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Speaker 1: That's our national championship game. Apparently, if you didn't predict

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Speaker 1: transfer portal, what else on fire? Now LSU, things have

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Speaker 1: turned for the better. Down in Baton Rouge. LSU has

427
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Speaker 1: landed Sam Levitt. Herculean effort by Lane Kiffin. Very rarely

428
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Speaker 1: does a guy leave your campus and then you just

429
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Speaker 1: chase him. Lamee Kiffin chase him. Good for Lane Kiffin.

430
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Speaker 1: Lamee Kiffin landed his quarterback six two. Now I assume

431
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Speaker 1: sometimes I take for granted everyone just blindly remembers who

432
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Speaker 1: all these guys are. Like Sam Levitt, Pretty big deal,

433
00:22:05,480 --> 00:22:07,840
Speaker 1: was it? Arizona State led him to the Big twelve

434
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Speaker 1: championship a year ago, led him to the playoff, had

435
00:22:10,200 --> 00:22:12,639
Speaker 1: an up and down season this past year. He was hurt.

436
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Speaker 1: But he's a former Big twelve Offensive Freshman of the Year,

437
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Speaker 1: and now he is the presumed starting quarterback for Lane Kiffin.

438
00:22:20,640 --> 00:22:23,520
Speaker 1: And think about the guys he's developed under. So he's

439
00:22:23,520 --> 00:22:26,880
Speaker 1: gotten to play under Kenny Dillingham and Marcus Arroyo. Please

440
00:22:26,920 --> 00:22:29,680
Speaker 1: don't forget that name out of Arizona State, and now

441
00:22:29,840 --> 00:22:31,720
Speaker 1: he's gonna be playing under Lane Kiffin and Charlie weis

442
00:22:31,800 --> 00:22:34,359
Speaker 1: junior down at LSU. So by the time he goes

443
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Speaker 1: to the NFL, he will played for some pretty high

444
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Speaker 1: level quarterback development names. We'll see how it goes. Certainly

445
00:22:42,880 --> 00:22:44,400
Speaker 1: he's not gonna have to do it all by himself.

446
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Speaker 1: I'm not suggesting he did at Arizona State either, but

447
00:22:47,240 --> 00:22:49,520
Speaker 1: they're gonna have are gonna have some weapons around him.

448
00:22:50,080 --> 00:22:53,520
Speaker 1: Year one, Lane Kiffin got the quarterback Domino figured out.

449
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Speaker 1: I assume judging by the latest work from young Pete Nacos.

450
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Speaker 1: He's not young any but Pete NACo's over at on three,

451
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Speaker 1: I assume that LSU's probably in the market for a

452
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Speaker 1: backup quarterback. I'll just trust Shade Dixon to text me

453
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Speaker 1: when that's done. Oregon's making moves. There's not enough room

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Speaker 1: on the piece of paper. Actually, Orgon's taking three top

455
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Speaker 1: one hundred guys. Dylan Riola, I don't think this was

456
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Speaker 1: official last time I talked to you, which was forty

457
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Speaker 1: eight hours ago, but Dylan Roola is now official. He

458
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Speaker 1: has signed with Oregon. Now I saw a lot of

459
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Speaker 1: reaction out there as soon as Dylan Royola signed and

460
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Speaker 1: that went official, that, oh, that must mean Dante Moore's

461
00:23:32,480 --> 00:23:35,080
Speaker 1: going to the draft. I can't emphasize this enough. No

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Speaker 1: one knows what Dante Moore is going to do. The

463
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Speaker 1: Mond drafts have him in the top five, but no

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Speaker 1: one knows what he's gonna do. So it looks like

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Speaker 1: Dylan Ryol is comfortable with that no matter what. And

466
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Speaker 1: remember Dante Moore did this. Dante Moore transferred from UCLA

467
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Speaker 1: to Oregon and everyone's like, you know, we already got

468
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Speaker 1: a start in quarterback here and he's like, that's fine,

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Speaker 1: I need to sit anyway. There are some people in

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Speaker 1: Dylan Ryola's camp that would be totally okay with him

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Speaker 1: sitting for a year if it means sitting behind Dylan

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Speaker 1: or if it means sitting behind Dante more So, don't

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Speaker 1: know what's going to happen there, but at the very

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Speaker 1: least they got the fail safe button in Dylan Ryola.

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Speaker 1: That's not all coy Perrich has committed there and signed.

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Speaker 1: Doesn't matter if you just commit. We got to get

477
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Speaker 1: guys signed. That is a big time safety backfill there

478
00:24:24,720 --> 00:24:26,959
Speaker 1: because they're losing a big one to the NFL, and

479
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Speaker 1: so they got him. He's from Minnesota, and Andrew Olish

480
00:24:31,119 --> 00:24:33,960
Speaker 1: is a Penn State tight end and the style of

481
00:24:34,040 --> 00:24:37,240
Speaker 1: player he is is very, very conducive to the kind

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Speaker 1: of tight end that they utilize in Oregon system. Now

483
00:24:40,560 --> 00:24:43,160
Speaker 1: everyone's going to be asking, well, who's the next Sadik?

484
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Speaker 1: Who is that? Look, I don't know if there is

485
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Speaker 1: another one out there, but like a more streamlined pass

486
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Speaker 1: catching tight end, that's what you're getting in Andrew Olish.

487
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Speaker 1: So Dan Landy's making moves. Of course they are imagine

488
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Speaker 1: that existence. Now. The trade off is you get paid

489
00:25:00,480 --> 00:25:04,240
Speaker 1: what eight figures, so you know they compensate you handsomely,

490
00:25:04,640 --> 00:25:07,040
Speaker 1: but you get your heart ripped out in the Peach

491
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Speaker 1: Bowl and then you fly across the country for like

492
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Speaker 1: the nineteenth time in the playoff and then you got

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Speaker 1: to get right to work on the portal retaining your roster.

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Speaker 1: And they haven't like some of those guys have left,

495
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Speaker 1: and you've got visits coming in. Just sleep in February

496
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Speaker 1: at some point. Notre Dame, all right, So the other

497
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Speaker 1: night Notre Dame, when we did the show Sunday, they

498
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Speaker 1: hadn't taken anybody in the portal that has changed. Kean Keeley.

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Speaker 1: I think he was formerly committed to Notre Dame and

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Speaker 1: then he decommitted and went to Alabama. He didn't make

501
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Speaker 1: much noise for a couple of years, made some noise

502
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Speaker 1: this year. Situational pass rusher type. He went in the portal.

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Speaker 1: He's he's going to Notre Dame now. And they've taken

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Speaker 1: four on defense and two on offense, which Statson Info

505
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Speaker 1: tells me adds up to half a dozen players that

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Speaker 1: they've taken since the other night. So they got Kean Keeley,

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Speaker 1: friend of the program. By the way, Kean Keeley love

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Speaker 1: that dude. Quincy Porter, wide receiver Ohio State, number nineteen

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Speaker 1: overall player in the portal. He was a five star

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Speaker 1: coming out of high school. I don't know. I mean,

511
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Speaker 1: I guess the loss of Brian Hartline matters here. Yeah,

512
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Speaker 1: feels that way. Also, about an hour or two ago,

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Speaker 1: Milon Graham, another wide receiver from Ohio State, also commits

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Speaker 1: up there. Look, it doesn't look like they're done. Doesn't

515
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Speaker 1: look like they're done. What is a joke? Are some

516
00:26:26,960 --> 00:26:29,520
Speaker 1: of the off the field stories about Marcus Freeman lately

517
00:26:29,920 --> 00:26:31,960
Speaker 1: up in South Bend. If you don't know, don't waste

518
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Speaker 1: your time. It's nothing, and the people responsible are also nothing.

519
00:26:37,040 --> 00:26:39,639
Speaker 1: But as far as the portal, there's a lot of

520
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Speaker 1: something happening there right now. Jordan's Seaton. Jordan Seaton. All right,

521
00:26:48,560 --> 00:26:51,879
Speaker 1: here's the good news about Jordan Seaton. He's a really,

522
00:26:52,240 --> 00:26:55,520
Speaker 1: really talented offensive tackle. That's the good news. The bad

523
00:26:55,560 --> 00:26:57,800
Speaker 1: news for Colorado is he's going in the transfer portal.

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Speaker 1: He is the number seven an overall player in the portal.

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Speaker 1: I want to pause for just a second. Certainly I'm

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Speaker 1: not speaking about any one individual here, but rather collectively

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Speaker 1: every one of you out there who is considering going

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Speaker 1: in the portal. Anyone out there who is considering making

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Speaker 1: any kind of an announcement that you're leaving anywhere. My

530
00:27:19,520 --> 00:27:24,840
Speaker 1: humble advice to you is, do not commission the creative

531
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Speaker 1: media department inside the building you're about to leave to

532
00:27:29,320 --> 00:27:33,520
Speaker 1: edit a video for you under the auspices of you staying,

533
00:27:34,320 --> 00:27:37,280
Speaker 1: only to then leverage that video and utilize it to

534
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Speaker 1: announce your departure. Not the best look. Can we all

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Speaker 1: agree to that? Yes, we're all okay? Head nods everywhere,

536
00:27:43,800 --> 00:27:48,440
Speaker 1: all right, Texas involved Oregon involved, Ole, miss involved, LSU, Miami,

537
00:27:48,680 --> 00:27:51,280
Speaker 1: the usual suspects. He's a great he can be a

538
00:27:51,280 --> 00:27:53,879
Speaker 1: great player. He can be a great player. Remember this

539
00:27:53,920 --> 00:27:56,080
Speaker 1: is a guy that Deon and Colorado took and just

540
00:27:56,160 --> 00:27:59,000
Speaker 1: basically announced, I know he's a senior in high school.

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Speaker 1: He's going to start for and he did, and he'll

542
00:28:02,160 --> 00:28:04,920
Speaker 1: probably be a plug and play tagle wherever he goes.

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00:28:05,600 --> 00:28:10,960
Speaker 1: What is Miami's move at quarterback? I imagine somehow somewhere

544
00:28:11,000 --> 00:28:14,440
Speaker 1: out there, someone is new to college football and they've

545
00:28:14,440 --> 00:28:18,200
Speaker 1: just been scrolling through YouTube and the algorithm's doing its job,

546
00:28:18,240 --> 00:28:20,480
Speaker 1: and it just put our show in front of you tonight.

547
00:28:20,800 --> 00:28:22,560
Speaker 1: But you don't know a lot about college football, but

548
00:28:22,600 --> 00:28:25,000
Speaker 1: you're thinking, I want to get to know college football.

549
00:28:26,119 --> 00:28:27,880
Speaker 1: I'm going to ask you to ignore the next two

550
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Speaker 1: minutes as we talk about how screwed up our calendar is.

551
00:28:31,560 --> 00:28:34,320
Speaker 1: Have you muted? Okay, you've muted. Our calendar is so

552
00:28:34,359 --> 00:28:36,880
Speaker 1: screwed up. We have Miami on one hand, six days

553
00:28:36,920 --> 00:28:38,720
Speaker 1: away from playing for a national championship, and on the

554
00:28:38,720 --> 00:28:42,560
Speaker 1: other hand, like the subplot of all this is, you know,

555
00:28:42,640 --> 00:28:44,360
Speaker 1: they don't have very long to figure out who their

556
00:28:44,400 --> 00:28:46,239
Speaker 1: quarterback is going to be next year. Where are they

557
00:28:46,240 --> 00:28:48,680
Speaker 1: going to go? In the portal? Reportedly they went very

558
00:28:48,680 --> 00:28:52,120
Speaker 1: hard after Ty Simpson. I mean a huge offer over

559
00:28:52,200 --> 00:28:55,280
Speaker 1: six million per year. It would be one year, over

560
00:28:55,320 --> 00:28:59,560
Speaker 1: six million dollars reportedly for ty Simpson to say never

561
00:28:59,600 --> 00:29:02,400
Speaker 1: mind the NFL and to go to Miami. It doesn't

562
00:29:02,400 --> 00:29:04,920
Speaker 1: sound like ty Simpson's taking them up on that. So

563
00:29:05,160 --> 00:29:09,440
Speaker 1: Ty Simpson off to the NFL, and I'm not totally

564
00:29:09,480 --> 00:29:13,840
Speaker 1: sure where Miami's going at quarterback now. I assume, knowing

565
00:29:13,880 --> 00:29:16,520
Speaker 1: the twenty five hour days that Dennis Smith and the

566
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Speaker 1: crew are working down there, I assume they have sort

567
00:29:19,680 --> 00:29:24,080
Speaker 1: of like a floor option, which is very I don't know,

568
00:29:24,200 --> 00:29:27,800
Speaker 1: like a derogatory term to use for actual people. But

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Speaker 1: when I say floor option, I mean, like picture, I

570
00:29:32,080 --> 00:29:34,040
Speaker 1: got a lot of seniors in high school. I got

571
00:29:34,080 --> 00:29:36,520
Speaker 1: a lot of sophomores in college right now. And you

572
00:29:36,560 --> 00:29:39,640
Speaker 1: guys are out there in the dating scene most of

573
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Speaker 1: you have in your mind, Okay, if worst comes to worst,

574
00:29:44,720 --> 00:29:51,120
Speaker 1: she'd say yes. Well, likewise in the quarterback portal world,

575
00:29:51,720 --> 00:29:54,520
Speaker 1: yes they're the guys you really dream of, and then

576
00:29:54,600 --> 00:29:57,520
Speaker 1: yes they're the backup candidates. But all the while, you know, okay,

577
00:29:57,520 --> 00:30:01,040
Speaker 1: if it all falls through. We know we got him.

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00:30:01,600 --> 00:30:04,680
Speaker 1: Who is he? I don't know. I don't immerse myself

579
00:30:04,680 --> 00:30:06,440
Speaker 1: in this stuff, but I don't know. But I'm wondering

580
00:30:06,440 --> 00:30:11,080
Speaker 1: that because right now I just don't know. Maybe I'm

581
00:30:11,080 --> 00:30:13,480
Speaker 1: wrong about Emory Jones. Maybe I am, But I don't

582
00:30:13,480 --> 00:30:16,880
Speaker 1: know that Miami's quarterback of twenty twenty six is on

583
00:30:16,920 --> 00:30:19,400
Speaker 1: the roster right now. I kind of say the same

584
00:30:19,400 --> 00:30:22,600
Speaker 1: thing about Tennessee. Only Tennessee's got more promising guys that

585
00:30:22,640 --> 00:30:25,760
Speaker 1: are already on campus than Miami does. So I know

586
00:30:25,880 --> 00:30:28,640
Speaker 1: it sounds great that you're in the national championship and

587
00:30:28,720 --> 00:30:33,920
Speaker 1: it is next week, but there also is a pressing

588
00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:37,360
Speaker 1: issue at quarterback that you can't put off. All right now,

589
00:30:37,640 --> 00:30:40,400
Speaker 1: those of you who are new to college football, welcome back.

590
00:30:41,360 --> 00:30:47,160
Speaker 1: Everything's great, guys, everything's wonderful. Nothing is wrong whatsoever. Calendar's fine,

591
00:30:47,360 --> 00:30:53,880
Speaker 1: sport's fine, it's all fine. They're watching us in Joplin, Missouri, Denver, Colorado, Ostell, Georgia.

592
00:30:54,640 --> 00:30:58,160
Speaker 1: Great rail fanning to be had in Ostell, Georgia, as

593
00:30:58,160 --> 00:31:06,120
Speaker 1: I'm told. Let me see, I didn't bring my lip bomb.

594
00:31:06,560 --> 00:31:09,040
Speaker 1: I know, Oh, hold on, Jesse, I don't need to

595
00:31:09,120 --> 00:31:14,800
Speaker 1: use yours. I found it. Okay, We're good. So the

596
00:31:14,800 --> 00:31:18,120
Speaker 1: mail bag was overflowing the other night. There's a whale breach,

597
00:31:18,200 --> 00:31:20,719
Speaker 1: so we decided to bring some of the overflow from

598
00:31:20,720 --> 00:31:24,440
Speaker 1: the mailbag on tonight's show. I got better reviews on

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00:31:24,480 --> 00:31:26,239
Speaker 1: the mailbag portion of the show the other night than

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Speaker 1: the part of the show that we actually formatted, So

601
00:31:28,840 --> 00:31:30,960
Speaker 1: maybe we just need to be a mail bag show.

602
00:31:31,240 --> 00:31:33,960
Speaker 1: Weston hit us up from Santa Claus, Indiana, which is

603
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Speaker 1: a real place. He said, where does Indiana and Kurt

604
00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:39,720
Speaker 1: Signetti rank for the best sports stories of all time?

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00:31:39,960 --> 00:31:42,040
Speaker 1: All Right, Weston, I'm gonna do you a favor, and

606
00:31:42,120 --> 00:31:44,800
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say, let's assume they win the national championship

607
00:31:44,800 --> 00:31:47,880
Speaker 1: Monday night. For the sake of the answer to this question,

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00:31:48,120 --> 00:31:51,760
Speaker 1: Let's assume they win the championship Monday. I'd call it

609
00:31:51,800 --> 00:31:56,440
Speaker 1: the best college football story in my life. Now I'm

610
00:31:56,440 --> 00:31:58,720
Speaker 1: trying to think. I'm pausing. This is a live show,

611
00:31:58,840 --> 00:32:00,640
Speaker 1: so I'm thinking through it as I was looking at

612
00:32:00,640 --> 00:32:05,160
Speaker 1: the question. It's certainly subjective, however, you define best like

613
00:32:05,440 --> 00:32:08,280
Speaker 1: I would guess most noted AIME fans aren't gonna be

614
00:32:08,400 --> 00:32:12,120
Speaker 1: in love with this story. Maybe Purdue fans don't actually

615
00:32:12,240 --> 00:32:14,240
Speaker 1: love it all that much. It doesn't fill your heart

616
00:32:14,280 --> 00:32:17,280
Speaker 1: with the warm fuzzies. But I grew up in Harris County, Georgia,

617
00:32:17,880 --> 00:32:21,560
Speaker 1: so Indiana football meant nothing to me growing up. Indiana

618
00:32:21,600 --> 00:32:24,720
Speaker 1: football was the team that the other Big Ten teams

619
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Speaker 1: hoped was on the schedule so that they could guarantee

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Speaker 1: at least one WN conference play. And now they are

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Speaker 1: the eight and a half point favorite in someone else's

622
00:32:33,400 --> 00:32:35,680
Speaker 1: building to win the national championship. And if they do

623
00:32:35,800 --> 00:32:39,400
Speaker 1: it and come from out of nowhere in route to

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Speaker 1: doing it, yeah, that's an incredible story and it's a

625
00:32:42,840 --> 00:32:47,400
Speaker 1: great story. They never were, like some of these teams

626
00:32:48,920 --> 00:32:53,040
Speaker 1: at one time at least were, Indiana never was. And

627
00:32:53,080 --> 00:32:55,840
Speaker 1: I love the impact that it would have, slash should

628
00:32:55,880 --> 00:32:58,200
Speaker 1: have on the sport because if I'm thinking about it

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Speaker 1: from an Indiana fans perspective, I don't need to tell

630
00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:04,360
Speaker 1: you why it would be significant to you. By the way,

631
00:33:04,480 --> 00:33:08,280
Speaker 1: like how long is the hangover for an Indiana fan,

632
00:33:09,560 --> 00:33:12,200
Speaker 1: Like you're just living in Fort Wayne up there, and

633
00:33:12,240 --> 00:33:15,120
Speaker 1: you win a national championship? Do you even pay attention

634
00:33:15,200 --> 00:33:18,560
Speaker 1: to spring practice? Like are you even back by Big

635
00:33:18,600 --> 00:33:21,120
Speaker 1: Ten media days? How long does it last? The limit

636
00:33:21,120 --> 00:33:26,560
Speaker 1: does not exist. But I'm thinking outside of Indiana. Just

637
00:33:26,600 --> 00:33:28,840
Speaker 1: sitting here in Nashville looking at the sport from fifty

638
00:33:28,840 --> 00:33:31,120
Speaker 1: thousand feet, I'm thinking about the impact that it could

639
00:33:31,120 --> 00:33:33,080
Speaker 1: have on the sport because it's a lot of good,

640
00:33:33,640 --> 00:33:35,080
Speaker 1: a lot of really good impact that it has in

641
00:33:35,120 --> 00:33:38,320
Speaker 1: the sport. All due respect. If at Pate State we

642
00:33:38,520 --> 00:33:41,520
Speaker 1: just go load up on portal mercenaries and we win

643
00:33:41,560 --> 00:33:45,200
Speaker 1: a national championship, yeah, it's great for us, not a

644
00:33:45,200 --> 00:33:48,920
Speaker 1: great impact on the sport. But if Indiana wins a

645
00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:53,440
Speaker 1: national championship, I think about the numerous benefits that it

646
00:33:53,480 --> 00:33:57,360
Speaker 1: has on the sport. Cause at any given points, a

647
00:33:57,440 --> 00:34:01,480
Speaker 1: majority of the sport feels like they're chasing something or someone,

648
00:34:01,600 --> 00:34:05,640
Speaker 1: like they're trying to emulate something or someone. If I

649
00:34:05,680 --> 00:34:09,200
Speaker 1: can get a majority of the sport trying to emulate

650
00:34:09,200 --> 00:34:12,600
Speaker 1: what Kurt Signetti just did, it's all for the good.

651
00:34:12,640 --> 00:34:14,359
Speaker 1: It's all for the greater good. Because if you guys

652
00:34:14,400 --> 00:34:18,040
Speaker 1: are starting to value the principles and the belief system

653
00:34:18,200 --> 00:34:21,839
Speaker 1: and the evaluation and development system in Indiana, if you're

654
00:34:21,960 --> 00:34:27,120
Speaker 1: valuing retention of roster and then supplementation via the portal,

655
00:34:27,600 --> 00:34:31,440
Speaker 1: if you're valuing process oriented approaches, if you're not yelling

656
00:34:31,440 --> 00:34:34,479
Speaker 1: about disrespect every other minute as being your primary source

657
00:34:34,520 --> 00:34:37,160
Speaker 1: of fuel. Yeah, sign me up for that. I'm all

658
00:34:37,200 --> 00:34:41,960
Speaker 1: in for that. Also, here's another bit of good news.

659
00:34:42,360 --> 00:34:47,920
Speaker 1: Imagine how this changes coaching searches. And this has already happened.

660
00:34:47,920 --> 00:34:49,799
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter if Indiana wins or if they lose.

661
00:34:49,840 --> 00:34:54,440
Speaker 1: By thirty Monday night, the Indie Kurt Signetti has fundamentally

662
00:34:54,480 --> 00:34:57,319
Speaker 1: changed the way coaching searches operate because for a long time,

663
00:34:57,440 --> 00:35:00,560
Speaker 1: up until five minutes ago, it was so in testuous,

664
00:35:00,600 --> 00:35:02,840
Speaker 1: it was pond water. It was the same group of

665
00:35:02,880 --> 00:35:05,399
Speaker 1: candidates for every job, and to an extent it still

666
00:35:05,440 --> 00:35:07,640
Speaker 1: is that way. But I guarantee you in future coaching

667
00:35:07,680 --> 00:35:11,680
Speaker 1: searches you've got someone smart enough in the room to say, guys,

668
00:35:12,280 --> 00:35:15,279
Speaker 1: I'm looking at this piece of paper here and it's

669
00:35:15,360 --> 00:35:18,359
Speaker 1: the same five names, and I just want to know,

670
00:35:18,800 --> 00:35:21,680
Speaker 1: do you think Kurt Signetti was on any of these

671
00:35:21,760 --> 00:35:25,040
Speaker 1: lists that get passed around a few years ago? Answer? No,

672
00:35:25,280 --> 00:35:28,640
Speaker 1: he was not. That's why he was available for Indiana

673
00:35:28,680 --> 00:35:32,640
Speaker 1: to go hire where at James Madison where before that Elon?

674
00:35:33,760 --> 00:35:36,279
Speaker 1: Why was he available? Because he was a candidate that

675
00:35:36,360 --> 00:35:38,440
Speaker 1: was a little off the beaten path. But that doesn't

676
00:35:38,480 --> 00:35:42,359
Speaker 1: mean that he wasn't qualified. It just meant someone had

677
00:35:42,400 --> 00:35:45,799
Speaker 1: to shine a light in the proper direction. But that

678
00:35:45,880 --> 00:35:49,719
Speaker 1: takes it. It takes a little intestinal fortitude, and it

679
00:35:49,800 --> 00:35:53,399
Speaker 1: also takes vision, which most people are scared to have.

680
00:35:53,880 --> 00:35:57,000
Speaker 1: It's a very very copycat business when it comes to

681
00:35:57,040 --> 00:36:00,480
Speaker 1: being an athletic director and making hiring decisions. You go

682
00:36:00,600 --> 00:36:03,000
Speaker 1: the safe route. You go the route that the donors

683
00:36:03,400 --> 00:36:06,040
Speaker 1: nod their head too, because hey, if it doesn't work out,

684
00:36:06,080 --> 00:36:07,560
Speaker 1: it's not on me. I can just look at him

685
00:36:07,600 --> 00:36:09,440
Speaker 1: and say, well, you guys wanted that guy just as

686
00:36:09,520 --> 00:36:13,120
Speaker 1: much as I did. Indiana didn't take that approach, and

687
00:36:13,160 --> 00:36:16,080
Speaker 1: they hired Kurt Signetti and now they're the beneficiaries of that.

688
00:36:16,280 --> 00:36:18,200
Speaker 1: I don't need you to go find the next Kurt Signetti.

689
00:36:18,680 --> 00:36:21,600
Speaker 1: I just need you to consider more candidates in these

690
00:36:21,640 --> 00:36:24,719
Speaker 1: coaching searches, cast a little wider net, and I think

691
00:36:24,760 --> 00:36:28,319
Speaker 1: Kurt Signetti will have a very, very positive effect on

692
00:36:28,400 --> 00:36:32,400
Speaker 1: the way coaching searches operate in the future. And I

693
00:36:32,480 --> 00:36:36,080
Speaker 1: still get the sense that this is so new that

694
00:36:36,160 --> 00:36:38,880
Speaker 1: people are refusing to believe it's this easy now they

695
00:36:38,920 --> 00:36:42,040
Speaker 1: work their tails off there. So I'm not saying that

696
00:36:43,120 --> 00:36:47,040
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that making it happen has been easy.

697
00:36:47,120 --> 00:36:50,120
Speaker 1: I'm saying the approach is pretty easy. To figure out

698
00:36:50,440 --> 00:36:54,520
Speaker 1: the nuance the layers, that's different, but the approach itself.

699
00:36:55,040 --> 00:36:58,360
Speaker 1: Kurt Signetti is not even bashful about talking about and

700
00:36:58,760 --> 00:37:02,040
Speaker 1: I recognize that I've heard successful people talk like this

701
00:37:02,080 --> 00:37:07,080
Speaker 1: their whole lives. Kurt Signetti's just the latest one. They're

702
00:37:07,160 --> 00:37:11,640
Speaker 1: not bashful or hesitant to share their process because they're

703
00:37:11,680 --> 00:37:15,680
Speaker 1: not worried about you duplicating it. Because it's no great mystery.

704
00:37:16,120 --> 00:37:19,799
Speaker 1: It's not like proprietary data that they own that no

705
00:37:19,840 --> 00:37:24,040
Speaker 1: one else owns. It's not like these top secret ingredients

706
00:37:24,080 --> 00:37:27,080
Speaker 1: that they howls at Indiana that no one else does.

707
00:37:27,960 --> 00:37:33,000
Speaker 1: They're just basic success principles. It's just that high achievers

708
00:37:33,200 --> 00:37:36,200
Speaker 1: know how hard it is to put him in practice

709
00:37:36,719 --> 00:37:38,839
Speaker 1: and to get a building full of people, an entire

710
00:37:38,960 --> 00:37:43,520
Speaker 1: organization full of people, including young people, to buy into

711
00:37:43,560 --> 00:37:46,680
Speaker 1: the principles and values of the organization that they don't

712
00:37:46,719 --> 00:37:49,480
Speaker 1: trust that most people can pull it off. They pulled

713
00:37:49,480 --> 00:37:53,680
Speaker 1: it off. Kurt Signetti's pulled it off, and yet it

714
00:37:53,719 --> 00:37:56,759
Speaker 1: gets labeled as coach peak. You watch and see people

715
00:37:56,800 --> 00:37:59,920
Speaker 1: still chuckle at him. You listen to signetti. He barely

716
00:38:00,000 --> 00:38:02,520
Speaker 1: breaks a smile when people ask him about it, because

717
00:38:02,520 --> 00:38:05,120
Speaker 1: it's not funny to him. But people listen to it,

718
00:38:05,160 --> 00:38:08,319
Speaker 1: and there's like, hey, what's the secret to your success? Now? Well,

719
00:38:09,000 --> 00:38:12,560
Speaker 1: we're just about discipline, and we're about being process oriented.

720
00:38:12,800 --> 00:38:14,920
Speaker 1: We're about defining the goal and then putting it to

721
00:38:14,960 --> 00:38:17,120
Speaker 1: the side and focusing on the process that it takes

722
00:38:17,120 --> 00:38:20,319
Speaker 1: to achieve the goal. We're about each play like it

723
00:38:20,360 --> 00:38:22,560
Speaker 1: has a history and a life of its own. We're

724
00:38:22,600 --> 00:38:26,120
Speaker 1: about reinforcing the values and principles of the organization and

725
00:38:26,200 --> 00:38:29,960
Speaker 1: recruiting people and hiring people that reflect those values. People

726
00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:32,719
Speaker 1: think that's coach speak. They chuckle when he says it,

727
00:38:33,120 --> 00:38:35,359
Speaker 1: and he just kind of looks back blankly as if

728
00:38:35,400 --> 00:38:38,160
Speaker 1: to say, do you think I'm joking? Like, what are

729
00:38:38,160 --> 00:38:41,120
Speaker 1: you laughing at? I'm not joking. People think there has

730
00:38:41,160 --> 00:38:43,920
Speaker 1: to be more. There has to be more. The more

731
00:38:44,640 --> 00:38:47,440
Speaker 1: is in putting it in practice. But the values he

732
00:38:47,440 --> 00:38:50,000
Speaker 1: could probably write the bullet points out on a piece

733
00:38:50,040 --> 00:38:52,719
Speaker 1: of paper in two minutes, and he could hold it

734
00:38:52,800 --> 00:38:55,840
Speaker 1: up in your face and say, here, I got the formula.

735
00:38:56,239 --> 00:38:58,759
Speaker 1: I've got our formula for success here, and people would

736
00:38:58,800 --> 00:39:00,920
Speaker 1: look at it and say, okay, yeah, but where's the

737
00:39:00,920 --> 00:39:06,160
Speaker 1: real formula? And that very reaction is why most are

738
00:39:06,160 --> 00:39:09,479
Speaker 1: not capable of achieving what Kurt Signetty is achieving right now,

739
00:39:09,800 --> 00:39:13,560
Speaker 1: and what any other high achiever succeeds at achieving in

740
00:39:13,640 --> 00:39:17,920
Speaker 1: their life. It's not about the plan, it's about the action.

741
00:39:18,960 --> 00:39:21,719
Speaker 1: And I just I don't know that many other people

742
00:39:21,760 --> 00:39:23,239
Speaker 1: are going to be able to pull this off. So

743
00:39:24,120 --> 00:39:27,759
Speaker 1: if the byproduct of them making this run is that

744
00:39:27,920 --> 00:39:31,520
Speaker 1: more people attempt to pull it off in the manner

745
00:39:31,640 --> 00:39:35,040
Speaker 1: in which and in the approach in which Kurt Signetti

746
00:39:35,040 --> 00:39:37,000
Speaker 1: has pulled it off, I'm all for it. So in

747
00:39:37,040 --> 00:39:39,800
Speaker 1: that sense, yeah, I'd say it's the best college football

748
00:39:39,800 --> 00:39:44,600
Speaker 1: story of my life. Seat Geek, is what you doing, Jesse?

749
00:39:46,760 --> 00:39:51,280
Speaker 1: What you want me to read that? It's fine? Okay,

750
00:39:51,280 --> 00:39:54,520
Speaker 1: it's fine. It's not a crisis. It's our show. We

751
00:39:54,520 --> 00:39:56,919
Speaker 1: can just go back and cut it out. Oh we're live, pal,

752
00:39:57,200 --> 00:40:02,080
Speaker 1: We're live. No, we can't. It's okay. For the sake

753
00:40:02,200 --> 00:40:05,720
Speaker 1: of the VOD cut, Bradley, none of this ever happened.

754
00:40:05,719 --> 00:40:08,040
Speaker 1: But if you're watching live if you're watching the full show,

755
00:40:08,400 --> 00:40:12,120
Speaker 1: it's happening. Someone else hit us up about Indiana and

756
00:40:12,160 --> 00:40:15,160
Speaker 1: they said, hey, cut and dry, is Indiana better than

757
00:40:15,200 --> 00:40:21,200
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen? Lsu? I don't know what to do. I

758
00:40:21,200 --> 00:40:22,880
Speaker 1: don't know what to do. Are we going to do

759
00:40:22,920 --> 00:40:24,880
Speaker 1: this until the end of time? Like? Is this a

760
00:40:24,920 --> 00:40:27,520
Speaker 1: prerequisite every time you make a National Championship game? If

761
00:40:27,560 --> 00:40:29,840
Speaker 1: you win the title? We just got to compare you

762
00:40:29,880 --> 00:40:34,920
Speaker 1: to twenty nineteen that I was watching Nako's shoot. Papa

763
00:40:34,920 --> 00:40:37,080
Speaker 1: shot out in the office earlier today he sunk three

764
00:40:37,080 --> 00:40:39,840
Speaker 1: in a row. I think the desk printed a headline.

765
00:40:39,960 --> 00:40:42,360
Speaker 1: Is Nacos better than twenty nineteen? Lsu. It's like, anytime

766
00:40:42,360 --> 00:40:44,440
Speaker 1: you do anything good in life, are you better than

767
00:40:44,480 --> 00:40:50,759
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen? Lsu? I don't care, is my answer. I

768
00:40:50,920 --> 00:40:53,680
Speaker 1: just don't care. Here's what I do know. If Indiana

769
00:40:53,680 --> 00:40:56,279
Speaker 1: wins the National Championship this year, it means they were

770
00:40:56,280 --> 00:41:00,640
Speaker 1: better than everybody else in twenty twenty five season. Is

771
00:41:01,360 --> 00:41:03,360
Speaker 1: that thorough enough? All right? Now we can move on.

772
00:41:04,480 --> 00:41:07,120
Speaker 1: At long last, I can inform you that if you're

773
00:41:07,120 --> 00:41:11,080
Speaker 1: going to the National Championship game, you must be rich.

774
00:41:11,719 --> 00:41:15,080
Speaker 1: So congratulations on the wealth you can keep some of it,

775
00:41:15,480 --> 00:41:17,360
Speaker 1: because I'm going to get you one hundred dollars off

776
00:41:17,880 --> 00:41:21,799
Speaker 1: any order of National Championship tickets down there in hard

777
00:41:21,880 --> 00:41:24,600
Speaker 1: Rock Stadium if you go to Seat Geek. Now, if

778
00:41:24,640 --> 00:41:26,880
Speaker 1: you just buy them from a scalper on Biscayn boulevard,

779
00:41:27,080 --> 00:41:30,160
Speaker 1: I got nothing for you, good luck, hope they're real.

780
00:41:30,560 --> 00:41:33,360
Speaker 1: But if you buy them from seat Geek right before

781
00:41:33,400 --> 00:41:36,359
Speaker 1: you check out, last thing you do, you go into

782
00:41:36,360 --> 00:41:38,680
Speaker 1: that promo code bar and you type in pat E

783
00:41:39,200 --> 00:41:43,279
Speaker 1: one zero zero translated to paid one hundred, and that'll

784
00:41:43,280 --> 00:41:46,080
Speaker 1: get you one hundred dollars off your order. Can't get

785
00:41:46,120 --> 00:41:49,360
Speaker 1: you like thirty five hundred dollars off your order, but

786
00:41:49,400 --> 00:41:51,000
Speaker 1: I can get you one hundred dollars off your order

787
00:41:51,040 --> 00:41:53,480
Speaker 1: seat Geek. Now, Look, you can go there. You might

788
00:41:53,480 --> 00:41:55,319
Speaker 1: take us to a lot of stuff. I just happen

789
00:41:55,360 --> 00:41:57,480
Speaker 1: to know. If you're watching the show at this point,

790
00:41:58,080 --> 00:42:01,360
Speaker 1: probably the sporting event you're most likely to be shopping

791
00:42:01,400 --> 00:42:03,839
Speaker 1: for right now and Seat Geek is the National Championship Game.

792
00:42:04,760 --> 00:42:08,080
Speaker 1: But I look forward to seeing you guys down there.

793
00:42:08,400 --> 00:42:11,120
Speaker 1: And like I said the other day, I know it's pricey.

794
00:42:11,239 --> 00:42:13,239
Speaker 1: You just got to ask yourself. I'm not trying to

795
00:42:13,239 --> 00:42:15,040
Speaker 1: make your decisions in life. For you, I'm just asking

796
00:42:15,080 --> 00:42:18,680
Speaker 1: yourself and maybe to an extent, seat geek is asking

797
00:42:18,840 --> 00:42:21,080
Speaker 1: through me to you. But I would give you this

798
00:42:21,120 --> 00:42:25,279
Speaker 1: advice either way. Are you about are you about fun?

799
00:42:25,719 --> 00:42:29,959
Speaker 1: Or are you about memories? Because we're purchasing a memory here,

800
00:42:30,520 --> 00:42:33,279
Speaker 1: you guys go down there and you win the national championship.

801
00:42:33,280 --> 00:42:35,440
Speaker 1: Don't really care who it is. That is a memory

802
00:42:35,480 --> 00:42:38,000
Speaker 1: that lasts a lifetime. Is it gonna cost you a

803
00:42:38,040 --> 00:42:41,480
Speaker 1: couple of thousand bucks? Looks that way minus one hundred

804
00:42:41,520 --> 00:42:44,560
Speaker 1: dollars with pay one hundred promo code. But that memory

805
00:42:45,520 --> 00:42:48,359
Speaker 1: in the year twenty fifty six, it's gonna be really

806
00:42:48,360 --> 00:42:50,759
Speaker 1: fun to share. It's gonna be really fun to share.

807
00:42:51,000 --> 00:42:52,840
Speaker 1: Take a few pictures and then put the cell phone

808
00:42:52,880 --> 00:42:55,680
Speaker 1: down by the way, soak it in. No what I

809
00:42:55,719 --> 00:42:57,799
Speaker 1: promise you, I got it on good authority. ESPN is

810
00:42:57,800 --> 00:43:01,400
Speaker 1: going to broadcast this game and the replay will live forever.

811
00:43:01,719 --> 00:43:03,960
Speaker 1: And those shots, all due respect to those of you

812
00:43:04,000 --> 00:43:06,080
Speaker 1: in section three twenty four, are going to be better

813
00:43:06,120 --> 00:43:08,600
Speaker 1: than anything you get on your iPhone. Put the phone

814
00:43:08,680 --> 00:43:11,680
Speaker 1: down and soak in the memory that you paid so

815
00:43:11,800 --> 00:43:14,640
Speaker 1: much money for, but not quite as much as you

816
00:43:14,640 --> 00:43:16,719
Speaker 1: would have paid without pay one hundred. All right, let's

817
00:43:16,760 --> 00:43:20,040
Speaker 1: move on. Boy oh boy, did this hit home because

818
00:43:20,080 --> 00:43:22,480
Speaker 1: I've been I've been on a little rant about this

819
00:43:22,520 --> 00:43:26,560
Speaker 1: all day. Ethan, just in time from Greensville, South Carolina, said,

820
00:43:26,560 --> 00:43:29,439
Speaker 1: why are the playoffs so long? It feels like it's

821
00:43:29,520 --> 00:43:33,800
Speaker 1: just dragging to an anti climactic end on Monday. Ethan,

822
00:43:34,400 --> 00:43:37,319
Speaker 1: I feel this. I felt it last year. We were

823
00:43:37,320 --> 00:43:40,000
Speaker 1: in Atlanta for the National Title Game. Last year. It

824
00:43:40,040 --> 00:43:42,320
Speaker 1: was the same Monday it always is. And I remember

825
00:43:42,320 --> 00:43:46,680
Speaker 1: we were walking out of the Weston Peachtree Plaza downtown Atlanta.

826
00:43:46,800 --> 00:43:50,319
Speaker 1: We were waiting for our ride, and I said, does

827
00:43:50,360 --> 00:43:53,200
Speaker 1: it feel like a National Championship Monday to you guys?

828
00:43:53,320 --> 00:43:56,279
Speaker 1: And that's with Ohio State Notre Dame in town. And

829
00:43:56,320 --> 00:43:59,640
Speaker 1: I just remember thinking to myself that word right there

830
00:43:59,680 --> 00:44:03,760
Speaker 1: that you used, anti climactic, that was the word I used.

831
00:44:04,320 --> 00:44:06,920
Speaker 1: And it's pretty obviously because the thing drags out a

832
00:44:06,960 --> 00:44:10,200
Speaker 1: month longer, nearly a month longer than it should, well

833
00:44:10,280 --> 00:44:13,080
Speaker 1: over half a month longer than it should. Now, it

834
00:44:13,120 --> 00:44:16,040
Speaker 1: doesn't devastate me because anyone who's watched the show for

835
00:44:16,080 --> 00:44:18,760
Speaker 1: a long time knows the regular seasons. My super Bowl,

836
00:44:18,760 --> 00:44:21,759
Speaker 1: in college football, the playoffs just whatever. I mean, I

837
00:44:21,800 --> 00:44:24,120
Speaker 1: go to the games, I watch him, I'm glued to them.

838
00:44:24,920 --> 00:44:27,920
Speaker 1: I cheer for whoever wins the national championship. But this

839
00:44:27,960 --> 00:44:30,480
Speaker 1: stuff doesn't bother me nearly to the degree that it

840
00:44:30,480 --> 00:44:32,839
Speaker 1: bothers most people. But I get why it bothers most

841
00:44:32,880 --> 00:44:35,239
Speaker 1: of you, And you're right, yeah, it is anti climacting.

842
00:44:36,440 --> 00:44:39,080
Speaker 1: The season's got to be fixed, like the schedule's got

843
00:44:39,120 --> 00:44:42,480
Speaker 1: to be fixed. It's easy to say, it's harder to do.

844
00:44:42,760 --> 00:44:46,200
Speaker 1: That doesn't need to be a deterrent. Just because right

845
00:44:46,280 --> 00:44:50,360
Speaker 1: fixes are difficult doesn't mean you look at him and say, oh, well,

846
00:44:50,840 --> 00:44:52,439
Speaker 1: it means you get the right people in the room.

847
00:44:52,840 --> 00:44:56,120
Speaker 1: I have a strong working theory right now and have

848
00:44:56,239 --> 00:44:58,319
Speaker 1: for a while that the right people aren't in charge

849
00:44:58,320 --> 00:45:02,400
Speaker 1: of college football. That's pretty obvious. I think that's a

850
00:45:02,440 --> 00:45:07,080
Speaker 1: broadly shared consensus. But specifically on this issue, it's like,

851
00:45:07,360 --> 00:45:10,000
Speaker 1: not enough people run college football like their lives depend

852
00:45:10,040 --> 00:45:12,759
Speaker 1: on it now. In reality, I don't want your life

853
00:45:12,840 --> 00:45:15,880
Speaker 1: depending on college football, but I certainly want you to

854
00:45:15,920 --> 00:45:19,240
Speaker 1: make decisions like your life depends on college football. Right now,

855
00:45:19,280 --> 00:45:22,839
Speaker 1: the decision makers treat college football like as a rental car, like,

856
00:45:22,880 --> 00:45:25,560
Speaker 1: I don't really care what state this thing's in five

857
00:45:25,640 --> 00:45:28,399
Speaker 1: years from now. It won't be in my possession five

858
00:45:28,480 --> 00:45:31,440
Speaker 1: years from now. And whether it be one of like

859
00:45:31,560 --> 00:45:34,960
Speaker 1: ten different compartments that decisions have to be made in

860
00:45:34,960 --> 00:45:38,720
Speaker 1: in college football, that's how the decisions get made. Should

861
00:45:38,760 --> 00:45:42,120
Speaker 1: we expand the playoff to twenty four? Why not? Oh,

862
00:45:42,160 --> 00:45:44,760
Speaker 1: but won't it have a detrimental impact on the regular season?

863
00:45:44,880 --> 00:45:47,720
Speaker 1: Who cares I won't be here in five or ten years?

864
00:45:47,800 --> 00:45:50,040
Speaker 1: That's kind of the attitude. And with this right here,

865
00:45:50,440 --> 00:45:53,080
Speaker 1: when should we have the title game? Oh, let's put

866
00:45:53,120 --> 00:45:56,800
Speaker 1: it on Martin Luther King Junior Day on Monday, third

867
00:45:56,880 --> 00:46:00,520
Speaker 1: week in January. Isn't that stretching it a little too far? Community?

868
00:46:00,560 --> 00:46:03,480
Speaker 1: They would ask? Who cares? I won't be here by

869
00:46:03,520 --> 00:46:06,800
Speaker 1: the time? It bites us. Got to get those people

870
00:46:06,800 --> 00:46:09,040
Speaker 1: out of the room, and got to get people in

871
00:46:09,080 --> 00:46:12,000
Speaker 1: the room that when you tell them the fix is

872
00:46:12,040 --> 00:46:14,840
Speaker 1: going to be hard, they just roll up their sleeves,

873
00:46:15,320 --> 00:46:17,480
Speaker 1: or in an ideal world, they're not wearing sleeves to

874
00:46:17,520 --> 00:46:20,200
Speaker 1: begin with. We need some short sleeve wears in the

875
00:46:20,280 --> 00:46:22,560
Speaker 1: room right now. We need some folks not scared to

876
00:46:22,600 --> 00:46:26,440
Speaker 1: show forearm in January, hopefully not the third week of January,

877
00:46:26,520 --> 00:46:29,840
Speaker 1: but in January to get the job done. College football,

878
00:46:29,880 --> 00:46:33,080
Speaker 1: in my dream world, would crown a national champion on

879
00:46:33,239 --> 00:46:37,360
Speaker 1: January first, New Year's Day. Now, that's my dream world,

880
00:46:37,640 --> 00:46:40,200
Speaker 1: and that means starting to playoff the first week in December,

881
00:46:40,239 --> 00:46:42,520
Speaker 1: if you've got to have four rounds of playoff, which

882
00:46:42,680 --> 00:46:44,560
Speaker 1: you don't have to have for me, but if you've

883
00:46:44,600 --> 00:46:47,400
Speaker 1: got to have the structure we have right now, or

884
00:46:48,400 --> 00:46:52,319
Speaker 1: if you guys insist on expanding the sixteen and no more,

885
00:46:53,080 --> 00:46:56,439
Speaker 1: start the thing on the first Saturday or slash first

886
00:46:56,440 --> 00:46:59,320
Speaker 1: weekend in December so that we can crown the national

887
00:46:59,400 --> 00:47:03,759
Speaker 1: champion on January first. But Josh, we can't do that.

888
00:47:04,840 --> 00:47:08,920
Speaker 1: Say what you can't do that? Have you even tried

889
00:47:09,239 --> 00:47:12,120
Speaker 1: to do that? I had a conversation with someone about

890
00:47:12,120 --> 00:47:14,759
Speaker 1: this the other day and they said, well, of course,

891
00:47:14,800 --> 00:47:18,799
Speaker 1: you know that college football can't have its national championship

892
00:47:18,920 --> 00:47:22,520
Speaker 1: that early in January because that means they're broadcast windows

893
00:47:22,560 --> 00:47:24,680
Speaker 1: would have to run up against the NFL. And just

894
00:47:24,840 --> 00:47:27,719
Speaker 1: I gasped, I lost my breath for a second. You're

895
00:47:27,719 --> 00:47:29,880
Speaker 1: not terrified I am of the NFL. Oh wait, I

896
00:47:29,920 --> 00:47:35,120
Speaker 1: don't care. I don't care. Neither should you. And in

897
00:47:35,160 --> 00:47:37,279
Speaker 1: the college football world, hey, I get it. If you

898
00:47:37,360 --> 00:47:40,239
Speaker 1: run a major network, if you're a conference commissioner, if

899
00:47:40,239 --> 00:47:45,399
Speaker 1: you're a university president, and this is your main lifeblood financially,

900
00:47:45,520 --> 00:47:49,759
Speaker 1: is those playoff checks. I understand. I'm a realist. I

901
00:47:49,800 --> 00:47:51,800
Speaker 1: get that you can't just be going head to head

902
00:47:52,000 --> 00:47:56,560
Speaker 1: with the NFL with playoff games. So either get creative

903
00:47:57,040 --> 00:48:01,880
Speaker 1: or negotiate with them. I've always had that feeling on

904
00:48:01,960 --> 00:48:04,680
Speaker 1: this show. Now I'm college football first, second, third, fourth,

905
00:48:04,680 --> 00:48:07,440
Speaker 1: and fifth. Okay, so I'm admittedly coming at it from

906
00:48:07,480 --> 00:48:10,120
Speaker 1: a slanted angle, but I think I'm right on this.

907
00:48:10,360 --> 00:48:12,440
Speaker 1: I think a water polo fan would agree with me.

908
00:48:12,880 --> 00:48:15,560
Speaker 1: The NFL has no farm system. They don't need a

909
00:48:15,600 --> 00:48:19,160
Speaker 1: farm system. What does a farm system exist for. We'll

910
00:48:19,200 --> 00:48:22,200
Speaker 1: exist for development. But the NFL doesn't need to develop

911
00:48:22,200 --> 00:48:25,160
Speaker 1: its players. College football does that job for him. And

912
00:48:25,200 --> 00:48:27,919
Speaker 1: by the time they show up for the draft, they're

913
00:48:27,960 --> 00:48:30,279
Speaker 1: mostly developed. And then you kind of got to put

914
00:48:30,280 --> 00:48:32,640
Speaker 1: the topping on them. But they're mostly developed. Oh, by

915
00:48:32,680 --> 00:48:35,320
Speaker 1: the way, you don't really watch many guys walk across

916
00:48:35,360 --> 00:48:37,920
Speaker 1: that draft stage on draft night and ask who is that?

917
00:48:38,640 --> 00:48:42,640
Speaker 1: Why is that? Because they've developed their brand and their

918
00:48:42,719 --> 00:48:46,560
Speaker 1: identity on the college football dime as well. So you've

919
00:48:46,560 --> 00:48:50,880
Speaker 1: got physical and brand development twofold that take place for

920
00:48:51,040 --> 00:48:54,840
Speaker 1: the NFL courtesy of college football, free of charge. NFL

921
00:48:54,840 --> 00:48:57,480
Speaker 1: doesn't have to invest a dime in it, so they

922
00:48:57,600 --> 00:49:01,600
Speaker 1: benefit greatly from college football. What I would love to

923
00:49:01,640 --> 00:49:03,880
Speaker 1: do is, I would love to find the kind of

924
00:49:03,920 --> 00:49:09,600
Speaker 1: person with the right relationships, know how and testicular fortitude

925
00:49:09,960 --> 00:49:12,920
Speaker 1: to walk into a room on Park Avenue and present

926
00:49:13,000 --> 00:49:16,440
Speaker 1: that argument. And then when the NFL says, what are

927
00:49:16,440 --> 00:49:19,560
Speaker 1: you telling us this for, look at him and say,

928
00:49:19,680 --> 00:49:22,239
Speaker 1: because I need something from you. I need you to

929
00:49:22,280 --> 00:49:26,239
Speaker 1: work with me on broadcast windows and specifically on your

930
00:49:26,280 --> 00:49:31,600
Speaker 1: wild card weekend that Saturday. Instead of going mid afternoon primetime,

931
00:49:32,560 --> 00:49:34,719
Speaker 1: I would love for you guys to go early afternoon,

932
00:49:34,719 --> 00:49:37,640
Speaker 1: mid afternoon as a double NFL playoff game lead in

933
00:49:38,719 --> 00:49:42,120
Speaker 1: to a primetime national championship game on that Saturday night.

934
00:49:42,960 --> 00:49:46,600
Speaker 1: That's what I'd enjoy, That's what I'd appreciate. I made

935
00:49:46,640 --> 00:49:50,120
Speaker 1: that argument the other day. I ask has it even

936
00:49:50,239 --> 00:49:56,279
Speaker 1: been attempted? No? You want another reason? Who would attempt it?

937
00:49:57,200 --> 00:49:59,719
Speaker 1: What's the tip of the spear in college football? Right?

938
00:49:59,719 --> 00:50:04,080
Speaker 1: Now like who's driving the bus. Nobody bus is moving,

939
00:50:04,840 --> 00:50:08,360
Speaker 1: but we don't know who's driving it. So, you know,

940
00:50:08,400 --> 00:50:10,920
Speaker 1: if we could get that National Championship game done, it

941
00:50:10,920 --> 00:50:12,960
Speaker 1: should have been done two or three weeks ago. If

942
00:50:13,000 --> 00:50:15,640
Speaker 1: we could get that thing done, then we could also

943
00:50:15,760 --> 00:50:18,640
Speaker 1: have the portal if we insist on keeping this thing

944
00:50:18,680 --> 00:50:22,080
Speaker 1: the way it is open after the National Championship Game,

945
00:50:22,280 --> 00:50:25,239
Speaker 1: where we don't have a handful of teams playing the

946
00:50:25,280 --> 00:50:29,640
Speaker 1: most important games of their seasons overlapping with arguably the

947
00:50:29,680 --> 00:50:35,520
Speaker 1: most important talent acquisition period of their year. So that's

948
00:50:35,960 --> 00:50:38,160
Speaker 1: that's why I love for it to be Ethan. Yes

949
00:50:38,200 --> 00:50:40,560
Speaker 1: it does drag out too long. Yes, it does lead

950
00:50:40,880 --> 00:50:43,640
Speaker 1: to a little bit of what is this word anti

951
00:50:43,719 --> 00:50:49,200
Speaker 1: climacticism close within a nine iron? Yeah, I agree. Okay,

952
00:50:49,200 --> 00:50:50,960
Speaker 1: I've got great news. We're gonna continue the show. I

953
00:50:51,000 --> 00:50:52,920
Speaker 1: got great news. I've been meaning to share this with

954
00:50:52,960 --> 00:50:54,080
Speaker 1: you for like a week and a half and Jesse

955
00:50:54,160 --> 00:50:58,520
Speaker 1: keeps forgetting to tell me. So back in I think October,

956
00:50:59,520 --> 00:51:02,480
Speaker 1: in the middle of the season, I presented a concept

957
00:51:02,520 --> 00:51:05,719
Speaker 1: to you called the Magnolia Foundation, and I said that

958
00:51:05,840 --> 00:51:08,440
Speaker 1: for the first time, we were partnering with a charity

959
00:51:08,680 --> 00:51:13,879
Speaker 1: on the show. Matt Collins is the guy who runs

960
00:51:13,880 --> 00:51:16,640
Speaker 1: Magnolia Foundation. Matt's been a longtime friend of the show.

961
00:51:17,280 --> 00:51:20,320
Speaker 1: Lives in nearby Cookville. Believe he lives over in Cookville.

962
00:51:20,360 --> 00:51:23,359
Speaker 1: It's close to Nashville. So I told you the story.

963
00:51:23,360 --> 00:51:25,120
Speaker 1: I'll very briefly tell you the story about how we

964
00:51:25,200 --> 00:51:27,040
Speaker 1: came to know each other. So back when I first

965
00:51:27,120 --> 00:51:30,200
Speaker 1: moved to Nashville in twenty twenty, about two months into

966
00:51:30,280 --> 00:51:33,360
Speaker 1: me living here, March third of twenty twenty, I remember

967
00:51:33,360 --> 00:51:35,440
Speaker 1: the night very vividly. We had an e F four

968
00:51:35,520 --> 00:51:39,719
Speaker 1: tornado come through northern Nashville. It crosses the river, it

969
00:51:39,840 --> 00:51:41,960
Speaker 1: stays on the ground for a long time, ended up

970
00:51:42,040 --> 00:51:45,319
Speaker 1: killing twenty three people. Matt's little girl was one of

971
00:51:45,320 --> 00:51:48,560
Speaker 1: those twenty three that got killed. And they dealt with

972
00:51:49,520 --> 00:51:55,080
Speaker 1: the unimaginable mental and also financial toll that that takes

973
00:51:55,120 --> 00:51:59,480
Speaker 1: on you, an emotional toll. And they looked at it

974
00:51:59,520 --> 00:52:02,960
Speaker 1: as a family and said, this is horrific and we're

975
00:52:02,960 --> 00:52:05,239
Speaker 1: having to deal with this. But that means at any

976
00:52:05,280 --> 00:52:08,360
Speaker 1: given time, many families in a country as big as

977
00:52:08,400 --> 00:52:12,120
Speaker 1: the United States are dealing with losing a child. So

978
00:52:12,160 --> 00:52:15,600
Speaker 1: Matt watches the show so over time I would mention

979
00:52:15,760 --> 00:52:17,759
Speaker 1: that my building got hit in that tornado. I was

980
00:52:17,800 --> 00:52:20,040
Speaker 1: out of my building for a week, which is an

981
00:52:20,080 --> 00:52:22,560
Speaker 1: infinitely smaller price to pay compared to what some had

982
00:52:22,560 --> 00:52:25,080
Speaker 1: to pay around here. But I've talked about it on

983
00:52:25,120 --> 00:52:26,880
Speaker 1: the show. Well, he reached out and he told me

984
00:52:26,920 --> 00:52:29,719
Speaker 1: the story of what his family had gone through that

985
00:52:29,880 --> 00:52:32,920
Speaker 1: night and in the years afterwards, and he told me

986
00:52:32,960 --> 00:52:36,839
Speaker 1: we started a foundation called the Magnolia Foundation because what

987
00:52:36,880 --> 00:52:43,120
Speaker 1: we learn from that is funeral expenses, commemorative care, Like,

988
00:52:43,160 --> 00:52:47,840
Speaker 1: there are so many costs associated with going through a

989
00:52:47,880 --> 00:52:49,719
Speaker 1: time where the last thing you should be thinking about

990
00:52:49,760 --> 00:52:53,560
Speaker 1: is money. That we decided to do something about it,

991
00:52:53,840 --> 00:52:57,000
Speaker 1: and so I said, we want to be involved. I mean,

992
00:52:57,000 --> 00:52:59,719
Speaker 1: we got a huge audience, We've got a huge show.

993
00:53:00,000 --> 00:53:02,040
Speaker 1: We want to be involved, and so we got involved

994
00:53:02,040 --> 00:53:04,719
Speaker 1: this fall. Now, the way we got involved initially was

995
00:53:05,080 --> 00:53:08,480
Speaker 1: we put merchandise in the Pate State store that features

996
00:53:08,520 --> 00:53:12,080
Speaker 1: are branding and the Magnolia Foundation, and then we sent

997
00:53:12,120 --> 00:53:14,799
Speaker 1: portions of the proceeds to the Magnolia Foundation. But then

998
00:53:14,840 --> 00:53:17,000
Speaker 1: one night I said, maybe you don't want to buy

999
00:53:17,040 --> 00:53:18,719
Speaker 1: a hat or a T shirt, maybe you just want

1000
00:53:18,719 --> 00:53:21,279
Speaker 1: to give directly. And I gave you the name of

1001
00:53:21,320 --> 00:53:25,800
Speaker 1: the website, which I'll do again Themagnolia Foundation dot com

1002
00:53:25,840 --> 00:53:28,480
Speaker 1: slash give. You can go there and give as much

1003
00:53:28,480 --> 00:53:33,480
Speaker 1: as you want to. He calls me a few weeks ago. Actually,

1004
00:53:33,520 --> 00:53:36,160
Speaker 1: he came to our live show in Atlanta and he

1005
00:53:36,280 --> 00:53:38,840
Speaker 1: gave me some of the numbers for Christmas, and I

1006
00:53:38,920 --> 00:53:42,440
Speaker 1: just wanted to thank you, guys, because this is pretty

1007
00:53:42,440 --> 00:53:46,880
Speaker 1: mind blowing. So over Christmas, just from our audience alone,

1008
00:53:47,000 --> 00:53:50,839
Speaker 1: we raised over thirty thousand dollars for Magnolia Foundation. They

1009
00:53:50,840 --> 00:53:53,560
Speaker 1: were able to help one hundred and ninety one families.

1010
00:53:53,880 --> 00:53:57,399
Speaker 1: These are all families who have lost children recently. They

1011
00:53:57,400 --> 00:53:59,240
Speaker 1: were able to help one hundred and ninety one families

1012
00:53:59,280 --> 00:54:03,320
Speaker 1: with Christmas press and we handled twenty five family funeral

1013
00:54:03,320 --> 00:54:08,560
Speaker 1: expenses just from what our audience gave over that short

1014
00:54:08,600 --> 00:54:13,160
Speaker 1: span of time. So I am eternally grateful to you guys.

1015
00:54:13,520 --> 00:54:16,000
Speaker 1: They are too. They don't have a microphone like I

1016
00:54:16,080 --> 00:54:18,239
Speaker 1: do to express it, so I'm expressing it for them.

1017
00:54:18,680 --> 00:54:21,040
Speaker 1: Our work is not done with Magnolia Foundation. You can

1018
00:54:21,040 --> 00:54:24,280
Speaker 1: go there right now if you want to Themagnolia Foundation

1019
00:54:24,440 --> 00:54:26,840
Speaker 1: dot com slash GiB. I just wanted to give you

1020
00:54:26,840 --> 00:54:30,160
Speaker 1: a little update of what we accomplished over Christmas, because

1021
00:54:30,200 --> 00:54:32,279
Speaker 1: that's no small thing. That's actually a really big thing.

1022
00:54:32,640 --> 00:54:36,160
Speaker 1: So hats off to you guys, and we have many,

1023
00:54:36,280 --> 00:54:39,839
Speaker 1: many more ventures with Magnolia Foundation in the future. All right,

1024
00:54:40,040 --> 00:54:44,040
Speaker 1: let's move on. Take a sip of water here. You've

1025
00:54:44,040 --> 00:54:46,919
Speaker 1: done Jesse for the first time in the five years

1026
00:54:46,920 --> 00:54:51,240
Speaker 1: we've done the show. That's a knock on wood in advance.

1027
00:54:51,320 --> 00:54:54,719
Speaker 1: I didn't lose my voice this year a single time. Yeah,

1028
00:54:54,719 --> 00:54:57,239
Speaker 1: thank you. In the new studio here, I can now

1029
00:54:57,280 --> 00:55:07,399
Speaker 1: see the staff through the glass. Hey, Bradley, Okay, I'm

1030
00:55:07,400 --> 00:55:08,640
Speaker 1: not going to spend a lot of time on this,

1031
00:55:08,760 --> 00:55:13,279
Speaker 1: but I did want to address it. Percy from Shreveport,

1032
00:55:13,280 --> 00:55:16,279
Speaker 1: Louisiana said, I saw the Front Office Sports article on

1033
00:55:16,560 --> 00:55:19,959
Speaker 1: ESPN pursuing you for a bigger deal. Before I overreact,

1034
00:55:20,320 --> 00:55:22,200
Speaker 1: can you tell us what this means for the show?

1035
00:55:22,640 --> 00:55:26,759
Speaker 1: Good question, Absolutely nothing for the show. So obviously a

1036
00:55:26,760 --> 00:55:29,520
Speaker 1: lot has happened for us this year, and we've had

1037
00:55:29,680 --> 00:55:32,319
Speaker 1: a lot of involvement on ESPN. I think I've been

1038
00:55:32,320 --> 00:55:35,640
Speaker 1: on every ESPN show that exists, and it's been awesome

1039
00:55:35,680 --> 00:55:39,560
Speaker 1: because I, like many other people my age, grew up

1040
00:55:39,560 --> 00:55:42,439
Speaker 1: on ESPN. I also grew up on the Weather Channel

1041
00:55:42,480 --> 00:55:45,840
Speaker 1: in Nickelodeon, but a large majority of my childhood. The

1042
00:55:45,880 --> 00:55:49,960
Speaker 1: soundtrack of it is Sports Center, It's ESPM, and to

1043
00:55:50,040 --> 00:55:53,000
Speaker 1: be working with ESPN, that's like a dream come true

1044
00:55:53,000 --> 00:55:56,640
Speaker 1: from childhood. So a lot happened this year. I can't

1045
00:55:56,640 --> 00:55:58,520
Speaker 1: tell you a lot right now, but I think I

1046
00:55:58,560 --> 00:56:00,840
Speaker 1: will be able to in the not two distant future.

1047
00:56:01,239 --> 00:56:04,640
Speaker 1: There's a lot that's been happening for the past couple

1048
00:56:04,640 --> 00:56:07,799
Speaker 1: of months. A lot of big conversations when we were

1049
00:56:07,800 --> 00:56:11,000
Speaker 1: in Atlanta for the SEC Championship game, especially, some really

1050
00:56:11,040 --> 00:56:14,640
Speaker 1: big meetings, really big conversations. All of it great, all

1051
00:56:14,680 --> 00:56:18,720
Speaker 1: of it really encouraging. But as far as the show goes,

1052
00:56:18,920 --> 00:56:21,759
Speaker 1: as I've told you anytime we signed any deal around here,

1053
00:56:22,239 --> 00:56:23,920
Speaker 1: I've always been the first person to tell you, and

1054
00:56:23,960 --> 00:56:27,320
Speaker 1: I'll tell you again, we're not doing anything that affects

1055
00:56:27,320 --> 00:56:31,160
Speaker 1: this show at all. No deal we're signing impacts the show.

1056
00:56:31,239 --> 00:56:33,520
Speaker 1: So you're going to find this show same as it is,

1057
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Speaker 1: where it's always been, at the times it's always been.

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Speaker 1: And really the only thing that interrupts that is in

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Speaker 1: the spring if we go stormchasing and we have to

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00:56:40,840 --> 00:56:43,359
Speaker 1: preempt to show every now and then that's the kind

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Speaker 1: of that right there, this little poster over my shoulder,

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00:56:46,760 --> 00:56:48,680
Speaker 1: that's the sort of thing that interrupts the show, But

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00:56:48,760 --> 00:56:51,359
Speaker 1: not any contract that we sign. But here's the deal.

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Speaker 1: Anytime I've met with anyone at ESPN, I've shared the

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Speaker 1: same sentiment. College football is the number two sport in

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Speaker 1: the country. In my heart, it's the number one sport

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Speaker 1: in the country by ten miles, but the numbers back

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Speaker 1: up that it is, at the very worst, the number

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00:57:04,200 --> 00:57:08,520
Speaker 1: two sport in the country. It should be covered that way.

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Speaker 1: We do it on this show. We don't even mention

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Speaker 1: any other sport. I want college football to be covered

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Speaker 1: that way. And anytime anyone else aligns with that vision,

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Speaker 1: those are folks that you want to talk to. And

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Speaker 1: I can confidently tell you and refreshingly tell you, the

1075
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Speaker 1: folks at the ESPN right now are very much about

1076
00:57:27,720 --> 00:57:31,320
Speaker 1: that direction as it relates to college football and the

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Speaker 1: way it's presented on ESPN. Of course we want to

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Speaker 1: be a part of that. Of course we fully intend

1079
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Speaker 1: to be a part of that. So I don't have

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Speaker 1: any announce before you tonight. A lot of good conversations

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Speaker 1: are happening there. But you know. Anytime that any of

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00:57:44,760 --> 00:57:49,040
Speaker 1: this has come up in the past, longtime viewers of

1083
00:57:49,080 --> 00:57:53,520
Speaker 1: the show understandably freak out because they think, oh man,

1084
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Speaker 1: a good thing's going to come to an end. Here,

1085
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Speaker 1: nothing's coming to an end. I'm not stupid, so I'm

1086
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Speaker 1: not letting that happen. But what we do have is

1087
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Speaker 1: we got opportunity because of the show that we have pursued.

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Speaker 1: We will continue to pursue. But the other fear, which

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Speaker 1: is totally unfounded, is people think, like when you go

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Speaker 1: work with a network, all of a sudden something changes. Well,

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Speaker 1: I mean I've been up there. I've been in New

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Speaker 1: York City several times this year doing get Up in person,

1093
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Speaker 1: Like I am sitting in meeting rooms at six am

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Speaker 1: there with Mike Greenberg. What a point guard by the way,

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Speaker 1: with Mike Greenberg, but with an army of producers and

1096
00:58:33,640 --> 00:58:35,760
Speaker 1: an army of folks that have been there a long time.

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Speaker 1: We'll go up there with Will and Taylor. Anytime we

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Speaker 1: go up there, they're up there as well. Do you

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Speaker 1: know how many times in I don't know how many

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Speaker 1: dozens of hours of ESPN programming I've been on this

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Speaker 1: year that anyone got in my ear and told me

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Speaker 1: to say anything, or even suggested that I say anything,

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00:58:54,360 --> 00:58:57,840
Speaker 1: that'd be a goose egg zero. And I don't want

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Speaker 1: to just blindly speak for will Compton and Taylor, but

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Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure that answer that question the same way.

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00:59:04,720 --> 00:59:08,720
Speaker 1: It's actually the opposite. It's actually people who know what

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00:59:08,840 --> 00:59:12,280
Speaker 1: they're doing, looking at a product that works, looking at

1108
00:59:12,320 --> 00:59:16,480
Speaker 1: an audience like ours, understanding there must be something there,

1109
00:59:17,120 --> 00:59:21,040
Speaker 1: so let's let's work with that and not change a

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Speaker 1: thing about it. That's kind of the condition that you

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00:59:24,880 --> 00:59:27,120
Speaker 1: should want to work with someone under, and that's the

1112
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Speaker 1: condition we have worked with ESPN under and I'm eternally

1113
00:59:29,840 --> 00:59:33,480
Speaker 1: appreciative because I listen to you guys. They listen to

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Speaker 1: you guys, and your ultimate job is to serve the audience.

1115
00:59:38,600 --> 00:59:40,919
Speaker 1: So that's the goal. So that's what's happening right now,

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Speaker 1: a lot of good conversations, nothing official, but I'm sure

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Speaker 1: I'll have something for you down the road. Academy Sports

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Speaker 1: and Outdoors has something for you right now, also down

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Speaker 1: the road, depending on where you live, maybe a little

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Speaker 1: bit further down the road. But Academy dot Com is

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Speaker 1: there no matter what. And Academy dot Com, as many

1122
00:59:56,720 --> 00:59:58,000
Speaker 1: of you who have watched the show for a long

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Speaker 1: time know they were with us virtually from day one.

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Speaker 1: I'll always go like this because we lock arm in

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Speaker 1: arms with Academy Spring Sports coming up. It could be

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Speaker 1: randomly twenty degrees where you are right now, but it

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Speaker 1: is January. It is a fact that February will follow that,

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Speaker 1: and then March after that, and spring springs in March.

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Speaker 1: And you hear that faint sound of baseball bat pings,

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Speaker 1: and you hear children laughing, and that just means you

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Speaker 1: better head to Academy before that. You may need soccer gear,

1132
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Speaker 1: you may need baseball, you may need softball. You may

1133
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Speaker 1: not care at all about sports, but you just want

1134
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Speaker 1: to hang out outdoors, doesn't matter. All the gear is there,

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Speaker 1: the clothing is there, the footwear is there, the big

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Speaker 1: League chew is there. Everything is there. I just listed

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Speaker 1: all the essentials in life, and Academy Sports and Outdoors

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Speaker 1: has them all. And if you nick at their in person,

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Speaker 1: Academy dot com is your hook up. Roll it on,

1140
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Speaker 1: Bradley Jimmy from Dallas, GA. Which program could you see

1141
01:01:00,080 --> 01:01:03,680
Speaker 1: as the next potential to pull an Indiana like turnaround?

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Speaker 1: We are in Indiana show now I don't think it's duplicable, Jimmy. Now,

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01:01:09,000 --> 01:01:12,280
Speaker 1: the thing about what Indiana has done is for it

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Speaker 1: to happen, it'll have to come out of nowhere. So

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Speaker 1: I guess it's like a prerequisite to all of this

1146
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Speaker 1: that I would say as a response to this question,

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Speaker 1: I don't see it. But the thing is, I don't

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Speaker 1: know who the candidate would be. I'm gonna answer the

1149
01:01:27,040 --> 01:01:28,800
Speaker 1: question in a second, but I think I got to

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Speaker 1: kind of change the question because Indiana was dog water

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01:01:33,000 --> 01:01:37,520
Speaker 1: for decades. There wasn't even a period like in any

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Speaker 1: of our lifetimes. There wasn't even a period where they

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Speaker 1: had been kind of good. They came from nowhere. They

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Speaker 1: just they came. I don't know how else to say it.

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Speaker 1: They came from nowhere. So the closest that you would

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Speaker 1: look in the Big Ten would be like Purdue or

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Speaker 1: Maryland or Northwestern. Maybe Rutgers would be it. But these

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Speaker 1: are places is that have had success before. Maybe not

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Speaker 1: a ton, but they've had success at various points. Those

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Speaker 1: are teams that looked at Indiana being on the schedule

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Speaker 1: and said, oh good, at least we'll have a win there.

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Speaker 1: Indiana was worse than all of them. So I don't

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Speaker 1: really know, Like respectfully, I don't really know that you

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Speaker 1: can have another Indiana that comes out of nowhere down

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Speaker 1: in the SEC. It would have been Vandy. But Vandy's

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Speaker 1: like the Indiana of the SEC. Now a very poor

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Speaker 1: man's Indiana, mind you, but same theme, been a doormat forever. Frankly,

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Speaker 1: Vandy's got a better football history. I think that's safe

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Speaker 1: to say. They've had a little sparks here and there.

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Speaker 1: Bradley picked him to beat at Alabama twenty seventeen. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean, Vandy's made some noise. Indiana's not made any noise,

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Speaker 1: just a bunch of thuds, no noise, just thud after

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Speaker 1: thud after thub. I do have one candidate, maybe in

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Speaker 1: the SEC, but that's not the first one that comes

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Speaker 1: to mind. All right, So if I can slightly re

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Speaker 1: engineer this question, let's just say, what's the next program

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Speaker 1: out there that could come out of nowhere? Just crash

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Speaker 1: the playoff party? Mind you, these are not predictions, but

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Speaker 1: these are ones where if it were to happen, I

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Speaker 1: would look at it and I would say, yeah, I

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Speaker 1: guess in retrospect, the signs were there. Maybe Michigan State

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Speaker 1: is that team for me. Michigan State is that program

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Speaker 1: rather for me. They just made the underrated hire of

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Speaker 1: the cycle in Pat Fitzgerald. And I don't know why

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Speaker 1: in the world his name wasn't involved in more coaching surgeons.

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Speaker 1: Scratch that, I do. The reason was not nearly good enough.

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Speaker 1: Pat Fitzgerald is a phenomenal football coach, or Michigan State

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Speaker 1: rather ended up getting him. It is the steal of

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Speaker 1: the hiring cycle. His pedigree is proven. There's no mystery

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Speaker 1: as to whether Pat Fitzgerald can coach, There's no mystery

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Speaker 1: as to whether he can cast a vision. There's no mystery.

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Speaker 1: It's a new day in East Lansing, Michigan. Now. The

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Speaker 1: difference if you're trying to do the whole Indiana copy

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Speaker 1: paste here, he's not coming with you know, half a

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Speaker 1: dozen guys with him in the He's not coming with

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Speaker 1: a staff from his previous stop like Signetti did. So No,

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Speaker 1: it's not an apples to apples thing. I doubt there

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Speaker 1: will ever be an apples to apples comparison to what

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Speaker 1: Kurt Signetti just did. But Michigan State has big ten resources.

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Speaker 1: Don't kid yourself. This is not some poverty school. The

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Speaker 1: results had been poverty because they hadn't had the right

1202
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Speaker 1: leadership up there, and they didn't make the right hires.

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Speaker 1: I don't doubt they just made the right hire. Now,

1204
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Speaker 1: how long it takes Pat Fitzgerald to turn it around,

1205
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Speaker 1: that's the bigger question. Turnarounds are just capable of happening

1206
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Speaker 1: far quicker now than they were capable of happening a

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Speaker 1: generation to go. So put me down for if anyone

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Speaker 1: else pulls this off, if anyone else even remotely pulls

1209
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Speaker 1: off a whiff of what Indiana has done, Michigan State

1210
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Speaker 1: would be my candidate to come out of nowhere in

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Speaker 1: the SEC. It would be Kentucky. Let me again pause

1212
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Speaker 1: to remind everyone it's not an outright prediction, although I

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Speaker 1: did the other day make a little more noise frankly

1214
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Speaker 1: than I thought I was going to when I made

1215
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Speaker 1: an offhanded comment, not inappropriate unless you're a Louisville fan,

1216
01:05:02,840 --> 01:05:06,680
Speaker 1: but just an offhanded comment about will Stein. And I

1217
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Speaker 1: was watching them just clean up in the portal. I mean,

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Speaker 1: Kentucky's got quarterback. They went and just stole Kenny minshear

1219
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Speaker 1: from will Compton and Nebraska. So they got him. They've

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Speaker 1: portaled in three offensive linemen. I mean, will Stein's a

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Speaker 1: very highly thought of offensive mine. For those who don't know,

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Speaker 1: he was the coordinator at Oregon for a few years there,

1223
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Speaker 1: and he was the backfield for Kenny Dillingham. Maybe Kenny

1224
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Speaker 1: Dillingham is the comp here. Dillingham never been a head coach.

1225
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Speaker 1: Goes from Oregon to Arizona State. Boom, Arizona State takes off.

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Speaker 1: Can will Stein be Kentucky Dilly print the shirts? I

1227
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Speaker 1: don't know. But we're asking who could come out of nowhere.

1228
01:05:44,440 --> 01:05:46,000
Speaker 1: I don't know who else in the SEC could come

1229
01:05:46,000 --> 01:05:49,120
Speaker 1: out of nowhere. Silverfield at Arkansas maybe, but Arkansas had

1230
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Speaker 1: a measure of success in the past. Kentucky not so

1231
01:05:53,600 --> 01:05:57,320
Speaker 1: much in football. But they're a top thirty recruiter and

1232
01:05:57,360 --> 01:05:59,680
Speaker 1: they lost close games last year. It's not like they've

1233
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Speaker 1: been in the wilderness. Like there were people who were

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01:06:01,760 --> 01:06:04,720
Speaker 1: very surprised that they decided to move on from Stoops.

1235
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Speaker 1: So the other thing about the state of the SEC

1236
01:06:08,920 --> 01:06:12,600
Speaker 1: is there used to be a canyon between the upper

1237
01:06:12,600 --> 01:06:14,360
Speaker 1: tiers and the lower tiers, and now it's just like

1238
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Speaker 1: a really wide ditch. Because a lot of the highest

1239
01:06:18,440 --> 01:06:20,840
Speaker 1: trees have been shaved down a little bit when you're

1240
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Speaker 1: talking about talent rosters in depth. The third one, this

1241
01:06:24,200 --> 01:06:26,080
Speaker 1: is more of a wild card here, So I went

1242
01:06:26,120 --> 01:06:29,880
Speaker 1: with one big ten one SEC. I gotta be real

1243
01:06:29,920 --> 01:06:33,080
Speaker 1: with you, I'm gonna keep an eye on Oklahoma State.

1244
01:06:33,680 --> 01:06:36,720
Speaker 1: Oklahoma State just went hired Eric Morris from North Texas,

1245
01:06:37,120 --> 01:06:40,280
Speaker 1: and then Morris brought along his quarterback and his running back,

1246
01:06:40,400 --> 01:06:43,480
Speaker 1: So Mesta Maker and Hawkins were both top ten portal editions.

1247
01:06:44,240 --> 01:06:46,520
Speaker 1: But I think the Texas Tech effect is in play

1248
01:06:46,520 --> 01:06:49,160
Speaker 1: here because if you know anything about the Oklahoma State

1249
01:06:49,360 --> 01:06:54,520
Speaker 1: situation as of late, every second Mike Gundy spent as

1250
01:06:54,560 --> 01:06:57,080
Speaker 1: the head coach, there was another second that some of

1251
01:06:57,120 --> 01:07:01,320
Speaker 1: the big money refused to cooperate financially, and a lot

1252
01:07:01,320 --> 01:07:05,240
Speaker 1: of conditions for them opening up their wallet were Mike

1253
01:07:05,280 --> 01:07:08,960
Speaker 1: Gundhi leaving, so he's gone now and they brought in

1254
01:07:09,160 --> 01:07:12,000
Speaker 1: Eric Morris. And when I say the Texas Tech effect,

1255
01:07:12,880 --> 01:07:16,439
Speaker 1: I mean it like this. Just because Texas Tech ended

1256
01:07:16,480 --> 01:07:19,440
Speaker 1: up being the first Big twelve program to really just

1257
01:07:19,520 --> 01:07:23,240
Speaker 1: go all in financially and not even apologize for it

1258
01:07:23,280 --> 01:07:25,800
Speaker 1: and just be upfront about it, doesn't mean they're going

1259
01:07:25,880 --> 01:07:28,440
Speaker 1: to be the last one to do it, and this

1260
01:07:28,520 --> 01:07:29,960
Speaker 1: is kind of where it has to happen. The Big

1261
01:07:29,960 --> 01:07:32,480
Speaker 1: Twelve's kind of where it has to happen. So Texas

1262
01:07:32,480 --> 01:07:35,120
Speaker 1: Tech's not the only one where you got really deep

1263
01:07:35,160 --> 01:07:39,440
Speaker 1: pocketed people who really really love football. Oklahoma State's got

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Speaker 1: Last question as we get out of here after the question,

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Speaker 1: of course. Sports guy j from Atlanta said, seriously, is

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Speaker 1: kaylindbor In over his head at Alabama? And then Jay

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Speaker 1: just left. He gave me no context. He didn't really

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Speaker 1: tell me why he's asking this question. But he's not alone.

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Speaker 1: Jesse reliably has informed me this was the most asked

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Speaker 1: question of our last mailbag, offering people just doubting Kaylin

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Speaker 1: dbor out there. It's it's been a long road from

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Speaker 1: that twenty twenty three season Washington. So I can't really

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Speaker 1: tell are people asking this because of the Rose Bowl result?

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01:11:06,439 --> 01:11:09,599
Speaker 1: Are they asking this because of some transfer portal attrition?

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Speaker 1: Is a little bit of both, all just into one

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01:11:12,560 --> 01:11:15,120
Speaker 1: crimson and white sandwich of doubt, and you're just taking

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01:11:15,120 --> 01:11:17,720
Speaker 1: a big bite out of it. I think it's a

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Speaker 1: little both. This best I can tell, it's a little both.

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Speaker 1: All right. So Bama's lost some players in the portal.

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Speaker 1: They recently added a couple of players in the portal.

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Speaker 1: Stood to reason they were going to lose more than

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Speaker 1: they added. That is backed up by data right now,

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Speaker 1: So let me just walk you through something. I don't

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Speaker 1: think Kaylen de bores in over his head is the

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01:11:40,439 --> 01:11:42,760
Speaker 1: first answer to that question. I think he's doing fine, Like,

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Speaker 1: correct me if I'm wrong. They just want a playoff game.

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01:11:45,400 --> 01:11:47,720
Speaker 1: So I think he's doing okay. It could be a

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Speaker 1: lot worse. It's doing okay there, But forget about Bama

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Speaker 1: for a second, although this will apply to Alabama, Like,

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Speaker 1: what do you think works in college football? What do

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Speaker 1: you think works winning games? Right? How do you win games?

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Speaker 1: What puts you in the best position to win games?

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Speaker 1: So if you're down on Alabama right now and you're

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Speaker 1: doubt in Kaylin Debor, I want to ask you what

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Speaker 1: about them? Are you doubting? And if you're saying, well, man,

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Speaker 1: they're losing guys in the portal and they're not landing

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01:12:13,520 --> 01:12:15,200
Speaker 1: a bunch of big names in the portal, I want

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Speaker 1: to ask, fair enough, what is your formula for success?

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Speaker 1: How do you build a sustained winner? I'll tell you

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Speaker 1: how I build mine. And I've shared this many times,

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Speaker 1: so this isn't even specific to Alabama. I could just

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Speaker 1: assume be talking about Georgia or Texas, A and M

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Speaker 1: or anyone else. My blueprint would be number one, you

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Speaker 1: got to kill it in high school recruiting, which means

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Speaker 1: you've got to kill it in evaluation and development, which

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Speaker 1: means land the guys. Bama's had two top five classes

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Speaker 1: under debor, and then you've got to develop them, so

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Speaker 1: get the right players, develop them, and then thirdly invest

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Speaker 1: in them, meaning take most of your nil money, most

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Speaker 1: of your rev share money, and pay the players that

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Speaker 1: you properly evaluated when you're in the process of developing

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Speaker 1: to stay on your team, which is what their strategy

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Speaker 1: there has been. And then the third component is you

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Speaker 1: supplement via the portal. If you can go get a

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Speaker 1: Ty Haywood, go get a Ty Haywood. Noah Rodgers, Hey,

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Speaker 1: solid hurdle in the Bowl game, why not let's go

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Speaker 1: get him. We just Isaiah Horton. Let's backfill with Noah Rodgers.

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Speaker 1: That doesn't sound too dissimilar to what my actual blueprint

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Speaker 1: would be. I think Kirby's doing something similar in Georgia,

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Speaker 1: Like that's what my blueprint would be. So I'm not

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Speaker 1: about to say anyone's in over their head when all

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Speaker 1: they're doing is kind of how I would run it

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Speaker 1: if I were running a program. But here's the knot.

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Speaker 1: I don't need to look at the comment section on this.

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Speaker 1: I know what the replies are going to be. Josh,

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Speaker 1: aren't you knocking Clemson for taking that very approach? No,

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Speaker 1: I'm not. I'm knocking for I'm knocking Clemson because they've

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Speaker 1: just stubbornly not even looked the portal's way until recently,

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Speaker 1: until this cycle. Begrudgingly, I've knocked them for like almost

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Speaker 1: in dereliction of duty fashion not taking the portal seriously,

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Speaker 1: which Georgia and Alabama don't do. But also, it doesn't

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Speaker 1: matter if you're recruiting and retaining if you're not evaling

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Speaker 1: and developing properly. And I think Clemson has fallen a

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Speaker 1: little short there, and that's where I don't know, it

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Speaker 1: still remains to be seen with Alabama, Like, of course

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Speaker 1: they love that they're signing top five classes, and of

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Speaker 1: course they must believe in their guys enough to where

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Speaker 1: they're investing in retaining those players. But you can't be

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Speaker 1: watching Indiana do what they're doing right now. And you

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Speaker 1: can't be praising Kurt Signetti for having all these veteran

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01:14:45,520 --> 01:14:48,000
Speaker 1: guys that have been through the wars with him and

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Speaker 1: he's retained that roster. You can't do that, but then

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Speaker 1: look at BAM and say what are they doing? Or

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01:14:55,240 --> 01:14:59,160
Speaker 1: to a degree Georgia. What are they reinvesting in their

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Speaker 1: recruiting class, baking on developing guys through their system? Ough,

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01:15:05,840 --> 01:15:09,800
Speaker 1: what's wrong? What's happening there? Are they in over their

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01:15:09,800 --> 01:15:12,320
Speaker 1: heads like you gotta sing out of one hymnal or

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Speaker 1: the other. So I don't think that about Alabama. Hey man,

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Speaker 1: that doesn't mean they're gonna win the national title next year.

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Speaker 1: I haven't even looked at what those odds are. But

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Speaker 1: I don't think it's the craziest concept in the world

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01:15:24,800 --> 01:15:28,400
Speaker 1: to try and recruit really good high school classes, hit

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Speaker 1: on those guys, develop them, and then invest in retaining them,

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01:15:32,600 --> 01:15:37,120
Speaker 1: and then sprinkle portal additions in that. I can't get

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01:15:37,200 --> 01:15:39,360
Speaker 1: up in arms about that. It may be because I'm

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01:15:39,360 --> 01:15:42,160
Speaker 1: not so much in the weeds that I'm freaking out

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Speaker 1: with every move, Like I don't immerse myself in the portal.

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Speaker 1: So sometimes I don't even know what's happening on that front,

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01:15:48,640 --> 01:15:51,479
Speaker 1: but they I don't know. It just doesn't seem like

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Speaker 1: the crisis at Alabama that some people in the comment

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Speaker 1: section made it out to be. Who knows, who knows,

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Speaker 1: Maybe a little short, Maybe they'll go six and six. Maybe,

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Speaker 1: cost anything and it helps us. For director Bradley, Producer Jesse,

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