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Speaker 1: The transfer portal's on Hilert. We're raising the double red

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Speaker 1: No one really knows spring games. Yes, I've got takeaways

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Speaker 1: good content on especially the Instagram story at late kick Josh.

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Speaker 1: think tight end was not featured in this game much yesterday,

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Speaker 1: but I think tight end's a position of string for

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Speaker 1: them as well, So they're going to be as usual,

431
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Speaker 1: able to be very balanced and very versatile offensively. Here's

432
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Speaker 1: the thing, so I know that people will watch Georgia.

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Speaker 1: If you could go to practice there, your jaw would

434
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Speaker 1: be on the ground. You would look around and you

435
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Speaker 1: would say, how in the world is anyone going to

436
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Speaker 1: beat this team? You could watch them in the spring game.

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Speaker 1: You don't even have to be at practice. You can

438
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Speaker 1: watch them in the spring game. You can just look

439
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Speaker 1: at the raw athleticism out there and think to yourself, Man,

440
00:22:26,359 --> 00:22:29,560
Speaker 1: how's anyone going to beat this team? This fault? And

441
00:22:30,119 --> 00:22:34,359
Speaker 1: it's like, the best way I can describe why guys

442
00:22:34,480 --> 00:22:38,400
Speaker 1: like Kirby Smart are so paranoid even though they may

443
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Speaker 1: have the best talent roster in the country, is it's

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Speaker 1: not the average temperature. Okay, So like in the United

445
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Speaker 1: States of America right now, the average temperature could be

446
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Speaker 1: sixty five degrees it's perfectly comfortable, but you know there

447
00:22:52,320 --> 00:22:56,000
Speaker 1: are cold pockets somewhere where it may be thirty seven.

448
00:22:56,600 --> 00:22:59,440
Speaker 1: That's football. You just got to find your cold pockets.

449
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Speaker 1: You got to make sure you minimize your cold pockets.

450
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Speaker 1: So while you may be looking at Carson Beck. You

451
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Speaker 1: may be looking at that ground game. You may be looking,

452
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Speaker 1: even without Rock Bowers, at the potential of the tight

453
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Speaker 1: end room or the wide receiver room. Kirby smart knows

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Speaker 1: there are cold pockets on this team, and it's not

455
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Speaker 1: even a fully formed team yet because it's still spring.

456
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Speaker 1: But that, in a nutshell, it's why guys like that,

457
00:23:20,760 --> 00:23:23,719
Speaker 1: no matter how good they look, will never be content.

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Speaker 1: They can't be. That's the nature of what got them

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Speaker 1: where they are in the first place. The reason I'm

460
00:23:29,000 --> 00:23:31,040
Speaker 1: talking about that is because I had someone text me

461
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Speaker 1: and say, do you hear Kirby? Do you hear him

462
00:23:34,280 --> 00:23:36,920
Speaker 1: gas lighting in their words after the spring game, trying

463
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Speaker 1: to pretend like they've got so many issues. Well to

464
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Speaker 1: their standard. They do to their standard. Their defensive back

465
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Speaker 1: rooms not good enough. Have you not listened to that guy?

466
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Speaker 1: By the way, he doesn't really bs you a lot.

467
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Speaker 1: He may not give you everything, but he doesn't bs

468
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Speaker 1: you a lot. In press conferences we had him on

469
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Speaker 1: the show, it's pretty much what you see is what

470
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Speaker 1: you get. He'll be honest with you if you ask

471
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Speaker 1: him the right question. Georgia probably going to start the

472
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Speaker 1: season is number one. They're not without questions. They'll be

473
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Speaker 1: the favorite to win the national title, as they probably should.

474
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Speaker 1: But where are the cold pockets? That's all guys like

475
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Speaker 1: Kurbismart focused on right now. There was a cold pocket

476
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Speaker 1: on the show there for a couple of weeks, wasn't there?

477
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Speaker 1: Because there was no Academy Sports and Outdoors. Just a

478
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Speaker 1: little just a little oversight, just a little behind the

479
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Speaker 1: scenes shenanigans on our part. Translation, we were negotiating a

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Speaker 1: new deal with them, but it's finalized now, so Academy

481
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Speaker 1: is back. And just as soon as Academy's back, I

482
00:24:33,640 --> 00:24:36,960
Speaker 1: look in our mentions and apparently a lot of you

483
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Speaker 1: had been boycotting amongst yourselves. It wasn't organized, Nor do

484
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Speaker 1: I ever encourage you to organize boycotts against our partners

485
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Speaker 1: when they're no longer partners, because we will never be

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Speaker 1: without Academy. Let's be real. Academy lives here. Even if

487
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Speaker 1: they're not on a lower third or in a monitor

488
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Speaker 1: in the background, Academy's here. I think even on podcasts

489
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Speaker 1: you can tell them. Tapping my chest right now, one

490
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Speaker 1: stop shop for all things outdoor, sporting goods and beyond.

491
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Speaker 1: I had a text, and this is just between you

492
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Speaker 1: and I so keep this, keep this quiet for now.

493
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Speaker 1: But I had a text yesterday as I was parked

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Speaker 1: on the tarmac from a very very high level mustache

495
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Speaker 1: at Academy, and they just had some questions about how

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Speaker 1: we handle the shipment and the manufacturing of chili of supremacy.

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Speaker 1: Wasn't that a paper popper of a question? Imagine just imagine,

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Speaker 1: not John Lennon style either, Imagine what it could be

499
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Speaker 1: like one day anyway, Academy dot com if you can't

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Speaker 1: get there in person. But Academy Sports and Outdoor is

501
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Speaker 1: a proud, proud partner, and we are proud to partner

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Speaker 1: with them. Of Late Kick, we continue. You've got a

503
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Speaker 1: lot of spring games to talk about. I've also at

504
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Speaker 1: the very very bottom of my stack here. I've got

505
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Speaker 1: to talk to you about some of these coaches at crossroads. Yes,

506
00:25:56,040 --> 00:25:59,360
Speaker 1: but it's not always bad. It's just like varying degrees.

507
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Speaker 1: You know, some people accuse us around here of sunshine

508
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Speaker 1: pumping in the spring. So I'm taking it upon myself

509
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Speaker 1: to mix in a little well sought out negativity on

510
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Speaker 1: each show, just like Mema always dreamed I would. Let's continue.

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Speaker 1: The Alabama spring game was on ESPN. I assume a

512
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Speaker 1: lot of you saw it yesterday. There's no need to

513
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Speaker 1: really make more of this quarterback situation than there is.

514
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Speaker 1: Jalen Milroe is the overwhelming favorite to be their starter

515
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Speaker 1: right now, yet it's not decided. So that means ty

516
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Speaker 1: Simpson had his moments yesterday. Anytime you've got a new

517
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Speaker 1: staff and a new offense in there, I just don't

518
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Speaker 1: assume anything. Milroe I would pencil in as their starter

519
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Speaker 1: right now, but I don't assume anything. I still won't.

520
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Speaker 1: I have no clue what could happen between now and fall.

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Speaker 1: If I had ten dollars in my pocket, I overwhelmingly

522
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Speaker 1: betted on Milroe. The other thing is, there's virtually no

523
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Speaker 1: chance all four of those guys plus k Caruth. But

524
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Speaker 1: to a more serious degree, all four of those guys

525
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Speaker 1: are going to remain on this roster if they do.

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Speaker 1: Hats off to them. But it's very, very impractical these

527
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Speaker 1: days to see four quality guys on a roster at

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Speaker 1: the quarterback position. It's the dream of every staff. Most

529
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Speaker 1: of them admit they just want two good ones. The

530
00:27:15,320 --> 00:27:17,760
Speaker 1: big boys want three or four if they can get them.

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Speaker 1: But man, that's twenty fifteen logic twenty twenty four. You're

532
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Speaker 1: just hoping to hold onto two of them. So Milroe,

533
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Speaker 1: ty Simpson, I mean, Dylan Lonergan is a can be

534
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Speaker 1: a very good football player. Austin Mack's not going anywhere

535
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Speaker 1: because he just transferred in there. But they got an

536
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Speaker 1: underrated good quarterback room there. It's just there's no like

537
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Speaker 1: Caleb Williams esque star. Jalen Milroe is the closest thing

538
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Speaker 1: to that. Ty Simpson was very, very heralded out of

539
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Speaker 1: high school. We'll see, we'll see. In other words, I

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Speaker 1: don't think anything yesterday forwarded or reversed my opinion on

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Speaker 1: that the grass sucked. I don't know what in the

542
00:27:55,520 --> 00:27:57,879
Speaker 1: world the excuse was there, but the grass did not

543
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Speaker 1: meet standard. Jeremy Bernard wide receiver did and whether he

544
00:28:03,080 --> 00:28:06,240
Speaker 1: was catching balls across the sodded middle or on the

545
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Speaker 1: decrepit corners of the field, Jeremy Bernard looked good. He

546
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Speaker 1: was a big addition. He was at Washington last year

547
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Speaker 1: and they were really excited to get him. When we

548
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Speaker 1: were at Bama the other day, talking to pretty much

549
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Speaker 1: any coach, they talked about how good he is. He's

550
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Speaker 1: got a big opportunity this year, but also how important

551
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Speaker 1: it was to have him in that wide receiver room

552
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Speaker 1: because it allows sort of a domino effect of other

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Speaker 1: guys to fall in their proper positions. You know who

554
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Speaker 1: could blow up in this offense at Alabama's Kendrick Law.

555
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Speaker 1: Kendrick Law is a guy who was recruited there. I

556
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Speaker 1: think he was a four star guy, and he just

557
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Speaker 1: kind of blends into the Bama scene and you're used

558
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Speaker 1: to them having a lot of good players and he's there.

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Speaker 1: But then you have this big change, A new staff

560
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Speaker 1: comes in a new way of doing things, a new offense,

561
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Speaker 1: and if you watch them yesterday, certainly it's not an

562
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Speaker 1: apples to apples shot at how Nick Sheridan and Caitlin

563
00:28:55,720 --> 00:28:57,240
Speaker 1: de Borg goan to call games in the fall. But

564
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Speaker 1: they got the ball out really quick and really twitchy.

565
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Speaker 1: Fast players benefit from that a lot, and Law is

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Speaker 1: all of those things. And I think that this could

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Speaker 1: be the year, more so than any other guy in

568
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Speaker 1: that receiver room that he takes a big leap. I

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Speaker 1: don't know what to make of that defense. They looked

570
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Speaker 1: very soft up the middle yesterday, but I'm sure you know,

571
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Speaker 1: if we had Caine Walmick on the show. He would say,

572
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Speaker 1: turn the cameras and MIC's off for a second, and

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Speaker 1: then he'd say, yeah, we didn't do anything. We didn't

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Speaker 1: call anything. Plus we're still on the install portion of

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Speaker 1: a lot of what we do. And he'd be right

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Speaker 1: about all of it. Of course he would be. He's

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Speaker 1: calling the defense. So I'm going to reserve judgment. But

578
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Speaker 1: I'm just going to tell you the ability to stand

579
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Speaker 1: up on third and short in the SEC, the ability

580
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Speaker 1: to stand up inside the ten yard line, inside the

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Speaker 1: five yard line normally decides two or three games. And

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Speaker 1: so you know, if yesterday was just a mirage, that's okay.

583
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Speaker 1: I'm not so sure it was, and so there may

584
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Speaker 1: be a little ways to go there, and they may

585
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Speaker 1: be looking for interior to five line help as well.

586
00:30:01,320 --> 00:30:04,000
Speaker 1: Run game's really good. Alabama can absolutely run the ball

587
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Speaker 1: to win this year. Justice Hayes is good, Jan Miller's back,

588
00:30:07,600 --> 00:30:10,640
Speaker 1: he's good. Richard Young really good. As Chip Kelly would

589
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Speaker 1: call that a pair and a spare, and I'm not

590
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Speaker 1: really sure which one the spare is. I am, however,

591
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Speaker 1: quite certain that other staffs out there and knowing what

592
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Speaker 1: Tuesday is, we're probably watching that game yesterday, saying, who's

593
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Speaker 1: running with the threes? He can be our one, go

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Speaker 1: offer him, so a couple of beads of sweat coming

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Speaker 1: down the old Alabama forehead. Over the next forty eight

596
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Speaker 1: hours on that front, let's see, let's just go to Columbus,

597
00:30:35,040 --> 00:30:38,280
Speaker 1: not Georgia, Ohio. Columbus State did not have their spring

598
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Speaker 1: game yesterday because Columbus State just has a club football team,

599
00:30:42,680 --> 00:30:46,280
Speaker 1: but Ohio State does not. Colin here's your endpoint. The

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Speaker 1: Ohio State spring game yesterday had to start with quarterbacks.

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Speaker 1: Will Howard looked good. Remember this is Chip Kelly's offense now,

602
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Speaker 1: and remember you had the transfer of Julian Sayan in there.

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Speaker 1: And I was on butt nuts the other day pre

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Speaker 1: spring game, and there was a lot of talk about

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Speaker 1: whether Julian saying who was If you're not familiar, the

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00:31:09,560 --> 00:31:13,800
Speaker 1: five star true freshman who enrolled at Bama then transferred

607
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Speaker 1: out of Bama, and so he was already two schools

608
00:31:16,960 --> 00:31:19,840
Speaker 1: deep before spring ball began, and he's at Ohio State.

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Speaker 1: A lot of people were wondering could he make a

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Speaker 1: move because he's really talented. He's not going to impress

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Speaker 1: you physically right now when he walks in a room.

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00:31:27,600 --> 00:31:29,680
Speaker 1: You know he's not six six, two thirty or anything

613
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Speaker 1: like that. But when the ball gets snapped, it doesn't

614
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Speaker 1: take too long for you to look and say, who's

615
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Speaker 1: that kid. It's Julian saying he's really good. Now he's

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Speaker 1: a true freshman. And I ultimately think experience, while it

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00:31:41,840 --> 00:31:46,520
Speaker 1: always matters, will matter a metric ton this year because

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Speaker 1: elsewhere Ohio State pretty much knows what they have. They

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Speaker 1: know they can win games defensively. They need a good

620
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Speaker 1: decision maker who is good enough athletically, and that's Will Howard,

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Speaker 1: and he can run as well. A lot of what

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Speaker 1: you didn't see yesterday because it's the spring game, but

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Speaker 1: I'll keep an eye on it. I still am of

624
00:32:04,600 --> 00:32:07,440
Speaker 1: the opinion that I would make Howard the overwhelming favorite

625
00:32:07,480 --> 00:32:09,960
Speaker 1: to be the starter there. The rest of this offense

626
00:32:10,720 --> 00:32:14,080
Speaker 1: outside the offensive line is ready made. Right now, you

627
00:32:14,200 --> 00:32:16,080
Speaker 1: got maybe the best one two at running back in

628
00:32:16,080 --> 00:32:18,640
Speaker 1: the country, or if not one of the best. Like

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Speaker 1: I said, you got probably a couple of options by

630
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Speaker 1: the time the season rolls around that could play winning

631
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Speaker 1: football for you at quarterback. I wonder about the offensive line.

632
00:32:28,360 --> 00:32:29,960
Speaker 1: I look at it and I think they could add

633
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Speaker 1: another piece or two. They could absolutely stand to I

634
00:32:33,160 --> 00:32:35,600
Speaker 1: wonder if the coaching staff feels the same way. I

635
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Speaker 1: also wonder if the pieces will be available. Here's the thing.

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Speaker 1: If they have trouble, if that offensive line is not

637
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Speaker 1: what we want it to be. At the beginning of

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Speaker 1: the year, Ohio State for the first time in a

639
00:32:48,960 --> 00:32:51,440
Speaker 1: long time can look at you and say, yeah, we're

640
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Speaker 1: comfortable playing first to twenty. We are comfortable playing first

641
00:32:55,840 --> 00:32:59,400
Speaker 1: team to twenty wins. Only Iowa talks like that in

642
00:32:59,440 --> 00:33:02,160
Speaker 1: the Big Ten, and that's mainly cause they can't score twenty.

643
00:33:02,360 --> 00:33:06,160
Speaker 1: Ohio State's in a situation right now where they've probably

644
00:33:06,240 --> 00:33:08,960
Speaker 1: got the best defense in the Big Ten to start

645
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Speaker 1: the year, and if they don't, they won't be far

646
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Speaker 1: off from it. And so, like Jim Knowles was talking yesterday,

647
00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:18,800
Speaker 1: I was listening to some of his postgame press conference,

648
00:33:18,880 --> 00:33:23,520
Speaker 1: and it's just crazy how much difference one guy can

649
00:33:23,560 --> 00:33:27,360
Speaker 1: make at coordinator, how much difference one guy can make

650
00:33:27,400 --> 00:33:29,280
Speaker 1: in this sport. You want to know why coaches get

651
00:33:29,280 --> 00:33:34,080
Speaker 1: paid so much money, it's because, man to man, that's

652
00:33:34,120 --> 00:33:36,440
Speaker 1: the kind of impact you can have. Like they go

653
00:33:36,480 --> 00:33:39,560
Speaker 1: and hire Knowles, keep recruiting the same kind of guys

654
00:33:39,960 --> 00:33:42,800
Speaker 1: keep developing, like they didn't change strength and conditioning, nothing

655
00:33:42,880 --> 00:33:44,640
Speaker 1: like that changed, and they go from being in the

656
00:33:44,720 --> 00:33:46,640
Speaker 1: nineties in past D to be in top three in

657
00:33:46,720 --> 00:33:50,000
Speaker 1: pass D. It's Jim Knowles like he's got a good

658
00:33:50,000 --> 00:33:52,920
Speaker 1: staff around him. But that's what changed, and that's wild.

659
00:33:53,120 --> 00:33:57,880
Speaker 1: So the defensive tackle depth on like some places, is phenomenal.

660
00:33:57,960 --> 00:34:01,360
Speaker 1: At Ohio State, They're only task is keeping all those guys.

661
00:34:01,600 --> 00:34:06,240
Speaker 1: You look elsewhere. LSU's like they crawling through the desert

662
00:34:06,600 --> 00:34:10,520
Speaker 1: about to starve to death if they don't dehydrate themselves first,

663
00:34:10,800 --> 00:34:14,680
Speaker 1: looking anywhere for an oasis or a defensive tackle, and

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Speaker 1: Ohio State's like, yeah, we got like like five or six.

665
00:34:17,760 --> 00:34:20,960
Speaker 1: We're good. Yeah, we're fine. We can stop the run

666
00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:22,879
Speaker 1: with them, we can get after the quarterback with them.

667
00:34:22,920 --> 00:34:26,799
Speaker 1: They're really good. They're secondary unbelievable and that's before the

668
00:34:26,800 --> 00:34:31,040
Speaker 1: additions they made. But with the additions, especially unbelievable wide receivers. Interesting.

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Speaker 1: So igbuka is a known commodity. Outside of that, I

670
00:34:35,520 --> 00:34:37,680
Speaker 1: guarantee if I had Ohio State fans at the desk,

671
00:34:37,880 --> 00:34:40,680
Speaker 1: they would one percent sell me on the potential of

672
00:34:40,680 --> 00:34:43,360
Speaker 1: all these guys. And they should because they do like

673
00:34:43,680 --> 00:34:47,719
Speaker 1: Jeremiah Smith as a true freshman, has the raw physical

674
00:34:47,760 --> 00:34:50,240
Speaker 1: tools to be one of the best receivers in the country.

675
00:34:50,480 --> 00:34:52,680
Speaker 1: He's got the raw physical tools to be the best

676
00:34:52,680 --> 00:34:56,560
Speaker 1: on that team, but he's unproven as our most true

677
00:34:56,560 --> 00:34:59,080
Speaker 1: freshmen in spring. I get that. But there's a lot

678
00:34:59,120 --> 00:35:02,759
Speaker 1: of potential on that team in the wide receiver room

679
00:35:03,120 --> 00:35:06,080
Speaker 1: that thus far is unproven. And I think that's what

680
00:35:06,160 --> 00:35:09,520
Speaker 1: the focus for that coaching staff is is we think

681
00:35:09,640 --> 00:35:13,799
Speaker 1: that room should be a strength, and sometimes it can

682
00:35:13,800 --> 00:35:16,440
Speaker 1: be hard to tell going up against that defense in practice.

683
00:35:17,160 --> 00:35:19,080
Speaker 1: Is it going to be a strength it should be?

684
00:35:19,360 --> 00:35:21,520
Speaker 1: Is it going to be a strength. That's kind of

685
00:35:21,520 --> 00:35:23,560
Speaker 1: what I left Ohio State spring game thinking I could

686
00:35:23,600 --> 00:35:25,440
Speaker 1: be the best team in the country. They could win

687
00:35:25,480 --> 00:35:27,279
Speaker 1: a national championship, even though I know some of you

688
00:35:27,320 --> 00:35:32,000
Speaker 1: think that's impossible because Ryan Day can't win a national championship.

689
00:35:32,760 --> 00:35:34,759
Speaker 1: But you know what Memo would say about that, So

690
00:35:34,760 --> 00:35:37,680
Speaker 1: I don't need to remind you. The cant versus hasn't

691
00:35:37,800 --> 00:35:41,919
Speaker 1: quote from Memo. Next up Ton to Go. Still they're

692
00:35:41,960 --> 00:35:44,239
Speaker 1: watching us, By the way, I appreciate you guys got

693
00:35:44,280 --> 00:35:47,640
Speaker 1: a lot watching live. Subscribe to the channel It's just

694
00:35:47,760 --> 00:35:50,000
Speaker 1: not some once a week thing. Now. I know that

695
00:35:50,080 --> 00:35:52,520
Speaker 1: there are a lot of distractions out there, but here

696
00:35:52,600 --> 00:35:55,839
Speaker 1: in this household, we just do college football year round,

697
00:35:56,400 --> 00:35:59,360
Speaker 1: not necessarily of the hot take variety. We just do

698
00:35:59,440 --> 00:36:02,880
Speaker 1: college foot the way you would with your cousin Elroy,

699
00:36:03,000 --> 00:36:05,879
Speaker 1: if you guys were sitting out on the patio at

700
00:36:05,920 --> 00:36:10,160
Speaker 1: sunset in Utah, Alabama spelled with an e, by the way,

701
00:36:10,320 --> 00:36:12,360
Speaker 1: because that's the way that we vibe around here. So

702
00:36:12,400 --> 00:36:14,040
Speaker 1: if you like it and you want to keep the

703
00:36:14,080 --> 00:36:16,120
Speaker 1: show free, subscribe to the channel and like the video.

704
00:36:16,280 --> 00:36:19,399
Speaker 1: They're watching us in Prairie Grove, Arkansas, they're watching us

705
00:36:19,440 --> 00:36:24,440
Speaker 1: in Destin, Florida, and Long Island, New York. Sizeable population

706
00:36:24,520 --> 00:36:27,839
Speaker 1: in the New York metro area for us. Let's continue,

707
00:36:28,360 --> 00:36:32,520
Speaker 1: all right. Miami played a spring game yesterday. Cam Ward

708
00:36:32,560 --> 00:36:35,760
Speaker 1: looked really good. Not a surprise to anyone on this program,

709
00:36:35,800 --> 00:36:38,280
Speaker 1: and shouldn't be a surprise to anyone calls. Cam Ward

710
00:36:38,360 --> 00:36:40,880
Speaker 1: was a very very hot commodity in the transfer portal market.

711
00:36:41,120 --> 00:36:44,359
Speaker 1: Florided with the NFL and he said, no, I think

712
00:36:44,800 --> 00:36:48,279
Speaker 1: I'm actually gonna take my talents to South Beach. He's

713
00:36:48,320 --> 00:36:50,400
Speaker 1: certainly not the first high profile athlete to do. It

714
00:36:50,440 --> 00:36:52,480
Speaker 1: won't be the last. He was nineteen of twenty four,

715
00:36:52,520 --> 00:36:55,640
Speaker 1: three hundred and twenty four yards three touchdowns. As I

716
00:36:55,880 --> 00:36:59,680
Speaker 1: told you guys the other day, I went down there

717
00:36:59,719 --> 00:37:03,600
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago. I know the locker combination

718
00:37:03,719 --> 00:37:05,799
Speaker 1: to the door, and so I snuck in and I

719
00:37:05,840 --> 00:37:07,880
Speaker 1: go to practice. That's not really how it happened, but

720
00:37:07,920 --> 00:37:10,680
Speaker 1: I watched practice. I'm talking about after they slammed the

721
00:37:10,719 --> 00:37:13,440
Speaker 1: doors and kick everyone else out. I watch practice. Cam

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Speaker 1: Ward looks incredible. Now. I saw him one day, you

723
00:37:18,239 --> 00:37:20,799
Speaker 1: saw him yesterday in the spring game. Looks really good.

724
00:37:21,440 --> 00:37:23,760
Speaker 1: I don't want to overhype him because you're literally watching

725
00:37:23,800 --> 00:37:26,000
Speaker 1: a spring practice and a spring game. I'm not going

726
00:37:26,040 --> 00:37:27,920
Speaker 1: to I'm just saying it's going to be the best

727
00:37:27,960 --> 00:37:30,560
Speaker 1: quarterback situation they've had there in several years. I have

728
00:37:30,680 --> 00:37:34,279
Speaker 1: no doubt about that. Now the portal window is about

729
00:37:34,280 --> 00:37:38,000
Speaker 1: to open, and I guarantee you what that coaching staff

730
00:37:38,040 --> 00:37:41,560
Speaker 1: is down at Miami thinking, is that sounds bad? So

731
00:37:41,600 --> 00:37:42,880
Speaker 1: if I want to clip this later, I want to

732
00:37:42,880 --> 00:37:46,399
Speaker 1: say it right cam Ward. Cam Ward's everything they hoped

733
00:37:46,440 --> 00:37:48,520
Speaker 1: he would be and then some. So if you're the

734
00:37:48,520 --> 00:37:50,640
Speaker 1: Miami coaching staff. You look and you say, all right,

735
00:37:50,680 --> 00:37:53,200
Speaker 1: so we killed it on this guy, like we got it.

736
00:37:53,239 --> 00:37:56,399
Speaker 1: We nailed these everything we hoped he would be. We

737
00:37:56,480 --> 00:37:59,200
Speaker 1: may not have guys like that just come along every year.

738
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Speaker 1: We got to make the most of this. We've got

739
00:38:02,120 --> 00:38:04,719
Speaker 1: a window at least one year with an elite quarterback.

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00:38:05,200 --> 00:38:08,200
Speaker 1: Let's go all in and they're going to so they're

741
00:38:08,200 --> 00:38:10,719
Speaker 1: going to be very aggressive in the portal. Rostreppo, by

742
00:38:10,719 --> 00:38:12,560
Speaker 1: the way, who's already there. It's been there for a

743
00:38:12,600 --> 00:38:16,360
Speaker 1: few years. Xavier Rostreppo could be a breakout player this

744
00:38:16,480 --> 00:38:19,040
Speaker 1: year and he's been around forever. Normally it's the true

745
00:38:19,040 --> 00:38:21,720
Speaker 1: freshman or maybe second year players that you say that about.

746
00:38:21,960 --> 00:38:24,960
Speaker 1: But Rastreppo was already a thousand yard guy last year,

747
00:38:25,320 --> 00:38:28,320
Speaker 1: so he's already really good. But he has not played

748
00:38:28,560 --> 00:38:31,920
Speaker 1: with a talent like this, And especially if Miami deepens

749
00:38:31,920 --> 00:38:34,840
Speaker 1: that wide receiver room and takes some of the pressure

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00:38:34,880 --> 00:38:38,160
Speaker 1: off him, like Xavier Rostrepo could go off this year

751
00:38:38,440 --> 00:38:40,560
Speaker 1: and you can look at him and say, I wasn't

752
00:38:40,600 --> 00:38:43,680
Speaker 1: familiar with your game. Well, maybe you just didn't see

753
00:38:43,719 --> 00:38:45,839
Speaker 1: him having a guy the caliber of cam Ward throwing

754
00:38:45,880 --> 00:38:48,399
Speaker 1: him the ball, and you will this year, so it's

755
00:38:48,440 --> 00:38:51,760
Speaker 1: a unique opportunity for him. The caliber of athlete overall

756
00:38:51,800 --> 00:38:53,239
Speaker 1: is what stands out to me. Now. They held a

757
00:38:53,280 --> 00:38:55,400
Speaker 1: lot of guys out yesterday, and they've held a lot

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00:38:55,440 --> 00:38:58,439
Speaker 1: of guys out for portions of spring, like Reuben Bain,

759
00:38:58,560 --> 00:39:01,120
Speaker 1: for example. They know what they have with him, so

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00:39:01,280 --> 00:39:04,120
Speaker 1: you could kind of kind of list him as being

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00:39:04,160 --> 00:39:06,680
Speaker 1: on a pitch count. They held a few guys out,

762
00:39:06,719 --> 00:39:11,360
Speaker 1: but overall, I feel very confident in saying the caliber

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00:39:11,400 --> 00:39:13,360
Speaker 1: of athlete Miami is going to take the field with

764
00:39:13,880 --> 00:39:17,000
Speaker 1: is light years different than the one from the team

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00:39:17,040 --> 00:39:19,600
Speaker 1: Mario inherited a couple of years ago. So that doesn't

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00:39:19,640 --> 00:39:22,320
Speaker 1: mean anything other than they'll be bigger and faster and stronger.

767
00:39:22,880 --> 00:39:25,640
Speaker 1: Then it's up to you to go win games with him.

768
00:39:25,960 --> 00:39:28,440
Speaker 1: It's the beauty of it. You can come in and

769
00:39:28,480 --> 00:39:30,560
Speaker 1: you take over whatever you take over, and then you

770
00:39:30,600 --> 00:39:32,640
Speaker 1: get to remodel it and remake it your way. Now,

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00:39:32,640 --> 00:39:35,000
Speaker 1: I remember when he took the job, he told me

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00:39:35,960 --> 00:39:38,879
Speaker 1: that twenty twenty four a year, that's where we really

773
00:39:38,920 --> 00:39:41,279
Speaker 1: feel like we can start to put the gas all

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00:39:41,280 --> 00:39:43,279
Speaker 1: the way down to the floor. Here we go. I

775
00:39:43,280 --> 00:39:45,319
Speaker 1: don't think they've backed off that either, so here we go.

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Speaker 1: The most enigmatic team though, to talk about right now

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00:39:49,200 --> 00:39:52,000
Speaker 1: at the higher levels to me is Miami because of

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00:39:52,719 --> 00:39:55,960
Speaker 1: how aggressive I think they're going to be in the portal. Therefore,

779
00:39:56,680 --> 00:40:02,439
Speaker 1: how incomplete this year's starting lineup probably is right now.

780
00:40:02,920 --> 00:40:04,799
Speaker 1: I don't know who the names are going to be.

781
00:40:04,880 --> 00:40:06,480
Speaker 1: Got some guesses, but I don't know who the names

782
00:40:06,480 --> 00:40:09,759
Speaker 1: are going to be. But there will be starters for

783
00:40:09,840 --> 00:40:13,719
Speaker 1: all intents and purposes on that team, maybe by the

784
00:40:13,840 --> 00:40:16,280
Speaker 1: end of this coming week, that aren't on it right now.

785
00:40:16,800 --> 00:40:20,440
Speaker 1: So how do you print your preview magazine? How do

786
00:40:20,520 --> 00:40:24,520
Speaker 1: you generate your preseason japeople? You can't. That's why it's

787
00:40:24,520 --> 00:40:26,160
Speaker 1: going to be a wild week. And it's a really

788
00:40:26,280 --> 00:40:28,800
Speaker 1: enigmatic team because you can't talk about a team that

789
00:40:28,840 --> 00:40:31,279
Speaker 1: doesn't exist, and they don't exist right now in full form.

790
00:40:31,320 --> 00:40:33,640
Speaker 1: They don't exist. You can say that about everyone, but

791
00:40:33,760 --> 00:40:37,319
Speaker 1: really say it about Miami. Let's move on. I have

792
00:40:37,400 --> 00:40:41,520
Speaker 1: a very non descript bottle because this company hasn't paid

793
00:40:41,560 --> 00:40:43,520
Speaker 1: for me to describe them. But I'm going to take

794
00:40:43,520 --> 00:40:51,799
Speaker 1: a sip from it, just normal water. And we got

795
00:40:51,800 --> 00:40:53,279
Speaker 1: to talk about a team that I was accused of

796
00:40:53,360 --> 00:40:55,760
Speaker 1: not talking about enough the other day. Which is surprising

797
00:40:55,800 --> 00:40:57,839
Speaker 1: because this is the team that brought us to the dance.

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00:40:57,920 --> 00:41:00,480
Speaker 1: This is the team in twenty nineteen when we were

799
00:41:00,520 --> 00:41:03,640
Speaker 1: toiling away down in Columbus, Georgia that started to go

800
00:41:03,680 --> 00:41:06,360
Speaker 1: on a national championship run and we picked him in

801
00:41:06,400 --> 00:41:11,200
Speaker 1: the summer and the rest is history. LSU spring game yesterday.

802
00:41:11,640 --> 00:41:13,800
Speaker 1: Defense is still a concern here. I don't want to

803
00:41:13,800 --> 00:41:16,200
Speaker 1: beat around the bush. Their defense was bad last year.

804
00:41:16,320 --> 00:41:19,240
Speaker 1: Scratched that defense was terrible last year, and they gutted

805
00:41:19,280 --> 00:41:21,759
Speaker 1: the staff and a lot of the same players are there.

806
00:41:22,040 --> 00:41:25,160
Speaker 1: They went and got the defensive coordinator, defensive line coach

807
00:41:25,160 --> 00:41:28,840
Speaker 1: from Missouri, got Bo Davis from Texas. Just a plus

808
00:41:28,880 --> 00:41:33,080
Speaker 1: plus plus for the staff overhaul that Brian Kelly and

809
00:41:33,120 --> 00:41:37,040
Speaker 1: company did. However, the roster is still a giant question mark,

810
00:41:37,560 --> 00:41:39,560
Speaker 1: and therefore the portaland what they're about to do, and

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00:41:39,560 --> 00:41:42,239
Speaker 1: it's a giant question mark. Here's the thing. So they

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00:41:42,280 --> 00:41:48,400
Speaker 1: talked yesterday about how they really ran a vanilla scheme defensively. Well, yeah,

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00:41:48,600 --> 00:41:51,440
Speaker 1: that's okay. You're not the first, nor are you the

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00:41:51,520 --> 00:41:55,120
Speaker 1: last to do that, but you still had guys looking confused,

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Speaker 1: and you claim to me you're not even running anything,

816
00:41:57,680 --> 00:42:01,080
Speaker 1: So that to me not a good sign. And you

817
00:42:01,120 --> 00:42:02,880
Speaker 1: had a lot of former four and five star talent

818
00:42:02,920 --> 00:42:05,920
Speaker 1: out there that do not play at that level. And

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00:42:05,960 --> 00:42:07,680
Speaker 1: that has nothing to do with the new staff. The

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00:42:07,719 --> 00:42:09,919
Speaker 1: new staff inherits whatever they inherit, and I'm talking about

821
00:42:09,920 --> 00:42:14,359
Speaker 1: the defensive staff. But man elsewhere, you know nuss Meyer

822
00:42:14,520 --> 00:42:17,600
Speaker 1: seven for seven, one hundred and eighty seven yards, two touchdowns,

823
00:42:18,440 --> 00:42:20,720
Speaker 1: he'll be plenty good enough. I actually believed in Nusmyer

824
00:42:20,760 --> 00:42:22,520
Speaker 1: two years ago. I thought they could have played him then.

825
00:42:23,120 --> 00:42:27,040
Speaker 1: But point taken, why they didn't. Wide receiver corps going

826
00:42:27,080 --> 00:42:29,759
Speaker 1: to be deep and talented. They'll have the offensive line

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00:42:29,760 --> 00:42:32,600
Speaker 1: and ground game or should to run the ball and

828
00:42:32,680 --> 00:42:35,799
Speaker 1: kill clock if necessary, like the other components of this

829
00:42:35,880 --> 00:42:38,880
Speaker 1: offense look good. In other words, what I'm trying to

830
00:42:38,920 --> 00:42:42,399
Speaker 1: ask is, I'm not about to sit here and watch

831
00:42:42,440 --> 00:42:45,920
Speaker 1: another year where LSU waste a good offense with just

832
00:42:46,000 --> 00:42:49,879
Speaker 1: inferior productivity defensively? Am I? Now? Unlike last year where

833
00:42:49,880 --> 00:42:51,960
Speaker 1: we were saying that week three, Week four, week five,

834
00:42:51,960 --> 00:42:54,600
Speaker 1: and you can't do anything about it. It's still spring.

835
00:42:55,040 --> 00:42:58,120
Speaker 1: The portal hasn't even opened yet, so LSU can do

836
00:42:58,200 --> 00:43:01,960
Speaker 1: something about it now. They need defensive tackle help, bab.

837
00:43:02,480 --> 00:43:04,479
Speaker 1: I am going to tell you they need secondary help

838
00:43:04,520 --> 00:43:08,400
Speaker 1: pretty bab like guys that can start, they can afford

839
00:43:08,440 --> 00:43:12,040
Speaker 1: to make moves. We'll see if they do. Gabe Reliford

840
00:43:12,160 --> 00:43:13,799
Speaker 1: popped off the screen. I don't know if he's going

841
00:43:13,880 --> 00:43:16,040
Speaker 1: to play much this year. He's a true freshman defensive end.

842
00:43:16,080 --> 00:43:18,400
Speaker 1: But man, if you watched LSU spring game, or if

843
00:43:18,400 --> 00:43:20,200
Speaker 1: you didn't and you go back and watch it later,

844
00:43:20,520 --> 00:43:24,080
Speaker 1: check out Gabe Reliford. That's what LSU defensive players are

845
00:43:24,080 --> 00:43:25,680
Speaker 1: supposed to look like. They're supposed to look like they

846
00:43:25,680 --> 00:43:28,200
Speaker 1: were just born that way, and then all of a

847
00:43:28,200 --> 00:43:30,279
Speaker 1: sudden they show up on campus and then you start

848
00:43:30,360 --> 00:43:33,440
Speaker 1: to develop them from there. But this is a team

849
00:43:33,880 --> 00:43:37,279
Speaker 1: that could be top ten. It could also be out

850
00:43:37,280 --> 00:43:39,560
Speaker 1: of the top twenty five by season's end. And it's

851
00:43:39,560 --> 00:43:41,000
Speaker 1: all going to come down to the same thing it

852
00:43:41,040 --> 00:43:43,799
Speaker 1: came down to last year, and that is can you

853
00:43:44,160 --> 00:43:47,879
Speaker 1: if not play dominant defense, that's probably a pipe dream.

854
00:43:48,040 --> 00:43:51,480
Speaker 1: If you can't do that. Can you be takeaway centric?

855
00:43:51,719 --> 00:43:54,800
Speaker 1: Can you be opportunistic? Can you shine in the red zone?

856
00:43:55,040 --> 00:43:58,359
Speaker 1: Can you do certain things well enough to where if

857
00:43:58,360 --> 00:44:01,759
Speaker 1: Garrett Nusmeyern that offense carry the weight. I mean like

858
00:44:01,960 --> 00:44:05,040
Speaker 1: last year, had a top thirty defense, you probably would

859
00:44:05,040 --> 00:44:07,480
Speaker 1: have played for a national championship. Can you give me

860
00:44:07,520 --> 00:44:12,239
Speaker 1: something better than that? Fingers crossed? We will be if

861
00:44:12,239 --> 00:44:15,120
Speaker 1: you're tuning in late. We will be in Gainesville, Florida,

862
00:44:15,280 --> 00:44:18,680
Speaker 1: all day Tuesday and we will do a show live

863
00:44:18,840 --> 00:44:21,720
Speaker 1: from Florida Tuesday night. We'll have Billy Napier on the show.

864
00:44:21,920 --> 00:44:24,320
Speaker 1: I'm looking really forward to that. But in the meantime,

865
00:44:24,440 --> 00:44:30,040
Speaker 1: I watched Florida spring game yesterday. What an interesting quarterback dynamic. Huh.

866
00:44:30,320 --> 00:44:33,040
Speaker 1: So you got Graham Mertz, one of the better quarterbacks

867
00:44:33,040 --> 00:44:34,600
Speaker 1: in the country last year that no one talked about

868
00:44:34,600 --> 00:44:38,120
Speaker 1: because his team was not good. And then you got

869
00:44:38,120 --> 00:44:41,320
Speaker 1: a new guy, got DJ Lagway in there, true freshman,

870
00:44:41,560 --> 00:44:45,120
Speaker 1: the crown jewel of the recruiting class last year, and

871
00:44:45,680 --> 00:44:47,880
Speaker 1: he went twelve for twenty one. And when you have

872
00:44:47,920 --> 00:44:50,320
Speaker 1: a true freshman in a spring game, you're not looking

873
00:44:50,320 --> 00:44:52,640
Speaker 1: for the stat line. You're looking for the moments. And

874
00:44:52,680 --> 00:44:55,200
Speaker 1: he had a couple of moments. Six three two forty

875
00:44:55,239 --> 00:44:58,879
Speaker 1: one moves like someone who weighs half of that. And

876
00:44:59,239 --> 00:45:02,839
Speaker 1: I just go back to the age old memal ism

877
00:45:03,239 --> 00:45:05,719
Speaker 1: where she always told me, Joshua, do not be given

878
00:45:05,840 --> 00:45:09,719
Speaker 1: up on teams early who have good quarterback rooms. That

879
00:45:09,760 --> 00:45:13,839
Speaker 1: doesn't guarantee anything, Mema, And she's right, though, you got

880
00:45:13,920 --> 00:45:17,279
Speaker 1: good quarterback play, you got a shot. And you know,

881
00:45:17,320 --> 00:45:18,759
Speaker 1: there's a stat that I'm going to focus on a

882
00:45:18,760 --> 00:45:21,560
Speaker 1: little bit more in summer, especially as it relates to

883
00:45:21,600 --> 00:45:24,560
Speaker 1: Florida and Missouri, because I don't want to tire you

884
00:45:24,600 --> 00:45:26,040
Speaker 1: out on it right now, but there's a stat that

885
00:45:26,080 --> 00:45:28,279
Speaker 1: I pay a lot of attention to that they may

886
00:45:28,360 --> 00:45:32,160
Speaker 1: benefit from. Who knows, but Trevor ETM remember the running

887
00:45:32,160 --> 00:45:35,840
Speaker 1: back you transferred to Georgia. Good player, and he's gonna

888
00:45:35,840 --> 00:45:38,160
Speaker 1: be a good player for Georgia this year. I think

889
00:45:38,280 --> 00:45:42,080
Speaker 1: the casual fan saw him transfer from Florida and said,

890
00:45:42,080 --> 00:45:46,040
Speaker 1: that's it. That's it. Start etching the tombstone. And Florida

891
00:45:46,080 --> 00:45:48,719
Speaker 1: folks are like, hey, look, we may suck this year

892
00:45:48,719 --> 00:45:50,839
Speaker 1: for all we know. Maybe we go ten and two,

893
00:45:50,880 --> 00:45:52,800
Speaker 1: maybe we go to and ten, but we're going to

894
00:45:52,880 --> 00:45:55,160
Speaker 1: be okay at running back. And the rest of the

895
00:45:55,200 --> 00:45:57,120
Speaker 1: country like, oh, oh, you just lost one of your

896
00:45:57,120 --> 00:45:59,640
Speaker 1: best players. And they're like, yeah, we did. We have

897
00:45:59,760 --> 00:46:02,920
Speaker 1: like four more and they're right, let me give you

898
00:46:02,920 --> 00:46:06,239
Speaker 1: an example. Yesterday in the spring game Montreal, Johnson and

899
00:46:06,560 --> 00:46:09,879
Speaker 1: Trayvon Webb are probably their one two at running back.

900
00:46:10,080 --> 00:46:13,480
Speaker 1: They combine them for twenty eight yards. They're good, like

901
00:46:13,520 --> 00:46:16,040
Speaker 1: I don't need to see anything from them. But Jackson

902
00:46:16,080 --> 00:46:19,160
Speaker 1: had five carries for sixty yards. Baw had twelve carries

903
00:46:19,200 --> 00:46:21,680
Speaker 1: for seventy seven yards. They're like three or four deep

904
00:46:21,960 --> 00:46:23,880
Speaker 1: in that room with guys who can play winning football

905
00:46:23,880 --> 00:46:27,680
Speaker 1: in the SEC. So look, I'm not guaranteeing your Florida

906
00:46:27,760 --> 00:46:29,719
Speaker 1: wins eight or nine games, but they'll be fine at

907
00:46:29,760 --> 00:46:33,320
Speaker 1: running back. This year. Special teams, however, was a disaster

908
00:46:33,400 --> 00:46:36,520
Speaker 1: again yesterday for a spring game. It was a disaster

909
00:46:36,840 --> 00:46:38,880
Speaker 1: by a disaster. I don't mean they missed all their

910
00:46:38,920 --> 00:46:42,279
Speaker 1: kicks or anything like that. I mean communication is still

911
00:46:42,320 --> 00:46:44,959
Speaker 1: not what it needs to be. I am watching from

912
00:46:45,200 --> 00:46:48,239
Speaker 1: fifty thousand feet. I am not going to pretend to

913
00:46:48,280 --> 00:46:52,480
Speaker 1: tell you I know the why behind the chronic communication

914
00:46:52,560 --> 00:46:55,120
Speaker 1: issues that have plagued Florida Special Teams over the past

915
00:46:55,160 --> 00:46:57,360
Speaker 1: couple of years. I don't have to know the why,

916
00:46:57,920 --> 00:46:59,799
Speaker 1: just like I don't need to be a doctor to

917
00:46:59,840 --> 00:47:04,200
Speaker 1: know an ugly baby when I see it. Florida Special

918
00:47:04,239 --> 00:47:07,280
Speaker 1: teams has been an ugly baby a few too many times,

919
00:47:07,400 --> 00:47:11,560
Speaker 1: and it's inexcusable and unlike again, unlike last year when

920
00:47:11,600 --> 00:47:15,040
Speaker 1: it was ongoing during the season, this is spring. You

921
00:47:15,080 --> 00:47:18,000
Speaker 1: could still fix this. You can see. In fact, maybe

922
00:47:18,239 --> 00:47:20,719
Speaker 1: maybe when we take our trip to Gainesville Tuesday, we

923
00:47:20,920 --> 00:47:23,200
Speaker 1: just go and we sit down with the appropriate parties

924
00:47:23,239 --> 00:47:25,960
Speaker 1: and we map out a plan. Maybe that's what it takes.

925
00:47:26,160 --> 00:47:29,160
Speaker 1: Maybe I'll sketch some things out on a pizza box.

926
00:47:29,200 --> 00:47:32,640
Speaker 1: But for real, it doesn't matter what the reasons are.

927
00:47:32,880 --> 00:47:35,360
Speaker 1: It's just got to get fixed. They can't be losing

928
00:47:35,400 --> 00:47:39,120
Speaker 1: games for those reasons. This far into a coaching regime

929
00:47:39,480 --> 00:47:43,000
Speaker 1: that can't be tolerated, and that's not a napier team.

930
00:47:43,440 --> 00:47:45,800
Speaker 1: You go back and look at other stops in his career.

931
00:47:45,960 --> 00:47:49,160
Speaker 1: Look at him at Louisiana. They were a ratcheted up,

932
00:47:49,360 --> 00:47:53,720
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933
00:47:53,760 --> 00:47:57,560
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934
00:47:57,640 --> 00:48:00,359
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935
00:48:00,360 --> 00:48:03,560
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936
00:48:04,160 --> 00:48:06,360
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937
00:48:06,400 --> 00:48:08,399
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938
00:48:08,480 --> 00:48:12,520
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939
00:48:12,760 --> 00:48:15,480
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946
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948
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956
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962
00:49:33,520 --> 00:49:37,120
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963
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Speaker 1: do we have that Twitter question? Colin? We had a

1005
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Speaker 1: we had a question earlier today. I did want to

1006
00:51:52,080 --> 00:51:54,920
Speaker 1: get to this good crowd here. Appreciate you guys being

1007
00:51:54,960 --> 00:51:58,600
Speaker 1: tuned down. I always ask the folks at the Masters,

1008
00:51:58,600 --> 00:52:00,440
Speaker 1: can you make sure you wrap the term him up

1009
00:52:00,440 --> 00:52:02,680
Speaker 1: before we go on air? And every year they agree

1010
00:52:02,719 --> 00:52:07,520
Speaker 1: to something about cordiality and sunshine, not in that order.

1011
00:52:07,920 --> 00:52:10,520
Speaker 1: But I digress. Here we are. We are unopposed to

1012
00:52:10,520 --> 00:52:13,840
Speaker 1: the Masters. This year, Donald from Annapolis, Maryland hit me

1013
00:52:13,920 --> 00:52:16,120
Speaker 1: and said, Hey, which coaches do you believe are at

1014
00:52:16,120 --> 00:52:19,400
Speaker 1: a crossroads this season? Now? Donald, I think maybe you

1015
00:52:19,520 --> 00:52:22,160
Speaker 1: meant which guys are on the hot seat. I don't

1016
00:52:22,160 --> 00:52:24,080
Speaker 1: want to put words in your mouth. I didn't take

1017
00:52:24,080 --> 00:52:25,840
Speaker 1: it that way. I think you could be at a

1018
00:52:25,840 --> 00:52:28,600
Speaker 1: crossroads and be totally safe. Now, some of these guys

1019
00:52:28,600 --> 00:52:30,279
Speaker 1: may be on a hot seat, but some of them

1020
00:52:30,280 --> 00:52:32,759
Speaker 1: could be safe and just they're at an inflection point

1021
00:52:32,760 --> 00:52:36,040
Speaker 1: in their career. So I think Billy Napier it's fair

1022
00:52:36,160 --> 00:52:39,440
Speaker 1: to describe him as being at a crossroads. My opinion

1023
00:52:39,480 --> 00:52:41,800
Speaker 1: on Billy Napier, who will have on the show Tuesday,

1024
00:52:42,160 --> 00:52:46,600
Speaker 1: is BILLI. Napier is a phenomenal football coach who was

1025
00:52:46,640 --> 00:52:49,200
Speaker 1: really good at Louisiana and who got hired at Florida.

1026
00:52:49,480 --> 00:52:51,840
Speaker 1: And I think of him the same way I would

1027
00:52:52,239 --> 00:52:56,719
Speaker 1: a really really potentially high performing automobile that pulled out

1028
00:52:56,719 --> 00:52:58,840
Speaker 1: of the driveway and got its wheel stuck in a

1029
00:52:59,000 --> 00:53:01,719
Speaker 1: like a muddy ditch. Nothing wrong with the car, but

1030
00:53:01,760 --> 00:53:04,239
Speaker 1: the wheels spin him. And you know, if you're late

1031
00:53:04,280 --> 00:53:06,600
Speaker 1: for work or whatever, it's not a big deal. But

1032
00:53:06,880 --> 00:53:09,160
Speaker 1: if you don't put together a good season your first

1033
00:53:09,200 --> 00:53:11,160
Speaker 1: three years in the SEC, you could be out of

1034
00:53:11,160 --> 00:53:14,000
Speaker 1: a job. And it's not like Frank Beamer at Virginia Tech,

1035
00:53:14,040 --> 00:53:16,839
Speaker 1: where they gave him a ton of runway and he's

1036
00:53:16,880 --> 00:53:19,440
Speaker 1: got like six years before he wins more than six games.

1037
00:53:19,440 --> 00:53:22,000
Speaker 1: That doesn't happen, And so you could be a really

1038
00:53:22,040 --> 00:53:25,919
Speaker 1: good coach, and if you don't pretty immediately figure things out,

1039
00:53:26,000 --> 00:53:27,960
Speaker 1: you could be out of a job. And that's why

1040
00:53:28,000 --> 00:53:31,120
Speaker 1: this year is a crossroad year for Billy Napier because

1041
00:53:31,160 --> 00:53:33,960
Speaker 1: I am not like a lot of other people. I'm

1042
00:53:34,000 --> 00:53:36,359
Speaker 1: not of the opinion that he's in over his head

1043
00:53:36,440 --> 00:53:39,160
Speaker 1: or anything like that. I'm not of that opinion. I

1044
00:53:39,200 --> 00:53:41,160
Speaker 1: am of the opinion that there are some things about

1045
00:53:41,200 --> 00:53:43,040
Speaker 1: being the head coach at Florida that are a little

1046
00:53:43,040 --> 00:53:45,239
Speaker 1: bit different than being the head coach at Louisiana, and

1047
00:53:45,320 --> 00:53:48,160
Speaker 1: sometimes that stuff's hard to digest at the outset. Not

1048
00:53:48,320 --> 00:53:52,479
Speaker 1: everyone just seamlessly transitions doesn't mean they're bad, It doesn't

1049
00:53:52,480 --> 00:53:57,000
Speaker 1: mean they're incapable, just means it didn't immediately click. So yeah,

1050
00:53:57,040 --> 00:53:59,640
Speaker 1: absolutely a crossroads year there. I think you could say

1051
00:53:59,640 --> 00:54:01,799
Speaker 1: the same thing about Dabo Swiney, and I don't think

1052
00:54:01,800 --> 00:54:04,200
Speaker 1: there's an ounce of hot seat talking around Dabo Swenny.

1053
00:54:04,280 --> 00:54:07,560
Speaker 1: But the perception of Clemson right now is that they've

1054
00:54:07,760 --> 00:54:11,080
Speaker 1: taken a step or two back, which is reality. That's perception,

1055
00:54:11,200 --> 00:54:15,000
Speaker 1: that's reality. I don't think they would argue that do

1056
00:54:15,040 --> 00:54:18,680
Speaker 1: they ascend back or do they continue to you know,

1057
00:54:19,000 --> 00:54:21,839
Speaker 1: sort of slowly drift back because they were a top

1058
00:54:21,920 --> 00:54:24,520
Speaker 1: two program in the country. And then you know, you

1059
00:54:24,640 --> 00:54:27,120
Speaker 1: drop off a little bit, you're still a top five program.

1060
00:54:27,200 --> 00:54:29,239
Speaker 1: Then well, we're still a top ten program, and I've

1061
00:54:29,280 --> 00:54:30,960
Speaker 1: got him as the tenth best program in the country

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00:54:31,000 --> 00:54:32,200
Speaker 1: right now. By the way, we did that the other

1063
00:54:32,320 --> 00:54:34,879
Speaker 1: night on the show. Then you drop off a little

1064
00:54:34,920 --> 00:54:38,200
Speaker 1: bit more, do you That's that's my question. Do you

1065
00:54:38,239 --> 00:54:42,040
Speaker 1: continue to drop off? The other day, actually last show

1066
00:54:42,080 --> 00:54:44,080
Speaker 1: we did, I was talking about Clemson on the show

1067
00:54:44,760 --> 00:54:48,640
Speaker 1: and I said, I said Clemson should be a college

1068
00:54:48,640 --> 00:54:51,600
Speaker 1: football playoff team this year. Those are the words I said.

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00:54:51,880 --> 00:54:54,759
Speaker 1: And there was a Clemson independent YouTube channel out there

1070
00:54:55,160 --> 00:54:57,600
Speaker 1: that does really good coverage from what I saw. He

1071
00:54:57,640 --> 00:54:59,640
Speaker 1: took it and said, oh, Josh Page wrong about that.

1072
00:55:00,080 --> 00:55:03,879
Speaker 1: He's wrong. Clemson's not going to make the playoff this year. Well,

1073
00:55:04,160 --> 00:55:06,400
Speaker 1: it wasn't a prediction I was making, nor am I

1074
00:55:06,440 --> 00:55:08,720
Speaker 1: making it now. I don't predict the playoff in spring.

1075
00:55:08,840 --> 00:55:11,520
Speaker 1: I barely do it in August. What I said is

1076
00:55:12,280 --> 00:55:18,040
Speaker 1: when you have those level resources, that level talent roster,

1077
00:55:18,480 --> 00:55:23,320
Speaker 1: and they expand the playoff to twelve, unequivocally, you should

1078
00:55:23,360 --> 00:55:26,000
Speaker 1: be a college football playoff team. And if you're not,

1079
00:55:26,560 --> 00:55:30,200
Speaker 1: there should be consequences. So Clemson's got a wide open

1080
00:55:30,239 --> 00:55:32,600
Speaker 1: shot this year. If you look at the FanDuel odds

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00:55:32,600 --> 00:55:34,520
Speaker 1: on the ACC, they're right up there. I think they're

1082
00:55:34,560 --> 00:55:37,359
Speaker 1: like a co favorite to win the ACC. You do that,

1083
00:55:37,400 --> 00:55:39,759
Speaker 1: you'll one hundred percent be in the playoff. If not

1084
00:55:39,880 --> 00:55:41,960
Speaker 1: last year, I guarantee you this year you will be.

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00:55:42,480 --> 00:55:46,839
Speaker 1: But what if, just for argument's sake, Clemson's like nine

1086
00:55:46,880 --> 00:55:49,640
Speaker 1: to three this year, you're not firing dabos twenty. But

1087
00:55:49,760 --> 00:55:55,080
Speaker 1: it is indicative of a further subtle slide towards above

1088
00:55:55,120 --> 00:55:58,600
Speaker 1: average and a slide further away from being elite. I

1089
00:55:58,640 --> 00:56:01,799
Speaker 1: think Lincoln Riley is a coach at a crossroads this year. Now.

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00:56:01,880 --> 00:56:05,120
Speaker 1: Ultimately he has been at one and I think he

1091
00:56:05,200 --> 00:56:09,440
Speaker 1: knew that and that's why he made fundamental philosophical shifts

1092
00:56:09,480 --> 00:56:11,719
Speaker 1: to his program. And I credit him for doing it

1093
00:56:11,840 --> 00:56:14,359
Speaker 1: because a lot of guys get to that level and

1094
00:56:14,400 --> 00:56:16,759
Speaker 1: that's his second major head coaching job, and they look

1095
00:56:16,800 --> 00:56:19,000
Speaker 1: around and just kind of think to themselves, well, I

1096
00:56:19,040 --> 00:56:22,120
Speaker 1: am who I am, Whatever my identity is, whatever my

1097
00:56:22,200 --> 00:56:25,399
Speaker 1: program's identity is, we can tweak it here or there. Well,

1098
00:56:25,400 --> 00:56:27,960
Speaker 1: he's not tweaking it. Man, he tore half the house

1099
00:56:28,040 --> 00:56:31,399
Speaker 1: down and they're rebuilding it. Good for him. I don't

1100
00:56:31,400 --> 00:56:33,960
Speaker 1: know if it's gonna work, but I'll tell you what

1101
00:56:34,080 --> 00:56:37,600
Speaker 1: he was doing was not gonna work. At the highest levels.

1102
00:56:37,600 --> 00:56:39,720
Speaker 1: It was not gonna work. And you got to credit

1103
00:56:39,760 --> 00:56:42,719
Speaker 1: a guy for realizing that. So they go and they

1104
00:56:42,719 --> 00:56:47,600
Speaker 1: overhaul the defensive staff, which is one of the most

1105
00:56:47,680 --> 00:56:50,719
Speaker 1: upgraded defensive staffs in the country. Contrary to what some

1106
00:56:50,760 --> 00:56:53,120
Speaker 1: people thought I said the other night, I just didn't

1107
00:56:53,120 --> 00:56:55,680
Speaker 1: say it was one of the foremost upgraded. And that's

1108
00:56:55,680 --> 00:56:57,720
Speaker 1: its own side argument that I can have with Southern

1109
00:56:57,719 --> 00:57:03,759
Speaker 1: Colfans amongst ourselves, really upgraded defensive staff. Do you have

1110
00:57:03,800 --> 00:57:07,440
Speaker 1: the players overnight to implement and install whatever you want

1111
00:57:07,440 --> 00:57:10,239
Speaker 1: to install. Probably not, But I will tell you this,

1112
00:57:10,520 --> 00:57:13,120
Speaker 1: you need to pay attention to USC recruiting because USC

1113
00:57:13,239 --> 00:57:15,719
Speaker 1: has been kind of making noise all over the country

1114
00:57:16,040 --> 00:57:18,120
Speaker 1: recruiting areas of the country. They're going to have to

1115
00:57:18,160 --> 00:57:21,400
Speaker 1: continue to recruit. So Lincoln Riley, for several reasons, I

1116
00:57:21,400 --> 00:57:24,360
Speaker 1: think could be viewed as being at a crossroads right now,

1117
00:57:24,400 --> 00:57:27,720
Speaker 1: not a job security crossroads. Dave A. Randa. On the

1118
00:57:27,760 --> 00:57:31,960
Speaker 1: other hand, Baylor is at a job security crossroads. I've

1119
00:57:31,960 --> 00:57:34,320
Speaker 1: got immense respect for Dave Randa. I've spoken about it

1120
00:57:34,360 --> 00:57:36,680
Speaker 1: many times on the show, but they have not been

1121
00:57:36,720 --> 00:57:40,439
Speaker 1: good enough. They were in a situation last year where

1122
00:57:40,440 --> 00:57:42,680
Speaker 1: it looked like he may lose his job, and they

1123
00:57:42,800 --> 00:57:45,560
Speaker 1: kept him and he went and made some staff moves,

1124
00:57:45,600 --> 00:57:47,760
Speaker 1: and then some of the staffers got taken and so

1125
00:57:48,800 --> 00:57:50,400
Speaker 1: I don't know how good they're going to be this year.

1126
00:57:50,440 --> 00:57:53,160
Speaker 1: I will say this, anything's possible in the Big Twelve.

1127
00:57:53,560 --> 00:57:57,919
Speaker 1: Anything's possible. I would direct your attention to just last year,

1128
00:57:58,160 --> 00:58:01,880
Speaker 1: Neil Brown was at his own crossroads at West Virginia,

1129
00:58:01,920 --> 00:58:04,480
Speaker 1: and Neil Brown was the number one name on a

1130
00:58:04,520 --> 00:58:07,400
Speaker 1: lot of hot seat lists. And then what they do.

1131
00:58:07,840 --> 00:58:09,880
Speaker 1: They won way more games than you thought they would.

1132
00:58:10,280 --> 00:58:13,600
Speaker 1: Because anything's possible in the Big Twelve aka America's College

1133
00:58:13,640 --> 00:58:20,200
Speaker 1: Football Conference. Dave A. Randa I am. I'm actually interested

1134
00:58:20,200 --> 00:58:23,880
Speaker 1: in going to Waco and doing a show from Baylor

1135
00:58:23,960 --> 00:58:25,640
Speaker 1: and having a sit down with Randa. I have not

1136
00:58:25,680 --> 00:58:29,240
Speaker 1: talked to them about that. Maybe they're watching, but I

1137
00:58:29,280 --> 00:58:31,960
Speaker 1: don't know if enough people have really sat there and

1138
00:58:32,120 --> 00:58:37,880
Speaker 1: listened to him. Dave Randa's brutally, brutally honest, he's very calculated,

1139
00:58:38,200 --> 00:58:42,080
Speaker 1: He's very intentional with everything he says. But he is

1140
00:58:42,120 --> 00:58:45,240
Speaker 1: a guy who if they're terrible at something, he'll tell

1141
00:58:45,280 --> 00:58:48,280
Speaker 1: you they are, but he'll also walk you through why

1142
00:58:48,680 --> 00:58:51,400
Speaker 1: and what they're trying to do to change it is.

1143
00:58:51,600 --> 00:58:54,840
Speaker 1: He's got a mind that goes so far beyond football

1144
00:58:55,200 --> 00:58:58,520
Speaker 1: and actually brings a lot outside of football back into football.

1145
00:58:58,520 --> 00:59:00,800
Speaker 1: And it's just one of the most fast, fascinating guys

1146
00:59:01,160 --> 00:59:03,280
Speaker 1: that you could ever sit there and listen to. And

1147
00:59:03,320 --> 00:59:05,400
Speaker 1: it may be something we explore, but yeah, this year,

1148
00:59:05,720 --> 00:59:07,440
Speaker 1: really big year for Dave Randa. And I'll tell you

1149
00:59:07,520 --> 00:59:11,360
Speaker 1: another one just up the road in old Southwest Conference country.

1150
00:59:11,720 --> 00:59:16,800
Speaker 1: Sam Pittman at Arkansas made one of the splashiest but

1151
00:59:16,920 --> 00:59:21,160
Speaker 1: also substantive moves in the off season when he brought

1152
00:59:21,200 --> 00:59:25,800
Speaker 1: in hoomst Bobby Petrino to be his offensive coordinator. And

1153
00:59:26,000 --> 00:59:30,560
Speaker 1: there are most people actually will leave Arkansas for dead

1154
00:59:30,600 --> 00:59:34,480
Speaker 1: this year. So what do you do? That's the definition

1155
00:59:34,560 --> 00:59:37,760
Speaker 1: of a crossroads. Pittman doesn't need to coach. First off,

1156
00:59:37,760 --> 00:59:41,440
Speaker 1: Pittman's ten times financially set and he'll be good. But

1157
00:59:41,640 --> 00:59:43,600
Speaker 1: he has also I think still got a fire to

1158
00:59:43,680 --> 00:59:47,080
Speaker 1: coach there. And what I'm not going to do is

1159
00:59:47,120 --> 00:59:48,720
Speaker 1: I'm not going to have sit here two years ago

1160
00:59:48,760 --> 00:59:52,440
Speaker 1: and said, oh Man, Pittman, he blends perfectly with Arkansas.

1161
00:59:52,560 --> 00:59:56,160
Speaker 1: What you love is you love that culture, fit figurehead,

1162
00:59:56,680 --> 01:00:00,280
Speaker 1: and then let everything beneath him just sort itself out.

1163
01:00:01,400 --> 01:00:04,080
Speaker 1: I'm not going back on that. It's just that when

1164
01:00:04,120 --> 01:00:08,400
Speaker 1: that's the dynamic, it's not gonna work every year. Understand

1165
01:00:08,440 --> 01:00:11,919
Speaker 1: what realistic expectations to be at Arkansas, and then it's

1166
01:00:11,960 --> 01:00:15,720
Speaker 1: fine to have high standards they should. They just went

1167
01:00:15,760 --> 01:00:19,400
Speaker 1: and got Caliperiot Kentucky or from Kentucky and basketball, and

1168
01:00:19,480 --> 01:00:22,640
Speaker 1: you've got names like Tyson and JB. Hunt up there

1169
01:00:22,640 --> 01:00:25,320
Speaker 1: and whatnot. And you know, folks in college circles know

1170
01:00:25,360 --> 01:00:29,040
Speaker 1: what that means. Hey, they're not just active in basketball,

1171
01:00:29,600 --> 01:00:33,240
Speaker 1: you know what? For that matter. Let this is just

1172
01:00:33,280 --> 01:00:36,040
Speaker 1: my mind working in real time. Maybe I should have

1173
01:00:36,120 --> 01:00:40,160
Speaker 1: mentioned Arkansas earlier in the transfer portal segment, because a

1174
01:00:40,240 --> 01:00:42,200
Speaker 1: program that can go do what they just did in

1175
01:00:42,280 --> 01:00:45,360
Speaker 1: basketball with the names that they have on the donor

1176
01:00:45,360 --> 01:00:48,000
Speaker 1: list in basketball could also do that in football? Could

1177
01:00:48,000 --> 01:00:52,880
Speaker 1: they not? Hoops? Amongst us knows, maybe Arkansas is one

1178
01:00:52,920 --> 01:00:55,200
Speaker 1: of the big surprise splash winners. In the portal. This

1179
01:00:55,400 --> 01:00:58,840
Speaker 1: is also the portion of the show where I baselessly

1180
01:00:58,960 --> 01:01:02,320
Speaker 1: speculate and start rumors, and that's not good. Sometimes I

1181
01:01:02,320 --> 01:01:05,520
Speaker 1: get a slap on the wrist from myself for that.

1182
01:01:05,600 --> 01:01:09,280
Speaker 1: But yeah, crossroads here, I think for Sam Pittman as well.

1183
01:01:09,840 --> 01:01:12,360
Speaker 1: Good show tonight, nice solid show right at an hour.

1184
01:01:12,640 --> 01:01:14,400
Speaker 1: We're gonna be on the road all week. I told

1185
01:01:14,440 --> 01:01:16,800
Speaker 1: you we're gonna be live from Florida Tuesday. We will

1186
01:01:16,840 --> 01:01:20,120
Speaker 1: have Billy Napier on the show. We're gonna go somewhere Wednesday.

1187
01:01:20,160 --> 01:01:22,560
Speaker 1: We're gonna go somewhere Thursday, and I will announce those

1188
01:01:22,640 --> 01:01:24,280
Speaker 1: in due time. You know what, I'll give you the

1189
01:01:24,320 --> 01:01:27,000
Speaker 1: Wednesday announcement. We're going to sit down with Malson at

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Speaker 1: Central Florida. Because I've never been to Central Florida. I've

1191
01:01:30,000 --> 01:01:32,800
Speaker 1: been to Orlando. I've never been to the University of

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01:01:32,800 --> 01:01:38,280
Speaker 1: Central Florida. And Malson's awesome. Malson, you listen to him

1193
01:01:38,320 --> 01:01:39,959
Speaker 1: for a long time, He's been here for a long time.

1194
01:01:40,080 --> 01:01:41,880
Speaker 1: But here's what you have to do with Gus Malson.

1195
01:01:42,080 --> 01:01:44,840
Speaker 1: You just gotta boom, just crack that egg a little bit,

1196
01:01:45,360 --> 01:01:48,040
Speaker 1: and then it's just great stories and it runs all

1197
01:01:48,040 --> 01:01:50,200
Speaker 1: over the place and you dip your biscuit in and

1198
01:01:50,240 --> 01:01:52,400
Speaker 1: it's great. So we're gonna have Malson on the show.

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Speaker 1: Actually it won't be the show. What we'll do is

1200
01:01:54,720 --> 01:01:56,360
Speaker 1: I will go sit down with Gus and we'll just

1201
01:01:56,400 --> 01:01:58,000
Speaker 1: package that thing up and put it on the YouTube

1202
01:01:58,040 --> 01:02:01,720
Speaker 1: channel Wednesday. And as I've said many times, our goal

1203
01:02:01,800 --> 01:02:05,000
Speaker 1: for doing this is whether you're a Michigan State fan

1204
01:02:05,320 --> 01:02:08,600
Speaker 1: or a fan of the coaches school that we're sitting

1205
01:02:08,640 --> 01:02:11,160
Speaker 1: down with, I want it to appeal to all of you.

1206
01:02:11,480 --> 01:02:13,720
Speaker 1: So I'm not sitting there asking Gus about his right

1207
01:02:13,760 --> 01:02:17,040
Speaker 1: guard situation and how he thinks week three and week

1208
01:02:17,080 --> 01:02:19,160
Speaker 1: four could go for Central Florida. We'll have a little

1209
01:02:19,200 --> 01:02:23,360
Speaker 1: bit of that, but we'll mainly have overarching conversation that

1210
01:02:23,520 --> 01:02:26,560
Speaker 1: sort of hits in every bucket, so to speak. So

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Speaker 1: we've loved doing this. We've gotten great viewership on it,

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Speaker 1: explored putting their name tag on that for next year.

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Speaker 1: And I'm like, where were you guys a month ago

1215
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Speaker 1: We've been talking about this, But anyway, we appreciate it,

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Speaker 1: appreciate you guys making it possible. So for we've got

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Speaker 1: Bradley the associate is here. We are all alone in

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Speaker 1: You guys, have a great start to your week. We

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