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Speaker 1: It is August twenty seventh, the Uar of Our Lord

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty. To say jam packed would be an understatement.

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Speaker 1: Just a slam packed show tonight. There you go a

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Speaker 1: new way to describe it. I'm looking at a rundown

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Speaker 1: which is hand drawn with very very informal bullet points

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Speaker 1: in front of me. We've got camp whispers and intel

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Speaker 1: from all three major Power five conferences that are left

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Speaker 1: at the table tonight. We've got a major injury unfortunately

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Speaker 1: to talk about it Georgia, and we're not just going

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Speaker 1: to dwell on the injury, like what does it mean?

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Speaker 1: How does it impact Georgia and your team potentially? And

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Speaker 1: this is gonna be one that potentially shakes up the

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Speaker 1: SEC Championship picture, playoff picture. You get the drift there,

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Speaker 1: the Big Ten. We try and move away from it,

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Speaker 1: but yet the Big Ten continues to be the faucet

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Speaker 1: that it's not even flow to a drip. Yet there's

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Speaker 1: a steady flow of new drama that comes out of

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Speaker 1: the Big Ten. And drama's not necessarily the currency with

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Speaker 1: which we run this show on. But you know that

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Speaker 1: we've been talking about this a lot, and we've got

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Speaker 1: very strong opinions on it, and so we got some

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Speaker 1: stuff to talk about with the Big ten tonight. I mean,

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Speaker 1: there's been news I would call it pretty significant that's

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Speaker 1: broken just this afternoon. And recruiting. We have not spoken

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Speaker 1: be innovation born through necessity, and it's happening. It's happening

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Speaker 1: at Oklahoma, it happened at Georgia over the weekend. And

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Speaker 1: just want to suggest, let's care about the accusations that

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Speaker 1: boy Hugh probably going to be doing what the Sooners

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Speaker 1: So before we get started tonight, I said it on

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Speaker 1: the Sunday Night show. Let me repeat it for those

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Speaker 1: In a couple of weeks, I challenged you. Gave a

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Speaker 1: good old fashioned call to action a couple of weeks ago,

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Speaker 1: get us to five hundred five star reviews in Apple podcasts.

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Speaker 1: Some of you said, what if I don't listen in Apple?

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Speaker 1: What's talking about Apple so much? For just happens to

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Speaker 1: Now let's dive right in. We've kicked off every show

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Speaker 1: at LSU. Eric Gilbert is a guy very high profile.

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Speaker 1: him has been something that Florida State fans have kind

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Speaker 1: Tillafhilly down at Florida State. He's a true freshman. He's

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Speaker 1: a running back. Mike Norvel loves him, Everyone loves him. Versatility. Really,

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Speaker 1: me either way, to be honest with you, I think

431
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Speaker 1: it which probably shocked me far more at this point

432
00:20:21,760 --> 00:20:24,680
Speaker 1: if they were to go radical change again. Losing the

433
00:20:24,720 --> 00:20:27,679
Speaker 1: spring is a big part of this. So that's the

434
00:20:27,720 --> 00:20:30,880
Speaker 1: one big question. The other big question is, well, now

435
00:20:30,920 --> 00:20:33,000
Speaker 1: you take Don Blaylock off of the depth chart, here,

436
00:20:33,200 --> 00:20:36,920
Speaker 1: who's next up? And if you are familiar with Georgia football,

437
00:20:36,960 --> 00:20:39,400
Speaker 1: you know names like Demetrius Robertson, who's a former five

438
00:20:39,440 --> 00:20:42,480
Speaker 1: star receiver in his own right, and Kiris Jackson. Those

439
00:20:42,480 --> 00:20:44,679
Speaker 1: are well known names on their depth chart. But to me,

440
00:20:45,320 --> 00:20:47,720
Speaker 1: when we go back to the early signing period and

441
00:20:47,760 --> 00:20:50,800
Speaker 1: we were actually the camera Colin has me on right now.

442
00:20:50,920 --> 00:20:53,880
Speaker 1: Behind that, there's this stage in our studio and we

443
00:20:53,880 --> 00:20:57,680
Speaker 1: were seated there and we were talking about last minute flips,

444
00:20:57,760 --> 00:20:59,320
Speaker 1: and we were doing this on signing day, but we

445
00:20:59,320 --> 00:21:01,480
Speaker 1: were looking back to the early signing date because that's

446
00:21:01,480 --> 00:21:04,520
Speaker 1: when Georgia had flipped Jermaine Burton from LSU at the

447
00:21:04,600 --> 00:21:06,439
Speaker 1: last minute. It kind of been in the works, but

448
00:21:06,920 --> 00:21:10,439
Speaker 1: it was a last minute public flip from LSU and

449
00:21:10,520 --> 00:21:12,840
Speaker 1: signed with Georgia, and that was a big hit at

450
00:21:12,880 --> 00:21:15,600
Speaker 1: the wide receiver position. Now, at the time, you probably

451
00:21:15,600 --> 00:21:17,480
Speaker 1: didn't think that you were gonna need him. It would

452
00:21:17,480 --> 00:21:18,639
Speaker 1: be nice to have him. You didn't think you were

453
00:21:18,640 --> 00:21:21,560
Speaker 1: gonna need him as a true freshman, and maybe you

454
00:21:21,600 --> 00:21:23,840
Speaker 1: still don't. But you can talk about Ciris Jacks, you

455
00:21:23,840 --> 00:21:26,159
Speaker 1: can talk about Robertson, and those are good players. To me,

456
00:21:26,240 --> 00:21:28,240
Speaker 1: they got to have Jermaine Burton. That's a guy who

457
00:21:28,280 --> 00:21:30,240
Speaker 1: is They really need him to pop, They really need

458
00:21:30,320 --> 00:21:33,200
Speaker 1: him to rapidly develop to the point where they can

459
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Speaker 1: use him this year. I haven't heard a whole lot

460
00:21:36,080 --> 00:21:38,040
Speaker 1: about him out of camp. That's not good or bad.

461
00:21:38,040 --> 00:21:40,120
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, I personally haven't heard a whole lot

462
00:21:40,119 --> 00:21:42,840
Speaker 1: about him. I know George Vans are really razor sharp

463
00:21:42,880 --> 00:21:46,080
Speaker 1: focused on him right now. That's the name to focus

464
00:21:46,119 --> 00:21:48,120
Speaker 1: on right now. And that could be one of those

465
00:21:48,160 --> 00:21:51,280
Speaker 1: deals where you never know at the time, like you

466
00:21:51,359 --> 00:21:54,960
Speaker 1: never know which recruit you lose or which one that

467
00:21:55,000 --> 00:21:56,679
Speaker 1: you get that you didn't think you were gonna have.

468
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Speaker 1: You never know which one player could be difference in

469
00:22:00,920 --> 00:22:03,320
Speaker 1: one or two wins or losses for you in a year.

470
00:22:03,840 --> 00:22:06,200
Speaker 1: You can't quantify it. It's very hard to know because

471
00:22:06,320 --> 00:22:08,840
Speaker 1: football games are really weird and that ball bounces really

472
00:22:08,840 --> 00:22:11,960
Speaker 1: funny ways. Who's to say that Jermaine Burton doesn't step

473
00:22:12,040 --> 00:22:14,240
Speaker 1: up and make four catches for eighty seven yards and

474
00:22:14,280 --> 00:22:17,840
Speaker 1: two touchdowns against Kentucky in an otherwise sloppy game the

475
00:22:17,880 --> 00:22:20,359
Speaker 1: week after they played who is at Alabama or whoever?

476
00:22:20,720 --> 00:22:23,119
Speaker 1: And they win an ugly game because of Jermaine Burton.

477
00:22:23,160 --> 00:22:25,320
Speaker 1: Who knows. Point is you got to have them on

478
00:22:25,400 --> 00:22:27,600
Speaker 1: campus to use him, and they got Burton, So hopefully

479
00:22:27,720 --> 00:22:29,200
Speaker 1: he's a guy that can make a jump for Georgia

480
00:22:29,200 --> 00:22:30,600
Speaker 1: this year. But it's a big loss now. There's no

481
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Speaker 1: way to sugarcoat that. The latest out of the Big Ten.

482
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Speaker 1: We have spoken about the Big Ten in a variety

483
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Speaker 1: of different ways the last several episodes of Late Kick Live,

484
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Speaker 1: and we continue to do so. There have been several

485
00:22:43,840 --> 00:22:47,720
Speaker 1: miscalculations from Big Ten leadership used that term loosely in

486
00:22:47,760 --> 00:22:53,679
Speaker 1: all lowercase letters right now. The most apparent two miscalculations

487
00:22:53,880 --> 00:22:57,679
Speaker 1: that they've made is number one. It's readily apparent at

488
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Speaker 1: this point, as we've spoken about, they did expect a

489
00:23:00,640 --> 00:23:03,840
Speaker 1: huge blowback on the decision to postpone their season just

490
00:23:03,920 --> 00:23:06,600
Speaker 1: point blank. They didn't expect it, and they've gotten it.

491
00:23:06,920 --> 00:23:09,320
Speaker 1: I'd say they've gotten it. And then some number two

492
00:23:10,600 --> 00:23:14,600
Speaker 1: they made another miscalculation in believing in that old pr

493
00:23:14,760 --> 00:23:17,719
Speaker 1: tactic of just play possum. You know, the old adage

494
00:23:17,760 --> 00:23:20,679
Speaker 1: in PR is they'll only chase you as long as

495
00:23:20,720 --> 00:23:23,280
Speaker 1: you run. So if you just play possum and you

496
00:23:23,400 --> 00:23:26,080
Speaker 1: just lay there, yeah, they may kick you for a second,

497
00:23:26,160 --> 00:23:29,560
Speaker 1: but I mean, nobody chases something that's just laying there.

498
00:23:30,200 --> 00:23:33,160
Speaker 1: And that was a miscalculation because the Big ten has

499
00:23:33,240 --> 00:23:36,080
Speaker 1: been running. They just haven't realized it. They thought, we'll

500
00:23:36,080 --> 00:23:38,960
Speaker 1: make the decision and then it's done, and then we're

501
00:23:38,960 --> 00:23:41,840
Speaker 1: just gonna kind of cross our arms and we're gonna

502
00:23:41,840 --> 00:23:43,919
Speaker 1: look around and say, Okay, I mean, you're mad, but

503
00:23:44,160 --> 00:23:46,879
Speaker 1: we made our decision. And they don't think they're running,

504
00:23:47,040 --> 00:23:49,760
Speaker 1: but they have been running because every day that's gone

505
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Speaker 1: by that they haven't made votes public from thirteen to fourteen,

506
00:23:54,880 --> 00:23:58,320
Speaker 1: public universities and presidents that decided this thing, and every

507
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Speaker 1: day that goes by that they haven't publicized this abundantly

508
00:24:02,320 --> 00:24:06,080
Speaker 1: clear data. Remember the words abundantly clear data that was

509
00:24:06,119 --> 00:24:09,680
Speaker 1: provided to them or that was allegedly used to decide

510
00:24:09,840 --> 00:24:12,520
Speaker 1: all of this. On August eleventh, six days after releasing

511
00:24:12,520 --> 00:24:14,680
Speaker 1: a schedule every day that goes by that they keep

512
00:24:14,720 --> 00:24:18,119
Speaker 1: all that stuff behind closed doors. It's the equivalent of

513
00:24:18,200 --> 00:24:21,760
Speaker 1: running they've been running. We told you last week, we

514
00:24:21,880 --> 00:24:24,360
Speaker 1: told you two weeks ago, this is not going anywhere.

515
00:24:24,640 --> 00:24:27,000
Speaker 1: That fire is not going to die up there, and

516
00:24:27,560 --> 00:24:31,000
Speaker 1: we were right, and it continues to grow. I normally

517
00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:33,320
Speaker 1: don't question things like play calling. If you've watched this

518
00:24:33,400 --> 00:24:35,359
Speaker 1: show for a while, you know that. I don't believe

519
00:24:35,359 --> 00:24:37,720
Speaker 1: in really questioning play calling because there's so much that

520
00:24:37,800 --> 00:24:41,280
Speaker 1: you can't possibly know. I don't believe in questioning NFL

521
00:24:41,400 --> 00:24:45,159
Speaker 1: draft decisions because normally, when people are questioning those things,

522
00:24:45,200 --> 00:24:48,320
Speaker 1: it's after the fact. Therefore they have the benefit of hindsight,

523
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Speaker 1: and I don't believe in using the weapon of hindsight,

524
00:24:51,680 --> 00:24:54,040
Speaker 1: which the people who are making the decisions don't get

525
00:24:54,119 --> 00:24:57,119
Speaker 1: to have. This instance is different. You could look at

526
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Speaker 1: me and say, well, Josh, that's very hypocritical because you've

527
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Speaker 1: been really critical of the Big Ten after they've made

528
00:25:02,400 --> 00:25:04,840
Speaker 1: the decision. No, I was critical as they made the decision.

529
00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:08,639
Speaker 1: So with the same information available that they had. I

530
00:25:08,760 --> 00:25:11,119
Speaker 1: watched them make the decision, and in real time I

531
00:25:11,160 --> 00:25:13,639
Speaker 1: thought it was horrible. And now a lot more people

532
00:25:13,720 --> 00:25:17,800
Speaker 1: in Big ten country are stepping to the plate and saying, yeah,

533
00:25:17,800 --> 00:25:20,200
Speaker 1: this is horrible and just going to have really catastrophic

534
00:25:20,240 --> 00:25:23,840
Speaker 1: results if we don't change course. Here Now you may say,

535
00:25:23,840 --> 00:25:27,160
Speaker 1: what do you mean change course? This is decided, and yeah,

536
00:25:27,200 --> 00:25:29,360
Speaker 1: it seems like it is decided. But I just want

537
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Speaker 1: to ask you a question. I was driving home the

538
00:25:31,280 --> 00:25:34,119
Speaker 1: other night and I was thinking to myself, you know,

539
00:25:34,280 --> 00:25:37,720
Speaker 1: if you separate all of the fact and all the

540
00:25:37,840 --> 00:25:40,360
Speaker 1: rumor and all this and that, and you just kind

541
00:25:40,400 --> 00:25:42,760
Speaker 1: of clear the haze out of the room, and you think,

542
00:25:42,800 --> 00:25:48,920
Speaker 1: clearly for a second, what, even today, on August twenty seventh,

543
00:25:49,880 --> 00:25:52,840
Speaker 1: even today, if they changed their minds in the Big Ten,

544
00:25:53,160 --> 00:25:55,880
Speaker 1: what's stopping them from starting a season on time last

545
00:25:55,880 --> 00:25:58,560
Speaker 1: week of September. What's stopping that? They're still on campus,

546
00:25:58,600 --> 00:26:03,159
Speaker 1: they're still practicing. So what would stop that? And outside

547
00:26:03,160 --> 00:26:06,840
Speaker 1: of a terrible pride hit, I couldn't really think of

548
00:26:06,880 --> 00:26:09,560
Speaker 1: a whole lot. And I asked around and I said,

549
00:26:09,560 --> 00:26:12,200
Speaker 1: give me some tangible answers, like what is it? What

550
00:26:12,320 --> 00:26:15,520
Speaker 1: mechanism has been put in place. What stream has been

551
00:26:15,560 --> 00:26:18,879
Speaker 1: severed that you couldn't Reattach to not be able to

552
00:26:18,880 --> 00:26:21,359
Speaker 1: make a season happen. No one could give me anything.

553
00:26:21,720 --> 00:26:23,920
Speaker 1: There's nothing standing in the way. There are no stop

554
00:26:23,960 --> 00:26:25,640
Speaker 1: signs that have been put into place. If the right

555
00:26:25,680 --> 00:26:29,720
Speaker 1: people change their minds, you would have some roadblocks to overcome,

556
00:26:29,840 --> 00:26:32,639
Speaker 1: but you could do it now. If the answer to

557
00:26:32,720 --> 00:26:35,119
Speaker 1: the question is we're not going to start the season

558
00:26:35,200 --> 00:26:38,439
Speaker 1: because we haven't changed our minds. We still believe the

559
00:26:38,440 --> 00:26:40,560
Speaker 1: decision that we made is the right decision. Well, if

560
00:26:40,600 --> 00:26:44,240
Speaker 1: that is the retort, then I follow with this. Okay,

561
00:26:44,600 --> 00:26:46,720
Speaker 1: then it's time to back it up. It's time to

562
00:26:46,760 --> 00:26:49,399
Speaker 1: back it up because this again is not going away.

563
00:26:49,520 --> 00:26:51,760
Speaker 1: It's going to be at your doorstep for a long time.

564
00:26:51,960 --> 00:26:54,320
Speaker 1: Dave Biddle with our butt Nut site that's our Ohio

565
00:26:54,400 --> 00:26:56,280
Speaker 1: State twenty four to seven side, had a really good

566
00:26:56,280 --> 00:26:57,960
Speaker 1: piece out today. I would encourage you to go look

567
00:26:57,960 --> 00:26:59,840
Speaker 1: at it. It's free, everyone can look at it. And

568
00:27:00,280 --> 00:27:05,000
Speaker 1: it was basically kind of summarizing what is a rapidly

569
00:27:05,040 --> 00:27:08,720
Speaker 1: growing sentiment in the Big ten. A lot of folks

570
00:27:08,760 --> 00:27:10,760
Speaker 1: thought when they made this decision it was only a

571
00:27:10,800 --> 00:27:13,360
Speaker 1: matter of time and all the other Power five dominoes

572
00:27:13,359 --> 00:27:16,120
Speaker 1: were going to fall, and therefore all of this would

573
00:27:16,119 --> 00:27:18,520
Speaker 1: be irrelevant. If anything, the Big Ten may look like

574
00:27:18,520 --> 00:27:21,399
Speaker 1: a bunch of visionaries that made the first decision that

575
00:27:21,440 --> 00:27:23,880
Speaker 1: eventually everyone was going to have to make, Folks, That's

576
00:27:23,920 --> 00:27:25,760
Speaker 1: not the way this is going to happen. I don't

577
00:27:25,760 --> 00:27:27,840
Speaker 1: know how things are going to conclude in the SEC

578
00:27:28,119 --> 00:27:30,200
Speaker 1: or the ACC or the Big Twelve, but I'm telling

579
00:27:30,240 --> 00:27:32,480
Speaker 1: you I bet a lot of money right now. They're

580
00:27:32,520 --> 00:27:35,000
Speaker 1: getting their seasons off the ground. There's gonna be college

581
00:27:35,000 --> 00:27:37,960
Speaker 1: football in the SEC and the ACC and the Big

582
00:27:38,000 --> 00:27:39,840
Speaker 1: Twelve this year. I would bet a lot of money

583
00:27:39,920 --> 00:27:42,520
Speaker 1: on that right now. So how it ends is another story.

584
00:27:42,720 --> 00:27:45,360
Speaker 1: But you're going to sit around. As Dave Biddle wrote

585
00:27:45,400 --> 00:27:47,280
Speaker 1: in his piece today again on buttnuts dot Com, I

586
00:27:47,280 --> 00:27:49,320
Speaker 1: would encourage you to go look at it. And he's

587
00:27:49,359 --> 00:27:51,800
Speaker 1: talking about how the realization is starting to set in.

588
00:27:52,200 --> 00:27:54,199
Speaker 1: This is a realization we have spoken about on this

589
00:27:54,240 --> 00:27:57,440
Speaker 1: show for two months now. If someone out there made

590
00:27:57,440 --> 00:28:00,000
Speaker 1: the decision to cancel or postpone, whatever you want to say,

591
00:28:00,400 --> 00:28:03,360
Speaker 1: I view them as interchangeable right now. If someone made

592
00:28:03,359 --> 00:28:07,600
Speaker 1: that decision and everyone else didn't follow, and they voluntarily

593
00:28:07,880 --> 00:28:10,399
Speaker 1: put themselves on that island and they were forced to

594
00:28:10,400 --> 00:28:13,600
Speaker 1: look offshore and watch everyone else or some other folks

595
00:28:13,680 --> 00:28:18,360
Speaker 1: play successfully college football seasons. That's some stuff you may

596
00:28:18,359 --> 00:28:21,040
Speaker 1: not be able to come back from, totally catastrophic for

597
00:28:21,080 --> 00:28:24,879
Speaker 1: many different reasons. And so now we get news this

598
00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:29,640
Speaker 1: afternoon that eight parents of Nebraska Cornhusker players are filing

599
00:28:29,680 --> 00:28:33,720
Speaker 1: lawsuit against the league office and they are seeking really

600
00:28:33,760 --> 00:28:36,320
Speaker 1: to have the decision overturned. That's really what they want.

601
00:28:36,440 --> 00:28:38,760
Speaker 1: It's not so much they're chasing money. In fact, that

602
00:28:38,800 --> 00:28:40,800
Speaker 1: was in the brief that was released. They're not chasing money.

603
00:28:41,120 --> 00:28:43,680
Speaker 1: And one of the quotes that was included in that

604
00:28:43,800 --> 00:28:47,520
Speaker 1: release is they alleged that the league relied on flawed

605
00:28:47,600 --> 00:28:53,440
Speaker 1: data with no application to present data available to make

606
00:28:53,480 --> 00:28:57,280
Speaker 1: a decision. So what do you think about that? Some

607
00:28:57,320 --> 00:28:59,280
Speaker 1: people are for, some people are against, Some people think

608
00:28:59,280 --> 00:29:02,600
Speaker 1: it's time to move on. Some people are beating the drum. Well,

609
00:29:02,920 --> 00:29:06,240
Speaker 1: here's what I would suggest. Tell me what this hurts,

610
00:29:06,280 --> 00:29:09,080
Speaker 1: because at the very least, I think it's time for

611
00:29:09,120 --> 00:29:12,880
Speaker 1: the Big Ten to make that vote record public. If

612
00:29:12,920 --> 00:29:15,160
Speaker 1: you took a vote, if you didn't, then talk about

613
00:29:15,160 --> 00:29:17,720
Speaker 1: the process. Just be transparent. That's really what people want.

614
00:29:17,720 --> 00:29:19,560
Speaker 1: You notice, no one's really banging on the Pack twelve

615
00:29:19,560 --> 00:29:22,080
Speaker 1: as much. At least they were transparent. You may not

616
00:29:22,120 --> 00:29:24,680
Speaker 1: agree with the decision they made, but number one, they

617
00:29:24,680 --> 00:29:27,480
Speaker 1: had different sets of obstacles out there to overcome at

618
00:29:27,480 --> 00:29:30,560
Speaker 1: the state levels. And number two, they've been transparent, like

619
00:29:30,600 --> 00:29:33,640
Speaker 1: they told you exactly why we canceled, and here's the

620
00:29:33,720 --> 00:29:36,080
Speaker 1: reasons we canceled. And you know, if you like them,

621
00:29:36,080 --> 00:29:38,160
Speaker 1: if you don't like them, that's fine. But they were transparent.

622
00:29:38,520 --> 00:29:40,520
Speaker 1: And so no one's really banged on the Pack twelve.

623
00:29:40,640 --> 00:29:42,680
Speaker 1: Everyone's banging on the Big ten cause they've been anything

624
00:29:42,680 --> 00:29:46,880
Speaker 1: but transparent. They want to know how that vote, how

625
00:29:46,920 --> 00:29:50,080
Speaker 1: the decision making process happened. They want to know why

626
00:29:50,120 --> 00:29:53,560
Speaker 1: the sudden reversal. You release a league schedule and then

627
00:29:53,680 --> 00:29:55,880
Speaker 1: you say it's abundantly clear, we need to do postpone

628
00:29:55,920 --> 00:29:59,280
Speaker 1: six days later. They want to know the exact data

629
00:30:00,160 --> 00:30:03,959
Speaker 1: made it so abundantly clear, because what you've released, as

630
00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:06,880
Speaker 1: they're talking about here, the league relying on flawed data.

631
00:30:07,200 --> 00:30:10,040
Speaker 1: The bit that Kevin Warren and company did release has

632
00:30:10,080 --> 00:30:13,040
Speaker 1: been beaten to death like a pinata by people, very

633
00:30:13,080 --> 00:30:15,520
Speaker 1: informed people in the medical community. Have looked at it

634
00:30:15,560 --> 00:30:18,440
Speaker 1: and said, is this all you've got? Are you serious?

635
00:30:18,800 --> 00:30:21,680
Speaker 1: This is what you're trying to pass off as legitimate

636
00:30:21,720 --> 00:30:24,440
Speaker 1: reason to postpone your season. I don't think so you

637
00:30:24,520 --> 00:30:27,000
Speaker 1: better have something else, And so far we haven't seen

638
00:30:27,040 --> 00:30:30,440
Speaker 1: anything else. So in conclusion, this is very much to

639
00:30:30,520 --> 00:30:33,640
Speaker 1: be continued. Talking to some people kind of in the

640
00:30:33,640 --> 00:30:36,600
Speaker 1: Big ten circle today, all of them were sort of

641
00:30:36,600 --> 00:30:39,200
Speaker 1: in unison saying here's what you need to watch next.

642
00:30:40,080 --> 00:30:44,560
Speaker 1: Watch how fervently the Big ten league office tries to

643
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Speaker 1: squirm and wiggle their way out of having to provide this.

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Speaker 1: And I ask you again as I did, what harm

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Speaker 1: would there be in simply answering players, coaches, parents of players.

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Speaker 1: I mean, these are people who are directly impacted by this.

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Speaker 1: What would be the harm in saying, okay, here's how

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Speaker 1: the vote went again. Thirteen or fourteen publicly funded universities,

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Speaker 1: public universities Northwestern the one outlier. So you're paying their salaries.

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Speaker 1: All you want to know is how they voted. You

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Speaker 1: want to know what data they relied on, and you

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Speaker 1: want to know why was there such a sudden reversal.

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Speaker 1: That's what you want to know. Just simple transparency and

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Speaker 1: there's such an effort to keep that under wraps. So

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Speaker 1: I'll lick my finger, I'll turn the page here, ask

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Speaker 1: yourself why would that be, and then you understand why

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Speaker 1: this is to be continued. How about some recruiting. We

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Speaker 1: got a question from Chase today that normally I would

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Speaker 1: push to the Late Kick Extra podcast. And for those

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Speaker 1: of you, by the way, who I haven't mentioned this

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Speaker 1: how that works. I answer one or two questions per

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Speaker 1: Late Kick Extra Podcast. It's not available on YouTube. We

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Speaker 1: a week, but now we've gone to two a week

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Speaker 1: starting next week, and it's just mail bag. It's just

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Speaker 1: Q and A at Late Kick Josh on Twitter, Josh

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Speaker 1: paid seven zero six at gmail dot com. You can

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Speaker 1: look right below this video if you're watching on YouTube,

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Speaker 1: and that's how we aggregate the questions for the podcast.

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Speaker 1: So Chase submitted one in my Twitter and bugs I think,

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Speaker 1: and he said, what are your thoughts on Georgia and

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Speaker 1: Oklahoma having these big recruiting weekends this past weekend? How

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Speaker 1: is that even legal? So? I thought we need to

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Speaker 1: address this because I don't know that a lot of

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Speaker 1: you are aware of this. How many of you have

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Speaker 1: heard of the Sooner Summit? I know a lot of

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Speaker 1: you Oklahoma fans have. The Sooner Summit happened this past weekend.

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Speaker 1: It was a big recruiting event, and maybe some of

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Speaker 1: you who have kind of been paying attention are with

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Speaker 1: Chase and you're saying, wait a second, what are you

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Speaker 1: talking about a recruiting event. You can't be having a

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Speaker 1: recruiting event. It's a dead period. No one can do anything. Well,

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Speaker 1: you're right, Lincoln Riley can't do anything, Alex Grinch can't

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Speaker 1: do anything. Oklahoma can't do anything, but their recruits can.

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Speaker 1: Caleb Williams, top quarterback in the country committed to the Sooners,

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Speaker 1: might as well be a six star recruit right now.

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Speaker 1: For all I'm concerned for what he's doing for Oklahoma.

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Speaker 1: They can organize themselves, and that's what they did. It

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Speaker 1: happened at Georgia too. They just didn't have a fancy

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Speaker 1: nickname for it, so Sooner Summit garnered most of the headlines.

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Speaker 1: But here's what happened. What happened is Caleb Williams for Oklahoma,

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Speaker 1: who is again the top eighted quarterback in the country

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Speaker 1: this year for the twenty four to seven Sports recruiting rankings.

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Speaker 1: He kind of organized an effort to get a bunch

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Speaker 1: of guys, some committed, some not big names now not

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Speaker 1: going to go down the list. Watch the Wilfong recruiting

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Speaker 1: if you're interested. But they got a whole bunch of

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Speaker 1: guys and they said, hey, we're allowed to go to

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Speaker 1: campus if we want to. I mean, it's a free country.

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Speaker 1: We can go wherever we want to. So let's go

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Speaker 1: to Norman. Let's just have our own recruiting weekend. Some

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Speaker 1: of you who aren't committed yet and you want to

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Speaker 1: get to know me. I'm the leader of this class.

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Speaker 1: I'm the alpha in this class. Show up in Norman

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Speaker 1: this weekend. And guess what, a lot of folks showed

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Speaker 1: up in Norman. And the reason why people are casting

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Speaker 1: stones right now is a lot of people are saying

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Speaker 1: there's no way that players just organize that there's no

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Speaker 1: way that coaches weren't at least somewhat involved behind the scenes.

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Speaker 1: I'm not here to tell you that because I don't

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Speaker 1: have evidence of that, nord to you. What I'm saying

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Speaker 1: is be careful with the accusations. Because while it was

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Speaker 1: Oklahoma and Georgia this weekend, I applaud them because this

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Speaker 1: is the kind of innovation that you have to enact

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Speaker 1: through desperation. Right now. You can't do what you would

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Speaker 1: normally be doing this time of year. So it was

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Speaker 1: only a matter of time before someone figured out an

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Speaker 1: alternate way of getting things done, and you got a

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Speaker 1: credit folks like Caleb Williams. And with Georgia, they had

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Speaker 1: a Marius Mems five star offensive tackle on campus. They

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Speaker 1: had Corey Foreman, who is fresh off California. I mean,

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Speaker 1: the guy flew all the way across the country on

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Speaker 1: his own dime, and Terry and Arnold in town, and

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Speaker 1: I had a bunch of other ones too. I can't

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Speaker 1: remember all of them, but the point is you get

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Speaker 1: them on campus as many times as you can't officially, unofficially,

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Speaker 1: whatever the case may be. Now a lot of people

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Speaker 1: asking well is it legal, Well, yeah, it's legal because

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Speaker 1: they were unofficial visits. So unless you've unearthed something that

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Speaker 1: is actually valid that I don't know about, yeah, everything's

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Speaker 1: on the up and up. Everything's legal. It's unofficial fan basis.

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Speaker 1: Like I said, just be careful, just because if you're

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Speaker 1: a Florida State fan and you're watching this, or Texas

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Speaker 1: fan maybe since it was Oklahoma and you're watching it

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Speaker 1: saying that's not right, Well, you'll probably be doing it

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Speaker 1: by next weekend, I would imagine most everyone. We'll try

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Speaker 1: and figure out a way to do this, which brings

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Speaker 1: me to my next question. Who is the alpha of

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Speaker 1: your recruiting class? Hopefully you got more than one, but

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Speaker 1: hopefully at least you got one. And those are the

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Speaker 1: kind of guys that are worth an additional star next

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Speaker 1: to their name because they're essentially like a coach that's committed.

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Speaker 1: They're committed, and now they've taken it upon themselves to

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Speaker 1: do the work that right now the coaches can't do

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Speaker 1: in most years they can do it and this is

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Speaker 1: just an added help. But right now they're ultra valuable

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Speaker 1: because they're doing what coaches can't do. And the other

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Speaker 1: thing that I just kind of wanted to toss in

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Speaker 1: here since we were talking about Oklahoma is I was

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Speaker 1: talking to Steve Wolfong the other day and we do

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Speaker 1: a weekly hit. It's the Wolfong recruiting whip around, a

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Speaker 1: whole lot of intel, whole a lot of recruiting juice

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Speaker 1: that sometimes you haven't heard yet, and it's on the

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Speaker 1: twenty four seven Sports YouTube channel. But you know, I

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Speaker 1: was talking to Wolfong off the air and he kind

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Speaker 1: of reiterrated it on the air. He said, Man, the

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Speaker 1: way Oklahoma is recruiting defensively right now, never seen it before,

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Speaker 1: and you know it may not show up this year.

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Speaker 1: Like everyone's most recent memory of Oklahoma is LSU painting

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Speaker 1: the walls with their blood in the SEC champ or

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Speaker 1: in the playoff semi final game. And I mean it

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Speaker 1: was what they have forty nine points at halftime, so

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Speaker 1: I mean LSU could have named the score, and from

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Speaker 1: now until eternity, until they prove otherwise, people will just

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Speaker 1: think Oklahoma can't play good enough defense to win at

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Speaker 1: that level. They can win the Big Twelve, but they

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Speaker 1: can't win anything past that. I don't believe that. Maybe

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Speaker 1: it has been true, but I did a segment a

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Speaker 1: a national championship with Oklahoma, and the reason it's going

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Speaker 1: to happen is because what they've been to is not

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Speaker 1: what they're going to always be. Defensively, Alex Grinch, all

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Speaker 1: the signs are there. Everyone there believes he's the right guy.

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Speaker 1: I believe he's the right guy. He has begun to

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Speaker 1: significantly overturn the defensive roster. But now look at the

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Speaker 1: guys they are either bringing in or they are in

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Speaker 1: the thick of it recruiting for. Those guys are going

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Speaker 1: to be and I think they're going to land a

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Speaker 1: bunch of them. Those guys are going to end up

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Speaker 1: being the cornerstones in the reason why Oklahoma is going

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Speaker 1: to go from being a nice Big twelve story to

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Speaker 1: a bona fide annually national championship contender and a team

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Speaker 1: that you no longer look at three years from now

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Speaker 1: and say, oh dude, we're going to rip them to shreds.

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Speaker 1: They'll be legitimate. Alex Grinch is the right guy they're

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Speaker 1: recruiting at a different level. I know a lot of

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Speaker 1: people have to see it to believe it. I haven't

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Speaker 1: seen it yet, and I already believe it. With Oklahoma,

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Speaker 1: good show tonight, We've got a lot coming up. We

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Speaker 1: you do a live show on here and then it's

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Speaker 1: Can't wait to explain it again in about two hours

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Speaker 1: from now in the comment section. But for the ninety

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