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Speaker 1: Now Welcome to lakeking is Live. It is Tuesday night,

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Speaker 1: November twenty ninth, The Earl Lord, twenty twenty two. The

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Speaker 1: only creed apparently that any program at their needs is

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Speaker 1: the creed of Al Davis. Just when baby, we are

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Speaker 1: jam packed Hi atop a stormyt downtown Nashville, Tennessee. I

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Speaker 1: warn you guys all the time. I'm part college football,

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Speaker 1: part stormchaser. Don't sleep on second season. Everyone knows the

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Speaker 1: spring is active. It's very active. Multiple tornado warnings across

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Speaker 1: the southeast tonight, So hunker down. Hopefully you still have

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Speaker 1: internet and stay safe and you can watch the show.

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Speaker 1: Hugh Freeze is back in the SEC. Can you believe that?

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Speaker 1: Did you think I'd be saying that? Two months ago?

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Speaker 1: We got conference championship predictions to go through tonight. I

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Speaker 1: have got a few thoughts about the recently released college

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Speaker 1: football playoff rankings. I'm not gonna spend an inordinate amount

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Speaker 1: But I do have a couple of thoughts. I got

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Speaker 1: one beef. It's not so much with the order but

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Speaker 1: the criteria. And I got a scenario that I don't

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Speaker 1: think you're going to hear in many other places dabos

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Speaker 1: when he's talking again, he's saying some things. In fact,

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Speaker 1: he's saying a lot of things, but you're only hearing

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Speaker 1: some of the things that he said. And I know

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Speaker 1: that you guys think, well, part of you think that

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Speaker 1: I'm a Dabo hater, the others think I'm a Dabo defender,

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Speaker 1: And in reality, I'm just someone with an opinion. Each

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Speaker 1: I got one for you tonight though, paper pop style.

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Speaker 1: They're watching us in Danville, Kentucky, Pueblo, Colorado, Eastman, Georgia,

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Speaker 1: and Del Rio, Texas. A lot of you heated took

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Speaker 1: heat it up, headed took head of my advice the

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Speaker 1: other day, and you followed me on the socials at

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Speaker 1: Late Kick Josh. And it's imperative because of what happened

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Speaker 1: right after we had our Sunday show. We had a

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Speaker 1: big hiring. We've got multiple coaches being Brent Key looks

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Speaker 1: like he's going to get a shot at Georgia Tech.

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Speaker 1: I mean, that's a heck of an opportunity for a

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Speaker 1: guy from Georgia Tia. So anyway, there's a lot of

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Speaker 1: stuff going on obviously the Hugh free stuff we're going

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Speaker 1: for it to happen, so there's a lot of feedback.

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Speaker 1: There's a lot of conversation being had on Twitter and

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Speaker 1: Instagram at Late Kick, Josh, make sure you're following there.

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Speaker 1: And then it only ramps up the more that we

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Speaker 1: go on the road and the more we enter into

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Speaker 1: Christmas season and playoff season and bowl season, so transfer

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Speaker 1: portal season. I'm going to talk about that tonight. There's

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Speaker 1: a lot going on. Are they Jack cammering in the building?

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Speaker 1: We got three rules around here. Don't lose to food.

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Speaker 1: I can't remember the other one. Don't Jack Cameron in

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Speaker 1: the building during the show. It's disrespectful at management. Get

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Speaker 1: on it. Okay, let's talk about the college football playoff

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Speaker 1: reactions for just a second. I promise you we're not

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Speaker 1: going along on this. So the college football playoff rankings

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Speaker 1: and we've been talking cordially but forcefully back and forth

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Speaker 1: sound kind of hypocritical to you because I thought Tennessee

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Speaker 1: that's not the worst precedent in the world to set.

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Speaker 1: half the sport's gonna make it in anyway. Joke, joke,

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Speaker 1: I have less than zero interest in a room full

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Speaker 1: all Big ten semi final. How gross is that some

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Speaker 1: me utter such nonsense. It's very unlikely, very unlikely. I'm

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Speaker 1: I think that is. But in the words of JP,

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Speaker 1: a fellow JP from Angels in the Outfield, hey, it

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Speaker 1: could happen. Academy Sports and Outdoors I have been speaking

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna be in Atlanta this Thursday night Buckhead. Actually

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Speaker 1: not just Atlanta proper Colin. We're rolling to Buckhead this Thursday.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna do some things with Verbo, but also we're

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Speaker 1: I believe the College Football Hall of Fame. I'm leaving

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Speaker 1: that in the in the capable hands of Big Game Dame.

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Speaker 1: But it's the SEC Championship and Academy Sports and Outdoors

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Speaker 1: stones in other programs. And this isn't relegated to football.

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Speaker 1: You could go in your local bank and the employees

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Speaker 1: there are the same way. This is not a sport

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Speaker 1: full of angels. This is not a world full of angels.

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Speaker 1: It's a world full of very, very flawed and imperfect people.

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Speaker 1: And as a result, I'm not going to be the

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Speaker 1: one to traffic in the moral grandstanding a lot of

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Speaker 1: you have chosen to. That's fine, that you're prerogative. I'm

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Speaker 1: not going to do it. I think Hugh Freese is

436
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Speaker 1: a good coach. I think he's paid the price that

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Speaker 1: he needs to pay. I'll say this, and this is

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Speaker 1: going to have to stand the test of time. I

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Speaker 1: don't think you'll hear much of a peep of controversy

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Speaker 1: from him during his days at Auburn. But if you do,

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Speaker 1: it's a zero tolerance policy and I have no problem

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Speaker 1: with that, and truthfully, I don't think he'd have any

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Speaker 1: problem with that, because if he's authentic in what he says,

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Speaker 1: and if he's authentic in stating his ability and willingness

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Speaker 1: to walk the straight and narrow, it won't be a problem.

446
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Speaker 1: You know, a lot of the downfalls in his past

447
00:23:09,080 --> 00:23:11,600
Speaker 1: are not hard to avoid. It's not driving four miles

448
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Speaker 1: an hour over the speed limit. These are pretty glaring

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Speaker 1: issues publicly, so we'll see. I think he's gonna win.

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Speaker 1: I think the portal in NIL will help him respectively,

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Speaker 1: very quickly at Auburn. I welcome your comments respectfully in

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Speaker 1: the comments section. We got a lot of games this weekend.

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Speaker 1: Some of them, well, one of them starts on Friday.

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Speaker 1: We got some of them starting even earlier than that.

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Speaker 1: But I want to go through a few of them here.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna kind of split it. I didn't want to

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Speaker 1: do every conference championship game tonight, so we're gonna do

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Speaker 1: a few of them tonight, and we're gonna do a

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Speaker 1: couple more of them Thursday when we're down in Atlanta.

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Speaker 1: I got some thoughts on DABOS twenty two, so stay tuned.

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Speaker 1: We got a loaded show here tonight. Georgia LSU SEC

462
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Speaker 1: championship game, the first game that I ever went to

463
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Speaker 1: first SEC Championship game I ever attended was LSU Georgia.

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Speaker 1: Nick Saban was the head coach at LSU. It was

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Speaker 1: Mark Richt at Georgia. It was three and I believe

466
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Speaker 1: the final was thirty four to thirteen, which is right

467
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Speaker 1: in line with how a lot of people are predicting

468
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Speaker 1: this game to go. Brian Kelly is the first head

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Speaker 1: coach since Jim mcelwaine to be in the SEC Championship

470
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Speaker 1: Game in his first season as head coach in this conference.

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Speaker 1: Do you know what this confirms? Georgia opened as like

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Speaker 1: a seventeen or seventeen and a half point favorite. Right now,

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Speaker 1: they have been double digit favorites in every game this year.

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Speaker 1: That is not easy to do, even with the schedule

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Speaker 1: they play, it's not easy to do. What does Saturday

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Speaker 1: mean for the SEC Championship game? Well, I don't really know.

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Speaker 1: A lot of you were asking like, what does it mean?

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Speaker 1: Is it going to be boring? Does this kind of

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Speaker 1: water down the quality of the game. Look, I don't

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Speaker 1: know if you've noticed, there is no pristine conference championship game.

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Speaker 1: I would argue the closest thing too, that's the Big

482
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Speaker 1: twelve Championship game. It's competition. Man, points, sprints, don't matter

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Speaker 1: what you kick a game off, it's competition. I would

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Speaker 1: want welcome some of you to walk out of the

485
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Speaker 1: Xbox world walk into the real world. Hey, this team

486
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Speaker 1: in purple and Goal was favored by double digits last

487
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Speaker 1: week and they got run out of someone else's building.

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Speaker 1: Who knows. I will ask you this rhetorically as we

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Speaker 1: get into the prediction. Do you think the A and

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Speaker 1: M game matters? A lot of you have been very

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Speaker 1: turned off by that game. Obviously an M kind of

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Speaker 1: kind of took the wood to LSU last Saturday. Do

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Speaker 1: you think it matters this week? Cook on that. Let's

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Speaker 1: dive into the game. Can the upset happen? It's always

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Speaker 1: our rule here, we will not break a game down

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Speaker 1: if we don't think the upset can happen. Yeah, there's

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Speaker 1: a non zero percent chance that the upset could happen.

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Speaker 1: So how does it happen? Well? Number one, the LSU

499
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Speaker 1: defense I think is the most important factor in this game,

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Speaker 1: because they got to keep LSU in it, and it's possible,

501
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Speaker 1: it is possible. This is a very very efficient Georgia offense.

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Speaker 1: But you can slow it down. Okay, it's not Caleb Williams.

503
00:26:00,119 --> 00:26:03,520
Speaker 1: They're at his peak. It's not just scissoring you up

504
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Speaker 1: and down the field and you have no recourse. It

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Speaker 1: can happen. How would it happen? Well, Number one, you

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Speaker 1: have to take advantage of one of the relative weaknesses

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Speaker 1: in George's arsenal this year, and that is they've been

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Speaker 1: turnover prone. I think they're in like the seventies or

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Speaker 1: eighties nationally in turnover margin. And I also think that

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Speaker 1: lends to the style of play that Georgia likes to incorporate.

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Speaker 1: Think about the Tennessee game. Once they got up in

512
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Speaker 1: the Tennessee game, Kirby smart rightly realized the only way

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Speaker 1: they could beat us is if we help them do it.

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Speaker 1: At this point, there could be a time in this

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Speaker 1: game where Kirby realizes they're not moving the ball on

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Speaker 1: us at all. The only way that we could really

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Speaker 1: lose this thing is if we throw the ball and

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Speaker 1: we give them an opportunity to force turnovers. Well, the

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00:26:46,560 --> 00:26:49,320
Speaker 1: best way to counter that is make sure that you're

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Speaker 1: very aggressive and you know, the Harold Perkins of the

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Speaker 1: world or a factor. You're forcing the pocket, you're forcing

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Speaker 1: early throws and you're putting yourself in position to force

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Speaker 1: some turnovers before it's twenty four to three, because at

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Speaker 1: that point it's going to be a very very quick game.

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Speaker 1: You're out of there in about three three hours of

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Speaker 1: fifteen minutes. The second thing is Jaden Daniels has to

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Speaker 1: be athletically healthy. I think he's going to start. For

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Speaker 1: those unfamiliar, there are health concerns with him, the quarterback

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Speaker 1: at LSU. He's got to be athletically healthy. I don't

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Speaker 1: care if he's on the field. If I don't get

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Speaker 1: his legs, he is a very ineffective weapon if I

532
00:27:23,640 --> 00:27:27,080
Speaker 1: don't have his legs to work with, and he is

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Speaker 1: at that point a detriment to LSU's success opportunities. He's

534
00:27:31,960 --> 00:27:34,800
Speaker 1: not part of that equation anymore. So he's got to

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Speaker 1: have number one, the ability to use every facet of

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Speaker 1: his game, and number two, he's got to have a

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Speaker 1: timing and precision day. He's got to have one of

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Speaker 1: those days where you watch it, you know him, You've

539
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Speaker 1: watched every game if you're an LSU fan. It's just

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Speaker 1: got to be one of those afternoons where he's making

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Speaker 1: some throws he hasn't made all year. Capable of him,

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Speaker 1: but hasn't really made him. He's anticipating windows opening instead

543
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Speaker 1: of waiting for the windows to open, which is one

544
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Speaker 1: of the big gripes. Thankful gripes. People are thankful for him,

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Speaker 1: But one of the gripes, if you pick apart his game,

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Speaker 1: is it's not able to anticipate. He's just half a

547
00:28:09,600 --> 00:28:12,000
Speaker 1: second behind on some of these throws. Half a second's

548
00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:14,520
Speaker 1: a long time on a football field when pass routes

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Speaker 1: are developing downfield. Here's the other I guess ray of sunshine,

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Speaker 1: ray of hope for LSU. Georgia does not generate a

551
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Speaker 1: ton of sacks. They don't generate a ton of pressure,

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Speaker 1: now a ton of tackles for loss. I would counter that,

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Speaker 1: and I would say when they needed to against Tennessee,

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Speaker 1: they did, and I'm not so sure if they needed

555
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Speaker 1: it Saturday, if they couldn't take those two stats, I

556
00:28:37,520 --> 00:28:40,760
Speaker 1: just read you and sort of render them moot. I

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00:28:40,800 --> 00:28:43,880
Speaker 1: think Georgia could probably record a few more sacks in

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Speaker 1: a given season if they need to. I think they

559
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Speaker 1: could record a few more tackles for loss. They don't

560
00:28:48,040 --> 00:28:49,880
Speaker 1: need to because they know they got the best red

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Speaker 1: zone defense in the country. And so they know. We

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Speaker 1: don't really think you're gonna move it much between the twenties.

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Speaker 1: But even if you do, once you get down here,

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Speaker 1: hope for three threes is good. You're gonna do And

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Speaker 1: that kind of brings me to my next point. And

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Speaker 1: this sounds easy to say, it's much harder to execute

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Speaker 1: when LSU gets around midfield. When they get across midfield

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Speaker 1: and plus territory, that's where you've got to score. I'm

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Speaker 1: not saying you can't do it in the red zone,

570
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Speaker 1: but pop in explosive plays, which is extremely hard against Georgia.

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Speaker 1: But you're a seventeen and a half point dog for

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Speaker 1: a reason. Pop in explosive plays, taking shots around midfield,

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Speaker 1: that's your shot. You don't have to wait to get

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Speaker 1: in the red zone before you try and crack the

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Speaker 1: end zone. You can try and pop some explosive plays

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Speaker 1: and look, that would be great. There are a lot

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Speaker 1: of concerns for LSU, but one of them to me

578
00:29:41,040 --> 00:29:43,160
Speaker 1: is just worried about how much gas they have in

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Speaker 1: the tank. It's hard to make it this deep in

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Speaker 1: the season, and they've obviously been banged up at quarterback,

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00:29:48,240 --> 00:29:52,160
Speaker 1: they're banged up special teams, is always a concern. You've

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Speaker 1: watched LSU this year, they are what they are. You

583
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Speaker 1: hope in the randomized nature of special teams, it doesn't

584
00:29:58,000 --> 00:30:01,440
Speaker 1: bite you any game like this, but it could. It's there.

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Speaker 1: It's a reality, and the passing game it's something I

586
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Speaker 1: can't get away from. You've got to have it. You

587
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Speaker 1: can't be one dimensional against Georgia. You just can't. So

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00:30:10,320 --> 00:30:12,720
Speaker 1: let's take a look at what the model thinks. Let's

589
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Speaker 1: take a look at what Vegas says. The current line

590
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Speaker 1: Georgia minus seventeen and a half. We've only got Georgia

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Speaker 1: minus thirteen and a half with the model, but I

592
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Speaker 1: do need to make sure that I emphasize that's with

593
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Speaker 1: a totally healthy Jaden Daniels. So we have not noted

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Speaker 1: LSU at all. We have not shaved any points off

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Speaker 1: or given any points in favor to Georgia. So the

596
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Speaker 1: way I see this playing out is the type of

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Speaker 1: game where either LSU has a little firecracker start but

598
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Speaker 1: Georgia ends up taking control, or Georgia just takes control early,

599
00:30:47,640 --> 00:30:50,080
Speaker 1: but in typical Georgia fashion. We've seen it many times

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Speaker 1: this year. They just don't stretch the game in the

601
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Speaker 1: second half. They have no incentive to they don't need

602
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Speaker 1: style points. They're just looking to shorten it as quickly

603
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Speaker 1: as possible, get it over with as quickly as possible. Now,

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00:30:59,320 --> 00:31:01,480
Speaker 1: if to spread, we're seven and a half, I wouldn't care,

605
00:31:01,800 --> 00:31:04,520
Speaker 1: but it's seventeen and a half, so I do. And

606
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Speaker 1: so I'm gonna take Georgia to win. I do think

607
00:31:07,240 --> 00:31:09,520
Speaker 1: it's a few too many points. I'll take LSU to cover.

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Speaker 1: It would be the weirdest thing in the world. How

609
00:31:14,400 --> 00:31:17,080
Speaker 1: how And I don't know if anti climactic's the right word.

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00:31:17,080 --> 00:31:19,000
Speaker 1: How weird? I guess that's the right word. Would it

611
00:31:19,040 --> 00:31:23,280
Speaker 1: feel if you watch purple and gold confetti raining in Atlanta?

612
00:31:23,320 --> 00:31:25,840
Speaker 1: Because ULSU is not going to the playoff, Georgia is

613
00:31:25,880 --> 00:31:28,440
Speaker 1: still going to the playoffs, you just feel weird. It's

614
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Speaker 1: the second year in a row, by the way, Georgia

615
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Speaker 1: would have missed out on winning the conference and they're

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Speaker 1: still going to the playoff. I don't know. I don't

617
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Speaker 1: think it'll happen, but we'll see. Let's break up the

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Speaker 1: conference championship prediction monotony for just a second. I've got

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Speaker 1: something else to talk about. Hey, what do you think

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Speaker 1: about Dabo Swinny. This is another guy where everyone's got

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Speaker 1: an opinion on him. Take another sip out of the

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Speaker 1: house ceremonial orange for Dabo here. I know there's a

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Speaker 1: lot going on in college football right now, So I

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Speaker 1: think some of you know what I'm about to talk about,

625
00:32:00,600 --> 00:32:02,960
Speaker 1: but maybe some of you don't appreciate you guys being

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Speaker 1: tuned in live. By the way, if you are, gim

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Speaker 1: me a favor, put the thumbs up button and subscribe

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00:32:07,800 --> 00:32:13,560
Speaker 1: to the channel in that order. Dabo said some things

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Speaker 1: again this week at his coaches show. You know they're

630
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Speaker 1: playing Saturday. I don't know if you're aware, but they

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Speaker 1: are in the ACC Championship game. And so Dabo taking

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Speaker 1: some calls at his coaches show, and there was a

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Speaker 1: guy and I only read the transcript. Truthfully, I did

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Speaker 1: not listen to the exchange. I don't think I need to.

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Speaker 1: We've got the full context coming up in a second.

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Speaker 1: But I told you the other day, before I knew

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Speaker 1: this Coaches Show exchange was going to happen, I told

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Speaker 1: you I think a couple of things are true here.

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Speaker 1: The first is I think Dabo knows he's got to

640
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Speaker 1: make some changes. The second thing is he's not about

641
00:32:50,200 --> 00:32:52,160
Speaker 1: to share that with you and give you the satisfaction

642
00:32:52,560 --> 00:32:55,440
Speaker 1: of knowing that he sees weaknesses in his program, because

643
00:32:55,480 --> 00:32:58,600
Speaker 1: if he gives you that satisfaction, it really just burns

644
00:32:58,600 --> 00:33:01,880
Speaker 1: a hole in him. And I told you I don't care.

645
00:33:02,200 --> 00:33:04,240
Speaker 1: I don't mind that, because I would feel the same way.

646
00:33:05,360 --> 00:33:09,400
Speaker 1: Having said that, someone calls into Dabo's show and I'm

647
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Speaker 1: going to run through it for you real quick before

648
00:33:11,280 --> 00:33:13,680
Speaker 1: I give you the quote. But they're kind of, you know,

649
00:33:14,280 --> 00:33:16,440
Speaker 1: drawing back and forth with him in a jovial way,

650
00:33:16,880 --> 00:33:19,000
Speaker 1: and they're saying, I remember back in the day where

651
00:33:19,520 --> 00:33:22,000
Speaker 1: you were early in your tenure here, and you know,

652
00:33:22,040 --> 00:33:24,480
Speaker 1: we got to a game and we lost the game,

653
00:33:24,680 --> 00:33:26,360
Speaker 1: or maybe they won the game, but anyway, it was

654
00:33:26,480 --> 00:33:28,760
Speaker 1: it was a turning point. It was time to make decisions.

655
00:33:28,800 --> 00:33:30,840
Speaker 1: And Dabo's kind of saying, yep, sure it was, Yep,

656
00:33:30,880 --> 00:33:32,840
Speaker 1: sure was. So the fan says, well, a lot of

657
00:33:32,880 --> 00:33:35,760
Speaker 1: the fan base is at a point where we think

658
00:33:35,800 --> 00:33:39,840
Speaker 1: it's time for you to make more critical decisions. Now

659
00:33:40,240 --> 00:33:43,920
Speaker 1: we paused there, and I think that there's a large

660
00:33:44,000 --> 00:33:47,120
Speaker 1: chunk of our audience that saw what I'm about to

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Speaker 1: show you today. Quote edits are a great thing, and

662
00:33:50,920 --> 00:33:53,240
Speaker 1: quote edits are a terrible thing. If you have ever

663
00:33:53,320 --> 00:33:55,880
Speaker 1: perused social media, you know what I'm talking about. Quote

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Speaker 1: edits are a picture and then there's a quote on it.

665
00:34:00,040 --> 00:34:01,680
Speaker 1: Be true, it could be fake. It doesn't matter. If

666
00:34:01,680 --> 00:34:04,240
Speaker 1: it's written and it's on the Internet, people believe it. Well.

667
00:34:05,240 --> 00:34:08,719
Speaker 1: There is a third thing that happens. Sometimes part of

668
00:34:08,719 --> 00:34:12,120
Speaker 1: a quote is put on a quote edit that's kind

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00:34:12,120 --> 00:34:14,719
Speaker 1: of meant to be taken out of context because it's

670
00:34:14,760 --> 00:34:16,759
Speaker 1: meant to stir you up. You know, in a former

671
00:34:16,800 --> 00:34:18,520
Speaker 1: world we would have called that clickbait. I don't know

672
00:34:18,520 --> 00:34:20,920
Speaker 1: what clicks are worth on Twitter, but in a former

673
00:34:20,960 --> 00:34:23,319
Speaker 1: world that's what we would call that. It is misleading

674
00:34:23,400 --> 00:34:26,600
Speaker 1: at best. So I had Colin. I had director Colin,

675
00:34:26,640 --> 00:34:30,520
Speaker 1: I had the pas. I had them produce two versions

676
00:34:30,760 --> 00:34:34,320
Speaker 1: of a quote. One is the version that you probably

677
00:34:34,400 --> 00:34:37,239
Speaker 1: saw floating around the ether today. The other is the

678
00:34:37,400 --> 00:34:41,200
Speaker 1: entire quote. Here's probably what you saw. This is Debo Swinney.

679
00:34:41,680 --> 00:34:44,280
Speaker 1: What would you do if you only saw this quote quote?

680
00:34:44,320 --> 00:34:45,759
Speaker 1: All I can tell you is I'm going to do

681
00:34:45,840 --> 00:34:47,719
Speaker 1: my job, and if it comes time where people don't

682
00:34:47,800 --> 00:34:49,439
Speaker 1: like how I do my job, then they can hire

683
00:34:49,440 --> 00:34:53,319
Speaker 1: somebody else that was floating around everywhere today. What do

684
00:34:53,360 --> 00:34:55,600
Speaker 1: you think. You don't know the context, You have no

685
00:34:55,680 --> 00:34:57,920
Speaker 1: clue what the setting was. You just know he said,

686
00:34:58,080 --> 00:34:59,600
Speaker 1: if people don't like how I do my job, they

687
00:34:59,640 --> 00:35:02,760
Speaker 1: can hire somebody else. Well, if you don't like Dabo Swinny,

688
00:35:03,239 --> 00:35:07,600
Speaker 1: it's just more ammunition in a in a very very

689
00:35:07,640 --> 00:35:10,640
Speaker 1: heavy belt around your waist that you can use against him.

690
00:35:10,800 --> 00:35:13,239
Speaker 1: You don't like him, you think he's arrogant, you think

691
00:35:13,239 --> 00:35:16,520
Speaker 1: he's pompous, he whines too much. How much money is

692
00:35:16,560 --> 00:35:21,840
Speaker 1: he making? Now? He deserved that criticism. Okay, Well, I,

693
00:35:22,520 --> 00:35:26,280
Speaker 1: you know, decided to take the contrarian stance of finding

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Speaker 1: the whole quote. You know, it's something they used to

695
00:35:29,400 --> 00:35:32,600
Speaker 1: teach us in school, and I found it. It was

696
00:35:32,640 --> 00:35:35,279
Speaker 1: out there, believe it or not. So what I'm gonna

697
00:35:35,320 --> 00:35:37,320
Speaker 1: do now is I'm going to read you the whole quote.

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00:35:37,360 --> 00:35:39,319
Speaker 1: It's gonna start with what you just heard, because that's

699
00:35:39,360 --> 00:35:41,960
Speaker 1: the beginning of the quote, but it doesn't end there,

700
00:35:42,400 --> 00:35:44,560
Speaker 1: and I want you to listen to the whole thing quote.

701
00:35:45,160 --> 00:35:47,120
Speaker 1: All I can do is tell you if I'm going

702
00:35:47,200 --> 00:35:49,239
Speaker 1: to do my job, if it comes a time where

703
00:35:49,239 --> 00:35:51,120
Speaker 1: people don't like how I do my job, they can

704
00:35:51,239 --> 00:35:55,160
Speaker 1: hire somebody else and now we continue. If I did that,

705
00:35:55,520 --> 00:35:57,960
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be sitting here talking to you tonight. The

706
00:35:58,040 --> 00:36:01,200
Speaker 1: reality is we're at ten and two football team, playing

707
00:36:01,200 --> 00:36:04,080
Speaker 1: for our league title and one of the most consistent

708
00:36:04,160 --> 00:36:09,040
Speaker 1: teams in the country. Every year is different. Nobody's got

709
00:36:09,080 --> 00:36:11,160
Speaker 1: their head in the sand. We got to get better

710
00:36:11,200 --> 00:36:13,560
Speaker 1: in a lot of areas. We know that. But if

711
00:36:13,560 --> 00:36:15,239
Speaker 1: we want to fire the head coach and fire the

712
00:36:15,280 --> 00:36:17,960
Speaker 1: staff every year, if we don't make the playoff, then

713
00:36:18,600 --> 00:36:21,560
Speaker 1: you're going to have a new head coach here very often,

714
00:36:21,880 --> 00:36:24,359
Speaker 1: and you're going to have a new staff here every year,

715
00:36:24,520 --> 00:36:26,839
Speaker 1: because that ain't going to happen a lot. There's only

716
00:36:26,840 --> 00:36:29,640
Speaker 1: four teams, and if that's the mindset of Clemson, there

717
00:36:29,680 --> 00:36:33,600
Speaker 1: will be a new head coach here, and there will

718
00:36:33,600 --> 00:36:35,799
Speaker 1: be a new staff every year and will be a

719
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Speaker 1: very mediocre, inconsistent program. That's how I look at it.

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Speaker 1: If I read that and I heard him say it,

721
00:36:43,920 --> 00:36:46,719
Speaker 1: I would probably not even realize there was going to

722
00:36:46,719 --> 00:36:49,160
Speaker 1: be controversy around it. But if you take it out

723
00:36:49,160 --> 00:36:52,279
Speaker 1: of context, it's pretty easy. Dado's a very fiery guy,

724
00:36:52,360 --> 00:36:55,480
Speaker 1: is very emotional. He is always brutally honest with you,

725
00:36:55,840 --> 00:36:59,960
Speaker 1: which I've told you. I much prefer to the alternative,

726
00:37:00,040 --> 00:37:01,960
Speaker 1: which is someone who never gives you anything and has

727
00:37:02,000 --> 00:37:05,399
Speaker 1: the personality of a rock. And so I've never had

728
00:37:05,400 --> 00:37:07,920
Speaker 1: an issue. Even when the guy says something I disagree with,

729
00:37:08,000 --> 00:37:11,200
Speaker 1: I appreciate his candor and his honesty. He is secure

730
00:37:11,320 --> 00:37:13,640
Speaker 1: enough professionally where he can afford to do that. Now

731
00:37:15,040 --> 00:37:18,440
Speaker 1: what he said is true, Okay, what he said is

732
00:37:19,120 --> 00:37:21,240
Speaker 1: something I've heard Nick Saban have to do a lot,

733
00:37:21,600 --> 00:37:25,360
Speaker 1: and that is, once you enjoy a certain amount of success,

734
00:37:25,920 --> 00:37:30,359
Speaker 1: people recalibrate their expectations and the expectations become totally unrealistic.

735
00:37:30,680 --> 00:37:34,680
Speaker 1: The expectations become winning ten games means there's a problem.

736
00:37:35,520 --> 00:37:37,800
Speaker 1: And all guys like him try and do is remind

737
00:37:37,840 --> 00:37:40,319
Speaker 1: you and trust me, they could be a lot more

738
00:37:40,400 --> 00:37:42,520
Speaker 1: arrogant than they are about it. He could just say,

739
00:37:43,040 --> 00:37:45,520
Speaker 1: do you realize what you were before you had me?

740
00:37:46,120 --> 00:37:47,960
Speaker 1: I'll say it, you know what, I will be the

741
00:37:48,000 --> 00:37:51,919
Speaker 1: proxy for daboswiney. Do you guys realize what you were

742
00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:55,040
Speaker 1: before you had him? Do you realize you've enjoyed more

743
00:37:55,080 --> 00:37:59,320
Speaker 1: success just during his tenure than stacking the entire modern

744
00:37:59,400 --> 00:38:02,919
Speaker 1: era history of your program on top of itself before him.

745
00:38:03,880 --> 00:38:09,200
Speaker 1: That's true. That's just true, and so you're thankful for it.

746
00:38:09,280 --> 00:38:12,399
Speaker 1: And I don't argue that any Clemson fans ungrateful for it.

747
00:38:13,080 --> 00:38:16,399
Speaker 1: I do think there may be a portion. I don't

748
00:38:16,400 --> 00:38:18,040
Speaker 1: know how big it is, but a portion of the

749
00:38:18,040 --> 00:38:20,080
Speaker 1: fan base up there. No different than the Bama folks,

750
00:38:20,320 --> 00:38:23,760
Speaker 1: no different than Georgia folks will be eventually, mark my words,

751
00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:27,200
Speaker 1: no different than Ohio State fans have been and would

752
00:38:27,200 --> 00:38:30,280
Speaker 1: be again under Ryan Day. If he enjoys a string

753
00:38:30,320 --> 00:38:33,400
Speaker 1: of successful years like Dabbo has, like Saban has, you

754
00:38:33,680 --> 00:38:37,640
Speaker 1: just lose grip with reality. You just lose perspective, and

755
00:38:37,719 --> 00:38:42,040
Speaker 1: you sometimes start to let casuals and outsiders, and some

756
00:38:42,080 --> 00:38:47,319
Speaker 1: casual insiders convince you that there are major problems. There

757
00:38:47,320 --> 00:38:52,080
Speaker 1: are major problems at Clemson only if your standard is

758
00:38:52,120 --> 00:38:55,360
Speaker 1: winning a title every year, and their standard's extremely high.

759
00:38:55,560 --> 00:38:58,320
Speaker 1: And I've been mildly critical of some of their approaches,

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00:38:58,719 --> 00:39:01,360
Speaker 1: you know, I thought, for exact I was surprised, let

761
00:39:01,440 --> 00:39:03,480
Speaker 1: me put it that way. I was surprised that he

762
00:39:03,520 --> 00:39:07,560
Speaker 1: didn't go outside for coordinator hires. His preference was to

763
00:39:07,600 --> 00:39:10,760
Speaker 1: go inside. I don't think they haven't experienced enough coaching

764
00:39:10,800 --> 00:39:14,560
Speaker 1: staff right now, you know, without singling out any one issue,

765
00:39:14,600 --> 00:39:16,719
Speaker 1: any one problem, because I'm not qualified to do that.

766
00:39:16,800 --> 00:39:20,120
Speaker 1: I just think when you compare their staff to other staffs,

767
00:39:21,080 --> 00:39:23,280
Speaker 1: and you could have your pick of pretty much anyone

768
00:39:23,280 --> 00:39:25,440
Speaker 1: out there, and you've got a pretty pretty hefty salary

769
00:39:25,440 --> 00:39:29,919
Speaker 1: pool with which to go attract quality candidates. He chose

770
00:39:29,960 --> 00:39:33,080
Speaker 1: to value internal and promoting from within. He chose to

771
00:39:33,080 --> 00:39:36,160
Speaker 1: do that. I disagreed with him. It is what it is.

772
00:39:36,760 --> 00:39:40,759
Speaker 1: But when he starts getting a little defensive there, that's

773
00:39:40,880 --> 00:39:43,719
Speaker 1: just him. When he starts saying, yeah, if you don't

774
00:39:43,760 --> 00:39:47,160
Speaker 1: like it, fire me get somebody else. Wasn't the whole quote.

775
00:39:47,200 --> 00:39:50,120
Speaker 1: But even if that was the whole quote, that's him.

776
00:39:50,360 --> 00:39:53,160
Speaker 1: Now Here's what I think to reiterate. Is the reality there.

777
00:39:53,360 --> 00:39:58,400
Speaker 1: The reality there is he They quality control everything, guys,

778
00:39:58,520 --> 00:40:02,400
Speaker 1: all these major programs do so they know fifty times

779
00:40:02,400 --> 00:40:04,960
Speaker 1: more about the inner workings of their program than any

780
00:40:04,960 --> 00:40:08,040
Speaker 1: of us ever will. And Dabo Swinny is not stupid.

781
00:40:08,360 --> 00:40:11,960
Speaker 1: So Dabo Swinny has long since gotten with not only

782
00:40:12,040 --> 00:40:15,279
Speaker 1: his coaching staff, but also his off field personnel and

783
00:40:15,320 --> 00:40:18,320
Speaker 1: his quality control of folks recruiting nutrition, strength and conditioning,

784
00:40:18,360 --> 00:40:22,759
Speaker 1: everything in between, and especially after the season's over, they

785
00:40:22,760 --> 00:40:25,440
Speaker 1: will self scout, they'll self evaluate, they'll do a healthy

786
00:40:25,480 --> 00:40:28,879
Speaker 1: self inventory, and they'll be a laundry list of things

787
00:40:28,920 --> 00:40:31,560
Speaker 1: they want to change. But what he's not gonna do,

788
00:40:31,600 --> 00:40:33,960
Speaker 1: because it's not in him to do it, is stand

789
00:40:34,000 --> 00:40:36,439
Speaker 1: there and let you bang on him. He's just he's

790
00:40:36,480 --> 00:40:39,680
Speaker 1: too prideful a guy. Could it be a flaw sometimes? Yeah,

791
00:40:39,719 --> 00:40:43,520
Speaker 1: I guess it could. The reason I don't criticize it

792
00:40:43,600 --> 00:40:46,399
Speaker 1: is because I would be just like him. I am

793
00:40:46,480 --> 00:40:50,280
Speaker 1: not about to give you the satisfaction because, deep down,

794
00:40:50,960 --> 00:40:53,239
Speaker 1: and I'm just being real with you again, I don't

795
00:40:53,239 --> 00:40:55,680
Speaker 1: respect your football acumen. If you sit in front of

796
00:40:55,680 --> 00:40:58,080
Speaker 1: me with a keyboard at a press conference, I don't

797
00:40:58,080 --> 00:40:59,799
Speaker 1: think you know about the game what I know about

798
00:40:59,800 --> 00:41:02,560
Speaker 1: the game. I never walked into your place of business

799
00:41:02,719 --> 00:41:06,120
Speaker 1: and criticized your sentence structure. So I don't really respect

800
00:41:06,480 --> 00:41:09,440
Speaker 1: you and your criticisms of me. You're free to do it.

801
00:41:09,800 --> 00:41:11,920
Speaker 1: I just don't respect it. And so what I'm not

802
00:41:11,960 --> 00:41:14,520
Speaker 1: gonna do is allow myself to stand there and take

803
00:41:14,560 --> 00:41:16,799
Speaker 1: it from you. And I'm not gonna say, well you're right, Well,

804
00:41:16,840 --> 00:41:18,960
Speaker 1: you're right well, you're right, it's just not the way

805
00:41:19,000 --> 00:41:21,600
Speaker 1: it's gonna work. It wouldn't work that way with me

806
00:41:21,960 --> 00:41:24,000
Speaker 1: at Peyton State, it doesn't work that way with him

807
00:41:24,000 --> 00:41:26,680
Speaker 1: at Clemson. But that doesn't mean you may not be right.

808
00:41:27,320 --> 00:41:29,160
Speaker 1: That doesn't mean he may not see it the same

809
00:41:29,200 --> 00:41:31,640
Speaker 1: way you do. That doesn't mean some of the changes

810
00:41:31,960 --> 00:41:34,000
Speaker 1: that you and I and many other people think he

811
00:41:34,040 --> 00:41:36,520
Speaker 1: needs to make he doesn't agree with and may not

812
00:41:36,600 --> 00:41:38,719
Speaker 1: be well in his way to trying to make. He's

813
00:41:38,800 --> 00:41:41,120
Speaker 1: just not going to give you the satisfaction of publicly

814
00:41:41,160 --> 00:41:42,920
Speaker 1: admitting it. And if you got a problem with that,

815
00:41:42,960 --> 00:41:44,279
Speaker 1: I guess you got a problem with the head coach

816
00:41:44,280 --> 00:41:46,120
Speaker 1: at Clemson. I don't have a problem with it. So

817
00:41:46,239 --> 00:41:48,440
Speaker 1: I don't have a problem with the head coach at Clemson.

818
00:41:49,200 --> 00:41:54,239
Speaker 1: Moving on, predictions continue here tonight the Big Ten Championship game.

819
00:41:54,360 --> 00:41:58,040
Speaker 1: You're gonna watch I Am Saturday night, eight o'clock on Fox,

820
00:41:58,120 --> 00:42:02,880
Speaker 1: Michigan Purdue. Some people, some on the streets, are saying

821
00:42:03,400 --> 00:42:07,400
Speaker 1: that the Big Ten division structure has robbed us of

822
00:42:07,440 --> 00:42:09,879
Speaker 1: what could be a great game. I know what they mean.

823
00:42:10,200 --> 00:42:12,560
Speaker 1: They mean we could be seeing Michigan Ohio State again.

824
00:42:12,760 --> 00:42:14,839
Speaker 1: But then the more I thought about it, the more

825
00:42:14,880 --> 00:42:19,440
Speaker 1: I wondered, is it really robbing us? Because last week's

826
00:42:19,520 --> 00:42:22,319
Speaker 1: game could not mean what it meant if you knew

827
00:42:22,320 --> 00:42:26,560
Speaker 1: that a rematch was inevitably on the table, how strange

828
00:42:26,600 --> 00:42:28,920
Speaker 1: would that have felt? How strange would a Big ten

829
00:42:29,000 --> 00:42:32,000
Speaker 1: championship game between the two field. I've never been crazy

830
00:42:32,000 --> 00:42:35,440
Speaker 1: about that dynamic in the NFL. It's unavoidable. Sometimes it happens,

831
00:42:35,480 --> 00:42:38,200
Speaker 1: but I've never been crazy about it. So I don't

832
00:42:38,200 --> 00:42:41,480
Speaker 1: know actually how I feel about that. I know that

833
00:42:41,800 --> 00:42:45,879
Speaker 1: Michigan's a healthy favorite here for a reason. Now I'm

834
00:42:45,880 --> 00:42:49,280
Speaker 1: gonna paper pop this because it's not a comforting stat

835
00:42:49,400 --> 00:42:52,080
Speaker 1: for Michigan folks. Hopefully for you guys, it's not going

836
00:42:52,160 --> 00:42:55,200
Speaker 1: to matter. I'm just saying before everyone writes this game

837
00:42:55,239 --> 00:42:56,920
Speaker 1: off and goes to what are you doing going to

838
00:42:56,960 --> 00:42:58,759
Speaker 1: bed before eight? But if you do go to bed

839
00:42:58,800 --> 00:43:02,040
Speaker 1: before eight, I want you to remember this before you

840
00:43:02,080 --> 00:43:06,319
Speaker 1: close your eyes. The last three times that Perdue has

841
00:43:06,360 --> 00:43:11,839
Speaker 1: played a top five team, twenty twenty one, they won

842
00:43:11,920 --> 00:43:15,839
Speaker 1: forty to twenty nine outright Michigan State. Twenty twenty one.

843
00:43:16,360 --> 00:43:20,640
Speaker 1: They won twenty four to seven outright against Iowa twenty eighteen,

844
00:43:21,120 --> 00:43:24,439
Speaker 1: forty nine to twenty. They won outright against number two

845
00:43:24,480 --> 00:43:27,720
Speaker 1: Ohio State. You can either tell me it means everything

846
00:43:27,840 --> 00:43:32,000
Speaker 1: or it means nothing. Someone's right, this is a top

847
00:43:32,040 --> 00:43:34,560
Speaker 1: soil special. And I can't even take credit for this.

848
00:43:34,680 --> 00:43:37,319
Speaker 1: We get a great research packet from Ryan McGrady in

849
00:43:37,360 --> 00:43:41,560
Speaker 1: the Gang, but I cannot take credit for the following

850
00:43:41,680 --> 00:43:44,000
Speaker 1: stat and it's it's very much in your face, but

851
00:43:44,120 --> 00:43:46,120
Speaker 1: this is what we call a top soil special. The

852
00:43:46,160 --> 00:43:50,000
Speaker 1: top soil special means that it looks one way on

853
00:43:50,040 --> 00:43:53,240
Speaker 1: the surface, but if you just push away that top layer,

854
00:43:53,680 --> 00:43:57,840
Speaker 1: the truth lies somewhere underneath. And our buddies over at

855
00:43:57,880 --> 00:44:00,400
Speaker 1: college football Nerds I always love list and into their

856
00:44:00,440 --> 00:44:04,000
Speaker 1: previews because I love their thumbnails on YouTube. Truthfully, they

857
00:44:04,000 --> 00:44:07,279
Speaker 1: were talking about this game and they said, don't get

858
00:44:07,400 --> 00:44:11,200
Speaker 1: fooled about total yardage. Total yardage is is a grossly

859
00:44:11,239 --> 00:44:15,000
Speaker 1: misleading metric wholesale, but especially when it comes to Purdue.

860
00:44:15,440 --> 00:44:18,080
Speaker 1: You could look at their passing yardage and you could

861
00:44:18,120 --> 00:44:20,400
Speaker 1: fool yourself into believing, oh, this team's capable of just

862
00:44:20,440 --> 00:44:23,680
Speaker 1: bombing away on Michigan. Well, it's because they throw it

863
00:44:23,719 --> 00:44:25,960
Speaker 1: every down and so when you dive into it a

864
00:44:26,000 --> 00:44:27,960
Speaker 1: little bit more, I didn't even know it was this glaring,

865
00:44:28,000 --> 00:44:30,040
Speaker 1: but they did the research, so I didn't have to

866
00:44:30,840 --> 00:44:35,080
Speaker 1: Passing yards per attempt Perdue is ninety second in the country,

867
00:44:35,200 --> 00:44:37,600
Speaker 1: So it doesn't matter if you have three hundred yards passing.

868
00:44:37,600 --> 00:44:39,640
Speaker 1: If it took you like seventy passes to do it

869
00:44:39,680 --> 00:44:41,720
Speaker 1: doesn't really mean a whole heck of a lot yards

870
00:44:41,760 --> 00:44:44,960
Speaker 1: per play. They're eightieth in the country. Those are not

871
00:44:45,160 --> 00:44:48,760
Speaker 1: overly special numbers. Oh and by the way, it rings

872
00:44:48,800 --> 00:44:50,640
Speaker 1: true when you look at their schedule, they've lost four

873
00:44:50,680 --> 00:44:53,520
Speaker 1: games already. They're just in here because that's the way

874
00:44:53,600 --> 00:44:56,720
Speaker 1: the structure of the divisions works out. There's seventy seventh

875
00:44:57,000 --> 00:45:00,759
Speaker 1: in points per drive, Michigan's eight. You know, there's this

876
00:45:00,840 --> 00:45:04,080
Speaker 1: thing that you could convince yourself of, and that's really

877
00:45:04,120 --> 00:45:06,200
Speaker 1: only if you haven't watched the team's play. You could

878
00:45:06,200 --> 00:45:10,279
Speaker 1: convince yourself Michigan defensive special team, and that's the way

879
00:45:10,280 --> 00:45:13,040
Speaker 1: they get by. And Purdue is just is pinball. That's

880
00:45:13,080 --> 00:45:16,200
Speaker 1: not it that Michigan is eighth in points per drive

881
00:45:16,400 --> 00:45:19,799
Speaker 1: produce seventy seventh. Michigan is the better offensive team here,

882
00:45:20,080 --> 00:45:22,480
Speaker 1: and the better defensive team and the better coach team.

883
00:45:22,520 --> 00:45:24,359
Speaker 1: They're just the better team. That's why they're favored by

884
00:45:24,400 --> 00:45:27,759
Speaker 1: what they're favored by. I know this doesn't sound like

885
00:45:27,800 --> 00:45:30,839
Speaker 1: I'm painting a very rosy picture for Purdue. They could

886
00:45:30,880 --> 00:45:34,399
Speaker 1: compete here, they could contend here, But if they do,

887
00:45:34,520 --> 00:45:36,160
Speaker 1: it's just going to be because of the game on

888
00:45:36,200 --> 00:45:39,400
Speaker 1: the field. I want to spoil one thing for you

889
00:45:39,520 --> 00:45:42,440
Speaker 1: right now. Let down will have nothing to do with this.

890
00:45:42,520 --> 00:45:43,640
Speaker 1: You can go ahead and get that out of your

891
00:45:43,719 --> 00:45:47,600
Speaker 1: vernacular about this game. I'm not telling you Michigan couldn't struggle.

892
00:45:47,640 --> 00:45:50,640
Speaker 1: I'm not telling you some random upset couldn't happen. It

893
00:45:50,719 --> 00:45:53,719
Speaker 1: won't be because of a letdown. By this time. By

894
00:45:53,719 --> 00:45:56,880
Speaker 1: this point in the year, teams like this have downhill momentum.

895
00:45:56,960 --> 00:45:59,600
Speaker 1: There will be no letdown. They are too professional a

896
00:45:59,640 --> 00:46:02,839
Speaker 1: program to allow themselves to let down. Last year, they

897
00:46:02,840 --> 00:46:04,759
Speaker 1: played Ohio State in the snow, they won for the

898
00:46:04,800 --> 00:46:09,120
Speaker 1: first time in a bajillion years. They undressed. They splattered

899
00:46:09,160 --> 00:46:12,120
Speaker 1: Iowa the next week. It was not even close. There

900
00:46:12,160 --> 00:46:14,480
Speaker 1: was never a question of whether they had shown up

901
00:46:14,560 --> 00:46:16,319
Speaker 1: or not. If you think they went through what they

902
00:46:16,360 --> 00:46:19,480
Speaker 1: went through last week and really all year to lay

903
00:46:19,520 --> 00:46:22,440
Speaker 1: down to no show the Big Ten Championship game you're crazy.

904
00:46:22,640 --> 00:46:27,359
Speaker 1: So what can Purdue take away? That question? I asked

905
00:46:27,400 --> 00:46:30,319
Speaker 1: myself at about three point thirty today, and it's seven

906
00:46:30,520 --> 00:46:32,400
Speaker 1: forty five now, and I still don't have an answer

907
00:46:32,880 --> 00:46:35,839
Speaker 1: because I think Michigan's too balanced offensively. I think coming

908
00:46:35,840 --> 00:46:38,600
Speaker 1: into last week maybe some people would have made an

909
00:46:38,680 --> 00:46:41,160
Speaker 1: argument if you can limit the run, or maybe they're

910
00:46:41,200 --> 00:46:44,840
Speaker 1: banged up in the ground game, then you can trust

911
00:46:44,880 --> 00:46:47,760
Speaker 1: yourself to not get burned by JJ McCarthy and company.

912
00:46:47,800 --> 00:46:52,200
Speaker 1: I just I think they possessed the ability to do

913
00:46:52,280 --> 00:46:55,480
Speaker 1: what they did last week all year. Now. Those were

914
00:46:55,480 --> 00:46:59,000
Speaker 1: explosive plays, which count, So maybe you convince yourself if

915
00:46:59,000 --> 00:47:01,280
Speaker 1: we just limit the explode it plays will be okay.

916
00:47:02,120 --> 00:47:05,080
Speaker 1: Produced past the defense I don't think is good enough

917
00:47:05,400 --> 00:47:08,520
Speaker 1: to even limit them just working their way pretty methodically

918
00:47:08,560 --> 00:47:11,520
Speaker 1: down the field. It's a big spread for a conference

919
00:47:11,520 --> 00:47:14,680
Speaker 1: title game. I know that. But here's what else I know.

920
00:47:15,120 --> 00:47:19,680
Speaker 1: Michigan is number one in FBS in point per game differential.

921
00:47:20,160 --> 00:47:23,920
Speaker 1: They are plus twenty seven point two per game, so

922
00:47:24,000 --> 00:47:26,080
Speaker 1: that spread being sixteen and a half or seventeen doesn't

923
00:47:26,080 --> 00:47:27,920
Speaker 1: seem so fat anymore. Let's take a look at what

924
00:47:27,920 --> 00:47:31,320
Speaker 1: the model thinks Vegas as I said, Michigan minus sixteen

925
00:47:31,360 --> 00:47:33,879
Speaker 1: and a half. The model is close to that. It's

926
00:47:33,920 --> 00:47:36,600
Speaker 1: just to tick north of that. We've got Michigan minus

927
00:47:36,760 --> 00:47:40,600
Speaker 1: seventeen and a half. I think it's going to be

928
00:47:40,640 --> 00:47:42,799
Speaker 1: a wider margin than that. Actually, I don't think this

929
00:47:42,840 --> 00:47:45,680
Speaker 1: is going to be competitive. Now. The total is only

930
00:47:45,719 --> 00:47:48,480
Speaker 1: fifty one and a half. So you know what we

931
00:47:48,520 --> 00:47:52,000
Speaker 1: could look at here is thirty four to ten something

932
00:47:52,040 --> 00:47:54,279
Speaker 1: like that, and you could hit your under and still cover.

933
00:47:54,360 --> 00:47:55,680
Speaker 1: I know a lot of you don't like taking those

934
00:47:55,680 --> 00:47:58,080
Speaker 1: big favorites and unders, and I'm certainly not even gonna

935
00:47:58,080 --> 00:48:01,520
Speaker 1: whisper the P word. I'll whisper it. Parlay, don't do it.

936
00:48:01,880 --> 00:48:03,440
Speaker 1: Don't let me catch you doing it. You're not a

937
00:48:03,440 --> 00:48:05,839
Speaker 1: friend of the program if you're out there wasting mom

938
00:48:05,880 --> 00:48:08,160
Speaker 1: and dad's money on parlays. I'm gonna take Michigan to win.

939
00:48:08,200 --> 00:48:11,200
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take Michigan to cover. I think that someone

940
00:48:11,280 --> 00:48:13,680
Speaker 1: out there is gonna make a pretty spirited argument for

941
00:48:13,719 --> 00:48:15,680
Speaker 1: them to be the one seed and it's not gonna work.

942
00:48:15,800 --> 00:48:18,240
Speaker 1: Georgia wins, but I think someone's gonna make that argument.

943
00:48:20,600 --> 00:48:23,880
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say something here, and I want you to listen.

944
00:48:23,920 --> 00:48:28,120
Speaker 1: Closely because some of you tend to run away when

945
00:48:28,120 --> 00:48:31,319
Speaker 1: I say what I'm about to say. Don't run away.

946
00:48:32,239 --> 00:48:35,040
Speaker 1: PAC twelve Championship Prediction time. Are you still here? You

947
00:48:35,080 --> 00:48:37,080
Speaker 1: should still be here? This has been one of this

948
00:48:37,760 --> 00:48:40,000
Speaker 1: possibly the best conference to watch in the country all year.

949
00:48:40,040 --> 00:48:42,319
Speaker 1: I've had more fun watching Pac twelve and Big twelve

950
00:48:42,320 --> 00:48:46,600
Speaker 1: football this year than any other conference. So make of

951
00:48:46,640 --> 00:48:48,680
Speaker 1: my homerism what you will. There a lot of you

952
00:48:48,719 --> 00:48:51,400
Speaker 1: thought you had me labeled early in the year. Not

953
00:48:51,520 --> 00:48:56,480
Speaker 1: so fast. Friday Night, don't go anywhere. Friday Night Special

954
00:48:56,520 --> 00:48:59,800
Speaker 1: Here eight o'clock Eastern time on Fox. It is usc

955
00:49:00,480 --> 00:49:04,560
Speaker 1: Utah College Football Playoff trip on the line for the Trojans.

956
00:49:04,880 --> 00:49:07,239
Speaker 1: Stop for a second. Can you believe we're saying that?

957
00:49:07,760 --> 00:49:10,359
Speaker 1: Can you believe? I don't care if you had best

958
00:49:10,400 --> 00:49:13,040
Speaker 1: case scenario in mind. Can you believe Lincoln Riley is

959
00:49:13,080 --> 00:49:15,360
Speaker 1: on the precipice of taking this team to the playoff.

960
00:49:15,880 --> 00:49:18,120
Speaker 1: I still don't think that people have wrapped their minds

961
00:49:18,160 --> 00:49:22,200
Speaker 1: around the idea of just seeing USC in the college

962
00:49:22,239 --> 00:49:25,120
Speaker 1: football playoff, which is fine because they've still got one

963
00:49:25,160 --> 00:49:28,120
Speaker 1: big game left to play. I have allowed myself to

964
00:49:28,160 --> 00:49:31,880
Speaker 1: think ahead. So this is a familiar spot for Utah.

965
00:49:32,080 --> 00:49:34,799
Speaker 1: I also haven't forgotten what happened last year. They go

966
00:49:34,880 --> 00:49:37,959
Speaker 1: to Oregon and they well, Oregon comes to their house

967
00:49:38,040 --> 00:49:41,360
Speaker 1: and they destroy them. Then they face off like five

968
00:49:41,400 --> 00:49:44,120
Speaker 1: minutes later in the PAC twelve title game. For some reason,

969
00:49:44,239 --> 00:49:46,960
Speaker 1: some of us thought the result was going to be different,

970
00:49:47,239 --> 00:49:50,760
Speaker 1: and it wasn't. They were almost identical scores. Utah smashes

971
00:49:50,800 --> 00:49:53,560
Speaker 1: them over the head. Again. Well, these two teams have

972
00:49:53,560 --> 00:49:56,640
Speaker 1: already played this year too. Difference is Utah won it

973
00:49:57,320 --> 00:50:00,240
Speaker 1: by one point. It was forty three to forty two.

974
00:50:00,640 --> 00:50:03,719
Speaker 1: I didn't think it was the best officiated game in

975
00:50:03,760 --> 00:50:08,040
Speaker 1: America that weekend or this season. But we're gonna move

976
00:50:08,080 --> 00:50:11,480
Speaker 1: on from officiating. I'm not gonna rehash that. Utah. The

977
00:50:11,560 --> 00:50:14,240
Speaker 1: last two times they've played Southern Cal, they've scored forty

978
00:50:14,280 --> 00:50:17,640
Speaker 1: or more. Now so has Southern Cal. But I look

979
00:50:17,680 --> 00:50:19,680
Speaker 1: at this one and it's okay. If you just want

980
00:50:19,719 --> 00:50:22,520
Speaker 1: to talk quarterbacks does in games like this that's really

981
00:50:22,560 --> 00:50:24,719
Speaker 1: what it comes down to. We could talk about O

982
00:50:24,840 --> 00:50:27,680
Speaker 1: line play, we could talk about the tight ends blocking downfield.

983
00:50:27,880 --> 00:50:30,960
Speaker 1: I really think it's about quarterback here, Cam Rising, this

984
00:50:31,000 --> 00:50:33,799
Speaker 1: is that game if you remember it happening but don't

985
00:50:33,840 --> 00:50:36,280
Speaker 1: remember who it was against. This is that game where

986
00:50:36,640 --> 00:50:39,120
Speaker 1: he went off. He threw for four point fifteen had

987
00:50:39,160 --> 00:50:43,480
Speaker 1: five total touchdowns. This stat line from Dalton Kincaid the

988
00:50:43,560 --> 00:50:49,360
Speaker 1: tight end here at Utah still defies explanation. This sounds

989
00:50:49,440 --> 00:50:53,240
Speaker 1: like a good season for a tight end. Sixteen catches,

990
00:50:53,640 --> 00:50:56,520
Speaker 1: two hundred and thirty four yards. That was in one

991
00:50:56,600 --> 00:51:00,000
Speaker 1: four quarter game against Southern cal And by the way,

992
00:51:00,960 --> 00:51:03,239
Speaker 1: he's on the field Saturday, he's expected to play. He

993
00:51:03,280 --> 00:51:06,439
Speaker 1: went out against Colorado, He's expected to play. All three

994
00:51:06,440 --> 00:51:09,200
Speaker 1: of these Utah losses have come away from home. They

995
00:51:09,239 --> 00:51:13,839
Speaker 1: lost at Florida, they lost at UCLA, which Bradley had

996
00:51:13,880 --> 00:51:15,839
Speaker 1: to remind me who the second one was, and they

997
00:51:15,880 --> 00:51:18,920
Speaker 1: lost at Oregon. I got a question for you. It

998
00:51:19,000 --> 00:51:21,640
Speaker 1: can't be answered until Saturday night, although we could try

999
00:51:21,640 --> 00:51:25,400
Speaker 1: our best to guess. Will this be the most physical

1000
00:51:25,440 --> 00:51:29,400
Speaker 1: matchup USC has had all year? The Oregon State game

1001
00:51:29,719 --> 00:51:32,720
Speaker 1: was tough for him, certainly. The Notre Dame game looked

1002
00:51:32,760 --> 00:51:34,600
Speaker 1: like it was going to be and I'm not saying

1003
00:51:34,640 --> 00:51:37,240
Speaker 1: it wasn't, but they took it to Notre Dame physically.

1004
00:51:37,800 --> 00:51:39,839
Speaker 1: Everybody as much as not more than Notre Dame took

1005
00:51:39,880 --> 00:51:43,680
Speaker 1: it to them. Utah has it in them to sort

1006
00:51:43,680 --> 00:51:46,759
Speaker 1: of turn games into street fights. They didn't have the

1007
00:51:46,800 --> 00:51:48,480
Speaker 1: ability to do it the first time they beat them.

1008
00:51:48,640 --> 00:51:51,640
Speaker 1: I wasn't a street fight. That was more pinball in nature.

1009
00:51:52,080 --> 00:51:54,319
Speaker 1: Is this game played in the upper twenties or is

1010
00:51:54,320 --> 00:51:56,839
Speaker 1: it played in the low forties? Obviously, I think one

1011
00:51:56,880 --> 00:51:59,560
Speaker 1: side benefits USC, even though that side is the side

1012
00:51:59,600 --> 00:52:03,040
Speaker 1: that Utah ended up winning on Utah if they're forced

1013
00:52:03,080 --> 00:52:07,080
Speaker 1: to keep up now, I have no doubt that Cam

1014
00:52:07,160 --> 00:52:10,359
Speaker 1: Rising can throw the ball. Probably not shot for shot

1015
00:52:10,400 --> 00:52:12,839
Speaker 1: with Caleb Williams, but he can do plenty well enough

1016
00:52:12,840 --> 00:52:15,759
Speaker 1: in his own right. They obviously have a dynamite tight end.

1017
00:52:15,760 --> 00:52:18,359
Speaker 1: I mean kin Kate is the focal point of their offense. Now.

1018
00:52:18,400 --> 00:52:20,920
Speaker 1: It's kind of like a brock Bower situation only in

1019
00:52:20,960 --> 00:52:25,080
Speaker 1: the Pac twelve. But if Southern col does force you

1020
00:52:25,120 --> 00:52:27,759
Speaker 1: to keep up by throwing the ball, here's what we know.

1021
00:52:28,600 --> 00:52:31,600
Speaker 1: It puts you in danger of playing right into what

1022
00:52:31,719 --> 00:52:34,160
Speaker 1: has been one of their biggest weapons, and that has

1023
00:52:34,200 --> 00:52:37,440
Speaker 1: been turnover margin. They are plus, they're in the twenties.

1024
00:52:37,440 --> 00:52:40,239
Speaker 1: They're in the plus twenties now. USC number one in

1025
00:52:40,440 --> 00:52:44,880
Speaker 1: FBS and turnover margin also don't forget one other little

1026
00:52:44,920 --> 00:52:49,040
Speaker 1: stat that I thought loomed very large in this game.

1027
00:52:49,080 --> 00:52:51,560
Speaker 1: When they played the first time, Utah was three for

1028
00:52:51,719 --> 00:52:55,680
Speaker 1: three on fourth down. Does that translate a lot of

1029
00:52:55,680 --> 00:53:00,200
Speaker 1: stuff about translation in this game? So I think you

1030
00:53:00,200 --> 00:53:01,600
Speaker 1: talk and make it a game. The line on the

1031
00:53:01,640 --> 00:53:03,400
Speaker 1: game is three. They can make it a game. I

1032
00:53:03,440 --> 00:53:05,759
Speaker 1: think they can and possibly will get it to the

1033
00:53:05,760 --> 00:53:09,319
Speaker 1: fourth quarter. There is something so simple about this that

1034
00:53:09,400 --> 00:53:14,400
Speaker 1: led me to a pretty easy prediction. If you do

1035
00:53:14,600 --> 00:53:16,719
Speaker 1: all of those things, if you get it to the

1036
00:53:16,760 --> 00:53:20,600
Speaker 1: fourth quarter, you've still got to beat Caleb Williams, and

1037
00:53:20,719 --> 00:53:22,839
Speaker 1: I just don't think anyone's ready to do it in

1038
00:53:22,880 --> 00:53:24,759
Speaker 1: this game. I don't think anyone's ready to do it,

1039
00:53:24,800 --> 00:53:28,400
Speaker 1: which kind of spoils my pick. But Utah usc The

1040
00:53:28,480 --> 00:53:31,840
Speaker 1: Vegas line is three. How about this, Colin, When we

1041
00:53:31,880 --> 00:53:34,480
Speaker 1: show them the model, you want to see me and

1042
00:53:34,560 --> 00:53:36,960
Speaker 1: the model go at it. This is like a Texas

1043
00:53:37,000 --> 00:53:42,080
Speaker 1: Longhorn special. Here the model has Utah minus one. The

1044
00:53:42,200 --> 00:53:45,080
Speaker 1: model thinks the wrong team's favorite. Here's what I think.

1045
00:53:45,480 --> 00:53:47,440
Speaker 1: I don't think the model has fully baked in the

1046
00:53:47,480 --> 00:53:50,040
Speaker 1: downhill momentum that Southern cal has. I don't think the

1047
00:53:50,080 --> 00:53:53,000
Speaker 1: model has fully baked in how much better they're playing

1048
00:53:53,000 --> 00:53:55,160
Speaker 1: along the lines of scrimmage. I don't think the model

1049
00:53:55,200 --> 00:53:58,359
Speaker 1: has baked in what Southern cal is now, and as

1050
00:53:58,360 --> 00:54:01,439
Speaker 1: a result, I think it's wrong. So I'm gonna take

1051
00:54:01,480 --> 00:54:04,040
Speaker 1: not only USC to win. I think they're gonna cover.

1052
00:54:04,280 --> 00:54:05,920
Speaker 1: I think they're going to the playoff. I think they're

1053
00:54:05,960 --> 00:54:08,799
Speaker 1: gonna win the Pac twelve championship, and I think once

1054
00:54:08,880 --> 00:54:13,800
Speaker 1: that happens, there is not to be a Lincoln Riley

1055
00:54:13,840 --> 00:54:16,560
Speaker 1: detractor anywhere. If you don't like him as a dude,

1056
00:54:16,560 --> 00:54:19,960
Speaker 1: that's fine. What a coaching job that's being done out there.

1057
00:54:19,960 --> 00:54:21,360
Speaker 1: And I know a lot of you don't respect the

1058
00:54:21,400 --> 00:54:23,759
Speaker 1: Pac twelve. I'm telling you this has not been the

1059
00:54:23,800 --> 00:54:26,560
Speaker 1: easiest conference to win this year. This game will not

1060
00:54:26,600 --> 00:54:29,399
Speaker 1: be the easiest game to win this year. Of course,

1061
00:54:29,440 --> 00:54:32,160
Speaker 1: there is another world where Kyle Whittingham just does it again.

1062
00:54:32,760 --> 00:54:35,040
Speaker 1: And if you don't think that Kyle Whittingham is already

1063
00:54:35,040 --> 00:54:37,160
Speaker 1: public enemy number one in the minds of many out

1064
00:54:37,160 --> 00:54:40,240
Speaker 1: there because it's just a pesky team to have to play,

1065
00:54:40,760 --> 00:54:44,279
Speaker 1: imagine if he rips a college football playoff appearance out

1066
00:54:44,320 --> 00:54:47,160
Speaker 1: of the grasp of George Klakoff in the conference they

1067
00:54:47,200 --> 00:54:52,680
Speaker 1: haven't been since twenty sixteen. They've only been twice. The

1068
00:54:52,719 --> 00:54:55,000
Speaker 1: peristyle will love that, you know, you know, they've only

1069
00:54:55,040 --> 00:54:57,560
Speaker 1: been twice as a conference. The first year we had

1070
00:54:57,560 --> 00:55:00,560
Speaker 1: this thing, Oregon went and then Washington win a couple

1071
00:55:00,600 --> 00:55:03,800
Speaker 1: of years later, and that has been it, and Southern

1072
00:55:03,840 --> 00:55:07,239
Speaker 1: Cal is their hope. And so, Kyle, how comforting might

1073
00:55:07,320 --> 00:55:09,960
Speaker 1: that be? By the way, you're going into your own

1074
00:55:10,000 --> 00:55:14,799
Speaker 1: conferences championship game. Everybody in the administrative state of your

1075
00:55:14,800 --> 00:55:18,240
Speaker 1: conference knows they've got a big payday contingent upon USC

1076
00:55:18,280 --> 00:55:21,600
Speaker 1: winning the game. You're using officials from that conference in

1077
00:55:21,640 --> 00:55:24,960
Speaker 1: the game, and it's the most high profile brand in

1078
00:55:25,000 --> 00:55:29,320
Speaker 1: the conference versus you. I'm just saying, I'm not saying.

1079
00:55:29,520 --> 00:55:35,120
Speaker 1: I'm just saying. So. Lastly, in this episode tonight, episode

1080
00:55:35,239 --> 00:55:39,920
Speaker 1: three point thirty four, hoopstead of thunk it, the transfer

1081
00:55:39,960 --> 00:55:43,400
Speaker 1: portal's on fire. It's on fire, and the blaze is

1082
00:55:43,480 --> 00:55:48,040
Speaker 1: only getting higher. We got big moves already. I don't

1083
00:55:48,040 --> 00:55:50,360
Speaker 1: even know if it's even officially open. I just know

1084
00:55:50,480 --> 00:55:52,879
Speaker 1: that we got big moves being made. And so I'm

1085
00:55:52,920 --> 00:55:55,000
Speaker 1: going to try my best on this show to remind

1086
00:55:55,080 --> 00:55:57,960
Speaker 1: you we told you this was coming and It hasn't

1087
00:55:58,000 --> 00:56:01,120
Speaker 1: even crescendoed yet. Trust me, we got some big names already,

1088
00:56:01,520 --> 00:56:04,280
Speaker 1: but it's gonna get a lot worse or better, depending

1089
00:56:04,280 --> 00:56:06,520
Speaker 1: on how sadistic you are and how much you love

1090
00:56:06,560 --> 00:56:09,840
Speaker 1: this big moves. So far, I got some quarterbacks that

1091
00:56:09,880 --> 00:56:11,960
Speaker 1: I want you to keep an eye on. Jeff Simms

1092
00:56:12,000 --> 00:56:14,240
Speaker 1: is in the portal now. Jeff Simms was the quarterback

1093
00:56:14,239 --> 00:56:17,040
Speaker 1: at Georgia Tech. It looks like Brent Key, I believe,

1094
00:56:17,080 --> 00:56:20,160
Speaker 1: has gotten that job, but Jeff Simms is in the portal.

1095
00:56:20,239 --> 00:56:22,640
Speaker 1: Not should be noted. Just because you go in the

1096
00:56:22,640 --> 00:56:25,279
Speaker 1: portal doesn't mean you have to go anywhere. You could

1097
00:56:25,280 --> 00:56:26,960
Speaker 1: just come right back out of it. So I don't

1098
00:56:26,960 --> 00:56:29,239
Speaker 1: know how that's gonna work itself out. I know that

1099
00:56:29,280 --> 00:56:33,440
Speaker 1: there's a lot of chatter in the football industry, football

1100
00:56:33,440 --> 00:56:36,680
Speaker 1: world that Jeff Simms is a guy who could go

1101
00:56:36,760 --> 00:56:39,560
Speaker 1: somewhere and just explode. A lot of people think he's

1102
00:56:39,600 --> 00:56:41,360
Speaker 1: got a skill set that if it's married with the

1103
00:56:41,440 --> 00:56:46,440
Speaker 1: right offense, he could explode. Cade McNamara is announcing his

1104
00:56:46,440 --> 00:56:50,520
Speaker 1: intention to enter the portal that was the one A

1105
00:56:50,760 --> 00:56:54,200
Speaker 1: one B starter at quarterback with JJ McCarthy at Michigan

1106
00:56:54,280 --> 00:56:56,399
Speaker 1: early this year, he started for him last year. He's

1107
00:56:56,440 --> 00:57:00,160
Speaker 1: got starting experience. He I mean, he's been on a

1108
00:57:00,200 --> 00:57:02,720
Speaker 1: Big Ten championship team, He's been on a college football

1109
00:57:02,719 --> 00:57:06,640
Speaker 1: playoff team. He's entering the portal. The guy's got thirty

1110
00:57:06,640 --> 00:57:09,960
Speaker 1: one hundred yards to his name, twenty one touchdowns, seven

1111
00:57:10,000 --> 00:57:13,040
Speaker 1: picks during his three seasons. He is going to be

1112
00:57:13,080 --> 00:57:17,960
Speaker 1: a very valuable pickup for someone. Hudson Card is leaving Texas,

1113
00:57:18,120 --> 00:57:20,720
Speaker 1: or at least it looks like he's leaving Texas. That's

1114
00:57:20,760 --> 00:57:24,080
Speaker 1: the guy who started ports of last year and then

1115
00:57:24,160 --> 00:57:27,040
Speaker 1: got beat out by quinn Ewers, and then viewers goes down,

1116
00:57:27,080 --> 00:57:30,440
Speaker 1: so he plays again sparingly this year. Hudson Cards got

1117
00:57:30,520 --> 00:57:33,840
Speaker 1: himself some starting experience. Hudson Card's going to go somewhere

1118
00:57:34,080 --> 00:57:37,200
Speaker 1: and be a big time pickup for someone and not

1119
00:57:37,320 --> 00:57:40,400
Speaker 1: to be overlooked at Ole Miss today. I don't think

1120
00:57:40,400 --> 00:57:42,760
Speaker 1: some of you are aware of this. Luke Altmeyer hopped

1121
00:57:42,760 --> 00:57:44,760
Speaker 1: in the portal. I don't think this happened today. Maybe yesterday.

1122
00:57:45,560 --> 00:57:48,400
Speaker 1: He got beat out by Jackson Dart in the spring.

1123
00:57:48,480 --> 00:57:52,040
Speaker 1: Remember as recently as the spring in Oxford, the thought

1124
00:57:52,080 --> 00:57:55,680
Speaker 1: amongst insiders was Jackson Dart has not taken this job.

1125
00:57:55,880 --> 00:57:58,960
Speaker 1: Luke Altmeyer is going to have this job. Not a

1126
00:57:58,960 --> 00:58:01,560
Speaker 1: bad quarterback. And certainly when you think about what you're

1127
00:58:01,560 --> 00:58:04,400
Speaker 1: looking at in the portal, you're looking for fit and

1128
00:58:04,480 --> 00:58:06,760
Speaker 1: this is not high school. You're not looking Oh he's

1129
00:58:06,760 --> 00:58:09,320
Speaker 1: three stars. Oh he's four stars. We've already seen him

1130
00:58:09,320 --> 00:58:11,760
Speaker 1: play in college football. So you know the strengths. You

1131
00:58:11,800 --> 00:58:14,000
Speaker 1: know the weakness is. You know your program and how

1132
00:58:14,040 --> 00:58:17,000
Speaker 1: you can develop and your personnel. It's a little bit

1133
00:58:17,000 --> 00:58:19,680
Speaker 1: different when you go fishing in the portal. Dante Thornton

1134
00:58:20,080 --> 00:58:22,200
Speaker 1: has entered the portal. That's one of the receivers at Oregon.

1135
00:58:22,720 --> 00:58:26,240
Speaker 1: This is a big time player. This is gonna be

1136
00:58:26,360 --> 00:58:30,400
Speaker 1: one that you watch, kind of like the Mario Williams sweepstakes.

1137
00:58:30,440 --> 00:58:33,360
Speaker 1: When he went in Jordan Addison went in. I'm not

1138
00:58:33,480 --> 00:58:35,960
Speaker 1: saying this is quite a blitan, a cough level player.

1139
00:58:36,040 --> 00:58:38,120
Speaker 1: I'm saying this is the kind of guy who could

1140
00:58:38,160 --> 00:58:40,520
Speaker 1: go to someone's offense and explode. I thought he was

1141
00:58:40,560 --> 00:58:43,000
Speaker 1: a really good player, really physical player too. For Orgon

1142
00:58:43,080 --> 00:58:45,640
Speaker 1: this year. Honestly kind of surprised me that he went

1143
00:58:45,680 --> 00:58:49,760
Speaker 1: to the portal. Trey Sanders, remember that name. Trey Sanders

1144
00:58:49,800 --> 00:58:52,400
Speaker 1: was the number one running back in the country several

1145
00:58:52,480 --> 00:58:55,360
Speaker 1: years ago, and he goes to Bama and he got

1146
00:58:55,400 --> 00:58:58,880
Speaker 1: in a car wreck and was injured pretty bad. And

1147
00:58:58,920 --> 00:59:03,120
Speaker 1: he came back and he's played some. But they are loaded.

1148
00:59:03,160 --> 00:59:05,360
Speaker 1: I mean, their running back room is just so loaded

1149
00:59:05,400 --> 00:59:08,560
Speaker 1: that he has not ever become a feature back there. Again,

1150
00:59:09,160 --> 00:59:11,320
Speaker 1: a lot of folks in Tuscalooser are pulling for him.

1151
00:59:11,800 --> 00:59:14,680
Speaker 1: This is a guy, I will guarantee you. As soon

1152
00:59:14,720 --> 00:59:17,600
Speaker 1: as he told Nick Saban what his intentions were, Nick

1153
00:59:17,640 --> 00:59:19,439
Speaker 1: Saban patted him on the shoulder and said, I'm gonna

1154
00:59:19,440 --> 00:59:21,080
Speaker 1: do everything I can to help you. Tell me who

1155
00:59:21,120 --> 00:59:23,960
Speaker 1: you want me to call. You got my full endorsement. Well,

1156
00:59:24,000 --> 00:59:26,960
Speaker 1: Saban knows two things. He's a very good player, been

1157
00:59:27,000 --> 00:59:30,680
Speaker 1: a model citizen there, and he's probably not quite at

1158
00:59:30,680 --> 00:59:33,880
Speaker 1: the skill level post injury to be able to start

1159
00:59:33,920 --> 00:59:36,960
Speaker 1: there given their talent roster. Most people don't have Bama's

1160
00:59:36,960 --> 00:59:41,360
Speaker 1: talent roster. So you know, Jerome Ford, for example, is

1161
00:59:41,400 --> 00:59:44,480
Speaker 1: a running back that once transferred from Bama. He started

1162
00:59:44,480 --> 00:59:46,920
Speaker 1: against him in the playoff. Last year he went to Cincinnati,

1163
00:59:47,080 --> 00:59:49,920
Speaker 1: he started at running back and had a phenomenal season.

1164
00:59:49,960 --> 00:59:53,080
Speaker 1: So I hope for Tray Sanders because I pull for him.

1165
00:59:53,080 --> 00:59:54,600
Speaker 1: I like him, so I hope that he's able to

1166
00:59:54,640 --> 00:59:58,120
Speaker 1: go do that. There is a lot of future movement coming. Okay,

1167
00:59:58,160 --> 01:00:01,040
Speaker 1: the first window to enter the portal of officially is

1168
01:00:01,080 --> 01:00:03,520
Speaker 1: December fifth. So you may be asking, well, what do

1169
01:00:03,560 --> 01:00:05,120
Speaker 1: you mean you just told me a bunch of guys

1170
01:00:05,160 --> 01:00:07,640
Speaker 1: are in it. No, they've announced their intention to jump

1171
01:00:07,640 --> 01:00:10,480
Speaker 1: in it. It doesn't really happen for what another six

1172
01:00:10,600 --> 01:00:15,360
Speaker 1: or seven days, but it's coming. Remember, some guys are

1173
01:00:15,400 --> 01:00:17,120
Speaker 1: going to jump in the portal because they want to

1174
01:00:17,160 --> 01:00:20,800
Speaker 1: go elsewhere. There are also going to be portal dippers,

1175
01:00:21,360 --> 01:00:23,640
Speaker 1: and this is something that I've had spoken to me

1176
01:00:23,640 --> 01:00:26,080
Speaker 1: about from coaches for a little while now. A lot

1177
01:00:26,120 --> 01:00:29,120
Speaker 1: of coaches expect a big chunk of their roster to

1178
01:00:29,200 --> 01:00:32,040
Speaker 1: go in the portal, not even really intending to leave.

1179
01:00:32,760 --> 01:00:37,000
Speaker 1: They just want to field offers in IL offers. Free

1180
01:00:37,000 --> 01:00:39,800
Speaker 1: agency is also what you could call that every year,

1181
01:00:40,320 --> 01:00:43,520
Speaker 1: and they want to also take a look back at

1182
01:00:43,520 --> 01:00:47,000
Speaker 1: their own program and say, okay, let's go to the

1183
01:00:47,000 --> 01:00:50,120
Speaker 1: bargaining table. We last bargained when I was a senior

1184
01:00:50,160 --> 01:00:52,600
Speaker 1: in high school. Now I'm about to be a sophomore

1185
01:00:52,600 --> 01:00:54,880
Speaker 1: in college. Let's bargain. And then you're gonna do it

1186
01:00:54,880 --> 01:00:56,480
Speaker 1: again when I'm a junior, and then you're gonna do

1187
01:00:56,480 --> 01:00:59,400
Speaker 1: it again when I'm a senior, and I work on

1188
01:00:59,400 --> 01:01:02,520
Speaker 1: two year cons around here, college kids even even better

1189
01:01:02,560 --> 01:01:05,960
Speaker 1: position than me just one year contracts. So if you

1190
01:01:05,960 --> 01:01:07,480
Speaker 1: want to call it a contract, I think there are

1191
01:01:07,520 --> 01:01:09,760
Speaker 1: going to be a lot of guys that freak you out.

1192
01:01:10,240 --> 01:01:12,520
Speaker 1: There are gonna be big names. I'm just warning you

1193
01:01:12,560 --> 01:01:15,440
Speaker 1: ahead of time. There are big names on your team

1194
01:01:16,040 --> 01:01:18,120
Speaker 1: that are gonna jump in the portal and you're gonna

1195
01:01:18,120 --> 01:01:20,200
Speaker 1: lose your mind, and you're gonna call them selfish, and

1196
01:01:20,200 --> 01:01:22,160
Speaker 1: you're gonna call them all kinds of names on Twitter

1197
01:01:22,200 --> 01:01:24,280
Speaker 1: and message boards that you're gonna have to delete cause

1198
01:01:24,320 --> 01:01:27,120
Speaker 1: three weeks later, they're gonna come right back home with

1199
01:01:27,240 --> 01:01:29,440
Speaker 1: a few more dollars in their pocket and an extra

1200
01:01:29,480 --> 01:01:32,200
Speaker 1: bedroom added onto mom's house down in Sarasota. And you're

1201
01:01:32,200 --> 01:01:34,360
Speaker 1: gonna say, I didn't mean any of that. Hey, you

1202
01:01:34,480 --> 01:01:36,440
Speaker 1: know how we are. We just get carried away. We're

1203
01:01:36,480 --> 01:01:38,680
Speaker 1: still bros, right and they don't know who you are,

1204
01:01:38,720 --> 01:01:41,280
Speaker 1: so don't bother asking them that. It's gonna be a

1205
01:01:41,320 --> 01:01:44,400
Speaker 1: wild time. If you're a head coach right now, think

1206
01:01:44,440 --> 01:01:47,640
Speaker 1: about this. Some of them have conference championship games coming up.

1207
01:01:47,800 --> 01:01:49,480
Speaker 1: Then they're gonna be in the playoff. Oh and by

1208
01:01:49,520 --> 01:01:51,200
Speaker 1: the way, they're trying to lock down a recruiting class

1209
01:01:51,440 --> 01:01:54,040
Speaker 1: while they also recruit their own roster and fish in

1210
01:01:54,080 --> 01:01:57,040
Speaker 1: the transfer portal. I don't you could have a million

1211
01:01:57,120 --> 01:01:59,280
Speaker 1: folks on your staff and your staff is not big enough.

1212
01:01:59,800 --> 01:02:03,440
Speaker 1: I said, I think this is going to last two years,

1213
01:02:03,880 --> 01:02:06,880
Speaker 1: two maybe three years, and then conferences are going to

1214
01:02:06,880 --> 01:02:09,640
Speaker 1: get in the nil business and you are going to

1215
01:02:10,160 --> 01:02:14,880
Speaker 1: know securely through revenue sharing through media rights deals that

1216
01:02:14,920 --> 01:02:18,240
Speaker 1: you're getting a certain percentage guaranteed to you just because

1217
01:02:18,240 --> 01:02:20,040
Speaker 1: you're in the SEC, just because you're in the Big ten,

1218
01:02:20,120 --> 01:02:21,680
Speaker 1: just because you're in the PAC twelve or Big twelve,

1219
01:02:22,120 --> 01:02:25,920
Speaker 1: ACC two, And you're not going to have the revolving

1220
01:02:26,000 --> 01:02:28,440
Speaker 1: door quite to the degree you have now. Kids will

1221
01:02:28,440 --> 01:02:30,280
Speaker 1: still transfer. I don't think it will be a flood

1222
01:02:30,280 --> 01:02:32,680
Speaker 1: of them every year. That's in the future, though, and

1223
01:02:33,400 --> 01:02:35,440
Speaker 1: I do I do as good a job as I

1224
01:02:35,480 --> 01:02:37,200
Speaker 1: can of just talking about what I see now, So

1225
01:02:37,600 --> 01:02:40,400
Speaker 1: barb it for me to predict the future. I'm not

1226
01:02:40,440 --> 01:02:43,640
Speaker 1: adding anything on the Romanuel Express tonight. It's a short week. Obviously,

1227
01:02:43,760 --> 01:02:46,840
Speaker 1: it's a short list of games this week. So here's

1228
01:02:46,880 --> 01:02:49,240
Speaker 1: what we're on. We're on Akron plus thirteen and a half.

1229
01:02:49,520 --> 01:02:51,640
Speaker 1: Ohio plus three is already down the plus one and

1230
01:02:51,640 --> 01:02:53,880
Speaker 1: a half in the Mac Championship game, so I hope

1231
01:02:53,880 --> 01:02:56,080
Speaker 1: you got on that. So those are the two games

1232
01:02:56,080 --> 01:02:58,920
Speaker 1: we're on. I want to remind you also before I leave.

1233
01:03:01,320 --> 01:03:04,040
Speaker 1: It feels like we've pretty much you and I. It

1234
01:03:04,040 --> 01:03:07,200
Speaker 1: feels like we've pretty much settled on the concept of

1235
01:03:07,280 --> 01:03:10,960
Speaker 1: doing a collaboration with someone as a reward for hitting

1236
01:03:11,000 --> 01:03:14,000
Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty thousand subs. What I have not

1237
01:03:14,200 --> 01:03:17,080
Speaker 1: nailed down is who you want it to be, So

1238
01:03:17,960 --> 01:03:21,000
Speaker 1: use any method you want to tag me on Twitter, Instagram, whatever.

1239
01:03:21,200 --> 01:03:23,840
Speaker 1: It would be better if you made it public. Who

1240
01:03:23,880 --> 01:03:28,040
Speaker 1: do you want us to do a collaborative edition of

1241
01:03:28,080 --> 01:03:29,880
Speaker 1: this show with? Or it could be an addition. It

1242
01:03:29,920 --> 01:03:32,080
Speaker 1: could be a bonus episode of the show. Who do

1243
01:03:32,120 --> 01:03:35,160
Speaker 1: you want? It could be coaches, could be media members,

1244
01:03:35,200 --> 01:03:37,560
Speaker 1: It could be a prison and mate for all I care.

1245
01:03:37,680 --> 01:03:39,920
Speaker 1: You're paying for the call, though, But who do we

1246
01:03:40,000 --> 01:03:42,960
Speaker 1: want to collaborate with? I leave that open ended. My

1247
01:03:43,040 --> 01:03:46,840
Speaker 1: balls are in your court. And with that for producer Jesse,

1248
01:03:47,400 --> 01:03:49,520
Speaker 1: for producer well, who do we have to mind? We

1249
01:03:49,560 --> 01:03:51,800
Speaker 1: got producer Belichie, we got producer Bradley, we got direct

1250
01:03:51,800 --> 01:03:54,920
Speaker 1: to column. Thank you, I am merely Josh Bay. Thanks

1251
01:03:54,920 --> 01:03:57,880
Speaker 1: so much for watching. We'll be live from Atlanta Thursday.

1252
01:03:58,000 --> 01:04:12,640
Speaker 1: Until then, take care, Liken subscribe the Couples sh