going to need to use this thing

1087
00:54:29,800 --> 00:54:32,160
Speaker 1: because I have access to it, and if I don't

1088
00:54:32,160 --> 00:54:37,000
Speaker 1: take advantage of it, I'm voluntarily, potentially voluntarily putting my

1089
00:54:37,040 --> 00:54:40,840
Speaker 1: program at a competitive disadvantage. And I'm not just accountable

1090
00:54:40,880 --> 00:54:44,160
Speaker 1: to me, I'm accountable to the entire organization. That's the

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00:54:44,200 --> 00:54:46,320
Speaker 1: way i'd go about it. I wouldn't like it, though,

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00:54:46,440 --> 00:54:48,239
Speaker 1: I mean i'd feel the same way Dablos Whinny does

1093
00:54:48,239 --> 00:54:50,720
Speaker 1: about it. But back to the NIL thing for a second,

1094
00:54:51,480 --> 00:54:54,080
Speaker 1: because that's where a lot of the true controversy is

1095
00:54:54,200 --> 00:54:56,680
Speaker 1: the transfer portal stuff. People hope he doesn't go in

1096
00:54:56,719 --> 00:54:58,920
Speaker 1: there because they think it's going to disadvantage Clemson. But

1097
00:54:59,040 --> 00:55:02,360
Speaker 1: as for the nil's first off, a lot of people

1098
00:55:02,440 --> 00:55:05,880
Speaker 1: are just dead wrong about characterizing his viewpoint on it.

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00:55:05,920 --> 00:55:09,840
Speaker 1: He's not anti players getting paid. He's anti the professionalization

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00:55:09,880 --> 00:55:14,719
Speaker 1: of college athletics, which I am too. What he has

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00:55:14,840 --> 00:55:18,480
Speaker 1: said essentially equates to this. It'd be the same thing

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00:55:18,960 --> 00:55:21,440
Speaker 1: as if you were standing on a street corner and

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00:55:21,520 --> 00:55:24,200
Speaker 1: I told you it's really stupid to eat thirteen big

1104
00:55:24,239 --> 00:55:26,480
Speaker 1: macs a week. I didn't tell you shouldn't have the

1105
00:55:26,600 --> 00:55:29,000
Speaker 1: right to do it. And his stance on NIL is

1106
00:55:29,080 --> 00:55:32,200
Speaker 1: kind of the same way. It's Look, I get why

1107
00:55:32,280 --> 00:55:35,000
Speaker 1: players should be able to profit off their name, image

1108
00:55:35,000 --> 00:55:37,840
Speaker 1: and likeness, and I think they should have the right to.

1109
00:55:38,640 --> 00:55:42,000
Speaker 1: But what comes with that and the consequences that come

1110
00:55:42,040 --> 00:55:44,359
Speaker 1: with that, which is what he always talks about, which

1111
00:55:44,400 --> 00:55:46,600
Speaker 1: is players get taken advantage of, and a lot of

1112
00:55:46,600 --> 00:55:49,080
Speaker 1: people hitch their wagons to players and they get terrible advice.

1113
00:55:49,200 --> 00:55:50,880
Speaker 1: It's the same way with the portal. It's why you

1114
00:55:50,960 --> 00:55:53,760
Speaker 1: got thousands of kids floating around in that thing. That's

1115
00:55:53,840 --> 00:55:56,600
Speaker 1: the part that rubs him the wrong way. And the

1116
00:55:56,640 --> 00:55:58,400
Speaker 1: reason I don't get been out of shape about it

1117
00:55:58,440 --> 00:56:01,520
Speaker 1: is because I'm a bl that more people should speak

1118
00:56:01,520 --> 00:56:04,719
Speaker 1: publicly about that, because I've given you my viewpoint on it.

1119
00:56:04,760 --> 00:56:09,120
Speaker 1: So once more, I'm all for NIL if it's properly utilized,

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00:56:09,160 --> 00:56:11,680
Speaker 1: which it's not in a lot of cases. But if

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00:56:11,680 --> 00:56:14,600
Speaker 1: it's properly utilized. Oh, I'm all for NIL, have no

1122
00:56:14,719 --> 00:56:18,719
Speaker 1: problem with it. But also you have to understand there

1123
00:56:18,760 --> 00:56:20,360
Speaker 1: are going to be a lot of risks and there

1124
00:56:20,400 --> 00:56:23,480
Speaker 1: are going to be a lot of consequences because you

1125
00:56:24,920 --> 00:56:28,280
Speaker 1: enact something, and in this case, NIL and the ability

1126
00:56:28,320 --> 00:56:30,960
Speaker 1: to profit off your name, image and likeness, well number one,

1127
00:56:30,960 --> 00:56:32,560
Speaker 1: you got a whole mess of other problems that the

1128
00:56:32,640 --> 00:56:37,000
Speaker 1: NCAA is ill equipped to legislate and to regulate. But

1129
00:56:37,040 --> 00:56:41,040
Speaker 1: then the other part is you may have kids making

1130
00:56:41,200 --> 00:56:44,759
Speaker 1: decisions for what you think are wrong reasons that may

1131
00:56:44,800 --> 00:56:47,440
Speaker 1: be right. There may be wrong reasons. You got to

1132
00:56:47,520 --> 00:56:50,359
Speaker 1: let lessons get learned. And for a guy who's come

1133
00:56:50,440 --> 00:56:53,000
Speaker 1: up in a very old school type of way and

1134
00:56:53,040 --> 00:56:54,919
Speaker 1: a guy who had to you know, walk his way

1135
00:56:54,960 --> 00:56:57,560
Speaker 1: on to Alabama, and a guy who had to work

1136
00:56:57,600 --> 00:57:02,040
Speaker 1: his way up the ladder to become a coach, you've

1137
00:57:02,080 --> 00:57:05,280
Speaker 1: been so used to things being one way and they're shifting.

1138
00:57:05,400 --> 00:57:07,640
Speaker 1: And this is not the first time that someone has

1139
00:57:07,680 --> 00:57:11,000
Speaker 1: struggled with the world around them changing. You and I

1140
00:57:11,040 --> 00:57:12,480
Speaker 1: deal with it all the time in our day to

1141
00:57:12,560 --> 00:57:14,799
Speaker 1: day lives. We're not as high profile in nature as

1142
00:57:14,840 --> 00:57:18,600
Speaker 1: Davoswenny is, but we've all dealt with that, but I'm

1143
00:57:18,720 --> 00:57:22,280
Speaker 1: interested to watch these next couple of years there. Because

1144
00:57:22,360 --> 00:57:24,880
Speaker 1: I don't have any inside information on this, I'm going

1145
00:57:24,960 --> 00:57:28,640
Speaker 1: to tell you how he strikes me. Davos Swinny strikes

1146
00:57:28,680 --> 00:57:32,640
Speaker 1: me as a guy who would follow totally through on

1147
00:57:32,840 --> 00:57:36,240
Speaker 1: his core beliefs on this if it gets worse in

1148
00:57:36,320 --> 00:57:38,520
Speaker 1: his eyes. Dabos Winny is the kind of guy who

1149
00:57:38,560 --> 00:57:42,120
Speaker 1: would retire from this game. He would, I guarantee you

1150
00:57:42,400 --> 00:57:45,160
Speaker 1: he would walk away from this game in what many

1151
00:57:45,160 --> 00:57:48,880
Speaker 1: people would define as his prime because he's financially set.

1152
00:57:49,120 --> 00:57:51,200
Speaker 1: I don't think it's about finance with him. I really

1153
00:57:51,200 --> 00:57:53,200
Speaker 1: believe him when he says that, by the way, but

1154
00:57:53,240 --> 00:57:55,480
Speaker 1: I don't think it's about that. It would help that

1155
00:57:55,520 --> 00:57:58,120
Speaker 1: he is financially set. I think he's the kind of

1156
00:57:58,120 --> 00:58:00,680
Speaker 1: guy who would say this in the game I want

1157
00:58:00,680 --> 00:58:03,120
Speaker 1: to be a part of anymore. I think that's actually

1158
00:58:03,120 --> 00:58:05,120
Speaker 1: the kind of guy devis when he is. He's never

1159
00:58:05,120 --> 00:58:07,080
Speaker 1: told me that he's welcome on the show. Would love

1160
00:58:07,120 --> 00:58:08,680
Speaker 1: to have him on the show. I don't have any

1161
00:58:08,920 --> 00:58:11,360
Speaker 1: inside information on that. That's nothing I've heard, so I

1162
00:58:11,360 --> 00:58:14,360
Speaker 1: don't want you to misunderstand what I'm saying. I'm just

1163
00:58:14,440 --> 00:58:17,840
Speaker 1: saying I appreciate that he speaks his mind, even when

1164
00:58:17,840 --> 00:58:19,720
Speaker 1: I may disagree with it from time to time. I

1165
00:58:19,760 --> 00:58:22,920
Speaker 1: appreciate that he's honest about it, and he says a

1166
00:58:22,960 --> 00:58:25,360
Speaker 1: lot of times what needs to be said. But for

1167
00:58:25,400 --> 00:58:27,280
Speaker 1: whatever reason, a lot of folks either are in position

1168
00:58:27,320 --> 00:58:29,000
Speaker 1: where they can't say it, or they don't want to

1169
00:58:29,080 --> 00:58:31,880
Speaker 1: upset the apple cart, or they don't want to have

1170
00:58:32,000 --> 00:58:35,200
Speaker 1: their quotes taken out of context and put in front

1171
00:58:35,200 --> 00:58:38,640
Speaker 1: of recruits and get negative recruited. Against all that happens

1172
00:58:38,640 --> 00:58:41,160
Speaker 1: with him, he knows it, and he's willing to speak

1173
00:58:41,160 --> 00:58:44,560
Speaker 1: publicly anyway, So that I appreciate, and I appreciate you

1174
00:58:44,560 --> 00:58:47,760
Speaker 1: guys being tuned in tonight. Make sure you are following

1175
00:58:48,720 --> 00:58:52,080
Speaker 1: on all the social platforms at late Kick Josh, and

1176
00:58:52,160 --> 00:58:55,680
Speaker 1: please make sure you are subscribed to the podcast as

1177
00:58:55,720 --> 00:58:57,960
Speaker 1: well as the YouTube channel, which by the way, are

1178
00:58:57,960 --> 00:59:01,720
Speaker 1: two separate things. Here's what we've got this week, A

1179
00:59:01,920 --> 00:59:06,800
Speaker 1: very dangerous setup in the Midwest, Arkansas, places of that nature.

1180
00:59:07,160 --> 00:59:11,720
Speaker 1: So I will be shooting west probably Monday night. Could

1181
00:59:11,760 --> 00:59:16,080
Speaker 1: see in Oklahoma, could see in Kansas, could see in Arkansas, Missouri, Texas.

1182
00:59:16,440 --> 00:59:20,000
Speaker 1: Don't know yet, just know that we expect some tornado

1183
00:59:20,120 --> 00:59:22,120
Speaker 1: and tornadic action this week. So if you don't follow

1184
00:59:22,120 --> 00:59:24,400
Speaker 1: on the Instagram channel, it's a really good place to

1185
00:59:24,440 --> 00:59:27,040
Speaker 1: be following, especially when we do strump Chaser. So that's

1186
00:59:27,080 --> 00:59:30,160
Speaker 1: not college football related, that's just life related. So see

1187
00:59:30,200 --> 00:59:33,400
Speaker 1: me at a gas station and it's this picture. It's

1188
00:59:33,400 --> 00:59:36,720
Speaker 1: Cot Springs, Arkansas. Don't be freaked out, don't be a

1189
00:59:36,760 --> 00:59:42,760
Speaker 1: lot until next time. For Producer Jesse, for director College,

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00:59:43,120 --> 00:59:46,840
Speaker 1: for our entire production executive team, I'm Josh Paid. Have

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00:59:47,000 --> 00:59:55,360
Speaker 1: a great start to your week and God bless