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Speaker 1: twenty twenty six, everyone lost power. Winter storm of the century,

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Speaker 1: The college Football Playoff is not expanding next year. They

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Speaker 1: com and read our boy Brett McMurphy on this today,

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Speaker 1: should talk to Northwestern fans and staffers and players and

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Speaker 1: coaches because the Big Ten did them wrong. Here, man,

429
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Speaker 1: they've got to buy in Week two after they play

430
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Speaker 1: South Dakota State and hoops to monkst Us doesn't need

431
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Speaker 1: a regroup session. After playing South Dakota State and then

432
00:21:54,080 --> 00:22:00,080
Speaker 1: they play eleven consecutive games, you might be thinking, well, Josh, hey,

433
00:21:59,760 --> 00:22:02,760
Speaker 1: they probably got a soft schedule, so in exchange for

434
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Speaker 1: the Big Ten making them have a week two by

435
00:22:06,119 --> 00:22:08,960
Speaker 1: certainly they went light on the schedule, right, Well, that is,

436
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Speaker 1: I guess true. Other than going to Indiana and playing

437
00:22:12,880 --> 00:22:15,800
Speaker 1: Penn State and going to Oregon and going to Ohio State,

438
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Speaker 1: Northwestern got off pretty light. This is barbarism, that's what

439
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Speaker 1: this is. Northwestern doesn't even know it yet, but they're

440
00:22:25,200 --> 00:22:27,800
Speaker 1: just behind the gates underground at the coliseum and there

441
00:22:27,800 --> 00:22:31,280
Speaker 1: are wild animals roaming around that place, and the crowd

442
00:22:31,359 --> 00:22:34,520
Speaker 1: is chanting kill, kill, kill, and they're about to lower

443
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Speaker 1: the gate and then Northwestern just waltzes out there and

444
00:22:38,560 --> 00:22:42,240
Speaker 1: bad things happen. And Jesse was asking me earlier, how

445
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Speaker 1: does this happen? Well, I can promise you it's not randomized.

446
00:22:46,320 --> 00:22:51,240
Speaker 1: Somebody somewhere in that league office understood, look, mathematically, the

447
00:22:51,280 --> 00:22:54,280
Speaker 1: way this is gonna get situated, someone's just got to

448
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Speaker 1: eat it. And it's not gonna be Ohio State, and

449
00:22:57,520 --> 00:22:59,640
Speaker 1: it's not gonna be Oregon, it's not gonna be Penn State,

450
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Speaker 1: not going to be Indiana or Michigan or And you

451
00:23:02,200 --> 00:23:05,240
Speaker 1: just keep listening off names and eventually Northwestern's left and

452
00:23:05,280 --> 00:23:08,840
Speaker 1: you look at them and it's hey, some of you

453
00:23:08,960 --> 00:23:11,240
Speaker 1: may die, but it's a risk we're willing to take.

454
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Speaker 1: It's that moment. What is that Shrek? That Shrek? Yeah,

455
00:23:14,280 --> 00:23:16,719
Speaker 1: never even seen Shrek, but I've seen the clip. I've

456
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Speaker 1: seen the clip. So rest in peace, Northwestern. Okay, Next up, big,

457
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Speaker 1: big winner here, I think is Penn State. As you know,

458
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Speaker 1: we claim to be a Penn State show, except that

459
00:23:29,520 --> 00:23:32,080
Speaker 1: mainly the influence comes from behind the glass over there.

460
00:23:32,160 --> 00:23:35,359
Speaker 1: It's not me. Did I get Matt Campbell his job?

461
00:23:35,680 --> 00:23:38,600
Speaker 1: I say no, Some say yes, but I did not

462
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Speaker 1: make the schedule. However, I really like Penn State's draw here.

463
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Speaker 1: There is no Ohio State, there's no Oregon, there's no Indiana,

464
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Speaker 1: there's no Iowa. They got USC in week six. Now

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Speaker 1: in a perfect world. Nay, in a just world, that

466
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Speaker 1: would be the white Out Game. This is not a

467
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Speaker 1: fairy tale world. This is real life. This is Shaw

468
00:23:59,240 --> 00:24:02,560
Speaker 1: Shank College foot So in all likelihood, someone will probably

469
00:24:02,640 --> 00:24:04,280
Speaker 1: come and snatch that game and then we'll have to

470
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Speaker 1: like make Wisconsin the Whiteout Game or something like that.

471
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Speaker 1: But we'll see TBD. Their final five games for Penn State,

472
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Speaker 1: the final five games of the year coming out of

473
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Speaker 1: a bye week, Purdue at Washington, Minnesota, Rutgers at Maryland.

474
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna whisper a word here. I'm not gonna say

475
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Speaker 1: it out loud. I'm ana whisper it, and I don't

476
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Speaker 1: want anyone to repeat it. Okay, okay, playoff? Do you

477
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Speaker 1: hear what I said? Did everyone hear what I said? Playoff?

478
00:24:33,119 --> 00:24:36,560
Speaker 1: It's it's on the table. Not a guarantee, but it's

479
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Speaker 1: on the table. Indiana just won a national championship. You're

480
00:24:41,040 --> 00:24:42,840
Speaker 1: gonna have some new pieces. We'll talk about it later

481
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Speaker 1: in the show. They do have to play nine straight

482
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Speaker 1: games to open the year, which is not enviable, but

483
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Speaker 1: if you look at who those nine games are, they

484
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Speaker 1: don't play what you would consider a big marquee opponent

485
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Speaker 1: until week seven. Now Nebraska is in that mix, so

486
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Speaker 1: you decide how you define Nebraska personally. I'm still a

487
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Speaker 1: little bit in a state of flux on what I

488
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Speaker 1: expect from Nebraska this year. But outside of a trip

489
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Speaker 1: to Nebraska, Ohio State in Week seven, that's the first

490
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Speaker 1: real marquee opponent, or put another way, that's the first

491
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Speaker 1: time they probably won't be a touchdown plus favorite. But

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Speaker 1: they play Ohio State and Michigan back to back. They

493
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Speaker 1: got Ohio State, they got at Michigan, and Michigan is

494
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Speaker 1: there one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eighth game

495
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Speaker 1: in a row. So that's not the easiest draw. But

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Speaker 1: i mean, look, what can they afford to do. They

497
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Speaker 1: can afford to lose two games and make the playoff.

498
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Speaker 1: We just kind of work off that assumption now with

499
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Speaker 1: everyone and they've got all the equity in the world. Also,

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Speaker 1: if they don't make the playoff, they have a national

501
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Speaker 1: championship to fall back on from this past year. I'm

502
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Speaker 1: a believer Indiana is just here to stay. I'm a

503
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Speaker 1: believer that the floor for that program now and moving

504
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Speaker 1: forward is a solid resting nine wins. So this is

505
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Speaker 1: the first year we get to test that out. And

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Speaker 1: Ohio State and Michigan I thought both got tough draws.

507
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Speaker 1: I mean, Ohio State's road schedule this year is kind

508
00:26:03,240 --> 00:26:05,880
Speaker 1: of like Texas last year. It's ironic because they open

509
00:26:05,960 --> 00:26:08,600
Speaker 1: at Texas or I think that's week two. But you

510
00:26:08,640 --> 00:26:11,600
Speaker 1: remember this past year Texas, who did we see that

511
00:26:11,640 --> 00:26:13,280
Speaker 1: they had to play this time of year. We were

512
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Speaker 1: already looking ahead and we knew they had to go

513
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Speaker 1: to Columbus, and they had to go to Gainesville, and

514
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Speaker 1: they had to go to Athens and there were all

515
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Speaker 1: these road games. They were going to be their toughest games,

516
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Speaker 1: and they were all gonna be on the road. Ohio

517
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Speaker 1: State's kind of like that this year. Ohio State's got

518
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Speaker 1: at Texas in week two, they got at Iowa, a

519
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Speaker 1: few weeks later, at Indiana, at USC, at Nebraska, they

520
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Speaker 1: play Oregon and Michigan at home. This is a tough

521
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Speaker 1: schedule by any standard. That's a tough schedule. And then

522
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Speaker 1: with Michigan, if you look at the FanDuel odds to

523
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Speaker 1: win the is it the conference or make the playoff?

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Speaker 1: Right now, Jesse, it's conference odds to win the playoff,

525
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Speaker 1: So big ten teams odds to win the playoff Michigan

526
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Speaker 1: plays five of the top six teams in the conference

527
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Speaker 1: in terms of odds right now, they do have a

528
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Speaker 1: big schedule dynamic advantage. Look right here, if you're listening

529
00:27:04,520 --> 00:27:07,080
Speaker 1: on podcasts, I can't reach that far. They play Penn

530
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Speaker 1: State October seventeenth. They're coming off of bye, so they

531
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Speaker 1: will be rested. They're at home, and that's Penn State's

532
00:27:14,640 --> 00:27:18,720
Speaker 1: seventh consecutive game. Huge schedule dynamic edge. Then again, Penn

533
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Speaker 1: State had a massive schedule dynamic advantage against Oregon last

534
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Speaker 1: year and all it did was get James Franklin fired

535
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Speaker 1: a couple of weeks later. So those are some very

536
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Speaker 1: quick thoughts on the Big ten schedule release. We should

537
00:27:30,720 --> 00:27:34,119
Speaker 1: have fireworks, we should have a parade. We should have

538
00:27:34,200 --> 00:27:37,560
Speaker 1: inflatable animals all over the place. That's how the schedule

539
00:27:37,600 --> 00:27:40,000
Speaker 1: release should look. The NFL figured this out. I don't

540
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Speaker 1: get why college football can't figure this out. All right,

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Speaker 1: let's move along. I gotta stay warm by any means necessary.

542
00:27:50,000 --> 00:27:52,480
Speaker 1: It's a solid seventy one degrees in the studio. I'm okay.

543
00:27:53,520 --> 00:27:56,760
Speaker 1: Transfer portal is closed, even though you keep seeing headlines

544
00:27:56,760 --> 00:27:58,919
Speaker 1: every day, because technically guys can still be in and

545
00:27:59,200 --> 00:28:02,320
Speaker 1: come out of it signed with schools. But I think

546
00:28:02,359 --> 00:28:04,520
Speaker 1: we're way far enough into it now where we're gonna

547
00:28:04,520 --> 00:28:07,000
Speaker 1: talk about winners. Got a couple of losers here, and

548
00:28:07,040 --> 00:28:09,080
Speaker 1: then I got three teams that I don't really know

549
00:28:09,080 --> 00:28:12,960
Speaker 1: how to classify them, so solid winners. Indiana finished with

550
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Speaker 1: the number one class in the portal. LSU finished with

551
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Speaker 1: the number two class in the portal. Unequivocally, these are

552
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Speaker 1: home run classes, and Indiana is going to be a

553
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Speaker 1: mainstay in this conversation. All right, So Indiana added seventeen kids.

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Speaker 1: Now what I choose to look at right now is

555
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Speaker 1: I don't just look at the numbers that you're adding

556
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Speaker 1: and the numbers that are leaving, because sometimes you can

557
00:28:32,800 --> 00:28:36,240
Speaker 1: add half as many as leave. But you upgraded your

558
00:28:36,320 --> 00:28:39,560
Speaker 1: roster because in the net you added a higher caliber

559
00:28:39,640 --> 00:28:41,840
Speaker 1: athlete and you let a lot of guys walk. So

560
00:28:41,880 --> 00:28:45,160
Speaker 1: in Indiana, I imagine some of that happened. What I

561
00:28:45,280 --> 00:28:46,840
Speaker 1: choose to do is I choose to go over to

562
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Speaker 1: on three and I look at the average player grade

563
00:28:49,800 --> 00:28:53,080
Speaker 1: case by case. Yes, there will be oversights or maybe

564
00:28:53,120 --> 00:28:56,040
Speaker 1: an exception to the rule, but general rule, those player

565
00:28:56,040 --> 00:28:59,200
Speaker 1: grades were a really good gauge. So with Indiana, they

566
00:28:59,240 --> 00:29:03,280
Speaker 1: added seventeen kids. The average grade of the kid they

567
00:29:03,280 --> 00:29:06,320
Speaker 1: added is seventy six point seven. The average grade of

568
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Speaker 1: the kid they're losing is sixty two point seven. So

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Speaker 1: they are adding high level players at the expense of

570
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Speaker 1: maybe shaving off some of the underbelly of their roster.

571
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Speaker 1: And they got Josh Hoover, the quarterback from TCU, and

572
00:29:18,600 --> 00:29:21,440
Speaker 1: they totally revamped that skill group. I'm really high on

573
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Speaker 1: Nick Marsh, who's a wide receiver from Penn State. We

574
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Speaker 1: were talking about this time last year. It's just Penn

575
00:29:26,040 --> 00:29:28,640
Speaker 1: State screwed it up in everywhere. What did I say,

576
00:29:28,640 --> 00:29:32,200
Speaker 1: Penn State? I told you man too much influenced Michigan State.

577
00:29:32,640 --> 00:29:34,480
Speaker 1: It is true that I was talking about Nick Marsh

578
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Speaker 1: a whole lot all for naught, as it turns out,

579
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Speaker 1: this time last year. So it's just I need delayed

580
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Speaker 1: gratification on Nick Marsh. LSU added they added a lot

581
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Speaker 1: man LSU. On this piece of paper here, I will

582
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Speaker 1: make the case while a lot of other people are

583
00:29:51,200 --> 00:29:53,720
Speaker 1: looking at the LSU class and saying, you know that

584
00:29:53,800 --> 00:29:57,280
Speaker 1: class right there, they killed it. Now you may think,

585
00:29:57,320 --> 00:29:58,959
Speaker 1: if you don't really follow this stuff. A lot of

586
00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:01,280
Speaker 1: course LSU killed that they got Lane Kiffin. They got

587
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Speaker 1: a lot of money. Yeah. Again, it's the caliber of

588
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Speaker 1: player that you add and how complimentary is it to

589
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Speaker 1: your needs. So of course they had a need at quarterback.

590
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Speaker 1: They added the number one quarterback, number one and number

591
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Speaker 1: five edge players, the number two offensive tackle. Since we

592
00:30:16,760 --> 00:30:19,120
Speaker 1: last spoke, they did sign Jordan Seaton. They got the

593
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Speaker 1: number four wide receiver, they got the number four inside

594
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Speaker 1: offensive lineman, and honestly, those are going to be the

595
00:30:25,080 --> 00:30:28,520
Speaker 1: headline grabbers. But if you look at their overall class,

596
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Speaker 1: I think they added like forty kids. If you look

597
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Speaker 1: at the overall class, Eugene Wilson is a perfect example

598
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Speaker 1: of to me how underrated the depth of that class is.

599
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Speaker 1: Because there are a lot of guys that are not

600
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Speaker 1: rated in maybe top ten at their position or top

601
00:30:44,760 --> 00:30:47,320
Speaker 1: fifty overall. But you look and you say, I remember

602
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Speaker 1: that name. I remember that name a few years agoing

603
00:30:50,520 --> 00:30:53,760
Speaker 1: for whatever reason so far, their career hasn't worked out,

604
00:30:53,800 --> 00:30:56,360
Speaker 1: maybe because they were a bad fit somewhere, or in

605
00:30:56,400 --> 00:30:58,840
Speaker 1: Wilson's case, it's just if he's healthy. If he's healthy,

606
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Speaker 1: he can be a star. So I'm looking at all

607
00:31:01,040 --> 00:31:03,120
Speaker 1: the big time names they added. I'm also thinking about

608
00:31:03,120 --> 00:31:06,200
Speaker 1: what could be at the second and third levels of

609
00:31:06,240 --> 00:31:10,440
Speaker 1: that class from a ratings perspective, the entire state of Texas, well,

610
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Speaker 1: not the entire state. There are several dots in the

611
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Speaker 1: state of Texas. There are several green check marks in

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Speaker 1: the state of Texas. Texas Tech number three class in

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Speaker 1: the Portal Texas, A and M number four class in

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Speaker 1: the Portal Houston, number seven class in the Portal Texas,

615
00:31:28,280 --> 00:31:30,840
Speaker 1: number nine class in the Portal. Tech and A and

616
00:31:30,960 --> 00:31:34,760
Speaker 1: M both added six blue chippers apiece. I mean, Texas

617
00:31:34,800 --> 00:31:37,560
Speaker 1: Tech's going to do this every cycle, but I think

618
00:31:37,600 --> 00:31:41,160
Speaker 1: A and M really really made some underrated moves there.

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Speaker 1: I think I say that a lot about Mike Elco.

620
00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:45,240
Speaker 1: I just really trust their evaluation there, and then I

621
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Speaker 1: trust the development once they get there. Texas though, that

622
00:31:48,800 --> 00:31:51,880
Speaker 1: was probably the biggest headline grabber because they added Cam Coleman,

623
00:31:52,320 --> 00:31:56,640
Speaker 1: Hollywood Smothers, and Raleik Brown, so two big time tailback editions.

624
00:31:56,680 --> 00:31:59,760
Speaker 1: They just overhauled their running back room and they got

625
00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:01,960
Speaker 1: Ian Biles, who was a linebacker out of pitt who

626
00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:05,120
Speaker 1: was a really good player. I mean, Texas every year

627
00:32:05,160 --> 00:32:06,520
Speaker 1: is going to do the same thing. But you're not

628
00:32:06,640 --> 00:32:10,680
Speaker 1: used to talking about Houston, and I'm telling you, I

629
00:32:10,680 --> 00:32:12,200
Speaker 1: want to tell you it may not be the first

630
00:32:12,600 --> 00:32:14,760
Speaker 1: if you follow this stuff closely, but I really want

631
00:32:14,760 --> 00:32:18,360
Speaker 1: to warn everyone. There are many out there who kind

632
00:32:18,360 --> 00:32:20,640
Speaker 1: of follow the portal. And so you knew LSU was

633
00:32:20,640 --> 00:32:22,800
Speaker 1: going to make big moves and Texas Tech's always going

634
00:32:22,880 --> 00:32:24,920
Speaker 1: to be there. Texas is always going to be there,

635
00:32:25,160 --> 00:32:27,840
Speaker 1: But did you expect Houston to be there? Because Houston's

636
00:32:27,840 --> 00:32:30,640
Speaker 1: got the number seven class in the transfer portal right now,

637
00:32:31,200 --> 00:32:33,280
Speaker 1: and they got Keishawn Henderson, who is a five star

638
00:32:33,360 --> 00:32:36,760
Speaker 1: quarterback in recruiting, so they've got their quarterback of the future.

639
00:32:37,000 --> 00:32:40,800
Speaker 1: And then they pair that with seventeen new editions. Average

640
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Speaker 1: player grade of guys they added is over seventy. The

641
00:32:44,760 --> 00:32:47,920
Speaker 1: average grade of kids who left sixty two point four.

642
00:32:48,760 --> 00:32:51,600
Speaker 1: I think Houston made some really really good moves here.

643
00:32:51,800 --> 00:32:54,840
Speaker 1: And you remember, or maybe you don't remember, I'll tell

644
00:32:54,880 --> 00:32:56,960
Speaker 1: you this past cycle where there were a lot of

645
00:32:57,000 --> 00:33:01,000
Speaker 1: coaching moves. Willie Fritz's name was out there there. He

646
00:33:01,080 --> 00:33:04,040
Speaker 1: didn't go anywhere. Willie Fritz's name was out there. So

647
00:33:04,200 --> 00:33:07,280
Speaker 1: just keep an eye on Houston. It's a big twelve team.

648
00:33:07,320 --> 00:33:09,560
Speaker 1: Now it's not a G five team anymore. For a

649
00:33:09,600 --> 00:33:11,840
Speaker 1: couple of years they've been Big twelve, but they haven't

650
00:33:11,880 --> 00:33:14,240
Speaker 1: made a ton of noise, so people kind of still,

651
00:33:14,240 --> 00:33:20,400
Speaker 1: I think, associate Houston with like non Power four type vibes. No, No,

652
00:33:20,440 --> 00:33:22,040
Speaker 1: they're in it, Like if they win the Big Twelve,

653
00:33:22,080 --> 00:33:25,600
Speaker 1: they're guaranteed a playoff spot. Iowa State has to be

654
00:33:25,640 --> 00:33:29,200
Speaker 1: considered a big loser here through no fault of their own,

655
00:33:29,240 --> 00:33:31,280
Speaker 1: which is kind of why I was telling Jesse earlier.

656
00:33:31,320 --> 00:33:34,120
Speaker 1: I don't like doing transfer portal loser segments because normally

657
00:33:34,160 --> 00:33:36,920
Speaker 1: all it is for the losers is just a bunch

658
00:33:36,960 --> 00:33:39,520
Speaker 1: of places where they lost their coach. So Iowa State

659
00:33:39,600 --> 00:33:43,000
Speaker 1: lost Matt Campbell and they had fifty four kids leave

660
00:33:44,120 --> 00:33:47,040
Speaker 1: and they had forty eight come in. But the caliber

661
00:33:47,080 --> 00:33:50,400
Speaker 1: of player they lost seven four star rated players, they

662
00:33:50,400 --> 00:33:54,960
Speaker 1: added one of that classification and just two Penn State.

663
00:33:56,000 --> 00:33:59,719
Speaker 1: They lost QB one, wide receiver one and two. They

664
00:33:59,760 --> 00:34:03,320
Speaker 1: lost to starting guard RB one, tight end one and two,

665
00:34:03,440 --> 00:34:07,520
Speaker 1: an edge corner one. They lost three linebackers, they lost

666
00:34:07,520 --> 00:34:11,319
Speaker 1: two safeties. That's just to Penn State. So I don't

667
00:34:11,320 --> 00:34:13,480
Speaker 1: really think many of us love that college football is

668
00:34:13,520 --> 00:34:15,840
Speaker 1: allowed to operate that way right now, but it does.

669
00:34:16,120 --> 00:34:19,560
Speaker 1: So if you want to call Iowa State a loser, yeah,

670
00:34:19,600 --> 00:34:22,320
Speaker 1: they're worse off now than they were. I just loser

671
00:34:22,360 --> 00:34:24,839
Speaker 1: has a kind of connotation like, oh, you screwed up.

672
00:34:24,880 --> 00:34:27,600
Speaker 1: They didn't screw up anything. It just is the way

673
00:34:27,640 --> 00:34:32,399
Speaker 1: it is now. USC and Georgia and Alabama are three

674
00:34:32,440 --> 00:34:36,160
Speaker 1: teams that are not ranked in the top forty five.

675
00:34:36,760 --> 00:34:39,680
Speaker 1: And they're big brands, right and so you would think, oh,

676
00:34:39,680 --> 00:34:43,120
Speaker 1: that means they're losers. I don't really know that I

677
00:34:43,160 --> 00:34:46,960
Speaker 1: call Bama or Georgia or USC a loser here. What

678
00:34:47,080 --> 00:34:50,680
Speaker 1: I think they are is I think there are programs

679
00:34:50,680 --> 00:34:53,439
Speaker 1: here that recruit very well. They all are in love

680
00:34:53,480 --> 00:34:57,359
Speaker 1: with the recent signing classes that they added. I think

681
00:34:57,400 --> 00:35:00,680
Speaker 1: they all inevitably at the end of every year have

682
00:35:00,760 --> 00:35:03,319
Speaker 1: a certain portion of the roster they need to shave off,

683
00:35:03,400 --> 00:35:06,399
Speaker 1: just kind of dead money. In this new era now,

684
00:35:06,440 --> 00:35:08,239
Speaker 1: it used to be, Look, if you recruited a kid

685
00:35:08,239 --> 00:35:11,400
Speaker 1: out of high school and he's a bust, that's your fault,

686
00:35:11,640 --> 00:35:14,400
Speaker 1: that's your poor evaluation or development. He's gonna stay on

687
00:35:14,400 --> 00:35:17,000
Speaker 1: the roster and he never really starts or anything, but

688
00:35:17,040 --> 00:35:19,760
Speaker 1: he rolls through their four years and he's done well. Now,

689
00:35:20,040 --> 00:35:21,759
Speaker 1: if you paid him two hundred grand out of high

690
00:35:21,760 --> 00:35:24,200
Speaker 1: school and he's expecting bumps and you're not ready to

691
00:35:24,200 --> 00:35:25,800
Speaker 1: give it to him, those are the kind of players

692
00:35:25,800 --> 00:35:29,600
Speaker 1: who walk. Now. Is that a loss? Is that a lot?

693
00:35:29,640 --> 00:35:31,920
Speaker 1: You're not fighting at all. In fact, you're kind of

694
00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:34,120
Speaker 1: encourage him. Hey, there's the door right there. We'll help you,

695
00:35:34,160 --> 00:35:36,320
Speaker 1: we'll pack your bags for you. Well, that's not a loss.

696
00:35:36,440 --> 00:35:38,680
Speaker 1: I think a lot of that happened at USC. I

697
00:35:38,719 --> 00:35:40,920
Speaker 1: just think they recruited over some of the roster. I

698
00:35:40,960 --> 00:35:43,440
Speaker 1: think that happens every year at Georgia. I think that

699
00:35:43,560 --> 00:35:46,879
Speaker 1: just happened at Alabama. So I look, I really think

700
00:35:46,920 --> 00:35:50,399
Speaker 1: that those rosters in the net are probably better than

701
00:35:50,400 --> 00:35:53,319
Speaker 1: they were at the end of the season. Therefore, I

702
00:35:53,320 --> 00:35:56,160
Speaker 1: don't really call him losers. They're not in the top

703
00:35:56,200 --> 00:35:58,120
Speaker 1: forty five, but I don't call them losers. And then

704
00:35:58,160 --> 00:36:01,080
Speaker 1: we got new head coaches at places like Penn State

705
00:36:01,120 --> 00:36:04,600
Speaker 1: and Virginia Tech in Oklahoma State that are kind of

706
00:36:04,640 --> 00:36:08,560
Speaker 1: importing their system. We just mentioned Matt Campbell going to

707
00:36:08,600 --> 00:36:12,520
Speaker 1: Penn State. They retained fairly well on the roster they inherited,

708
00:36:12,520 --> 00:36:17,040
Speaker 1: but they really portaled well. They brought just about every

709
00:36:17,080 --> 00:36:19,720
Speaker 1: piece that they really trust to play Big ten caliber

710
00:36:19,760 --> 00:36:23,480
Speaker 1: football with them from Iowa State. But then James Franklin

711
00:36:24,120 --> 00:36:26,560
Speaker 1: leaves Penn State and he goes to Virginia Tech, and

712
00:36:26,719 --> 00:36:29,239
Speaker 1: they've got the number six portal class there and the

713
00:36:29,400 --> 00:36:34,359
Speaker 1: average grade of player on that roster additions versus subtractions

714
00:36:34,800 --> 00:36:38,600
Speaker 1: is up six point five points, So they've immediately upgraded

715
00:36:38,600 --> 00:36:41,360
Speaker 1: the caliber of roster. They take a really big bump

716
00:36:41,480 --> 00:36:44,799
Speaker 1: up I think at quarterback. I mean Grunkermeier is I

717
00:36:44,800 --> 00:36:48,759
Speaker 1: think a substantial improvement over what they not what they

718
00:36:48,760 --> 00:36:52,120
Speaker 1: inherited because drones was moving on anyway. But Eric Morris

719
00:36:52,160 --> 00:36:54,200
Speaker 1: is another one like this is going to be really

720
00:36:54,239 --> 00:36:56,440
Speaker 1: really interesting for a team that was one and eleven

721
00:36:56,800 --> 00:37:01,040
Speaker 1: last year at Oklahoma State. Eric Morris comes there, and

722
00:37:01,080 --> 00:37:02,560
Speaker 1: it would have been crazy to say this in the

723
00:37:02,600 --> 00:37:06,840
Speaker 1: old days, the old days being like twenty eighteen, But

724
00:37:07,200 --> 00:37:11,360
Speaker 1: Eric Morris came from a better program, like a higher

725
00:37:11,400 --> 00:37:15,560
Speaker 1: performing program. North Texas was a better team and a

726
00:37:15,640 --> 00:37:20,080
Speaker 1: higher performing program last year than Oklahoma State was. So

727
00:37:20,120 --> 00:37:22,880
Speaker 1: he comes there and there's a course, a much higher

728
00:37:22,920 --> 00:37:25,880
Speaker 1: ceiling at Oklahoma State than there is North Texas. But

729
00:37:26,000 --> 00:37:28,800
Speaker 1: when he brought Messa Maker with him and Caleb Hawkins

730
00:37:28,880 --> 00:37:33,240
Speaker 1: is running back, and they added seventeen guys from North Texas.

731
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Speaker 1: They're adding seventeen guys from what was unequ unequivocally a

732
00:37:37,840 --> 00:37:41,960
Speaker 1: better team than Oklahoma State. So in the Big Twelve,

733
00:37:42,080 --> 00:37:45,480
Speaker 1: I know it looked like there was a little more distance,

734
00:37:45,560 --> 00:37:47,520
Speaker 1: a little more gap between the haves and the have

735
00:37:47,680 --> 00:37:49,879
Speaker 1: nots last year. That could have been a one off.

736
00:37:49,920 --> 00:37:54,000
Speaker 1: Any given year, this conference could go full on accordion contraction.

737
00:37:54,160 --> 00:37:57,319
Speaker 1: It could go total parody mode. And this conference is

738
00:37:57,400 --> 00:38:01,880
Speaker 1: notorious for teams making big leaps. So I'd look at

739
00:38:01,920 --> 00:38:05,480
Speaker 1: Oklahoma State this year as soon as this year. Let's

740
00:38:05,600 --> 00:38:11,400
Speaker 1: roll on merrily along, jam packed. Man. Make sure you're subscribed.

741
00:38:11,400 --> 00:38:14,960
Speaker 1: By the way, if you're watching, appreciate you, and nothing's

742
00:38:14,960 --> 00:38:16,200
Speaker 1: going to change for you. It's not like all of

743
00:38:16,200 --> 00:38:18,319
Speaker 1: a sudden you get billed nine ninety five per month

744
00:38:18,400 --> 00:38:21,359
Speaker 1: or anything. That would be fraud. So we don't do that.

745
00:38:21,480 --> 00:38:23,600
Speaker 1: We just ask you to subscribe to the channel. It's free.

746
00:38:23,840 --> 00:38:25,560
Speaker 1: You can subscribe then just forget about it. It's like

747
00:38:25,560 --> 00:38:29,080
Speaker 1: a Ronco grill. You just subscribe and you forget it.

748
00:38:30,080 --> 00:38:32,320
Speaker 1: I got a question from Andrew. He said, is college

749
00:38:32,320 --> 00:38:35,440
Speaker 1: football salvageable or is it just too far gone? What

750
00:38:35,520 --> 00:38:39,000
Speaker 1: does Commissioner Pate say? Well, Commissioner Pate in the future

751
00:38:39,040 --> 00:38:43,320
Speaker 1: tense says Andrew, let's calm down, Cey t if you

752
00:38:43,360 --> 00:38:44,719
Speaker 1: know what it means, you know what it means. It's

753
00:38:44,719 --> 00:38:47,560
Speaker 1: just calm him for just a second. Man. I need

754
00:38:47,600 --> 00:38:50,280
Speaker 1: to speak to you as a friend, because we are friends,

755
00:38:50,719 --> 00:38:53,600
Speaker 1: but I need to ask you is it really that bad?

756
00:38:54,160 --> 00:38:56,720
Speaker 1: Is college football really that bad? Hey, I'm not asking

757
00:38:56,760 --> 00:38:58,920
Speaker 1: you is it perfect? I know it's not perfect. But

758
00:38:59,000 --> 00:39:02,719
Speaker 1: there's something I noticed last year in our quality control

759
00:39:02,880 --> 00:39:06,200
Speaker 1: as a show, may I even say as a university

760
00:39:06,200 --> 00:39:08,799
Speaker 1: here at Peyton State. In our quality control, which is

761
00:39:08,840 --> 00:39:10,640
Speaker 1: this thing we do right before the season where we

762
00:39:10,680 --> 00:39:16,359
Speaker 1: assess everything, we noticed that from the months February through

763
00:39:16,800 --> 00:39:20,160
Speaker 1: what jesse about June or July last year, there was

764
00:39:20,200 --> 00:39:24,440
Speaker 1: like a disproportionate negative tone that our mail bag took.

765
00:39:24,760 --> 00:39:27,120
Speaker 1: We do a lot of mail bag episodes in what

766
00:39:27,200 --> 00:39:29,799
Speaker 1: casuals would call the off season. Well, we don't have

767
00:39:29,840 --> 00:39:32,440
Speaker 1: an off season. We do shows all years college football

768
00:39:32,520 --> 00:39:36,759
Speaker 1: year round. But what we noticed is when we took

769
00:39:36,840 --> 00:39:40,120
Speaker 1: Q and A like this, and there aren't games going

770
00:39:40,160 --> 00:39:43,920
Speaker 1: on and there aren't, you know, things to distract you,

771
00:39:44,360 --> 00:39:47,279
Speaker 1: which is what games do every week. Some people just

772
00:39:47,280 --> 00:39:51,880
Speaker 1: start thinking existentially in May and June and July, and

773
00:39:52,040 --> 00:39:55,200
Speaker 1: it always ends up this doom and gloom type vibe.

774
00:39:55,640 --> 00:39:57,839
Speaker 1: And if you didn't know anything other than what our

775
00:39:57,880 --> 00:40:00,759
Speaker 1: mail bag looked like in these months, you would think, oh,

776
00:40:00,760 --> 00:40:02,400
Speaker 1: it is college football. As cook Man, We're going to

777
00:40:02,440 --> 00:40:04,400
Speaker 1: get to August and no one's watching. And then we

778
00:40:04,400 --> 00:40:07,560
Speaker 1: get to August and the TV numbers are through the roof. Now,

779
00:40:07,920 --> 00:40:10,800
Speaker 1: if you watch the show, you know, the last person

780
00:40:11,440 --> 00:40:14,759
Speaker 1: to argue that TV ratings equals good decisions is me.

781
00:40:15,400 --> 00:40:17,799
Speaker 1: I'm the first one to say, don't be using TV

782
00:40:17,920 --> 00:40:20,840
Speaker 1: ratings to gauge the health of the sport. TV ratings

783
00:40:20,840 --> 00:40:24,040
Speaker 1: are good to gauge the decisions of a generation prior,

784
00:40:24,400 --> 00:40:26,279
Speaker 1: so you don't need to teach me about that. But

785
00:40:26,320 --> 00:40:29,080
Speaker 1: at the very least, I think when we got to

786
00:40:29,440 --> 00:40:32,359
Speaker 1: August in September this past year and we saw the

787
00:40:32,400 --> 00:40:37,040
Speaker 1: metrics both from our show but also just normal television viewership,

788
00:40:37,239 --> 00:40:40,640
Speaker 1: we realized I think there's a certain kind of person

789
00:40:40,680 --> 00:40:44,800
Speaker 1: that asks questions of the show in February through June

790
00:40:44,840 --> 00:40:47,920
Speaker 1: and July and it's the kind of person who probably

791
00:40:47,960 --> 00:40:52,040
Speaker 1: loves college football to death and therefore is disproportionately more

792
00:40:52,200 --> 00:40:55,000
Speaker 1: likely to see the flaws, to see the negatives, and

793
00:40:55,040 --> 00:41:00,279
Speaker 1: to magnify them. So, Andrew, I think what we need

794
00:41:00,320 --> 00:41:03,080
Speaker 1: to do with college football for anyone asking things like, oh,

795
00:41:03,120 --> 00:41:05,720
Speaker 1: it's college football salvageable, we need to have a serious

796
00:41:05,760 --> 00:41:10,120
Speaker 1: conversation about the difference between flawed and broken, because I

797
00:41:10,160 --> 00:41:14,440
Speaker 1: would ask you this, Andrew, is college football flawed? Yeah,

798
00:41:14,480 --> 00:41:17,160
Speaker 1: any good thing out there can be flawed. College football

799
00:41:17,200 --> 00:41:19,680
Speaker 1: may be flawed, but it is a long way from

800
00:41:19,719 --> 00:41:22,040
Speaker 1: being broken. So for all these folks who ask, oh

801
00:41:22,120 --> 00:41:24,839
Speaker 1: is it broken? Man? Is college football salvageable? Well, let

802
00:41:24,840 --> 00:41:28,400
Speaker 1: me hit you with this, what would you do if

803
00:41:28,400 --> 00:41:32,640
Speaker 1: you lost college football tomorrow? Because I've had broken things before.

804
00:41:32,880 --> 00:41:35,440
Speaker 1: I mean, if you got a car that's rusting, sitting

805
00:41:35,440 --> 00:41:38,200
Speaker 1: out in your driveway and it's totaled and you're just

806
00:41:38,239 --> 00:41:39,719
Speaker 1: looking to get rid of it and someone comes and

807
00:41:39,760 --> 00:41:42,720
Speaker 1: steals it overnight, are you really that upset? The next morning?

808
00:41:42,760 --> 00:41:44,960
Speaker 1: You may have even made some money in insurance, but

809
00:41:45,000 --> 00:41:48,920
Speaker 1: you're not upset you lost something that was broken. But

810
00:41:49,719 --> 00:41:51,720
Speaker 1: if all that's wrong with your car is the door's

811
00:41:51,760 --> 00:41:53,480
Speaker 1: den in and one of the tires was flat, so

812
00:41:53,520 --> 00:41:56,160
Speaker 1: we got a donut in the back left rear. But

813
00:41:56,320 --> 00:41:59,680
Speaker 1: they stole it overnight. I'm still really upset. Now. Your

814
00:41:59,719 --> 00:42:01,839
Speaker 1: wife could walk in and say, what are you upset for?

815
00:42:02,320 --> 00:42:05,000
Speaker 1: That car was messed up already. It was messed up,

816
00:42:05,239 --> 00:42:07,360
Speaker 1: but it was far from total. That thing was getting

817
00:42:07,360 --> 00:42:09,480
Speaker 1: me to work every day. I love that car. I've

818
00:42:09,480 --> 00:42:11,120
Speaker 1: had that car for quite a while. I grew up

819
00:42:11,160 --> 00:42:13,920
Speaker 1: with that car. Well, how do you feel about college football?

820
00:42:14,040 --> 00:42:16,640
Speaker 1: Because I promise you, Andrew, you just asked me if

821
00:42:16,640 --> 00:42:19,680
Speaker 1: this thing's salvageable. I promise you if we lost college

822
00:42:19,680 --> 00:42:23,520
Speaker 1: football tonight, you would weep tomorrow right next to me.

823
00:42:24,040 --> 00:42:27,840
Speaker 1: College football is not broken. College football's flawed. If it's broken,

824
00:42:28,040 --> 00:42:31,640
Speaker 1: there's probably no fixing it. And if something's broken, the

825
00:42:31,680 --> 00:42:34,480
Speaker 1: real test of whether it's truly broken is how upset

826
00:42:34,520 --> 00:42:37,320
Speaker 1: are you if you lose it? Total car gets stolen,

827
00:42:37,400 --> 00:42:40,640
Speaker 1: No one's upset because it was broken already. I have

828
00:42:40,680 --> 00:42:43,920
Speaker 1: no use for it anymore. But you just steal a

829
00:42:43,960 --> 00:42:47,880
Speaker 1: slightly damaged car, and I'm really upset, and I'm filing

830
00:42:47,920 --> 00:42:50,560
Speaker 1: claims and I'm calling the cops because you took something

831
00:42:50,560 --> 00:42:52,879
Speaker 1: that while it was flawed, it still had a lot

832
00:42:52,920 --> 00:42:55,960
Speaker 1: of value to me. College football's got a ton of

833
00:42:56,080 --> 00:42:59,239
Speaker 1: value to us, even with its flaws. It's still the

834
00:42:59,280 --> 00:43:01,160
Speaker 1: greatest sport on the face of the earth. So I

835
00:43:01,200 --> 00:43:04,040
Speaker 1: get the frustration. I talk about it on this show

836
00:43:04,080 --> 00:43:07,000
Speaker 1: all the time. Andrew, you know you knew how to

837
00:43:07,000 --> 00:43:08,719
Speaker 1: reach us, So I assume you watch or listen to

838
00:43:08,760 --> 00:43:11,960
Speaker 1: the show. I get the frustration. And your frustration is

839
00:43:12,000 --> 00:43:14,160
Speaker 1: probably the same as mine in a lot of cases

840
00:43:14,200 --> 00:43:18,799
Speaker 1: where it's like you see the warning sign and you

841
00:43:18,880 --> 00:43:21,360
Speaker 1: drive right past it, and then there's a second warning

842
00:43:21,400 --> 00:43:24,319
Speaker 1: sign and it feels like you just speed up, and

843
00:43:24,360 --> 00:43:28,239
Speaker 1: we're sitting in the back seat yelling, might we want

844
00:43:28,280 --> 00:43:30,680
Speaker 1: to stop at the very least, can we slow down?

845
00:43:30,960 --> 00:43:33,040
Speaker 1: We probably need to be a little careful here. And

846
00:43:33,120 --> 00:43:35,959
Speaker 1: what you're trying to do is what any sane human does,

847
00:43:36,360 --> 00:43:41,160
Speaker 1: and that is take preventative measures before the crash so

848
00:43:41,200 --> 00:43:43,200
Speaker 1: that we don't have a big cleanup on our hands

849
00:43:43,280 --> 00:43:47,880
Speaker 1: after the crash. That's the nexus, that's the genesis of

850
00:43:47,960 --> 00:43:52,400
Speaker 1: the frustration. I understand. I have the same feeling. But

851
00:43:52,480 --> 00:43:55,560
Speaker 1: the good news if I can deliver any Andrew, if

852
00:43:55,600 --> 00:43:58,600
Speaker 1: I may be so bold as to give good news

853
00:43:58,680 --> 00:44:02,319
Speaker 1: on the college football front. Is the realization is there

854
00:44:02,920 --> 00:44:07,440
Speaker 1: as recently as today, like four hours ago. I had

855
00:44:07,440 --> 00:44:11,000
Speaker 1: a pretty substantial meeting with some pretty substantial people. Jesse

856
00:44:11,080 --> 00:44:12,800
Speaker 1: doesn't even know about the meeting. He's looking at me

857
00:44:12,880 --> 00:44:14,759
Speaker 1: right now. He does you know about the meeting. It's okay, though.

858
00:44:16,120 --> 00:44:19,080
Speaker 1: These are the kinds of people whose voice really really

859
00:44:19,120 --> 00:44:22,560
Speaker 1: matters in not just the college football space, but the

860
00:44:22,560 --> 00:44:27,439
Speaker 1: media space period and the college athletics space period. There

861
00:44:27,560 --> 00:44:30,640
Speaker 1: is an understanding of the problem and the fact that

862
00:44:30,640 --> 00:44:34,560
Speaker 1: there are problems and that action needs to be taken. Now,

863
00:44:34,880 --> 00:44:38,520
Speaker 1: understanding's not enough, that second word action, that's what has

864
00:44:38,560 --> 00:44:42,239
Speaker 1: to happen. But if your fear is the powers that

865
00:44:42,360 --> 00:44:45,480
Speaker 1: be whoever that is nameless, faceless though they may be.

866
00:44:45,719 --> 00:44:47,279
Speaker 1: If your big fear is the powers that be are

867
00:44:47,320 --> 00:44:49,680
Speaker 1: just ignorant to all of it, I can alleviate your

868
00:44:49,680 --> 00:44:52,120
Speaker 1: concern there. They're not ignorant to it. Now it's a

869
00:44:52,160 --> 00:44:55,840
Speaker 1: little different immediately addressing problems in college sports relative to

870
00:44:55,920 --> 00:45:00,840
Speaker 1: pro sports. Because of the tangled web of legal ees

871
00:45:01,040 --> 00:45:04,440
Speaker 1: and all sorts of matters that the pros don't have

872
00:45:04,480 --> 00:45:07,560
Speaker 1: to deal with, I think action will be taken eventually.

873
00:45:07,640 --> 00:45:11,799
Speaker 1: So I understand, Andrew, I understand. That's why I put

874
00:45:11,800 --> 00:45:14,400
Speaker 1: the question in the show. I get the frustration, I

875
00:45:14,440 --> 00:45:16,799
Speaker 1: get the source of it. Your source of frustration is

876
00:45:16,840 --> 00:45:19,280
Speaker 1: the same as mine. But no, college football is not broken.

877
00:45:19,400 --> 00:45:22,080
Speaker 1: College football is a long way from being broken. Long way.

878
00:45:22,640 --> 00:45:26,400
Speaker 1: Maybe we'll tell stories about this one day. Academy Sports

879
00:45:26,400 --> 00:45:30,640
Speaker 1: and Outdoors famously not broken. Academy Sports and Outdoors is

880
00:45:30,719 --> 00:45:33,040
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881
00:45:33,080 --> 00:45:36,240
Speaker 1: you need for I don't know, like the solid ninety

882
00:45:36,280 --> 00:45:39,440
Speaker 1: eight percent of the activities you could do outdoors, especially

883
00:45:39,480 --> 00:45:44,480
Speaker 1: if it's recreational and or sporting, but also I mean camping,

884
00:45:45,360 --> 00:45:48,279
Speaker 1: it's recreation, I guess it's not sport. But you can

885
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Speaker 1: still go and get you a really really nice tent

886
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Speaker 1: or a really nice grill at Academy. Now, of course,

887
00:45:54,200 --> 00:45:56,279
Speaker 1: you could go get yourself a hockey stick. You could

888
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Speaker 1: go get yourself a baseball bat, you go get gear

889
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Speaker 1: for the entire team. You can do that at Academy

890
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Speaker 1: Sports and Outdoors as well. You can get you some

891
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Speaker 1: big lead chew and other assorted goodies in the checkout line,

892
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Speaker 1: And if you can't get there in person, you can

893
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Speaker 1: go to Academy dot com. They have all these things

894
00:46:10,280 --> 00:46:13,120
Speaker 1: for you. Most important to us is Academy has had

895
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Speaker 1: our back, and they've had it for a long time,

896
00:46:15,280 --> 00:46:17,200
Speaker 1: and they've been a longtime partner of the show, and

897
00:46:17,239 --> 00:46:21,480
Speaker 1: we appreciate them. And if you like the show, you

898
00:46:21,520 --> 00:46:24,800
Speaker 1: could have several reasons to appreciate Academy. Number one, because

899
00:46:24,840 --> 00:46:26,759
Speaker 1: they make it possible for us to bring you the show.

900
00:46:26,840 --> 00:46:29,360
Speaker 1: Number two, they also happen to have a lot of

901
00:46:29,400 --> 00:46:31,400
Speaker 1: stuff you need, whether you like the show or not.

902
00:46:31,719 --> 00:46:34,680
Speaker 1: So judging by your viewership, I assume you like the show.

903
00:46:35,080 --> 00:46:38,279
Speaker 1: But even if you hate the show, you'll still love Academy.

904
00:46:39,000 --> 00:46:40,719
Speaker 1: So let's move on. This is gonna be a tough

905
00:46:40,719 --> 00:46:43,560
Speaker 1: subject to talk about. This coffee is gonna get cold.

906
00:46:43,560 --> 00:46:50,800
Speaker 1: I'm gonna drink the last of it here. And speaking

907
00:46:50,840 --> 00:46:59,920
Speaker 1: of cold, Matthew from sunny, Warm, beautiful, tropical, enviable, Orlando,

908
00:47:00,120 --> 00:47:03,960
Speaker 1: Florida said, are you back in Nashville yet? How is it?

909
00:47:03,960 --> 00:47:06,399
Speaker 1: It seems like the community got hit pretty hard by

910
00:47:06,400 --> 00:47:10,759
Speaker 1: the ice and snow. That again, is Matthew from eighty

911
00:47:10,800 --> 00:47:15,840
Speaker 1: two degree perfect not a care in the world, Orlando, Florida. Matthew,

912
00:47:15,880 --> 00:47:18,880
Speaker 1: it's terrible there. Are trees all over the place. There's

913
00:47:18,920 --> 00:47:23,160
Speaker 1: ice all over the place. We have exclusive video here

914
00:47:23,200 --> 00:47:25,760
Speaker 1: that's not exclusive at all to us. We actually borrowed

915
00:47:25,760 --> 00:47:29,680
Speaker 1: it from other people. This is not a movie scene.

916
00:47:29,760 --> 00:47:32,520
Speaker 1: But if you're listening on podcasts, just to imagine the

917
00:47:32,520 --> 00:47:35,759
Speaker 1: worst environment that you've ever experienced, and then put ice

918
00:47:35,800 --> 00:47:38,439
Speaker 1: on everything. And that's what Nashville has looked like now,

919
00:47:38,480 --> 00:47:42,120
Speaker 1: in fairness to me and no one else. Last week,

920
00:47:42,440 --> 00:47:45,080
Speaker 1: I warned the staff that this was coming. Am I

921
00:47:45,120 --> 00:47:49,960
Speaker 1: a hero? Look? I warned him? It was coming. I warned.

922
00:47:50,440 --> 00:47:52,560
Speaker 1: I was over at the shop with Taylor and Will

923
00:47:52,640 --> 00:47:54,480
Speaker 1: and the guys with buzzing with the boys crew. I

924
00:47:54,520 --> 00:47:57,120
Speaker 1: warned him it was coming. We had a group text going.

925
00:47:58,200 --> 00:48:00,840
Speaker 1: I sent out more alerts than anyone this side of

926
00:48:00,880 --> 00:48:04,120
Speaker 1: the National Weather Service. If nes would have listened to

927
00:48:04,160 --> 00:48:06,680
Speaker 1: me here in Nashville, we wouldn't still have red dots

928
00:48:06,719 --> 00:48:09,040
Speaker 1: all over the power outage map, or maybe we would.

929
00:48:09,360 --> 00:48:12,799
Speaker 1: But I warned everyone, and the specific language I used,

930
00:48:12,880 --> 00:48:17,080
Speaker 1: Jesse was it will look like tornado damage except with

931
00:48:17,200 --> 00:48:20,960
Speaker 1: ice and lo and behold, every tree in about five

932
00:48:21,040 --> 00:48:26,160
Speaker 1: counties is either down or leaning very very precariously because

933
00:48:26,160 --> 00:48:29,920
Speaker 1: it's covered with ice. Here we have as of late

934
00:48:30,360 --> 00:48:34,800
Speaker 1: Tuesday evening, still the power outage map. The last flake

935
00:48:34,880 --> 00:48:40,360
Speaker 1: of snow dropped Saturday, so we've had Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,

936
00:48:40,400 --> 00:48:43,080
Speaker 1: it's Thursday. It's not Tuesday, it's Thursday now. So we're

937
00:48:43,120 --> 00:48:46,240
Speaker 1: going on nearly a week. And we got people. Everybody

938
00:48:46,280 --> 00:48:48,640
Speaker 1: in the red is without power, and we had to

939
00:48:48,719 --> 00:48:51,640
Speaker 1: zoom out for scale. These are thousands and tens of

940
00:48:51,680 --> 00:48:55,880
Speaker 1: thousands of people still without power. Now here's bad part,

941
00:48:56,239 --> 00:49:00,279
Speaker 1: Matthew down in Orlando. Here's the bad part. As you

942
00:49:00,360 --> 00:49:03,160
Speaker 1: sleep with your windows open tonight, because that's the climate

943
00:49:03,200 --> 00:49:06,279
Speaker 1: you live in. Around here, it has been freezing during

944
00:49:06,280 --> 00:49:11,480
Speaker 1: the day and even more freezing at night. And with

945
00:49:11,640 --> 00:49:14,760
Speaker 1: five days without power, you can imagine the toll that takes.

946
00:49:16,000 --> 00:49:19,799
Speaker 1: And I have stood up for NEEES does not stand

947
00:49:19,840 --> 00:49:24,239
Speaker 1: for Nintendo Entertainment System around here, stands for Nashville Electrical Services.

948
00:49:24,760 --> 00:49:27,400
Speaker 1: I stood up for these people because the rank and

949
00:49:27,520 --> 00:49:31,319
Speaker 1: file at NEEES, those are hard working people, and man,

950
00:49:31,360 --> 00:49:33,080
Speaker 1: I got all the respect in the world. One of

951
00:49:33,080 --> 00:49:35,920
Speaker 1: my favorite songs growing up was Wichital Lineman by Glenn Campbell.

952
00:49:36,120 --> 00:49:39,880
Speaker 1: So you just replace Wichital with Nashville, and that really

953
00:49:39,920 --> 00:49:45,120
Speaker 1: expresses my feelings towards the actual workers at NEEES. But

954
00:49:45,200 --> 00:49:48,280
Speaker 1: I got to tell you, I have come to really

955
00:49:48,800 --> 00:49:52,680
Speaker 1: really question the decision making there. I have come to

956
00:49:52,800 --> 00:49:57,640
Speaker 1: question the bureaucracy there. This is a college football show,

957
00:49:57,960 --> 00:50:00,239
Speaker 1: so we are used to people who have no business

958
00:50:00,239 --> 00:50:02,360
Speaker 1: with their hands on the wheel having their hands on

959
00:50:02,400 --> 00:50:04,880
Speaker 1: the wheel as something we care about. And it seems

960
00:50:04,920 --> 00:50:08,239
Speaker 1: that Nashville Electrical Service may be suffering from some of

961
00:50:08,280 --> 00:50:11,480
Speaker 1: the same conditions that college football suffers from. If you're

962
00:50:11,480 --> 00:50:13,560
Speaker 1: picking up what I'm putting down, and in the interim,

963
00:50:13,600 --> 00:50:16,680
Speaker 1: what the citizens around here are suffering from is this

964
00:50:16,800 --> 00:50:18,960
Speaker 1: is my bedroom and it's twenty seven degrees in here

965
00:50:19,040 --> 00:50:24,160
Speaker 1: right now. What's the problem. And so that's where we are, Matthew,

966
00:50:24,520 --> 00:50:27,720
Speaker 1: in very very warm, temperate tropical Orlando. I'm glad you asked.

967
00:50:27,880 --> 00:50:30,279
Speaker 1: That's where we are right now. Now. There are some

968
00:50:30,360 --> 00:50:34,080
Speaker 1: harsh accusations that have been thrown my way. People are

969
00:50:34,080 --> 00:50:37,480
Speaker 1: claiming things about me. People are saying things like I

970
00:50:37,600 --> 00:50:43,440
Speaker 1: ran away, I fled Bradley. I think the exact verbiage

971
00:50:43,440 --> 00:50:47,520
Speaker 1: you used was I tucked tail. And I'm just here

972
00:50:47,560 --> 00:50:50,200
Speaker 1: to tell you every bit of it's true, every single

973
00:50:50,239 --> 00:50:52,719
Speaker 1: thing they're saying about me. Is true. Hats off to

974
00:50:52,760 --> 00:50:55,359
Speaker 1: the haters, but it's not the flex you think it is.

975
00:50:56,480 --> 00:51:00,040
Speaker 1: I will build up all the equity I need in

976
00:51:00,080 --> 00:51:02,719
Speaker 1: terms of weather based bravery. You're looking at someone who

977
00:51:03,360 --> 00:51:06,200
Speaker 1: has a twister poster on the wall of his set here.

978
00:51:06,440 --> 00:51:08,600
Speaker 1: That's not even real brick, but that is a real

979
00:51:08,640 --> 00:51:13,080
Speaker 1: twister poster. I'm a stormchaser, okay. I run towards the danger.

980
00:51:13,320 --> 00:51:17,600
Speaker 1: In the spring hurricane, Matthew, the last landfalling category five hurricane,

981
00:51:17,640 --> 00:51:20,320
Speaker 1: where was I, Bradley, You were working at the new station.

982
00:51:20,600 --> 00:51:22,399
Speaker 1: Me and Robbie Watson were down there. In the think

983
00:51:22,480 --> 00:51:26,400
Speaker 1: of it, we were there for the landfall. I'm there.

984
00:51:27,239 --> 00:51:30,400
Speaker 1: I love snowstorms. I'm there for and I'm in the trenches.

985
00:51:30,440 --> 00:51:32,640
Speaker 1: I'm warning you ahead of time, and I'm embracing it

986
00:51:32,719 --> 00:51:35,400
Speaker 1: in real time. But when it comes to ice, I

987
00:51:35,480 --> 00:51:38,440
Speaker 1: know better. So it's not my fault for being wise

988
00:51:38,480 --> 00:51:42,440
Speaker 1: to weather. Did the public education system fail most of

989
00:51:42,480 --> 00:51:45,560
Speaker 1: you when it comes to preparedness? Yes, yes they did.

990
00:51:46,320 --> 00:51:49,799
Speaker 1: And that's why when I'm college football commissioner, through no

991
00:51:49,960 --> 00:51:52,680
Speaker 1: power of my own, I just plan on using my

992
00:51:52,760 --> 00:51:57,400
Speaker 1: platform to suggest that we replace I don't know various

993
00:51:57,520 --> 00:51:59,839
Speaker 1: subjects in school that have no benefit to a normal

994
00:52:00,520 --> 00:52:04,160
Speaker 1: with things like weather preparedness and awareness. There's no reason

995
00:52:04,200 --> 00:52:06,200
Speaker 1: why I should have walked in the office last week

996
00:52:06,480 --> 00:52:08,680
Speaker 1: and asked Mitch if he's ready for the freezing rain,

997
00:52:08,920 --> 00:52:10,680
Speaker 1: and for him to ask me what is freezing rain.

998
00:52:11,400 --> 00:52:14,040
Speaker 1: He grew up in Arizona. That's not his fault. Not

999
00:52:14,120 --> 00:52:15,919
Speaker 1: everyone who grows up in Arizona is going to stand

1000
00:52:15,920 --> 00:52:18,160
Speaker 1: in Arizona the rest of their lives. Ask Taylor Lawan.

1001
00:52:18,960 --> 00:52:21,520
Speaker 1: The guy's basically running a mass unit out of his

1002
00:52:21,560 --> 00:52:24,960
Speaker 1: house right now because he came here from Arizona quick

1003
00:52:24,960 --> 00:52:30,360
Speaker 1: pitstop in Michigan and now he's running Salvation Army Luan

1004
00:52:30,480 --> 00:52:33,160
Speaker 1: style because his house is the only one with power

1005
00:52:33,640 --> 00:52:37,399
Speaker 1: and freezing rain bid him, but he wasn't ready if

1006
00:52:37,400 --> 00:52:40,160
Speaker 1: through his own admission, he wasn't ready, So it's a

1007
00:52:40,239 --> 00:52:43,439
Speaker 1: little that's a little knock on me because maybe it's

1008
00:52:43,480 --> 00:52:47,320
Speaker 1: my responsibility to fill the gaps that the public education

1009
00:52:47,480 --> 00:52:51,840
Speaker 1: system left. But yes, I ran away. No, I wouldn't

1010
00:52:51,920 --> 00:52:53,880
Speaker 1: change a thing other than maybe I would take a

1011
00:52:53,880 --> 00:52:55,840
Speaker 1: few people with me. Maybe I would have rescued a

1012
00:52:55,840 --> 00:52:58,360
Speaker 1: few more people. But this has been a really serious

1013
00:52:58,400 --> 00:53:04,680
Speaker 1: deal really serious, and it will happen again eventually. Have

1014
00:53:04,840 --> 00:53:08,439
Speaker 1: we learned our lesson? Have we learned our lesson? This

1015
00:53:08,520 --> 00:53:10,759
Speaker 1: is not the last you've heard from me about this

1016
00:53:10,880 --> 00:53:16,239
Speaker 1: Nashville Electrical system conundrum. Maybe on this show it's the

1017
00:53:16,320 --> 00:53:19,200
Speaker 1: last you've heard from me, or maybe not. Maybe we

1018
00:53:19,239 --> 00:53:22,160
Speaker 1: do need to use the microphone for the purposes of bullying.

1019
00:53:22,200 --> 00:53:25,919
Speaker 1: Bullying does work, It does work, but I assure you

1020
00:53:26,160 --> 00:53:28,040
Speaker 1: it's not the last you've heard of me. On the socials.

1021
00:53:28,960 --> 00:53:31,479
Speaker 1: You got a whole You got to speak truth to power, Jesse,

1022
00:53:31,640 --> 00:53:33,959
Speaker 1: you got to speak truth to power. We don't even

1023
00:53:34,160 --> 00:53:37,160
Speaker 1: have leadership in college football to call out, so we

1024
00:53:37,320 --> 00:53:39,200
Speaker 1: just have to. We just have to put the cross

1025
00:53:39,200 --> 00:53:43,560
Speaker 1: hairs elsewhere. What a transition this is. We went from

1026
00:53:43,600 --> 00:53:46,960
Speaker 1: talking about the mood in Tennessee to doing the Tennessee

1027
00:53:46,960 --> 00:53:51,680
Speaker 1: Mood Tracker. Huh funny how things work out. Every now

1028
00:53:51,680 --> 00:53:53,879
Speaker 1: and then. We've been doing the mood tracker a lot

1029
00:53:53,920 --> 00:53:55,319
Speaker 1: on the show. This time of year. We like to

1030
00:53:55,320 --> 00:53:56,919
Speaker 1: look at a fan base and we like to say,

1031
00:53:56,960 --> 00:54:00,760
Speaker 1: what's the mood, how you guys feeling. Not the glass

1032
00:54:00,960 --> 00:54:03,960
Speaker 1: always full or the glass always empty, folks, but the

1033
00:54:04,000 --> 00:54:06,160
Speaker 1: ones in the middle the solid eighty percent, as we

1034
00:54:06,239 --> 00:54:08,799
Speaker 1: call them. What is the mood? And I thought we

1035
00:54:08,800 --> 00:54:12,239
Speaker 1: should do Tennessee tonight, and the mood at Tennessee, I

1036
00:54:12,280 --> 00:54:16,919
Speaker 1: think is one of those classic pretty good, pretty good.

1037
00:54:17,040 --> 00:54:19,640
Speaker 1: That's what I tell everyone anytime they ask me how

1038
00:54:19,680 --> 00:54:25,640
Speaker 1: I'm doing. Pretty good translation could be better, could be worse. Now,

1039
00:54:25,640 --> 00:54:27,399
Speaker 1: if you're like me and someone tells you they're doing

1040
00:54:27,440 --> 00:54:31,120
Speaker 1: pretty good, your response is okay by because you know

1041
00:54:31,200 --> 00:54:33,840
Speaker 1: that there's probably some issues they have that if you

1042
00:54:33,960 --> 00:54:36,400
Speaker 1: ask about, are going to keep you tied up for

1043
00:54:36,400 --> 00:54:40,320
Speaker 1: the next hour. And so the guy who's doing pretty

1044
00:54:40,360 --> 00:54:42,960
Speaker 1: good knows he's got a lot to be thankful for,

1045
00:54:43,560 --> 00:54:45,400
Speaker 1: just like Tennessee fans have a lot to be thankful for.

1046
00:54:45,560 --> 00:54:48,399
Speaker 1: They remember where they were, they know where they are now.

1047
00:54:48,680 --> 00:54:51,879
Speaker 1: They certainly prefer the latter to the former, but they

1048
00:54:51,920 --> 00:54:55,440
Speaker 1: also know that if they look around the SEC neighborhood,

1049
00:54:55,840 --> 00:54:58,239
Speaker 1: there's some places doing better than them. If they look

1050
00:54:58,280 --> 00:55:02,520
Speaker 1: around the college football neighborhood, there's some nicer houses. There's

1051
00:55:01,880 --> 00:55:06,200
Speaker 1: some shinier cars. Now there's some broke down houses and

1052
00:55:06,200 --> 00:55:08,399
Speaker 1: cars as well, but there's some shiny cars and nice cars.

1053
00:55:08,400 --> 00:55:11,279
Speaker 1: And look, we're Tennessee a generation to go. We were

1054
00:55:11,280 --> 00:55:14,839
Speaker 1: a perennial national championship contender, and if you're seventeen years

1055
00:55:14,840 --> 00:55:16,360
Speaker 1: old watching the show, just take my word for it.

1056
00:55:16,400 --> 00:55:19,000
Speaker 1: But that was Tennessee football once upon a time, and

1057
00:55:19,080 --> 00:55:21,640
Speaker 1: it could be again, and there's no reason it shouldn't

1058
00:55:21,680 --> 00:55:25,000
Speaker 1: be again. So you're kind of just doing pretty good now.

1059
00:55:25,239 --> 00:55:27,880
Speaker 1: In April of twenty twenty five, we had the Nico

1060
00:55:27,880 --> 00:55:30,719
Speaker 1: I am Ali Ava bomb dropped on us, and at

1061
00:55:30,760 --> 00:55:34,120
Speaker 1: the time I said, if they can, if they can

1062
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Speaker 1: just throw me seven or eight wins, I'll be good.

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00:55:36,200 --> 00:55:38,840
Speaker 1: And they did. They went eight and four and that

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00:55:39,000 --> 00:55:42,160
Speaker 1: was April. Man, that was April twentieth of last year.

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00:55:42,440 --> 00:55:45,440
Speaker 1: So this time last year, we were still two months

1066
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Speaker 1: away from finding out, Oh, our season's about to fundamentally change,

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00:55:50,320 --> 00:55:53,920
Speaker 1: and the quote unquote quarterback of our future he's leaving us,

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00:55:53,920 --> 00:55:56,520
Speaker 1: and we're gonna take the guy he's replacing at UCLA,

1069
00:55:56,560 --> 00:55:58,880
Speaker 1: who's been at UCLA for five minutes from Joey Aguilar.

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Speaker 1: Eight wins, all things considered, could have been nine with

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Speaker 1: the Bowl game, but it was eight wins good enough.

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Speaker 1: I think the mentality now is all right. Twenty twenty six,

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Speaker 1: so if we view twenty twenty five as this transition year.

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Speaker 1: Twenty twenty six basically, in my mind becomes is that

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Speaker 1: like low key year two of a two year transition.

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00:56:23,719 --> 00:56:26,560
Speaker 1: Transition years are okay in college football, but you don't

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Speaker 1: want him to be paired, Like you don't want two

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00:56:29,400 --> 00:56:32,480
Speaker 1: transition years because that's a transition period, and no one

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00:56:32,520 --> 00:56:36,160
Speaker 1: wants a transition period, especially several years into a coaching tenure.

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Speaker 1: But there are at least grounds to consider twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: six as the second of two consecutive transfer or transition years.

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Speaker 1: For example, at quarterback, what are we doing? Is it? Faison?

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00:56:49,200 --> 00:56:51,040
Speaker 1: Is he just starting for us right out of the gate.

1084
00:56:51,080 --> 00:56:53,640
Speaker 1: He's the quarterback of our future. Yeah, we said that

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00:56:53,680 --> 00:56:55,560
Speaker 1: about Nico once upon a time, but we think he's

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00:56:55,600 --> 00:56:57,440
Speaker 1: going to be better than Nico. Is he going to

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00:56:57,480 --> 00:56:59,000
Speaker 1: be the guy right out of the gate though? Is

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Speaker 1: he gonna be ready or do we have to wait

1089
00:57:01,560 --> 00:57:05,320
Speaker 1: a year? Jim Knowles just took over as our defensive coordinator.

1090
00:57:05,400 --> 00:57:08,840
Speaker 1: Knowles is notorious for having a complex defense, but a

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00:57:08,840 --> 00:57:11,560
Speaker 1: good defense, but a defense that it takes time to learn.

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Speaker 1: So is he going to be back to top fifteen,

1093
00:57:14,480 --> 00:57:17,040
Speaker 1: top ten right out of the gate? Or will it

1094
00:57:17,080 --> 00:57:18,840
Speaker 1: take a year. He brought some kids with him from

1095
00:57:18,840 --> 00:57:20,840
Speaker 1: Penn State. Are they going to hit right out of

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Speaker 1: the gate? Are we going to go back to top ten,

1097
00:57:22,560 --> 00:57:24,680
Speaker 1: which we were two years ago, or is it going

1098
00:57:24,760 --> 00:57:26,480
Speaker 1: to take a year. Now? We probably won't be in

1099
00:57:26,480 --> 00:57:30,320
Speaker 1: the nineties somehow like we were last year. But there's

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Speaker 1: a difference between having the fifteenth best defense in the

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00:57:33,320 --> 00:57:36,200
Speaker 1: country and the forty fifth best defense in the country. Also,

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Speaker 1: this profiles as a pretty young team this year, So

1103
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Speaker 1: are these going to be a head of schedule or

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Speaker 1: do we have to wait a year? So my approach

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00:57:45,080 --> 00:57:48,960
Speaker 1: with Tennessee has always been to zoom out because it

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00:57:49,000 --> 00:57:52,080
Speaker 1: helps to know the history at Tennessee, not the long history.

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00:57:52,800 --> 00:57:55,440
Speaker 1: All due respect to General Neeland, we don't need to

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Speaker 1: talk about him. We don't need to talk about Johnny

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Speaker 1: Majors or Phil Former. Just go recent Just go go

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Speaker 1: Derek Dooley, go Butch Jones, you know, go the entire

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Speaker 1: weird COVID era and then understand how bad it was

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Speaker 1: and how relatively better it is now. And that really helps.

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Speaker 1: It helps to zoom out on Tennessee. So, yes, I

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Speaker 1: want a title if I'm a Tennessee fan, and yes,

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Speaker 1: I believe we're capable of winning one. You better believe

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Speaker 1: if Indiana can win one, we should be able to

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Speaker 1: win one. But forget about Indiana. If Georgia and Alabama

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Speaker 1: can win them, we should be able to win them.

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Speaker 1: If ls you can do it, why can't we do it?

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Speaker 1: And that's its own separate debate. But like, and I'm

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Speaker 1: speaking as me for a second, there is a train

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Speaker 1: of thought, there's like a school of thought out there

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Speaker 1: that Tennessee's chance has kind of passed them by. It's garbage.

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Speaker 1: There's no foundation in logic with that way of thinking,

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Speaker 1: no more than there was in thinking the game had

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Speaker 1: passed Miami by. Nothing has passed Miami by. Nothing's past

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Speaker 1: Tennessee by. You still do everything in Tennessee. Now. You

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Speaker 1: can do a night eight, I promise you. It just

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Speaker 1: But you can appreciate that it's not quite where you

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00:59:11,000 --> 00:59:13,400
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Speaker 1: way from what it used to be, like in a

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Speaker 1: for that sweet spot. So I go back to the mood.

1137
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Speaker 1: What's the mood? Pretty good? Could it be better? Yeah? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Could it be worse? Oh yes, that's the mood at

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Speaker 1: Tennessee right now, classic tween Er vibe. It won't be

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Speaker 1: all that long before we're talking about futures bets with Tennessee.

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Speaker 1: All right, let's wrap up the show with this very

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Speaker 1: important question, very timely question. Doc hit us up and said, uh, well, je,

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Speaker 1: here's a better endpoint for you, Bradley, Doc from the

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Speaker 1: south side of Indianapolis, hit us up. He said, does

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Speaker 1: Notre Dame win a national championship under Marcus Freeman in

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Speaker 1: the next two to four years? Don't be afraid of

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Speaker 1: a bold prediction, partner. Uh, what kind of time frame

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Speaker 1: is the next two to four years? Doc? If you

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Speaker 1: want me to be bold enough to make a prediction,

1202
01:02:39,120 --> 01:02:41,600
Speaker 1: just give me a timeframe. Are we talking the next

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Speaker 1: two years? Are we talking the next four years? Also?

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Speaker 1: Are they allowed to win it this year? You said

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Speaker 1: the next two to four years. I don't know. I

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Speaker 1: don't know. I ask about this year only because at FanDuel,

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Speaker 1: Notre Dame, believe it or not, currently has the number

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Speaker 1: one overall odds to win the whole thing, Doc, So

1209
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Speaker 1: maybe the next one to four years. Here's what it

1210
01:03:01,160 --> 01:03:03,040
Speaker 1: takes to win a national championship, as far as I

1211
01:03:03,040 --> 01:03:08,080
Speaker 1: could see, it takes proper alignment. It takes a good

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Speaker 1: enough staff, it takes a good enough roster. It helps

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Speaker 1: to have the quarterback situation in order. You've got to

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Speaker 1: have really good development and you've got to have a

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Speaker 1: solid identity that can win. And Notre Dame for me

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Speaker 1: is yes, yes, yes, yes, yes and yes in those categories.

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01:03:23,400 --> 01:03:26,600
Speaker 1: So that means yes, I think they're gonna win a

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Speaker 1: national championship in the next one to four years. I

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Speaker 1: don't have to say which one, right, he didn't tell

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Speaker 1: me I had to say which one, but it could

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Speaker 1: be this year. You know, those are the odds right there,

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01:03:37,320 --> 01:03:40,120
Speaker 1: if you're listening on podcast. Bradley didn't just throw this

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Speaker 1: together because he had nothing to do. Notre Dame has

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Speaker 1: the best odds to win the national title this year,

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Speaker 1: followed by Ohio State, followed by Indiana, followed by Texas,

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Speaker 1: followed by Oregon, Georgia, Miami. You got Texas Tech in there.

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Speaker 1: Notre Dame's got better odds than all of them. They

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Speaker 1: got CJ. Carr another year in. They have got a

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Speaker 1: very very hungry program. I mean, they believe that they

1230
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Speaker 1: were just denied their birthright, which is to be in

1231
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Speaker 1: the college football playoff, And that was a big debate.

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Speaker 1: Wherever you land on that's wherever you land. But that's

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Speaker 1: a solid roster and it's a tailor made schedule. You

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Speaker 1: got their schedule, Bradley, by any chance. Yeah, So guys,

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Speaker 1: there's no real other way to put it. This is

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Speaker 1: a pathetic schedule. But it is the schedule they're playing now.

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Speaker 1: It's not solely their fault that the USC game is

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Speaker 1: not there. I lean like seventy thirty on the Notre

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Speaker 1: Dame side of that argument. So USC is supposed to

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Speaker 1: be here and it's not here. But because it's not there,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna read it to you. It sounds a little

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Speaker 1: something like this. Stop me when you hear the insurmountable

1243
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Speaker 1: hurdle versus Wisconsin. I think that one's in Lamba versus Wisconsin.

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Speaker 1: They play food in week two. Rice is on the menu.

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Speaker 1: They play Michigan State at Purdue, at North Carolina, Stanford

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Speaker 1: at Brigham, Young Navy neutral site, Miami at home in November,

1247
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Speaker 1: mind you, Boston College SMU at Syrah Use. There's just

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Speaker 1: no two ways about it. It's a soft schedule. They

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Speaker 1: know it. They're not apologizing for it. They know it.

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Speaker 1: That probably means they can afford to lose one game

1251
01:05:17,920 --> 01:05:20,640
Speaker 1: and know they're in the playoff. It's almost like a

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Speaker 1: G five vibe. It's not, but it's kind of like

1253
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Speaker 1: the vibe where you know, oh, they can lose one game,

1254
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Speaker 1: they can't be losing two games because if Notre Dame

1255
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Speaker 1: was left out with last year's schedule losing two games.

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Speaker 1: They will absolutely be left out losing two games with

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Speaker 1: this one. But the better approach to me here with

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Speaker 1: this question, in fact, do me a favorite. Bradley put

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Speaker 1: the question back on the screen for just a second

1260
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Speaker 1: because my answer was yes, Doc. My answer was yes.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to reread the question and I'm going to

1262
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Speaker 1: ask you a question. So he's just saying, does Notre

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Speaker 1: Dame win a national title under Freeman in the next

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Speaker 1: four years or so? My answer is yes. If your

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Speaker 1: answer is no, is the answer no? It could be

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Speaker 1: one of two things. Either you're just playing the percentages

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Speaker 1: here that it's really a crap shoot any given year,

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Speaker 1: even if you've got all the ingredients, it's a crap shoot.

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Speaker 1: And you're just gonna play the percentages that Notre Dame won't.

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Speaker 1: So you're not saying they're incapable of it. You're just

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Speaker 1: saying they won't. That kind of person they're logic, I get.

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Speaker 1: I may disagree. I'm a roll the dice that Freeman

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Speaker 1: gets it done. I understand your logic. I think I

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Speaker 1: know the Notre Dame conversation well enough to know there's

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Speaker 1: another kind of person out there who thinks Notre Dame

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Speaker 1: is not going to win a title over the next

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Speaker 1: four years because Notre Dame can't win a national title.

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Speaker 1: That person, I'd like to ask you why. I'd like

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Speaker 1: to ask you what they lack. I'd like to ask

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Speaker 1: you what Michigan a couple of years ago had that

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Speaker 1: Notre Dame can't have. I'd like to ask you what

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Speaker 1: Ohio State had last year that Notre Dame can't have.

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Speaker 1: And I'd like to ask you what Indiana possessed a

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Speaker 1: few minutes ago that Notre Dame can't have. I don't

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Speaker 1: think the answer is there. I think Notre Dame is

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Speaker 1: fully capable of doing this. Now. I'm not asking how

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Speaker 1: you feel about them. Maybe you grew up hate Notre Dame,

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Speaker 1: cool continue hating them for all I care. But we're

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Speaker 1: asking can they win a national title? And if your

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Speaker 1: answer is they can't, if you're going back to that

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Speaker 1: whole theory that all the sports just changed, all the

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Speaker 1: landscape has just changed, buddy. If you're telling me the

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Speaker 1: landscape in college football has changed, and the net result

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Speaker 1: is the table has tilted away from the SEC and

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Speaker 1: towards the Big ten. I promise you any tilting of

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Speaker 1: the table towards the big ten in this sport is

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Speaker 1: also tilted towards Notre Dame. I promise you that. So

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Speaker 1: doc upon your advice, I'm taking the stand. I'm saying, yes,

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Speaker 1: Marcus Freeman wins it. And then you have to really

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Speaker 1: deal with the NFL rumors getting ramped up. But I

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Speaker 1: think they are on a mission this year. I think

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Speaker 1: their best shots this year actually. So that's my answer,

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