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Speaker 1: And welcome to Lake Kick on the air.

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Speaker 2: It is Thursday night, December twenty Thirdy of Our Lord

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty one were wall to wall, jam packed TI

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Speaker 2: Top downtown Nashville, Tennessee. Great reception on the Tuesday show,

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Speaker 2: so much so that we will continue that theme on

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Speaker 2: the Thursday show. And what I wanted to do is

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Speaker 2: we get set to preview the college football playoff coming

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Speaker 2: up next week. We'll be in Miami for Georgia Michigan.

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Speaker 2: What I wanted to do is I wanted to take

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Speaker 2: a little trip back down memory lane, and I had

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Speaker 2: the guys dig in the archives Bama, Cincinnati, Georgia, Michigan.

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Speaker 2: What have we been saying all year about these teams?

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Speaker 2: If we were wrong, then let's show how stupid we were.

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Speaker 2: If we made some good points, Let's take this rare

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Speaker 2: opportunity right around Christmas to praise ourselves, because Christmas, as

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Speaker 2: I've always believed, is about patting yourself on the back

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Speaker 2: and helping others.

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Speaker 1: Fifty to fifty either way.

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Speaker 2: But what I did is I looked at the all

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Speaker 2: Obama specifically early in the season and even preseason, and

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Speaker 2: the Alabama talk that we had on this show, because

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Speaker 2: there was the Miami throttling they had in Week one

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Speaker 2: and it looked like, Oh, Alabama's just going to cruise.

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Speaker 2: We didn't think that was going to be the case.

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Speaker 2: On this show, we talked about how Bryce Young ultimately

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Speaker 2: could end up being a great player, this team ultimately

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Speaker 2: could end up being a national champ, but we thought

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Speaker 2: that there were going to be some wobbly tire situations

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Speaker 2: for Alabama even if they rolled in Week one. Also,

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Speaker 2: there was a lot of talk, and you'll probably remember this.

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Speaker 2: After Saban has what could very well be his best

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Speaker 2: team ever in twenty twenty, there was a lot of

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Speaker 2: talk about what else he had left to prove, and

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Speaker 2: we had strong feelings on that, and so we talked

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Speaker 2: about that, and I want to put a bow on

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Speaker 2: it now because this is the last time we'll look

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Speaker 2: in the rearview mirror before we then get to talking

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Speaker 2: about the playoff itself.

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Speaker 1: Take a listen. This is what we had to say

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Speaker 1: about Alabama throughout the season.

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Speaker 3: What is the challenge remaining for Nick Saban?

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Speaker 2: A lot of people ask this in the inbox, whether

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Speaker 2: it be email or Twitter or Instagram. I inevitably have

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Speaker 2: anywhere from five to ten people per week say something

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Speaker 2: that I think it's time to address, and that's something

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Speaker 2: is some version of Nick Saban doesn't have anything left

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Speaker 2: to accomplish. He's won so many national championships. He's number

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Speaker 2: one by a country mile. If I were him, i'd

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Speaker 2: retire well. I can guarantee you. Out of few assurances

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Speaker 2: in life, one of them is probably that you won't

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Speaker 2: find yourself in a position to say, here, I am

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Speaker 2: right where Nick Saban was. I get why people say this.

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Speaker 2: I know I joke a lot. I get why people

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Speaker 2: say it. This is a very hard mentality to grasp,

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Speaker 2: the mentality of the one percenter. It's extremely hard to grasp.

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Speaker 2: It's extremely hard to even be exposed to it, to

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Speaker 2: be around it. There are not many people the law

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Speaker 2: of mathematics. I had Colin run the numbers and he

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Speaker 2: told me that if you are dealing with a one percenter,

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Speaker 2: that means the other ninety nine percent or not like

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Speaker 2: that one percent. Colin, that did work out. We showed

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Speaker 2: our work. So we did the numbers, and yes, it's

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Speaker 3: These people.

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Speaker 2: Are many Nick Saban's walk in the face of the earth,

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Speaker 2: in football, in government, in the food service industry. Wherever

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Speaker 2: you you don't find many of them. How do you

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Speaker 2: understand this mentality? Well, if you've ever been around it,

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Speaker 2: you know, those of you who are fortunate enough to

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Speaker 2: percent types. If you've ever been around it, it totally changes

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Speaker 2: your perception on the world because you watch someone who's

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Speaker 2: operating on a total different plane than you are intellectually,

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Speaker 2: and you never even realized it existed.

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Speaker 3: Then once your eyes.

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Speaker 2: Are open to it, then maybe you start to adjust

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Speaker 3: But if you see it up close, boy, it makes

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Speaker 3: you rethink some things. Goals, that's not it.

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Speaker 2: I think a lot of folks wrongfully look at Nick

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Speaker 3: He's the all time this and he's the all time that.

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Speaker 2: You're looking at his bio. If you're watching on YouTube.

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Speaker 2: The guy's got several more first round draft picks at

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Speaker 2: this point than he does to losses at Alabama one

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Speaker 2: hundred and six to be exact. And you look at

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Speaker 2: that only makes sense if that's his goal.

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Speaker 3: That's not the goal.

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Speaker 2: And this is where the detachment, This is where the

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Speaker 2: thinking about a one percenter. You look at Nick Saban,

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Speaker 2: if you're a ninety nine percenter and you say he

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Speaker 2: doesn't have anything he left to accomplish, he would listen

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Speaker 2: saying if you said that to him, he would laugh

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Speaker 2: at it because the idea of nothing left to accomplish

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Speaker 2: to it, they haven't. And I'm talking about your personal

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Speaker 3: May be, because it's.

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Speaker 2: Boring to talk about It's so fun to talk about goals.

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Speaker 2: It's so fun to talk about how your goal oriented.

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Speaker 2: It is far less fun to talk about the process.

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Speaker 2: There's that P word that it takes to go about

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Speaker 2: achieving set goals. And the only real difference between like

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Speaker 2: the way a Nick Saban thinks, in the way someone

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Speaker 3: He is process oriented.

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Speaker 2: And so a lot of that stuff that he says

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Speaker 3: It's an actual philosophy.

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Speaker 2: It's an actual way of life, and the only goal

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Speaker 2: is to maximize one's potential. If you ever again get

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Speaker 2: to be around it, you quickly realize I could just

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Speaker 2: they live different. It's not one compartment of their life,

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Speaker 3: There's not normalcy anywhere.

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Speaker 2: They don't appear normal if you're hanging out with them

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Speaker 2: If you go to church with him, they think differently,

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Speaker 2: But that whole result oriented deal, there's beauty in the

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Speaker 2: your results, when have you ever arrived? How do you

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Speaker 2: know he's not capable of winning twenty seven national championships?

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Speaker 2: You know, he probably walks around and thinks, if we're

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Speaker 2: the goal, you know, if maximizing my potential as a

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Speaker 2: You're telling me about the championships we've won one, two, three,

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Speaker 3: Six of them at Alabama.

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Speaker 2: Well, also, if you're looking at the screen right now,

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Speaker 3: What in the world happened there? What may happen this

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Speaker 2: And so my point is is it totally unrealistic to

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but there in lies the beauty. That means you've

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Speaker 2: This is where the area is that I think Bama

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Speaker 2: when they watch Alabama, when they watch Saban is when

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Speaker 3: Maybe that individual team has.

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Speaker 2: But if it's an overall vision, if it's an overall process,

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Speaker 2: That doesn't make sense to a normal person. Your whole

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Speaker 2: It was just be committed to a process, and the

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Speaker 3: You know what just hit me.

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Speaker 2: You can tell because my eyes got so big. I

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Speaker 2: didn't plan on talking about this. There's a former Alabama

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Speaker 3: Process over goal.

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Speaker 2: Forrest Gump was his name, and he was serving in Vietnam,

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Speaker 2: And all Forrest Gump did was what Jenny, who I

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Speaker 3: And so he ran.

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Speaker 2: And he didn't look to his left, and he didn't

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Speaker 2: He just ran and he kept running, kept running, kept running.

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Speaker 2: And then after a while he slowed down and he

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Speaker 3: How in the world did that happen?

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Speaker 2: Well, it happened because all he was focused on was

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Speaker 2: took care of him to the point he was so

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Speaker 3: Good for Forrest Gump.

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Speaker 2: I'm not going to give you the SoundBite of comparing

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Speaker 2: the head coach at Alabama to that fictitious Alabama All

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Speaker 2: in a much more real sense, that's what it comes

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Speaker 2: and you're watching him in real time right now, Bryce

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Speaker 3: That will be the starter at Alabama.

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Speaker 2: I would like to know simply, will he be able

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Speaker 2: I mean, he was an assassin. Now Mac Jones ends

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Speaker 2: you knew who Steve Sarkeesian was. So this is not

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Speaker 2: What I'm saying is, unlike what Mac Jones had to do,

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Speaker 2: If you've got John Metchi pushing for All American status,

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Speaker 1: Down that way.

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Speaker 2: But I don't want to talk about that. That's in

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Speaker 2: that argument started to change once people realized, uh, oh,

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Speaker 2: I just have to reformulate it, kind of like Plato.

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Speaker 1: Years, but yet here I am.

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Speaker 2: If it's so easy to just win the games you're

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Speaker 2: Some people badly misinterpret what a point spread is. I

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Speaker 2: doesn't impact a football game. Humans do, and in most

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Speaker 2: Though they're ranked number two colin my AP source, I

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Speaker 2: I'm interested in seeing when that first playoff ranking comes out,

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Speaker 1: I mean, I don't think that.

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Speaker 1: I don't know how excited that makes you, but you're

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Speaker 2: Collin didn't put it in there just for entertainment purposes.

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Speaker 2: The Cincinnati Bearcats are in the playoff, another expansionist myth exposed.

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Speaker 2: And you would think, therefore that the expansionists are thrilled.

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Speaker 1: They've been turned into a reality. Now.

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Speaker 2: Of course, by dreams, I mean they're longing for a

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Speaker 1: That's what this has all been about. Right. The entire

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Speaker 2: Needing to expand the playoff is because the G five

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Speaker 1: That myth has been exposed.

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Speaker 2: But the much bigger myth, and the reason I've always

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Speaker 2: It's about those were some convenient talking points to get

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Speaker 2: Now you may think, oh, everyone no one says is

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Speaker 2: wanting more and wanting deeper pockets. That's happened since the

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Speaker 2: beginning of time. The trick was they had to get

439
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Speaker 2: you on board. And so what do they say, Hey, guys,

440
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Speaker 2: help us get richer. Of course not what they say

441
00:19:20,640 --> 00:19:23,600
Speaker 2: is don't you care about the underdog? Don't you care

442
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Speaker 2: about these poor.

443
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Speaker 1: Innocent G fives left out in the cold.

444
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Speaker 2: These are kids too. These players have hearts and souls,

445
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Speaker 2: and they work as hard as those Alabama players. And

446
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Speaker 2: how dare you support this evil four team infrastructure that's

447
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Speaker 2: going to leave them out in the cold. They pivoted today,

448
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Speaker 2: and they've long since pivoted once they saw that this

449
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Speaker 2: was becoming more and more possibility, and they're nowhere to

450
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Speaker 2: be found. You notice none of the expansionists we're out

451
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Speaker 2: there really taking much of a victory lab today. In fact,

452
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Speaker 2: we on link kick are taking more of a victory

453
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Speaker 2: lap than they are because it was on this program.

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Speaker 2: I should have loaded this video up on this very

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Speaker 2: program on July eighteenth, the year of Our Lord, twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty one, where yours truly with the endorsement.

457
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Speaker 1: Of Jesse and Colin, at least I think so.

458
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Speaker 2: They didn't tell me they disagreed we said on this show,

459
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Speaker 2: and I maintained all year. I never wavered that if

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Speaker 2: the Cincinnati Bearcats were undefeated, they would be in the

461
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Speaker 2: College Football Playoff.

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Speaker 1: Well, friends, fast forward spoiler alert.

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Speaker 2: If you recorded the game yesterday, the Cincinnati Bearcats went

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Speaker 2: undefeated and they are now in the College Football Playoff,

465
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Speaker 2: making it the first time a G five team has

466
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Speaker 2: ever made an MP. My buddy Parker, misguided though he

467
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Speaker 2: may be. Sometimes he has a good heart, good intentions,

468
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Speaker 2: but poor takes on the playoffs sometimes. I saw him

469
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Speaker 2: say today on Twitter, he said, make no mistake, no

470
00:20:41,280 --> 00:20:44,879
Speaker 2: glass ceiling was broken here. The only reason Cincinnati's m

471
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Speaker 2: is because other teams lost and they had no other

472
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Speaker 2: shot but to put him in. That's accurate, that is

473
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Speaker 2: actually true. It's just I don't get the point. That's

474
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Speaker 2: always been the path for a G five team. It's

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Speaker 2: the reason that I said what I said about Cincinnati

476
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Speaker 2: this year. It was because I thought so many Dominoes

477
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Speaker 2: were going to be knocked down because of the hashtag

478
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Speaker 2: Renaissance season, that there was going to be an open path,

479
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Speaker 2: at least wide open enough where if a G five team,

480
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Speaker 2: in this case Cincinnati, took care of their business, they

481
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Speaker 2: were going to make it in. Well one did, and

482
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Speaker 2: one made it in. That should always be the path

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Speaker 2: for a G five team. Fact number one, Cincinnati's in

484
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Speaker 2: the playoff, and I think they deserve to be in

485
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Speaker 2: this year. Fact number two, no other G five teams

486
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Speaker 2: ever made it in, nor in my opinion, has any

487
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Speaker 2: other G five team ever deserved to be in when

488
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Speaker 2: we weigh all the criteria and we weigh to me

489
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Speaker 2: what is pivotal, which is strength of schedule and the

490
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Speaker 2: baseline that you need to meet to even be involved

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Speaker 2: in this conversation. And see, when we measure the rest

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Speaker 2: of the landscape, you can go back to your Central

493
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Speaker 2: Florida examples all you want to, or even go back

494
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Speaker 2: further than that. The fact of the matter, I guess,

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Speaker 2: a fact in my opinion is we haven't had a

496
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Speaker 2: landscape like this. This is the landscape you needed. Cincinnati

497
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Speaker 2: got the landscape. So Cincinnati comes through for us, as

498
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Speaker 2: does Academy Sports. An outdoor is one of our most

499
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Speaker 2: treasure sports. Within this show about a sport is how

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Speaker 2: seamlessly we can transition into the Academy Adread. And one

501
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Speaker 2: of my proudest moments every week is if we get

502
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Speaker 2: an email that says I never saw that ad read coming,

503
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Speaker 2: which is funny because we do it at the same

504
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Speaker 2: time every show. But if you kind of get locked in,

505
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Speaker 2: we have accomplished our goals. Twofold number one means that

506
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Speaker 2: we got you to totally suspend your cognitive awareness of time.

507
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Speaker 1: You're just locked in and number two, we got you.

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Speaker 2: We got that ad read to sneak up on you,

509
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Speaker 2: but it's not an ad read, it's more testimonial. We

510
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Speaker 2: love Academy Sports and Outdoors. We love them because they

511
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Speaker 2: are our only partner on the show. We want it

512
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Speaker 2: that way. We have turned down partnerships with other potential

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Speaker 2: brands out there by the week. We do that actually

514
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Speaker 2: now because the show has gotten successful. But we are

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Speaker 2: able to do it the way we do it because

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Speaker 2: of Academy.

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Speaker 1: Now here's the thing.

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Speaker 2: This is not just some random charity and a logo

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Speaker 2: and otherwise they don't serve you. This is a great,

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Speaker 2: big sporting goods and outdoor chain. And so you can

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Speaker 2: go there. Whether you live in Louisiana, we live in Tennessee,

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Speaker 2: or whether you live in a place where there is

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Speaker 2: not an Academy Sports and Outdoors and you just have internet,

524
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Speaker 2: you can go to Academy dot com.

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Speaker 1: They fulfill basically every need.

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Speaker 2: I have in life, but certainly every one of your

527
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Speaker 2: tailgating needs or your college sports centric merchandising.

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Speaker 1: Needs, your gift giving needs. They got your hookup.

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Speaker 2: Academy Sports and Outdoors, and we appreciate so much that

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Speaker 2: they are the exclusive partner and presenter.

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Speaker 1: Of Latekick, Why Late Cack podcast.

532
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Speaker 2: And everything in between, So we appreciate them so much.

533
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Speaker 2: So we rolled on and we started to shift now

534
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Speaker 2: our attention to the Georgia Michigan matchup, and even in

535
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Speaker 2: the summer months and certainly as we got into the season,

536
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Speaker 2: there was a theme around this Georgia Bulldog team. It's

537
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Speaker 2: the same now as it has been then, except there's

538
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Speaker 2: no margin for error anymore because Georgia finally lost a

539
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Speaker 2: game in the SEC title and it was about expectations

540
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Speaker 2: around Georgia. And I've always had a thought about expectations

541
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Speaker 2: as long as they are married to your personal investment,

542
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Speaker 2: and they correlate very favorably. I don't have a problem

543
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Speaker 2: with high expectation, and what I mean by that is

544
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Speaker 2: Georgia fans are fully invested. They do everything that is

545
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Speaker 2: asked of them, so I don't mind that they have

546
00:24:10,520 --> 00:24:14,040
Speaker 2: sky high expectations there. But with that comes the thread

547
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Speaker 2: of achieving at a high level and still.

548
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Speaker 1: Being viewed as a failure. And that's kind of where

549
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Speaker 1: Georgia football has been all year.

550
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Speaker 2: There's been an understanding we got the team to do

551
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Speaker 2: it for the most of the season, they were number

552
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Speaker 2: one in the country. And so if we don't get

553
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Speaker 2: it done, if we don't get to the mountaintop this year,

554
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Speaker 2: how will this season be viewed. We've been talking about

555
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Speaker 2: it the entire way.

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Speaker 3: Take a listen at Georgia.

557
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Speaker 2: I do not believe in championship or bust with anyone really,

558
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Speaker 2: because bust.

559
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Speaker 3: Would indicate failure.

560
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Speaker 2: And then with Georgia people, some of whom take the

561
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Speaker 2: added five steps of saying bust equals hot seat, So

562
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Speaker 2: beat Alabama, win a title or hot seat for Kirby

563
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Speaker 2: Smart Well, of course that's a ludicris. We've already spelled

564
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Speaker 2: that out in parade detail on the show. I believe

565
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Speaker 2: Georgia will have a significant bump in offensive pre reduction

566
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Speaker 2: this year. Having said that, what if they don't. Let's

567
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Speaker 2: just entertain this for a second. What if you've watched

568
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Speaker 2: them in Athens build to this and they've acquired and

569
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Speaker 2: assembled the talent. They've always had good offensive line talent,

570
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Speaker 2: and they've had good mixtures of talent at receiver, but

571
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Speaker 2: they've never had it across the board like they will

572
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Speaker 2: this year. They've got two dominant forces at tight end.

573
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Speaker 2: They're always set in the backfield at tailback. But now,

574
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Speaker 2: finally what you and I have been told is the

575
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Speaker 2: missing piece of that equation, quarterback is finally answered. The

576
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Speaker 2: blank is finally.

577
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Speaker 3: Filled with JT.

578
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Speaker 2: Daniels, And so you are led to believe everything that's needed,

579
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Speaker 2: all the ingredients for the meal that you've wanted to

580
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Speaker 2: consume in the way of Georgia football for so long,

581
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Speaker 2: they're all in the kitchen.

582
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Speaker 3: What if it just doesn't pan out?

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Speaker 2: What if they do stumble out of the gate against Clemson,

584
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Speaker 2: And the talking point after that is all right, got

585
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Speaker 2: to regroup, lick your wounds. Nothing's lost, everything's still on

586
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Speaker 2: the table. But they really just never hit stride. Well,

587
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Speaker 2: then it does get uncomfortable. I'm not talking hot seat

588
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Speaker 2: or anything like that, but it does get uncomfortable for

589
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Speaker 2: them because people are going to look rightfully so, and

590
00:26:05,760 --> 00:26:08,000
Speaker 2: they're going to say, well, if you didn't do it

591
00:26:08,080 --> 00:26:09,520
Speaker 2: this year, when are you going to do it? You

592
00:26:09,520 --> 00:26:11,479
Speaker 2: remember that because that's what they were saying about Florida

593
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Speaker 2: this time last year.

594
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Speaker 3: You know, George is vulnerable. The schedule path is there.

595
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Speaker 2: Dan Mullen's got his best collection of this and that,

596
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Speaker 2: YadA YadA, YadA, and in some ways they achieved and

597
00:26:21,880 --> 00:26:24,440
Speaker 2: in other ways they faltered. Well, what if Georgia looks

598
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Speaker 2: around and you've got an ultra green Alabama offense, you

599
00:26:28,440 --> 00:26:31,480
Speaker 2: got to new everything over in Tuscaloosa. Florida's got to

600
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Speaker 2: play LSU and Bama. You don't have to play either

601
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Speaker 2: of them, So you got a wide open path to Atlanta.

602
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Speaker 2: You get a good test to begin the season. The

603
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Speaker 2: team you theoretically would meet in Atlanta is going to

604
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Speaker 2: be as vulnerable as they have been in a while.

605
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Speaker 2: If you can't get it done with the boxes check

606
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Speaker 2: this year, they're going to ask when are you ever

607
00:26:48,040 --> 00:26:50,680
Speaker 2: going to get it done? So, if you're demanding storyline

608
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Speaker 2: on top of your college football, there it is. There's

609
00:26:53,080 --> 00:26:55,200
Speaker 2: some stuff changing with Georgia. And you may look around

610
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Speaker 2: and say, doesn't look like it's changing to me. Looks

611
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Speaker 2: like they started off dominant and then they can tend

612
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Speaker 2: you to be dominant, And from what I can tell,

613
00:27:02,600 --> 00:27:04,919
Speaker 2: they're still dominant. Yeah, that's true. That's not what I'm

614
00:27:04,960 --> 00:27:06,720
Speaker 2: talking about. I'm not talking about the results on the field.

615
00:27:06,760 --> 00:27:10,399
Speaker 2: But there's something building the undercurrent of the program, not

616
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Speaker 2: the part of the program. Maybe that like I said,

617
00:27:13,200 --> 00:27:17,560
Speaker 2: the flyover national college football media types recognize and talk

618
00:27:17,600 --> 00:27:20,000
Speaker 2: about a lot, but if you're on the ground, you know,

619
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Speaker 2: if you're in Acworth, Georgia tonight, or you're at a

620
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Speaker 2: waffle house now in Vidalia tomorrow morning, this is the

621
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Speaker 2: kind of stuff you talk about. And what you're probably

622
00:27:27,880 --> 00:27:30,280
Speaker 2: talking about is this is our best shot we've ever

623
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Speaker 2: had to win a national championship. And you know what,

624
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Speaker 2: as the folks in Ydalia and Acworth tend to be,

625
00:27:35,720 --> 00:27:37,879
Speaker 2: you're right, You're absolutely right about that.

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Speaker 1: And you know what that equals.

627
00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:43,399
Speaker 2: It equals pressure, and there is pressure immense in nature

628
00:27:43,760 --> 00:27:47,000
Speaker 2: building around the Georgia program, even though, like I said,

629
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Speaker 2: the flyover national types don't realize it right now, but

630
00:27:50,080 --> 00:27:52,600
Speaker 2: there's more pressure on Kirby Smart right now than you

631
00:27:52,600 --> 00:27:56,200
Speaker 2: could ever imagine. Kirby Smart already tends to be wound

632
00:27:56,240 --> 00:27:58,400
Speaker 2: a little tighter than most, and so when you look

633
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Speaker 2: at him right now, they're an over whoming number one

634
00:28:00,920 --> 00:28:02,920
Speaker 2: and they're blowing folks out, yet he still looks like

635
00:28:02,960 --> 00:28:04,520
Speaker 2: he's about to freak out at any second. On the

636
00:28:04,560 --> 00:28:07,399
Speaker 2: sideline was number one. It's cause he's different, which you

637
00:28:07,480 --> 00:28:10,040
Speaker 2: have to be number two. It's because he knows exactly

638
00:28:10,080 --> 00:28:12,159
Speaker 2: what I'm saying right now is true. He puts it

639
00:28:12,200 --> 00:28:15,480
Speaker 2: on himself. Those coaches put it on themselves. It seems weird,

640
00:28:15,480 --> 00:28:18,080
Speaker 2: though what I'm saying right now, and I know it does.

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00:28:18,359 --> 00:28:21,640
Speaker 2: It seems weird if you're just a casual college football

642
00:28:21,640 --> 00:28:24,520
Speaker 2: fan and you don't follow Georgia any closer than just

643
00:28:24,640 --> 00:28:27,400
Speaker 2: watching them on Saturday, and then you watch him next Saturday,

644
00:28:27,400 --> 00:28:29,159
Speaker 2: but you don't keep up with him during the week.

645
00:28:29,560 --> 00:28:31,760
Speaker 2: Sounds like I'm talking negative about the program. I'm not

646
00:28:31,800 --> 00:28:34,800
Speaker 2: talking negative about Georgia at all. This is not a negative.

647
00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:37,919
Speaker 2: As I've said many times before, it's such a privilege

648
00:28:38,120 --> 00:28:39,920
Speaker 2: to be able to coach under this kind of pressure.

649
00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:41,800
Speaker 2: I mean, this guy on this monitor over here that

650
00:28:42,280 --> 00:28:45,680
Speaker 2: we are apparently fortunate enough to have now that we

651
00:28:45,720 --> 00:28:46,360
Speaker 2: didn't used.

652
00:28:46,200 --> 00:28:47,960
Speaker 1: To have at the old place, he gets that.

653
00:28:48,320 --> 00:28:50,480
Speaker 2: I mean, he wouldn't want to trade places with anyone

654
00:28:50,480 --> 00:28:53,400
Speaker 2: else right now. That's not a negative. Pressure's not a negative.

655
00:28:53,640 --> 00:28:56,480
Speaker 2: It's a negative when you're like Sark at Texas right now.

656
00:28:56,840 --> 00:28:59,560
Speaker 2: There is no postseason pressure. You know, there's pressure to

657
00:28:59,560 --> 00:29:01,480
Speaker 2: make a bowl game over there. This is pressure to

658
00:29:01,480 --> 00:29:03,680
Speaker 2: win a title. Kay Kirby Smart's all about that. That's

659
00:29:03,720 --> 00:29:05,960
Speaker 2: why he took the job, That's why they hired him.

660
00:29:05,960 --> 00:29:06,160
Speaker 3: There.

661
00:29:07,280 --> 00:29:10,360
Speaker 2: That's not a negative. What I'm just trying to reemphasize

662
00:29:10,360 --> 00:29:13,640
Speaker 2: to you is there are some positives out there that

663
00:29:13,720 --> 00:29:16,920
Speaker 2: are illusions, but they can play mind games with you.

664
00:29:17,200 --> 00:29:18,920
Speaker 2: And what I'm talking about is this. You think about

665
00:29:18,920 --> 00:29:21,360
Speaker 2: where Georgia football is and has been for several weeks now,

666
00:29:22,160 --> 00:29:24,480
Speaker 2: because weeks turned the months and the weeks have now

667
00:29:24,480 --> 00:29:27,280
Speaker 2: turned two months with Georgia started out where they opened

668
00:29:27,320 --> 00:29:30,920
Speaker 2: against Clemson right and Clemson was favored, So Georgia hasn't

669
00:29:30,920 --> 00:29:32,960
Speaker 2: even been favored in every game they've played this year,

670
00:29:32,960 --> 00:29:37,080
Speaker 2: but they beat Clemson and defensively, it was an emphatic performance,

671
00:29:37,480 --> 00:29:40,680
Speaker 2: and so they beat Clemson. Ever since then, they've been

672
00:29:40,760 --> 00:29:43,560
Speaker 2: up there. They've been either two or one in most polls,

673
00:29:43,800 --> 00:29:46,400
Speaker 2: and now they're number one. So Georgia starts to get

674
00:29:46,440 --> 00:29:48,800
Speaker 2: a lot of credit after that Clemson win, and over

675
00:29:48,840 --> 00:29:51,280
Speaker 2: the next several weeks they climbed to number two or

676
00:29:51,360 --> 00:29:53,520
Speaker 2: number one in most polls, and then the weeks turned

677
00:29:53,520 --> 00:29:56,360
Speaker 2: to a couple of months and you get blowouts and

678
00:29:56,400 --> 00:29:57,880
Speaker 2: then you get some players.

679
00:29:57,440 --> 00:29:59,719
Speaker 1: Being added to award watch lists.

680
00:29:59,720 --> 00:30:01,280
Speaker 2: And get a lot of love, like I said, in

681
00:30:01,320 --> 00:30:04,000
Speaker 2: the polls, and then here come the playoff rankings, and

682
00:30:04,040 --> 00:30:06,239
Speaker 2: we've got love in the playoff rankings, and people are

683
00:30:06,240 --> 00:30:08,560
Speaker 2: not only telling us we're number one, but they're talking

684
00:30:08,560 --> 00:30:11,479
Speaker 2: about how big a gap there is between Georgia and

685
00:30:11,520 --> 00:30:12,640
Speaker 2: then the rest of the country.

686
00:30:12,880 --> 00:30:15,680
Speaker 1: All that's happening right now. Nothing about that's bad inherently,

687
00:30:15,800 --> 00:30:17,400
Speaker 1: But you got your Bowl projections coming out.

688
00:30:17,600 --> 00:30:19,800
Speaker 2: Georgia is gonna play this team in the semi final,

689
00:30:19,960 --> 00:30:22,520
Speaker 2: they'll play this team in the national championship. Here's the

690
00:30:22,560 --> 00:30:25,280
Speaker 2: mind game that plays on you. If you're not careful,

691
00:30:25,280 --> 00:30:27,200
Speaker 2: it makes you feel like you've accomplished something.

692
00:30:27,520 --> 00:30:29,800
Speaker 1: It's not worth anything. I don't care if.

693
00:30:29,680 --> 00:30:32,360
Speaker 2: That is ten gallons of water that just got poured

694
00:30:32,400 --> 00:30:35,000
Speaker 2: out of a giant bucket, if there's a hole in

695
00:30:35,040 --> 00:30:37,840
Speaker 2: the bottom of the apparatus that is used to receive

696
00:30:37,880 --> 00:30:39,800
Speaker 2: the liquid, you don't have anything.

697
00:30:40,040 --> 00:30:42,080
Speaker 1: Nothing got caught. At the end of the day, Bowl

698
00:30:42,160 --> 00:30:44,920
Speaker 1: projections aren't worth anything. You don't win anything because of that.

699
00:30:45,080 --> 00:30:47,040
Speaker 2: They don't give you a trophy for being ranked number

700
00:30:47,040 --> 00:30:50,320
Speaker 2: one in October. But the mind game comes into play

701
00:30:50,680 --> 00:30:53,479
Speaker 2: when all of a sudden, you get to December and

702
00:30:53,520 --> 00:30:56,280
Speaker 2: you realize, wait a second, it feels like there's been

703
00:30:56,280 --> 00:30:57,960
Speaker 2: so much positivity.

704
00:30:57,320 --> 00:30:58,640
Speaker 1: But I just realize something.

705
00:30:58,840 --> 00:31:01,880
Speaker 2: We're playing Alabama Saturday, and even though I think there's

706
00:31:01,880 --> 00:31:03,520
Speaker 2: a big gap, and even though everyone's told me that

707
00:31:03,520 --> 00:31:05,680
Speaker 2: there's a big gap between US and Bama, we're favored

708
00:31:05,720 --> 00:31:08,480
Speaker 2: by four and a half. That number doesn't look big. Guys,

709
00:31:08,560 --> 00:31:11,120
Speaker 2: what if we lose Saturday? Or here's the worst one.

710
00:31:11,280 --> 00:31:12,960
Speaker 2: What if you get in a semi final game against

711
00:31:12,960 --> 00:31:16,800
Speaker 2: Ohio State and you lose. Do you realize how quickly

712
00:31:16,840 --> 00:31:19,440
Speaker 2: and how violently things change around the Georgia program and

713
00:31:19,440 --> 00:31:22,400
Speaker 2: the perception of Kirby Smart, How quickly and violently it changes,

714
00:31:22,600 --> 00:31:24,960
Speaker 2: Because all of a sudden, you go from thinking we've

715
00:31:25,040 --> 00:31:27,800
Speaker 2: never had a season with this many accolades heaped on

716
00:31:27,840 --> 00:31:30,440
Speaker 2: top of us and this many positives spoken about us.

717
00:31:30,600 --> 00:31:33,000
Speaker 2: You go from that to over the span of four

718
00:31:33,080 --> 00:31:36,080
Speaker 2: quarters and three and a half hours, realizing this team

719
00:31:36,120 --> 00:31:38,520
Speaker 2: accomplished less than the twenty seventeen team did.

720
00:31:39,120 --> 00:31:40,680
Speaker 1: For all the special.

721
00:31:40,360 --> 00:31:42,720
Speaker 2: Nature that we thought this team had, it accomplished less.

722
00:31:43,080 --> 00:31:44,960
Speaker 1: So that's how quickly this can change.

723
00:31:45,080 --> 00:31:47,280
Speaker 2: And that's how little all this stuff that's adding up

724
00:31:47,280 --> 00:31:48,680
Speaker 2: in the regular season matters.

725
00:31:48,800 --> 00:31:50,960
Speaker 1: George is doing what they're supposed to right now. But

726
00:31:51,000 --> 00:31:51,840
Speaker 1: they're taxiing.

727
00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:53,760
Speaker 2: You know, if you're at the airport, they pull you

728
00:31:53,760 --> 00:31:55,280
Speaker 2: away from the gate, you don't just go up in

729
00:31:55,320 --> 00:31:57,680
Speaker 2: the air. You taxi for a little while and you

730
00:31:57,720 --> 00:31:59,720
Speaker 2: get in line and you wait your turn. But eventually,

731
00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:02,320
Speaker 2: when you got those bright white stripes on the runway

732
00:32:02,360 --> 00:32:04,600
Speaker 2: and you see them under you, you know what that means.

733
00:32:04,600 --> 00:32:07,320
Speaker 2: It means you're clear for takeoff. And when they open

734
00:32:07,440 --> 00:32:10,560
Speaker 2: up those throttles full speed and you're on that runway,

735
00:32:10,920 --> 00:32:13,959
Speaker 2: you're just sitting there and everything's gotta work because at

736
00:32:13,960 --> 00:32:15,880
Speaker 2: that point you're going too fast. You can't slow down,

737
00:32:15,960 --> 00:32:17,840
Speaker 2: and you're about to take off, and you just hope

738
00:32:17,840 --> 00:32:19,640
Speaker 2: everything's in place and the nuts and bolts are in

739
00:32:19,680 --> 00:32:22,680
Speaker 2: place and those wings and flaps are at the proper angles.

740
00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:24,880
Speaker 1: Or else well you crash.

741
00:32:25,040 --> 00:32:26,960
Speaker 2: I don't want to speak that into existence. I fly

742
00:32:27,040 --> 00:32:29,880
Speaker 2: a whole lot, but that's what would happen. Look, come December,

743
00:32:29,960 --> 00:32:31,720
Speaker 2: they're going to open that throttle up. There is no

744
00:32:31,760 --> 00:32:35,080
Speaker 2: more taxiing, there are no more pretend accolades. It's time

745
00:32:35,080 --> 00:32:36,960
Speaker 2: to play for the real trophy. And that's still a

746
00:32:36,960 --> 00:32:39,680
Speaker 2: few weeks away. But unlike the other things that are

747
00:32:39,760 --> 00:32:42,000
Speaker 2: kind of fantasy world, and it really doesn't matter. It's

748
00:32:42,000 --> 00:32:44,320
Speaker 2: not tangible. There's nothing in your trophy case because of that.

749
00:32:44,720 --> 00:32:47,320
Speaker 2: Here's reality. When you get to that point, you get

750
00:32:47,360 --> 00:32:49,760
Speaker 2: to the playoffs, there's no more margin for error. And

751
00:32:49,840 --> 00:32:51,880
Speaker 2: the reality is Georgia is currently in a forty one

752
00:32:51,960 --> 00:32:54,640
Speaker 2: year national title drop. And the reality is they are

753
00:32:54,800 --> 00:32:57,760
Speaker 2: ripe with talent in a year that's never been more

754
00:32:57,800 --> 00:32:59,960
Speaker 2: tailor made for them to win a national championship.

755
00:33:00,400 --> 00:33:01,120
Speaker 1: And they know it.

756
00:33:01,600 --> 00:33:04,840
Speaker 2: Everyone from Valdosta to Clayton, they know it there. I'm

757
00:33:04,880 --> 00:33:08,040
Speaker 2: from Georgia, My home is Georgia. I know good and

758
00:33:08,080 --> 00:33:11,600
Speaker 2: well what people are thinking there. Everyone believes it's their year.

759
00:33:12,280 --> 00:33:13,360
Speaker 1: How do you argue with that?

760
00:33:13,480 --> 00:33:16,760
Speaker 2: Nationally, everyone believes it's Georgia's year. And that's all well

761
00:33:16,800 --> 00:33:19,280
Speaker 2: and good. As long as it becomes Georgia's year, it

762
00:33:19,320 --> 00:33:21,840
Speaker 2: will be the stuff of legend. The guy who finally

763
00:33:21,880 --> 00:33:24,000
Speaker 2: wins a national title at Georgia for the first time

764
00:33:24,320 --> 00:33:27,520
Speaker 2: since a lot of our audience has been alive will

765
00:33:27,560 --> 00:33:29,000
Speaker 2: be an instant legend there.

766
00:33:29,520 --> 00:33:30,480
Speaker 1: I'm just telling you.

767
00:33:30,920 --> 00:33:34,080
Speaker 2: If it doesn't happen this year and those folks are convinced,

768
00:33:34,120 --> 00:33:36,200
Speaker 2: as am I, that this could very well be the

769
00:33:36,240 --> 00:33:38,640
Speaker 2: best shot they've ever had, and maybe, for all we know,

770
00:33:38,720 --> 00:33:40,960
Speaker 2: will ever have to win a national championship with the

771
00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:44,240
Speaker 2: rest of the landscape void of other elite teams. You

772
00:33:44,360 --> 00:33:47,240
Speaker 2: have never seen the perception of a program and a

773
00:33:47,240 --> 00:33:51,000
Speaker 2: head coach so violently shift in the snap of a finger,

774
00:33:51,520 --> 00:33:53,680
Speaker 2: like it would if they were to go down in

775
00:33:53,680 --> 00:33:54,120
Speaker 2: the playoff.

776
00:33:54,240 --> 00:33:55,600
Speaker 1: So I'm not saying that to be negative.

777
00:33:55,720 --> 00:33:57,800
Speaker 2: Again, it's a privilege to get to this level to

778
00:33:57,840 --> 00:34:01,080
Speaker 2: deal with that pressure. But you cannot imagine the pressure

779
00:34:01,160 --> 00:34:04,080
Speaker 2: on Kirby Smart and Georgia right now. It feels so calm,

780
00:34:04,280 --> 00:34:07,280
Speaker 2: feels so serene. You're watching them just cruise and you

781
00:34:07,320 --> 00:34:09,879
Speaker 2: can't tell, but underneath they know it. In the state

782
00:34:09,920 --> 00:34:12,160
Speaker 2: of Georgia, they feel it right now. So it is

783
00:34:12,200 --> 00:34:14,560
Speaker 2: going to be white knuckle city when they get to

784
00:34:14,600 --> 00:34:16,560
Speaker 2: the SEC championship game and then really when they get

785
00:34:16,600 --> 00:34:19,040
Speaker 2: in the college football playoff, because they'll be there regardless

786
00:34:19,239 --> 00:34:22,960
Speaker 2: unless complete disaster strikes between now and then. You have

787
00:34:23,120 --> 00:34:26,560
Speaker 2: never seen a program under more pressure than the Georgia program.

788
00:34:26,600 --> 00:34:30,560
Speaker 2: Will become playoff time for the sake of my hometown brethren.

789
00:34:30,600 --> 00:34:31,520
Speaker 1: I hope they get it done.

790
00:34:31,560 --> 00:34:35,120
Speaker 2: I really do, because the alternative, I'd probably just stay

791
00:34:35,120 --> 00:34:35,879
Speaker 2: in Nashville for a while.

792
00:34:35,880 --> 00:34:37,080
Speaker 1: I probably just wouldn't even go home.

793
00:34:37,719 --> 00:34:39,880
Speaker 2: You think in your mind, be honest, you think Georgia

794
00:34:39,920 --> 00:34:41,839
Speaker 2: is the best team in the country right now. They've

795
00:34:41,840 --> 00:34:46,319
Speaker 2: got Stetson Bennett quarterback. God blessed Stetson Bennett. And let

796
00:34:46,400 --> 00:34:48,319
Speaker 2: me give you a little side note that has nothing

797
00:34:48,320 --> 00:34:50,320
Speaker 2: to do with the Big Ten. One of the popular

798
00:34:50,360 --> 00:34:53,120
Speaker 2: talking points in my home state right now is do we.

799
00:34:53,120 --> 00:34:56,680
Speaker 1: Even need JT. Daniels Cause Stetson's doing what we need

800
00:34:56,760 --> 00:34:59,720
Speaker 1: him to do and we've got a rock solid defense.

801
00:35:00,040 --> 00:35:02,640
Speaker 2: Let me be unequivocal in this. No, you don't need

802
00:35:02,680 --> 00:35:06,920
Speaker 2: it to beat Auburn. You will absolutely need JT. Daniels

803
00:35:06,920 --> 00:35:09,960
Speaker 2: to win a national championship. Know if answerbuts about that,

804
00:35:09,960 --> 00:35:12,120
Speaker 2: That coaching staff knows it. Talk to a coach the

805
00:35:12,160 --> 00:35:15,600
Speaker 2: other day. They know this. They're not winning a championship

806
00:35:15,600 --> 00:35:18,399
Speaker 2: with Stetson Bennett. If you think they are, it's because

807
00:35:18,400 --> 00:35:21,080
Speaker 2: you got amnesia and you don't remember that far back

808
00:35:21,160 --> 00:35:23,440
Speaker 2: and you don't remember what wins in this game, not

809
00:35:23,719 --> 00:35:27,200
Speaker 2: in November, but in late December. January, when you got

810
00:35:27,239 --> 00:35:29,320
Speaker 2: to win those extra couple of games. You got to

811
00:35:29,360 --> 00:35:31,879
Speaker 2: be able to throw the football down the field. You're

812
00:35:31,880 --> 00:35:34,200
Speaker 2: not winning games the way they're doing it right now.

813
00:35:34,239 --> 00:35:35,640
Speaker 2: So the way they're doing it right now is great.

814
00:35:35,880 --> 00:35:37,759
Speaker 2: Stetson Bennett has been great. I think he's a very

815
00:35:37,800 --> 00:35:39,719
Speaker 2: good quarterback. In fact, I think he was a little

816
00:35:39,800 --> 00:35:43,000
Speaker 2: underrated even last year. But the goal there is not

817
00:35:43,040 --> 00:35:45,040
Speaker 2: to win ten games. The goal there is not the

818
00:35:45,120 --> 00:35:48,720
Speaker 2: Verbo Citrus Bowl. The goal there is SEC championship, semi

819
00:35:48,719 --> 00:35:53,319
Speaker 2: final win, National championship win. Yes, friend, you will need JT.

820
00:35:53,440 --> 00:35:59,040
Speaker 1: Daniels to do that. Oh that's normal that talk about Georgia.

821
00:35:59,200 --> 00:36:01,600
Speaker 2: You know, that kind of line in some shape, form

822
00:36:01,680 --> 00:36:04,319
Speaker 2: or fashion with what everyone else will say. But now

823
00:36:04,360 --> 00:36:06,680
Speaker 2: we get to probably my proudest moment of the year,

824
00:36:07,160 --> 00:36:09,920
Speaker 2: and that was sometime during the preseason when we started

825
00:36:09,960 --> 00:36:11,280
Speaker 2: to talk about Michigan football.

826
00:36:11,520 --> 00:36:14,120
Speaker 1: I keep in mind at that time.

827
00:36:14,200 --> 00:36:18,359
Speaker 2: Jim Harbaugh has just restructured his contract and he did

828
00:36:18,360 --> 00:36:21,000
Speaker 2: that in lieu of being fired or leaving Michigan.

829
00:36:21,440 --> 00:36:23,040
Speaker 1: There were not high expectations.

830
00:36:23,320 --> 00:36:25,759
Speaker 2: People thought it was a matter of when, not if.

831
00:36:25,800 --> 00:36:27,000
Speaker 2: Harball was just going to be gone.

832
00:36:27,280 --> 00:36:28,920
Speaker 1: And here they are in the college football playoffs.

833
00:36:28,960 --> 00:36:30,880
Speaker 2: One of the greatest stories in the last several years

834
00:36:31,120 --> 00:36:34,440
Speaker 2: in this sport, and it has to fall right in

835
00:36:34,560 --> 00:36:38,440
Speaker 2: line with one of the best cinematic masterpieces in the

836
00:36:38,520 --> 00:36:41,080
Speaker 2: history of Earth, and that, of course, is the movie Twister,

837
00:36:41,640 --> 00:36:44,600
Speaker 2: which is far beyond just a storm chasing movie, but

838
00:36:44,719 --> 00:36:47,000
Speaker 2: it is a movie centered around storm chasing, which is

839
00:36:47,040 --> 00:36:49,480
Speaker 2: my second passion in life, behind what we're doing right now.

840
00:36:49,880 --> 00:36:51,239
Speaker 1: And you can catch me out on the road during

841
00:36:51,280 --> 00:36:51,600
Speaker 1: the spring.

842
00:36:51,640 --> 00:36:53,400
Speaker 2: In fact, the next time we play these best of

843
00:36:53,480 --> 00:36:56,120
Speaker 2: shows may very well be when I am storm chasing

844
00:36:56,160 --> 00:36:59,080
Speaker 2: in the spring and cannot be in the studio because yes,

845
00:36:59,560 --> 00:37:02,320
Speaker 2: it is an my contract that I get to do that. However,

846
00:37:02,360 --> 00:37:04,759
Speaker 2: insurance does not cover me out there. That's not what

847
00:37:04,800 --> 00:37:06,800
Speaker 2: you're here for. What I want you here for, and

848
00:37:06,840 --> 00:37:08,319
Speaker 2: I want you zoned in if you haven't heard a

849
00:37:08,360 --> 00:37:11,600
Speaker 2: word I've said elsewhere tonight and listen to what I

850
00:37:11,680 --> 00:37:14,759
Speaker 2: thought was our finest hour in twenty twenty one, and

851
00:37:14,800 --> 00:37:19,320
Speaker 2: that is drawing comparisons point for point between Jim Harbaugh's

852
00:37:19,320 --> 00:37:22,040
Speaker 2: career and the plot line to the movie Twister.

853
00:37:22,440 --> 00:37:24,680
Speaker 1: Without further ado, Take a listen.

854
00:37:25,600 --> 00:37:27,640
Speaker 2: I was thinking the other day as I was watching

855
00:37:27,640 --> 00:37:30,040
Speaker 2: the movie Twister, which is, for my money, one of

856
00:37:30,080 --> 00:37:35,160
Speaker 2: the greatest pieces of American cinema ever created. But then

857
00:37:35,440 --> 00:37:36,719
Speaker 2: I had it in the back of my mind, and

858
00:37:36,760 --> 00:37:38,759
Speaker 2: I was working on some Michigan stuff the other day,

859
00:37:39,440 --> 00:37:41,080
Speaker 2: and it came to me that.

860
00:37:41,120 --> 00:37:43,520
Speaker 3: Jim Harbaugh has been living out the.

861
00:37:43,440 --> 00:37:47,319
Speaker 2: Plot to Twister for his entire tenure at Michigan. If

862
00:37:47,400 --> 00:37:50,279
Speaker 2: you remember Bill Paxon and Twister, and you remember that

863
00:37:50,360 --> 00:37:53,560
Speaker 2: story arc, you need only apply it to Jim Harbaugh

864
00:37:53,560 --> 00:37:56,840
Speaker 2: at Michigan, and you realize these are the same people.

865
00:37:57,160 --> 00:38:00,000
Speaker 2: One's real, one's a character, but these are the same people.

866
00:38:00,239 --> 00:38:02,919
Speaker 2: And if you have never seen Twister, shame on you

867
00:38:03,040 --> 00:38:05,600
Speaker 2: do yourself a favor. If you have seen Twister, I

868
00:38:05,640 --> 00:38:07,719
Speaker 2: want you to sit back for a second wherever you are,

869
00:38:07,760 --> 00:38:10,319
Speaker 2: if you're driving around, don't close your eyes, but take

870
00:38:10,360 --> 00:38:13,040
Speaker 2: yourself with me on a little journey for the next

871
00:38:13,080 --> 00:38:15,200
Speaker 2: few minutes. And I want you to think about how

872
00:38:15,320 --> 00:38:19,319
Speaker 2: uncanny the parallels are between Bill Paxton and Twister and

873
00:38:19,440 --> 00:38:23,600
Speaker 2: Jim Harbaugh real life Uncle Jim at the University of Michigan.

874
00:38:23,680 --> 00:38:27,120
Speaker 2: And this story does not have a conclusion to it.

875
00:38:27,360 --> 00:38:29,520
Speaker 2: You know how Twister ends. We don't know how the

876
00:38:29,520 --> 00:38:33,680
Speaker 2: Michigan story ends. First point, do you remember at the

877
00:38:33,719 --> 00:38:36,759
Speaker 2: beginning of Twister, Bill returns. He's gone off to be

878
00:38:36,800 --> 00:38:38,960
Speaker 2: a weather man. He's left the storm chasing in his

879
00:38:39,000 --> 00:38:42,480
Speaker 2: rearview mirror, but he's back. He returns to the chase life.

880
00:38:42,560 --> 00:38:44,640
Speaker 2: He's got Dorothy on the back of the truck. They're

881
00:38:44,680 --> 00:38:46,520
Speaker 2: going to try and get her up in a tornado

882
00:38:46,719 --> 00:38:49,000
Speaker 2: so that they can learn a lot more about atmospheric science.

883
00:38:49,000 --> 00:38:51,120
Speaker 2: Will learn more than ten seconds that we have in

884
00:38:51,120 --> 00:38:54,520
Speaker 2: the past thirty years, was his line. Everyone was happy

885
00:38:54,560 --> 00:38:58,480
Speaker 2: and overjoyed. Everyone viewed that as a fresh start. I

886
00:38:58,520 --> 00:39:01,160
Speaker 2: remember where I was when I heard about Jim Harbaugh

887
00:39:01,440 --> 00:39:05,239
Speaker 2: being hired at Michigan. I remember making such foolish statements

888
00:39:05,320 --> 00:39:08,800
Speaker 2: as urban Meyer, boy, he's about to hear footsteps really quick.

889
00:39:09,440 --> 00:39:12,080
Speaker 2: I even equated it friends, believe it or not, I'm

890
00:39:12,080 --> 00:39:15,440
Speaker 2: man enough to admit it. I even equated Jim Harbaugh

891
00:39:15,560 --> 00:39:19,440
Speaker 2: entering the Big Ten via Michigan to Nick Saban entering

892
00:39:19,480 --> 00:39:21,000
Speaker 2: the SEC via Alabama.

893
00:39:21,160 --> 00:39:22,719
Speaker 3: As it related to Urban Meyer.

894
00:39:23,040 --> 00:39:24,879
Speaker 2: I thought Jim Harbaugh was going to have that kind

895
00:39:24,920 --> 00:39:28,759
Speaker 2: of impact at Michigan. Well, there is no need to

896
00:39:28,760 --> 00:39:31,040
Speaker 2: do the spoiler alert here. We have seen him so

897
00:39:31,160 --> 00:39:34,600
Speaker 2: far go winless against Ohio State. But that's only one chapter.

898
00:39:34,920 --> 00:39:38,319
Speaker 2: That's only the very beginning. Everything's bright, everything's rosy. It

899
00:39:38,360 --> 00:39:42,319
Speaker 2: is sunshine and rainbows right now. And then we start

900
00:39:42,360 --> 00:39:44,080
Speaker 2: to get a little bit into the movie and Bill

901
00:39:44,160 --> 00:39:47,120
Speaker 2: starts to flex. He wants to show he's not rusty.

902
00:39:47,360 --> 00:39:49,719
Speaker 2: And so they get in their first tornado chase of

903
00:39:49,760 --> 00:39:51,759
Speaker 2: the day, very rare day where you get like half

904
00:39:51,760 --> 00:39:54,600
Speaker 2: a dozen tornadoes out there near Wikeita, Oklahoma, And so

905
00:39:54,760 --> 00:39:58,560
Speaker 2: he grabs Helen Hunt's seat belt, says, fasten your seat belt,

906
00:39:58,640 --> 00:39:59,400
Speaker 2: and he takes.

907
00:39:59,239 --> 00:39:59,799
Speaker 3: Him off road.

908
00:39:59,840 --> 00:40:01,520
Speaker 2: Now, granted this is only an F one, but f

909
00:40:01,560 --> 00:40:03,600
Speaker 2: ones can still do damage if you're in the wrong

910
00:40:03,640 --> 00:40:07,080
Speaker 2: place at the wrong time. Jim Harbaugh flexed too, just

911
00:40:07,160 --> 00:40:10,360
Speaker 2: like Bill Paxton did to start this movie. Jim Harbaugh flexed.

912
00:40:10,719 --> 00:40:14,239
Speaker 2: I was in Columbus, Georgia when Jim Harbaugh went on

913
00:40:14,280 --> 00:40:18,520
Speaker 2: his satellite campaign, his satellite camp campaign. To put a

914
00:40:18,560 --> 00:40:21,560
Speaker 2: finer point on it there, I am in the newsroom

915
00:40:21,600 --> 00:40:25,279
Speaker 2: one day and Jim Harbaugh is doing a satellite camp

916
00:40:25,360 --> 00:40:30,200
Speaker 2: in nearby Prattville, Alabama's just north of Montgomery and oh

917
00:40:30,239 --> 00:40:32,439
Speaker 2: Man all the Southern folks were up in arms.

918
00:40:32,480 --> 00:40:34,560
Speaker 3: I mean they were grade A triggered by this.

919
00:40:34,960 --> 00:40:38,360
Speaker 2: And then Harbaugh shows up on your local news shirtless,

920
00:40:38,640 --> 00:40:41,280
Speaker 2: running around in khakis. It's ninety five degrees in Prattville

921
00:40:41,320 --> 00:40:44,960
Speaker 2: in the summer at least, and he's running around shirtless

922
00:40:45,000 --> 00:40:48,480
Speaker 2: and khakis over there, playing some kind of bastardized version

923
00:40:48,520 --> 00:40:48,920
Speaker 2: of football.

924
00:40:48,920 --> 00:40:51,040
Speaker 3: I'm not quite sure what they were doing, but.

925
00:40:51,120 --> 00:40:54,080
Speaker 2: Everyone has been out of shape, and Jim Harball was flexing,

926
00:40:54,120 --> 00:40:56,680
Speaker 2: and there were some people that were misguided enough to

927
00:40:56,719 --> 00:40:59,560
Speaker 2: believe that the University of Michigan was about to fundamentally

928
00:40:59,640 --> 00:41:02,320
Speaker 2: change recruiting in the South because Jim Harbaugh ran around

929
00:41:02,320 --> 00:41:05,279
Speaker 2: with Saggie Nipples and Prattville, Alabama for the better part

930
00:41:05,320 --> 00:41:06,000
Speaker 2: of an afternoon.

931
00:41:06,560 --> 00:41:08,480
Speaker 3: Again a spoiler, it didn't.

932
00:41:08,239 --> 00:41:10,840
Speaker 2: Quite work out that way, although Michigan has made a

933
00:41:10,840 --> 00:41:13,879
Speaker 2: little bit of noise. Nico Collins, for example, from Clay Chalk, Well,

934
00:41:13,880 --> 00:41:16,560
Speaker 2: that's a big time receiver talent that they ended up pulling.

935
00:41:16,640 --> 00:41:19,800
Speaker 2: So it was not without merit. They ended up putting

936
00:41:19,800 --> 00:41:22,319
Speaker 2: the cabash on it, but it wasn't without merit. We

937
00:41:22,480 --> 00:41:25,840
Speaker 2: continue to chapter three because here come the clouds a

938
00:41:25,880 --> 00:41:30,440
Speaker 2: little bit. As the story develops, Bill, back on the

939
00:41:30,480 --> 00:41:34,360
Speaker 2: storm chasing scene, is reintroduced to his old nemesis, his

940
00:41:34,480 --> 00:41:36,880
Speaker 2: old foe, Jonas Jonas Miller.

941
00:41:36,920 --> 00:41:37,920
Speaker 3: He's a night crawler.

942
00:41:37,920 --> 00:41:41,040
Speaker 2: They all started out together, but then Jonas went out

943
00:41:41,080 --> 00:41:42,920
Speaker 2: and got himself some corporate sponsors.

944
00:41:43,040 --> 00:41:45,280
Speaker 3: Remember why, because he was in it for the money,

945
00:41:45,600 --> 00:41:46,320
Speaker 3: not the science.

946
00:41:46,320 --> 00:41:48,720
Speaker 2: It sounds about like some of you trying to expand

947
00:41:48,760 --> 00:41:52,480
Speaker 2: these conferences. By the way, well, how does this parallel

948
00:41:52,800 --> 00:41:55,799
Speaker 2: Jim Harbaugh. Well, Jim Harbaugh ran up against his old

949
00:41:55,840 --> 00:41:59,480
Speaker 2: nemesis too. Just as Bill Paxton was reintroduced to Jonas

950
00:41:59,480 --> 00:42:02,880
Speaker 2: Miller the night crawler, there we also had Jim Harbaugh

951
00:42:03,239 --> 00:42:06,240
Speaker 2: get right back in the middle of that Ohio state rivalry.

952
00:42:06,239 --> 00:42:08,839
Speaker 2: You have to being checked out for a while, and

953
00:42:09,120 --> 00:42:11,719
Speaker 2: it hurt, and they got their nose bloody, and they

954
00:42:11,719 --> 00:42:14,960
Speaker 2: were competitive, but they still came out on the wrong end.

955
00:42:15,440 --> 00:42:18,000
Speaker 2: And so early on we start to see a little

956
00:42:18,080 --> 00:42:20,000
Speaker 2: up and a little down. We got a little ebb

957
00:42:20,040 --> 00:42:21,680
Speaker 2: and a little flow. It's not supposed to be easy.

958
00:42:21,719 --> 00:42:25,000
Speaker 3: We understand that. Okay, it's early. It's still fine. We're

959
00:42:25,040 --> 00:42:26,440
Speaker 3: still very early on in the tenure.

960
00:42:26,480 --> 00:42:28,879
Speaker 2: And once we get Michigan built the way that Jim

961
00:42:28,920 --> 00:42:33,440
Speaker 2: Harball can build Michigan, and we've got everything under his thumbprint.

962
00:42:33,640 --> 00:42:36,600
Speaker 2: It's going to be okay. It's a long game. Leaving

963
00:42:36,640 --> 00:42:39,680
Speaker 2: the process will eventually bypass them. And so what we

964
00:42:39,760 --> 00:42:42,520
Speaker 2: need is we need the reset, right and so one

965
00:42:42,520 --> 00:42:46,000
Speaker 2: of the most beautifully constructed scenes in Twister or any

966
00:42:46,040 --> 00:42:49,279
Speaker 2: movie is the time out they take when they go

967
00:42:49,320 --> 00:42:51,800
Speaker 2: to Aunt Meg's house. And if you've ever watched a

968
00:42:51,920 --> 00:42:54,520
Speaker 2: Ronco Grill infomercial late at night and you just watch

969
00:42:54,600 --> 00:42:56,040
Speaker 2: them do the set it and forget it, and then

970
00:42:56,080 --> 00:42:59,160
Speaker 2: they pull the finished product out of the oven, you

971
00:42:59,239 --> 00:43:01,640
Speaker 2: just salivate. Then you go to Crystal cause it's two

972
00:43:01,640 --> 00:43:03,759
Speaker 2: am and there's nowhere else to go. That's what it

973
00:43:03,840 --> 00:43:07,440
Speaker 2: was like watching those steak and eggs and mashed potatoes

974
00:43:07,480 --> 00:43:09,640
Speaker 2: and Meg's gravy is its own food group. According to

975
00:43:09,680 --> 00:43:13,040
Speaker 2: the late Philip Seymore Hoffman, that scene was great, mouth

976
00:43:13,160 --> 00:43:14,880
Speaker 2: watering and it was a reset.

977
00:43:15,080 --> 00:43:17,560
Speaker 3: You got some bad tornado experience early in the day.

978
00:43:17,760 --> 00:43:18,240
Speaker 3: That's cool.

979
00:43:18,320 --> 00:43:21,520
Speaker 2: Sometimes you just got a reset. Well, what Jim Harball

980
00:43:21,560 --> 00:43:23,640
Speaker 2: do to reset, Well, he took his team to Rome.

981
00:43:24,360 --> 00:43:26,880
Speaker 2: They just packed up over the course of a spring,

982
00:43:27,120 --> 00:43:30,000
Speaker 2: and they said spring football. So yesterday, no no, no, no, no,

983
00:43:30,160 --> 00:43:32,120
Speaker 2: We're going to Rome. We got a donor up here

984
00:43:32,120 --> 00:43:33,520
Speaker 2: that's will and fit the Bill. I think it was

985
00:43:33,560 --> 00:43:36,200
Speaker 2: like seven or eight hundred thousand dollars. That's even more

986
00:43:36,200 --> 00:43:39,279
Speaker 2: than Column makes. And they go to Rome and a

987
00:43:39,280 --> 00:43:41,120
Speaker 2: lot of people were up in arms about it. I

988
00:43:41,120 --> 00:43:43,640
Speaker 2: don't know why, but they were doing something different. It

989
00:43:43,719 --> 00:43:47,799
Speaker 2: was the great Michigan Football reset. We're gonna brand ourselves.

990
00:43:48,000 --> 00:43:50,319
Speaker 2: We're a national brand and we're gonna show you even

991
00:43:50,360 --> 00:43:52,959
Speaker 2: maybe we could be an international brand. So while Bill

992
00:43:53,000 --> 00:43:57,759
Speaker 2: Paxton enjoyed Meg's famous gravy, Jim Harbad just went to

993
00:43:57,840 --> 00:44:00,600
Speaker 2: Rome and took his entire team with him. So this

994
00:44:00,640 --> 00:44:03,920
Speaker 2: is where it really gets good because there is some

995
00:44:04,000 --> 00:44:07,840
Speaker 2: drama that eventually arises, and it's domestic drama.

996
00:44:07,920 --> 00:44:09,240
Speaker 3: It's the worst kind of drama.

997
00:44:10,239 --> 00:44:12,480
Speaker 2: It gets really tough because they got to leave at

998
00:44:12,480 --> 00:44:15,680
Speaker 2: Meg's house early because they got one F two F three.

999
00:44:16,280 --> 00:44:17,359
Speaker 3: They got to get on the road.

1000
00:44:17,600 --> 00:44:20,839
Speaker 2: It's gonna be hilly terrain and it's a jumper and

1001
00:44:20,880 --> 00:44:23,360
Speaker 2: it's tough, and they can't get Dorothy up in the funnel.

1002
00:44:23,560 --> 00:44:24,920
Speaker 3: But something worse happens.

1003
00:44:25,280 --> 00:44:29,000
Speaker 2: There is a very dramatic and very raw scene between

1004
00:44:29,000 --> 00:44:31,600
Speaker 2: Bill Paxton and Helen Hunt right there as the censors

1005
00:44:31,680 --> 00:44:33,920
Speaker 2: roll down the hill and the pack is wasted, and

1006
00:44:33,960 --> 00:44:37,480
Speaker 2: for the first time we realize there is trouble in

1007
00:44:37,520 --> 00:44:40,680
Speaker 2: paradise and there's a lot more going on here than

1008
00:44:40,760 --> 00:44:44,440
Speaker 2: just trying to chase tornadoes. That domestic squabble, that's the

1009
00:44:44,440 --> 00:44:46,360
Speaker 2: worst kind of squabble. And let me tell you what

1010
00:44:46,400 --> 00:44:49,280
Speaker 2: the worst kind of drama is for the University of Michigan.

1011
00:44:50,719 --> 00:44:53,680
Speaker 2: It's getting beat by Michigan State, and it's getting beat

1012
00:44:53,680 --> 00:44:55,680
Speaker 2: by Michigan State a couple of times in a couple

1013
00:44:55,760 --> 00:44:59,040
Speaker 2: of years. And I remember vividly, not the oh we

1014
00:44:59,120 --> 00:45:01,279
Speaker 2: had trouble with the snap game. I'm talking about a

1015
00:45:01,280 --> 00:45:03,600
Speaker 2: couple of years later, one or two years later, when

1016
00:45:03,640 --> 00:45:06,320
Speaker 2: they lost fourteen to ten. Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton

1017
00:45:06,320 --> 00:45:08,360
Speaker 2: are standing there in the middle of a downpour, so

1018
00:45:08,600 --> 00:45:11,799
Speaker 2: was Michigan John o'corne at the helm under center. And

1019
00:45:11,840 --> 00:45:14,680
Speaker 2: they turned it over not one, not two, not three,

1020
00:45:14,960 --> 00:45:18,520
Speaker 2: not four, but five times in a monsoon, the likes

1021
00:45:18,520 --> 00:45:21,480
Speaker 2: of which the Amazon rainforest would be bashful at watching.

1022
00:45:21,760 --> 00:45:24,960
Speaker 2: And they lost to Michigan State in ann Arbor fourteen

1023
00:45:25,000 --> 00:45:28,120
Speaker 2: to ten. Not only that, they proceeded to go four

1024
00:45:28,239 --> 00:45:32,279
Speaker 2: and six over their next ten games starting that day,

1025
00:45:32,520 --> 00:45:35,120
Speaker 2: and that spanned over the bowl game and then into

1026
00:45:35,120 --> 00:45:35,800
Speaker 2: the next season.

1027
00:45:36,200 --> 00:45:38,239
Speaker 3: And that's really where things got uncomfortable.

1028
00:45:38,239 --> 00:45:39,759
Speaker 2: And if you want to pinpoint it, now there are

1029
00:45:39,760 --> 00:45:41,919
Speaker 2: a lot of different areas you can pinpoint, but that's

1030
00:45:41,960 --> 00:45:45,160
Speaker 2: where people really started to sour to a much larger

1031
00:45:45,160 --> 00:45:49,080
Speaker 2: degree than they had previously on Jim Harbaugh. And so

1032
00:45:49,280 --> 00:45:52,200
Speaker 2: you know how the next couple of years go, and

1033
00:45:52,520 --> 00:45:55,440
Speaker 2: we understand that eventually you're trying to get to a

1034
00:45:55,480 --> 00:45:56,880
Speaker 2: conclusion here one way or the other.

1035
00:45:56,880 --> 00:45:58,759
Speaker 3: If you're a college football fan, I mean, if it's

1036
00:45:58,760 --> 00:46:00,360
Speaker 3: going to work out, great, If it's not going to

1037
00:46:00,400 --> 00:46:01,040
Speaker 3: work out.

1038
00:46:01,040 --> 00:46:04,239
Speaker 2: Show me something definitively. And boy, this is where we

1039
00:46:04,280 --> 00:46:07,680
Speaker 2: crescendo because it's time, and it's finally time. We only

1040
00:46:07,680 --> 00:46:10,879
Speaker 2: got one Dorothy left. And Bill Paxton looks at Helen

1041
00:46:10,960 --> 00:46:13,760
Speaker 2: Hunt and he says, we got to make it happen.

1042
00:46:14,120 --> 00:46:15,840
Speaker 3: This is it last time.

1043
00:46:16,120 --> 00:46:17,719
Speaker 2: And they go chase down that F five and they

1044
00:46:17,719 --> 00:46:19,799
Speaker 2: cut up the pepsi cans and they weigh the pack

1045
00:46:19,880 --> 00:46:21,440
Speaker 2: and then one of them gets wasted and then he

1046
00:46:21,520 --> 00:46:23,160
Speaker 2: loads it in the back of the truck, drives the

1047
00:46:23,200 --> 00:46:26,000
Speaker 2: truck into the F five. Dorothy's flying, but we may

1048
00:46:26,040 --> 00:46:29,279
Speaker 2: be two because as e F five tornadoes tend to do,

1049
00:46:29,800 --> 00:46:32,640
Speaker 2: it takes a jarring right turn and heads right for him.

1050
00:46:32,840 --> 00:46:33,520
Speaker 3: So what do they do.

1051
00:46:33,600 --> 00:46:35,600
Speaker 2: Well, they find some random pipes that go down about

1052
00:46:35,600 --> 00:46:37,080
Speaker 2: thirty feet and they anchor to him, because if you

1053
00:46:37,120 --> 00:46:39,600
Speaker 2: do that, you might have a chance. And that's where

1054
00:46:39,640 --> 00:46:43,839
Speaker 2: they are. Now here's the good part. They survive and

1055
00:46:43,960 --> 00:46:46,759
Speaker 2: all's well, that ends well. And not only do they

1056
00:46:46,760 --> 00:46:49,920
Speaker 2: win by surviving, they also make Dorothy fly and it

1057
00:46:50,040 --> 00:46:54,359
Speaker 2: changes atmospheric science forever. And right now, that's where Jim

1058
00:46:54,400 --> 00:46:57,560
Speaker 2: Harball is. I mean that man stood on the podium

1059
00:46:57,640 --> 00:46:59,920
Speaker 2: last we can set an I quote, we're gonna beat o'

1060
00:47:00,040 --> 00:47:02,400
Speaker 2: yo State or we're going to die trying. And so

1061
00:47:02,560 --> 00:47:05,600
Speaker 2: they are absolutely at Michigan right now. In the final

1062
00:47:05,640 --> 00:47:08,839
Speaker 2: scene of Twister, it was a happy ending there. But

1063
00:47:08,880 --> 00:47:10,960
Speaker 2: they just came off two and four season at Michigan.

1064
00:47:11,719 --> 00:47:15,200
Speaker 2: Everything was sort of restructured to send a very loud

1065
00:47:15,239 --> 00:47:18,880
Speaker 2: message this past summer, in this past spring, and remember

1066
00:47:18,880 --> 00:47:22,040
Speaker 2: the whole contract drama, to say we're keeping you here,

1067
00:47:22,760 --> 00:47:26,600
Speaker 2: but there is no long rope We're not extending anything.

1068
00:47:26,960 --> 00:47:30,359
Speaker 2: We're not cementing ourselves into anything. You've got to get

1069
00:47:30,360 --> 00:47:32,600
Speaker 2: it done this year. Now, at least, the good news

1070
00:47:32,640 --> 00:47:35,040
Speaker 2: is everyone gets it. The fans get it. I think

1071
00:47:35,040 --> 00:47:37,520
Speaker 2: the coaching staff gets it. There's a lot of pressure.

1072
00:47:37,600 --> 00:47:39,719
Speaker 2: You get paid a lot of money. It's a privileged

1073
00:47:39,719 --> 00:47:42,759
Speaker 2: to coach under that pressure. But that's where they are now.

1074
00:47:42,800 --> 00:47:45,520
Speaker 2: I hope for the sake of Michigan fans that things

1075
00:47:45,560 --> 00:47:47,440
Speaker 2: turn out happy. But you got to go through that

1076
00:47:47,480 --> 00:47:49,160
Speaker 2: tornado to do it. You got to go through the

1077
00:47:49,160 --> 00:47:50,480
Speaker 2: Big Ten to do it. You're going to be an

1078
00:47:50,560 --> 00:47:53,000
Speaker 2: underdog and gets Washington. You're gonna be an underdog a

1079
00:47:53,000 --> 00:47:56,400
Speaker 2: few times this year before you even play Ohio State.

1080
00:47:56,920 --> 00:47:59,600
Speaker 2: And there are several critical factors that have to fall

1081
00:47:59,640 --> 00:48:02,560
Speaker 2: into play here. Quarterbacks got to get worked out. Hopefully

1082
00:48:02,640 --> 00:48:06,040
Speaker 2: JJ McCarthy gets to show you what he can do eventually.

1083
00:48:06,280 --> 00:48:08,360
Speaker 2: But it's not just a quarterback thing. They got to

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Speaker 2: get a lot faster. They got to leverage the speed,

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Speaker 2: the perimeter speed, a wide receiver they have, They've got

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Speaker 2: to do it. I felt and still do feel like

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Speaker 2: Josh Gaddis may have been the right button to push,

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Speaker 2: bringing in as an offensive coordinator.

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Speaker 3: But he's not walking into Alabama. He came from Bama.

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Speaker 2: You walk into Michigan, you don't have four eventual first

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Speaker 2: rounders just chilling in your wide receiver room. That's a

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Speaker 2: little bit different world. You walk into Michigan, you got

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Speaker 2: to go find them yourself. Then, in Xavier Worthies case,

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Speaker 2: you got to make sure that they're on campus when

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Speaker 2: you start the season. So worthy or not worthy, Michigan's

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Speaker 2: got enough horses to compete. They got to do more

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Speaker 2: than compete, because you're not paying the guy what you're

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Speaker 2: paying them to compete, and you don't want to just

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Speaker 2: compete if you're Michigan. So I'm sitting there watching Twister

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Speaker 2: the other day and I realize, my goodness, might I

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Speaker 2: already know how things work out for Jim Harbaugh and Michigan.

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Speaker 2: One final reminder, by the way, if you have never

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Speaker 2: listened to the Twister soundtrack, that alone would convince you

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Speaker 2: to watch the movie. So criminally underrated. But that was

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Speaker 2: a little fun trip for me because I'd be talking

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Speaker 2: about Twister and college football even if you weren't watching.

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Speaker 3: So thank you for watching it.

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Speaker 2: And now we simply wait to see how the movie ends.

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Speaker 2: I can ramble on for another two minutes. I'm not

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Speaker 2: going to I again really thought that was our finest hour.

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Speaker 2: We'd only hope to achieve at that kind of level.

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Speaker 2: That's kind of the standard. That's the bar that we

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Speaker 2: reach for. Notre Dame wants to play like a winner today.

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Speaker 2: We just want to bring that Jim Harbough Twister energy

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Speaker 2: every day and if we can do that, then I

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Speaker 2: think we have delivered for you. Thanks again to our

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Speaker 2: entire crew for putting these shows together, Producer Jesse, all

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Speaker 2: of our PA's director.

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Speaker 1: Colin back there. That is not easy to do.

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Speaker 2: That is a lot of exhaustive work, but you got

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Speaker 2: to go through an entire catalog of material. But I

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Speaker 2: appreciate you guys for doing that. Appreciate you for tuning in.

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Speaker 2: Really interested to.

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Speaker 1: See your comments on that.

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Speaker 2: Make sure you're following on Twitter and Instagram at late

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Speaker 2: Kick Josh, and make sure you're subscribed to the twenty

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Speaker 2: four seven YouTube channel and good podcast.

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Speaker 1: That's about all we have.

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Speaker 2: For you tonight until next time for our entire crew here,

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Speaker 2: I'm Josh. May have a great rest of your evening.

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Speaker 2: Merry Christmas, and God wants