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Speaker 1: And welcome in lane. Kick is live. It is Thursday night, January.

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Speaker 1: Is it the thirteenth, Yes, it is the year of

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Speaker 1: our Lawer twenty twenty two, jam packed high Top downtown Nashville, Tennessee.

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Speaker 1: Forecast does not look promising again this weekend. I got

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Speaker 1: a buddy who's a chief meteorologist in Cleveland. We are

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Speaker 1: currently pacing ahead of Cleveland here in Nashville for total

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Speaker 1: annual snowfall. And look, we're probably gonna stretch the lead

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Speaker 1: at some point this weekend. But we got a jam

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Speaker 1: packed show tonight. Lessons learned one of my favorite Tracy

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Speaker 1: Lawrence songs, and it's also what the rest of college

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Speaker 1: football really needs to be doing. When it comes to

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Speaker 1: the University of Georgia, there are a lot of misnomers.

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Speaker 1: There's a lot of I think total misunderstandings about how

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Speaker 1: Georgia won a national championship. A lot of people look

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Speaker 1: at it and say, well, of course they won. They

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Speaker 1: got a whole bunch of talent. Yeah, they didn't wake

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Speaker 1: up with it there one morning. There's a way that

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Speaker 1: the investment got there too. We're going to talk about

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Speaker 1: it all because there's this thinking out there that only

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Speaker 1: It's false, that is not true. It is true that

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Speaker 1: Minnesota is not capable of just blanketly duplicating what Georgia did.

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Speaker 1: But there are a lot more programs out there capable

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Speaker 1: of doing what Kirby Smart just did. Technically capable, shall

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Speaker 1: I say, then meets the eye. So we will discuss

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Speaker 1: also the transfer portal. Bombs set to go off, some

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Speaker 1: now you've got Caleb Williams out there, Jackson Dart. I'm

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Speaker 1: a huge fan of Jackson Dart. He's in the portal

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Speaker 1: right now. And you got some guys like Mario Williams.

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Speaker 1: A ton of BAMA guys have begun the annual exodus

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Speaker 1: out of Tuscaloosa. We're going to talk about all that tonight.

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Speaker 1: Got some intel on where some guys may be leaning.

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Speaker 1: Who knows, there may be some bombs that go off

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Speaker 1: before the end of the program. Speaking of programs out there,

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Speaker 1: some of them just flat out need to step up.

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Speaker 1: I asked earlier today on Twitter, which programs are you

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Speaker 1: tired of waiting on? You can be a fan of

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Speaker 1: fan in general and look at Penn State or Tennessee

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Speaker 1: or Texas. We had a bunch of programs name those

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Speaker 1: were just three of them, and say, to varying degrees,

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Speaker 1: it's time for you to step up now. Some of

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Speaker 1: them have new staffs in place, other ones have had

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Speaker 1: I got about eight or nine programs that my answer

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Speaker 1: is yes for. We will discuss that tonight. And more

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Speaker 1: evidence continuing to emerge that twenty twenty one could very

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Speaker 1: well have been the best college football season that we

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Speaker 1: have seen in a generation. Make sure you're following on

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Speaker 1: Twitter and Instagram at Late Kick Josh format update here.

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Speaker 1: Some of you may have noticed we did not have

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Speaker 1: a Late Kick Extra podcast today. Production is shifting right now,

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Speaker 1: but starting I guess you could say this Sunday. Starting Sunday,

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Speaker 1: But you got regular season, then you got that irregular season.

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Speaker 1: Right now, we enter irregular season, which of course means

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Speaker 1: we have Latekick Live on Sunday night, LATEKICKLVE on Thursday night,

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Speaker 1: you listen to us just via podcast Monday, Wednesday and Friday,

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Speaker 1: and I don't need it right away, but since we're

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Speaker 1: what I want to know from you when it comes

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Speaker 1: to your show, which is this show? What changes would

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Speaker 1: They thought that that show should have just been dominated

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Speaker 1: go back and watch the show, and you know what,

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Speaker 1: You're not entirely wrong. If I could perfectly recalibrate the

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Speaker 1: We're not done talking about Georgia. We don't just conclude

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Speaker 1: This is not the norm, it's not their birthright. They

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Speaker 1: other major programs out there that have underachieved for quite

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Speaker 1: Of course they're dominant. Now, of course they're a monster. Now.

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Speaker 1: But look, please learn the lessons. There's not just one

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Speaker 1: But I would suggest the experience right now alone. If

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Speaker 1: It's really impressive when you walk in those places. I've

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Speaker 1: Of course, they beat Bama this year, and also they

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Speaker 1: are in the process, maybe not done, they're in the

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Speaker 1: process of bringing in the greatest recruiting class we've seen

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Speaker 1: in modern recruiting history, in the entirety of the twenty

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Speaker 1: four to seven sports team rankings history. Jimbo bringing in

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Speaker 1: the number one class, and he's been very vocal about it.

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Speaker 1: Remember we had him on the signing day show and

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Speaker 1: he said, there are things we've wanted to do that

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Speaker 1: we haven't been able to do that I think this

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Speaker 1: class will let us do. Thinks he's gotten the best

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Speaker 1: quarterback in the entire cycle, and that includes Quinn Ewers

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Speaker 1: from the transfer portal. I asked him specifically about it,

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Speaker 1: and he said, well, we really didn't go after yours

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Speaker 1: cause Connor Weigman, we think is the best in the country,

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Speaker 1: So I'm going to take his word for it. By

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Speaker 1: the way, I would highly encourage you, if you haven't

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Speaker 1: seen it live or watched the replay, to go watch

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Speaker 1: the coach's film room of the National Championship game. It

447
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Speaker 1: always anytime I watch something like that, it always leaves

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Speaker 1: me speechless at how people out there on their couch

449
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Speaker 1: question play calling. I'm going to leave that to you. Guys.

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Speaker 1: When you listen to football coaches, if you're so fortunate

451
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Speaker 1: as to watch them when they're actually diagnosing ball, when

452
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Speaker 1: they're watching either their own team on film or the opponent,

453
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Speaker 1: or when they're just casually watching another game, it's insane.

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Speaker 1: I had someone one time tell me about Jeremy Pruett.

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Speaker 1: They were in the same room as him, and he's

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Speaker 1: watching like an Auburn game or something like that, and

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Speaker 1: he's just steadily calling the game. He's calling the offensive

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Speaker 1: game before the balls snapped. There's a level that even

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Speaker 1: the informed fan thinks on. And then there are like

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Speaker 1: seventeen stories and way up there. Even the coaches you

461
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Speaker 1: would consider just mediocre are are only they're an entirely

462
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Speaker 1: different level of the atmosphere because they've watched it for

463
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Speaker 1: so long and they've lived it for so long. Anyway,

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Speaker 1: side note, that was a fascinating product. ESPN put out

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Speaker 1: Texas A and M. Though, sure it is time, but

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Speaker 1: it's almost like you forget they only quote unquote only

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Speaker 1: won eight games this past year, because it seems in

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Speaker 1: so many ways like the season was more successful. And

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Speaker 1: I also think people are looking at it and saying, yeah,

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Speaker 1: we lost Haines King, lost our starting quarterback. We did

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Speaker 1: what we could do with Zach Calzada. But really you're

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Speaker 1: banking on the future. And so you know you've got

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Speaker 1: the coach you want, you know, you got the staff

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Speaker 1: you want. You know you now have the talent coming

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Speaker 1: in that you want. So yes, I will agree with

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Speaker 1: you guys. Sure it's time. You know, Jimbo's already halfway

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Speaker 1: through that contract, entering what is a year five. I

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Speaker 1: was on with Chuck Oliver today and he said that

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Speaker 1: it almost took me by surprise because it still feels

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Speaker 1: like Jimbo just got there. It feels like Jimbo's been

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Speaker 1: at A and M way less amount of time than

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Speaker 1: Kirby's minu at Georgia. To me, that's how it feels.

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Speaker 1: What about Texas? Now this one you get a little

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Speaker 1: bit more of a clenched fist when you talk about

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Speaker 1: and your knuckles white and a little bit more Yes. Now,

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Speaker 1: this has kind of permanently been the state of affairs

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Speaker 1: around Austin for a long time. Yes, it is time.

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Speaker 1: And I think most of college football, unless you're a

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Speaker 1: direct rival of Texas, is looking at them and thinking

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Speaker 1: the same thing, regardless of who the coach is. What

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Speaker 1: you always know in the back of your mind, or

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Speaker 1: at least you think you know, is they got enough

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Speaker 1: talent to compete. Now, I would counter with the fact

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Speaker 1: that I think that's been a little overblown as a

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Speaker 1: talking point. It's one thing to bring in guys with

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Speaker 1: stars next to their name. We're in that business, okay.

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Speaker 1: We are twenty four to seven sports, So we are

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Speaker 1: the company that puts the star grade next to the names.

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Speaker 1: There's a ton of legwork that goes into that. I

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Speaker 1: would put my name against the reputation of those individual

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Speaker 1: star grades and rankings. But my point is is when

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Speaker 1: you see a school like Texas, you can either look

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Speaker 1: at the roster from like thirty thousand feet and say

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Speaker 1: a lot of former four and five stars there, or

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Speaker 1: you can zoom in a little bit and understand is

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Speaker 1: the talent evenly enough dispersed? Do you have enough of

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Speaker 1: that developed important word there four and five star talent

508
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Speaker 1: in every position room or is it disproportionately tilted towards

509
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Speaker 1: one or two rooms and you're perilously thin in another room.

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Speaker 1: You know that happens all the time. So why you

511
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Speaker 1: got to know more than just the team talent composite

512
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Speaker 1: like we do that on the website, and it's an

513
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Speaker 1: important thing to know. But you got to know how

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Speaker 1: to interpret that. Like I'm a weather nerd, so I'm

515
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Speaker 1: looking at the GFS and the euro You got to

516
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Speaker 1: know how to interpret that model data or else you'll

517
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Speaker 1: believe that seventeen inches of snow is going to fall

518
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Speaker 1: in in like I don't know, Charleston, South Carolina next week.

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Speaker 1: You got to have a little bit more of your

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Speaker 1: own brain working well with Texas. Even having said that,

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Speaker 1: no one wants to hear an excuse about Texas, nor

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Speaker 1: does Steve Sarkisian for that, nor does his own fan base.

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Speaker 1: They want results. Now. To me, I've told you many

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Speaker 1: times Clemson and Texas the two most fascinating programs to

525
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Speaker 1: watch as the spring and summer approach, because those are

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Speaker 1: the two programs that a lot is expected of, and

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Speaker 1: especially with Texas, they're overhauling everything there that will not

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Speaker 1: look like the same team. I cannot promise you a

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Speaker 1: different looking record. I can promise you that's a totally

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Speaker 1: different looking team in spring, and then especially when we

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Speaker 1: get to the fall. You know they got Alabama coming

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Speaker 1: in there. Think in week two they got Alabama coming

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Speaker 1: into Austin. That'll be fun. What about the Pac twelve?

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Speaker 1: We got the screenshot right, So when I put this

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Speaker 1: question out earlier today, I want to say it was

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Speaker 1: Matt prem out with Oregon the organ site we have

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Speaker 1: on the West coast. He said, yeah, there it is.

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Speaker 1: So I said, who needs to step up? And he says,

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Speaker 1: can we just say the Pac twelve and end this discussion?

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Speaker 1: If college football could get Oregon, USC, and Utah to

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Speaker 1: allbit ten wins or more play at the same time,

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Speaker 1: that way, combined with Stanford, Washington, Ucla, Oregon State, and

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Speaker 1: Era Zona all Bowl eligible, we'd all be better off.

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Speaker 1: Is that so much to ask? I really think about that.

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Speaker 1: He's asking for three programs out there. Let's just say,

546
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Speaker 1: for the sake of argument, Oregon, Southern cal Utah, he

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Speaker 1: wants them to be ten win caliber programs. Of course,

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Speaker 1: in any given year, that means one of them is

549
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Speaker 1: a playoff contender. He wants that. And then he wants

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Speaker 1: a nice second level of solid Bowl eligible teams. Any

551
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Speaker 1: given year, give me four or five really solid Bowl

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Speaker 1: eligible teams to beef up the conference schedule, beef up

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Speaker 1: the conference profile. You know that is not so much

554
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Speaker 1: to ask. You got Lincoln Riley coming in at USC.

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Speaker 1: We think, and I'll talk about it later in the show,

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Speaker 1: that Caleb Williams will come in there as you would

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Speaker 1: presume the starting quarterback once he arrives. At the worst,

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Speaker 1: you got Miller Moss there. But they've made moves. I mean,

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Speaker 1: they're dead serious. At USC, Dan Lanning is walking in

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Speaker 1: At Oregon, Dan Lanning is walking into a very good

561
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Speaker 1: roster situation there. Dan Lanning also knows the name of

562
00:27:00,400 --> 00:27:04,399
Speaker 1: the game is about talent acquisition first and foremost. He

563
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Speaker 1: just came from a place at Georgia where he learned that.

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Speaker 1: We spent the first fifteen some odd minutes of the

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Speaker 1: show tonight talking about that, so there's no reason to

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Speaker 1: believe from a personnel standpoint, Oregon's going to fall off.

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Speaker 1: No one has any way of knowing how Dan Lanning

568
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Speaker 1: will perform as a head coach. I have reason to

569
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Speaker 1: believe you should believe in him. I have endorsed it,

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Speaker 1: and we all know how much that's worth. I've endorsed

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Speaker 1: the move. I'm excited to watch it, though. I think

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Speaker 1: the biggest question a lot of people have is Kenny

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Speaker 1: Dillingham at OC, a guy who has not really had

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Speaker 1: play calling duties in his lap, and now you have

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Speaker 1: got a new head coach that is also implementing a

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Speaker 1: new system, and he's got Dillingham up there. There's a

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Speaker 1: lot to talk about in the spring. But Oregon being

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Speaker 1: at a ten to win caliber level, that's not too

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Speaker 1: much to ask. Utah just went to the Rose Bowl,

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Speaker 1: they won the PAC twelve. That is not too much

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Speaker 1: to ask. And I'm sure the new commissioner out there

582
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Speaker 1: looks around and says, no, really, it's not too much

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Speaker 1: to add. We're not asking for multiple playoff contenders. We're

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Speaker 1: not asking to be the SEC and occupy half the

585
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Speaker 1: playoff every other year, although it'd be nice, we just

586
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Speaker 1: want a stronger detection of a heartbeat out here because

587
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Speaker 1: right now, nothing west of Norman essentially has mattered on

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Speaker 1: the national level, and that's got to change. I completely

589
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Speaker 1: agree with that. I would say next to and possibly

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Speaker 1: including Texas, A and M. One of the most popular

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Speaker 1: submissions to this question was Penn State. In fact, if

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Speaker 1: I were to recount, Penn State may have been number one.

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Speaker 1: Penn State when it comes to programs that need to

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Speaker 1: step up. Yeah, Nitney Lyons right there. Now, what's been

595
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Speaker 1: the go to? The go to has been they're limited

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Speaker 1: because quarterback play has limited them. Drew Aller is a

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Speaker 1: legitimate five star caliber quarterback who is coming in with

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Speaker 1: this signing class. Sean Clifford's coming back. He will celebrate

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Speaker 1: his thirty third birthday as quarterback in Happy Valley, but

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Speaker 1: eventually this is going to be Drew Aller's team. Now,

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Speaker 1: it stands to reason that is a reason for hope.

602
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Speaker 1: James Franklin is there and they've re upped his contract

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Speaker 1: and they've reinvest in. So basically, the things that you

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Speaker 1: ask for you're kind of getting. I don't know that

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Speaker 1: you're shouting them in a megaphone, but you've got theoretically

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Speaker 1: what you need there. We talked a lot during the

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Speaker 1: season about the need to invest and invest and invest,

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Speaker 1: kind of the same thing we open the show with

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Speaker 1: tonight with Georgia. Penn State's got to do that. But look,

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Speaker 1: I think it's also totally fair for them to look

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Speaker 1: back and say, look, you're asking us to invest, you

612
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Speaker 1: better give us a reason to believe. It's not the

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Speaker 1: worst thing in the world to go into Columbus Ohio,

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Speaker 1: you know, and lose to the Buckeyes. But we're losing

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Speaker 1: to Illinois at home. We can talk about bad breaks

616
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Speaker 1: and whatnot. Games shouldn't be close. It's Penn State versus Illinois.

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Speaker 1: We can't have that. So we give you a show

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Speaker 1: of good faith. You got to give us a better

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Speaker 1: show of good faith. I'm just interested, offensively to see

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Speaker 1: what Penn State becomes over the next year twenty twenty two.

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Speaker 1: I'm not looking down the road past that. Twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: two interesting year for Penn State. Offensively stand in the

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Speaker 1: big ten. Now, this is gonna sound weird because a

624
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Speaker 1: lot of people said, Ohio State, and I agree, but

625
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Speaker 1: this is totally different context. Ohio State. You know, this

626
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Speaker 1: is not a team that you're looking at and saying, oh,

627
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Speaker 1: eight wins again. No, but it's different. The standard there

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Speaker 1: is different. The talent level is such that anything short

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Speaker 1: of a playoff appearance, and maybe even further than that,

630
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Speaker 1: is viewed as a disappointment. I don't think Ryan Day

631
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Speaker 1: feels any differently. You know, they're happy to win the

632
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Speaker 1: Rose Bowl. They should be happy to win the Rose Bowl.

633
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Speaker 1: We're not gonna poo poo the Rose Bowl around here.

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Speaker 1: But when you look at all the offensive talent they have,

635
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Speaker 1: and you've been told elite quarterback play, elite perimeter skill play,

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Speaker 1: you got Trey down Henderson in the backfield, good solid

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Speaker 1: offensive line. Those are the things that win in college

638
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Speaker 1: football these days. And they can't beat when they lose

639
00:30:54,040 --> 00:30:56,840
Speaker 1: to Oregon and lost to Michigan, couldn't get it done,

640
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Speaker 1: couldn't even make the playoff this year, couldn't make the

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Speaker 1: Big Ten championship game this year. Telling you I don't

642
00:31:03,520 --> 00:31:06,600
Speaker 1: think it is the most unfair statement in Buckeye Land.

643
00:31:06,840 --> 00:31:09,600
Speaker 1: You know, if you're up there in let's say where

644
00:31:09,600 --> 00:31:11,560
Speaker 1: do we want to go? Let's go to Sandusky, Ohio.

645
00:31:11,920 --> 00:31:14,200
Speaker 1: You're looking at all those players on that roster you're

646
00:31:14,200 --> 00:31:16,560
Speaker 1: looking at CJ. Stroud. I'm not even going to mention

647
00:31:16,560 --> 00:31:18,600
Speaker 1: the receivers because it's only like a forty five minute show,

648
00:31:18,840 --> 00:31:21,280
Speaker 1: and you're saying to yourself, we ought to be we

649
00:31:21,320 --> 00:31:24,320
Speaker 1: ought to be accomplishing more with this group. That's not unfair.

650
00:31:24,760 --> 00:31:28,360
Speaker 1: That is not unrealistic. Expectations to want to go better

651
00:31:28,400 --> 00:31:31,680
Speaker 1: than two losses in regular season play with that crew,

652
00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:35,320
Speaker 1: that's not unfair, And so by default that means, yeah,

653
00:31:35,480 --> 00:31:37,640
Speaker 1: it's time for them to step up now. To their credit,

654
00:31:38,240 --> 00:31:41,160
Speaker 1: Ryan Day is doing anything but sitting still. They're overhauling

655
00:31:41,160 --> 00:31:44,920
Speaker 1: the entire defensive coaching staff up there, and so they

656
00:31:45,040 --> 00:31:47,520
Speaker 1: understand it like they get it. It's just now it

657
00:31:47,560 --> 00:31:50,000
Speaker 1: has to be done. I've got confidence that they will

658
00:31:50,040 --> 00:31:52,600
Speaker 1: get it done. Like I really like Ohio State this

659
00:31:52,680 --> 00:31:57,280
Speaker 1: upcoming year. What about Tennessee? Tennessee very important to properly

660
00:31:57,320 --> 00:32:00,440
Speaker 1: contextualize this too. Yes, it's time for them step up,

661
00:32:00,480 --> 00:32:03,800
Speaker 1: but it's been time for a long time. And when

662
00:32:03,840 --> 00:32:06,520
Speaker 1: they got rid of Jeremy Pruitt and they hired Josh Hypel,

663
00:32:07,120 --> 00:32:09,920
Speaker 1: it's too early to look at Josh Hypel and say, hey,

664
00:32:10,160 --> 00:32:12,280
Speaker 1: it's time for you to produce because the fact of

665
00:32:12,280 --> 00:32:15,360
Speaker 1: the matter is they already kind of did this past year.

666
00:32:15,760 --> 00:32:20,720
Speaker 1: They certainly overachieved in my mind relative to expectation, and offensively,

667
00:32:21,440 --> 00:32:23,600
Speaker 1: you got everything you could have ever hoped to have

668
00:32:23,680 --> 00:32:27,280
Speaker 1: gotten from that team. They were gutted. Would you remember

669
00:32:27,320 --> 00:32:31,600
Speaker 1: in spring how dire the situation looked for Tennessee. First off,

670
00:32:31,640 --> 00:32:34,720
Speaker 1: you still have a looming NCAA investigation there, Like, when's

671
00:32:34,720 --> 00:32:36,680
Speaker 1: the last time we talked about that. It's still going on,

672
00:32:37,120 --> 00:32:38,719
Speaker 1: and as soon as someone wakes up from their nap

673
00:32:38,760 --> 00:32:41,000
Speaker 1: and delivers a ruling, I'll be happy to report it.

674
00:32:41,160 --> 00:32:43,600
Speaker 1: But it hasn't happened yet. So you got that going on.

675
00:32:43,840 --> 00:32:46,160
Speaker 1: You had a mass exodus to the transfer portal, you

676
00:32:46,240 --> 00:32:48,239
Speaker 1: got a new ad and coaching staff in there, and

677
00:32:48,280 --> 00:32:51,760
Speaker 1: no one really knows much about them. I think twenty

678
00:32:51,800 --> 00:32:54,760
Speaker 1: twenty one turned out okay, and there's reason to believe

679
00:32:55,040 --> 00:32:57,800
Speaker 1: that offense is going to be a monster to deal

680
00:32:57,840 --> 00:32:59,760
Speaker 1: with because right now we saw Josh Hypel do what

681
00:32:59,800 --> 00:33:03,040
Speaker 1: he did with essentially what he inherited. Now they get

682
00:33:03,080 --> 00:33:05,440
Speaker 1: to go to work putting together their roster and putting

683
00:33:05,440 --> 00:33:08,320
Speaker 1: together their kind of player. You know what's going to

684
00:33:08,360 --> 00:33:12,080
Speaker 1: be fun and a learning experience for everyone in Knoxville.

685
00:33:12,200 --> 00:33:16,200
Speaker 1: Is is Josh Hipel's system one that's going to require

686
00:33:16,240 --> 00:33:18,720
Speaker 1: top five classes every year? Or is that going to

687
00:33:18,760 --> 00:33:21,160
Speaker 1: be one of those things where he is so good

688
00:33:21,600 --> 00:33:24,560
Speaker 1: as a tactician and a developer that he can say,

689
00:33:24,560 --> 00:33:26,440
Speaker 1: all right, as long as I got quarterback taken care

690
00:33:26,480 --> 00:33:30,120
Speaker 1: of around that quarterback, give me good top ten to

691
00:33:30,120 --> 00:33:33,680
Speaker 1: top fifteen caliber roster talent, We'll get it done. Let's

692
00:33:33,720 --> 00:33:37,160
Speaker 1: keep a close eye on Tennessee Tennessee as a program. Yes,

693
00:33:37,440 --> 00:33:41,080
Speaker 1: Like Jesse was giving me just some insane stats about

694
00:33:41,080 --> 00:33:42,920
Speaker 1: the last time they beat the top ten team out

695
00:33:42,960 --> 00:33:45,440
Speaker 1: in the newsroom, and I said, Jesse, go in your room,

696
00:33:45,480 --> 00:33:47,240
Speaker 1: go sit by the garbage. And he said, it's true.

697
00:33:47,480 --> 00:33:49,160
Speaker 1: I said, I want you to sit by the garbage,

698
00:33:49,200 --> 00:33:51,720
Speaker 1: because it's true. Someone's got to pay a price. And

699
00:33:52,080 --> 00:33:54,160
Speaker 1: Butch Jones in here right now, brother, so you got

700
00:33:54,200 --> 00:33:56,520
Speaker 1: to bear the brunt. And then let's go to the

701
00:33:56,640 --> 00:33:58,920
Speaker 1: entire state of Florida. I'm not going to spend too

702
00:33:58,920 --> 00:34:01,479
Speaker 1: long on this. This is an entire segment that we

703
00:34:01,520 --> 00:34:05,000
Speaker 1: do about once every other month. But as you well

704
00:34:05,040 --> 00:34:07,800
Speaker 1: know by now, it is my personal feeling that the

705
00:34:07,800 --> 00:34:10,719
Speaker 1: state of Florida holds the key to competitive balance in

706
00:34:10,760 --> 00:34:13,600
Speaker 1: college football. And right now you got the University of Florida,

707
00:34:13,680 --> 00:34:16,000
Speaker 1: and you got Miami, you got Florida State, not on

708
00:34:16,600 --> 00:34:18,759
Speaker 1: how do we say it neary a. One of them

709
00:34:19,000 --> 00:34:21,919
Speaker 1: finished in the top twenty five this past year. Now,

710
00:34:22,040 --> 00:34:26,279
Speaker 1: certainly at all three stops, there is reason for optimism.

711
00:34:26,680 --> 00:34:28,680
Speaker 1: I would be very excited if I were a Florida

712
00:34:28,680 --> 00:34:31,320
Speaker 1: Gator fan right now. I love the Billy Napier higher,

713
00:34:31,480 --> 00:34:34,359
Speaker 1: I love the subsequent hires that he's made, So there's

714
00:34:34,360 --> 00:34:36,239
Speaker 1: a lot to like there. Don't know if it's an

715
00:34:36,239 --> 00:34:38,680
Speaker 1: overnight flip of the switch. I love what he's done there.

716
00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:42,360
Speaker 1: At Miami they got Mario Christobal, they got everything they

717
00:34:42,400 --> 00:34:45,600
Speaker 1: could have ever wanted. From that standpoint, It's not an

718
00:34:45,640 --> 00:34:49,040
Speaker 1: overnight flip of the switch in all likelihood, but they're

719
00:34:49,080 --> 00:34:51,920
Speaker 1: on the right direction down there, trending in the right direction.

720
00:34:52,200 --> 00:34:55,759
Speaker 1: Think at Florida State you have a mixed bag. There

721
00:34:55,800 --> 00:34:58,280
Speaker 1: are some people who still believe in the direction of Norvelle.

722
00:34:58,320 --> 00:35:02,000
Speaker 1: I think the tenor was dis proportionately soured on early

723
00:35:02,040 --> 00:35:04,880
Speaker 1: signing day just cause of the Travis Hunter thing. But

724
00:35:05,440 --> 00:35:08,279
Speaker 1: you know, how much does one player matter? Depends on

725
00:35:08,320 --> 00:35:09,880
Speaker 1: how good the player is and then what kind of

726
00:35:09,960 --> 00:35:14,719
Speaker 1: ripple effect his arrival or departure has. But there are

727
00:35:14,880 --> 00:35:17,879
Speaker 1: reasons I think Mike Norvell came in. You know, I've

728
00:35:17,880 --> 00:35:19,840
Speaker 1: talked to Bud Elliott about this. Bud's close to the

729
00:35:19,880 --> 00:35:23,279
Speaker 1: Florida State staff or close to the program. Probably close

730
00:35:23,320 --> 00:35:25,479
Speaker 1: to the staff too. He said, you know, Norvell didn't

731
00:35:25,520 --> 00:35:28,359
Speaker 1: come in like some other coaches have done and try

732
00:35:28,400 --> 00:35:29,920
Speaker 1: and say we're going to compete in year one. We're

733
00:35:29,960 --> 00:35:32,120
Speaker 1: going to contend in year one. Every step of the

734
00:35:32,160 --> 00:35:34,560
Speaker 1: way down there. You know, the feedback has been that

735
00:35:34,600 --> 00:35:37,760
Speaker 1: he's been very realistic with people and honest and brutally

736
00:35:37,800 --> 00:35:40,839
Speaker 1: honest with his assessment where the program has been. And

737
00:35:40,920 --> 00:35:43,520
Speaker 1: as a result, you know, you're not stunned if they

738
00:35:43,800 --> 00:35:45,720
Speaker 1: lose a game. You don't think they should be losing

739
00:35:45,920 --> 00:35:48,600
Speaker 1: because it's part of a greater overhaul, greater process. I

740
00:35:48,640 --> 00:35:50,839
Speaker 1: don't know how long they give him, not certainly would

741
00:35:50,880 --> 00:35:55,120
Speaker 1: say hot seed or anything like that. Regardless state of Florida.

742
00:35:55,239 --> 00:35:57,919
Speaker 1: At least two of those programs at any given time

743
00:35:58,239 --> 00:36:00,759
Speaker 1: should be parked inside the top ten should be and

744
00:36:00,800 --> 00:36:02,839
Speaker 1: there's room for all three of them, But at least

745
00:36:02,920 --> 00:36:05,720
Speaker 1: two of three those are the programs that were mentioned.

746
00:36:05,840 --> 00:36:08,439
Speaker 1: If you wanted to add Georgia Tech, I would add them.

747
00:36:08,560 --> 00:36:11,200
Speaker 1: If you wanted to add either of the Arizona Schools

748
00:36:11,480 --> 00:36:15,080
Speaker 1: and or UCLA, I would gladly add them. If you

749
00:36:15,160 --> 00:36:18,279
Speaker 1: wanted to add I don't know where else could we go.

750
00:36:18,480 --> 00:36:21,680
Speaker 1: Some people went with like North Carolina. I would agree

751
00:36:21,800 --> 00:36:23,760
Speaker 1: with that. So there are a number of other programs.

752
00:36:23,840 --> 00:36:26,560
Speaker 1: This is not an exhaustive list, just a list that

753
00:36:27,120 --> 00:36:30,680
Speaker 1: most of you came up with. Today we move on.

754
00:36:31,120 --> 00:36:33,480
Speaker 1: There is a very very busy sheet of paper and

755
00:36:33,520 --> 00:36:35,440
Speaker 1: a busy monitor in front of me here and by

756
00:36:35,440 --> 00:36:40,280
Speaker 1: the way, who is this? So I just got asked,

757
00:36:40,320 --> 00:36:43,560
Speaker 1: can the Group of five get some crumbs? Please? Yes?

758
00:36:44,000 --> 00:36:47,120
Speaker 1: Before the end of this very broadcast, I will. I

759
00:36:47,120 --> 00:36:50,319
Speaker 1: will deliver exactly that crumbs to the G five. No,

760
00:36:50,360 --> 00:36:53,640
Speaker 1: I'm gonna acknowledge the G five one team in particular,

761
00:36:53,640 --> 00:36:56,200
Speaker 1: I'm gonna acknowledge them before the show's over. Not at

762
00:36:56,239 --> 00:36:57,640
Speaker 1: the very moment, though, because we got to talk about

763
00:36:57,640 --> 00:37:00,480
Speaker 1: the transfer portal. So the transfer portal's been on spent

764
00:37:00,560 --> 00:37:02,600
Speaker 1: on fire for quite a while, and I really don't

765
00:37:02,640 --> 00:37:05,000
Speaker 1: think that there's any kind of extinguisher out there. This

766
00:37:05,080 --> 00:37:07,200
Speaker 1: is more like a grease fire, and so it's not

767
00:37:07,320 --> 00:37:11,320
Speaker 1: put out in traditional manner. So right now the transfer portal,

768
00:37:11,600 --> 00:37:14,520
Speaker 1: every time you refresh your phone, you got new names

769
00:37:14,560 --> 00:37:18,359
Speaker 1: coming and going. Jackson Dart is a name I'm fascinated

770
00:37:18,400 --> 00:37:21,360
Speaker 1: with right now, transferring from Southern cal Now, here's the

771
00:37:21,360 --> 00:37:24,200
Speaker 1: way people are telling the story, Jackson Darts leaving us

772
00:37:24,320 --> 00:37:27,239
Speaker 1: because Caleb Williams went to USC. Well, that may be

773
00:37:27,400 --> 00:37:29,520
Speaker 1: the proper way to tell the story. A week from

774
00:37:29,560 --> 00:37:32,080
Speaker 1: now or a month from now. The second part of

775
00:37:32,080 --> 00:37:35,520
Speaker 1: that story has not technically happened yet, the first part has.

776
00:37:35,640 --> 00:37:38,640
Speaker 1: So Jackson Darts in the portal, Caleb Williams as of

777
00:37:38,680 --> 00:37:42,200
Speaker 1: this broadcast, is not officially at USC. More on that

778
00:37:42,239 --> 00:37:44,759
Speaker 1: than just a second. This was a four star rated

779
00:37:44,840 --> 00:37:47,879
Speaker 1: kid out of Utah, and it's important to note as

780
00:37:47,920 --> 00:37:50,440
Speaker 1: we did, I think right after signing Dave, when we

781
00:37:50,440 --> 00:37:54,000
Speaker 1: were talking about him, I remember talking to some of

782
00:37:54,040 --> 00:37:57,799
Speaker 1: our guys on the West coast about Jackson Dart, and

783
00:37:57,840 --> 00:38:00,520
Speaker 1: he was a very difficult evow because there was not

784
00:38:00,560 --> 00:38:02,160
Speaker 1: a lot of good film of him because of what

785
00:38:02,200 --> 00:38:05,040
Speaker 1: Covid had done, and so they put a very very

786
00:38:05,080 --> 00:38:08,120
Speaker 1: lofty grade on him. But there was still some internal

787
00:38:08,160 --> 00:38:11,360
Speaker 1: discussion did we make him? Did we rate him high enough?

788
00:38:11,760 --> 00:38:14,400
Speaker 1: And he went to USC and immediately started making noise

789
00:38:14,840 --> 00:38:17,960
Speaker 1: in fall camp out there. He's a good player. He's

790
00:38:18,000 --> 00:38:21,239
Speaker 1: a really good player. And right now I think as

791
00:38:21,280 --> 00:38:25,000
Speaker 1: of this moment, he's in Norman, so he's been visiting Oklahoma.

792
00:38:25,600 --> 00:38:28,520
Speaker 1: Ole Miss is heavily involved here. Now here's what's fun.

793
00:38:28,840 --> 00:38:32,360
Speaker 1: Jeff Levy, who was Lane Kiffin's offensive coordinator, he is

794
00:38:32,400 --> 00:38:35,560
Speaker 1: now at Oklahoma. And so if this is down to

795
00:38:35,680 --> 00:38:38,240
Speaker 1: OU and Oklahoma, and there may be other programs involved,

796
00:38:38,239 --> 00:38:40,719
Speaker 1: TCU may have been involved. But if it does come

797
00:38:40,760 --> 00:38:43,919
Speaker 1: down to Norman or Oxford, you got a guy who

798
00:38:43,960 --> 00:38:46,920
Speaker 1: was the OC for Lane Kiffin fifteen minutes ago, probably

799
00:38:46,960 --> 00:38:49,799
Speaker 1: trying a negative recruit against Kiffin. That's probably what's got

800
00:38:49,800 --> 00:38:51,560
Speaker 1: to happen there. It may make you want to wash

801
00:38:51,600 --> 00:38:53,080
Speaker 1: your hands or take a shower to think about, but

802
00:38:53,080 --> 00:38:55,680
Speaker 1: that's kind of the way the coaching carousel meets the

803
00:38:55,680 --> 00:38:58,880
Speaker 1: transfer portal in this day and age. Also, Mike Trigg,

804
00:38:59,040 --> 00:39:02,120
Speaker 1: the tight end who's trade it's from USC, also on

805
00:39:02,160 --> 00:39:05,800
Speaker 1: a visit to Oklahoma today. Now here's the dark horse.

806
00:39:06,480 --> 00:39:09,279
Speaker 1: I don't know to what degree there is validity here.

807
00:39:09,880 --> 00:39:12,000
Speaker 1: But the fun dark horse for me, and I think

808
00:39:12,040 --> 00:39:15,000
Speaker 1: maybe just the one I'll root for is West Virginia.

809
00:39:15,520 --> 00:39:18,719
Speaker 1: Graham Harrold, who was the OC out at USC, he

810
00:39:18,840 --> 00:39:21,399
Speaker 1: is at West Virginia. This is a big underrated hire

811
00:39:21,480 --> 00:39:25,120
Speaker 1: for Neil Brown up in Morgantown. And if they were

812
00:39:25,160 --> 00:39:28,520
Speaker 1: to pull Jackson dark that would be phenomenal. It would

813
00:39:28,520 --> 00:39:31,120
Speaker 1: be phenomenal for the Big Twelve, it would be phenomenal

814
00:39:31,120 --> 00:39:33,920
Speaker 1: for us. Because I want to talk about West Virginia.

815
00:39:34,239 --> 00:39:36,960
Speaker 1: I love the program. There are some programs that I

816
00:39:37,040 --> 00:39:38,839
Speaker 1: used to play back when I played the video game

817
00:39:39,160 --> 00:39:42,280
Speaker 1: a long time ago. I used to play with West Virginia.

818
00:39:42,400 --> 00:39:45,520
Speaker 1: Now that would have been like Pat White, West Virginia.

819
00:39:45,680 --> 00:39:47,600
Speaker 1: But I used to play with West Virginia. So I'm

820
00:39:47,600 --> 00:39:50,279
Speaker 1: pulling for West Virginia. Plus I love John Denver. How

821
00:39:50,320 --> 00:39:53,080
Speaker 1: about Kayleb Williams. So Caleb Williams, it's just a foregone

822
00:39:53,080 --> 00:39:56,000
Speaker 1: conclusion to most that he's going to land at USC.

823
00:39:56,600 --> 00:40:00,399
Speaker 1: It'll be an interesting ordeal if he doesn't. Right now,

824
00:40:00,560 --> 00:40:04,080
Speaker 1: the status of Caleb Williams again, we're live at seven

825
00:40:04,239 --> 00:40:07,000
Speaker 1: thirty nine in the PM now not seven forty on

826
00:40:07,080 --> 00:40:10,600
Speaker 1: this Thursday night. The status is he's in the portal now,

827
00:40:10,600 --> 00:40:13,560
Speaker 1: He's already visited out there. He's been in LA, been

828
00:40:13,640 --> 00:40:16,480
Speaker 1: spotted it at court side at Laker games. I think

829
00:40:16,520 --> 00:40:19,120
Speaker 1: so he's out there, yes, of course, or maybe the

830
00:40:19,160 --> 00:40:21,719
Speaker 1: Chargers game he was at. I think he'll end up

831
00:40:21,719 --> 00:40:23,680
Speaker 1: at USC. It would surprise me if he didn't end

832
00:40:23,760 --> 00:40:26,880
Speaker 1: up at USC. I just think that even though everyone

833
00:40:26,920 --> 00:40:30,759
Speaker 1: assumes it, watch what happens if Slash, when that news

834
00:40:30,760 --> 00:40:33,479
Speaker 1: becomes official, it will still feel like a bomb went off.

835
00:40:34,120 --> 00:40:38,320
Speaker 1: It's kind of like when something that's assumed is actually verified.

836
00:40:38,760 --> 00:40:41,440
Speaker 1: You know, you assume that Georgia could win a national championship, Well,

837
00:40:41,480 --> 00:40:44,600
Speaker 1: then they won one as a huge deal. Well, it's

838
00:40:44,640 --> 00:40:46,799
Speaker 1: the same way. In the transfer portal. You can talk

839
00:40:46,840 --> 00:40:49,120
Speaker 1: about this all you want to. When it becomes official,

840
00:40:49,320 --> 00:40:51,160
Speaker 1: it'll be really big. And then also you're going to

841
00:40:51,200 --> 00:40:54,160
Speaker 1: want to watch who else or who's Elks that's in

842
00:40:54,200 --> 00:40:57,000
Speaker 1: the transfer portal follows. What kind of ripple effect or

843
00:40:57,040 --> 00:41:00,239
Speaker 1: tsunami effect does that have, because that's the kind of

844
00:41:00,280 --> 00:41:04,240
Speaker 1: Keystone player that does indeed have that kind of ripple effect.

845
00:41:04,880 --> 00:41:06,680
Speaker 1: That's about all there is to say about that. Miller

846
00:41:06,719 --> 00:41:09,000
Speaker 1: Moss is another quarterback that's on the roster, and there

847
00:41:09,000 --> 00:41:10,680
Speaker 1: are a lot of people who like Miller Moss too.

848
00:41:11,160 --> 00:41:15,320
Speaker 1: There's no smart money on whether his future is impacted

849
00:41:15,320 --> 00:41:18,399
Speaker 1: by this, but just something to watch. There a very

850
00:41:18,400 --> 00:41:21,640
Speaker 1: important early cog in the wheel for Lincoln Riley. What

851
00:41:21,719 --> 00:41:25,400
Speaker 1: about these Alabama departures, several of them. This was predictable.

852
00:41:26,320 --> 00:41:29,440
Speaker 1: I don't quite think it was predictable that Jalil Billingsley

853
00:41:29,520 --> 00:41:31,839
Speaker 1: was going to go from starting the National Championship game

854
00:41:32,360 --> 00:41:35,080
Speaker 1: in the transfer portal the next day. Some would argue

855
00:41:35,080 --> 00:41:36,480
Speaker 1: based on his level of play he was in the

856
00:41:36,480 --> 00:41:39,360
Speaker 1: transfer portal before the game began. It's one of the

857
00:41:39,400 --> 00:41:42,879
Speaker 1: most disappointing performances I've seen on a big stage from

858
00:41:42,880 --> 00:41:46,400
Speaker 1: an effort standpoint in quite a while. From Jalil Billingsley.

859
00:41:46,840 --> 00:41:50,480
Speaker 1: Am I salty because we prop met him? Absolutely I am.

860
00:41:50,840 --> 00:41:53,799
Speaker 1: And by the way, I haven't addressed this notice they

861
00:41:53,840 --> 00:41:55,759
Speaker 1: threw to him a couple of times in the opening drive.

862
00:41:56,640 --> 00:41:59,360
Speaker 1: That's all I'm going to say about it. I feel

863
00:41:59,520 --> 00:42:03,520
Speaker 1: good about the intel we had. I feel horrible about

864
00:42:03,560 --> 00:42:06,360
Speaker 1: the execution in the effort level. So Jalil Billingsley the

865
00:42:06,360 --> 00:42:09,920
Speaker 1: tight end he's in the portal. Drew Sanders, also in

866
00:42:09,960 --> 00:42:12,759
Speaker 1: the portal. Now, both of these guys are highly ranked

867
00:42:12,800 --> 00:42:15,800
Speaker 1: in the Transfer Portal rankings. It's very important to note

868
00:42:15,800 --> 00:42:17,920
Speaker 1: now there's going to be a theme I think emerge

869
00:42:18,160 --> 00:42:20,040
Speaker 1: and it ties in closely. In fact, I'm going to

870
00:42:20,120 --> 00:42:22,600
Speaker 1: go ahead and lump another guy in with this. Pay

871
00:42:22,600 --> 00:42:26,839
Speaker 1: attention to Mario Williams, the wide receiver from Oklahoma. Very

872
00:42:26,920 --> 00:42:30,120
Speaker 1: highly rated guy. He was the talk of spring practice there.

873
00:42:30,680 --> 00:42:33,600
Speaker 1: He's in the portal as well. Texas has all these

874
00:42:33,680 --> 00:42:36,920
Speaker 1: dudes on the radar. Texas has Mario Williams. I think

875
00:42:36,920 --> 00:42:39,360
Speaker 1: he either has visited there already or is going to

876
00:42:39,480 --> 00:42:42,480
Speaker 1: visit there. But Texas has their eye on Julil Billingsley.

877
00:42:42,640 --> 00:42:44,440
Speaker 1: They got their eye on Drew Sanders. In fact, I

878
00:42:44,440 --> 00:42:48,960
Speaker 1: would lean Texas for Drew Sanders. These are guys who

879
00:42:49,000 --> 00:42:51,799
Speaker 1: would be immediate impact there. I was looking at Mike

880
00:42:51,880 --> 00:42:53,879
Speaker 1: roach Over on Horns twenty four to seven talking about

881
00:42:53,880 --> 00:42:59,240
Speaker 1: this earlier today. I would choose to view these guys

882
00:42:59,360 --> 00:43:02,680
Speaker 1: not as a package deal, but I don't view them individually.

883
00:43:02,960 --> 00:43:05,920
Speaker 1: I think you could have multiples of this group. And

884
00:43:05,960 --> 00:43:09,000
Speaker 1: then also you got a guy like Shane Lee transferring

885
00:43:09,000 --> 00:43:13,560
Speaker 1: from Alabama. Jalen Moody linebackers, both of them transferring from Alabama.

886
00:43:13,680 --> 00:43:15,680
Speaker 1: There's a lot of people who are trying to assume

887
00:43:15,760 --> 00:43:19,120
Speaker 1: that because both of those inside backer types are leaving,

888
00:43:19,600 --> 00:43:23,840
Speaker 1: maybe it means Henry Toatoo and or Christian Harris are returning.

889
00:43:24,800 --> 00:43:28,040
Speaker 1: That could be the case, but I don't think there's

890
00:43:28,080 --> 00:43:31,560
Speaker 1: necessarily correlation there. What I'm saying is, in the past

891
00:43:32,239 --> 00:43:37,160
Speaker 1: you've come to view Nick Saban as this master roster manager,

892
00:43:37,200 --> 00:43:39,839
Speaker 1: and he is and has been so where you now

893
00:43:39,960 --> 00:43:43,680
Speaker 1: just assume, well, if those players are leaving, it's directly

894
00:43:43,719 --> 00:43:46,239
Speaker 1: tied to something else that's happening on the roster. It

895
00:43:46,280 --> 00:43:48,680
Speaker 1: could be the case. What I'll tell you is, don't

896
00:43:48,680 --> 00:43:51,880
Speaker 1: assume that's the case right now. It could just be

897
00:43:52,440 --> 00:43:55,719
Speaker 1: that one or both of those linebackers that started this

898
00:43:55,800 --> 00:43:58,719
Speaker 1: year for Alabama transferring are going to the draft and

899
00:43:58,760 --> 00:44:01,000
Speaker 1: these dudes just want to transfer anyway, and that could

900
00:44:01,000 --> 00:44:03,160
Speaker 1: be Nick Saban's reaction. He could not be happy about it.

901
00:44:03,600 --> 00:44:07,120
Speaker 1: There's not always design. It's what I'm trying to tell you,

902
00:44:07,560 --> 00:44:09,840
Speaker 1: behind the way that things work on a roster in

903
00:44:09,920 --> 00:44:13,680
Speaker 1: the transfer portal era, sometimes there are sometimes there aren't.

904
00:44:14,080 --> 00:44:16,320
Speaker 1: The transfer portal rankings, though, are very fun to watch

905
00:44:17,280 --> 00:44:21,280
Speaker 1: this is this is a huge slice of the roster Pine.

906
00:44:21,280 --> 00:44:23,520
Speaker 1: Now you got to pay attention to it. It is

907
00:44:23,640 --> 00:44:28,719
Speaker 1: our it is our best performing repeated topic. Like we

908
00:44:28,800 --> 00:44:31,640
Speaker 1: do this a lot and the videos just get eaten up.

909
00:44:31,640 --> 00:44:33,920
Speaker 1: So I know everyone's interested in it and you should be.

910
00:44:34,280 --> 00:44:36,920
Speaker 1: I mean, Michigan State over made their team. They overhauled

911
00:44:36,920 --> 00:44:40,200
Speaker 1: the team overnight just by using the transfer portal. All right,

912
00:44:40,280 --> 00:44:42,719
Speaker 1: last thing I wanted to touch on tonight, and thank

913
00:44:42,760 --> 00:44:44,279
Speaker 1: you by the way for being tuned in. If you're

914
00:44:44,320 --> 00:44:47,040
Speaker 1: here live or you're watching the replay like the video,

915
00:44:47,160 --> 00:44:49,320
Speaker 1: subscribe to the channel. That's it. That's really all I

916
00:44:49,400 --> 00:44:53,439
Speaker 1: need from you. Twenty twenty one was it the best

917
00:44:53,440 --> 00:44:56,040
Speaker 1: season you've seen? My argument was yes, at least in

918
00:44:56,080 --> 00:44:57,960
Speaker 1: a generation. Some of you said no, but I think

919
00:44:58,000 --> 00:45:01,880
Speaker 1: most of us concluded it was up there. Maybe my

920
00:45:02,080 --> 00:45:05,520
Speaker 1: team specifically wasn't good, and that's made me jaded towards

921
00:45:05,520 --> 00:45:09,120
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one, but it was up there. Well, let

922
00:45:09,120 --> 00:45:11,120
Speaker 1: me take you back to August. This is how I

923
00:45:11,200 --> 00:45:14,040
Speaker 1: choose to view a season in totality. Don't look back

924
00:45:14,080 --> 00:45:17,399
Speaker 1: on it, take everything that happened, and then go back

925
00:45:17,440 --> 00:45:20,080
Speaker 1: to talk to yourself in August, and imagine if you

926
00:45:20,160 --> 00:45:22,799
Speaker 1: told yourself all of the things that were end up

927
00:45:22,920 --> 00:45:26,480
Speaker 1: coming to fruition. I don't think some of you are

928
00:45:26,520 --> 00:45:29,959
Speaker 1: aware of how many boxes on your proverbial wish list

929
00:45:30,040 --> 00:45:32,680
Speaker 1: were checked this year in college football. A lot of

930
00:45:32,719 --> 00:45:35,600
Speaker 1: you were tired of the staleness. Of course, we all

931
00:45:35,640 --> 00:45:38,960
Speaker 1: wanted crowds back, and we all wanted the game day experience.

932
00:45:39,000 --> 00:45:41,719
Speaker 1: But some of you wanted a change at the top.

933
00:45:41,840 --> 00:45:44,680
Speaker 1: Some of you wanted parody, some of you wanted a

934
00:45:44,719 --> 00:45:48,400
Speaker 1: more evenly competitive, balanced sport, and you wanted some new blood.

935
00:45:49,200 --> 00:45:51,200
Speaker 1: Do you realize you got all of it? Like, think

936
00:45:51,200 --> 00:45:53,280
Speaker 1: about this. So I was looking on Twitter this morning

937
00:45:53,560 --> 00:45:55,920
Speaker 1: and one of our buddies, Andrew Percival, part of the

938
00:45:55,920 --> 00:45:57,879
Speaker 1: State at four movement, by the way four and no more,

939
00:45:58,480 --> 00:46:02,160
Speaker 1: he tweeted out something to this effect, and I looked

940
00:46:02,160 --> 00:46:05,560
Speaker 1: at it and said, true, true, true, true true. Think

941
00:46:05,600 --> 00:46:08,840
Speaker 1: about some of these things that happened. First off, go

942
00:46:08,960 --> 00:46:11,680
Speaker 1: back to preview magazine season. Do you remember how much

943
00:46:11,680 --> 00:46:14,560
Speaker 1: of a foregone conclusion it was that you already knew

944
00:46:14,600 --> 00:46:18,160
Speaker 1: the playoff field. How many times did you hear people say, well,

945
00:46:18,200 --> 00:46:21,400
Speaker 1: I already know Ohio State's gonna be there, and Clemson's

946
00:46:21,440 --> 00:46:23,839
Speaker 1: going to be there, and Alabama's gonna be there, and

947
00:46:23,880 --> 00:46:27,239
Speaker 1: then Oklahoma. Oklahoma was the preseason number one. Do you

948
00:46:27,280 --> 00:46:29,759
Speaker 1: remember how much of a foregone conclusion it was that

949
00:46:29,800 --> 00:46:31,960
Speaker 1: those teams were just gonna buzz saw their way and

950
00:46:32,040 --> 00:46:35,920
Speaker 1: the season wasn't really gonna start until the playoff. Clemson

951
00:46:36,280 --> 00:46:39,760
Speaker 1: nowhere to be found, Ohio State nowhere to be found,

952
00:46:40,000 --> 00:46:43,839
Speaker 1: Oklahoma nowhere to be found. Not only that, guys, none

953
00:46:43,880 --> 00:46:47,399
Speaker 1: of them even played for a conference championship. Go find

954
00:46:47,440 --> 00:46:50,040
Speaker 1: the odds on that from August. If I were to

955
00:46:50,040 --> 00:46:52,440
Speaker 1: tell you nothing more as a matter of fact in

956
00:46:52,480 --> 00:46:56,239
Speaker 1: August than oh you and Ohio State and Clemson they're

957
00:46:56,280 --> 00:46:59,279
Speaker 1: not even gonna play for their conference championships, you would

958
00:46:59,320 --> 00:47:01,799
Speaker 1: have said game on. You would have said, Wow, this

959
00:47:01,800 --> 00:47:04,719
Speaker 1: thing's about to be crazy. And it was. Then what

960
00:47:04,800 --> 00:47:06,800
Speaker 1: if I followed it up and I said, hold it

961
00:47:07,040 --> 00:47:10,040
Speaker 1: not done yet. G five teams going to make the playoff?

962
00:47:10,400 --> 00:47:12,960
Speaker 1: You would have said, wake me up. I'm dreaming. So

963
00:47:12,960 --> 00:47:14,560
Speaker 1: you're telling me all the big boys are going to

964
00:47:14,600 --> 00:47:17,439
Speaker 1: fall not even play for a conference title, And now

965
00:47:17,440 --> 00:47:18,840
Speaker 1: you're telling me a G five team is going to

966
00:47:18,880 --> 00:47:20,839
Speaker 1: make playoff. I don't even care who it is, you'd

967
00:47:20,840 --> 00:47:22,880
Speaker 1: probably assume Cincinnati, and you would have been right. I

968
00:47:22,920 --> 00:47:24,960
Speaker 1: don't even care who it is, though. Yeah, all the

969
00:47:24,960 --> 00:47:27,720
Speaker 1: big boys are going to fall, and so the giant

970
00:47:27,760 --> 00:47:30,400
Speaker 1: cedars are going to be toppled, and then a former

971
00:47:30,440 --> 00:47:32,960
Speaker 1: little sapling is going to rise up. And I would

972
00:47:32,960 --> 00:47:36,680
Speaker 1: have said, yeah, that's absolutely what's happening. In August. This

973
00:47:36,719 --> 00:47:39,440
Speaker 1: would have totally freaked you out, but you got condition

974
00:47:39,560 --> 00:47:42,040
Speaker 1: to the possibility as the year went on, and so

975
00:47:42,200 --> 00:47:44,839
Speaker 1: it felt a little sanitized when you ended up getting it.

976
00:47:44,920 --> 00:47:46,759
Speaker 1: That's why you need to view it from the perspective

977
00:47:46,800 --> 00:47:50,120
Speaker 1: of August. Then what if I were to tell you

978
00:47:50,520 --> 00:47:53,720
Speaker 1: I'm still not done. Someone's going to win a national

979
00:47:53,840 --> 00:47:56,640
Speaker 1: championship who has not done it in this millennium. Someone

980
00:47:56,680 --> 00:47:59,919
Speaker 1: is going to end a multi decade drought in winning

981
00:48:00,320 --> 00:48:03,960
Speaker 1: a national championship. Now you may have guessed Georgia. You

982
00:48:04,040 --> 00:48:06,239
Speaker 1: may have, or you may have guessed at that point

983
00:48:06,280 --> 00:48:07,920
Speaker 1: in Michigan, because if I were to have told you,

984
00:48:08,080 --> 00:48:09,880
Speaker 1: Ohio State's not even gonna win the Big Ten or

985
00:48:09,880 --> 00:48:12,279
Speaker 1: play for the Big Ten title, you assume, okay, well,

986
00:48:12,320 --> 00:48:15,160
Speaker 1: everything's in play. Now maybe it's Penn State. Who knows

987
00:48:15,160 --> 00:48:18,399
Speaker 1: who it is. Maybe it's Texas, it ends up being Georgia.

988
00:48:18,600 --> 00:48:21,520
Speaker 1: This was a multi decade drought that just got ended.

989
00:48:21,560 --> 00:48:23,520
Speaker 1: Now you may look at him and say, oh, big deal.

990
00:48:23,560 --> 00:48:25,960
Speaker 1: Georgia is a powerhouse. Guys hadn't won a title since

991
00:48:26,000 --> 00:48:29,400
Speaker 1: the early eighties. It's a huge deal. You wanted to

992
00:48:29,400 --> 00:48:33,680
Speaker 1: shake up, you wanted that trophy going somewhere other than Clemson,

993
00:48:33,760 --> 00:48:38,040
Speaker 1: South Carolina or Tuscaloose Alabama. Well it did, and it

994
00:48:38,120 --> 00:48:40,600
Speaker 1: did in the same year that the other big boys

995
00:48:40,640 --> 00:48:42,960
Speaker 1: aside from Bama didn't even make the playoff and a

996
00:48:42,960 --> 00:48:46,080
Speaker 1: G five team did. But we're still not done. Do

997
00:48:46,160 --> 00:48:49,000
Speaker 1: you remember how great this regular season was. This regular

998
00:48:49,000 --> 00:48:51,560
Speaker 1: season was off the charts. The state of Michigan alone

999
00:48:52,120 --> 00:48:56,200
Speaker 1: is like a perfect promotional billboard for how great this

1000
00:48:56,239 --> 00:49:01,000
Speaker 1: regular season was. Think about Michigan State under preseason win

1001
00:49:01,080 --> 00:49:04,560
Speaker 1: total four four and a half and they go into

1002
00:49:04,600 --> 00:49:07,600
Speaker 1: the Ohio State game already I think with nine wins

1003
00:49:07,960 --> 00:49:11,640
Speaker 1: they end up a double digit win team and Michigan

1004
00:49:11,719 --> 00:49:14,640
Speaker 1: State we're at the game. We were at the Michigan

1005
00:49:14,680 --> 00:49:19,040
Speaker 1: game when they upset Michigan and they stormed the field

1006
00:49:19,600 --> 00:49:23,600
Speaker 1: and it was an incredible experience in East Lansing. There

1007
00:49:23,680 --> 00:49:26,759
Speaker 1: was so much weight that was lifted off the shoulders there.

1008
00:49:26,920 --> 00:49:29,000
Speaker 1: It's not that they hadn't done it in a long time,

1009
00:49:29,440 --> 00:49:32,439
Speaker 1: but this was packaged with sort of a new era there,

1010
00:49:32,880 --> 00:49:35,400
Speaker 1: and it was the Meltucker era. This was not a

1011
00:49:35,520 --> 00:49:37,520
Speaker 1: year they were supposed to be able to do that.

1012
00:49:37,920 --> 00:49:40,480
Speaker 1: They beat Michigan in a year where Michigan ended up

1013
00:49:40,520 --> 00:49:43,279
Speaker 1: going to the playoff. Like, how crazy is that? Which

1014
00:49:43,320 --> 00:49:46,440
Speaker 1: brings me to my next point. Yeah, Michigan State had

1015
00:49:46,440 --> 00:49:49,319
Speaker 1: a great year, dude, Michigan went to the playoff. The

1016
00:49:49,400 --> 00:49:51,880
Speaker 1: State of Michigan just in and of itself had its

1017
00:49:51,880 --> 00:49:55,520
Speaker 1: own little mini renaissance season. Within the larger aspect of

1018
00:49:55,520 --> 00:49:59,680
Speaker 1: a renaissance season, Michigan State and Michigan were about as

1019
00:49:59,680 --> 00:50:02,759
Speaker 1: good as college football regular season this year got Now,

1020
00:50:02,760 --> 00:50:04,919
Speaker 1: I got to a point where you know, Michigan State

1021
00:50:05,000 --> 00:50:07,520
Speaker 1: runs up on Ohio State and they're very ill equipped

1022
00:50:07,520 --> 00:50:09,719
Speaker 1: to deal with that speed. In the secondary, Michigan runs

1023
00:50:09,800 --> 00:50:12,840
Speaker 1: up on Georgia. They can't handle the physicality. That doesn't

1024
00:50:12,880 --> 00:50:15,799
Speaker 1: take away from how incredible the regular season was. Like,

1025
00:50:15,920 --> 00:50:18,600
Speaker 1: no one who was in the house, you're watching the

1026
00:50:18,600 --> 00:50:20,239
Speaker 1: b roll right now. I shot. I think that's from

1027
00:50:20,280 --> 00:50:22,719
Speaker 1: the eye, Josh I shot this. That's at the big

1028
00:50:22,760 --> 00:50:26,239
Speaker 1: House that is Ohio State and Michigan. We got the

1029
00:50:26,280 --> 00:50:29,960
Speaker 1: snow coming down sideways and those folks finally exercised the

1030
00:50:30,000 --> 00:50:33,560
Speaker 1: demons and they stormed the field. It took forever to

1031
00:50:33,560 --> 00:50:36,799
Speaker 1: get out of there. Do you think they forgot that

1032
00:50:37,120 --> 00:50:39,520
Speaker 1: because they couldn't beat the University of Georgia. I think

1033
00:50:39,560 --> 00:50:42,800
Speaker 1: everyone just said, oh well at a sketch, just erase

1034
00:50:42,880 --> 00:50:46,880
Speaker 1: that memory from my mind, like it didn't matter to

1035
00:50:46,920 --> 00:50:49,920
Speaker 1: me anymore. No, no one thinks like that. It was incredible. Also,

1036
00:50:51,120 --> 00:50:53,680
Speaker 1: we're not done yet. Yeah, we're not done. As incredible

1037
00:50:53,680 --> 00:50:56,239
Speaker 1: as that was. For those of you who still didn't

1038
00:50:56,239 --> 00:50:59,960
Speaker 1: have enough new blood in the conversation, need I take

1039
00:50:59,960 --> 00:51:03,040
Speaker 1: you to the ACC? Need I take you to the

1040
00:51:03,080 --> 00:51:05,799
Speaker 1: PAC twelve because that's where we got two brand new

1041
00:51:05,840 --> 00:51:09,960
Speaker 1: conference champions in the ACC. Yeah, Clemson didn't play for

1042
00:51:10,000 --> 00:51:13,719
Speaker 1: the title. Well, that means two unfamiliar programs did right

1043
00:51:13,960 --> 00:51:17,560
Speaker 1: what Miami Either it was Pitt and it was wake Forest.

1044
00:51:17,920 --> 00:51:20,560
Speaker 1: And by the way, Pitt makes it there on the

1045
00:51:20,600 --> 00:51:24,160
Speaker 1: strength of a Heisman Trophy finalist in Kenny Pickett, and

1046
00:51:24,239 --> 00:51:28,720
Speaker 1: they win the ACC and Utah just skull drags Oregon

1047
00:51:28,840 --> 00:51:32,360
Speaker 1: not once, but twice to win the Pac twelve. I

1048
00:51:32,360 --> 00:51:34,600
Speaker 1: don't know how much more people wanted. When I asked

1049
00:51:34,640 --> 00:51:36,960
Speaker 1: the other day, was this one of the most incredible

1050
00:51:36,960 --> 00:51:40,239
Speaker 1: seasons or the most incredible in the modern era? A

1051
00:51:40,280 --> 00:51:42,480
Speaker 1: lot of you said, Oh no, I don't think so

1052
00:51:42,800 --> 00:51:45,080
Speaker 1: what more did you want? I didn't even mention Baylor.

1053
00:51:45,520 --> 00:51:47,920
Speaker 1: Baylor came out of nowhere, led by a coach that

1054
00:51:47,960 --> 00:51:52,000
Speaker 1: I think is headed towards stardom in this sport. And

1055
00:51:52,080 --> 00:51:54,360
Speaker 1: you look around and they're like, what more did you want?

1056
00:51:54,600 --> 00:51:56,919
Speaker 1: Did you get fooled by the playoff? I think you did.

1057
00:51:57,120 --> 00:52:00,920
Speaker 1: I think some people are still struggling with properly defining

1058
00:52:00,960 --> 00:52:03,600
Speaker 1: the value of a season, and they're waiting for the playoff,

1059
00:52:03,640 --> 00:52:06,280
Speaker 1: And I'm telling you you ought to define the value

1060
00:52:06,280 --> 00:52:09,120
Speaker 1: of a season before the playoff even begins. Define it,

1061
00:52:09,160 --> 00:52:13,080
Speaker 1: because we define the value of college football seasons by

1062
00:52:13,120 --> 00:52:15,560
Speaker 1: what the regular seasons bring us. Look at that G

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Speaker 1: five team makes the playoff. Clemson, Oklahoma, Ohio State nowhere

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Speaker 1: to be found. You got a team that hasn't won

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Speaker 1: titles in multiple decades winning one. Get the state of Michigan.

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Speaker 1: Just a microcosm state of Michigan. I can expand well

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Speaker 1: beyond there. Yeah, Utah Win in the PAC twelve, you

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Speaker 1: got Pittwin in the ACC twenty twenty one was incredible

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Speaker 1: and you'd be hard pressed to convince them otherwise. Thank you.

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Speaker 1: That's our show tonight. For producer Jesse. For director of Collins,

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Speaker 1: I'm Josh Bait. Thanks so much. Hey, weather permitting, weather permits,

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Speaker 1: about a half foot of snow coming to Nashville again,

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Speaker 1: Weather permitting, we'll be here Sunday night and we'll across

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Speaker 1: their fingers until then. Have a great start few weekend,

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Speaker 1: and God bless