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Speaker 1: be sweet redemption for them, cause a handful of Penn

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Speaker 1: State fans, and by that I mean a majority of

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Speaker 1: the fan base, still think they got screwed in twenty

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Speaker 1: sixteen when Ohio State. I think it was twenty sixteen

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Speaker 1: when Ohio State went over them. This would be of

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Speaker 1: maximum impact to James Franklin. Look, really, whether the guy

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Speaker 1: goes to the playoff or not. He goes at eleven

434
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Speaker 1: and one this year and he beats Ohio State in Columbus,

435
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Speaker 1: that's a really big deal. And if he goes eleven

436
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Speaker 1: and one, chances are he's in the playoff, I think.

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Speaker 1: And also, Ryan Day, now you want to talk about fun,

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Speaker 1: You want to talk about the time and the show

439
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Speaker 1: that we should bring the alien down here. We teleport

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Speaker 1: the alien down here and he's like, good to see you,

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Speaker 1: and we say, hey, no time to talk, welcome back.

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Speaker 1: So this guy here, Ryan Day's won more games than

443
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Speaker 1: like anyone out there this side of smart and saving.

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Speaker 1: But people are putting him on the hot seat. That

445
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Speaker 1: question is translated to what kind of people casuals? And

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Speaker 1: I don't have time to explain what that is to you, alien,

447
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Speaker 1: but you need to know what they demanded of him?

448
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Speaker 1: Is he not lose to Michigan again? And look at

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Speaker 1: the result over there. He beat Michigan, but he didn't

450
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Speaker 1: beat Marcus Freeman, he didn't beat James Franklin, but he

451
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Speaker 1: won the Big Ten championship. So I'm told the guy

452
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Speaker 1: needs to win the Big Ten, he needs to beat

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Speaker 1: Michigan in the process. He did both of those things,

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Speaker 1: but he lost two games. What do we think about today?

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Speaker 1: And the alien looks as confused as I would look,

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Speaker 1: and its confused as many of you would look. What

457
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Speaker 1: is our reaction there? Loses two games, but does the

458
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Speaker 1: both the things you claim he needs to do, but

459
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Speaker 1: doesn't probably make the playoff. Hmmmmmm, you're talking about therapy

460
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Speaker 1: sessions in the Buckeye State. I guess it would come

461
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Speaker 1: down to. I don't know what it would come down to, actually,

462
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Speaker 1: so let's just wait and see if it happens. By

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Speaker 1: the way, if you actually predict that to happen and

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Speaker 1: it comes to fruition, I'm sending you a chealice of supremacy.

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Speaker 1: Next up, this would be a disaster. This would be

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Speaker 1: This would be a crisis the likes of which they

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Speaker 1: haven't seen in the South in a long, long time.

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Speaker 1: Don't freak out. It's just a what if. What if

469
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Speaker 1: no SEC team makes the playoff, they would have to

470
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Speaker 1: shut the South down until they got the National Guard

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Speaker 1: in here. They would just have to shut the South

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Speaker 1: down if that happened. It's never happened. I don't think

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Speaker 1: it ever will happen. Certainly it won't happen in the

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Speaker 1: expanded playoff era. But if the four team playoff era

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Speaker 1: goes out with the bang of locking the SEC out

476
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Speaker 1: and bolting the door, you would have a strength of

477
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Speaker 1: schedule fight in this sport like you've never seen before.

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Speaker 1: Because I don't care if they totally cannibalize themselves. There's

479
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Speaker 1: going to be at least one SEC team that thinks

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Speaker 1: they're one of the best four and most deserving four

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Speaker 1: in the country, and if the committee doesn't agree, the

482
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Speaker 1: argument is going to be we beat ourselves up. Now

483
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Speaker 1: the PAC twelve gets to make that argument this year,

484
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Speaker 1: but no one will care. A lot of good teams

485
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Speaker 1: out there, none of them may escape with fewer than

486
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Speaker 1: one or two losses. But when the SEC makes that argument,

487
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Speaker 1: you know as well as I know that gets benefit

488
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Speaker 1: of the doubt. And I don't want to sound like

489
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Speaker 1: a hypocrite because I make the argument on this show,

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Speaker 1: and I would probably make the argument again, like if

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Speaker 1: LSU wins the SEC with two losses and they're not

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Speaker 1: in the College Football Playoff, I'd probably have I imagine

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Speaker 1: i'd have a strong take on it. I would have

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Speaker 1: to see the surroundings, but I imagine I would have

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Speaker 1: a pretty strong take on that. I looked this up today.

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Speaker 1: We've had nine years of playoffs. You know how many

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Speaker 1: SEC teams we've had in there. We've had fourteen of

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Speaker 1: them in nine years. Stats and infos on vacation, so

499
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Speaker 1: I had to look it up myself. I hope it's right.

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Speaker 1: There's obviously been some years where we had two of them.

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Speaker 1: So none none, what a crisis. I think a lot

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Speaker 1: more people would embrace the expanded playoff, not me necessarily,

503
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Speaker 1: but maybe some holdouts in the South would embrace the

504
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Speaker 1: expanded playoff. And last up tonight, in the what if department,

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Speaker 1: we're getting very geographical here, Keegan said, no one has

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Speaker 1: the courage to ask, what if Drew Aller is the

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Speaker 1: best quarterback on the east side of the Mississippi River.

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Speaker 1: I'm giving you guys time to pull up Google maps.

509
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Speaker 1: You should have this memorized like I did by Kindergarten,

510
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Speaker 1: But if you don't, the Mississippi's pretty famous river. Charlie

511
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Speaker 1: Pride has a really, really good song about the Mississippi River.

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Speaker 1: I encourage all of you to look it up after

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Speaker 1: the show. In the meantime, I want to remind you

514
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Speaker 1: Jaden Daniels by Inches is east of the Mississippi River.

515
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Speaker 1: Jordan Travis at Florida State, he's east of the Mississippi.

516
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Speaker 1: Drake May North Carolina, JJ McCarthy at Michigan, Sam Hartman

517
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Speaker 1: at Notre Dame. All these guys are east of the Mississippi.

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Speaker 1: And our guy Keegan just pulls the pin on the

519
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Speaker 1: grenade and tosses it in and says, nah, Drew Aler,

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Speaker 1: first year starting, gonna be better than all of them. Now,

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Speaker 1: I think he's a really good player. Well, I think

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Speaker 1: he's going to be a really good player. He hasn't

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Speaker 1: had the chance to prove that to you yet. I

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Speaker 1: think he will be. This is lofty, though, very lofty.

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Speaker 1: So what if that happens, since that's the game we're playing, Well,

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Speaker 1: Penn State's going to the playoff if that happens. I

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Speaker 1: don't have much doubt about that, because there's really not

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Speaker 1: much else on that team that would keep them out

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Speaker 1: of that. I mean, also, remember this, now, if that

530
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Speaker 1: guy really is the best quarterback east of the Mississippi

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Speaker 1: this year, there's the rare pin pop east of the

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Speaker 1: Mississippi this year. Well, Michigan's got to go in there

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Speaker 1: with a guy who is runner up to Drew Aller.

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Speaker 1: In this scenario, he is going to go into Columbus,

535
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Speaker 1: Ohio and be the best quarterback on the field that day.

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Speaker 1: They got a really good defense, they got horses in

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Speaker 1: the backfield at running back. I think this would mean

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Speaker 1: that wide receiver worked out okay for him, I have

539
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Speaker 1: less than I'm gonna take a less than zero. I

540
00:26:22,680 --> 00:26:26,320
Speaker 1: got almost zero questions about their offensive line. They're gonna

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Speaker 1: be a playoff team. I don't know what else to

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Speaker 1: tell you. In fact, Oler doesn't even have to be

543
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Speaker 1: quite the best. Aller could play just really good football

544
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Speaker 1: this year and they could push for a playoff spot.

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Speaker 1: They're gonna be a really good team. I mean, we

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Speaker 1: didn't just waste time going up there and doing an

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Speaker 1: entire live show from James Franklin's balcony for them to

548
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Speaker 1: go seven and six. All due respect to seven win

549
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Speaker 1: teams out there, but there's a reason that there's a

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Speaker 1: reason we went up there, and so yeah, I think

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Speaker 1: Penn State will be in the Big ten there. You

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Speaker 1: Like the video. You know, if this video and this

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Speaker 1: absolutely no blame for it. But it's going good so far,

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Speaker 1: so I would like a little credit. What do you

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Speaker 1: think about Mike Norvel, head coach at Florida State, was

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Speaker 1: at Memphis. I'm not gonna call him polarizing. I will

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Speaker 1: say a lot of people's opinions have shifted on him.

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Speaker 1: How hard have they shifted? Though? So that that, I

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Speaker 1: got a lot of Dan Mullen comparisons. By the way,

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Speaker 1: is this popular? Have I missed this? I admit sometimes

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Speaker 1: I can box myself in a little bit. I don't

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Speaker 1: listen to a lot of outside noise. I did not

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Speaker 1: know that the Mike Norvel Dan Mullen comparison was out there.

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Speaker 1: And by that, people, apparently, according to my dms and

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Speaker 1: mentions mean he is good coach. He's a builder. He's

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Speaker 1: a guy who can every now and then probably flash

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Speaker 1: a ten win season on you. He's a grinder. But

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Speaker 1: is he ultimately going to build something elite? No, he's not.

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Speaker 1: Now that's your take. The whole point of this is

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Speaker 1: to gauge the general mood towards a coach. Oh, that

612
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Speaker 1: was interesting, I can I can get it. But the

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Speaker 1: body of work's not there yet. I still think a

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Speaker 1: lot of Mike Norvell's book is still unwritten. So I

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Speaker 1: think what we need to be careful of. Or I'll

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Speaker 1: tell you where my mind's at, and you can tell

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Speaker 1: me if you agree with me. I'm trying to be

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Speaker 1: careful not to talk as if Mike Norvel has arrived.

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Speaker 1: So just because the heat is off of him, which

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Speaker 1: I thought was a little bit undue heat, But just

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Speaker 1: because the heat's off of him, it doesn't mean we've

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Speaker 1: swung the pendulum all the way over to Okay, and

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Speaker 1: now this guy's arrived. He hasn't arrived. He hasn't arrived

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Speaker 1: because they haven't done anything of national note down there yet.

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Speaker 1: He just won ten games last year and they finished

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Speaker 1: really strong, and so there's no heat on him. But

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Speaker 1: that you know as well as I do, that heat

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Speaker 1: would pop right back up. This stove top would be

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Speaker 1: hot to the touch if they were to start two

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Speaker 1: and two this year, a scenario we went over the

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Speaker 1: other night, by the way. So they muted a lot

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Speaker 1: of doubters, they muted some haters. I read a book

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Speaker 1: one time that says, just because you throw the he

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Speaker 1: out the window, it doesn't mean they're not down in

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Speaker 1: the parking lot doing push ups. They're never really gone,

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Speaker 1: are they. So yeah, we got all that to worry about,

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Speaker 1: and I've tried to take a very very responsible narrow

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Speaker 1: not narrow minded, that's the wrong verbiage. But I've tried

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Speaker 1: to be very specific with how we've talked about Norvel

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Speaker 1: on the show because I think this season tells so

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Speaker 1: much about Mike Norvel. I look at recruiting because talent

642
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Speaker 1: acquisition is largely the name of the game. Those are

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Speaker 1: the guys you play with, and they've been so consistent

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Speaker 1: in recruiting. You look at the past four cycles, they

645
00:31:34,720 --> 00:31:38,160
Speaker 1: finished anywhere from nineteenth or they finished anywhere from seventeenth

646
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Speaker 1: to twenty sixth I think it was or nineteen twenty,

647
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Speaker 1: twenty three, twenty two. So that's where they finished. I

648
00:31:44,760 --> 00:31:46,440
Speaker 1: don't really care about the number of commits they have.

649
00:31:46,680 --> 00:31:49,480
Speaker 1: I care about where they actually ranked, and so the

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00:31:49,560 --> 00:31:53,880
Speaker 1: transfer portal has really been where they've they've made their hay.

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Speaker 1: I'm trying to think. I don't think I've ever said

652
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Speaker 1: that on the show, but me while you say it

653
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Speaker 1: all the time. So that's where they made their hey

654
00:32:00,400 --> 00:32:04,280
Speaker 1: so far is that a sustainable approach. Number one. Number

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Speaker 1: two are they Michigan. That's really what we have to

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00:32:07,400 --> 00:32:09,400
Speaker 1: find out this year. Michigan is a team that does

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Speaker 1: not recruit top five classes. Well they haven't. I think

658
00:32:11,680 --> 00:32:14,040
Speaker 1: they're recruiting really well right now actually, but they are

659
00:32:14,040 --> 00:32:16,560
Speaker 1: peaking in recruiting right now. They're doing more than they've

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00:32:16,560 --> 00:32:19,000
Speaker 1: ever done to this point. Norvell and Florida State have

661
00:32:19,040 --> 00:32:21,560
Speaker 1: floated in the anywhere from like the seventeen to twenty

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00:32:21,560 --> 00:32:24,200
Speaker 1: five range in recruiting and then they supplement via the

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Speaker 1: portal and what they hope, even though their blue chip

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Speaker 1: ratio would be lower than other teams in the playoff picture,

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Speaker 1: is that they can develop and execute their way into

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Speaker 1: the top four. Michigan's done. That is Florida State. Michigan

667
00:32:37,360 --> 00:32:41,000
Speaker 1: is Mike Norvelle sort of Jim Harbaugh South. They can

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Speaker 1: be better either way. So even if they are that,

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Speaker 1: there's no excuse to have to try and just out

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Speaker 1: develop and out scheme. Folks, when you're Florida State football,

671
00:32:50,600 --> 00:32:52,360
Speaker 1: because you should be a haven, you should be a

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Speaker 1: destination for top level talent. Why because you're Florida State football.

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Speaker 1: That's why also have a theory and I didn't know

674
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Speaker 1: I was going to put it to the test today,

675
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Speaker 1: but because I was looking at the comments and the replies,

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Speaker 1: here it's time to do. We have those two tweets,

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Speaker 1: by the way, because I don't want to just go

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Speaker 1: into this blind. I want to actually show you Mike

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00:33:16,760 --> 00:33:20,160
Speaker 1: Norvell is an attractive dude. I'm comfortable saying it because

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Speaker 1: you said it. We had Steve hit us up and said,

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Speaker 1: all the girls I went to Florida State with call

682
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Speaker 1: him coach Hotty. Didn't know that, was unaware of it.

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Speaker 1: But that wasn't even the only one of those. We

684
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Speaker 1: got a number of you hit me up and said

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Speaker 1: in all honesty, like Steven hit me and said, in

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Speaker 1: all honesty, as a lifelong Florida State fan, he's made

687
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Speaker 1: my wife as intent on watching the games as I have.

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00:33:41,160 --> 00:33:44,560
Speaker 1: It's not impossible to let go of attractive people. It's

689
00:33:44,720 --> 00:33:47,320
Speaker 1: harder to let go of attractive people. So I'm going

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Speaker 1: to say it right now. Good for Mike Norvel. Now

691
00:33:51,760 --> 00:33:53,840
Speaker 1: that doesn't mean that eventually you don't have to get

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Speaker 1: the job done. But I'm a firm believer that attractive

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Speaker 1: people in life get benefit of the doubt, and so

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Speaker 1: I think working with benefit of the doubt that frankly

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Speaker 1: I did not know he had because I had not

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00:34:03,440 --> 00:34:05,920
Speaker 1: looked at Mike Norvell in that way yet. But now

697
00:34:06,000 --> 00:34:08,000
Speaker 1: we all have, and I think we're all better for it.

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Speaker 1: So the general summary I get is almost no one

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00:34:11,320 --> 00:34:13,719
Speaker 1: hates Mike Norvell, and if you do, I don't know,

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00:34:13,719 --> 00:34:15,319
Speaker 1: it's probably because he stole your lunch money when you

701
00:34:15,320 --> 00:34:18,000
Speaker 1: were a kid. So I got like I got everyone

702
00:34:18,040 --> 00:34:22,800
Speaker 1: across the board saying, good offensive mind, a good program builder,

703
00:34:22,960 --> 00:34:25,080
Speaker 1: don't have a strong opinion, don't don't hate him at all,

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Speaker 1: just I don't quite know if he's that guy. Yet.

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Speaker 1: I think that's fair. I think when we looked at

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Speaker 1: our responses for Norvelle, aside from the fringe, you know, Caine,

707
00:34:35,520 --> 00:34:39,200
Speaker 1: Gator sectors, I thought it was pretty reasonable. And so

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Speaker 1: it's possible. Now here's where I also wonder about it.

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Speaker 1: It's possible that the expectation bullseye has missed him every year.

710
00:34:49,480 --> 00:34:52,920
Speaker 1: So Mike Norvell when he got there, everyone said, okay,

711
00:34:52,960 --> 00:34:54,920
Speaker 1: he needs to immediately turn it around. And so the

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Speaker 1: expectation Bullseye was eight or nine wins, and you fall

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Speaker 1: short of that, and then the expectation bulls eye is

714
00:35:02,280 --> 00:35:05,799
Speaker 1: a little bit lower, and then he exceeds it last year. Well,

715
00:35:05,840 --> 00:35:11,399
Speaker 1: now the expectation Bullseye is acc champion College Football Playoff challenger. Well,

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Speaker 1: they may not be that good this year. What if

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00:35:15,160 --> 00:35:18,080
Speaker 1: their result is nine wins this year, it'd be a

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00:35:18,080 --> 00:35:20,680
Speaker 1: pretty good year. People would say he fell short of expectation.

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Speaker 1: The under would hit on the Vegas win total if

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Speaker 1: they win nine games this year. So there's a distinct

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Speaker 1: possibility that Norvelle's just one of those dudes that you

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00:35:29,800 --> 00:35:32,319
Speaker 1: can never nail down. You can never in any given

723
00:35:32,360 --> 00:35:34,480
Speaker 1: year or feel like you fully know where they are.

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Speaker 1: I know where you're watching us though. You're watching us

725
00:35:37,480 --> 00:35:40,520
Speaker 1: in Portland, Maine. They're watching us in Eastern Shore, Virginia.

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Speaker 1: They're watching us in Brisbane, Australia. Thank you so much.

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Speaker 1: Wherever you are, hey, compliments in the live chat. I'll

728
00:35:52,040 --> 00:35:56,279
Speaker 1: always take him last Sunrise. Is that his real name? Colin?

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00:35:56,360 --> 00:35:58,080
Speaker 1: Check and see if that's that guy's real name. We

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Speaker 1: appreciate you guys being tuned in. Live viewership is about

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00:36:01,480 --> 00:36:03,920
Speaker 1: to be incentivized around here. I can't tell you unto

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Speaker 1: August what it is. Keep watching live, but I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: have some stuff for you in August. I'm very excited

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Speaker 1: about it. I've always wanted to do what I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: be able to do in August. So stay tuned. First

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Speaker 1: sip of the Night from the Challice thirty six minutes

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Speaker 1: into the show. You want to do some bold predictions. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I do too. Bold predictions are on chapter twenty one tonight.

739
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Speaker 1: These are the things you believe so much so that

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Speaker 1: you went to all the trouble of sending them to me.

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Speaker 1: First up, Oh I love this one, man, this one.

742
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Speaker 1: We got to take some time on. How familiar are

743
00:36:39,400 --> 00:36:43,240
Speaker 1: you with the SEC West? So Lucas is from Auburn, Georgia.

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00:36:43,480 --> 00:36:48,160
Speaker 1: He says Mississippi State finishes fourth or better in the

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Speaker 1: SEC West, fourth or better. Now I have found, and

746
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Speaker 1: I do some radio in Jackson, I have found that

747
00:36:56,120 --> 00:37:01,320
Speaker 1: Mississippi State is the classic convo booby trap team, because

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Speaker 1: anytime you're talking about them, especially if you know the SEC,

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00:37:05,160 --> 00:37:08,839
Speaker 1: you're very tempted to say Mississippi State is a sleeper team.

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Speaker 1: And they are. But the problem is anyone worth their

751
00:37:13,960 --> 00:37:17,160
Speaker 1: salt who's ever been on the debate stage is going

752
00:37:17,239 --> 00:37:18,600
Speaker 1: to come back and say all right, well who are

753
00:37:18,600 --> 00:37:22,719
Speaker 1: they finishing in front of? And you just sit there

754
00:37:23,480 --> 00:37:27,239
Speaker 1: because you know, if you know the SEC West, there

755
00:37:27,280 --> 00:37:30,520
Speaker 1: are several teams here that could finish anywhere from two

756
00:37:30,600 --> 00:37:33,080
Speaker 1: to seven because there's a lot of there are a

757
00:37:33,080 --> 00:37:35,880
Speaker 1: lot of competitive balance past the surface, I guess is

758
00:37:35,920 --> 00:37:38,360
Speaker 1: the best way to say that. And look, Alabama and

759
00:37:38,520 --> 00:37:42,399
Speaker 1: LSU aren't immune to being clipped this year either. They

760
00:37:42,480 --> 00:37:44,920
Speaker 1: got a roster full of guys who have played a

761
00:37:44,960 --> 00:37:47,880
Speaker 1: lot of football. Mississippi State has a roster full of

762
00:37:47,920 --> 00:37:50,520
Speaker 1: grown men. And if you don't believe me, or you

763
00:37:50,560 --> 00:37:54,359
Speaker 1: think that's just an old Mississippi cliche, let me read

764
00:37:54,400 --> 00:38:03,280
Speaker 1: you their projected starting defense right now. Senior, senior, senior, senior, senior, senior, senior, senior, senior, junior, junior.

765
00:38:04,400 --> 00:38:08,440
Speaker 1: It gets better on offense, kids on offense. Projected starters

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00:38:08,480 --> 00:38:15,560
Speaker 1: from Mississippi State this year senior, senior, senior, senior, senior, senior, senior, senior, senior, senior, junior,

767
00:38:16,560 --> 00:38:19,520
Speaker 1: nineteen of they're projected twenty two starters or seniors. They've

768
00:38:19,560 --> 00:38:22,480
Speaker 1: been around forever. This is like Brigham Young, only they

769
00:38:22,480 --> 00:38:24,759
Speaker 1: haven't gone on the mission, but they've got all the

770
00:38:24,800 --> 00:38:26,600
Speaker 1: age about him. It's like a bunch of Sean Clifford's

771
00:38:26,640 --> 00:38:29,080
Speaker 1: running around out there with about four more inches and

772
00:38:29,120 --> 00:38:31,959
Speaker 1: about thirty forty more pounds on him and can run

773
00:38:32,000 --> 00:38:34,040
Speaker 1: a tenth of a second or two slower or faster

774
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Speaker 1: in the forty. That's the kind of team that exceeds expectation,

775
00:38:39,120 --> 00:38:43,400
Speaker 1: especially when one of those returning veterans is Will Rogers,

776
00:38:43,400 --> 00:38:45,800
Speaker 1: who has already set a bunch of records passing in

777
00:38:45,880 --> 00:38:50,440
Speaker 1: the SEC and he's got another year to play. So

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Speaker 1: Mississippi State finishing fourth or better, I'm calling this an

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00:38:54,560 --> 00:38:59,879
Speaker 1: eight on the boldness scale. I don't think it's incredibly bold.

780
00:39:00,680 --> 00:39:03,719
Speaker 1: I think it could actually happen. So the question is

781
00:39:03,760 --> 00:39:05,759
Speaker 1: who would they finish in front of, because you got

782
00:39:05,800 --> 00:39:07,960
Speaker 1: to pick three of them that they finish in front of.

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00:39:08,560 --> 00:39:10,560
Speaker 1: I could see him finishing in front of Ole miss

784
00:39:10,680 --> 00:39:12,880
Speaker 1: I could see him finishing in front of Arkansas. I

785
00:39:12,920 --> 00:39:15,120
Speaker 1: could see him finishing in front of Auburn. This is

786
00:39:15,200 --> 00:39:18,239
Speaker 1: certainly not our official prediction show, so don't quote me

787
00:39:18,280 --> 00:39:21,600
Speaker 1: on this, please, But if you were telling me you

788
00:39:21,600 --> 00:39:24,000
Speaker 1: see a world where that happens, I do too. I

789
00:39:24,000 --> 00:39:27,680
Speaker 1: also see that world, and so Mississippi State is a

790
00:39:27,680 --> 00:39:29,799
Speaker 1: team We're not done talking about We're just done talking

791
00:39:29,800 --> 00:39:33,479
Speaker 1: about him tonight. Next up, this is a really really

792
00:39:33,520 --> 00:39:36,200
Speaker 1: well worded bold prediction here. All of them are good.

793
00:39:36,239 --> 00:39:40,080
Speaker 1: Tonight Jr. Said, a Big ten player wins the Heisman,

794
00:39:40,600 --> 00:39:42,560
Speaker 1: where does your mind immediately go? By the way, if

795
00:39:42,600 --> 00:39:44,799
Speaker 1: you're locked in on the odds market, where does your

796
00:39:44,840 --> 00:39:48,440
Speaker 1: mind go? Mine went to Marvin Harrison Junior. You know,

797
00:39:48,480 --> 00:39:50,680
Speaker 1: by the way, when that hit happened in the Georgia game,

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00:39:51,160 --> 00:39:54,600
Speaker 1: I'm standing right there. I saw that replay the other day,

799
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Speaker 1: and I had forgotten I was close enough to feel

800
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Speaker 1: the concussion of the impact off of that. And I

801
00:39:59,400 --> 00:40:02,640
Speaker 1: don't mean can cushion as in what you get via

802
00:40:02,760 --> 00:40:04,640
Speaker 1: head injury. I mean if you're close enough to a

803
00:40:04,640 --> 00:40:07,520
Speaker 1: big hit, it's like a shotgun blast. And I get

804
00:40:07,520 --> 00:40:09,080
Speaker 1: to be on the sideline a lot, so I feel

805
00:40:09,120 --> 00:40:12,560
Speaker 1: him sometimes, and there was one off that hit brutal.

806
00:40:13,640 --> 00:40:17,120
Speaker 1: He's back this year. Marvin Harrison Junior would actually be

807
00:40:17,200 --> 00:40:18,960
Speaker 1: the guy I think wins it out of the Big

808
00:40:19,040 --> 00:40:21,520
Speaker 1: ten if a Big ten player wins it. Now I

809
00:40:21,520 --> 00:40:24,920
Speaker 1: know JJ McCarthy has better odds. I could just never

810
00:40:24,920 --> 00:40:28,920
Speaker 1: see Michigan implementing a style of play that is conducive

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Speaker 1: to him putting up Caleb Williams passing numbers, nor do

812
00:40:32,040 --> 00:40:35,520
Speaker 1: they need to, so that's not a slight against them.

813
00:40:35,800 --> 00:40:38,440
Speaker 1: So I think it'd be marvh and then behind him.

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00:40:38,600 --> 00:40:40,799
Speaker 1: I could see a year where Blake Korum. You know,

815
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Speaker 1: let's just say we don't want this to happen, but

816
00:40:43,960 --> 00:40:46,960
Speaker 1: let's say Donovan Edwards was slowed for some reason and

817
00:40:47,000 --> 00:40:49,920
Speaker 1: it shifted a bulk of the carries to Blake Coorum

818
00:40:49,920 --> 00:40:53,200
Speaker 1: instead of them splitting at sixty forty. I could see

819
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Speaker 1: him rocketing up the Heisman board there. But if it happens,

820
00:40:58,120 --> 00:41:00,680
Speaker 1: I think it would be Marvin Harrison that does it.

821
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Speaker 1: I think it's an eight point seventy five on the

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Speaker 1: boldness scale that a big ten player wins the Heisman,

823
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Speaker 1: because we all know you got to overcome Caleb Williams

824
00:41:09,000 --> 00:41:11,000
Speaker 1: out there. Quite frankly, you got to overcome a number

825
00:41:11,000 --> 00:41:13,320
Speaker 1: of quarterbacks you got made down there at North Carolina.

826
00:41:13,640 --> 00:41:15,919
Speaker 1: I'm a big bow Knicks guy this year, as you'll

827
00:41:15,960 --> 00:41:19,239
Speaker 1: see down the road. And that's not all of it.

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Speaker 1: I didn't mention Quinn yours at Texas. I don't know

829
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Speaker 1: if you've heard, but they're back this year. So that's

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00:41:24,600 --> 00:41:27,759
Speaker 1: a good one. Now, this next one's even better, and

831
00:41:27,840 --> 00:41:30,120
Speaker 1: this next one, I'll just get the rating out of

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00:41:30,200 --> 00:41:32,279
Speaker 1: the way. This is a nine point twenty five on

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00:41:32,320 --> 00:41:35,480
Speaker 1: my boldness scale, but I love it. Jordan. Jordan said

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Speaker 1: UCF will have the best record of all the Florida

835
00:41:39,120 --> 00:41:42,839
Speaker 1: Power five teams this year? Will they? Now? Will they?

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00:41:42,920 --> 00:41:45,759
Speaker 1: That's from Saint Cloud, Florida. By the way. Uh, this

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00:41:46,200 --> 00:41:49,520
Speaker 1: this is a quintessential bold prediction dish right here is

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00:41:49,520 --> 00:41:51,520
Speaker 1: how I wish they were all worded. So here's what

839
00:41:51,560 --> 00:41:53,640
Speaker 1: the odds market says. All right, So for those of

840
00:41:53,640 --> 00:41:56,080
Speaker 1: you not keeping track at home, by the way, Central

841
00:41:56,080 --> 00:41:58,080
Speaker 1: Florida's in the Big twelve. Now, so they're a Power

842
00:41:58,120 --> 00:42:00,720
Speaker 1: five team. Okay, So Florida State's got an over underwin

843
00:42:00,760 --> 00:42:03,000
Speaker 1: total of nine and a half, Miami is seven and

844
00:42:03,040 --> 00:42:07,080
Speaker 1: a half, UCF is seven, and Florida's five and a half.

845
00:42:08,480 --> 00:42:11,319
Speaker 1: And he's telling me Central Florida has more wins than

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00:42:11,360 --> 00:42:14,400
Speaker 1: any of them. My best guess here is what you

847
00:42:14,520 --> 00:42:17,440
Speaker 1: have to have is Florida State hit their under and

848
00:42:17,520 --> 00:42:21,040
Speaker 1: probably win eight games. You probably can't have them winning

849
00:42:21,080 --> 00:42:24,120
Speaker 1: more than eight games, because I think the best I

850
00:42:24,160 --> 00:42:27,560
Speaker 1: don't want to short change gusmus On, but I think

851
00:42:27,600 --> 00:42:30,239
Speaker 1: the best you could reasonably hope to do if you

852
00:42:30,400 --> 00:42:33,640
Speaker 1: overachieve or exceed expectation this year, if your UCF is

853
00:42:33,680 --> 00:42:37,080
Speaker 1: you win nine games. Because you're joining a Power five conference.

854
00:42:37,440 --> 00:42:39,200
Speaker 1: And I know that you guys out there, some of

855
00:42:39,200 --> 00:42:41,759
Speaker 1: you don't think all that highly of the Big twelve,

856
00:42:41,880 --> 00:42:45,200
Speaker 1: the caliber of athlete on the line of scrimmage week

857
00:42:45,239 --> 00:42:48,400
Speaker 1: over week continues to be at a little bit higher

858
00:42:48,480 --> 00:42:51,320
Speaker 1: level than what you played in a G five conference,

859
00:42:51,360 --> 00:42:54,000
Speaker 1: and it takes its toll. It takes its toll on

860
00:42:54,080 --> 00:42:57,080
Speaker 1: random Saturdays. Sometimes you're even favored in the games and

861
00:42:57,120 --> 00:42:59,440
Speaker 1: all of a sudden you just get blown off the

862
00:42:59,440 --> 00:43:02,399
Speaker 1: ball and you have no idea what's happening. Well, what's

863
00:43:02,400 --> 00:43:06,239
Speaker 1: happening is the cumulative effect of playing bigger, stronger, faster

864
00:43:06,360 --> 00:43:09,200
Speaker 1: players on the lines of scrimmage. You didn't used to

865
00:43:09,239 --> 00:43:11,799
Speaker 1: face that you hadn't recruited to play it, and now

866
00:43:11,800 --> 00:43:13,759
Speaker 1: you got to play it. So nine wins would be

867
00:43:13,800 --> 00:43:15,520
Speaker 1: a really good year for him this year. So you

868
00:43:15,600 --> 00:43:19,160
Speaker 1: probably need Miami to just be seven wins or no better.

869
00:43:19,480 --> 00:43:21,600
Speaker 1: You probably need Florida State. That's the one that could

870
00:43:21,600 --> 00:43:23,240
Speaker 1: get in your way, you need them to be around

871
00:43:23,239 --> 00:43:27,200
Speaker 1: eight wins. I think they could see a nine win season.

872
00:43:27,320 --> 00:43:30,440
Speaker 1: They could, And then Florida. I mean. The reason I'm

873
00:43:30,480 --> 00:43:33,520
Speaker 1: not mentioning them well, obviously if you watch the show

874
00:43:33,600 --> 00:43:35,480
Speaker 1: or you read the comments, it's because I hate Florida

875
00:43:35,840 --> 00:43:39,080
Speaker 1: more realistically though, it's just because their win totals five

876
00:43:39,120 --> 00:43:40,719
Speaker 1: and a half. So they would be the third team

877
00:43:40,719 --> 00:43:43,600
Speaker 1: that I would mention in this scenario, good for Florida.

878
00:43:43,719 --> 00:43:45,400
Speaker 1: If they're up there have been nine to ten wins,

879
00:43:45,480 --> 00:43:47,719
Speaker 1: Good for Florida. I would put like an l of

880
00:43:47,760 --> 00:43:51,040
Speaker 1: shame on my forehead and happily painted orange and blue,

881
00:43:51,080 --> 00:43:53,319
Speaker 1: blue and orange, whichever color combo you guys want. If

882
00:43:53,320 --> 00:43:56,360
Speaker 1: Florida won nine or ten games, go ahead and bookmarkt

883
00:43:56,360 --> 00:43:59,239
Speaker 1: go ahead and clip it. I don't care. This is

884
00:43:59,239 --> 00:44:02,759
Speaker 1: a nine point two fo though. Tough task, not impossible,

885
00:44:02,800 --> 00:44:08,759
Speaker 1: pretty tough task. Last up, Ghost from Pleasant Grove, Utah said,

886
00:44:08,800 --> 00:44:13,160
Speaker 1: the state of Oregon will produce a college football playoff team,

887
00:44:13,760 --> 00:44:16,400
Speaker 1: which I think the sport is ready for. And you

888
00:44:16,520 --> 00:44:21,560
Speaker 1: got two shots out there, and Oregon State has the

889
00:44:22,040 --> 00:44:24,440
Speaker 1: let's see, I'm gonna get it right. So Oregon's got

890
00:44:24,440 --> 00:44:26,760
Speaker 1: the twelfth best odds to make the playoff in the country.

891
00:44:27,360 --> 00:44:30,600
Speaker 1: Oregon State has the twenty second best odds to make

892
00:44:30,600 --> 00:44:34,240
Speaker 1: the playoff in the country, so it's not crazy, especially

893
00:44:34,239 --> 00:44:37,640
Speaker 1: with Oregon not crazy top twelve. Hey, you know that

894
00:44:37,840 --> 00:44:39,799
Speaker 1: would be good to make the playoff next year, I guess.

895
00:44:40,680 --> 00:44:44,600
Speaker 1: Can you imagine the Civil War which they changed the

896
00:44:44,680 --> 00:44:47,560
Speaker 1: name of for ridiculous purposes up there, but I'm still

897
00:44:47,560 --> 00:44:50,000
Speaker 1: calling it the Civil War? Can you imagine the Civil War,

898
00:44:50,080 --> 00:44:53,279
Speaker 1: which is their rivalry game the last week of the

899
00:44:53,320 --> 00:44:57,040
Speaker 1: season on a Friday, no less, if this were on

900
00:44:57,160 --> 00:44:59,000
Speaker 1: the line. Now here's the other thing I want to

901
00:44:59,040 --> 00:45:02,520
Speaker 1: know in this scenario. Are both of them good? Like?

902
00:45:02,560 --> 00:45:04,879
Speaker 1: Are both of them up there ten wins, eleven wins

903
00:45:04,920 --> 00:45:06,799
Speaker 1: and they're playing for a shot in the PAC twelve

904
00:45:06,840 --> 00:45:10,319
Speaker 1: championship game? Or is it Oregon flying high and Oregon

905
00:45:10,400 --> 00:45:12,879
Speaker 1: State is looking to play spoiler or vice versa. Man,

906
00:45:12,920 --> 00:45:14,480
Speaker 1: if you could give me that, if you could give

907
00:45:14,520 --> 00:45:16,839
Speaker 1: me both of them with one or fewer losses going

908
00:45:16,840 --> 00:45:20,239
Speaker 1: into the Civil War game number one must see TV

909
00:45:20,719 --> 00:45:24,439
Speaker 1: number two. Remember how the PAC twelve is structured. Now

910
00:45:25,120 --> 00:45:27,879
Speaker 1: you just take the best two teams. So everyone's out

911
00:45:27,880 --> 00:45:30,400
Speaker 1: here talking about in the future what happens if Michigan

912
00:45:30,480 --> 00:45:34,240
Speaker 1: and Ohio State have to play two weeks in a row. Hey, friends,

913
00:45:34,640 --> 00:45:37,600
Speaker 1: what if Oregon and Oregon State do it this year? Hm?

914
00:45:38,280 --> 00:45:41,239
Speaker 1: What happens there? Well, what happens is they go do

915
00:45:41,280 --> 00:45:42,920
Speaker 1: it again? They just do it in Las Vegas. But

916
00:45:43,280 --> 00:45:47,600
Speaker 1: in the meantime, what has dj Uleiangola lay gotten himself

917
00:45:47,600 --> 00:45:49,839
Speaker 1: into if this comes to fruition this year? What has

918
00:45:49,920 --> 00:45:53,080
Speaker 1: our guy, our quarterback bo Nicks had an offer from

919
00:45:53,120 --> 00:45:57,480
Speaker 1: Peate State chose to go elsewhere? No hard feelings could

920
00:45:57,560 --> 00:45:59,279
Speaker 1: be real fun. Now, what is the rating on this?

921
00:45:59,400 --> 00:46:01,920
Speaker 1: It's a nine. It's a nine only because it's hard

922
00:46:01,960 --> 00:46:04,279
Speaker 1: to make the playoff and neither one of these are

923
00:46:04,320 --> 00:46:07,799
Speaker 1: top ten odds teams. But I'll tell you this is

924
00:46:07,840 --> 00:46:10,960
Speaker 1: a very very big sneak peek. So I'm not ready

925
00:46:10,960 --> 00:46:14,720
Speaker 1: to pull the curtain up yet. But the model spat

926
00:46:14,760 --> 00:46:20,600
Speaker 1: out some early data. Yes it did, and the model

927
00:46:21,440 --> 00:46:25,600
Speaker 1: is very high on a team. And that team is

928
00:46:26,560 --> 00:46:30,280
Speaker 1: one that we just talked about. And the colors include

929
00:46:30,480 --> 00:46:33,480
Speaker 1: yellow and green. I don't want to get too specific

930
00:46:33,520 --> 00:46:37,800
Speaker 1: and give it away. The model thinks that the model

931
00:46:37,800 --> 00:46:40,719
Speaker 1: looks at Oregon as the Texas of the Pacific Northwest

932
00:46:40,760 --> 00:46:42,680
Speaker 1: this year. I'll just put it to you like that.

933
00:46:43,200 --> 00:46:45,480
Speaker 1: So the Model thinks that they could probably compete in

934
00:46:45,520 --> 00:46:48,279
Speaker 1: the AFC West this year. So if you're a fan

935
00:46:48,320 --> 00:46:49,879
Speaker 1: of the Model, it's going to be a good year

936
00:46:49,880 --> 00:46:52,200
Speaker 1: for Oregon. I'm not putting the number out there quite yet.

937
00:46:53,680 --> 00:46:56,880
Speaker 1: Let's move it on. Love the live viewership we have tonight.

938
00:46:56,920 --> 00:46:58,880
Speaker 1: You know, by the way, I don't know if I

939
00:46:58,960 --> 00:47:01,200
Speaker 1: told you this job was going to big ten media

940
00:47:01,239 --> 00:47:03,080
Speaker 1: days this week, but we're gonna have a live show

941
00:47:03,120 --> 00:47:07,279
Speaker 1: from Indianapolis Thursday, and we're gonna have coaches on the

942
00:47:07,320 --> 00:47:10,239
Speaker 1: show this week. And I have not seen who we

943
00:47:10,320 --> 00:47:14,799
Speaker 1: have yet, but it could be very fun, could be

944
00:47:14,920 --> 00:47:17,400
Speaker 1: very fun. I'm talking about Past the Top Layer, Like

945
00:47:17,400 --> 00:47:20,920
Speaker 1: everyone knows day Harball Franklin. But Past the Top Layer.

946
00:47:21,040 --> 00:47:22,799
Speaker 1: Are we gonna have mel Tucker on the show? We

947
00:47:22,920 --> 00:47:24,799
Speaker 1: have Kirk Ferns on the show? PJ Flack, Like, are

948
00:47:24,800 --> 00:47:26,480
Speaker 1: we gonna have those guys on the show? I literally

949
00:47:26,520 --> 00:47:28,480
Speaker 1: don't know. I just know it's a two day affair

950
00:47:28,480 --> 00:47:30,640
Speaker 1: instead of a four day affair, and for that I

951
00:47:30,640 --> 00:47:34,279
Speaker 1: am thankful. But it's not in Nashville, and for that,

952
00:47:34,680 --> 00:47:36,839
Speaker 1: I say, bring on Indianapolis because the last two times

953
00:47:36,880 --> 00:47:38,840
Speaker 1: I went up there, I loved it. The ers a

954
00:47:39,080 --> 00:47:42,480
Speaker 1: Ymca right there in the downtown area. I look forward

955
00:47:42,520 --> 00:47:44,439
Speaker 1: to the Gems by the way everyone else looks forward

956
00:47:44,480 --> 00:47:46,920
Speaker 1: to the bar scene. I couldn't care less about it.

957
00:47:47,239 --> 00:47:50,000
Speaker 1: You give me Saint Elmo's, you give me Prime, and

958
00:47:50,040 --> 00:47:53,600
Speaker 1: you give me the ursa Ymca, and I'm fine, let

959
00:47:53,640 --> 00:47:55,160
Speaker 1: me get one more sip of the chalice. It's time

960
00:47:55,160 --> 00:47:56,960
Speaker 1: to spotlight a team that I wanted to get to

961
00:47:57,000 --> 00:48:03,000
Speaker 1: like three weeks ago, and stuff kept coming up. Who

962
00:48:03,000 --> 00:48:04,239
Speaker 1: do you think it is? I think I already gave

963
00:48:04,280 --> 00:48:07,800
Speaker 1: it away. South Carolina is a team I want to

964
00:48:07,800 --> 00:48:11,320
Speaker 1: spotlight here our own little mini preview magazine. Biggest questions

965
00:48:11,760 --> 00:48:15,400
Speaker 1: the position group I think is the best, also breakout player,

966
00:48:16,200 --> 00:48:19,439
Speaker 1: and the schedule. The biggest question with this team for

967
00:48:19,560 --> 00:48:22,960
Speaker 1: me is actually run defense. Oh they've been bad, and

968
00:48:23,000 --> 00:48:25,520
Speaker 1: they've been bad for a while there, and you cannot

969
00:48:25,600 --> 00:48:27,960
Speaker 1: continue to elevate if you don't get better. Here I

970
00:48:28,000 --> 00:48:30,080
Speaker 1: was reading, I can't remember which magazine it was. I

971
00:48:30,080 --> 00:48:33,239
Speaker 1: actually got a magazine in the office. Now, they've been

972
00:48:33,239 --> 00:48:35,640
Speaker 1: in the bottom third of the SEC for several years.

973
00:48:35,840 --> 00:48:37,799
Speaker 1: I knew it was bad statistically, I didn't know it

974
00:48:37,840 --> 00:48:40,200
Speaker 1: was that bad. They just get blown off the ball man,

975
00:48:40,400 --> 00:48:43,440
Speaker 1: Like they cannot get off the field. They cannot therefore

976
00:48:43,480 --> 00:48:45,800
Speaker 1: control games. If you cannot stop the run, you cannot

977
00:48:45,840 --> 00:48:48,120
Speaker 1: control games. That's the long and short of it. So

978
00:48:48,120 --> 00:48:50,719
Speaker 1: they got to get better there. And there's really no

979
00:48:50,840 --> 00:48:54,720
Speaker 1: way even for South Carolina fans that I've talked to,

980
00:48:54,719 --> 00:48:56,640
Speaker 1: to fully gauge how good they're going to because there's

981
00:48:56,640 --> 00:48:59,719
Speaker 1: so many new pieces, Like you're hopeful your glass half

982
00:48:59,760 --> 00:49:01,719
Speaker 1: full every one of them. But it's not like you

983
00:49:01,719 --> 00:49:04,239
Speaker 1: have your entire front seven returning, or or you got

984
00:49:04,239 --> 00:49:07,239
Speaker 1: four veterans along the defensive front. It's a bunch of

985
00:49:07,280 --> 00:49:09,719
Speaker 1: guys that are going to be wearing your jersey this year,

986
00:49:09,840 --> 00:49:12,040
Speaker 1: so you'll cheer him on. You don't have any idea

987
00:49:12,320 --> 00:49:15,640
Speaker 1: how they're going to perform. That's part one, Part two.

988
00:49:16,280 --> 00:49:18,359
Speaker 1: Now I want to hit the rewind button right quick,

989
00:49:18,520 --> 00:49:20,319
Speaker 1: and I want you to go back with me to

990
00:49:20,400 --> 00:49:24,160
Speaker 1: the Florida game last year. Zero offensive points. Then the

991
00:49:24,200 --> 00:49:27,520
Speaker 1: next week they hang sixty plus on Tennessee, and then

992
00:49:27,560 --> 00:49:29,799
Speaker 1: they scored a lot on Notre Dame in the bowl game,

993
00:49:29,840 --> 00:49:31,839
Speaker 1: and they, by the way, they beat Clemson too. Let's

994
00:49:31,840 --> 00:49:35,200
Speaker 1: not overlook that the offense just completely looked different night

995
00:49:35,239 --> 00:49:40,240
Speaker 1: and day different. We had Spencer Rattler in our CBS

996
00:49:40,360 --> 00:49:43,839
Speaker 1: room at SEC Media Days, and Dennis was the one

997
00:49:43,840 --> 00:49:46,160
Speaker 1: talking to him. Uncle Dennis to me, Dennis Dodd to you,

998
00:49:46,719 --> 00:49:50,640
Speaker 1: and Spencer Rattler in a very diplomatic way, said what

999
00:49:50,719 --> 00:49:53,879
Speaker 1: a lot of people know, and that is play calling

1000
00:49:53,960 --> 00:49:57,600
Speaker 1: duties changed between that Florida game and that Tennessee game.

1001
00:49:58,040 --> 00:50:00,759
Speaker 1: Now how he phrased it is, well, we had too

1002
00:50:00,760 --> 00:50:03,800
Speaker 1: many looks, too many different shifts, too many different formations.

1003
00:50:03,840 --> 00:50:06,200
Speaker 1: We filtered it out, we simplified it. Yeah, they did

1004
00:50:06,239 --> 00:50:08,359
Speaker 1: all that. They did all that, and then it came

1005
00:50:08,360 --> 00:50:10,719
Speaker 1: out of a different mouth the next week too. Now

1006
00:50:10,760 --> 00:50:14,279
Speaker 1: that's great short term, but then long term, you get

1007
00:50:14,280 --> 00:50:16,960
Speaker 1: to the end of the year and instead of celebrating

1008
00:50:16,960 --> 00:50:19,120
Speaker 1: an off season like casuals would do, you say, we

1009
00:50:19,120 --> 00:50:21,200
Speaker 1: got to go hire an offense coordinator, And they went

1010
00:50:21,239 --> 00:50:23,520
Speaker 1: and hired Dowa Logans. You see him on the screen

1011
00:50:23,600 --> 00:50:27,680
Speaker 1: right now. He came from Arkansas. And you know, you

1012
00:50:27,719 --> 00:50:29,960
Speaker 1: can talk all you want about pro style, balanced approach

1013
00:50:29,960 --> 00:50:32,400
Speaker 1: and everything like that. You've got a really good quarterback

1014
00:50:32,400 --> 00:50:35,560
Speaker 1: there in Spencer Ratler, you probably have an underrated wide

1015
00:50:35,560 --> 00:50:38,280
Speaker 1: receiver room, got a really underrated tight end room. Nationally,

1016
00:50:39,480 --> 00:50:42,000
Speaker 1: I have no clue whether they're going to be whether

1017
00:50:42,040 --> 00:50:44,000
Speaker 1: they'll be able to run the ball effectively enough to

1018
00:50:44,280 --> 00:50:49,439
Speaker 1: call themselves balanced. Stopping the run, running the ball pe

1019
00:50:49,440 --> 00:50:51,200
Speaker 1: Paul would tell you, and I don't really care if

1020
00:50:51,239 --> 00:50:53,040
Speaker 1: it's your Pee Paul or mine. You got to be

1021
00:50:53,040 --> 00:50:55,040
Speaker 1: able to do those things to win football games in

1022
00:50:55,200 --> 00:50:59,399
Speaker 1: any conference, especially the SEC. And the fact that those

1023
00:50:59,400 --> 00:51:01,960
Speaker 1: are two big questions for this team right now. It

1024
00:51:02,000 --> 00:51:06,640
Speaker 1: doesn't mean red flag, It just means red sharpie circle

1025
00:51:06,880 --> 00:51:10,640
Speaker 1: those portions. Because my second question is was the late

1026
00:51:10,760 --> 00:51:15,799
Speaker 1: twenty twenty two offensive explosion just a mirage or is

1027
00:51:15,800 --> 00:51:18,400
Speaker 1: that legitimately what I could expect from them this fall.

1028
00:51:18,520 --> 00:51:24,080
Speaker 1: Third question, this is pretty pretty overarching big question for

1029
00:51:24,120 --> 00:51:27,000
Speaker 1: South Carolina right now. Is good enough enough for you?

1030
00:51:27,600 --> 00:51:30,720
Speaker 1: So shows like this we'll patch you on the head

1031
00:51:30,920 --> 00:51:33,480
Speaker 1: because you won seven games and you won eight games,

1032
00:51:33,640 --> 00:51:36,000
Speaker 1: but that's just because you did more than people expected

1033
00:51:36,040 --> 00:51:38,239
Speaker 1: from you. That should never be your standard. Should piss

1034
00:51:38,239 --> 00:51:40,680
Speaker 1: you off a little bit. Actually, when people are satisfied

1035
00:51:40,880 --> 00:51:43,400
Speaker 1: and happy that you won eight games because you shouldn't

1036
00:51:43,440 --> 00:51:45,399
Speaker 1: look at yourself that way. You shouldn't say they don't

1037
00:51:45,400 --> 00:51:47,520
Speaker 1: expect as much from us as they do from Georgia.

1038
00:51:47,600 --> 00:51:50,040
Speaker 1: So eight wins is okay here, good enough is enough?

1039
00:51:50,840 --> 00:51:54,440
Speaker 1: That is a cancerous mentality. Good enough is never enough.

1040
00:51:55,000 --> 00:51:58,760
Speaker 1: South Carolina's been good enough. They play a nightmarishly difficult

1041
00:51:58,760 --> 00:52:01,600
Speaker 1: schedule every year, and so I will continue to sit

1042
00:52:01,640 --> 00:52:04,239
Speaker 1: here because I don't coach there, or play there or

1043
00:52:04,280 --> 00:52:07,160
Speaker 1: work there. I will tell you eight wins was phenomenal

1044
00:52:07,239 --> 00:52:09,920
Speaker 1: last year. But man, you better not be thinking that.

1045
00:52:09,920 --> 00:52:12,120
Speaker 1: If you're Trey Knox, I mean, you better not be

1046
00:52:12,160 --> 00:52:14,479
Speaker 1: thinking that. If you're I mean, if you're a Xavier Legged,

1047
00:52:14,600 --> 00:52:16,799
Speaker 1: if you're Shane Beember, you better not be thinking that.

1048
00:52:17,680 --> 00:52:20,640
Speaker 1: And it permeates because this is the second year in

1049
00:52:20,680 --> 00:52:23,279
Speaker 1: a row now where there's a lot of hype around

1050
00:52:23,320 --> 00:52:25,759
Speaker 1: the program, which there always should be, but it's the

1051
00:52:25,760 --> 00:52:27,040
Speaker 1: second you're in a row where you had a little

1052
00:52:27,040 --> 00:52:30,000
Speaker 1: bit of overachievement, and if you don't make sure that

1053
00:52:30,160 --> 00:52:33,080
Speaker 1: you lock the door behind you, some of those accolades

1054
00:52:33,280 --> 00:52:36,600
Speaker 1: spill into the psyche of the team. I think they're

1055
00:52:36,680 --> 00:52:38,960
Speaker 1: very good at guarding against this, So I'm not telling

1056
00:52:38,960 --> 00:52:41,040
Speaker 1: you this is a big concern of mine. I'm just

1057
00:52:41,239 --> 00:52:44,760
Speaker 1: I'm questioning openly, which is what we do in July.

1058
00:52:45,360 --> 00:52:47,840
Speaker 1: I wonder if good enough is enough over there? You

1059
00:52:48,000 --> 00:52:50,919
Speaker 1: kind of crest and all right, we'll fly here. We'll

1060
00:52:50,960 --> 00:52:53,640
Speaker 1: be happy to fly here. Don't fly there, man, like

1061
00:52:53,680 --> 00:52:56,479
Speaker 1: go ruin people's parties. That's what you should be doing,

1062
00:52:56,719 --> 00:53:01,200
Speaker 1: the breakout player. Actually, let's do position group first. I

1063
00:53:01,280 --> 00:53:03,719
Speaker 1: was over on the Big Spur today, which is the

1064
00:53:03,800 --> 00:53:06,400
Speaker 1: premier South Carolina fan side on the internet. For my money,

1065
00:53:06,880 --> 00:53:08,480
Speaker 1: even though I don't have to pay because I work here,

1066
00:53:08,480 --> 00:53:10,560
Speaker 1: but I would. I used to pay before I worked here.

1067
00:53:11,239 --> 00:53:13,920
Speaker 1: I think safety or wide receiver. I was talking to

1068
00:53:13,920 --> 00:53:15,600
Speaker 1: the folks over there on the board. I think safety

1069
00:53:15,680 --> 00:53:18,960
Speaker 1: or wide receiver is probably the best position group here.

1070
00:53:19,000 --> 00:53:21,840
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go defensive back though, because I wanted to

1071
00:53:21,960 --> 00:53:23,680
Speaker 1: zoom it out a little bit, because I got four

1072
00:53:23,800 --> 00:53:28,359
Speaker 1: South Carolina Natives at safety in corner and specifically at

1073
00:53:28,400 --> 00:53:33,800
Speaker 1: safety DQ Smith. That's a good player, man, Nick. I'man

1074
00:53:33,840 --> 00:53:36,359
Speaker 1: Warri is a good player. And neither one of them

1075
00:53:36,360 --> 00:53:39,040
Speaker 1: are seniors. They both sophomores, but they both have starting

1076
00:53:39,080 --> 00:53:43,160
Speaker 1: experience and they're they're both capable of playing at all

1077
00:53:43,200 --> 00:53:46,160
Speaker 1: conference levels, and so that's on the back end, but

1078
00:53:46,280 --> 00:53:50,719
Speaker 1: also Marcella's dial O'Donnell fortune at corner. Those are all

1079
00:53:50,760 --> 00:53:53,560
Speaker 1: South Carolina guys, and I don't know how to quantify

1080
00:53:53,600 --> 00:53:55,839
Speaker 1: what that means. I don't know how valuable that is.

1081
00:53:56,360 --> 00:53:58,560
Speaker 1: I just know when you can get talented guys in

1082
00:53:58,600 --> 00:54:01,319
Speaker 1: that room, all in the same and they're all from

1083
00:54:01,400 --> 00:54:04,439
Speaker 1: the state in which they play, it's never a bad thing.

1084
00:54:04,800 --> 00:54:07,880
Speaker 1: Wide receiver. I could have also gone with here, but

1085
00:54:07,920 --> 00:54:09,960
Speaker 1: I'm going to go safety, zooming out a little bit

1086
00:54:10,000 --> 00:54:13,120
Speaker 1: and go defensive back because I wanted to save wide

1087
00:54:13,160 --> 00:54:17,360
Speaker 1: receiver for breakout player. I think Xavier Legate is in

1088
00:54:17,480 --> 00:54:19,839
Speaker 1: a good position to be a breakout player for them

1089
00:54:19,840 --> 00:54:22,279
Speaker 1: this year. You don't bother searching him on the stat sheet.

1090
00:54:22,320 --> 00:54:24,680
Speaker 1: You're not going to find him. He is not burst

1091
00:54:24,719 --> 00:54:27,320
Speaker 1: onto the radar screen in any shape, form or fashion.

1092
00:54:28,480 --> 00:54:30,640
Speaker 1: I think there is a lot of legitimacy to thinking

1093
00:54:30,680 --> 00:54:33,120
Speaker 1: they'll be more explosive this year. If that run game

1094
00:54:33,239 --> 00:54:35,279
Speaker 1: is average or worse, they'll obviously have to throw the

1095
00:54:35,280 --> 00:54:38,520
Speaker 1: ball a lot more, maybe even than they like. Defenses

1096
00:54:38,560 --> 00:54:41,760
Speaker 1: will key on Juice Wells. Juice Wells is a thousand

1097
00:54:41,840 --> 00:54:45,200
Speaker 1: plus yard Lock at receiver if he's healthy, and then

1098
00:54:45,239 --> 00:54:47,680
Speaker 1: I got this guy sitting behind him. They're good at

1099
00:54:47,719 --> 00:54:50,279
Speaker 1: tight end, they're deep at tight end, and you got

1100
00:54:50,360 --> 00:54:52,959
Speaker 1: Juice Wells. There is wide receiver one and Xavier legged

1101
00:54:53,160 --> 00:54:56,560
Speaker 1: is six three two twenty former four star guy in

1102
00:54:56,600 --> 00:54:58,800
Speaker 1: the twenty nineteen cycle. He's been around a long time,

1103
00:54:59,360 --> 00:55:02,640
Speaker 1: and if he's ever gonna pop, this is the Yeerie pops.

1104
00:55:02,880 --> 00:55:05,920
Speaker 1: I could go Trey Knots at tight end, but we've

1105
00:55:06,040 --> 00:55:08,280
Speaker 1: watched Trey Knocks do it before, just at a different

1106
00:55:08,280 --> 00:55:11,080
Speaker 1: program at Arkansas. I think Xavier Legg it's the guy

1107
00:55:11,080 --> 00:55:13,520
Speaker 1: that probably pops for them this year. The schedule is

1108
00:55:13,560 --> 00:55:17,200
Speaker 1: the schedule. There's no way to sugarcoat it. They play

1109
00:55:17,200 --> 00:55:19,680
Speaker 1: an SEC schedule and they play the number one to

1110
00:55:19,719 --> 00:55:23,040
Speaker 1: number three preseason teams from the ACC. It would be

1111
00:55:23,040 --> 00:55:26,480
Speaker 1: perfectly excusable if South Carolina just loaded up on creampuffs

1112
00:55:26,480 --> 00:55:29,160
Speaker 1: out of conference, but they don't. They play North Carolina

1113
00:55:29,239 --> 00:55:32,040
Speaker 1: right out of the gate in Charlotte, they go to Georgia.

1114
00:55:32,080 --> 00:55:34,360
Speaker 1: Two weeks later, they go to Tennessee two weeks after that.

1115
00:55:34,440 --> 00:55:37,279
Speaker 1: Do you realize they will have played in Athens and

1116
00:55:37,440 --> 00:55:42,640
Speaker 1: Knoxville before October? So you can get you some of that,

1117
00:55:43,360 --> 00:55:45,400
Speaker 1: but you can also rest assured at the end of

1118
00:55:45,400 --> 00:55:49,400
Speaker 1: the year that if you have made it even relatively unscathed,

1119
00:55:49,600 --> 00:55:52,920
Speaker 1: if you're just still on both legs, check out November

1120
00:55:53,600 --> 00:55:56,319
Speaker 1: if you're listening on podcasts, imagine a world where you

1121
00:55:56,360 --> 00:55:59,719
Speaker 1: never leave home in November. You play Jacksonville State at home,

1122
00:56:00,239 --> 00:56:03,920
Speaker 1: you play Vandy at home, you play Kentucky at home,

1123
00:56:04,560 --> 00:56:07,080
Speaker 1: and then Clemson has to come to you because you

1124
00:56:07,080 --> 00:56:08,600
Speaker 1: play them at home and you beat them in their

1125
00:56:08,600 --> 00:56:12,920
Speaker 1: building last year. How much can you make November matter?

1126
00:56:13,880 --> 00:56:15,680
Speaker 1: That's got to be what you're thinking about over there,

1127
00:56:15,800 --> 00:56:19,760
Speaker 1: because those are three what you would call very winnable games.

1128
00:56:20,000 --> 00:56:22,279
Speaker 1: And then you've got a rivalry game that anything can

1129
00:56:22,360 --> 00:56:25,399
Speaker 1: happen in because, as our folks on the solid verbal

1130
00:56:25,440 --> 00:56:27,719
Speaker 1: will always tell us, you throw the records out the

1131
00:56:27,719 --> 00:56:34,160
Speaker 1: window in a rivalry game. Always been a solid verbal guy.

1132
00:56:35,080 --> 00:56:40,320
Speaker 1: So yeah, Jacksonville State, Vandy, Kentucky, Clemson, nice November. You

1133
00:56:40,440 --> 00:56:42,440
Speaker 1: got to get there about five hundred to make it

1134
00:56:42,480 --> 00:56:45,799
Speaker 1: really really mean what it could mean. It's not an

1135
00:56:45,840 --> 00:56:48,800
Speaker 1: easy job, not an easy job, but they got the

1136
00:56:48,880 --> 00:56:50,479
Speaker 1: right guy. I talked to Shane Biemer for a little

1137
00:56:50,480 --> 00:56:52,759
Speaker 1: while over at Media Days the other day. Really really

1138
00:56:52,760 --> 00:56:54,760
Speaker 1: good dude. I think he's kind of like Mark Norvell.

1139
00:56:54,880 --> 00:56:57,239
Speaker 1: No one really dislikes Shane Biemer, or at least I

1140
00:56:57,320 --> 00:57:00,239
Speaker 1: haven't picked up on it. I don't know, I've I've

1141
00:57:00,280 --> 00:57:04,160
Speaker 1: had some people question the authenticity. But we see this sometimes,

1142
00:57:04,520 --> 00:57:07,560
Speaker 1: like when a guy is overly energetic, when he looks

1143
00:57:07,600 --> 00:57:10,360
Speaker 1: like he's just he just mainlining coffee right into his

1144
00:57:10,480 --> 00:57:13,680
Speaker 1: veins all the time. Some people think that's inauthentic. Scott Cochrane,

1145
00:57:13,960 --> 00:57:16,840
Speaker 1: former strength coach now tight end guy at Alabama. If

1146
00:57:16,840 --> 00:57:18,960
Speaker 1: you don't know, because you're not around those kind of people,

1147
00:57:19,240 --> 00:57:21,880
Speaker 1: you may think that's inauthentic. No, it's really them. They're

1148
00:57:21,920 --> 00:57:24,320
Speaker 1: just way different than you. That's why they have one

1149
00:57:24,360 --> 00:57:27,200
Speaker 1: percent jobs instead of ninety nine percent jobs, because it

1150
00:57:27,240 --> 00:57:29,120
Speaker 1: takes a one percenter to be the head coach of

1151
00:57:29,160 --> 00:57:31,800
Speaker 1: South Carolina. And so an outsider may look and say,

1152
00:57:32,080 --> 00:57:34,560
Speaker 1: it just doesn't seem authentic. He doesn't seem like your

1153
00:57:34,560 --> 00:57:37,840
Speaker 1: neighbor George, because he's not George. George would not be

1154
00:57:38,800 --> 00:57:42,480
Speaker 1: all due respect to George, great guy. George wouldn't be

1155
00:57:42,480 --> 00:57:45,920
Speaker 1: the head coach of a major college football program. So

1156
00:57:46,000 --> 00:57:47,640
Speaker 1: Shane Beemer is, and I'm glad he is because he's

1157
00:57:47,640 --> 00:57:52,600
Speaker 1: a really good dude. All Right, Bradley, I gotta tell you,

1158
00:57:52,600 --> 00:57:55,080
Speaker 1: you did not do bad tonight. You did not do

1159
00:57:55,120 --> 00:57:58,560
Speaker 1: bad at all. Producer Jesse is off in Albania, and

1160
00:57:58,640 --> 00:58:01,280
Speaker 1: that's not a joke. He's really an Albania had the

1161
00:58:01,320 --> 00:58:04,480
Speaker 1: audacity to take vacation on us for a good cause,

1162
00:58:04,680 --> 00:58:08,360
Speaker 1: but it's vacation nonetheless. And so Bradley the associate stepped

1163
00:58:08,440 --> 00:58:11,600
Speaker 1: up tonight and he produced a show. And I helped

1164
00:58:11,680 --> 00:58:13,880
Speaker 1: him a lot, but he produced the show and produced

1165
00:58:13,880 --> 00:58:17,080
Speaker 1: it admirably tonight. Bradley used to work at WLTZ down

1166
00:58:17,080 --> 00:58:19,919
Speaker 1: in Columbus when I was there, so Bradley has seen

1167
00:58:20,000 --> 00:58:22,280
Speaker 1: this show when we were happy to have twenty viewers.

1168
00:58:22,920 --> 00:58:25,480
Speaker 1: And now Bradley is up here in Nashville working for

1169
00:58:25,520 --> 00:58:29,240
Speaker 1: this show and actually got to produce one tonight. So

1170
00:58:29,320 --> 00:58:31,080
Speaker 1: do me a favor in clap for Bradley. We don't

1171
00:58:31,080 --> 00:58:34,120
Speaker 1: have a studio audience yet, but clap for Bradley and

1172
00:58:34,200 --> 00:58:37,520
Speaker 1: I'll do the same. There we go, Jesse, Yeah, go

1173
00:58:37,520 --> 00:58:39,000
Speaker 1: ahead and come back if you want, but I think

1174
00:58:39,000 --> 00:58:43,040
Speaker 1: we're good either way. So for temporary producer Bradley for

1175
00:58:43,120 --> 00:58:46,080
Speaker 1: director Colin. I'm Josh Pate. Thanks so much for watching

1176
00:58:46,160 --> 00:58:48,840
Speaker 1: us tonight. We got lake Kick Extra coming this way

1177
00:58:48,920 --> 00:58:51,960
Speaker 1: this week. We got lake Kick Lyve from Indianapolis on Thursday,

1178
00:58:52,320 --> 00:58:54,600
Speaker 1: following on the socials at Lake Kick Josh because there's

1179
00:58:54,600 --> 00:58:56,480
Speaker 1: a lot of behind the scenes content coming to you

1180
00:58:56,520 --> 00:58:59,840
Speaker 1: this week as well, no season. Thank you so much.

1181
00:59:00,040 --> 00:59:01,360
Speaker 1: Take here, have a great start to your week and

1182
00:59:01,480 --> 00:59:01,960
Speaker 1: God bless