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Speaker 1: Now welcome in lay Kick is Live.

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Speaker 2: It is Sunday night, April twenty fourth, Thye of Our Lord,

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty two. Some of you are one player away

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Speaker 2: disaster from contending potentially from both, and I don't want

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Speaker 2: to say who, but I kind of have to.

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Speaker 1: Tonight we're gonna dive in.

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Speaker 2: We've got spring practice, intel, spring games, rapid reaction, coast

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Speaker 2: to coast and everywhere in between. There was a lot

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Speaker 2: we were looking forward to, and we got a substantial

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Speaker 2: amount of it. So we're gonna jam back the show

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Speaker 2: with that tonight boldness, quite frankly, like you've never heard before,

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Speaker 2: and it's not even coming from me, it's coming from

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Speaker 2: a lot of you. Tonight we're revisiting back by popular demand,

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Speaker 2: that segment. We did what column like a week ago

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Speaker 2: where it was you telling me what you would bet

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Speaker 2: money on some of the boldest predictions you have for

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty two, and I'm just gonna tell you whether

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Speaker 2: I agree or not. And tonight you got some that

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Speaker 2: I'm well, I'm both ways on. So we'll get to

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Speaker 2: that in about fifteen minutes. The worst hires in this

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Speaker 2: sport at the head coaching position in the last decade.

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Speaker 2: That's something that we're gonna have to broach this evening

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Speaker 2: because one of you asked that question the other day

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Speaker 2: and it warranted more than just a quick response for me.

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Speaker 1: So I put it out there and we've got a

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Speaker 1: lot of responses and there was.

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Speaker 2: One runaway winner. You can think about it amongst yourselves.

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Speaker 2: You'll probably guess it pretty quick. Last decade head coaches

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Speaker 2: in college football one clear cut worst of all time.

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Speaker 1: At least in the last decade. Who would that be?

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Speaker 1: Whoms would that be?

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Speaker 2: Quick programming Note, we will not have a Thursday night

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Speaker 2: show because of the draft. We're gonna give you a

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Speaker 2: Tuesday night show. So we've been grinding around here. Numbers

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Speaker 2: have been off the charts, incredible. I've even been impressed

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Speaker 2: and surprised with how good our numbers have been. The

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Speaker 2: production executive is because producer Jesse chose to go out.

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Speaker 1: Of town today. Was he ever really in town?

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Speaker 2: By the way, along with director Colin put together the

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Speaker 2: show Night got one more Tuesday Night and then we'll

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Speaker 2: take a little four day break. So keep that on

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Speaker 2: your calendars and let's dive into the show tonight. They

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Speaker 2: are watching us in Shelbyville, Tennessee, Huntsville, Texas. We got

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Speaker 2: to check in from Madrid, Spain and Sydney, Australia. Two

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Speaker 2: international check ins today. Spring games all over the place yesterday.

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Speaker 2: I think most of you probably noticed at least something yesterday.

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Speaker 2: Will we notice like forty seven things? So let's dive

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Speaker 2: right in. Oklahoma had a spring game yesterday. Boy did

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Speaker 2: they in fact? Raise your hand if you were in

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Speaker 2: that state and you weren't at the spring game. Look

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Speaker 2: at these pictures. If you're listening on podcasts, just imagine

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Speaker 2: a sea of humanity, basically a sea of humanity. And

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Speaker 2: then I got a lot of folks coming back on

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Speaker 2: the other side telling me no one cares about spring

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Speaker 2: game attendance and there's just more to do in other

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Speaker 2: places of the country. Those folks, by the way, the

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Speaker 2: portions of the country do about the same three or

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Speaker 1: This matters.

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Speaker 2: Crowds at spring games matter, especially if you have a

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Speaker 2: to think for just a second. If you're telling me

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Speaker 2: that doesn't matter, it's probably a defense mechanism because your

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Speaker 2: school didn't show out like Oklahoma's. But if you really

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Speaker 2: do believe it doesn't matter, let me ask you a question.

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Speaker 2: once you've given your money. Of course, if you don't

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Speaker 1: But once you've done.

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Speaker 2: That, how do you affect a football program? And the

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Speaker 2: answer is the spring game attendance is one of the few,

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Speaker 2: upon millions of dollars in marketing, and it screams to

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Speaker 2: But as for on the field goings on, it's an

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Speaker 2: in twenty twenty two specifically, but really just beyond. I

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Speaker 2: don't really think we used complimentary football to describe Lincoln

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Speaker 2: Riley's Oklahoma. That doesn't mean they weren't effective, it's just

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Speaker 2: we never talked about complimentary football a whole lot. We

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Speaker 2: never went into a big Oklahoma game talking about multiple

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Speaker 1: Defense being improved.

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Speaker 2: And we think that they're going to carry this afternoon

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Speaker 2: for OU it was going to be ken Lincoln Riley's

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Speaker 2: It's never a bad thing to be scoring points. That's

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Speaker 2: the name of the game. But well, the real name

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Speaker 2: of the game is winning football games. Actually, that's what

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Speaker 2: the real name of the game is. So we saw yesterday.

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Speaker 2: We've heard all spring out of Norman about the more

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Speaker 2: But defense is going to be improved for Oklahoma. It's

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Speaker 1: But also special teams is.

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Speaker 2: A premium area of emphasis that they've invested in.

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Speaker 1: That's not rare.

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Speaker 2: It's not like Oklahoma's the only one doing that. But

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Speaker 2: what you'll see come fall, whether it's this run game,

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Speaker 2: You know, the kinds where you score fifty six on

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Speaker 2: Javonte Barnes is a four star true freshman running back.

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Speaker 2: They gave him the ball a lot yesterday. He along

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Speaker 1: More than you saw with the previous staff.

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Speaker 2: That doesn't guarantee success, just telling you you got a

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Speaker 1: I think Oklahoma dominated a lot of the headlines.

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Speaker 2: But I think Spring and the Spring Game it kind

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Speaker 1: So what I'm saying is your eyes didn't deceive you.

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Speaker 2: There weren't some guys who shined yesterday who really have

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Speaker 2: Spring and vice versa running back area. Brian Kelly's talked

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Speaker 2: If I had to name a guy right now, or

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Speaker 2: guy who's already done it before. It would be Miles Brennan,

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Speaker 2: and to be real with you, Garrett Nussmeyer would probably

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Speaker 2: be the next guy. There's no doubting Jaden daniels athleticism.

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Speaker 2: I think anyone who watched that or forget that, anyone

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Speaker 1: But Brian Kelly, knowing what we know.

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Speaker 2: About him, which is like eighteen or nineteen years worth

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Speaker 2: Miles Brennan has more of what Brian Kelly is looking for.

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Speaker 2: I think Garrett Nussmeyer may end up having more than

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Speaker 2: feel that way at the moment. But also, the depth

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Speaker 2: It leaves a lot to be desired at a number

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Speaker 2: of positions across the roster. They've got some good frontline

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Speaker 1: But there are places.

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Speaker 2: Obviously, when you inherit the kind of scholarship situation they did,

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Speaker 2: it's not going to fix itself overnight. That's why they've

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Speaker 2: got to emphasize recruiting like eight days out of the week.

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Speaker 2: They got to invest heavily in the transfer portal. But

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Speaker 2: I will tell you this, Brian Kelly's not gonna cut

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Speaker 2: corners in twenty twenty two. And even if that means

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Speaker 2: sacrificing some short term ability to give himself a better

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Speaker 2: chance to win a football game, They're not going to

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Speaker 1: They're going to invest in the long term. Down there.

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Speaker 2: It seems like such a better structured organization from everybody

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Speaker 2: you talk to, I'm not talking about watching a spring

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Speaker 2: game now, I mean getting feedback from people who walk

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Speaker 1: And that's to be expected.

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Speaker 2: I mean when you go from Edors around to Brian Kelly,

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Speaker 2: that's to be expected. So LSU, I think they've got

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Speaker 2: a lot to be excited about there. I think largely

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Speaker 2: LSU's spring game delivered exactly what I expected it to.

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Speaker 2: Texas had kind of a spring scrimmage slash spring game

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Speaker 2: Texas beat our folks over at Horns twenty four to seven.

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Speaker 1: Ship Brown in company. I think they've done a.

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Speaker 2: Fantastic job of accurately disseminating what the reality is there,

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Speaker 2: He was asked, Hey, what's different you know? Does anything

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Speaker 2: And I think what we have is intangible in nature.

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Speaker 2: And I think Steve Sarkisian is being really brutally honest

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Speaker 1: This is not Nick Saban.

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Speaker 2: This is Steve Sarkishan, a guy still very much trying

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Speaker 2: He said, this is the deepest overall they felt. Now,

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Speaker 2: And you got some true freshmen ready to contribute, and

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Speaker 2: for false reasons. So really, I'm not going to feed

439
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Speaker 2: into that. Here's what you do need to know about USC.

440
00:20:13,520 --> 00:20:15,840
Speaker 2: They actually had a great crowd yesterday. I know you

441
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Speaker 2: saw the freeze frames on Twitter. Oftentimes those are taken

442
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Speaker 2: before the game starts. By the way, I don't know

443
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Speaker 2: if you've realized this or not, but there are some

444
00:20:22,400 --> 00:20:26,280
Speaker 2: people out there who are agenda driven in nature, who

445
00:20:26,359 --> 00:20:30,960
Speaker 2: kind of want to feed into a certain overwhelming mentality

446
00:20:30,960 --> 00:20:34,840
Speaker 2: that already exists. Yes, it happens, believe it or not,

447
00:20:34,880 --> 00:20:37,640
Speaker 2: even in our space. USC had a good crowd by

448
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Speaker 2: USC standards. They're not going to pack the Colisseum on

449
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Speaker 2: a Saturday in April. But what if I told you

450
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Speaker 2: alternate headline that USC had the most attended spring game

451
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Speaker 2: for them.

452
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Speaker 1: Since the nineties. As we're showing footage here, you may

453
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Speaker 1: not believe that. But all I have to go on

454
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Speaker 1: is what's happened at USC in the past. So good

455
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Speaker 1: on Lincoln Riley.

456
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Speaker 2: Believe it or not, these were they are about to

457
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Speaker 2: come out of my mouth for drawing a big crowd

458
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Speaker 2: at the coliseum yesterday. All things considered, we talked about

459
00:21:06,520 --> 00:21:08,320
Speaker 2: kind of the same thing with Texas. How's it going

460
00:21:08,400 --> 00:21:10,720
Speaker 2: to feel and how are they going to tackle? All

461
00:21:10,720 --> 00:21:12,280
Speaker 2: the rest of the stuff's going to work itself out.

462
00:21:12,320 --> 00:21:14,800
Speaker 2: I did not expect a well oiled machine of an offense.

463
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Speaker 2: I mean, they're still trying to catch their breath from

464
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Speaker 2: putting a staff together, much less putting an offense and

465
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Speaker 2: installing everything together. And you're not going to see it

466
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Speaker 2: in spring games even if they have. But the tackle

467
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Speaker 2: pretty good yesterday, which was sorely missing last year springing

468
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Speaker 2: and otherwise, also.

469
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Speaker 1: The feel is there. This is go back.

470
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Speaker 2: It goes back to that whole intangible thing. But Lincoln

471
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Speaker 2: Riley's been pretty emphatic about this, and a lot of

472
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Speaker 2: those players have been pretty emphatic. They've talked about how

473
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Speaker 2: how far they feel like they've come in just a

474
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Speaker 2: couple of months since the new staff's been on campus.

475
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Speaker 2: Lincoln Riley really really emphatically talking like that. So you can, again,

476
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Speaker 2: you can take your pick. You can either listen to

477
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Speaker 2: that and say, well, what else is he going to

478
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Speaker 2: tell me? Or you can listen to it and say, well,

479
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Speaker 2: if you didn't truly feel that way, maybe he just

480
00:22:00,160 --> 00:22:04,480
Speaker 2: wouldn't say anything about it. I will say this, it's

481
00:22:04,600 --> 00:22:06,880
Speaker 2: always the best approach to go to the people who

482
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Speaker 2: cover the program and go to the fans, because you

483
00:22:09,720 --> 00:22:11,040
Speaker 2: see them every now and then.

484
00:22:11,160 --> 00:22:13,360
Speaker 1: Those folks see them all the time, and the.

485
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Speaker 2: Overwhelming consensus around USC is I have no doubt this

486
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Speaker 2: is the right staff at the right time. I have

487
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Speaker 2: no doubt in the direction. I don't think they're done

488
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Speaker 2: in the transfer portal, so you don't see the full

489
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Speaker 2: USC that you'll see in the fall quite yet. But

490
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Speaker 2: the feel overall, which pertases to twenty twenty two and beyond,

491
00:22:31,080 --> 00:22:33,960
Speaker 2: feels exactly how they want it to feel. They are

492
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Speaker 2: going to They're going to have a wild kind of

493
00:22:39,400 --> 00:22:42,880
Speaker 2: scale of volatility about their potential results this fall too.

494
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Speaker 2: You know, I'm looking at the schedule right now. They

495
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Speaker 2: go to Utah on the fifteenth of October. I don't

496
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Speaker 2: think USC is the favorite in the South right now.

497
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Speaker 2: I don't think a lot of their fans think they are.

498
00:22:52,040 --> 00:22:54,640
Speaker 2: I do think that they feel once this offense gets

499
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Speaker 2: to whatever product it's going to be.

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Speaker 1: They will have more than.

501
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Speaker 2: A puncher's chance, but it's about a whole lot more

502
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Speaker 2: than twenty two, which I mean USC fans understand that.

503
00:23:02,520 --> 00:23:05,000
Speaker 2: I hope the rest of the country does. There'll be

504
00:23:05,040 --> 00:23:06,840
Speaker 2: some ups and downs for them this year. This is

505
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Speaker 2: a product that they have to overturn, which doesn't happen overnight.

506
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Speaker 2: But I felt kind of different than the rest of

507
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Speaker 2: the country. I think the rest of the country. It

508
00:23:15,920 --> 00:23:19,160
Speaker 2: kind of took an opportunity yesterday to say, Haha, look

509
00:23:19,160 --> 00:23:23,679
Speaker 2: at what you don't have there. Okay, I mean I

510
00:23:23,800 --> 00:23:26,639
Speaker 2: can only go on what they had their last year

511
00:23:27,000 --> 00:23:29,200
Speaker 2: and then compare it to what they have now, and

512
00:23:29,280 --> 00:23:31,440
Speaker 2: what they have now a whole lot better than what they.

513
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Speaker 1: Had last year.

514
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Speaker 2: And that staff's only been there three months. Let's give

515
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Speaker 2: it a little time, shall we.

516
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Speaker 1: What about Oregon? This was a big spring crowd. Look

517
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Speaker 1: at this, it's a pretty picture.

518
00:23:42,119 --> 00:23:45,760
Speaker 2: If you're listening on podcasts, imagine clear blue organ skies

519
00:23:46,200 --> 00:23:48,960
Speaker 2: and people. Again, as far as the eye can see,

520
00:23:49,000 --> 00:23:51,920
Speaker 2: they had a little over forty three thousand in attendance

521
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Speaker 2: for Dan Lanning's first spring game. Man, it just looks good.

522
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Speaker 2: I kind of like looking at that for a little

523
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Speaker 2: while immunity. I would be at this point if bo

524
00:24:01,080 --> 00:24:04,919
Speaker 2: Nix is not starting quarterback for this team, and I

525
00:24:04,920 --> 00:24:08,120
Speaker 2: didn't say that when he transferred there. When he transferred there,

526
00:24:08,760 --> 00:24:11,720
Speaker 2: I was holding out hope that Ty Thompson, who was

527
00:24:11,800 --> 00:24:14,200
Speaker 2: a true freshman last year, was going to make a

528
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Speaker 2: kind of a quantum leap this spring.

529
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Speaker 1: And it's not like.

530
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Speaker 2: It's out of the realm of possibility that he still could.

531
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Speaker 2: I didn't see it yesterday, to be honest with you.

532
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Speaker 2: I thought Butterfield, I think who was the guy he's

533
00:24:27,680 --> 00:24:30,359
Speaker 2: battling with. For second, I thought they looked very comparable,

534
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Speaker 2: and I thought bo Nicks was the clear number one.

535
00:24:33,480 --> 00:24:35,080
Speaker 2: I don't think that's going to change, So I'd be

536
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Speaker 2: surprised at this point, of course, barring injury, if bo

537
00:24:37,640 --> 00:24:40,040
Speaker 2: Nicks is not the starting quarterback for Oregon.

538
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Speaker 1: They had a big.

539
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Speaker 2: Emphasis yesterday and pushing the ball down the field, which

540
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Speaker 2: was one of the primary gripes that a lot of

541
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Speaker 2: Duck fans have had, especially last year. Remember last year

542
00:24:49,800 --> 00:24:52,240
Speaker 2: we were going into the season and I was really

543
00:24:52,320 --> 00:24:55,280
Speaker 2: high on that wide receiver corps still am for that matter,

544
00:24:55,960 --> 00:24:58,320
Speaker 2: and Oregon fans kind of felt the same way. They

545
00:24:58,400 --> 00:25:00,960
Speaker 2: looked around, they read the practice report, they watched the

546
00:25:00,960 --> 00:25:03,600
Speaker 2: spring games, they watched the games, and said, boy, don't

547
00:25:03,600 --> 00:25:05,959
Speaker 2: we seem talented. Don't we seem a little more talented

548
00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:09,480
Speaker 2: out wide than we're featuring from our play calling perspective. Well,

549
00:25:09,520 --> 00:25:12,280
Speaker 2: this staff walked in and apparently thinks, yes, at least

550
00:25:12,320 --> 00:25:15,760
Speaker 2: if yesterday's any indication, and spring intel has been any indication,

551
00:25:15,840 --> 00:25:18,240
Speaker 2: so they plan on using that wide receiver corp pushing

552
00:25:18,240 --> 00:25:20,840
Speaker 2: the ball down the field. All these quarterbacks, every one

553
00:25:20,880 --> 00:25:22,960
Speaker 2: of them I just mentioned, had at least one explosive

554
00:25:22,960 --> 00:25:26,119
Speaker 2: play downfield yesterday. Yeah, it's a spring game, but I

555
00:25:26,160 --> 00:25:28,040
Speaker 2: mean some staffs dial it back in the spring, so

556
00:25:28,080 --> 00:25:30,639
Speaker 2: at least they dialed it the other way. I'm excited

557
00:25:30,680 --> 00:25:32,520
Speaker 2: to watch that though. One of the things I'll watch

558
00:25:32,520 --> 00:25:35,600
Speaker 2: on the West coast this fall is how Oregon and

559
00:25:35,680 --> 00:25:38,639
Speaker 2: that first year's staff up there, how they utilized that

560
00:25:38,680 --> 00:25:41,320
Speaker 2: wide receiver corp. Because they inherited some good guys there,

561
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Speaker 2: and they've got an interesting quarterback battle, one of the

562
00:25:44,119 --> 00:25:46,879
Speaker 2: more intriguing quarterback battles, and not just who's going to

563
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Speaker 2: be the starter. I just told you, I think Nix

564
00:25:48,480 --> 00:25:51,840
Speaker 2: has got that job on a semi lock for the

565
00:25:51,840 --> 00:25:55,640
Speaker 2: time being. But you know, if Tay Thompson doesn't make

566
00:25:55,680 --> 00:25:58,480
Speaker 2: that move and really secures that number two spot in

567
00:25:58,560 --> 00:26:01,520
Speaker 2: battles bo Nix, you know, I just kind of leave

568
00:26:01,520 --> 00:26:03,480
Speaker 2: it open ended. But I just kind of wonder there.

569
00:26:04,240 --> 00:26:06,679
Speaker 2: I just kind of wonder. Had high hopes, still do,

570
00:26:07,080 --> 00:26:09,040
Speaker 2: but just kind of wonder. So that's a look around

571
00:26:09,080 --> 00:26:12,919
Speaker 2: the country yesterday at many things, many things that I

572
00:26:12,960 --> 00:26:15,240
Speaker 2: took away from Spring games. Appreciate you guys being tuned

573
00:26:15,280 --> 00:26:19,040
Speaker 2: in right now. If you are, it is gorgeous outside.

574
00:26:19,080 --> 00:26:20,760
Speaker 2: There's no other way to put it. I don't use

575
00:26:20,800 --> 00:26:24,960
Speaker 2: that word a lot on the show, but man, twice

576
00:26:25,119 --> 00:26:28,520
Speaker 2: this week, not once, not three times right there sandwiched

577
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Speaker 2: in between Twice this week I darkened the doors of

578
00:26:32,359 --> 00:26:35,920
Speaker 2: our friends and our well our friendly academy sports and outdoors.

579
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Speaker 2: You could pick anyone you want to. Man, it was

580
00:26:38,200 --> 00:26:40,160
Speaker 2: nice to get in there. Just feels kind of brighter

581
00:26:40,359 --> 00:26:42,320
Speaker 2: in academy sports and outdoors in the spring. I don't

582
00:26:42,320 --> 00:26:44,040
Speaker 2: think it's just cause they leave the windows open either.

583
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Speaker 2: If you need anything anything at all, I could I mean,

584
00:26:48,960 --> 00:26:51,560
Speaker 2: it could be bats, it could be balls, could be gloves,

585
00:26:51,880 --> 00:26:54,199
Speaker 2: had to order a new pair of turfs because I

586
00:26:54,240 --> 00:26:58,560
Speaker 2: played softball the other night woefully unequipped. Still did okay,

587
00:26:58,840 --> 00:27:01,680
Speaker 2: but woefully unequipped in terms of footwear. So we have

588
00:27:01,760 --> 00:27:05,520
Speaker 2: rectified that I did my part. Academy does their part

589
00:27:05,560 --> 00:27:08,600
Speaker 2: every week because they quite literally bring the show to you.

590
00:27:09,160 --> 00:27:11,440
Speaker 2: One of you complained, I say, quite literally too much,

591
00:27:11,480 --> 00:27:13,840
Speaker 2: So I'm gonna I'm gonna, quite honestly try and stop

592
00:27:13,880 --> 00:27:16,639
Speaker 2: saying that so much. Academy Sports and Outdoors though, or

593
00:27:16,720 --> 00:27:19,520
Speaker 2: Academy dot Com. If you cannot get to an Academy

594
00:27:19,520 --> 00:27:23,679
Speaker 2: Sports and Outdoors no matter what you have planned this spring, now,

595
00:27:23,720 --> 00:27:26,240
Speaker 2: I hope you got plenty of them. If it involves

596
00:27:26,280 --> 00:27:29,280
Speaker 2: the outdoors, if it involves camping, if it involves grilling,

597
00:27:29,480 --> 00:27:32,119
Speaker 2: if it involves recreational activity, or certainly any kind of

598
00:27:32,160 --> 00:27:35,840
Speaker 2: sport this side of Pluto, which should very much still

599
00:27:35,840 --> 00:27:39,360
Speaker 2: be a planet, quite literally, make Academy Sports and Outdoors

600
00:27:39,640 --> 00:27:41,840
Speaker 2: your one stop shop for all that. And look, if

601
00:27:41,880 --> 00:27:44,000
Speaker 2: you've been going to another place for a long time,

602
00:27:44,440 --> 00:27:47,200
Speaker 2: that's all well and good. This is America and that's

603
00:27:47,240 --> 00:27:51,199
Speaker 2: what it's about. But you know, within America, this is

604
00:27:51,280 --> 00:27:54,800
Speaker 2: late kick, and on late kick We really believe in

605
00:27:54,880 --> 00:27:58,400
Speaker 2: Academy much more than those other establishments because they all

606
00:27:58,440 --> 00:28:01,560
Speaker 2: had an opportunity to put their sticker on the show,

607
00:28:01,600 --> 00:28:02,879
Speaker 2: and only one chose it.

608
00:28:03,240 --> 00:28:05,199
Speaker 1: Academy chose the right route.

609
00:28:05,240 --> 00:28:09,040
Speaker 2: So let's just respect them, honor them, and then patronize

610
00:28:09,040 --> 00:28:11,440
Speaker 2: them in whatever war do you want to Academy Sports

611
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Speaker 2: and Outdoors. Always appreciate them. I have in front of

612
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Speaker 2: me right now things that you had said, Colin, here's

613
00:28:22,320 --> 00:28:22,800
Speaker 2: your endpoint.

614
00:28:22,880 --> 00:28:23,720
Speaker 1: I like this one better.

615
00:28:24,440 --> 00:28:26,920
Speaker 2: I hold in my hand right now no less than

616
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Speaker 2: six of the boldest things that you said to me

617
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Speaker 2: last week.

618
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Speaker 1: I asked, if you had to bet.

619
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Speaker 2: Your money on your boldest prediction in twenty twenty two,

620
00:28:36,119 --> 00:28:38,520
Speaker 2: what would you feel bold enough to predict?

621
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Speaker 1: So let's dive in here.

622
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Speaker 2: We did this last week, people loved it, so we're

623
00:28:42,000 --> 00:28:44,480
Speaker 2: gonna do it again this week. How about this one?

624
00:28:44,560 --> 00:28:50,920
Speaker 2: Dean Dean Straka, our own Dean Straka, Texas Oklahoma and Texas,

625
00:28:51,000 --> 00:28:55,160
Speaker 2: A and M all failed to reach ten wins on

626
00:28:55,200 --> 00:28:58,800
Speaker 2: the boldness scale. I put this at a five. I

627
00:28:58,840 --> 00:29:01,680
Speaker 2: originally went higher, but I lowered it to a five.

628
00:29:01,960 --> 00:29:05,760
Speaker 2: And I'll tell you why. Call singularly, none of these

629
00:29:05,960 --> 00:29:09,400
Speaker 2: teams being predicted under ten wins stands out none of

630
00:29:09,440 --> 00:29:12,040
Speaker 2: them will have an over underwin total in the double digits.

631
00:29:12,120 --> 00:29:15,320
Speaker 2: They'll be anywhere from like eight to nine and a

632
00:29:15,400 --> 00:29:18,240
Speaker 2: half nine somewhere in that range, could be seven and

633
00:29:18,240 --> 00:29:20,040
Speaker 2: a half even, so none of them will have a

634
00:29:20,080 --> 00:29:22,960
Speaker 2: ten win or more over under. But he's not just

635
00:29:23,080 --> 00:29:25,960
Speaker 2: betting on one team going under ten wins. He's saying

636
00:29:26,280 --> 00:29:30,040
Speaker 2: Texas no double digit win season, Oklahoma no double digit

637
00:29:30,080 --> 00:29:33,280
Speaker 2: win season, Texas A and M no double digit win season.

638
00:29:34,240 --> 00:29:36,480
Speaker 2: And to me, like if I had to pick a

639
00:29:36,560 --> 00:29:39,160
Speaker 2: yes or no at even money on this, I'm saying yes,

640
00:29:39,240 --> 00:29:41,720
Speaker 2: one of them does hit double digit wins. Thus the

641
00:29:41,760 --> 00:29:46,040
Speaker 2: boldness in the prediction. This is essentially an under parlay here.

642
00:29:46,240 --> 00:29:48,480
Speaker 2: Just say no to parlay. It's the Devil's tool kids.

643
00:29:49,120 --> 00:29:52,240
Speaker 2: But if this were to happen, I'm really focused on

644
00:29:52,240 --> 00:29:54,400
Speaker 2: the Red River shootout portion of this. Texas A and

645
00:29:54,480 --> 00:29:56,080
Speaker 2: M we can talk about a little bit later, and

646
00:29:56,120 --> 00:29:56,560
Speaker 2: we will.

647
00:29:57,120 --> 00:29:58,800
Speaker 1: But what about Texas and Oklahoma?

648
00:29:58,880 --> 00:30:02,200
Speaker 2: Because to me, when you play each other, as they do,

649
00:30:02,560 --> 00:30:06,240
Speaker 2: obviously the winner of that game gets a win in

650
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Speaker 2: one of the toughest games on their schedule. So let's

651
00:30:09,360 --> 00:30:13,400
Speaker 2: just for argument's sake, since Texas their schedules up on

652
00:30:13,440 --> 00:30:15,400
Speaker 2: the screen right now, that's the only reason. Let's say

653
00:30:15,440 --> 00:30:19,680
Speaker 2: Texas were to beat Oklahoma. Well, automatically, I'm asking myself,

654
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Speaker 2: all right, well, that means I got to find three

655
00:30:21,200 --> 00:30:23,480
Speaker 2: losses minimum on here. It's easy to find one in

656
00:30:23,520 --> 00:30:26,160
Speaker 2: week two if they play Alabama, which they do. Then

657
00:30:26,200 --> 00:30:28,480
Speaker 2: they go to Texas Tech in week four, not an

658
00:30:28,480 --> 00:30:30,800
Speaker 2: easy game. They go West Virginia in week five, they

659
00:30:30,800 --> 00:30:33,560
Speaker 2: got Iowa State. In week seven, they got at Oklahoma State.

660
00:30:33,600 --> 00:30:35,400
Speaker 2: In week eight, they got Baylor. At the end of

661
00:30:35,400 --> 00:30:38,520
Speaker 2: the year. Yeah, you could find three losses there, but

662
00:30:38,520 --> 00:30:40,840
Speaker 2: they're also all winnable games. And if you get the

663
00:30:40,840 --> 00:30:43,040
Speaker 2: Oklahoma win out of the way, you see my point.

664
00:30:43,160 --> 00:30:46,000
Speaker 2: So I'm gonna give this a five on the boldness scale.

665
00:30:46,200 --> 00:30:48,080
Speaker 2: I do think at least one of them is going

666
00:30:48,120 --> 00:30:50,160
Speaker 2: to have double digit win seasons. I have no clue

667
00:30:50,160 --> 00:30:53,280
Speaker 2: whatsoever which one. I'm just playing the percentages. It is April,

668
00:30:53,360 --> 00:30:57,240
Speaker 2: after all. Next up, this one would cause a massive

669
00:30:57,320 --> 00:31:03,320
Speaker 2: ripple effect across the ACC and quite frankly beyond Clemson

670
00:31:03,400 --> 00:31:07,440
Speaker 2: wins less than ten games. And for the record, the

671
00:31:07,480 --> 00:31:10,959
Speaker 2: account here showed us a prediction from last year wherein

672
00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:14,200
Speaker 2: they said Clemson will not win the ACC and that

673
00:31:14,400 --> 00:31:17,080
Speaker 2: was August twenty seventh, So congratulations there.

674
00:31:17,160 --> 00:31:20,400
Speaker 1: That was not an easy prediction to make. If Clemson does.

675
00:31:20,200 --> 00:31:24,200
Speaker 2: Not win ten games, if they win nine or fewer,

676
00:31:24,720 --> 00:31:26,440
Speaker 2: I want you to pause, and I want you to

677
00:31:26,440 --> 00:31:27,280
Speaker 2: think about.

678
00:31:27,320 --> 00:31:28,360
Speaker 1: What that would do.

679
00:31:29,080 --> 00:31:31,880
Speaker 2: What that would have you saying, how that would have

680
00:31:31,880 --> 00:31:34,560
Speaker 2: the rest of college football feeling? How bold is this

681
00:31:34,680 --> 00:31:39,040
Speaker 2: to you? I gave this a six on the boldness scale.

682
00:31:40,800 --> 00:31:44,120
Speaker 2: You would think, well, with a schedule that relatively soft,

683
00:31:44,640 --> 00:31:46,640
Speaker 2: how in the world are they going to lose three

684
00:31:46,720 --> 00:31:49,720
Speaker 2: or more games? Well, here's what I came to and

685
00:31:49,760 --> 00:31:51,719
Speaker 2: this is why I don't think it's any bolder than

686
00:31:51,720 --> 00:31:56,160
Speaker 2: a six. I could actually see this happening because there

687
00:31:56,200 --> 00:31:58,560
Speaker 2: is no end between. To me, if they have the

688
00:31:58,600 --> 00:32:02,040
Speaker 2: same problems they had last last year, they go from

689
00:32:02,160 --> 00:32:04,600
Speaker 2: on one side of the coin, a team if you

690
00:32:04,600 --> 00:32:08,320
Speaker 2: look at their schedule that shouldn't even be more than

691
00:32:08,520 --> 00:32:10,960
Speaker 2: challenged a few times in the year, to be in

692
00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:13,880
Speaker 2: a team that could be challenged virtually every week outside

693
00:32:13,960 --> 00:32:17,440
Speaker 2: of like Week two against Furman. And if that's the case,

694
00:32:17,760 --> 00:32:21,360
Speaker 2: if for argument's sake, quarterback is no better than it

695
00:32:21,440 --> 00:32:24,040
Speaker 2: was last year, and their receiving core is no better

696
00:32:24,080 --> 00:32:27,240
Speaker 2: than it was last year. And they in addition, do

697
00:32:27,400 --> 00:32:29,880
Speaker 2: feel the sting of losing an offensive coordinator and a

698
00:32:29,920 --> 00:32:30,760
Speaker 2: defensive coordinator.

699
00:32:31,720 --> 00:32:33,320
Speaker 1: They could lose multiple games.

700
00:32:33,800 --> 00:32:36,680
Speaker 2: And so while that's again not my prediction here in April,

701
00:32:37,040 --> 00:32:40,360
Speaker 2: we have the entire summer for that. If you watch

702
00:32:40,480 --> 00:32:42,880
Speaker 2: them in Week one against Georgia Tech and it just

703
00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:46,360
Speaker 2: feels discombobulated, it has a lot of feel of twenty

704
00:32:46,400 --> 00:32:49,000
Speaker 2: twenty one about it. I'm gonna look at this probably

705
00:32:49,040 --> 00:32:51,360
Speaker 2: and I'm gonna say, you know what I said, It

706
00:32:51,400 --> 00:32:54,000
Speaker 2: was only a six on the boldness scale. I need

707
00:32:54,040 --> 00:32:57,000
Speaker 2: to lower that number more because at that point, everyone's

708
00:32:57,040 --> 00:32:59,960
Speaker 2: gonna smell blood in the water again for a back

709
00:33:00,080 --> 00:33:05,160
Speaker 2: to back situation, back to back seasons, and like last year,

710
00:33:06,080 --> 00:33:09,080
Speaker 2: you will turn on Clemson games and they will have

711
00:33:09,120 --> 00:33:11,880
Speaker 2: been favored by like fourteen instead of their usual twenty one,

712
00:33:11,920 --> 00:33:13,959
Speaker 2: but still expected to win, and you'll be watching them

713
00:33:14,000 --> 00:33:16,360
Speaker 2: and you'll say, why did I bet Clemson this week?

714
00:33:16,560 --> 00:33:18,520
Speaker 2: Why did I think it was going to turn the corner.

715
00:33:18,680 --> 00:33:21,920
Speaker 2: I'm just saying, there is a universe, there is a

716
00:33:21,960 --> 00:33:24,080
Speaker 2: scenario where that happens I'm gonna give it a six.

717
00:33:24,960 --> 00:33:27,160
Speaker 2: The next one I found a little too bold for

718
00:33:27,240 --> 00:33:29,680
Speaker 2: my taste, but I'll tee it up for you and

719
00:33:29,720 --> 00:33:33,640
Speaker 2: you can decide amongst yourselves what you think. Michigan and

720
00:33:33,680 --> 00:33:37,080
Speaker 2: Notre Dame both beat Ohio State in the Horseshoe this year.

721
00:33:37,600 --> 00:33:40,360
Speaker 2: For the record, this would be a loss to Notre

722
00:33:40,480 --> 00:33:43,240
Speaker 2: Dame to open the season in Columbus and a loss

723
00:33:43,280 --> 00:33:47,840
Speaker 2: to Michigan to close the season in Columbus. I put

724
00:33:47,840 --> 00:33:50,760
Speaker 2: this in a nine on the boldness scale. I do

725
00:33:50,840 --> 00:33:53,120
Speaker 2: not think this is going to happen. In fact, I

726
00:33:53,120 --> 00:33:55,320
Speaker 2: think it's a lot more likely Ohio State goes to

727
00:33:55,400 --> 00:33:58,400
Speaker 2: and oh here than even one in one. I'll put

728
00:33:58,400 --> 00:34:01,200
Speaker 2: it that way, much less h to two. So I,

729
00:34:01,320 --> 00:34:03,960
Speaker 2: like many people pretty high on Ohio State this year,

730
00:34:04,280 --> 00:34:07,959
Speaker 2: but it is very hard for me to specifically picture

731
00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:10,719
Speaker 2: Notre Dame going in there and winning first game of

732
00:34:10,760 --> 00:34:14,600
Speaker 2: the year. So it's Marcus Freeman's first game after that

733
00:34:14,680 --> 00:34:16,239
Speaker 2: Oregon reset last year.

734
00:34:16,400 --> 00:34:18,120
Speaker 1: Remember when Oregon went in there. I think it was

735
00:34:18,160 --> 00:34:20,560
Speaker 1: Week two. I was at the Iowa Iowa State game.

736
00:34:20,560 --> 00:34:22,839
Speaker 2: I remember in that press box we were watching that

737
00:34:23,120 --> 00:34:25,880
Speaker 2: and it was just boggled the mind that you were

738
00:34:25,920 --> 00:34:28,399
Speaker 2: watching Oregon go in there and do what they were

739
00:34:28,440 --> 00:34:32,440
Speaker 2: able to do with such ease at times, especially against

740
00:34:32,440 --> 00:34:35,080
Speaker 2: that Ohio State defense. Well, the reason I mentioned that

741
00:34:35,160 --> 00:34:38,480
Speaker 2: game is called so much in that Ohio State program

742
00:34:38,600 --> 00:34:42,160
Speaker 2: changed largely because of what happened in that game. Ryan

743
00:34:42,239 --> 00:34:43,600
Speaker 2: Day didn't even wait to the end of the year.

744
00:34:43,600 --> 00:34:46,160
Speaker 2: He started making defensive changes during the year and certainly

745
00:34:46,200 --> 00:34:48,719
Speaker 2: overhauled it after the end of the season. So Jim

746
00:34:48,760 --> 00:34:51,520
Speaker 2: Knowles comes in there, like you think, Notre Dame is

747
00:34:51,520 --> 00:34:54,359
Speaker 2: going to run all over a Jim Knowles defense, even

748
00:34:54,400 --> 00:34:56,960
Speaker 2: if it's the first game at Ohio State for him.

749
00:34:57,360 --> 00:34:59,400
Speaker 1: I don't think so. But I also, even.

750
00:34:59,239 --> 00:35:02,320
Speaker 2: If I just ignore defense for a second, I ask myself,

751
00:35:02,960 --> 00:35:07,360
Speaker 2: with a quarterback advantage this dramatic, and with a skill

752
00:35:07,440 --> 00:35:08,760
Speaker 2: position edge this.

753
00:35:08,719 --> 00:35:11,080
Speaker 1: Dramatic, how long war are they gonna drop that game?

754
00:35:11,280 --> 00:35:13,560
Speaker 2: And if they do, the spread will be about two

755
00:35:13,560 --> 00:35:16,960
Speaker 2: touchdowns or so for the record For those wondering if

756
00:35:17,000 --> 00:35:20,799
Speaker 2: they do, then should not I expect that to light

757
00:35:20,840 --> 00:35:23,000
Speaker 2: a fire under Ohio State, the likes of which they

758
00:35:23,080 --> 00:35:25,000
Speaker 2: used to fuel their way through the rest of the year,

759
00:35:25,480 --> 00:35:30,360
Speaker 2: which culminates in the ultimate of revenge scenarios in the

760
00:35:30,520 --> 00:35:32,480
Speaker 2: game at the end of the year where you get

761
00:35:32,520 --> 00:35:35,160
Speaker 2: a Jim Harbaugh who tried to slap me in the

762
00:35:35,160 --> 00:35:37,160
Speaker 2: back of the head and then exit the conference, but

763
00:35:37,239 --> 00:35:39,680
Speaker 2: then didn't get to the door before it got slammed

764
00:35:39,680 --> 00:35:41,160
Speaker 2: in his face. So he has to come back and

765
00:35:41,239 --> 00:35:43,839
Speaker 2: come in You're building and face you. You're gonna drop

766
00:35:43,880 --> 00:35:46,640
Speaker 2: that game too. I can't see that. I think they'll go.

767
00:35:46,920 --> 00:35:48,440
Speaker 2: I think they're much more likely to go to and

768
00:35:48,480 --> 00:35:51,040
Speaker 2: oh than even one and one, much less oh and

769
00:35:51,080 --> 00:35:54,200
Speaker 2: two in those games. But I'll pose this to you

770
00:35:54,280 --> 00:35:56,560
Speaker 2: the same way I just did with the Clemson scenario.

771
00:35:56,880 --> 00:36:00,920
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go long a there for once. If this happens,

772
00:36:01,400 --> 00:36:05,759
Speaker 2: you can hit me up from Xenia, Ohio. I just

773
00:36:05,880 --> 00:36:07,960
Speaker 2: name all the towns that got hit by famous tornadoes.

774
00:36:08,120 --> 00:36:12,560
Speaker 2: You can hit me up if this happens. Just like

775
00:36:12,600 --> 00:36:16,000
Speaker 2: if Clemson wins nine or eight games, how different is

776
00:36:16,040 --> 00:36:19,919
Speaker 2: the conversation. How different are people talking about Ryan Day?

777
00:36:20,600 --> 00:36:23,120
Speaker 2: If this stuff happens again in back to back years,

778
00:36:23,520 --> 00:36:26,200
Speaker 2: you look at an offense as loaded as theirs, because

779
00:36:26,239 --> 00:36:29,319
Speaker 2: if they lose to Michigan and they lose to Notre Dame,

780
00:36:29,360 --> 00:36:31,319
Speaker 2: I mean chances are maybe they dropped another game along

781
00:36:31,360 --> 00:36:31,560
Speaker 2: the way.

782
00:36:31,600 --> 00:36:33,640
Speaker 1: They may not even be playing for the Big Ten Championship.

783
00:36:33,800 --> 00:36:36,920
Speaker 2: If they miss out on going to Indianapolis again this

784
00:36:37,040 --> 00:36:42,319
Speaker 2: year with that offensive roster, tough questions would have to

785
00:36:42,360 --> 00:36:42,840
Speaker 2: be answered.

786
00:36:43,080 --> 00:36:44,719
Speaker 1: That's why I think it's very bold.

787
00:36:45,440 --> 00:36:49,720
Speaker 2: Let's move on and talk a little individual award season

788
00:36:49,960 --> 00:36:50,600
Speaker 2: fodder here.

789
00:36:51,120 --> 00:36:52,520
Speaker 1: This was very popular.

790
00:36:52,560 --> 00:36:54,680
Speaker 2: I just chose one, but they're like fifty of you

791
00:36:55,000 --> 00:36:58,280
Speaker 2: that suggested this one. Anthony Richardson will be a serious

792
00:36:58,360 --> 00:37:01,440
Speaker 2: contender for the Heisman, even though Jorda's win loss record

793
00:37:01,480 --> 00:37:03,880
Speaker 2: won't be favorable. Now some of you just flat outside

794
00:37:03,880 --> 00:37:06,359
Speaker 2: he's gonna win the thing. I put this at an

795
00:37:06,400 --> 00:37:09,960
Speaker 2: eight on the boldness scale. I think it's pretty bold.

796
00:37:10,120 --> 00:37:12,840
Speaker 2: You may think by me saying this is so bold

797
00:37:13,080 --> 00:37:16,759
Speaker 2: that I doubt Anthony Richardson quite the opposite phenomenal athlete.

798
00:37:16,880 --> 00:37:19,560
Speaker 2: I could drop him in Columbus, Ohio or Tuscaloosa and

799
00:37:19,640 --> 00:37:21,640
Speaker 2: he probably would be the favorite to win the Heisman.

800
00:37:22,160 --> 00:37:24,200
Speaker 2: I'm thinking about who he has to go up against.

801
00:37:24,520 --> 00:37:27,560
Speaker 2: Let's go back to those two geographical pinpoints. I'm thinking

802
00:37:27,600 --> 00:37:29,920
Speaker 2: about CJ. Stroud and I'm thinking about Bryce Young, And

803
00:37:29,960 --> 00:37:32,560
Speaker 2: if those guys are healthy, you're looking at them putting

804
00:37:32,600 --> 00:37:34,640
Speaker 2: up just bonkers numbers every week.

805
00:37:34,840 --> 00:37:36,239
Speaker 1: And you have to keep pace with that.

806
00:37:36,840 --> 00:37:38,480
Speaker 2: So then I look back down there in Gainesville and

807
00:37:38,520 --> 00:37:40,120
Speaker 2: I say, who in the world's he throwing the ball to?

808
00:37:41,280 --> 00:37:43,319
Speaker 2: Unless Billy napi Or and his staff go in the

809
00:37:43,320 --> 00:37:47,799
Speaker 2: transfer portal multiple times and pull multiple difference makers out

810
00:37:47,800 --> 00:37:50,359
Speaker 2: at the wide receiver position. He doesn't have the cast

811
00:37:50,400 --> 00:37:54,560
Speaker 2: of characters around him. It takes immense talent around you.

812
00:37:54,840 --> 00:37:57,520
Speaker 2: If you're gonna top what Bryce Young's inevitably gonna do,

813
00:37:57,719 --> 00:38:00,879
Speaker 2: what CJ. Stroud's inevitably gonna do. I just don't think

814
00:38:00,880 --> 00:38:03,160
Speaker 2: they're going to have that kind of offensive consistency week

815
00:38:03,200 --> 00:38:05,799
Speaker 2: to week there, and you're gonna watch him and you'll

816
00:38:05,800 --> 00:38:08,680
Speaker 2: probably end up saying during the season what I just said.

817
00:38:08,719 --> 00:38:12,400
Speaker 2: You'd probably say, look at number fifteen, look at that

818
00:38:12,520 --> 00:38:16,120
Speaker 2: quarterback Florida's got, Like, can you imagine his talent on

819
00:38:16,400 --> 00:38:19,440
Speaker 2: this roster or that roster? That just may be the

820
00:38:19,440 --> 00:38:22,879
Speaker 2: way it is in Florida this year. Certainly we hope

821
00:38:22,920 --> 00:38:27,000
Speaker 2: it changes in years to come. But man like, if

822
00:38:27,000 --> 00:38:29,799
Speaker 2: he puts together a campaign where he finds a way

823
00:38:29,800 --> 00:38:33,320
Speaker 2: to outpace some of the other guys who we virtually

824
00:38:33,719 --> 00:38:36,880
Speaker 2: know are locks to put up high level offensive numbers.

825
00:38:37,480 --> 00:38:39,719
Speaker 2: Then I'll I mean, I'll fly up to New York

826
00:38:39,760 --> 00:38:41,480
Speaker 2: and if they'll let me on stage, I would present

827
00:38:41,560 --> 00:38:42,120
Speaker 2: it myself.

828
00:38:42,320 --> 00:38:44,120
Speaker 1: I would also then make.

829
00:38:43,960 --> 00:38:47,479
Speaker 2: A replica and have it shipped Will Anderson for totally

830
00:38:47,520 --> 00:38:50,640
Speaker 2: different reasons last year. So I made that one an

831
00:38:50,640 --> 00:38:53,439
Speaker 2: eight on the boldness scale, not because of a lack

832
00:38:53,520 --> 00:38:56,719
Speaker 2: of belief in Anthony Richardson, because of a lack of

833
00:38:56,880 --> 00:38:58,840
Speaker 2: belief in maybe his supporting cast.

834
00:38:58,960 --> 00:38:59,359
Speaker 1: This year.

835
00:39:00,600 --> 00:39:02,719
Speaker 2: The next one, we kind of go back to what

836
00:39:02,800 --> 00:39:05,440
Speaker 2: we started with, only it's gonna zoom in on a

837
00:39:05,440 --> 00:39:08,920
Speaker 2: specific team. Someone just said A and M's not even

838
00:39:08,960 --> 00:39:11,480
Speaker 2: gonna finish ranked. I specifically did a segment on this

839
00:39:11,560 --> 00:39:14,759
Speaker 2: the other night where you were asking which teams that

840
00:39:14,760 --> 00:39:17,480
Speaker 2: finished unranked last year are the most certain to be

841
00:39:17,600 --> 00:39:19,440
Speaker 2: ranked this year? And A and M was one of

842
00:39:19,480 --> 00:39:22,560
Speaker 2: the first ones I went to. You could, before you

843
00:39:22,600 --> 00:39:25,840
Speaker 2: even break down their schedule, just look at them, Just

844
00:39:26,000 --> 00:39:28,920
Speaker 2: look at the team. A lot of folks who are

845
00:39:28,960 --> 00:39:32,279
Speaker 2: doubting Texas A and M are doubting them because you're

846
00:39:32,320 --> 00:39:35,239
Speaker 2: doubting them against the backdrop of can they contend for

847
00:39:35,280 --> 00:39:38,960
Speaker 2: a national championship? You're judging them against Alabama, or you're

848
00:39:39,000 --> 00:39:41,680
Speaker 2: judging them against like Ohio State or whoever you think

849
00:39:41,760 --> 00:39:44,160
Speaker 2: is going to play for a title. And you're saying, well,

850
00:39:44,200 --> 00:39:46,200
Speaker 2: just cause they had that recruiting class doesn't mean A

851
00:39:46,239 --> 00:39:49,120
Speaker 2: and M's there yet. No one's saying they are. That

852
00:39:49,400 --> 00:39:52,840
Speaker 2: wasn't the bold prediction here. The bold prediction is A

853
00:39:52,920 --> 00:39:55,480
Speaker 2: and M finishes unranked. There's a big difference in not

854
00:39:55,560 --> 00:39:57,920
Speaker 2: finishing top four and finishing unranked.

855
00:39:58,480 --> 00:40:00,480
Speaker 1: They've got incredible athletes.

856
00:40:00,560 --> 00:40:06,239
Speaker 2: They've got ridiculous depth in some positions, offensive line, defensive line.

857
00:40:06,360 --> 00:40:08,719
Speaker 2: I've told this story for the past two years. I've

858
00:40:08,719 --> 00:40:11,000
Speaker 2: seen him in person a number of times. When that

859
00:40:11,160 --> 00:40:13,480
Speaker 2: team gets off the bus, they don't look a whole

860
00:40:13,480 --> 00:40:15,920
Speaker 2: lot different than the teams you see playing for a

861
00:40:15,960 --> 00:40:18,640
Speaker 2: national championship. They don't look different than Georgia. They don't

862
00:40:18,640 --> 00:40:21,920
Speaker 2: look different than Bbama. Everyone else does. A and M

863
00:40:21,920 --> 00:40:25,239
Speaker 2: blends in with the contenders. Quarterback position hadn't been there,

864
00:40:25,360 --> 00:40:28,479
Speaker 2: wide receiver position hadn't been there, pretty much everywhere else

865
00:40:28,719 --> 00:40:31,800
Speaker 2: they've got it up to par So, again, not suggesting

866
00:40:31,840 --> 00:40:34,640
Speaker 2: they're a top four team, but top twenty five. You're

867
00:40:34,680 --> 00:40:37,360
Speaker 2: telling me if they aren't finishing top twenty five, that

868
00:40:37,360 --> 00:40:40,520
Speaker 2: they're gonna lose at least four games and maybe need

869
00:40:40,560 --> 00:40:43,400
Speaker 2: to lose five given how tough their schedule is. So

870
00:40:44,200 --> 00:40:47,080
Speaker 2: let's just go up and down the schedule. You find

871
00:40:47,120 --> 00:40:49,680
Speaker 2: me the five losses. I mean, certainly, they're going to

872
00:40:49,719 --> 00:40:55,360
Speaker 2: be an underdog at Alabama. Okay, that's October eighth. Outside

873
00:40:55,400 --> 00:40:58,480
Speaker 2: of that game, where are they a dog? And if

874
00:40:58,520 --> 00:41:01,640
Speaker 2: they are, they more than a three point hunderdog. They're

875
00:41:01,640 --> 00:41:04,320
Speaker 2: gonna be favored against Miami. They will be a short

876
00:41:04,360 --> 00:41:08,560
Speaker 2: favorite against Arkansas. I would imagine in Dallas they will

877
00:41:08,600 --> 00:41:10,719
Speaker 2: be a favorite. Even on the road at Mississippi State.

878
00:41:10,719 --> 00:41:12,640
Speaker 2: They'll be a favorite on the road at South Carolina.

879
00:41:13,320 --> 00:41:16,719
Speaker 2: At home against Ole Miss, probably a short favorite or

880
00:41:16,760 --> 00:41:19,040
Speaker 2: either a short dog, depending on what the season's done

881
00:41:19,040 --> 00:41:22,279
Speaker 2: at that point. It's nearly Halloween by then. Then they

882
00:41:22,320 --> 00:41:25,600
Speaker 2: got Florida the next week, they're favored at home against Florida.

883
00:41:25,800 --> 00:41:28,279
Speaker 2: They'll go to Auburn and probably still be favored there.

884
00:41:28,400 --> 00:41:31,520
Speaker 2: At home against LSU, they'll be favored. So I get

885
00:41:31,600 --> 00:41:34,879
Speaker 2: upsets happen, But even if they lose Tobama, you're still

886
00:41:34,920 --> 00:41:36,839
Speaker 2: having to find me three or four more. And I

887
00:41:36,880 --> 00:41:38,960
Speaker 2: just don't see it happening. And I think there'll be

888
00:41:39,200 --> 00:41:42,360
Speaker 2: plenty good enough quarterback this year. You know, boring what

889
00:41:42,400 --> 00:41:44,359
Speaker 2: happened last year, obviously there'll be plenty good at quarter

890
00:41:44,560 --> 00:41:47,480
Speaker 2: or good enough quarterback this year. And the infusion of

891
00:41:47,520 --> 00:41:51,880
Speaker 2: that very talented freshman class week over week continues to

892
00:41:51,960 --> 00:41:54,399
Speaker 2: matter more and more on the field. I just don't

893
00:41:54,440 --> 00:41:56,960
Speaker 2: see many scenarios where they finish on ring. In fact,

894
00:41:57,000 --> 00:41:59,279
Speaker 2: I don't see one at all. So I called this one.

895
00:41:59,320 --> 00:42:01,359
Speaker 2: You know what, I'm gonna call it a nine. I'm

896
00:42:01,360 --> 00:42:03,280
Speaker 2: going to call it a nine on the boldness scale.

897
00:42:03,400 --> 00:42:05,560
Speaker 2: That's how confident I am Texas A and M is

898
00:42:05,560 --> 00:42:06,759
Speaker 2: going to finish rank this year.

899
00:42:07,040 --> 00:42:07,879
Speaker 1: There's one more.

900
00:42:08,600 --> 00:42:10,759
Speaker 2: I saved it for last because I really want to

901
00:42:10,800 --> 00:42:15,120
Speaker 2: emphasize this one. Ian suggested Utah is going to the playoffs.

902
00:42:15,440 --> 00:42:18,319
Speaker 2: It's a three for me. I don't even think it's

903
00:42:18,320 --> 00:42:22,360
Speaker 2: that bold. I think it's very possible. What feels guaranteed

904
00:42:22,440 --> 00:42:27,520
Speaker 2: in the playoff picture, what feels guaranteed the sec It

905
00:42:27,600 --> 00:42:30,640
Speaker 2: feels is guaranteed to get a team in Minimum one,

906
00:42:30,960 --> 00:42:34,600
Speaker 2: it feels like the Big ten's guaranteed. But outside of that,

907
00:42:35,239 --> 00:42:38,160
Speaker 2: what does it feel is guaranteed right now, I don't

908
00:42:38,160 --> 00:42:39,200
Speaker 2: really feel like anything.

909
00:42:38,960 --> 00:42:39,800
Speaker 1: Else is guaranteed.

910
00:42:39,920 --> 00:42:41,719
Speaker 2: So my point there, even though it doesn't always work

911
00:42:41,719 --> 00:42:44,640
Speaker 2: out that way, is it feels like the playoff pictures

912
00:42:44,880 --> 00:42:46,920
Speaker 2: kind of wide open. It does not feel like there

913
00:42:46,920 --> 00:42:51,760
Speaker 2: are many seats with already a penciled in conference logo

914
00:42:52,560 --> 00:42:56,200
Speaker 2: in the blank. And so if that's the case, and

915
00:42:56,239 --> 00:42:58,600
Speaker 2: then I look at how Utah ended last season. I

916
00:42:58,640 --> 00:43:00,160
Speaker 2: was reading up a lot and watching some of the

917
00:43:00,239 --> 00:43:03,239
Speaker 2: spring game yesterday. It's gonna be quiet because it's out

918
00:43:03,239 --> 00:43:04,040
Speaker 2: there in Salt Lake City.

919
00:43:04,040 --> 00:43:07,239
Speaker 1: It's Utah. It's not gonna get the headline of a

920
00:43:07,400 --> 00:43:08,759
Speaker 1: USC or an Oklahoma.

921
00:43:09,719 --> 00:43:12,120
Speaker 2: But they got a really good team. They don't have

922
00:43:12,160 --> 00:43:15,600
Speaker 2: any question at quarterback, Cam Rising's back. He didn't even

923
00:43:15,600 --> 00:43:18,200
Speaker 2: hardly scrimmage yesterday. They already feel confident about him. They

924
00:43:18,239 --> 00:43:20,960
Speaker 2: just want to figure out their depth situation. The schedule

925
00:43:21,400 --> 00:43:24,919
Speaker 2: could allow them to lose an early game, and if

926
00:43:24,960 --> 00:43:27,560
Speaker 2: they finish undefeated the rest of the way and win

927
00:43:27,600 --> 00:43:29,400
Speaker 2: the Pac twelve, still be in here. You know, they

928
00:43:29,480 --> 00:43:32,120
Speaker 2: open at Florida. Those of you listening on podcasts can't

929
00:43:32,120 --> 00:43:36,399
Speaker 2: see the schedule here. They open at Florida. I want

930
00:43:36,400 --> 00:43:39,240
Speaker 2: you to think about the hardest games on the schedule.

931
00:43:38,880 --> 00:43:43,239
Speaker 1: At Florida, USC, at home at Oregon. What do all

932
00:43:43,239 --> 00:43:46,280
Speaker 1: those teams have in common. They're all breaking in new staffs.

933
00:43:46,800 --> 00:43:51,200
Speaker 2: So Utah's got a supremely experienced team there. Kyle Whittingham's

934
00:43:51,239 --> 00:43:55,040
Speaker 2: been there for forever. They were perfectly primed to ride

935
00:43:55,120 --> 00:43:57,640
Speaker 2: that wave of late season momentum last year with a

936
00:43:57,680 --> 00:44:00,920
Speaker 2: lot of those key contributors returning into a finish the

937
00:44:01,000 --> 00:44:04,760
Speaker 2: drill type situation this year and all of their toughest games.

938
00:44:05,320 --> 00:44:09,440
Speaker 2: They have that edge on the opposition. They've got consistency,

939
00:44:09,480 --> 00:44:12,480
Speaker 2: they got continuity, and they have on the other side

940
00:44:12,520 --> 00:44:14,879
Speaker 2: none of it. This could very well be a year

941
00:44:15,239 --> 00:44:17,040
Speaker 2: where Utah's there when you can buy what I just

942
00:44:17,040 --> 00:44:19,399
Speaker 2: said with also the fact that doesn't seem like there's

943
00:44:19,440 --> 00:44:22,000
Speaker 2: a lot of certainty. Do you feel like the ACC

944
00:44:22,560 --> 00:44:25,400
Speaker 2: or the Big Twelve are guaranteed playoff spots?

945
00:44:25,600 --> 00:44:27,680
Speaker 1: Do you feel like Notre Dame's gonna look out locked

946
00:44:27,680 --> 00:44:31,200
Speaker 1: down one of those spots. I don't, not.

947
00:44:31,040 --> 00:44:34,680
Speaker 2: Necessarily, SEC could take three spots for all I know,

948
00:44:34,760 --> 00:44:38,799
Speaker 2: But I do know Utah has Here's the word, a

949
00:44:38,920 --> 00:44:43,120
Speaker 2: confluence of events, a confluence of circumstance, if you will

950
00:44:43,520 --> 00:44:46,040
Speaker 2: kind of all coming together to where it does feel

951
00:44:46,080 --> 00:44:49,359
Speaker 2: like if you're gonna make that proclamation, twenty twenty two

952
00:44:49,440 --> 00:44:50,319
Speaker 2: is the time to do it.

953
00:44:51,440 --> 00:44:52,040
Speaker 1: Boldness.

954
00:44:52,080 --> 00:44:54,680
Speaker 2: How bold do you feel that was? We've got like

955
00:44:54,719 --> 00:44:57,880
Speaker 2: one hundred more of them. There is no shortage of

956
00:44:57,920 --> 00:45:00,719
Speaker 2: bold takes from you guys, so we'll probably continue that. Hey,

957
00:45:00,719 --> 00:45:04,480
Speaker 2: they're watching us in Vancouver, British Columbia. They're watching us

958
00:45:04,480 --> 00:45:06,960
Speaker 2: in Kearnie, Nebraska. They're watching us in.

959
00:45:07,000 --> 00:45:08,080
Speaker 1: Lawton, Oklahoma.

960
00:45:08,640 --> 00:45:11,080
Speaker 2: Heard you guys had some interesting weather there yesterday, and

961
00:45:11,080 --> 00:45:13,080
Speaker 2: they're watching us in Southfield, Michigan.

962
00:45:13,120 --> 00:45:14,880
Speaker 1: Wherever you're watching. Thank you so much.

963
00:45:15,920 --> 00:45:18,360
Speaker 2: Let's go to Q and A because we've got we

964
00:45:18,480 --> 00:45:20,839
Speaker 2: got three really good ones here, and they go all

965
00:45:20,840 --> 00:45:22,000
Speaker 2: sorts of different directions.

966
00:45:22,040 --> 00:45:23,280
Speaker 1: I teed this one up earlier.

967
00:45:25,120 --> 00:45:28,080
Speaker 2: I don't like doing these kind of segments, but you ask,

968
00:45:28,360 --> 00:45:31,960
Speaker 2: so we're going to do it. Here we go Brad

969
00:45:32,640 --> 00:45:35,440
Speaker 2: with the question of the year in the last decade,

970
00:45:35,480 --> 00:45:39,800
Speaker 2: which university has made the worst coaching hire. I could

971
00:45:39,800 --> 00:45:42,640
Speaker 2: not narrow it down to one, so I'm going four.

972
00:45:43,320 --> 00:45:45,400
Speaker 2: But I put it out there to you guys on Twitter,

973
00:45:45,800 --> 00:45:48,640
Speaker 2: and boy, I think by a ten to one margin

974
00:45:49,600 --> 00:45:52,600
Speaker 2: there was one name that really carried the day, and

975
00:45:52,640 --> 00:45:56,799
Speaker 2: that was Chad Morris at Arkansas Dark dark Times. I'm

976
00:45:56,800 --> 00:45:58,640
Speaker 2: going to read a list of teams here and then

977
00:45:58,680 --> 00:46:00,000
Speaker 2: I'm going to tell you what they all have in common.

978
00:46:00,000 --> 00:46:09,400
Speaker 2: One Colorado State, North Texas, Vanderbilt, San Jose State, Western Kentucky.

979
00:46:10,920 --> 00:46:16,040
Speaker 2: That is not a preseason basketball tournament in Maui. Those

980
00:46:16,280 --> 00:46:19,640
Speaker 2: are the teams that Chad Morris found a way to

981
00:46:19,680 --> 00:46:22,640
Speaker 2: lose to in the span of two seasons. Less than

982
00:46:22,719 --> 00:46:25,480
Speaker 2: two seasons. Really, it wasn't even there the whole second season.

983
00:46:25,920 --> 00:46:30,320
Speaker 2: Colorado State, North Texas, Vandy, San Jose State, Western Kentucky.

984
00:46:30,520 --> 00:46:32,680
Speaker 1: This was a four and twenty stretch.

985
00:46:33,080 --> 00:46:36,719
Speaker 2: This was again a dark dark time in the annals

986
00:46:36,760 --> 00:46:41,400
Speaker 2: of Razorback football history. It's something they've tried to forget. However,

987
00:46:41,719 --> 00:46:44,560
Speaker 2: got to give them credit. I think a lot of them.

988
00:46:44,719 --> 00:46:47,080
Speaker 2: If you're sitting there in Fort Smith tonight and you're watching,

989
00:46:47,120 --> 00:46:49,680
Speaker 2: and I know you are, if I were to ask you,

990
00:46:49,920 --> 00:46:52,560
Speaker 2: would you change the past given what you have now?

991
00:46:52,960 --> 00:46:55,960
Speaker 1: I don't think they would. Given what they have now.

992
00:46:56,000 --> 00:46:58,600
Speaker 2: It's easy to say now that you've got the benefit

993
00:46:58,640 --> 00:47:00,600
Speaker 2: of hindsight and you know that going through that led

994
00:47:00,640 --> 00:47:02,920
Speaker 2: you to Sam Pittman, which leads you to what you're

995
00:47:02,960 --> 00:47:04,640
Speaker 2: gonna put on the field this year and beyond.

996
00:47:05,200 --> 00:47:07,840
Speaker 1: But boy, it was tough.

997
00:47:08,000 --> 00:47:09,920
Speaker 2: But when I went to the Arkansas A and M

998
00:47:09,960 --> 00:47:12,799
Speaker 2: game last year and it was just a regular season game,

999
00:47:12,960 --> 00:47:15,360
Speaker 2: that's how a casual would frame it, just a regular

1000
00:47:15,360 --> 00:47:18,240
Speaker 2: season game. They beat A and M, and those players

1001
00:47:18,239 --> 00:47:20,960
Speaker 2: are on the field crying. It wouldn't have made sense

1002
00:47:21,000 --> 00:47:24,279
Speaker 2: to a casual. But when you realized that a lot

1003
00:47:24,280 --> 00:47:27,200
Speaker 2: of those seniors had been around for Colorado State and

1004
00:47:27,239 --> 00:47:29,840
Speaker 2: North Texas, Vandy, San Jose State and Western Kentucky, and

1005
00:47:29,840 --> 00:47:32,000
Speaker 2: all of a sudden, they're beaten ranked teams. All of

1006
00:47:32,040 --> 00:47:33,960
Speaker 2: a sudden, they're beating teams they had no business even

1007
00:47:34,000 --> 00:47:36,960
Speaker 2: competing against a couple of years ago. Then you realize

1008
00:47:37,480 --> 00:47:42,080
Speaker 2: the origins of those tiers. Yeah, so it was a

1009
00:47:42,160 --> 00:47:43,960
Speaker 2: clear win, if you want to call it that for

1010
00:47:44,080 --> 00:47:48,080
Speaker 2: Chad Morris. Next up, not too far behind, Willy Taggart

1011
00:47:48,120 --> 00:47:48,919
Speaker 2: at Florida State.

1012
00:47:49,600 --> 00:47:51,000
Speaker 1: Miami was vulnerable.

1013
00:47:51,880 --> 00:47:55,280
Speaker 2: Florida for that matter, was vulnerable, and Willy Taggert lasted

1014
00:47:55,280 --> 00:47:55,840
Speaker 2: two years.

1015
00:47:56,360 --> 00:47:58,480
Speaker 1: There were some people who claimed Florida State pulled the

1016
00:47:58,480 --> 00:47:59,320
Speaker 1: trigger too early.

1017
00:47:59,640 --> 00:48:02,480
Speaker 2: Now I had a pretty good connection down there at

1018
00:48:02,480 --> 00:48:05,680
Speaker 2: the time. So what was disseminated to me when I

1019
00:48:05,719 --> 00:48:07,239
Speaker 2: suggested that because I said the same thing.

1020
00:48:07,280 --> 00:48:09,279
Speaker 1: I said, wow, I mean, I know it hadn't been good,

1021
00:48:09,280 --> 00:48:10,600
Speaker 1: but it's two years.

1022
00:48:10,920 --> 00:48:14,400
Speaker 2: The guy said, trust me, it's got to happen. And

1023
00:48:14,440 --> 00:48:18,040
Speaker 2: what he was saying was internally, we see what maybe

1024
00:48:18,080 --> 00:48:19,399
Speaker 2: even you can't see out there.

1025
00:48:19,480 --> 00:48:22,120
Speaker 1: There's no shot. It's disarray. It's not going to happen.

1026
00:48:22,280 --> 00:48:22,760
Speaker 1: No shot.

1027
00:48:23,600 --> 00:48:25,320
Speaker 2: And there were a lot of people around that Florida

1028
00:48:25,320 --> 00:48:27,960
Speaker 2: State program that we're looking around saying, look at Miami,

1029
00:48:28,160 --> 00:48:30,319
Speaker 2: like they're just so vulnerable down there and we're not

1030
00:48:30,360 --> 00:48:33,279
Speaker 2: pulling away. Look at Florida, they're vulnerable. We should be

1031
00:48:33,280 --> 00:48:36,200
Speaker 2: taken over the state and we're not. And there's this

1032
00:48:36,239 --> 00:48:39,040
Speaker 2: team in Clemson and we can barely see him anymore.

1033
00:48:39,040 --> 00:48:42,279
Speaker 2: Like they've distanced themselves so much from us. And that

1034
00:48:42,320 --> 00:48:46,560
Speaker 2: administration looked around and said, is there do we see

1035
00:48:46,600 --> 00:48:49,000
Speaker 2: any scenario where this guy ends up being the guy?

1036
00:48:49,280 --> 00:48:52,120
Speaker 2: Their answer was no, So they fired him after twenty

1037
00:48:52,160 --> 00:48:56,880
Speaker 2: one games, they fired him, and now they have Mike Norvel.

1038
00:48:57,200 --> 00:48:59,400
Speaker 2: Now I don't know that Florida State fans would is

1039
00:48:59,480 --> 00:49:03,600
Speaker 2: confident tell you as Arkansas fans would. Hey, I wouldn't

1040
00:49:03,680 --> 00:49:05,440
Speaker 2: change a thing if I could go back. Now, they're

1041
00:49:05,480 --> 00:49:07,400
Speaker 2: not at that point with Norvelli yet, hopefully for their

1042
00:49:07,440 --> 00:49:09,520
Speaker 2: sake they will be. But they are glad to be

1043
00:49:09,560 --> 00:49:11,839
Speaker 2: out of that Willy Taggart era. I can promise you

1044
00:49:11,840 --> 00:49:14,960
Speaker 2: that based on feedback we got the third one is

1045
00:49:15,120 --> 00:49:18,920
Speaker 2: less miles at Kansas. This is one that on the

1046
00:49:19,000 --> 00:49:22,040
Speaker 2: very very very tippy top surface looked like a home

1047
00:49:22,120 --> 00:49:25,720
Speaker 2: run higher when Jeff Long pulled the trigger there. And

1048
00:49:25,840 --> 00:49:29,440
Speaker 2: then the problem was the games had to happen. Now,

1049
00:49:29,440 --> 00:49:32,000
Speaker 2: this was a program that had not won more than

1050
00:49:32,040 --> 00:49:35,200
Speaker 2: three games since nine the latter portion of the Mark

1051
00:49:35,280 --> 00:49:40,240
Speaker 2: Mangino era for a comparative reference there, So it wasn't

1052
00:49:40,400 --> 00:49:44,280
Speaker 2: that the expectations were sky high. But you figured to yourself,

1053
00:49:44,520 --> 00:49:47,520
Speaker 2: a guy who has won a championship and who comes

1054
00:49:47,560 --> 00:49:48,360
Speaker 2: from the.

1055
00:49:48,200 --> 00:49:49,800
Speaker 1: SEC the SEC West.

1056
00:49:50,000 --> 00:49:52,520
Speaker 2: This guy's gone up against Nick Saban and been very competitive,

1057
00:49:52,520 --> 00:49:54,719
Speaker 2: even though they kept landing on the wrong side of

1058
00:49:54,719 --> 00:49:57,160
Speaker 2: the equation. There's a lot of one possession games they

1059
00:49:57,200 --> 00:49:59,640
Speaker 2: played against Maama. You figured, surely this guy will come

1060
00:49:59,680 --> 00:50:03,040
Speaker 2: in and at least we'll see some kind of uptick.

1061
00:50:03,160 --> 00:50:05,600
Speaker 2: But if I were to take the years since nine,

1062
00:50:06,120 --> 00:50:08,640
Speaker 2: including the Miles years, and just jumble them all together,

1063
00:50:08,880 --> 00:50:10,839
Speaker 2: you wouldn't be able to pick out the less Miles years.

1064
00:50:10,880 --> 00:50:13,120
Speaker 2: He was never even a blip on the radar screen

1065
00:50:13,200 --> 00:50:16,280
Speaker 2: in the positive direction, But boy was he a blip

1066
00:50:16,280 --> 00:50:19,000
Speaker 2: in the negative direction, because as it turns out, that

1067
00:50:19,120 --> 00:50:22,560
Speaker 2: old due diligence, that old vetting process that's supposed to

1068
00:50:22,560 --> 00:50:26,480
Speaker 2: happen during the hire didn't really happen to the degree

1069
00:50:26,480 --> 00:50:28,720
Speaker 2: it needed to, and so Kansas got none of the good,

1070
00:50:29,280 --> 00:50:31,279
Speaker 2: you know, wins and stuff, but they.

1071
00:50:31,200 --> 00:50:32,000
Speaker 1: Got a lot of the bad.

1072
00:50:32,120 --> 00:50:34,279
Speaker 2: So that's in the past now. And the fourth one

1073
00:50:34,400 --> 00:50:37,000
Speaker 2: way off the radar. But boy, once this one was

1074
00:50:37,000 --> 00:50:38,920
Speaker 2: brought up to me, I had to go back and

1075
00:50:39,120 --> 00:50:42,760
Speaker 2: do a little review. Where were you in twenty eleven

1076
00:50:44,360 --> 00:50:46,799
Speaker 2: because Southern Myths was busy going twelve and two in

1077
00:50:46,840 --> 00:50:49,800
Speaker 2: winning Conference USA. But you want to know what happened

1078
00:50:49,840 --> 00:50:53,359
Speaker 2: after that? What happened after that is head coach gets

1079
00:50:53,400 --> 00:50:56,400
Speaker 2: hired away, and therefore you got to make a replacement

1080
00:50:56,520 --> 00:51:01,640
Speaker 2: higher and so they went with Elis J. Johnson at

1081
00:51:01,840 --> 00:51:05,000
Speaker 2: Southern Miss. And I don't to this day know how

1082
00:51:05,040 --> 00:51:09,200
Speaker 2: this is possible, but Southern Miss went from twelve and

1083
00:51:09,360 --> 00:51:14,239
Speaker 2: two winning Conference USA to oh and twelve over the

1084
00:51:14,239 --> 00:51:17,879
Speaker 2: span of one calendar year. It was abysmal, they would

1085
00:51:17,960 --> 00:51:21,000
Speaker 2: argue in Hattiesburg. They still haven't recovered they had. I

1086
00:51:21,040 --> 00:51:22,759
Speaker 2: think I wrote it down. They had one nine win

1087
00:51:22,800 --> 00:51:24,479
Speaker 2: season under Monk and they had an eight win season

1088
00:51:24,520 --> 00:51:28,000
Speaker 2: under Hopson. They really have not gotten back to the

1089
00:51:28,080 --> 00:51:31,480
Speaker 2: heights that they were under they were at right before

1090
00:51:31,480 --> 00:51:35,720
Speaker 2: Elis Johnson got there, twelve and two to oh and twelve.

1091
00:51:36,560 --> 00:51:39,120
Speaker 2: That's tough to do. That is tough to pull off.

1092
00:51:39,120 --> 00:51:43,319
Speaker 2: But they pulled it off eighteen straight winning seasons before that,

1093
00:51:43,400 --> 00:51:46,239
Speaker 2: and then all of a sudden a goose egg just

1094
00:51:46,440 --> 00:51:48,279
Speaker 2: ghosted them entirely, not a single win.

1095
00:51:48,480 --> 00:51:50,000
Speaker 1: So the under did hit that year.

1096
00:51:50,360 --> 00:51:52,800
Speaker 2: Those were the four Chad Morris, Willie tagart, Les Miles

1097
00:51:53,120 --> 00:51:56,680
Speaker 2: Ellis Johnson, the runaway winners, as it turns out in

1098
00:51:56,680 --> 00:52:01,200
Speaker 2: that little derby. Next up, let's go with a question

1099
00:52:01,320 --> 00:52:04,400
Speaker 2: that drew some ire from some people. I don't know why.

1100
00:52:04,520 --> 00:52:07,400
Speaker 2: It's just a depth chart question. Our buddies at college

1101
00:52:07,440 --> 00:52:09,960
Speaker 2: football nerds. I think maybe both of them asked. At

1102
00:52:10,040 --> 00:52:12,640
Speaker 2: least one asked because I care about the cut ups.

1103
00:52:12,680 --> 00:52:13,000
Speaker 1: Thank you?

1104
00:52:13,320 --> 00:52:16,600
Speaker 2: Which good team or teams are one injury away from

1105
00:52:16,640 --> 00:52:20,319
Speaker 2: a disaster season. Some of you thought that this was

1106
00:52:20,440 --> 00:52:22,160
Speaker 2: glorifying or predicting injury.

1107
00:52:22,280 --> 00:52:22,640
Speaker 1: It's not.

1108
00:52:23,000 --> 00:52:25,160
Speaker 2: It's just a depth chart question. I came up with

1109
00:52:25,200 --> 00:52:28,440
Speaker 2: four of them. Number one the Florida Gators. If Anthony

1110
00:52:28,520 --> 00:52:32,920
Speaker 2: Richardson goes down, their season goes down. I think some

1111
00:52:33,000 --> 00:52:36,560
Speaker 2: of you are, if you followed the program, probably yelling

1112
00:52:36,560 --> 00:52:38,560
Speaker 2: at your phone or you're yelling at your computer right now.

1113
00:52:38,640 --> 00:52:41,880
Speaker 1: Uhh, we got Jack Miller. I know you do. I

1114
00:52:41,920 --> 00:52:42,840
Speaker 1: said what I said.

1115
00:52:43,200 --> 00:52:46,000
Speaker 2: So if that leads you to believe I don't believe

1116
00:52:46,000 --> 00:52:48,759
Speaker 2: in Jack Miller, then you wouldn't be too far from reality. No,

1117
00:52:48,880 --> 00:52:51,120
Speaker 2: he hasn't shown me anything or I haven't heard anything

1118
00:52:51,400 --> 00:52:53,680
Speaker 2: about Jack Miller that would lead me to believe that

1119
00:52:53,719 --> 00:52:57,239
Speaker 2: Ohio State Transfer is ready to seamlessly pick up the

1120
00:52:57,239 --> 00:53:01,319
Speaker 2: baton if Anthony Richardson drops it down there they are

1121
00:53:01,440 --> 00:53:04,680
Speaker 2: going to have to lean so heavily on quarterback, and

1122
00:53:04,719 --> 00:53:07,279
Speaker 2: I mean more than other programs. They do not, like

1123
00:53:07,320 --> 00:53:10,080
Speaker 2: I said about fifteen minutes ago, have the supporting cast

1124
00:53:10,360 --> 00:53:13,239
Speaker 2: around the quarterback position this year, like you need to

1125
00:53:13,440 --> 00:53:16,560
Speaker 2: take over games unless the quarterback is an alpha type

1126
00:53:16,560 --> 00:53:18,920
Speaker 2: that can take over games. Richardson is that no one

1127
00:53:18,920 --> 00:53:22,040
Speaker 2: else on that roster is Florida badly needs him. Number

1128
00:53:22,080 --> 00:53:26,600
Speaker 2: two just watched him in action yesterday. Oklahoma quarterback Dylan Gabriel.

1129
00:53:26,719 --> 00:53:30,000
Speaker 2: Oklahoma suffice it to say, needs him.

1130
00:53:29,840 --> 00:53:31,040
Speaker 1: To stay healthy.

1131
00:53:31,080 --> 00:53:33,200
Speaker 2: This is what happens when you miss out in the

1132
00:53:33,200 --> 00:53:36,839
Speaker 2: transfer portal. They were in it for Jackson Dart. Dart

1133
00:53:36,880 --> 00:53:39,600
Speaker 2: ends up going to Old Miss. They need Dylan Gabriel

1134
00:53:39,640 --> 00:53:41,880
Speaker 2: to stay healthy. And it just kind of is what

1135
00:53:41,920 --> 00:53:44,360
Speaker 2: it is. It's a new staff, so it is what

1136
00:53:44,400 --> 00:53:48,040
Speaker 2: it is. But the proper perspective here is not I

1137
00:53:48,040 --> 00:53:50,040
Speaker 2: think to look and say, man, we don't have much

1138
00:53:50,080 --> 00:53:54,120
Speaker 2: behind him at quarterback. The proper perspective, knowing how you

1139
00:53:54,200 --> 00:53:57,319
Speaker 2: got Dylan Gabriel, is saying, wow, what.

1140
00:53:57,239 --> 00:53:58,480
Speaker 1: Would happen if he wasn't here?

1141
00:53:58,680 --> 00:54:02,319
Speaker 2: Because remember that cat was at UCF and transferred to

1142
00:54:02,400 --> 00:54:04,840
Speaker 2: UCLA for I think like thirteen and a half minutes

1143
00:54:05,280 --> 00:54:09,920
Speaker 2: and then reported, which is a new term to Norman.

1144
00:54:10,040 --> 00:54:12,399
Speaker 2: If he wasn't there and you missed out on Dart,

1145
00:54:12,440 --> 00:54:13,960
Speaker 2: maybe you wouldn't have missed out on Dart if you

1146
00:54:14,040 --> 00:54:16,399
Speaker 2: wasn't there. But boy, if Dylan Gabriel wasn't here, it'd

1147
00:54:16,440 --> 00:54:18,520
Speaker 2: be a much different tune they were singing out in

1148
00:54:18,520 --> 00:54:21,960
Speaker 2: Oklahoma yesterday. What about Clemson. It's not the quarterback position.

1149
00:54:22,200 --> 00:54:24,600
Speaker 2: I went with the wide receiver position. You could say

1150
00:54:24,920 --> 00:54:27,120
Speaker 2: in Gatta, you can say just fin gotta, but I

1151
00:54:27,200 --> 00:54:31,799
Speaker 2: just I said wide receiver position in general, because last year,

1152
00:54:32,960 --> 00:54:36,520
Speaker 2: if you opened up the Clemson toolbox. In a toolbox,

1153
00:54:36,560 --> 00:54:38,200
Speaker 2: you're supposed to have a bunch of tools. It just

1154
00:54:38,200 --> 00:54:40,640
Speaker 2: felt like they had nineteen hammers. I went to the

1155
00:54:40,640 --> 00:54:43,799
Speaker 2: Georgia game, walking around on the field pregame, and I'm

1156
00:54:43,800 --> 00:54:46,239
Speaker 2: watching their wide receivers warm up, and every one of

1157
00:54:46,280 --> 00:54:48,080
Speaker 2: them are like six three, two hundred and ten pounds.

1158
00:54:48,080 --> 00:54:52,480
Speaker 2: They're just all the same. They're immensely impressive to look at. Physically.

1159
00:54:52,800 --> 00:54:54,440
Speaker 1: The problem is not a one of them could get

1160
00:54:54,440 --> 00:54:57,439
Speaker 1: open because they all are the same. They look the same,

1161
00:54:57,440 --> 00:54:59,640
Speaker 1: they're run the same. There's no versatility in the room.

1162
00:54:59,680 --> 00:55:02,960
Speaker 2: It's now thing like the rooms of twenty fifteen, sixteen,

1163
00:55:03,000 --> 00:55:05,879
Speaker 2: seventeen eighteen. It's not that it wasn't that last year.

1164
00:55:06,239 --> 00:55:09,200
Speaker 2: I strongly questioned whether it will be this year. But

1165
00:55:10,560 --> 00:55:13,520
Speaker 2: they certainly can't afford injury. That's something Dabo talked about

1166
00:55:13,560 --> 00:55:15,360
Speaker 2: in the spring. They're at work in progress at that

1167
00:55:15,400 --> 00:55:19,640
Speaker 2: receiver You know, they always talk about the next Hunter

1168
00:55:19,719 --> 00:55:22,480
Speaker 2: Renfro up there, and it's gonna be that way for

1169
00:55:22,520 --> 00:55:24,360
Speaker 2: a long time. Clemson is not the only program that

1170
00:55:24,360 --> 00:55:27,680
Speaker 2: does that. But Brandon Spector is a guy who they're

1171
00:55:27,719 --> 00:55:31,879
Speaker 2: asking right now whether he's the next Hunter Renfro. I'm

1172
00:55:31,880 --> 00:55:33,920
Speaker 2: gonna give you a short answer. I don't think he is,

1173
00:55:34,719 --> 00:55:37,680
Speaker 2: only because if I dropped Hunter Renfro on this team,

1174
00:55:38,040 --> 00:55:40,880
Speaker 2: I don't quite think Hunter Renfro could do statistically what

1175
00:55:40,960 --> 00:55:41,759
Speaker 2: he did back in the day.

1176
00:55:41,800 --> 00:55:44,080
Speaker 1: He'd still be good. I understand that.

1177
00:55:44,560 --> 00:55:46,839
Speaker 2: But Hunter Renfro worked off a lot of the other

1178
00:55:46,920 --> 00:55:50,040
Speaker 2: talent in that receiver room, talent the likes of which

1179
00:55:50,360 --> 00:55:52,759
Speaker 2: they don't really have on this team right now. And

1180
00:55:52,840 --> 00:55:55,320
Speaker 2: so having said that, they certainly can't afford any injury

1181
00:55:55,320 --> 00:55:59,520
Speaker 2: in that room. And lastly, what about Notre Dame. Tyler

1182
00:55:59,560 --> 00:56:02,200
Speaker 2: Butner is already hurt. That's why I had to miss

1183
00:56:02,200 --> 00:56:06,200
Speaker 2: the spring game yesterday. Twisted his ankle on stairs. Install ramps.

1184
00:56:06,640 --> 00:56:10,640
Speaker 2: Take my advice, just install the ramps. But if he

1185
00:56:10,920 --> 00:56:14,040
Speaker 2: were to go down, essentially you would get what you saw.

1186
00:56:14,160 --> 00:56:16,120
Speaker 2: Notre Dame spring game yesterday. I didn't really talk a

1187
00:56:16,160 --> 00:56:18,040
Speaker 2: whole lot about it because it wasn't much to write

1188
00:56:18,040 --> 00:56:20,560
Speaker 2: home about because the starting quarterback wasn't able to play.

1189
00:56:21,040 --> 00:56:26,520
Speaker 2: Drew Pine is a serviceable backup, he is not, in

1190
00:56:26,560 --> 00:56:32,359
Speaker 2: my estimation, a high level Power five caliber quarterback, and

1191
00:56:32,400 --> 00:56:33,880
Speaker 2: so absent Tyler Buttner.

1192
00:56:33,880 --> 00:56:35,960
Speaker 1: And it's not that he's a guaranteed commodity this year.

1193
00:56:36,000 --> 00:56:38,560
Speaker 2: There's a lot of high hope for him, but absent him,

1194
00:56:38,840 --> 00:56:41,840
Speaker 2: you know, Notre Dame goes from being a team that

1195
00:56:41,960 --> 00:56:44,799
Speaker 2: could be a fringe contender if everything fell right, to

1196
00:56:44,920 --> 00:56:46,960
Speaker 2: being a team that's looking at an eight win season

1197
00:56:47,800 --> 00:56:52,280
Speaker 2: probably max. So those are some of the programs I circled.

1198
00:56:52,320 --> 00:56:55,520
Speaker 2: You could go to Arkansas on kJ Jefferson. I do

1199
00:56:55,600 --> 00:56:59,279
Speaker 2: not think Alabama fits this description because I think if

1200
00:56:59,320 --> 00:57:03,520
Speaker 2: Bryce Young were to retire from football today, Jalen Milroe

1201
00:57:03,560 --> 00:57:04,880
Speaker 2: could probably lead them.

1202
00:57:04,760 --> 00:57:07,960
Speaker 1: To the SEC Championship game. That's how good I think the.

1203
00:57:07,960 --> 00:57:10,680
Speaker 2: Quarterback situation is right now, and how good I think

1204
00:57:10,719 --> 00:57:13,279
Speaker 2: his surrounding in supporting cast is, and how good I

1205
00:57:13,280 --> 00:57:14,799
Speaker 2: think their past rush will be this year. I don't

1206
00:57:14,800 --> 00:57:16,960
Speaker 2: think Maam's going to need forty plus every game to

1207
00:57:16,960 --> 00:57:17,480
Speaker 2: win I'll.

1208
00:57:17,320 --> 00:57:18,040
Speaker 1: Put it to you that way.

1209
00:57:18,360 --> 00:57:23,480
Speaker 2: Last question here, it's a good one. Nathan asked which

1210
00:57:23,560 --> 00:57:26,480
Speaker 2: one team from each conference could be a dark horse

1211
00:57:26,640 --> 00:57:31,200
Speaker 2: candidate this year for their conference, and maybe candidates that

1212
00:57:31,280 --> 00:57:34,560
Speaker 2: aren't normally mentioned. So no Penn State types that are

1213
00:57:34,560 --> 00:57:37,040
Speaker 2: a dark horse every year? Is that a compliment to

1214
00:57:37,040 --> 00:57:39,720
Speaker 2: Penn State? Nathan, I'll let you answer that. Let's start

1215
00:57:39,720 --> 00:57:41,760
Speaker 2: in the SEC. I'm going to go ole Miss. Then,

1216
00:57:41,800 --> 00:57:45,120
Speaker 2: since you say I can't use the regulars ole Miss,

1217
00:57:45,160 --> 00:57:46,680
Speaker 2: some of you may think, oh, they are a regular.

1218
00:57:46,720 --> 00:57:50,160
Speaker 2: Everyone always mentions them. Do they know?

1219
00:57:50,640 --> 00:57:50,919
Speaker 1: I don't.

1220
00:57:50,960 --> 00:57:52,760
Speaker 2: I think a lot of people are gonna mention Tennessee.

1221
00:57:53,720 --> 00:57:55,400
Speaker 2: A lot of folks will get caught up on an

1222
00:57:55,520 --> 00:57:57,080
Speaker 2: m I don't hear a lot of folks talking about

1223
00:57:57,080 --> 00:58:00,560
Speaker 2: Old Miss. You should, though, for reasons we've mentioned several times.

1224
00:58:00,600 --> 00:58:02,680
Speaker 2: I don't need to go down the list again. They

1225
00:58:02,680 --> 00:58:04,800
Speaker 2: get Bama at home with a bye week before they

1226
00:58:04,800 --> 00:58:07,360
Speaker 2: play Bama. It's later in November. We talked about that

1227
00:58:07,440 --> 00:58:10,720
Speaker 2: game the other night. But also they hit on quarterback

1228
00:58:10,760 --> 00:58:13,920
Speaker 2: in the transfer portal. It's just one little point, but

1229
00:58:14,000 --> 00:58:16,160
Speaker 2: yet it's a point you really need to yell, because

1230
00:58:16,200 --> 00:58:18,680
Speaker 2: when you do that you've probably changed the outcome of

1231
00:58:18,720 --> 00:58:22,959
Speaker 2: multiple games on your upcoming schedule. And if that wasn't

1232
00:58:23,040 --> 00:58:25,240
Speaker 2: enough for you, they hit on pretty much every other

1233
00:58:25,280 --> 00:58:26,400
Speaker 2: position in the portal, too so.

1234
00:58:26,400 --> 00:58:27,800
Speaker 1: Ole miss easily.

1235
00:58:27,840 --> 00:58:30,280
Speaker 2: If you tell me to take a non usual dark

1236
00:58:30,280 --> 00:58:33,760
Speaker 2: horse in the SEC, is my team in the Big ten?

1237
00:58:33,880 --> 00:58:35,520
Speaker 2: Now we're gonna get a little crooked. You're gonna have

1238
00:58:35,520 --> 00:58:38,160
Speaker 2: to listen to me closely. I'm going with Purdue, the

1239
00:58:38,200 --> 00:58:41,000
Speaker 2: Purdue boiler Makers. Did you know they went nine and

1240
00:58:41,080 --> 00:58:43,560
Speaker 2: four last year? I don't think many of you did.

1241
00:58:43,560 --> 00:58:46,360
Speaker 2: I'm looking around the studio. Not a hand is raised.

1242
00:58:46,640 --> 00:58:48,560
Speaker 2: They went nine and four? Was that not like the

1243
00:58:48,680 --> 00:58:51,080
Speaker 2: quietest nine and four you've ever heard? Now, they're in

1244
00:58:51,120 --> 00:58:55,280
Speaker 2: the West, which is like a permanently wide open division.

1245
00:58:56,120 --> 00:58:58,400
Speaker 2: But think about this, we're looking at their schedule. Here,

1246
00:59:00,000 --> 00:59:03,360
Speaker 2: we're in the West, and I tell you you're going

1247
00:59:03,400 --> 00:59:09,760
Speaker 2: to avoid Ohio State, Michigan, Michigan State, and you're going

1248
00:59:09,840 --> 00:59:13,600
Speaker 2: to open with Penn State. That's about as fartuitous a

1249
00:59:13,600 --> 00:59:16,080
Speaker 2: bounce of the scheduling pen or ball or whatever you

1250
00:59:16,080 --> 00:59:18,200
Speaker 2: make it schedule with as you could possibly have.

1251
00:59:18,640 --> 00:59:19,640
Speaker 1: And so they've got that.

1252
00:59:20,040 --> 00:59:24,160
Speaker 2: They've you know, they've they've improved every year under Brahm

1253
00:59:24,280 --> 00:59:27,400
Speaker 2: since he's been there. They had a couple of big

1254
00:59:27,520 --> 00:59:30,720
Speaker 2: NFL departures. But the thing about it is those guys

1255
00:59:30,720 --> 00:59:33,160
Speaker 2: didn't play in the bowl game against Tennessee and they

1256
00:59:33,200 --> 00:59:35,680
Speaker 2: still found a way to beat Tennessee. So they're going

1257
00:59:35,760 --> 00:59:38,320
Speaker 2: to be a very competitive team this year, and like

1258
00:59:38,360 --> 00:59:41,880
Speaker 2: I just said, with the schedule, anything could happen. Moving

1259
00:59:41,920 --> 00:59:48,400
Speaker 2: on in the ACC, North Carolina State, which if you

1260
00:59:48,520 --> 00:59:51,720
Speaker 2: follow the ACC closely, is not a dark horse to you.

1261
00:59:51,760 --> 00:59:55,200
Speaker 2: They're just an outright contender. But the question was nationally

1262
00:59:55,840 --> 00:59:59,320
Speaker 2: and nationally, if it's not Clemson, people are going to

1263
00:59:59,400 --> 01:00:01,360
Speaker 2: go with either pit or they're just going to take

1264
01:00:01,360 --> 01:00:03,520
Speaker 2: a flyer on Miami. A lot of people aren't talking

1265
01:00:03,560 --> 01:00:06,960
Speaker 2: about North Carolina State. Of course they should be. We

1266
01:00:07,000 --> 01:00:10,640
Speaker 2: should be as well. But Devin Leary and wide receiver

1267
01:00:10,760 --> 01:00:15,080
Speaker 2: depth will be two reasons why maybe from fifty thousand.

1268
01:00:14,720 --> 01:00:16,800
Speaker 1: Feet you look at that team and you like that team.

1269
01:00:17,440 --> 01:00:19,720
Speaker 2: But let me fill you in on another little secret.

1270
01:00:20,120 --> 01:00:23,600
Speaker 2: This could be the defense most qualified to take over

1271
01:00:23,720 --> 01:00:26,919
Speaker 2: games in the entire Atlantic Coast Conference North Carolina State.

1272
01:00:27,080 --> 01:00:28,960
Speaker 2: As you're looking at their schedule there there'll be a

1273
01:00:28,960 --> 01:00:32,000
Speaker 2: couple of them this year they win and it's just

1274
01:00:32,040 --> 01:00:37,120
Speaker 2: a total complete like circa nineteen eighty slugfest, and you're

1275
01:00:37,160 --> 01:00:40,600
Speaker 2: watching those Zeros on the clock in the fourth quarter

1276
01:00:40,600 --> 01:00:43,160
Speaker 2: and you're saying, wow, like that defense just flat out

1277
01:00:43,200 --> 01:00:46,240
Speaker 2: one this game, like that's a nineteen to seventeen winner

1278
01:00:46,360 --> 01:00:49,600
Speaker 2: at some point this year n C State. How about

1279
01:00:49,600 --> 01:00:54,960
Speaker 2: in the Pac twelve Oregon State the Beavers, which.

1280
01:00:54,800 --> 01:00:56,280
Speaker 1: I don't think is a team we've talked about in

1281
01:00:56,360 --> 01:00:56,920
Speaker 1: quite a while.

1282
01:00:57,520 --> 01:01:00,160
Speaker 2: They were quiet seven and six last year, and they

1283
01:01:00,160 --> 01:01:02,800
Speaker 2: didn't really lose any games by blowouts. A couple of

1284
01:01:02,800 --> 01:01:05,000
Speaker 2: two possession losses, but they didn't really get blown out

1285
01:01:05,040 --> 01:01:07,480
Speaker 2: last year. It's a really good defensive group. They just

1286
01:01:07,480 --> 01:01:10,200
Speaker 2: wrapped up spring. Trent Bray wants you to pay attention

1287
01:01:10,240 --> 01:01:12,439
Speaker 2: to that name. He's the first year defensive coordinator out there.

1288
01:01:12,680 --> 01:01:16,120
Speaker 2: They like him, people around the program like him. It's

1289
01:01:16,120 --> 01:01:18,720
Speaker 2: not a name that's well known nationally. But keep an

1290
01:01:18,760 --> 01:01:20,840
Speaker 2: eye there and keep an eye on their offensive line.

1291
01:01:20,840 --> 01:01:22,920
Speaker 2: If you're looking at position groups to pay attention to

1292
01:01:22,960 --> 01:01:26,439
Speaker 2: in the Pac twelve, they've got a dependable one through

1293
01:01:26,480 --> 01:01:29,400
Speaker 2: five behind that you look in my hand because a

1294
01:01:29,400 --> 01:01:31,880
Speaker 2: little shaky, So if they were to be able to

1295
01:01:31,920 --> 01:01:33,480
Speaker 2: keep help along the offensive line.

1296
01:01:34,080 --> 01:01:35,920
Speaker 1: That's a team that could make some noise there.

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Speaker 2: Of course, I mean they've got to play a tough schedule,

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Speaker 2: but just a team to watch.

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Speaker 1: You wanted a dark horse.

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Speaker 2: And lastly, in the Big Twelve, I'm going to go

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Speaker 2: to Kansas State. Kansas State's probably gonna be a little

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01:01:47,400 --> 01:01:50,520
Speaker 2: trendier pick as the season draws closer, but I will

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Speaker 2: take a flyer on a young man that many a

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Speaker 2: college football fan would dissuade you from taking a flyer on,

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Speaker 2: and that's Adrian Martinez. If you added up Adrian Martinez

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Speaker 2: and Sean Clifford, you would get a one hundred year

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01:02:04,160 --> 01:02:06,760
Speaker 2: old man, and yet one of them starting at quarterback

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Speaker 2: for Kansas State and one of them starting at quarterback

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01:02:08,600 --> 01:02:10,960
Speaker 2: for Penn State. They've just they are at this point,

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Speaker 2: legacy players in college football. Lifetime Achievement Awards for Shan

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Speaker 2: Clifford and Adrian Martinez. I'm pretty sure one of them

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Speaker 2: has a grandkid already. Adrian Martinez, he was at Nebraska,

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Speaker 2: you remember, well, now he's transferred here. Look, there are

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Speaker 2: some people who will tell you don't waste your time,

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01:02:28,280 --> 01:02:31,040
Speaker 2: but there listen to be honest, I've only had one

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Speaker 2: person tell me this, but it's a person I trust

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Speaker 2: has suggested. You know, he's actually a pretty good fit

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Speaker 2: for what they want to do there.

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Speaker 1: Okay, say no more.

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Speaker 2: I'm going to run with that because I know I've

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Speaker 2: got Deuce Vonnet running back, and I know, much like

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Speaker 2: I said, within c State and the ACC, I got

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Speaker 2: a defense that's pretty salty here. All three levels. They

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Speaker 2: like what they have. That's a defense that can win games.

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Speaker 2: So let's just keep an eye on Kansas State.

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Speaker 1: Dark horse.

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Speaker 2: You wanted dark horses, so that's my dark horse there.

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Speaker 2: I had a bet with the staff tonight that I

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Speaker 2: would keep the show under forty seven and a half minutes.

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Speaker 2: We've been on the air an hour and two minutes.

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Speaker 2: I took the under. I am in total control of

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Speaker 2: the show, and I'm missed by fifteen minutes. I don't

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Speaker 2: know what I lost, credibility, I guess. Thank you so

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Speaker 2: much for being tuned in. Make sure you're subscribed or

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01:03:15,120 --> 01:03:18,280
Speaker 2: following wherever you can. The five star reviews and follows

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Speaker 2: on any podcast feed that you follow us on, and

1337
01:03:21,560 --> 01:03:24,720
Speaker 2: the YouTube channel our numbers. I like to wait until

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Speaker 2: the very end to brag about them. Are better than

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Speaker 2: we could possibly imagine.

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Speaker 1: Them being this time of year.

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Speaker 2: Our numbers right now are better than at some points

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Speaker 2: during the regular season last year, which is total insanity.

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Speaker 2: Looks like a typo, it's not because you have embraced

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Speaker 2: the no season mentality.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for that.

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Speaker 2: Until Tuesday Night, remember Tuesday Night show for the production executives,

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Speaker 2: extra heavy lifting today and direct tell and I'm Josh Baate.

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Speaker 2: Have yourselves a great rest of your Sunday and a

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Speaker 2: great start to.

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Speaker 1: Your week in Gomblins.

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Speaker 2: Here