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Speaker 1: The great Sean McDonough is with us. Very busy time

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Speaker 1: for him. We're super grateful he's joining us. He has

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Speaker 1: Indiana Oregon tonight seven point thirty on ESPN, the other

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Speaker 1: national semi final game, and we'll get.

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Speaker 2: To that in just a second.

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Speaker 1: But the twenty twenty five National Sportscaster of the Year,

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Speaker 1: congratulations to you.

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Speaker 2: Edged me out again, yead.

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Speaker 3: I could feel your late surge in the Vallidy balloting too,

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Speaker 3: from what I'm told. Uh No, it's a thrill, you know,

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Speaker 3: it's uh I joked at the time when they told

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Speaker 3: me a week ago at our production meet, and Greg

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Speaker 3: McElroy and our crew surprised me that I was the

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Speaker 3: Susan Lucci. The award had been a finals a bunch

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Speaker 3: of times and never one, And I never really was

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Speaker 3: why he or she would win. So it was always

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Speaker 3: just nice to be included, but to actually win it.

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Speaker 3: I think that's why it hit me so hard to

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Speaker 3: know that the people who have won it, and the

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Speaker 3: fact that it's your peers, thousands of people I guess

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Speaker 3: around the country it's a big organization in SMA that

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Speaker 3: they think you're worthy of it, given how many great

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Speaker 3: sports broadcasters there are, really really humbling. I still haven't

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Speaker 3: gotten over it, and I still have responded all the

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Speaker 3: nice text messages. That's been the nicest part of the

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Speaker 3: whole thing is just you know, when you're at a

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Speaker 3: emotion in the messages that you receive. That was really

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Speaker 4: Oh, I'm glad I didn't text you then because I

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Speaker 4: would have been mad.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we're a bad loser.

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Speaker 2: Clearly I finished in the last place.

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Speaker 4: Again, John, did you know at the moment because we

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Speaker 4: watched the while I watched the video of Greg sort

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Speaker 4: Did you know at the time or was it complete shock?

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Speaker 3: The complete shock?

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Speaker 2: Now?

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Speaker 3: I know the balloting ended on December thirty first, and

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Speaker 3: And then when he said what it was, I was like, holy,

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Speaker 3: It's interesting because I have here I keep in front

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Speaker 3: But b M, I always think, don't say anything douchey

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Speaker 3: He listened to his voicemail. He sitting with my brother Ryan.

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Speaker 3: He said, Oh my gosh, I just had a voicemail.

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Speaker 3: So like the last thing he found out in his

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Speaker 1: So that card is with you at all times, as.

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Speaker 2: Like cutting onions joke or something. I don't know.

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Speaker 3: You don't need a six years old but it's there.

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Speaker 2: Was showing not everything carry around the court. So you're

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, Now you're emotional. You made yourself emotional.

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Speaker 1: And so that cord is a reminder of your dad

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Speaker 4: We're blessed, Sean. I was thinking about you and Greg

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Speaker 4: last night watching this game. I'm wondering if you're watching

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Speaker 3: Well most of the time about this one, but the

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Speaker 3: I did you haven't see? You know I have a

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Speaker 5: Yeah, Sean last year, it felt like this Indiana team

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Speaker 5: The quarterback position gets all the attention, but doesn't you know,

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Speaker 3: Yes, and I think that's a great point, and I

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Speaker 3: They're better at running back, they're better at wide receiver.

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Speaker 3: The offensive line is better. You know, one of the

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Speaker 3: He was the center for Notre Dame last year. You know,

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Speaker 3: So he's part of an improved offensive line. The defense

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Speaker 3: has six interceptions. You know, he's been a really big

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Speaker 3: addition to their team. So they're they're just better in

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Speaker 3: a well coached team, that is more impressive than Indiana.

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Speaker 3: Right they're number one on third down on offense, the

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Speaker 3: they're plus eighteen in the country. In turnover margin, which

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Speaker 3: is the best. They've lost one fumble all year. It

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Speaker 3: of the least penalized teams in the country. I mean

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Speaker 2: Why are you buried in charts? I mean, yes, you

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Speaker 3: I mean, we'll see what I do. I don't do

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Speaker 3: so I don't even know if this is showing.

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Speaker 6: Okay, yes, yes, I have the Uh, this is the

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Speaker 6: Indiana offense. This is the Oregon defense, so Indiana's on offense.

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Speaker 6: I tape these together like this, and then when the

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Speaker 6: Then I have a separate thing about the coaches and

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Speaker 6: the rivalries and the backgrounds and stuff like that, and

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Speaker 6: then I have seventeen thousand other pages. But you guys

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Speaker 3: No, because I need the room for all the coolest

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Speaker 3: parts to put all this crap if Ray's standing there

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Speaker 3: these tiny booths. So yeah, Gruon used to make fun

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Speaker 3: of me, he said, you know, your your play sheet

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Speaker 3: looks your spotting boards look like Andy Reid's call sheet. Yes,

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Speaker 3: I just you know, it's really just there's reminders most

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Speaker 3: what the mother's name again? You know it's it's on

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Speaker 5: And when you're done with all that, you can just

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Speaker 5: us Yeah, I mean that.

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Speaker 3: Was before we started taping, but was railing.

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Speaker 1: Sean was railing about how hotels don't have desks anymore.

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Speaker 3: So some one of then, I mean, maybe we don't

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Speaker 3: you get. You go to your room and there's no

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Speaker 3: knee and start. You know, it's so then you start strategizing. Okay,

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Speaker 3: about it. But spn the Sainted Samantha Venone had somebody

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Speaker 3: It's all they should. So as that McDonald must be

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Speaker 2: Dad would have made his own desk.

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Speaker 3: It was dad. My dad would have yes, yeah, like

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Speaker 2: Sean.

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Speaker 1: As you have gotten ready for this game tonight, what

442
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Speaker 1: have you learned here as you as you're preparing about

443
00:21:35,920 --> 00:21:38,920
Speaker 1: Kurt Signetti where I feel like we know everything about him?

444
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Speaker 2: But is there anything you learn where.

445
00:21:40,280 --> 00:21:42,560
Speaker 1: You're like, man, this guy, this story is just so

446
00:21:42,840 --> 00:21:44,720
Speaker 1: incredibly unbelievable.

447
00:21:45,960 --> 00:21:49,159
Speaker 3: Yeah, you do every time, man, I did in the preparation.

448
00:21:49,240 --> 00:21:51,040
Speaker 3: You know, I've been aware of him for a long time.

449
00:21:51,080 --> 00:21:54,080
Speaker 3: I actually we had a great moment yesterday with him,

450
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Speaker 3: which we're going to share in the telecast tonight. This

451
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Speaker 3: is a sneak you guys got to like sneak review you,

452
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Speaker 3: But I did a game. This is how long I

453
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Speaker 3: guess I've been doing this When his dad Frank Signetti

454
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Speaker 3: Senior was the coach at IUP where Kurt got his

455
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Speaker 3: head coaching start. Frank was the coach there a while

456
00:22:15,440 --> 00:22:19,359
Speaker 3: back and had a twenty year run at IUP and

457
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Speaker 3: once I won one hundred ninety nine games totally between

458
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Speaker 3: there in West Virginia, and he's in the College Football

459
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Speaker 3: Hall of Fame. And the dad, Kirk describes him as

460
00:22:28,600 --> 00:22:31,520
Speaker 3: like right out of a John Wayne movie or cleanest

461
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Speaker 3: when he was that kind of guy. The dad was

462
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Speaker 3: a very charismatic guy, where Kurt's a little more like quirky.

463
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Speaker 3: And yeah, you wouldn't say he walks in a room

464
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Speaker 3: and owns the room, but he's one hundred percent great

465
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Speaker 3: at what he does and the players I'll talk about

466
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Speaker 3: it works for him. He's incredibly honest. You know, whatever

467
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Speaker 3: he tells you is what he's going to do. If

468
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Speaker 3: he says practice is going to be twenty eight minutes,

469
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Speaker 3: it's twenty eight minutes. So yesterday he told as he

470
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Speaker 3: was leaving to go to the press conference with Dan

471
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Speaker 3: Lanning here yesterday morning, it was in the College Football

472
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Speaker 3: Hall of Fame and he was going to go by

473
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Speaker 3: to see his dad's plaque because he had never been.

474
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Speaker 3: He wasn't there when his dad. He was coaching when

475
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Speaker 3: his dad got inducted and he couldn't go. So yesterday

476
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Speaker 3: was the first time he was going to go see

477
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Speaker 3: his dad's plaque. So he talked about the influence of

478
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Speaker 3: his dad. There's a great video on YouTube, I think

479
00:23:25,000 --> 00:23:28,320
Speaker 3: it's called Inside the Helpmet or something, which somebody on

480
00:23:28,320 --> 00:23:30,359
Speaker 3: our crew sent me the other day to prepare, and

481
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Speaker 3: he's talking to a group, Kurt, and he's talking for

482
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Speaker 3: over a half hour about his career path and it's fascinating.

483
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Speaker 3: You know, if you have a chance to do what

484
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Speaker 3: you want to know more about him, go find that

485
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Speaker 3: on YouTube and watch it. He's had a fascinating career

486
00:23:44,720 --> 00:23:48,439
Speaker 3: and he is This isn't a fluky. Now again, this

487
00:23:48,480 --> 00:23:51,399
Speaker 3: wouldn't happened if it wasn't the transfer portal. Nil, are right,

488
00:23:51,560 --> 00:23:54,000
Speaker 3: I mean, you know, it's a lot easier to go

489
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Speaker 3: from losing is to we're going to win the national

490
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Speaker 3: championship when everybody's in the portal. It used to be

491
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Speaker 3: to go over a job like this, well, we'll take

492
00:24:01,760 --> 00:24:05,480
Speaker 3: in some transfers, but we can only take a couple academically.

493
00:24:05,520 --> 00:24:07,320
Speaker 3: They have to make it. You don't really hear much

494
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Speaker 3: about that anymore. Will the credits transfer? Where's the last

495
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Speaker 3: time you're insation? That doesn't happen, right, And then the

496
00:24:17,280 --> 00:24:19,760
Speaker 3: guys had to sit out a year. Oh yeah, you look,

497
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Speaker 3: transfer out the year so to another year until that

498
00:24:23,200 --> 00:24:26,680
Speaker 3: guy helps. So it's a lot easier to do what

499
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Speaker 3: they've done. But that shouldn't diminish any of the credit

500
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Speaker 3: because it's it's remarkable what they've done, and he's the

501
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Speaker 3: biggest reason why.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, Sean, We've seen some Dan Lanning pregame locker room

503
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Speaker 5: speeches that that go viral. He seems like the type

504
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Speaker 5: of coach that loves how much people are talking about

505
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Speaker 5: this Indiana team right now.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, he was ready to go yesterday. You know,

507
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Speaker 3: he was kind of rocking in his chair and and

508
00:24:53,520 --> 00:24:55,800
Speaker 3: I love that, love that about him when he was

509
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Speaker 3: at Georgia, when we first kind of got to know him,

510
00:24:58,200 --> 00:25:01,360
Speaker 3: when he was a defensive coordinator and that, and then

511
00:25:01,640 --> 00:25:03,760
Speaker 3: I referenced earlier, you know, his first game as the

512
00:25:03,760 --> 00:25:07,160
Speaker 3: head coach was here in the season open in twenty

513
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Speaker 3: twenty two. George Georgia scored touchdowns on the first seven

514
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Speaker 3: drives of the game. Todd Mounkin was the offensive coordinator

515
00:25:12,880 --> 00:25:15,960
Speaker 3: then for Kirby, and it was it was surgical. I mean,

516
00:25:15,920 --> 00:25:19,720
Speaker 3: it could have been worse. So he's done an unbelievable

517
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Speaker 3: job there. But I'm sure his team will be really

518
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Speaker 3: ready to go. I mean they always are. They have

519
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Speaker 3: full belief that they can win. You know, it was

520
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Speaker 3: twenty to twenty in the fourth quarter in the regular

521
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Speaker 3: season game, and then Indiana made the plays at the

522
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Speaker 3: end of the game that won. But it was it

523
00:25:34,119 --> 00:25:35,920
Speaker 3: was a very close and even game. And I think

524
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Speaker 3: they had some problems in that game that they think

525
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Speaker 3: they can fix, like don't give up six sacks and

526
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Speaker 3: Dante Moore Dante Morton, but he was a little out

527
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Speaker 3: of sorts in that game too, maybe a little amped

528
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Speaker 3: more than he should be. So no, I think Dan

529
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Speaker 3: believes they can win. The thing I worry about for

530
00:25:52,240 --> 00:25:54,480
Speaker 3: them tonight now is they've had all kinds of injuries

531
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Speaker 3: and people leaving at running back. You know, since the

532
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Speaker 3: last game. Two guys jumped in the portal. Jordan Davidson,

533
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Speaker 3: who's their leading touchdown score fifteen touchdowns, true freshman. He

534
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Speaker 3: broke as claviical in the game, which credit to him

535
00:26:08,760 --> 00:26:10,680
Speaker 3: because he kept playing and you can't even tell watching

536
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Speaker 3: the film when it happened. Wow, But he finished the game.

537
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Speaker 3: And then it came out last night late that all

538
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Speaker 3: of a sudden, Noah Whittington popped up on the injury

539
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Speaker 3: report as questionable. He's their leading rusher for the year,

540
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Speaker 3: and he was going to get more of the action

541
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Speaker 3: tonight without these other guys, And now we need to

542
00:26:28,200 --> 00:26:31,840
Speaker 3: find out tonight what's going on with him. Katie George

543
00:26:31,880 --> 00:26:35,320
Speaker 3: is all over that already. But they've already told us

544
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Speaker 3: they're taking two guys who have played defense all year,

545
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Speaker 3: who have been running back somewhere in their past, and

546
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Speaker 3: you're going to have him dress out at running backs.

547
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Speaker 3: I mean, you could be playing in a National semifinal,

548
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Speaker 3: Guy I and have a linebacker who hasn't had a

549
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Speaker 3: carry all year be out there in key situation. So

550
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Speaker 3: I do think if there's a something that might might

551
00:26:52,640 --> 00:26:55,400
Speaker 3: be weighing on Dan Lanning's mind, Taylor, it would probably

552
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Speaker 3: be that, Yeah.

553
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Speaker 4: It's probably not going to help their slow starts they've

554
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Speaker 4: been having.

555
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Speaker 2: I do want to stay on coaches.

556
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Speaker 4: Coach on the other side, though, not a game that

557
00:27:02,720 --> 00:27:05,199
Speaker 4: you're doing, Uh, you've done enough Miami games to get

558
00:27:05,240 --> 00:27:10,000
Speaker 4: a good grasp of Mario Christobal. I'm just fascinated by

559
00:27:10,080 --> 00:27:12,480
Speaker 4: what he does on game days because it seems like

560
00:27:12,520 --> 00:27:14,320
Speaker 4: he just doesn't talk to any of his coaches. He

561
00:27:14,320 --> 00:27:16,119
Speaker 4: puts the microphone up by his head and is just

562
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Speaker 4: a fan. But I just want you to help us

563
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Speaker 4: explain just how intense Mario is and just what type

564
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Speaker 4: of personality.

565
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Speaker 3: You guys know, right, because you're closer to it than

566
00:27:24,160 --> 00:27:25,879
Speaker 3: I am. But I've certainly been around him enough to

567
00:27:25,920 --> 00:27:28,199
Speaker 3: experience it. I do think every now and then he

568
00:27:28,240 --> 00:27:32,160
Speaker 3: lowers her to say something that is probably not complimentary

569
00:27:32,160 --> 00:27:35,359
Speaker 3: to whoever's on the receiving end of that, right, which

570
00:27:35,440 --> 00:27:39,119
Speaker 3: would not make him alone among coaches. You know, it's

571
00:27:39,720 --> 00:27:43,600
Speaker 3: uh yeah, it's uh it's not uncommon. Yeah, you know,

572
00:27:44,480 --> 00:27:46,440
Speaker 3: he is. What you see is what you get, right,

573
00:27:46,600 --> 00:27:50,320
Speaker 3: constant intensity, and it's and it's the same things all

574
00:27:50,320 --> 00:27:54,040
Speaker 3: the time. It's physicality, it's violence, you know, it's uh

575
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Speaker 3: win with the line of scrimmage, and he kind of

576
00:27:56,680 --> 00:27:59,560
Speaker 3: built that in his own image from his playing days

577
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Speaker 3: back there, and and to his credit, they've done it.

578
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Speaker 3: You know. I think a lot of people I was

579
00:28:05,359 --> 00:28:07,320
Speaker 3: even one of them, is Okay, enough with the you

580
00:28:07,400 --> 00:28:09,639
Speaker 3: inherited a bad team. It's year four, right, be a

581
00:28:09,640 --> 00:28:13,000
Speaker 3: good team, especially in the portal where you can turn

582
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Speaker 3: it fast. I mean you could. You don't necessarily need

583
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Speaker 3: three or four of your own recruiting classes to do it.

584
00:28:17,840 --> 00:28:20,919
Speaker 3: You can do it in one recruiting cycle, one portal cycle,

585
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Speaker 3: as we've seen with several teams, not just Indiana. So

586
00:28:23,640 --> 00:28:26,479
Speaker 3: I kind of wasn't buying that. But you know, we

587
00:28:26,640 --> 00:28:28,800
Speaker 3: at the beginning. We had the game against Notre Dame

588
00:28:28,880 --> 00:28:30,919
Speaker 3: the start of the year, our group did and you

589
00:28:30,920 --> 00:28:34,080
Speaker 3: could see they were better. Uh. And I said to

590
00:28:34,119 --> 00:28:36,040
Speaker 3: Greg when we were leaving that game, like, we will

591
00:28:36,040 --> 00:28:38,560
Speaker 3: not see another team this year that's that good on

592
00:28:38,600 --> 00:28:43,200
Speaker 3: the offensive and defensive lines combined. And that's that's proven

593
00:28:43,200 --> 00:28:45,400
Speaker 3: to be the case, you know. And that's the thing

594
00:28:45,440 --> 00:28:48,800
Speaker 3: about this play I loved this playoff because I think

595
00:28:48,840 --> 00:28:51,480
Speaker 3: the more physical team is one. I mean right, Miami

596
00:28:51,640 --> 00:28:55,000
Speaker 3: had the ball for forty three minutes against All Missy.

597
00:28:55,880 --> 00:28:59,320
Speaker 3: They out physical to Ohio State. They did the same

598
00:28:59,360 --> 00:29:01,840
Speaker 3: thing to Texas, which is a really physical football team.

599
00:29:02,160 --> 00:29:04,920
Speaker 3: These two teams were two of the three finalists. The

600
00:29:05,040 --> 00:29:07,520
Speaker 3: teams tonight for the Joe Moore Award is the best

601
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Speaker 3: offensive line in the country, so they're two of the

602
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Speaker 3: top three in the opinion of that committee. Iowa actually

603
00:29:12,440 --> 00:29:15,840
Speaker 3: wound up winning it. But these are two terrific offensive lines,

604
00:29:15,920 --> 00:29:18,480
Speaker 3: so I think the physicality part of it will have

605
00:29:18,560 --> 00:29:21,320
Speaker 3: a lot to do with tonight. And I give Mario.

606
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Speaker 3: I think hiring Corey Heatherman was genius. The defensive coordinator

607
00:29:25,760 --> 00:29:29,080
Speaker 3: in Miami. He is cut the points per game in half.

608
00:29:29,680 --> 00:29:33,200
Speaker 3: And I think Shannon Dawson is a terrific offensive coordinator.

609
00:29:33,200 --> 00:29:36,520
Speaker 3: And I was so happy for Carson Beck last night. Yeah,

610
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Speaker 3: you know, I've always liked him. I know at the

611
00:29:39,120 --> 00:29:41,560
Speaker 3: end of Georgia people were souring on him, especially some

612
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Speaker 3: Georgia fans, but I've always thought he was a good

613
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Speaker 3: guy who was just kind of beaten down after five

614
00:29:47,360 --> 00:29:50,160
Speaker 3: years in all the intensity of that Georgia football program.

615
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Speaker 3: We talked me for that, Notre Damien. He was a

616
00:29:52,120 --> 00:29:54,680
Speaker 3: new man. He was smiling and laughing and happy. And

617
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Speaker 3: I even said that to him after we were done

618
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Speaker 3: with the Zoom, you look like a different person than

619
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Speaker 3: we saw twelve months ago, and he said, yeah, I am.

620
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Speaker 3: So I'm really happy for him. I thought that might

621
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Speaker 3: have been the greatest individual story out of last night,

622
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Speaker 3: that drive that he engineered running it in himself. It

623
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Speaker 3: was awesome.

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Speaker 2: It was great, Sean.

625
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Speaker 4: I was we'll let you go after this one. I'm

626
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Speaker 4: thinking this college football Playoff has been good, right, It's

627
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Speaker 4: been good for.

628
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Speaker 2: The college football playft. There's a lot of talk about astic.

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Speaker 4: I think if the biggest debate was who the final

630
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Speaker 4: team in it is, it's not that interesting. But now

631
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Speaker 4: that team might win it all. It feels like it's

632
00:30:26,040 --> 00:30:27,760
Speaker 4: been pretty good for college football so far.

633
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Speaker 3: I think it's been great, you know, thank god, because

634
00:30:30,040 --> 00:30:32,800
Speaker 3: it's kind of helped cover up all the other messes.

635
00:30:33,480 --> 00:30:35,680
Speaker 3: I mean, all the stuff with Lane Kiffin, and you know,

636
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Speaker 3: I don't agree with what he did or the way

637
00:30:38,280 --> 00:30:41,200
Speaker 3: he did it. But part of it is the schedule, right,

638
00:30:41,240 --> 00:30:43,960
Speaker 3: and you have to go now, and the high school

639
00:30:44,200 --> 00:30:46,160
Speaker 3: signing date is a couple of days from now, and

640
00:30:46,240 --> 00:30:48,720
Speaker 3: the transfer portals in a month, and they're playing playoff

641
00:30:48,760 --> 00:30:51,280
Speaker 3: games and coaches want to get to their next place.

642
00:30:51,320 --> 00:30:54,720
Speaker 3: So you know, there's a lot so much that needs

643
00:30:54,720 --> 00:30:59,040
Speaker 3: to be fixed on the periphery, but you know as

644
00:30:59,040 --> 00:31:01,200
Speaker 3: to how the game is made and govern and the

645
00:31:01,200 --> 00:31:04,040
Speaker 3: problem is nobody knows who's in charge of fixing it

646
00:31:04,120 --> 00:31:05,920
Speaker 3: and how it's supposed to get fixed. So until they

647
00:31:05,960 --> 00:31:08,520
Speaker 3: figure that out, it's never going to change. But to

648
00:31:08,560 --> 00:31:12,000
Speaker 3: your point, is the playoffs awesome? I think at the

649
00:31:12,080 --> 00:31:14,280
Speaker 3: end of the day, it's all people care about when

650
00:31:14,280 --> 00:31:16,920
Speaker 3: they watch the games. All that other stuff gets forgotten.

651
00:31:17,560 --> 00:31:20,000
Speaker 3: And I do think it'll go to sixteen, which I

652
00:31:20,040 --> 00:31:23,480
Speaker 3: think is the right number. And you know, a team

653
00:31:23,600 --> 00:31:25,720
Speaker 3: like Notre Dame, they were good enough to win the

654
00:31:25,720 --> 00:31:27,640
Speaker 3: whole thing. I mean, I think they're as good as Miami.

655
00:31:27,680 --> 00:31:29,200
Speaker 3: They might even be better than Miami at the end

656
00:31:29,200 --> 00:31:31,320
Speaker 3: of the year. Texas was good enough to win the

657
00:31:31,320 --> 00:31:34,240
Speaker 3: whole thing with their talent the way they played at

658
00:31:34,280 --> 00:31:37,360
Speaker 3: the end of the year. So yeah, I think sixteen

659
00:31:37,440 --> 00:31:39,960
Speaker 3: is great. We get rid of all the junk about Oh,

660
00:31:40,080 --> 00:31:43,560
Speaker 3: the buye might be a disadvantage, unfair who wants to

661
00:31:43,560 --> 00:31:49,360
Speaker 3: buy who wants a month to rest and prepare? So

662
00:31:49,440 --> 00:31:53,200
Speaker 3: I think that's a limited sample size draw any conclusions

663
00:31:53,200 --> 00:31:55,160
Speaker 3: about that. But then you don't worry about that. You know,

664
00:31:55,200 --> 00:31:57,440
Speaker 3: everybody plays the same number of games and off we go.

665
00:31:58,480 --> 00:32:00,560
Speaker 1: Sean, when you're watching that game last, I know you

666
00:32:00,640 --> 00:32:02,680
Speaker 1: have to remain neutral. You're calling the game, but you

667
00:32:02,720 --> 00:32:04,720
Speaker 1: weren't calling last night's game. And you're a human being

668
00:32:04,760 --> 00:32:07,320
Speaker 1: who loves stories. Did you find yourself in the fourth

669
00:32:07,400 --> 00:32:09,960
Speaker 1: quarter because this happened to me A rooting for the

670
00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:12,920
Speaker 1: story of Mississippi winning it without their coach entry to

671
00:32:12,960 --> 00:32:13,640
Speaker 1: Dad Chambliss.

672
00:32:14,160 --> 00:32:17,800
Speaker 3: No, And I'll be totally honest, like it's okay. I

673
00:32:17,920 --> 00:32:20,240
Speaker 3: try to take any fan part of me out of it.

674
00:32:20,240 --> 00:32:21,960
Speaker 3: When I do a game, and I promise you I'm

675
00:32:22,040 --> 00:32:24,719
Speaker 3: successful ninety nine point nine nine nine percent of the time,

676
00:32:24,720 --> 00:32:25,880
Speaker 3: I don't even think about it, right. You just so

677
00:32:26,080 --> 00:32:28,160
Speaker 3: focused on the game and what you should be talking

678
00:32:28,160 --> 00:32:30,720
Speaker 3: about the right time that game last night, I went

679
00:32:30,800 --> 00:32:35,000
Speaker 3: back and forth like kind of who I owe myself? Oh,

680
00:32:35,040 --> 00:32:36,520
Speaker 3: I hope they can on score? Well, wait a minute,

681
00:32:36,680 --> 00:32:38,480
Speaker 3: why do I want that? I like the other guys too.

682
00:32:39,960 --> 00:32:41,200
Speaker 2: I didn't want anyone to get hurt.

683
00:32:41,280 --> 00:32:43,320
Speaker 3: Yes, like, and it was it was more out of

684
00:32:43,440 --> 00:32:46,840
Speaker 3: oh gosh, you know, like I admire what Miami has done,

685
00:32:46,920 --> 00:32:49,720
Speaker 3: and Carson Beck I really like. And you know, you

686
00:32:49,760 --> 00:32:53,000
Speaker 3: guys know Cam Gorbio, the s ID at Miami. He's

687
00:32:53,040 --> 00:32:54,440
Speaker 3: like the greatest guy in the world. And you'd be

688
00:32:54,480 --> 00:32:57,000
Speaker 3: so happy for him, and you know, and then the

689
00:32:57,080 --> 00:33:01,000
Speaker 3: ole miss thing. Pete Golding, that's it over a little

690
00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:03,040
Speaker 3: over a month. Is one of the greatest coaching jobs

691
00:33:03,040 --> 00:33:06,400
Speaker 3: in the history of Americans. Amazing, amazing. Yes, I mean,

692
00:33:06,560 --> 00:33:08,880
Speaker 3: you tell about the perfect guy at the perfect time,

693
00:33:09,800 --> 00:33:12,560
Speaker 3: the way he managed. We could talk for two hours

694
00:33:12,560 --> 00:33:14,600
Speaker 3: about stuff. He told us last week that he should

695
00:33:14,600 --> 00:33:16,880
Speaker 3: write a book because with the stuff that's come out

696
00:33:17,040 --> 00:33:19,840
Speaker 3: is just a fraction of what he had to deal

697
00:33:19,880 --> 00:33:23,200
Speaker 3: with and the bizarre, dramatic nature of all of it.

698
00:33:23,280 --> 00:33:25,240
Speaker 3: And to hold that thing together the way he did

699
00:33:25,280 --> 00:33:27,240
Speaker 3: with everything that was going on, and play like they

700
00:33:27,240 --> 00:33:30,120
Speaker 3: did because they weren't the better team, you know. And

701
00:33:30,160 --> 00:33:32,280
Speaker 3: that's the other thing. I'm glad for the ACC. They

702
00:33:32,280 --> 00:33:34,720
Speaker 3: should give everybody a big you know, go take a hike.

703
00:33:35,280 --> 00:33:38,800
Speaker 3: We had, We had some people to Miami. They shouldn't

704
00:33:38,800 --> 00:33:39,360
Speaker 3: even be in there.

705
00:33:39,880 --> 00:33:47,480
Speaker 2: He stakes language language. Yeah, y, go take a hike themselves.

706
00:33:47,760 --> 00:33:50,720
Speaker 3: Well, yes, you're right. I don't want them to take

707
00:33:50,760 --> 00:33:51,920
Speaker 3: the award back. I've already had.

708
00:33:53,480 --> 00:33:55,200
Speaker 2: I know I'm never winning it, so I could say.

709
00:33:56,000 --> 00:33:59,440
Speaker 3: Conduct unbecoming the winner, you know, take it back. But

710
00:34:00,040 --> 00:34:04,000
Speaker 3: and there could be children watching, so anyway, but it's

711
00:34:04,120 --> 00:34:07,239
Speaker 3: uh no, you know, I was really torn watching it,

712
00:34:07,560 --> 00:34:09,279
Speaker 3: I and I that's why I felt the end of it.

713
00:34:09,320 --> 00:34:12,440
Speaker 3: I was thrilled from Miami, and I was really sad

714
00:34:12,480 --> 00:34:16,200
Speaker 3: for Pete and Charlie Weiss and those players trinidadad Chandlers.

715
00:34:16,600 --> 00:34:18,520
Speaker 3: You know the neat thing about this, right, you see

716
00:34:18,560 --> 00:34:22,000
Speaker 3: these players on TV Trinida, Dad Chablain, like you want

717
00:34:22,040 --> 00:34:25,520
Speaker 3: to marry your daughter, yes, Mendoza, you wanted to marry

718
00:34:25,520 --> 00:34:28,560
Speaker 3: your daughter, Dante more. You know, It's just there's so

719
00:34:28,600 --> 00:34:31,480
Speaker 3: many good people in this playoff too, and uh so

720
00:34:31,640 --> 00:34:34,799
Speaker 3: I was crushed for old miss. But how typical of them, right,

721
00:34:34,840 --> 00:34:36,560
Speaker 3: I mean they get to kick off with what fifteen

722
00:34:36,600 --> 00:34:40,319
Speaker 3: seconds ago? Yeah, no timeouts? Yes, get down to in

723
00:34:40,440 --> 00:34:42,400
Speaker 3: like two plays where they're throwing in the end zone

724
00:34:42,440 --> 00:34:45,200
Speaker 3: and fisted all over America. But that should have been

725
00:34:45,200 --> 00:34:50,040
Speaker 3: past interference, right. Oh yeah, it's that was a remarkable story,

726
00:34:50,080 --> 00:34:51,920
Speaker 3: and I think Pete will do a great job there

727
00:34:51,960 --> 00:34:52,600
Speaker 3: for a long time.

728
00:34:52,880 --> 00:34:54,960
Speaker 2: But that wasn't a hail Mary, right. I mean, I

729
00:34:55,080 --> 00:34:56,400
Speaker 2: was got to be at least.

730
00:34:58,000 --> 00:35:00,359
Speaker 3: The good thing about in that instance with a It's

731
00:35:00,400 --> 00:35:01,640
Speaker 3: not like the NFL where they put it on the

732
00:35:01,640 --> 00:35:04,680
Speaker 3: one and it's really a punitive penalty. It's put it

733
00:35:04,719 --> 00:35:06,759
Speaker 3: on the twenty or whatever it would have been and

734
00:35:06,800 --> 00:35:10,439
Speaker 3: give them another play. But you can't. I understand that

735
00:35:10,440 --> 00:35:13,200
Speaker 3: that's kind of how it's officiated, but that was a

736
00:35:13,200 --> 00:35:15,759
Speaker 3: little more than I kind of interfered with the guys.

737
00:35:17,880 --> 00:35:19,319
Speaker 2: It started at the five yard line.

738
00:35:19,400 --> 00:35:22,680
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, if you were ever if they're not

739
00:35:22,760 --> 00:35:24,800
Speaker 3: going to throw that one. I think I saw Greeny

740
00:35:24,840 --> 00:35:27,840
Speaker 3: on TV this morning, you say, then if that's the

741
00:35:27,880 --> 00:35:29,640
Speaker 3: standard and you're still not going to throw it, then

742
00:35:29,719 --> 00:35:33,200
Speaker 3: every coach America would coach, every dB just tackle the guy,

743
00:35:33,400 --> 00:35:35,440
Speaker 3: Just tackle them because they're not going to throw the flag.

744
00:35:35,480 --> 00:35:37,920
Speaker 3: Because that was about a Yeah, that's a little bit

745
00:35:37,920 --> 00:35:41,480
Speaker 3: of an exaggeration, but it was pretty It was pretty.

746
00:35:41,880 --> 00:35:42,200
Speaker 2: Yeah.

747
00:35:42,840 --> 00:35:45,879
Speaker 3: I think I don't like when they officiate that that way.

748
00:35:46,000 --> 00:35:48,000
Speaker 3: You know, they said, well, they don't want to take

749
00:35:48,000 --> 00:35:50,120
Speaker 3: the game, Well, you are by not throwing the flag,

750
00:35:50,320 --> 00:35:53,719
Speaker 3: you are you know, you're letting a team blatantly blake

751
00:35:54,040 --> 00:35:56,360
Speaker 3: a rule that you wouldn't have let them do for

752
00:35:56,400 --> 00:36:00,120
Speaker 3: the other fifty nine minutes and fifty seconds. So why

753
00:36:00,120 --> 00:36:01,239
Speaker 3: are you letting even do it now?

754
00:36:01,760 --> 00:36:05,120
Speaker 2: They called like two in the fourth quarter yeah.

755
00:36:04,360 --> 00:36:06,160
Speaker 3: I did the game one time the team went fro

756
00:36:06,200 --> 00:36:08,879
Speaker 3: on fourth down their own territories in Michigan Michigan State

757
00:36:08,920 --> 00:36:11,799
Speaker 3: game a long time ago. It was in the first

758
00:36:11,880 --> 00:36:16,160
Speaker 3: or second quarter, fourth and one, and it looked like

759
00:36:16,640 --> 00:36:20,080
Speaker 3: they I kept remember they got or didn't get it,

760
00:36:20,400 --> 00:36:22,759
Speaker 3: but it looked like whatever they call the field was wrong, right,

761
00:36:23,000 --> 00:36:26,280
Speaker 3: that's wrong. They need to do a replay review. Well

762
00:36:26,680 --> 00:36:29,520
Speaker 3: they didn't, and I saw the replay at halftime. I

763
00:36:29,560 --> 00:36:32,040
Speaker 3: said that fourth and one, like, didn't that look like?

764
00:36:32,160 --> 00:36:33,920
Speaker 3: He said, Oh, it was the first quarter.

765
00:36:33,960 --> 00:36:34,279
Speaker 2: I just.

766
00:36:36,520 --> 00:36:38,560
Speaker 3: So, you gave the ball in the plus thirty five

767
00:36:38,640 --> 00:36:41,080
Speaker 3: yard line. Now they stopped them, right, they didn't stop them,

768
00:36:41,120 --> 00:36:44,520
Speaker 3: but they spotted it wrong. And so whichever team stopped

769
00:36:44,520 --> 00:36:46,400
Speaker 3: and got the ball in the plus thirty five and scored,

770
00:36:47,800 --> 00:36:49,400
Speaker 3: it was the fourth quarter. I might have taken a

771
00:36:49,400 --> 00:36:50,399
Speaker 3: longer look at it, but.

772
00:36:50,360 --> 00:36:54,680
Speaker 1: I'm like, I don't care about your job, sir, So

773
00:36:54,760 --> 00:36:56,600
Speaker 1: it does mean more in the fourth quarter, I.

774
00:36:56,560 --> 00:36:59,120
Speaker 3: Guess, yeah. I mean there's stuff like that that you're

775
00:36:59,160 --> 00:37:01,319
Speaker 3: just like, really, that's the way we're doing this. But

776
00:37:01,760 --> 00:37:03,920
Speaker 3: I thought it should have been a penalty. Miami deserved

777
00:37:03,960 --> 00:37:06,440
Speaker 3: to win the game, right if they catch any of

778
00:37:06,480 --> 00:37:11,200
Speaker 3: those interceptions. Yes, we had the ball for forty three minutes.

779
00:37:11,560 --> 00:37:14,480
Speaker 3: They were the better team on the field. Yep, but

780
00:37:14,840 --> 00:37:16,560
Speaker 3: you know, but they still should have thrown a flag

781
00:37:16,600 --> 00:37:16,920
Speaker 3: at the end.

782
00:37:17,080 --> 00:37:20,120
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, all right, we appreciate your time, sir.

783
00:37:20,640 --> 00:37:26,839
Speaker 3: Congratulations. Oh yeah, take a nap. How can I take

784
00:37:26,840 --> 00:37:27,560
Speaker 3: a nap.

785
00:37:32,480 --> 00:37:33,640
Speaker 2: And just sleep on top of that?

786
00:37:34,040 --> 00:37:36,439
Speaker 3: Yeah? Hey, thank you. Guys. Are we going to see

787
00:37:36,440 --> 00:37:37,120
Speaker 3: you in Miami?

788
00:37:37,920 --> 00:37:40,560
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, you get to see us in Miami at

789
00:37:40,560 --> 00:37:42,120
Speaker 1: the game. We're going to the game. We're gonna hang

790
00:37:42,120 --> 00:37:43,360
Speaker 1: out with you together.

791
00:37:43,800 --> 00:37:47,799
Speaker 3: I'm doing the national radio. Awesome, we'll be there and

792
00:37:47,800 --> 00:37:48,719
Speaker 3: we'll look forward to it.

793
00:37:48,920 --> 00:37:51,759
Speaker 2: Okay, Golf, I love that.

794
00:37:52,080 --> 00:37:54,759
Speaker 3: Yes, I'm sure you've belared some fancy club that they

795
00:37:54,760 --> 00:37:55,560
Speaker 3: probably won't have me.

796
00:37:55,680 --> 00:37:58,759
Speaker 2: But if you I'll pull some strings for you show me.

797
00:37:58,880 --> 00:37:59,799
Speaker 3: Okay, that'd be good.

798
00:38:00,400 --> 00:38:01,839
Speaker 5: He says he's going to see you at the game,

799
00:38:01,840 --> 00:38:03,600
Speaker 5: but he also needs your help getting into the game.

800
00:38:03,680 --> 00:38:05,439
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, zero points.

801
00:38:05,440 --> 00:38:06,239
Speaker 2: He just recruited you.

802
00:38:06,560 --> 00:38:08,760
Speaker 3: Zero points.

803
00:38:10,200 --> 00:38:11,200
Speaker 2: I'll make sure your hotel.

804
00:38:11,640 --> 00:38:13,480
Speaker 3: He's the guy who has this credential taken away in

805
00:38:13,520 --> 00:38:15,359
Speaker 3: the second corner and they walk them out. It's gonna

806
00:38:15,360 --> 00:38:17,279
Speaker 3: be Hey, McDonough. Remember the last time you asked for

807
00:38:17,280 --> 00:38:18,640
Speaker 3: a credential for somebody?

808
00:38:19,239 --> 00:38:20,640
Speaker 2: Why can't it be your spotter or something?

809
00:38:21,800 --> 00:38:26,000
Speaker 3: Yes? Oh, by the way, in Miami, could you do

810
00:38:26,120 --> 00:38:28,440
Speaker 3: something about you guys or you know, like the men

811
00:38:28,600 --> 00:38:33,080
Speaker 3: of Miami. Yes, the radio broadcast booth there is the

812
00:38:33,120 --> 00:38:36,560
Speaker 3: worst abominate and I, you know, don't complain. It is

813
00:38:36,680 --> 00:38:41,480
Speaker 3: like so legendarily infamously bad, like barely off the field.

814
00:38:41,480 --> 00:38:43,640
Speaker 3: It's in the corner. It's glass and closed, the window

815
00:38:43,640 --> 00:38:46,319
Speaker 3: doesn't open, the air conditioning leaks on your head. There's

816
00:38:46,360 --> 00:38:50,520
Speaker 3: no table. Yes, could you use your juice to find

817
00:38:50,560 --> 00:38:51,520
Speaker 3: us a better location?

818
00:38:51,880 --> 00:38:54,120
Speaker 1: I am going to use my juice to help you

819
00:38:54,160 --> 00:38:55,160
Speaker 1: find a better location.

820
00:38:55,239 --> 00:38:56,839
Speaker 2: I promise. I'm familiar with that booth.

821
00:38:56,920 --> 00:38:58,560
Speaker 3: We couldn't have you in the booth now because there's

822
00:38:58,600 --> 00:39:02,040
Speaker 3: no room. But Joe Rose on our crew because there's

823
00:39:02,040 --> 00:39:02,480
Speaker 3: no room.

824
00:39:02,719 --> 00:39:04,200
Speaker 2: Yes, but I used to run the UH.

825
00:39:04,440 --> 00:39:07,080
Speaker 1: I used to run the local radio station here and

826
00:39:07,160 --> 00:39:09,359
Speaker 1: we had the Dolphins rights, and Joe Rose used to

827
00:39:09,400 --> 00:39:12,319
Speaker 1: call me at halftime of games and he would be like,

828
00:39:12,520 --> 00:39:14,120
Speaker 1: can you get me out of this fucking.

829
00:39:15,080 --> 00:39:17,960
Speaker 3: It's the worst. It is absol like my joy of

830
00:39:18,000 --> 00:39:21,040
Speaker 3: doing this game I'm already I'm having PTSD from the

831
00:39:21,080 --> 00:39:24,840
Speaker 3: last time it was there, and uh, you can't possibly

832
00:39:24,880 --> 00:39:26,200
Speaker 3: do a good You have to call it off the

833
00:39:26,239 --> 00:39:28,120
Speaker 3: mondor I said to our producer, like, let's just do

834
00:39:28,200 --> 00:39:31,680
Speaker 3: this from the hotel, right, or the or the TV

835
00:39:31,800 --> 00:39:34,319
Speaker 3: truck or some player who can actually spread out and

836
00:39:34,360 --> 00:39:36,520
Speaker 3: see what just watched the game on a big ninety

837
00:39:36,560 --> 00:39:41,359
Speaker 3: six inch HD four K whatever TV. You know what,

838
00:39:41,880 --> 00:39:45,480
Speaker 3: Please please maybe now that Miami's there, Yes, do they

839
00:39:45,480 --> 00:39:49,520
Speaker 3: need one fewer booth? That's a question. R I don't

840
00:39:49,520 --> 00:39:51,440
Speaker 3: think so. Right, that was just gonna be one of

841
00:39:51,440 --> 00:39:55,839
Speaker 3: the team's booths. But maybe Josephaky could he like give

842
00:39:55,920 --> 00:39:58,480
Speaker 3: up part of his booth? I bet you got a

843
00:39:58,520 --> 00:40:01,920
Speaker 3: man with him, right, I've known Joe for a thousand years.

844
00:40:02,480 --> 00:40:04,280
Speaker 1: Something tells me you're going to get the bigger booth

845
00:40:04,320 --> 00:40:06,160
Speaker 1: between sent me.

846
00:40:06,120 --> 00:40:10,640
Speaker 3: A map right the student radio stations at whichever these

847
00:40:10,640 --> 00:40:13,959
Speaker 3: two schools are having a better broadcast position, then we

848
00:40:14,120 --> 00:40:16,160
Speaker 3: will be doing the game show. I don't know what

849
00:40:16,200 --> 00:40:21,000
Speaker 3: they pay in rights fees at w U, m H

850
00:40:21,239 --> 00:40:28,080
Speaker 3: or whatever, but it's probably not what ESPN pace I

851
00:40:28,239 --> 00:40:31,840
Speaker 3: said earlier. Don't complain about your circumstances. But disregard that

852
00:40:31,880 --> 00:40:37,120
Speaker 3: one for now because it's to use your word, freaking horrible.

853
00:40:37,600 --> 00:40:38,839
Speaker 2: It only applies for TV.

854
00:40:38,960 --> 00:40:40,800
Speaker 4: You can complain all you want when you're doing radio.

855
00:40:40,880 --> 00:40:43,080
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I'm just going to make it up. Who's

856
00:40:43,080 --> 00:40:46,000
Speaker 3: going to know? Right? When we did there? The last

857
00:40:46,000 --> 00:40:47,319
Speaker 3: time I was, I think it was the Ohio State

858
00:40:47,360 --> 00:40:50,319
Speaker 3: Alabama game during COVID. That was the other thing. Hey,

859
00:40:50,360 --> 00:40:54,279
Speaker 3: it's COVID. There's nobody in the stadium. We take any

860
00:40:54,280 --> 00:40:56,440
Speaker 3: booth you want to have any thousand empty seats that

861
00:40:56,480 --> 00:40:59,080
Speaker 3: are over there at the fifty yard line, would that

862
00:40:59,120 --> 00:41:02,480
Speaker 3: be that card? Well, we can't get an electrical outlet

863
00:41:02,520 --> 00:41:04,560
Speaker 3: over They're like, oh, okay.

864
00:41:04,400 --> 00:41:06,400
Speaker 4: Doesn't like to complain, but he's very good at it.

865
00:41:06,880 --> 00:41:10,960
Speaker 2: Oh yes, yes, yes, yes, listen Dad, I.

866
00:41:10,880 --> 00:41:13,960
Speaker 3: Gotta remember Dad, I'm sorry. I should not be complaining.

867
00:41:14,000 --> 00:41:15,360
Speaker 2: Do not bring that into that booth.

868
00:41:15,560 --> 00:41:19,480
Speaker 3: You know he'll be there, and even he will be pissed.

869
00:41:21,200 --> 00:41:24,239
Speaker 2: When it rains, when the water starts tripping on the guard.

870
00:41:27,440 --> 00:41:29,279
Speaker 3: I don't have a lot of coverage up there either.

871
00:41:30,040 --> 00:41:32,560
Speaker 1: God so great showing I'm on this for you a

872
00:41:32,600 --> 00:41:34,440
Speaker 1: hotel with a desk, and I.

873
00:41:34,360 --> 00:41:36,920
Speaker 3: Think we're okay there, right We're pretty good there in

874
00:41:36,960 --> 00:41:38,680
Speaker 3: a hotel with a golf course by the way, So

875
00:41:38,880 --> 00:41:42,000
Speaker 3: just saying, okay, if you want to play there, oh yes, yes,

876
00:41:42,080 --> 00:41:48,960
Speaker 3: but the booth if you could, yes, you you were

877
00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:51,279
Speaker 3: already one of my heroes. But you will be my

878
00:41:51,400 --> 00:41:53,239
Speaker 3: hero forever. And okay, I'm on this.

879
00:41:53,719 --> 00:41:56,759
Speaker 1: Merry men, all right, we appreciate this very much. I

880
00:41:56,800 --> 00:41:59,400
Speaker 1: am getting listen, I gotta go because I have to go.

881
00:41:59,600 --> 00:42:00,600
Speaker 2: I want to get off.

882
00:42:00,680 --> 00:42:03,960
Speaker 3: Is about to happen, but uh, it's time to go.

883
00:42:04,040 --> 00:42:05,640
Speaker 3: It's my fault. I just kept talking.

884
00:42:06,040 --> 00:42:07,000
Speaker 2: No, no, I love it.

885
00:42:07,080 --> 00:42:10,360
Speaker 1: But now the next seven days trying to get you

886
00:42:10,400 --> 00:42:12,160
Speaker 1: a better booth, and so I need to get got

887
00:42:12,160 --> 00:42:13,200
Speaker 1: the perfect person on.

888
00:42:13,160 --> 00:42:16,120
Speaker 3: It now, don't don't offer it up if you're not

889
00:42:16,160 --> 00:42:16,640
Speaker 3: really going to.

890
00:42:16,640 --> 00:42:18,960
Speaker 1: Try, well, hold on, so Israel, Nos, this is my

891
00:42:19,000 --> 00:42:20,840
Speaker 1: wheelhouse is he just said. I don't know if you

892
00:42:20,920 --> 00:42:23,760
Speaker 1: heard him. You got the you asked the perfect person.

893
00:42:23,800 --> 00:42:24,759
Speaker 2: That is done for you.

894
00:42:24,880 --> 00:42:26,759
Speaker 3: I will got bragging if you can do it.

895
00:42:27,000 --> 00:42:29,000
Speaker 2: This is my wheelhouse. You getting it done for you.

896
00:42:29,480 --> 00:42:32,719
Speaker 3: Blue Holtz would say, don't tell me about the baby.

897
00:42:34,120 --> 00:42:36,600
Speaker 3: The baby, don't tell me how rough the water is.

898
00:42:36,680 --> 00:42:37,840
Speaker 3: Get the ship in the Harbor.

899
00:42:38,320 --> 00:42:40,000
Speaker 1: I got it, I got it, I got it. I'm

900
00:42:40,080 --> 00:42:42,520
Speaker 1: kicking those fucking students out. You're gonna take over that booth,

901
00:42:43,560 --> 00:42:44,759
Speaker 1: Yeah they could.

902
00:42:45,200 --> 00:42:47,759
Speaker 3: They're gonna have a cushy seat, that's for sure. They're

903
00:42:47,760 --> 00:42:48,600
Speaker 3: going to enjoy it.

904
00:42:48,800 --> 00:42:51,319
Speaker 2: Yes, we enjoy you, sir. Thank you for doing this.

905
00:42:51,440 --> 00:42:52,120
Speaker 2: We appreciate it.

906
00:42:52,239 --> 00:42:54,560
Speaker 3: Pleasure. Guys. Let's get together when we're down there.

907
00:42:54,920 --> 00:42:57,560
Speaker 2: I love that. I'll meet you at the hotel with

908
00:42:57,600 --> 00:42:58,120
Speaker 2: the golf course.

909
00:42:58,160 --> 00:43:01,120
Speaker 3: Okay, all right, I'm gonna need some shots.

910
00:43:02,160 --> 00:43:03,160
Speaker 2: I'll have plenty of them.

911
00:43:04,440 --> 00:43:05,120
Speaker 3: See you, guys.