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Speaker 2: Because if you think for a second, Niko Iamaliava an.

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Speaker 1: Adult though he is, if you think he was the

432
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Speaker 1: one pulling all the strings on this year and sing,

433
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Speaker 1: you know, there's been a ton of bad decisions made.

434
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Speaker 2: One good decision.

435
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Speaker 1: That could start to rectify this is the folks who

436
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Speaker 1: dug the hole for him instead of tossing his body

437
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Speaker 1: in there. How about you step up and say I

438
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Speaker 1: screwed up and it's on me. And if you want

439
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Speaker 1: to hate somebody, hate on me, but give the details

440
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Speaker 1: it wasn't him negotiating this. It wasn't him that knocked

441
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Speaker 1: on the door and said we want four mil instead

442
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Speaker 1: of two point four, or we're out, or if it

443
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Speaker 1: was then it was I highly doubt that's the way

444
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Speaker 1: it went down. So that's how you may spare Niko

445
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Speaker 1: Yamaliava from what he would suffer wherever it is he

446
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Speaker 1: ends up.

447
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Speaker 2: I don't know how he's going to be viewed.

448
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Speaker 1: And you know, I do understand when people get upset

449
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Speaker 1: when you say, well, it's not fully on Niko, which

450
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Speaker 1: I think. I don't think it's fully on Nico, but

451
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Speaker 1: he is an adult. It's a It sucks that a

452
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Speaker 1: lot of times, whether you're a football player or not,

453
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Speaker 1: you got to make the most important and impactful decisions

454
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Speaker 1: in your life when you're the least equipped because you're

455
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Speaker 1: ignorant when you're nineteen or twenty years old. When you're sixty,

456
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Speaker 1: you got all the answers, and if you could control

457
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Speaker 1: twenty year old version of yourself with a joystick, yeah, yeah,

458
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Speaker 1: you'd make sound calls in every facet of life. That's

459
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Speaker 1: not the way it works, though, And so it may

460
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Speaker 1: be unfair that you got a kid you know, not

461
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Speaker 1: by birth certificate, but by societal standing. You've got a

462
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Speaker 1: kid nineteen twenty twenty one years old that's having to

463
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Speaker 1: navigate this. But you know what, tough tough. You're in

464
00:23:22,760 --> 00:23:27,120
Speaker 1: a unique situation. You gotta nut up a little bit yourself,

465
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Speaker 1: and you got to tell people when they don't have

466
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Speaker 1: your best interest in mind anymore, or when they don't

467
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Speaker 1: know what your best interest is, you better have the

468
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Speaker 1: wherewithal to step away. I know it's hard. It's hard

469
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Speaker 1: to do it when you're twice your age. It's especially

470
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Speaker 1: gonna be hard to do it when you're your age.

471
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Speaker 1: But you're one of one. There are not many people

472
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Speaker 1: out there with the god given ability you have, So

473
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Speaker 1: you're not gonna be able to lean on your buddies

474
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Speaker 1: for advice.

475
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Speaker 2: It's gonna be very lonely.

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Speaker 1: Truth be told, you probably get more sound feedback from

477
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Speaker 1: inside the program that your negotiating with, because at least

478
00:24:01,800 --> 00:24:05,320
Speaker 1: those people have extensive backgrounds in this field. Or go

479
00:24:05,680 --> 00:24:08,320
Speaker 1: hire yourself a real agent. You know, the real agents,

480
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Speaker 1: by the way, few and far between though they may be,

481
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Speaker 1: they are out there, and so, for his sake, I

482
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Speaker 1: hope that is true. But a lot of people man

483
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Speaker 1: a lot of people yelling right now, case I think

484
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Speaker 1: everyone realizes the situation screwed up.

485
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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: I think I can count on one hand the amount

487
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Speaker 1: of people who are still satisfied with where college athletics are.

488
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Speaker 1: And I've told you for a while. You know you

489
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Speaker 1: and I disagree on individual things, Playoff expansion being one

490
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Speaker 1: of them. And I've told you for a while I'm

491
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Speaker 1: not making this about Playoff expansion. But anytime we've talked

492
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Speaker 1: about this, whether you wanted it to expand or I

493
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Speaker 1: didn't want it to expand, I always told you it's

494
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Speaker 1: not about expanding the Playoff in a vacuum. It's about

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Speaker 1: who wants the Playoff expanded and why they actually want

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Speaker 1: it expanded. You may want it expanded because you really

497
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Speaker 1: think it's going to level the playing field, or you

498
00:25:00,240 --> 00:25:01,960
Speaker 1: just want to see more Playoff games you think it

499
00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:05,360
Speaker 1: sounds fun. I disagree with you, but I don't care.

500
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Speaker 1: If that's your motivation. Great, we just define good in

501
00:25:09,400 --> 00:25:12,439
Speaker 1: a different way. But the cats over here pulling the

502
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Speaker 1: strings do not care about the things you care about,

503
00:25:15,280 --> 00:25:17,320
Speaker 1: nor do they care about the things I care about.

504
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Speaker 1: They found a way to build an ATM machine, but

505
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Speaker 1: They couldn't call it an ATM machine because that would

506
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Speaker 1: insult your intelligence, and they did need your support, they

507
00:25:26,440 --> 00:25:30,080
Speaker 1: needed broad fan support, so they called it an expanded playoff.

508
00:25:30,600 --> 00:25:32,800
Speaker 1: It was an ATM machine. It was a reason for

509
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Speaker 1: them to print money. People like me who sat here

510
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Speaker 1: and said I don't like what that's going to do

511
00:25:36,520 --> 00:25:39,280
Speaker 1: to the regular season, you just got cast aside. And

512
00:25:39,359 --> 00:25:41,040
Speaker 1: there weren't enough of us who felt that way, and

513
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Speaker 1: it was really irrelevant. Even if enough of us did

514
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Speaker 1: feel that way, it was going that direction. Well, then

515
00:25:46,280 --> 00:25:49,600
Speaker 1: we got to things like the transfer portal and things

516
00:25:49,680 --> 00:25:52,760
Speaker 1: like NIL, which on the street is known as pay

517
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Speaker 1: for play, but we still use that three letters for

518
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Speaker 1: some reason. There are a lot of people who threw

519
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Speaker 1: up red flags on that. But you got label is

520
00:26:00,200 --> 00:26:03,439
Speaker 1: antiplayer if you did that, well, no, I'm not anti

521
00:26:03,480 --> 00:26:06,760
Speaker 1: player at all. Never have Who in the world's antiplayer?

522
00:26:06,880 --> 00:26:10,040
Speaker 1: By the way, your uncle Jerry, who's one hundred and

523
00:26:10,040 --> 00:26:13,600
Speaker 1: thirteen years old down in Bessemer, notwithstanding like who's anti player?

524
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Speaker 1: I'll tell you what I am though, pro college football.

525
00:26:17,040 --> 00:26:20,600
Speaker 1: So there are some thoughts out there that if you

526
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Speaker 1: just make these players employees and you collectively bargain with them,

527
00:26:23,720 --> 00:26:25,520
Speaker 1: all the problems will go away. No, they won't. You'll

528
00:26:25,560 --> 00:26:28,000
Speaker 1: just create a new set of problems. I truthfully don't

529
00:26:28,000 --> 00:26:30,320
Speaker 1: think there's an answer where all the problems go away.

530
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Speaker 1: But I am in the minority on this, at least

531
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Speaker 1: it feels like in my profession. But I don't really

532
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Speaker 1: care if anyone in my profession agrees with me. I

533
00:26:40,160 --> 00:26:43,480
Speaker 1: believe that they have to get federal intervention in order

534
00:26:43,560 --> 00:26:47,399
Speaker 1: to fix this in the best interest of college athletics.

535
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Speaker 1: That's what I think. There may be a player or

536
00:26:50,560 --> 00:26:53,800
Speaker 1: two who in the aggregate, makes less money to because

537
00:26:53,840 --> 00:26:57,280
Speaker 1: of that, although the majority would make more money because

538
00:26:57,320 --> 00:26:59,920
Speaker 1: of that. But don't ignore what Dellinger put out to

539
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Speaker 1: night tonight being Sunday. As I'm talking to you, it

540
00:27:02,760 --> 00:27:06,080
Speaker 1: is Sunday, late evening. It's seven twenty six, Sunday evening.

541
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Speaker 1: Over at Yahoo sports dot com, Ross Dellinger put out

542
00:27:10,280 --> 00:27:13,680
Speaker 1: a pretty interesting piece today, but he didn't have anything

543
00:27:13,800 --> 00:27:18,080
Speaker 1: directly to do with the Nico, Tennessee situation.

544
00:27:17,720 --> 00:27:18,840
Speaker 2: Which everyone's caught up in.

545
00:27:18,880 --> 00:27:21,520
Speaker 1: It's a it's a hornet's nest that had a baseball

546
00:27:21,560 --> 00:27:25,800
Speaker 1: bat taken to it. But there was some pretty interesting

547
00:27:25,840 --> 00:27:28,479
Speaker 1: information in the Dellinger piece. Now I say all this

548
00:27:28,600 --> 00:27:30,320
Speaker 1: like I have Colin ready to tee it up and go.

549
00:27:30,440 --> 00:27:33,600
Speaker 1: I don't, but I will tell you it's over there

550
00:27:33,680 --> 00:27:36,400
Speaker 1: right now. I would argue they need a college football

551
00:27:36,400 --> 00:27:38,240
Speaker 1: tab on the front page of the website if anyone

552
00:27:38,240 --> 00:27:41,560
Speaker 1: at y'aho is listening, but you can find it. And

553
00:27:41,600 --> 00:27:46,040
Speaker 1: he said that there is a bipartisan group from Congress

554
00:27:46,400 --> 00:27:50,240
Speaker 1: that feels they are as close as they've been to

555
00:27:50,520 --> 00:27:56,280
Speaker 1: achieving limited antitrust exemption to codify the House Settlement if

556
00:27:56,320 --> 00:28:01,919
Speaker 1: we get it into law, and it would provide the

557
00:28:02,000 --> 00:28:05,159
Speaker 1: mechanisms needed to enforce rules when we get to the

558
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Speaker 1: rev share later this year.

559
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Speaker 2: You got the revenue share.

560
00:28:08,520 --> 00:28:11,920
Speaker 1: But then above and beyond that, the entire thing depends

561
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Speaker 1: on how enforceable the nil model is, because the way

562
00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:20,080
Speaker 1: the thing's worded is nil can only be fair market.

563
00:28:20,400 --> 00:28:22,399
Speaker 1: In other words, you can't do what you do now,

564
00:28:22,640 --> 00:28:24,880
Speaker 1: which is pay a kid two point five million dollars

565
00:28:25,480 --> 00:28:28,240
Speaker 1: to make a few autograph signings and call it nil,

566
00:28:28,440 --> 00:28:31,440
Speaker 1: because in this new world, an enforcement body, a third

567
00:28:31,520 --> 00:28:34,960
Speaker 1: party enforcement body, would say you got to prove that

568
00:28:35,200 --> 00:28:37,800
Speaker 1: the market value for that autograph signing is two point

569
00:28:37,840 --> 00:28:38,800
Speaker 1: five million dollars now.

570
00:28:38,880 --> 00:28:39,920
Speaker 2: Right now, that's illegal.

571
00:28:40,360 --> 00:28:43,160
Speaker 1: But if you get that federal overreach, some would call

572
00:28:43,200 --> 00:28:45,800
Speaker 1: it over each whatever it is, I think it's in

573
00:28:45,840 --> 00:28:48,120
Speaker 1: the best interest college athletics at this point. If you

574
00:28:48,160 --> 00:28:52,000
Speaker 1: get that protection, then you have teeth, you can actually

575
00:28:52,080 --> 00:28:55,560
Speaker 1: enforce your rules. And at that point nil being paid

576
00:28:55,560 --> 00:28:58,479
Speaker 1: for play becomes far less an issue, and then you

577
00:28:58,640 --> 00:29:01,080
Speaker 1: just have payroll versus payle. But the thing about that

578
00:29:01,280 --> 00:29:05,440
Speaker 1: is Kentucky's is equal to Alabama's, northwesterns is equal to

579
00:29:05,480 --> 00:29:09,360
Speaker 1: Ohio states. And it becomes all about evaluation, and it

580
00:29:09,400 --> 00:29:14,400
Speaker 1: becomes about development, and it becomes about proper roster allocation.

581
00:29:14,600 --> 00:29:17,760
Speaker 2: But you know what else, it becomes about staying put.

582
00:29:18,440 --> 00:29:21,760
Speaker 1: Not because you outlaw transfer portal movement, but because you

583
00:29:21,840 --> 00:29:25,320
Speaker 1: become far more incentivized to stay at one place for

584
00:29:25,400 --> 00:29:27,960
Speaker 1: a long time. I set a second ago. There's a

585
00:29:28,000 --> 00:29:30,160
Speaker 1: ton wrong with the sport right now. It is not

586
00:29:30,320 --> 00:29:32,640
Speaker 1: beyond repair. If it was, I wouldn't be talking to

587
00:29:32,680 --> 00:29:34,440
Speaker 1: you right now. I'd go find a new line of

588
00:29:34,440 --> 00:29:36,160
Speaker 1: work because this would be a dying field.

589
00:29:36,320 --> 00:29:39,000
Speaker 2: It's not. It's an insane.

590
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Speaker 1: Period of churn. The documentaries will be many from the

591
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Speaker 1: twenty twenties. You know when we get to like twenty forty,

592
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Speaker 1: I hope the story about college football is Boy, there

593
00:29:50,160 --> 00:29:53,000
Speaker 1: were some dark periods, but maybe we needed to go

594
00:29:53,040 --> 00:29:55,800
Speaker 1: through that to get where we are filling the blank.

595
00:29:56,200 --> 00:30:00,440
Speaker 1: That's what I hope. I believe this this was a

596
00:30:00,520 --> 00:30:05,720
Speaker 1: tipping point, one of many, and I believe that behind

597
00:30:05,720 --> 00:30:09,960
Speaker 1: closed doors. While it sucks to watch, Greg Sank, the

598
00:30:09,960 --> 00:30:14,239
Speaker 1: Commissioner of the SEC, probably gets more angry at this.

599
00:30:14,400 --> 00:30:16,840
Speaker 1: Tony Pettiti in the Big Ten gets angry at this,

600
00:30:17,120 --> 00:30:18,560
Speaker 1: and they take it and they just wave it in

601
00:30:18,560 --> 00:30:22,480
Speaker 1: front of Congress's face. I believe there is a motivation

602
00:30:23,440 --> 00:30:27,479
Speaker 1: amongst anyone in Washington, d C. Which we don't talk

603
00:30:27,480 --> 00:30:29,560
Speaker 1: about a lot on this show, to make sure college

604
00:30:29,600 --> 00:30:33,280
Speaker 1: athletics are preserved. College football is preserved because it's one

605
00:30:33,280 --> 00:30:37,560
Speaker 1: of the many layers of fabric that make the country unique.

606
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Speaker 1: So I don't want to go down that whole rabbit hole.

607
00:30:40,120 --> 00:30:42,480
Speaker 1: But I think they're going to get it. I think,

608
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Speaker 1: for the first time, I am more confident than not

609
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Speaker 1: that they're actually going to get that limited anti trust

610
00:30:47,120 --> 00:30:50,560
Speaker 1: exemption that many people in my industry I think is

611
00:30:50,880 --> 00:30:54,560
Speaker 1: like Satan wearing a mask walking into college athletics. It's not.

612
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Speaker 2: It's not.

613
00:30:56,320 --> 00:31:00,840
Speaker 1: Look around right now, and then you tell me that.

614
00:31:00,760 --> 00:31:01,880
Speaker 2: You've got everything figured.

615
00:31:01,680 --> 00:31:04,240
Speaker 1: Out because a lot of people advocated for this garbage.

616
00:31:04,320 --> 00:31:07,560
Speaker 1: Right now, this is not college football, not as the

617
00:31:07,600 --> 00:31:10,560
Speaker 1: way it should be. At least Academy Sports and Outdoors

618
00:31:10,800 --> 00:31:12,560
Speaker 1: has your Tennessee gear. I don't know if they have

619
00:31:12,640 --> 00:31:16,040
Speaker 1: Nico jerseys over there, still probably not, But Academy Sports

620
00:31:16,080 --> 00:31:19,120
Speaker 1: and Outdoors has your hookup. You know, fall will come,

621
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Speaker 1: week one will come, will be happy, We'll be happy

622
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Speaker 1: on Saturdays.

623
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Speaker 2: No matter what.

624
00:31:24,040 --> 00:31:26,239
Speaker 1: To my knowledge this to I haven't taken that from us,

625
00:31:26,600 --> 00:31:29,680
Speaker 1: But Academy Sports and Outdoors is the presenting partner of

626
00:31:29,720 --> 00:31:30,120
Speaker 1: the show.

627
00:31:30,600 --> 00:31:33,400
Speaker 2: They make the show free. We really appreciate.

628
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Speaker 1: Them, Academy dot com if you can't get there in person,

629
00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:38,000
Speaker 1: but I strongly encourage an in person visit.

630
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Speaker 2: Fishing gear, baseball.

631
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Speaker 1: Equipment, you want a tent, you want to bike, filling

632
00:31:44,640 --> 00:31:46,960
Speaker 1: the blanket, cetera, et cetera, et cetera. It's all there,

633
00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:51,320
Speaker 1: and a big league chew in the checkout line. Not mandatory,

634
00:31:51,480 --> 00:31:54,040
Speaker 1: but I advise it. Academy. We appreciate them.

635
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Speaker 2: Let's move along.

636
00:31:55,080 --> 00:31:55,480
Speaker 1: What did we do?

637
00:31:55,600 --> 00:31:57,240
Speaker 2: We went thirty minutes on the lead topic.

638
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Speaker 1: Huh told you, guys, I waited forty eight hours on that,

639
00:32:01,560 --> 00:32:03,760
Speaker 1: So we're going to have a lot to say now.

640
00:32:05,040 --> 00:32:09,480
Speaker 1: The spring Portal is a funny topic around here. The

641
00:32:09,520 --> 00:32:13,120
Speaker 1: spring portal, for those unfamiliar, that's the era we're about

642
00:32:13,160 --> 00:32:17,400
Speaker 1: to enter into. Or Colin actually endpoint right here, because

643
00:32:17,400 --> 00:32:18,600
Speaker 1: I don't like the way I said that. If you're

644
00:32:18,640 --> 00:32:22,640
Speaker 1: watching live, ignore what I just said. The Spring transfer portal,

645
00:32:22,760 --> 00:32:26,000
Speaker 1: that's the period for a few days after springball wraps

646
00:32:26,080 --> 00:32:30,200
Speaker 1: up where you got one last chance. Look, if you're

647
00:32:30,240 --> 00:32:32,880
Speaker 1: new to college football, don't even bother trying to understand

648
00:32:32,920 --> 00:32:35,240
Speaker 1: why this thing exists. But it does. So Zach hit

649
00:32:35,360 --> 00:32:37,800
Speaker 1: me from Irvine, California. He said, is the transfer portal

650
00:32:38,080 --> 00:32:42,479
Speaker 1: really about to go crazy next week? This is a

651
00:32:42,800 --> 00:32:47,400
Speaker 1: very very sensitive topic on this show. Longtime viewers will

652
00:32:47,440 --> 00:32:51,640
Speaker 1: remember the darkest period of my career, possibly my life,

653
00:32:51,640 --> 00:32:54,440
Speaker 1: some would say, was this time last year. Because this

654
00:32:54,520 --> 00:32:58,080
Speaker 1: time last year I got fed some good old fashioned

655
00:32:58,440 --> 00:33:02,680
Speaker 1: bad information. And you may think eating bad fish is

656
00:33:02,720 --> 00:33:04,880
Speaker 1: the worst thing that could happen to you. No, take

657
00:33:04,920 --> 00:33:07,680
Speaker 1: it from someone who had foods poisoning last year. I

658
00:33:07,840 --> 00:33:11,320
Speaker 1: take that any day over getting fed bad information. Because

659
00:33:11,400 --> 00:33:13,680
Speaker 1: food poisoning, while it is terrible, it comes and goes

660
00:33:13,720 --> 00:33:17,840
Speaker 1: in a few hours, but bad information can stain your

661
00:33:17,880 --> 00:33:21,280
Speaker 1: reputation forever. So last year I thought the portal was

662
00:33:21,320 --> 00:33:22,920
Speaker 1: going to go off. And here's why I thought that,

663
00:33:23,120 --> 00:33:25,400
Speaker 1: because I was told by many a player personnel type

664
00:33:25,440 --> 00:33:27,720
Speaker 1: they thought the portal was going to go off post Spring.

665
00:33:27,800 --> 00:33:30,400
Speaker 1: So what do I do. I journey back to Nashville.

666
00:33:30,480 --> 00:33:34,040
Speaker 1: I turned the mic on and I say, guys, watch

667
00:33:34,080 --> 00:33:38,440
Speaker 1: out this post spring transfer portal. It could be legendary,

668
00:33:38,480 --> 00:33:42,600
Speaker 1: it could be it could be memorable. Chaos. We got

669
00:33:42,680 --> 00:33:47,120
Speaker 1: chaos around the bend and then crickets, absolute crickets, and

670
00:33:47,240 --> 00:33:48,440
Speaker 1: I had to face the music.

671
00:33:48,480 --> 00:33:51,160
Speaker 2: But you don't have to take.

672
00:33:51,040 --> 00:33:53,479
Speaker 1: My word for it. Take my word for it. Colin

673
00:33:53,640 --> 00:33:58,360
Speaker 1: roll the regrettable footage. You are about to see the harsh,

674
00:33:58,640 --> 00:34:04,000
Speaker 1: violent reality of the no Rules Transfer portal era on

675
00:34:04,120 --> 00:34:05,600
Speaker 1: full display later this month.

676
00:34:05,680 --> 00:34:07,080
Speaker 2: I'm not overstating this.

677
00:34:07,320 --> 00:34:10,279
Speaker 1: It will be the wildest transfer portal era that you've

678
00:34:10,280 --> 00:34:14,600
Speaker 1: ever seen, and it's gonna completely gut some of your teams.

679
00:34:14,880 --> 00:34:20,400
Speaker 1: Just call it like it is. Well, teams did not

680
00:34:20,440 --> 00:34:24,920
Speaker 1: get gutted. Chaos was not seen I think I know

681
00:34:25,000 --> 00:34:27,359
Speaker 1: why this happened to me. I think I know why

682
00:34:27,400 --> 00:34:30,360
Speaker 1: I got misled. I don't think I'll let it happen again.

683
00:34:30,920 --> 00:34:35,279
Speaker 1: But we whiff I whiffed fantastically on this. But I'm

684
00:34:35,320 --> 00:34:37,880
Speaker 1: a little angry that this happened. So I'm owning it.

685
00:34:38,160 --> 00:34:40,080
Speaker 1: I'm owning it. We screw up around here. We're going

686
00:34:40,120 --> 00:34:43,440
Speaker 1: to own it. We're going to rebuild. We will be

687
00:34:43,440 --> 00:34:47,680
Speaker 1: better for this. In time, we will surge, we will thrive.

688
00:34:47,840 --> 00:34:51,879
Speaker 1: But as Memo once told me, sometimes a man's got

689
00:34:51,880 --> 00:34:54,520
Speaker 1: to be down bad today before he can be up

690
00:34:54,520 --> 00:35:01,120
Speaker 1: big tomorrow. And what a great survival story. We're still here, somehow,

691
00:35:01,160 --> 00:35:05,440
Speaker 1: We're still here. This was a conditional feel. If you're

692
00:35:05,440 --> 00:35:08,319
Speaker 1: listening on podcasts, this must be very confusing. I'm back

693
00:35:08,360 --> 00:35:12,399
Speaker 1: live now. This is me on April thirteenth, twenty twenty five.

694
00:35:12,480 --> 00:35:15,000
Speaker 1: So the question was, is the portal going to go

695
00:35:15,040 --> 00:35:16,719
Speaker 1: crazy now? I hadn't talked about it on the show

696
00:35:16,719 --> 00:35:19,600
Speaker 1: because I'm very gunshy for reasons you just saw. But

697
00:35:20,160 --> 00:35:23,759
Speaker 1: this has been a conditional feeling around the country. I've

698
00:35:23,760 --> 00:35:25,799
Speaker 1: been on the road all spring, I'll be on the

699
00:35:25,840 --> 00:35:27,800
Speaker 1: road again this week. So I've sat down with a

700
00:35:27,840 --> 00:35:30,200
Speaker 1: lot of staffs, and they all have been saying the

701
00:35:30,200 --> 00:35:34,319
Speaker 1: same thing. If this house settlement does not get you know,

702
00:35:34,560 --> 00:35:37,040
Speaker 1: passed through or codified or whatever you want to call

703
00:35:37,080 --> 00:35:41,040
Speaker 1: it before the portal opens up, then the portal could

704
00:35:41,080 --> 00:35:44,759
Speaker 1: be crazy. Well, the judge came back last week. If

705
00:35:44,760 --> 00:35:46,799
Speaker 1: you were paying attention or if you weren't, she came

706
00:35:46,880 --> 00:35:50,040
Speaker 1: back and basically they needed some clarification here, and they

707
00:35:50,040 --> 00:35:51,759
Speaker 1: wanted some language changed there.

708
00:35:51,760 --> 00:35:53,279
Speaker 2: And it looks like it's still going to.

709
00:35:53,320 --> 00:35:57,000
Speaker 1: Be pushed through, but now it's been delayed, and so

710
00:35:57,080 --> 00:35:58,560
Speaker 1: now the portal window is going to open up.

711
00:35:58,600 --> 00:36:01,120
Speaker 2: And the whole reason that's important is.

712
00:36:01,120 --> 00:36:04,640
Speaker 1: Because of the way collectives are looking at this. They're

713
00:36:04,680 --> 00:36:07,080
Speaker 1: looking at it and they're saying, well, it sounds like

714
00:36:07,200 --> 00:36:10,800
Speaker 1: any second now a new pay structure is going to

715
00:36:10,840 --> 00:36:13,880
Speaker 1: go into place. We're gonna have twenty some odd million

716
00:36:13,920 --> 00:36:16,799
Speaker 1: dollars of revenue sharing. But then above and beyond that,

717
00:36:16,880 --> 00:36:19,320
Speaker 1: the NIL thing sounds like it's gonna be heavily policed.

718
00:36:20,200 --> 00:36:22,680
Speaker 1: So that's why a lot of them loaded up on

719
00:36:22,840 --> 00:36:26,080
Speaker 1: nil deals in December. They figured this is one last

720
00:36:26,200 --> 00:36:28,960
Speaker 1: hurrah for us to spend like we've been spending. We

721
00:36:29,160 --> 00:36:31,279
Speaker 1: just load up on guys, and we can spend a

722
00:36:31,320 --> 00:36:33,520
Speaker 1: ton because this is the last time that we'll be

723
00:36:33,520 --> 00:36:37,280
Speaker 1: able to do this. But then the ruling got delayed.

724
00:36:37,320 --> 00:36:39,680
Speaker 1: So now they're looking and saying, oh, so we may

725
00:36:39,719 --> 00:36:41,319
Speaker 1: have one more time that we didn't know.

726
00:36:41,320 --> 00:36:41,799
Speaker 2: We would have.

727
00:36:42,440 --> 00:36:45,120
Speaker 1: So now let's really go out with a spending bang.

728
00:36:45,480 --> 00:36:48,600
Speaker 1: That's where we are right now. And so a lot

729
00:36:48,600 --> 00:36:51,840
Speaker 1: of these staffs kept telling me, if that thing doesn't

730
00:36:51,840 --> 00:36:55,719
Speaker 1: get approved and the second portal window comes, yeah, folks

731
00:36:55,800 --> 00:36:58,080
Speaker 1: are going to be spending big and they're gonna be

732
00:36:58,120 --> 00:36:59,960
Speaker 1: coming out of spring so they're gonna know what they need.

733
00:37:00,200 --> 00:37:02,839
Speaker 1: And unlike last year, it may be that there's enough

734
00:37:02,880 --> 00:37:05,160
Speaker 1: money on the table for big names to be moving.

735
00:37:05,239 --> 00:37:09,440
Speaker 1: So think about Penn State at wide receiver. Are they

736
00:37:09,480 --> 00:37:11,879
Speaker 1: going to be aggressive enough to where they go pay

737
00:37:11,920 --> 00:37:15,359
Speaker 1: a proven commodity to come to state college. It could

738
00:37:15,400 --> 00:37:17,919
Speaker 1: make the difference in who wins the Big Ten this year.

739
00:37:18,239 --> 00:37:21,160
Speaker 1: I think about Ohio State. I'm gonna talk about them

740
00:37:21,239 --> 00:37:23,440
Speaker 1: later in the show, but looking at their spring game yesterday,

741
00:37:23,719 --> 00:37:27,480
Speaker 1: defensive line is not impressive there. Defensive line probably has

742
00:37:27,960 --> 00:37:32,239
Speaker 1: the least relative amount of certainly proven production. They don't

743
00:37:32,239 --> 00:37:34,440
Speaker 1: have any proven production there, but the least amount of

744
00:37:34,560 --> 00:37:37,840
Speaker 1: just overall stacked up talent that they've had in several

745
00:37:37,920 --> 00:37:40,800
Speaker 1: years because they've been loaded. Do they go get help,

746
00:37:41,200 --> 00:37:43,560
Speaker 1: specifically at defensive tackle. Do they go get help? Does

747
00:37:43,600 --> 00:37:46,680
Speaker 1: Tennessee We all know Tennessee's looking for a quarterback, obviously,

748
00:37:46,880 --> 00:37:51,280
Speaker 1: and that's a pretty glaringly unique situation. But the amount

749
00:37:51,320 --> 00:37:54,600
Speaker 1: of money they have to spend, the amount of payroll

750
00:37:54,800 --> 00:37:58,279
Speaker 1: wiggle room that just came open, plus imagine the outraged

751
00:37:58,320 --> 00:38:02,560
Speaker 1: boosters who were probably to write an irresponsibly large check

752
00:38:02,640 --> 00:38:07,640
Speaker 1: right now. So Tennessee's got to be watched. Everybody's got

753
00:38:07,680 --> 00:38:11,520
Speaker 1: to be watched, anybody with money, any non poverty program

754
00:38:11,760 --> 00:38:13,200
Speaker 1: has to be watched right now.

755
00:38:13,400 --> 00:38:16,080
Speaker 2: So I'm not gonna do what I did last year.

756
00:38:16,120 --> 00:38:19,000
Speaker 1: Oh No. Even as everyone who's reputable in the industry

757
00:38:19,000 --> 00:38:21,799
Speaker 1: who covers this stuff is saying there's about to be

758
00:38:21,840 --> 00:38:24,240
Speaker 1: some big spending, there's about to be some big movement,

759
00:38:24,560 --> 00:38:28,359
Speaker 1: what I am doing, as the responsible adult that I

760
00:38:28,400 --> 00:38:32,880
Speaker 1: am for the past eleven months, is I am taking

761
00:38:32,920 --> 00:38:35,560
Speaker 1: a wait and see approach on this. Will certainly react

762
00:38:35,640 --> 00:38:39,600
Speaker 1: to it as it happens, and deep down, way down

763
00:38:39,640 --> 00:38:43,120
Speaker 1: in here, immunity I do feel like there are several

764
00:38:43,160 --> 00:38:44,280
Speaker 1: twists and turns coming.

765
00:38:45,120 --> 00:38:48,000
Speaker 2: But at the same time, I can't do this twice.

766
00:38:48,600 --> 00:38:51,560
Speaker 1: You see this nose, There's only room for one clown

767
00:38:51,640 --> 00:38:52,719
Speaker 1: nose on this nose.

768
00:38:52,760 --> 00:38:53,760
Speaker 2: I can't do it twice.

769
00:38:54,000 --> 00:38:57,000
Speaker 1: I can't. So yes, I think it's gonna happen. No,

770
00:38:57,239 --> 00:39:00,120
Speaker 1: I'm not staking what little reputation I have left on it.

771
00:39:01,600 --> 00:39:03,439
Speaker 1: You remember a couple of weeks ago, we were down

772
00:39:03,440 --> 00:39:05,080
Speaker 1: in Tallahassee and then all of a sudden we were

773
00:39:05,080 --> 00:39:05,600
Speaker 1: in Memphis.

774
00:39:05,600 --> 00:39:07,600
Speaker 2: And the way we did it was someone gave.

775
00:39:07,520 --> 00:39:11,240
Speaker 1: Us a private jet. That's a real sentence. That really happened.

776
00:39:11,920 --> 00:39:13,640
Speaker 1: And I wore a white T shirt on that thing,

777
00:39:13,719 --> 00:39:15,120
Speaker 1: just like I do on the show. I did not

778
00:39:15,239 --> 00:39:17,719
Speaker 1: let you guys down. I traveled on that private jet

779
00:39:17,840 --> 00:39:20,399
Speaker 1: just as you would have wanted me to. We paid

780
00:39:20,600 --> 00:39:22,919
Speaker 1: zero dollars for that thing. How did that happen? Because

781
00:39:22,960 --> 00:39:25,480
Speaker 1: our friends at Airstar came through for us, and I

782
00:39:25,520 --> 00:39:28,160
Speaker 1: put together an entire reel of the day because we

783
00:39:28,200 --> 00:39:31,000
Speaker 1: went from sitting down with Mike Norvel to chasing tornadoes

784
00:39:31,000 --> 00:39:33,440
Speaker 1: in the span of two hours. And that's the thing

785
00:39:33,480 --> 00:39:35,640
Speaker 1: you kind of need private aviation to be able to do. That,

786
00:39:36,120 --> 00:39:38,640
Speaker 1: and it turns out that I was not the only

787
00:39:38,680 --> 00:39:41,920
Speaker 1: one talking to Airstar. Good close friend of the program

788
00:39:41,960 --> 00:39:45,640
Speaker 1: brought Bauers was as well, and so there was an announcement,

789
00:39:46,080 --> 00:39:47,600
Speaker 1: and I told our friends at Airstar, you know what,

790
00:39:47,640 --> 00:39:50,040
Speaker 1: send me that announcement. I'll be happy to play it

791
00:39:50,080 --> 00:39:53,680
Speaker 1: on the show, good friends, in this commercial that you're

792
00:39:53,680 --> 00:39:56,520
Speaker 1: about to see. So let me show you big announcement

793
00:39:56,560 --> 00:40:05,560
Speaker 1: from our friends at Airstar. Roll with column precision.

794
00:40:06,440 --> 00:40:08,839
Speaker 3: It's all wins games and gets me where I need

795
00:40:08,880 --> 00:40:18,000
Speaker 3: to go. The Airstar isn't just private aviation.

796
00:40:18,400 --> 00:40:19,960
Speaker 1: It's smooth, it's sharp.

797
00:40:19,960 --> 00:40:23,000
Speaker 3: And it's my kind of ride. It's not about the destination,

798
00:40:23,280 --> 00:40:26,040
Speaker 3: but the journey that counts I on my journey to

799
00:40:26,080 --> 00:40:26,600
Speaker 3: be elite.

800
00:40:31,440 --> 00:40:33,239
Speaker 1: I've always told you guys, there's not a whole lot

801
00:40:33,280 --> 00:40:35,880
Speaker 1: of difference between brock Bowers and I. We're not so

802
00:40:35,960 --> 00:40:38,560
Speaker 1: different he and I. That's the very jet that we took.

803
00:40:38,600 --> 00:40:42,200
Speaker 1: So congrats to brock Bowers. Good solid signing there, high

804
00:40:42,239 --> 00:40:44,800
Speaker 1: character guy. I don't think they'll have much to worry about.

805
00:40:45,320 --> 00:40:47,680
Speaker 1: I want to talk to you about spring games or

806
00:40:47,760 --> 00:40:53,520
Speaker 1: spring practice? Is practice plural of practice? I struggled with

807
00:40:53,560 --> 00:40:55,919
Speaker 1: how to talk about this though. We had a little

808
00:40:56,120 --> 00:40:59,719
Speaker 1: little staff meeting, and in previous years we would react

809
00:40:59,760 --> 00:41:03,279
Speaker 1: to games. But what happened this past Saturday, those were

810
00:41:03,280 --> 00:41:06,280
Speaker 1: not spring games. So what I've done is I've gotten

811
00:41:06,320 --> 00:41:09,879
Speaker 1: around to several practices this spring. I've watched a lot

812
00:41:09,880 --> 00:41:11,840
Speaker 1: of real scrimmages that are closed to the public.

813
00:41:12,160 --> 00:41:13,720
Speaker 2: They tackle and everything. It's crazy.

814
00:41:14,000 --> 00:41:15,960
Speaker 1: So what I wanted to do is I wanted to

815
00:41:16,000 --> 00:41:20,400
Speaker 1: react to a few teams that did have spring somethings yesterday.

816
00:41:20,400 --> 00:41:22,080
Speaker 1: But I'm not just going to talk about the game

817
00:41:22,200 --> 00:41:24,520
Speaker 1: or the practice. I'm gonna give you some coming out

818
00:41:24,520 --> 00:41:27,720
Speaker 1: of spring thoughts on some of these teams. So Bama

819
00:41:27,760 --> 00:41:30,520
Speaker 1: had a day yesterday, which is more kind of an

820
00:41:30,520 --> 00:41:34,399
Speaker 1: open practice than anything. I'm unchanged on the quarterback position here.

821
00:41:35,480 --> 00:41:38,440
Speaker 1: I heard Ryan Grubbs say there's not a lot of separation,

822
00:41:40,160 --> 00:41:43,120
Speaker 1: which there is. I'm not claiming this is done. I'm

823
00:41:43,160 --> 00:41:45,560
Speaker 1: not claiming that they've secretly made the decision who's going

824
00:41:45,600 --> 00:41:48,320
Speaker 1: to start against Florida State. When I say my opinion

825
00:41:48,400 --> 00:41:51,400
Speaker 1: is unchanged, I think it's Ty Simpson's job to lose.

826
00:41:51,880 --> 00:41:54,840
Speaker 1: It is his job to lose. I don't think barring

827
00:41:54,880 --> 00:41:57,640
Speaker 1: injury that's going to change. To me, the bigger focal

828
00:41:57,640 --> 00:41:59,880
Speaker 1: point has been at these two catch right here, Austin

829
00:42:00,640 --> 00:42:05,359
Speaker 1: Keelan Russell, because right now probably entered spring thinking Mac

830
00:42:05,480 --> 00:42:07,640
Speaker 1: was a solid number two and Keelan Russell is the

831
00:42:07,880 --> 00:42:12,520
Speaker 1: promising true freshman. I think the more Spring has gone on,

832
00:42:12,600 --> 00:42:14,680
Speaker 1: the more they've realized we got to get Keilan Russell

833
00:42:14,680 --> 00:42:17,480
Speaker 1: ready to play, because he'll be good enough and also

834
00:42:17,520 --> 00:42:20,040
Speaker 1: because he probably will give us the next best chance

835
00:42:20,080 --> 00:42:24,280
Speaker 1: to win by the time fall gets here. Very important,

836
00:42:24,880 --> 00:42:28,000
Speaker 1: especially if you've got the opinion i've got. This has

837
00:42:28,040 --> 00:42:30,440
Speaker 1: the chance to be an extremely good wide receiver room.

838
00:42:31,160 --> 00:42:33,680
Speaker 1: I've been down there this spring. Those guys are for real,

839
00:42:34,040 --> 00:42:36,640
Speaker 1: and Ryan Williams not even practicing, so when you watch

840
00:42:36,719 --> 00:42:39,680
Speaker 1: him go, you understand the best is not even out there.

841
00:42:39,920 --> 00:42:41,799
Speaker 1: But I think they really hit on some of those

842
00:42:41,840 --> 00:42:45,239
Speaker 1: true freshmen. I really think that they are about as

843
00:42:45,239 --> 00:42:48,040
Speaker 1: deep as they've been at that position in quite a

844
00:42:48,040 --> 00:42:50,160
Speaker 1: few years now. I can't go back a long time,

845
00:42:50,200 --> 00:42:53,480
Speaker 1: because for a while Alabama was the standard when it

846
00:42:53,560 --> 00:42:56,400
Speaker 1: came to wide receiver rooms. But just as much as

847
00:42:56,440 --> 00:43:00,520
Speaker 1: you say that, I think their dB rooms really underrated

848
00:43:00,560 --> 00:43:03,279
Speaker 1: as well. I'll put it to you this way, there

849
00:43:03,320 --> 00:43:05,960
Speaker 1: are guys who saw a ton of minutes for them,

850
00:43:06,000 --> 00:43:10,840
Speaker 1: a ton of snaps last year, who are not necessarily hurt,

851
00:43:10,400 --> 00:43:15,200
Speaker 1: but may just get passed up because of quality competition

852
00:43:15,640 --> 00:43:18,479
Speaker 1: and because they've evaluated good there. They got some good

853
00:43:18,520 --> 00:43:21,480
Speaker 1: players in that secondary, so that was a problem at

854
00:43:21,480 --> 00:43:24,680
Speaker 1: times for them last year. So I'm really like, that's

855
00:43:24,719 --> 00:43:28,200
Speaker 1: what I'm interested to watch with them come Week one.

856
00:43:28,360 --> 00:43:30,520
Speaker 1: But like a few different times, this year, they're going

857
00:43:30,600 --> 00:43:35,600
Speaker 1: to face really good deep receiver rooms, good quarterbacks and

858
00:43:35,640 --> 00:43:38,360
Speaker 1: the ability to get off the field, the ability to play.

859
00:43:38,160 --> 00:43:39,920
Speaker 2: Balls in the air, that kind of stuff.

860
00:43:39,960 --> 00:43:42,560
Speaker 1: At times last year they look good, at times they

861
00:43:42,560 --> 00:43:43,240
Speaker 1: look lost.

862
00:43:43,960 --> 00:43:45,239
Speaker 2: How far have they come there?

863
00:43:46,520 --> 00:43:50,480
Speaker 1: What I worry about with Bama's the run game, the consistency.

864
00:43:50,560 --> 00:43:53,160
Speaker 1: Anytime you see those offenses out there that are consistent,

865
00:43:54,160 --> 00:43:57,400
Speaker 1: inevitably there is a good, solid, dependable ground game baked in.

866
00:43:57,600 --> 00:43:59,640
Speaker 1: That doesn't always mean you got a thousand yard rusher,

867
00:44:00,440 --> 00:44:02,319
Speaker 1: but it does mean you can count on it and

868
00:44:02,360 --> 00:44:06,399
Speaker 1: it's consistent. And I don't know if I feel that

869
00:44:06,480 --> 00:44:09,200
Speaker 1: about them coming out of spring. Still plenty of time,

870
00:44:09,239 --> 00:44:10,800
Speaker 1: and who knows, they may do something in the portal

871
00:44:11,280 --> 00:44:13,239
Speaker 1: or maybe they've got the right guys on campus and

872
00:44:13,239 --> 00:44:17,239
Speaker 1: I'm just seeing it wrong. But the ability to consistently

873
00:44:17,600 --> 00:44:20,799
Speaker 1: rely on a ground game and then the ability to

874
00:44:20,960 --> 00:44:25,240
Speaker 1: disrupt at pass rushing positions, that's what I wonder about

875
00:44:25,239 --> 00:44:28,120
Speaker 1: with them, you know, I wonder about multiple year got

876
00:44:28,239 --> 00:44:31,600
Speaker 1: Kean Keeley is a guy that I watched closely when

877
00:44:31,640 --> 00:44:34,040
Speaker 1: I went down there, and I'm just kind of interested, like,

878
00:44:34,120 --> 00:44:36,400
Speaker 1: is that a guy who's found his niche? Because you

879
00:44:36,440 --> 00:44:38,439
Speaker 1: don't have a Dallas Turner on that team, you don't

880
00:44:38,480 --> 00:44:40,600
Speaker 1: have Will Anderson on that team, that doesn't mean you

881
00:44:40,680 --> 00:44:43,280
Speaker 1: can't get after the passer, doesn't mean you know, guys

882
00:44:43,400 --> 00:44:46,600
Speaker 1: on the interior can't cause that. But can they consistently

883
00:44:46,640 --> 00:44:49,359
Speaker 1: do it? Can they consistently affect the quarterback? Can they

884
00:44:49,440 --> 00:44:52,319
Speaker 1: consistently run the ball the way they need to? Two

885
00:44:52,400 --> 00:44:55,840
Speaker 1: big questions for Alabama? With me, I think team mentality

886
00:44:55,880 --> 00:45:00,800
Speaker 1: is really good, really good. I think I'm not saying

887
00:45:00,800 --> 00:45:04,000
Speaker 1: they went like full junction boys mode on them, because

888
00:45:04,000 --> 00:45:05,920
Speaker 1: you can't do that anymore because you go to prison,

889
00:45:06,239 --> 00:45:08,400
Speaker 1: but about as close to that line as you can get.

890
00:45:08,800 --> 00:45:11,920
Speaker 1: I think they went in winter in spring, which is

891
00:45:11,920 --> 00:45:13,960
Speaker 1: a far cry from what they had to pull the

892
00:45:14,040 --> 00:45:15,440
Speaker 1: rains back on last year.

893
00:45:15,320 --> 00:45:17,000
Speaker 2: Or else everyone would have entered the portal.

894
00:45:17,560 --> 00:45:21,200
Speaker 1: So just interesting, interesting times there at Alabama. They're going

895
00:45:21,239 --> 00:45:24,000
Speaker 1: to be a factor. I believe in the SEC championship picture.

896
00:45:24,200 --> 00:45:28,960
Speaker 1: They're watching us in Houston, Texas, Kingsport, Tennessee, Billings, Montana.

897
00:45:29,080 --> 00:45:30,600
Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you, thank you.

898
00:45:31,000 --> 00:45:36,760
Speaker 1: Let's move along. So at Miami, no Carson Beck all spring,

899
00:45:37,000 --> 00:45:40,080
Speaker 1: we knew that. Actually, Mario Christopaul after their spring game

900
00:45:40,200 --> 00:45:45,040
Speaker 1: yesterday said he's cleared to throw starting Monday, so they'll

901
00:45:45,080 --> 00:45:48,839
Speaker 1: do their player led workouts in Carson Beck. It's mid

902
00:45:48,920 --> 00:45:53,840
Speaker 1: April right now, so you got the rest of April, May, June, July, August.

903
00:45:53,920 --> 00:45:56,960
Speaker 1: You got four solid months where he goes from being

904
00:45:57,000 --> 00:46:01,279
Speaker 1: able to throw again to starting presumable week one. Who

905
00:46:01,280 --> 00:46:05,400
Speaker 1: do they play Notre Dame week one. So it's kind

906
00:46:05,440 --> 00:46:07,400
Speaker 1: of hard. I understand that some of you went to

907
00:46:07,440 --> 00:46:10,759
Speaker 1: the spring game. You've watched the practice footage, like you're

908
00:46:10,800 --> 00:46:13,960
Speaker 1: watching looton Nickel and you're watching Emery Williams and you're

909
00:46:13,960 --> 00:46:16,759
Speaker 1: thinking to yourself, well, neither of those are equipped to

910
00:46:16,920 --> 00:46:21,160
Speaker 1: help us win this year. I question whether Emery Williams

911
00:46:21,640 --> 00:46:23,719
Speaker 1: is going to be around there long term. I just

912
00:46:23,719 --> 00:46:26,239
Speaker 1: don't know if his ceiling is high enough to be

913
00:46:26,320 --> 00:46:28,879
Speaker 1: the starting quarterback at Miami. Great kid man, I love

914
00:46:29,040 --> 00:46:31,239
Speaker 1: Emery Williams, but Carson Beck was brought in to be

915
00:46:31,320 --> 00:46:37,080
Speaker 1: that guy. He if no further limitations arise, will be

916
00:46:37,120 --> 00:46:40,240
Speaker 1: the guy that starts for him week one. But offense

917
00:46:40,280 --> 00:46:42,719
Speaker 1: wasn't a problem for them last year. Obviously defense was

918
00:46:43,120 --> 00:46:46,120
Speaker 1: historically bad. So then they go and they get Heatherman

919
00:46:46,200 --> 00:46:50,760
Speaker 1: from Minnesota as the coordinator. If you go watch Miami practice,

920
00:46:50,840 --> 00:46:52,880
Speaker 1: it's the most mind boggling thing because you look at

921
00:46:52,880 --> 00:46:55,080
Speaker 1: the caliber of athlete on defense and that is not

922
00:46:55,280 --> 00:46:58,160
Speaker 1: the issue. Talent is not the issue. It won't be

923
00:46:58,520 --> 00:47:04,120
Speaker 1: this year. Piss poor communication, lack of being a soundment signed,

924
00:47:04,400 --> 00:47:08,960
Speaker 1: lack of just basic fundamentals, playing to a standard, playing consistently,

925
00:47:09,239 --> 00:47:11,000
Speaker 1: the stuff that people think is coach speak but is

926
00:47:11,040 --> 00:47:15,560
Speaker 1: really not. That was it crippled them last year. I

927
00:47:15,600 --> 00:47:17,759
Speaker 1: wonder how far you can come on that front in

928
00:47:17,800 --> 00:47:20,840
Speaker 1: the span of one spring. So no one's going to

929
00:47:20,920 --> 00:47:23,919
Speaker 1: trash them right now. Mario said all the right things

930
00:47:23,960 --> 00:47:26,040
Speaker 1: with them coming out of spring ball, but also said

931
00:47:26,200 --> 00:47:28,600
Speaker 1: we got a ways to go, which every coach says

932
00:47:29,560 --> 00:47:34,120
Speaker 1: I wonder how far can they progress defensively over the

933
00:47:34,120 --> 00:47:38,399
Speaker 1: span of one spring, summer, fall camp period. I don't

934
00:47:38,400 --> 00:47:40,120
Speaker 1: know that we got the answer to that. I don't

935
00:47:40,120 --> 00:47:42,239
Speaker 1: know that they have the answer to that yet. The

936
00:47:42,320 --> 00:47:46,480
Speaker 1: depth and size of them now compared to them when

937
00:47:46,840 --> 00:47:49,960
Speaker 1: Christbaul his staff first got there so noticeable. Don't care

938
00:47:50,000 --> 00:47:52,480
Speaker 1: if you're a hater or a fan of Miami. At

939
00:47:52,480 --> 00:47:55,160
Speaker 1: the very least, you look at them and you say, yeah,

940
00:47:55,200 --> 00:47:58,600
Speaker 1: they look way different. You watch their two's in practice

941
00:47:58,840 --> 00:48:00,520
Speaker 1: and they look way different than some of the front

942
00:48:00,520 --> 00:48:03,160
Speaker 1: line guys that they used to roll with. But that

943
00:48:03,200 --> 00:48:06,759
Speaker 1: doesn't win you games. It's the stuff you need to

944
00:48:06,840 --> 00:48:10,080
Speaker 1: win games. But that doesn't guarantee you anything. It's just

945
00:48:10,120 --> 00:48:13,839
Speaker 1: that it's nice to see it. Lets you know. In

946
00:48:13,840 --> 00:48:15,759
Speaker 1: other words, like if you go watch them practice, or

947
00:48:15,800 --> 00:48:17,520
Speaker 1: you watch the spring game and you look at the

948
00:48:17,520 --> 00:48:19,680
Speaker 1: caliber of athlete out there, you look at the size

949
00:48:19,719 --> 00:48:22,160
Speaker 1: on the lines of scrimmage, specifically that old line.

950
00:48:22,160 --> 00:48:23,360
Speaker 2: I'll talk about that in a second.

951
00:48:23,560 --> 00:48:25,640
Speaker 1: You realize if we lose this fall, it won't be

952
00:48:25,640 --> 00:48:28,760
Speaker 1: because we don't have athletes. That's the most helpless feeling

953
00:48:29,000 --> 00:48:31,560
Speaker 1: you felt it if you're Miami in the past of Wow,

954
00:48:31,600 --> 00:48:35,040
Speaker 1: we're getting beat and we don't stack up with them physically,

955
00:48:35,880 --> 00:48:38,840
Speaker 1: We're not fast enough to beat this team. We're not

956
00:48:39,040 --> 00:48:42,480
Speaker 1: big enough to push that team back. Well, you may

957
00:48:42,560 --> 00:48:44,480
Speaker 1: lose four games this year for all I know, but

958
00:48:44,560 --> 00:48:48,040
Speaker 1: it won't be because you got out athleted. It'll because

959
00:48:48,080 --> 00:48:51,840
Speaker 1: you got out executed, out coached, out schemed, whatever, or

960
00:48:51,920 --> 00:48:53,080
Speaker 1: maybe you'll go twelve to zero.

961
00:48:53,320 --> 00:48:56,799
Speaker 2: And none of those things happened. I was down there

962
00:48:56,880 --> 00:48:58,680
Speaker 2: last last fall is during.

963
00:48:58,520 --> 00:49:03,000
Speaker 1: The season, and they got some big offensive linemen and

964
00:49:03,280 --> 00:49:06,080
Speaker 1: I am looking at a guy number seventy I believe

965
00:49:06,360 --> 00:49:10,759
Speaker 1: wasn't a starter last year, and I go ask in

966
00:49:10,800 --> 00:49:13,279
Speaker 1: one of those coaches, I say who is that?

967
00:49:14,600 --> 00:49:17,120
Speaker 2: And they say, well, that's Markel Bell. We got him

968
00:49:17,160 --> 00:49:20,880
Speaker 2: from community college in Mississippi. Now, anyone who knows the

969
00:49:20,960 --> 00:49:22,279
Speaker 2: JUCO ranks or.

970
00:49:22,280 --> 00:49:25,480
Speaker 1: The community college ranks in Mississippi, you know, they're just

971
00:49:25,600 --> 00:49:29,160
Speaker 1: aliens all over the place. No one knows their name academically.

972
00:49:29,280 --> 00:49:31,480
Speaker 1: Maybe they didn't have their act together coming out of

973
00:49:31,520 --> 00:49:33,360
Speaker 1: high school and they had to go that route.

974
00:49:33,760 --> 00:49:36,680
Speaker 2: But here's the thing about being six' nine three point.

975
00:49:36,680 --> 00:49:39,560
Speaker 1: Fifty if you can get that stuff in, order you

976
00:49:39,600 --> 00:49:42,360
Speaker 1: can go play pretty much. Anywhere So Markel bell is

977
00:49:42,400 --> 00:49:45,680
Speaker 1: running with her twos last, year six,' nine. Three fifty

978
00:49:45,760 --> 00:49:47,960
Speaker 1: i'm not trying to hype him UP because i am

979
00:49:47,960 --> 00:49:51,160
Speaker 1: not qualified to break down the finer points of offensive.

980
00:49:51,200 --> 00:49:53,920
Speaker 2: Line play i'm just, telling you when you see a.

981
00:49:53,880 --> 00:49:59,040
Speaker 1: Body, like that, very athletic, really athletic doesn't have he

982
00:49:59,080 --> 00:50:01,439
Speaker 1: does not look think about three point fifty is when

983
00:50:01,440 --> 00:50:04,000
Speaker 1: you're six', nine carrying it you don't look. All that

984
00:50:04,120 --> 00:50:06,880
Speaker 1: Fat and so i'm watching him last year and the

985
00:50:06,880 --> 00:50:10,640
Speaker 1: feedback is now, he's next year, twenty twenty five that's.

986
00:50:10,640 --> 00:50:13,320
Speaker 1: One To watch so i'm watching him and you won't

987
00:50:13,320 --> 00:50:16,000
Speaker 1: have problem finding him when you watch. Him on tape

988
00:50:16,360 --> 00:50:18,200
Speaker 1: how active are they going to be in? The spring portal,

989
00:50:18,239 --> 00:50:21,319
Speaker 1: BY the way i would Be shocked if miami didn't

990
00:50:21,320 --> 00:50:23,719
Speaker 1: make a few moves in this upcome in a couple

991
00:50:23,760 --> 00:50:26,759
Speaker 1: of weeks in. The spring portal so that's, it's yet

992
00:50:26,800 --> 00:50:29,879
Speaker 1: again it's going to be an. Acc contending team they've

993
00:50:29,880 --> 00:50:32,200
Speaker 1: got a much tougher, schedule this year but if, they're

994
00:50:32,200 --> 00:50:32,640
Speaker 1: good enough.

995
00:50:32,640 --> 00:50:35,040
Speaker 2: It won't matter that's KIND of How i view.

996
00:50:35,120 --> 00:50:39,680
Speaker 1: Miami, Right, Now, GEORGIA actually colin i shifted on you.

997
00:50:39,680 --> 00:50:42,400
Speaker 1: Pretty quick there let me pop the Top On This. Vanilla,

998
00:50:42,440 --> 00:50:46,960
Speaker 1: cola zevia look, POWER ratings wise i told you this.

999
00:50:46,960 --> 00:50:49,160
Speaker 1: The other day i'm gonna tell. You This Again cream

1000
00:50:49,239 --> 00:50:53,200
Speaker 1: soda zvia is still clearly number one in. The power

1001
00:50:53,280 --> 00:50:57,280
Speaker 1: ratings but when it, comes to rankings Some Are Saying

1002
00:50:57,360 --> 00:51:00,359
Speaker 1: vanilla cola zevia is number one. At the moment i'm,

1003
00:51:00,400 --> 00:51:02,959
Speaker 1: not saying that saying some people. Are saying that hold,

1004
00:51:03,000 --> 00:51:07,200
Speaker 1: on a second and you can understand why the. Rare,

1005
00:51:07,280 --> 00:51:14,560
Speaker 1: Second Sup Yeah vanilla cola zevia, power ratings wise they're.

1006
00:51:14,600 --> 00:51:16,439
Speaker 1: Not up there you gotta have more than one good

1007
00:51:16,480 --> 00:51:21,000
Speaker 1: week to. Pass cream, soda but, rankings those voters they're

1008
00:51:21,040 --> 00:51:24,200
Speaker 1: they're prone to knee jerk reactions and apparently they're really

1009
00:51:24,200 --> 00:51:26,839
Speaker 1: loving what They're Getting. With vanilla. Cola, right now again

1010
00:51:26,880 --> 00:51:29,160
Speaker 1: if you're, new around here you have No clue what.

1011
00:51:29,160 --> 00:51:32,800
Speaker 1: I'm talking about This. Sounds like portuguese this is, Zero

1012
00:51:32,880 --> 00:51:37,279
Speaker 1: sugar people zvia rolling. With ZERO sugar and. I never drank, i,

1013
00:51:37,360 --> 00:51:40,759
Speaker 1: never drunk dropt drink. Drought that stuff that's. THE past

1014
00:51:40,800 --> 00:51:43,759
Speaker 1: TENSE i never i never messed with IT before Until.

1015
00:51:43,800 --> 00:51:47,200
Speaker 1: I found zevia because it actually, tastes really good and there's.

1016
00:51:47,239 --> 00:51:51,560
Speaker 1: Also zero sugar it's just. An added BONUS so now i.

1017
00:51:51,600 --> 00:51:54,920
Speaker 1: Got that done we Move. On to georgia GEORGIA had

1018
00:51:55,000 --> 00:51:59,200
Speaker 1: J da yesterday GUNNER stocked and I Was reading ben

1019
00:51:59,239 --> 00:52:01,919
Speaker 1: wolke's Stuff over on dogs twenty. Four to seven He's Talking,

1020
00:52:01,960 --> 00:52:04,520
Speaker 1: about gunner stockton who's going to start At quarterback for.

1021
00:52:04,560 --> 00:52:08,080
Speaker 1: Georgia this Year they had poglici throw like fifty times

1022
00:52:08,080 --> 00:52:09,719
Speaker 1: in the, spring game yesterday but he's not going to.

1023
00:52:09,760 --> 00:52:12,920
Speaker 1: Start for him so quick trip logo in the background

1024
00:52:12,920 --> 00:52:13,759
Speaker 1: in the b roll, BY the way.

1025
00:52:13,800 --> 00:52:15,360
Speaker 2: I Saw That, so ben.

1026
00:52:15,239 --> 00:52:18,439
Speaker 1: Woke who Covers georgia for dogs twenty, four to seven

1027
00:52:18,480 --> 00:52:20,560
Speaker 1: he Was Talking about guner stockton and he was talking

1028
00:52:20,600 --> 00:52:24,439
Speaker 1: about how universally loved he is in. The locker room he's,

1029
00:52:24,520 --> 00:52:26,319
Speaker 1: right about that not that he needs. To know that

1030
00:52:26,360 --> 00:52:29,480
Speaker 1: I'M just saying i. CAN validate that i can verify

1031
00:52:29,520 --> 00:52:33,399
Speaker 1: that that whole organization. Loves that kid now here's. Where

1032
00:52:33,440 --> 00:52:37,920
Speaker 1: that matters there are times in the season where if

1033
00:52:37,960 --> 00:52:41,320
Speaker 1: you've got a quarterback that you feel that way about

1034
00:52:41,320 --> 00:52:44,040
Speaker 1: collectively and you're willing to just go over the. Cliff

1035
00:52:44,040 --> 00:52:47,279
Speaker 1: for him you can't quantify the, value OF that but

1036
00:52:47,400 --> 00:52:49,400
Speaker 1: i KNOW it when, i see it and you know

1037
00:52:49,480 --> 00:52:51,680
Speaker 1: it when. You saw IT In the sec championship. Game

1038
00:52:51,760 --> 00:52:55,759
Speaker 1: last Year everyone. Remembers georgia One Everyone remembers carson. Beck

1039
00:52:55,800 --> 00:52:59,280
Speaker 1: went down do you remember they trailed when the backup

1040
00:52:59,320 --> 00:53:01,480
Speaker 1: came in and they had to come from. Behind and

1041
00:53:01,520 --> 00:53:04,400
Speaker 1: win and It's not that stockton put on a clinic.

1042
00:53:04,440 --> 00:53:09,040
Speaker 1: With his arm it's that just collectively they bubblegummed and

1043
00:53:09,400 --> 00:53:12,160
Speaker 1: paper clipped their way. To a win it's a beautiful

1044
00:53:12,160 --> 00:53:15,520
Speaker 1: thing to watch from, a program standpoint from, A, culture

1045
00:53:15,560 --> 00:53:19,839
Speaker 1: standpoint well he's their, guy this year and they all.

1046
00:53:19,880 --> 00:53:22,279
Speaker 1: Swear by him not in a, sense that, hey watch

1047
00:53:22,280 --> 00:53:24,839
Speaker 1: out this is a Sleeper, for the heisman it's we can.

1048
00:53:24,880 --> 00:53:29,000
Speaker 1: Win With. Him we're georgia we recruit at a very

1049
00:53:29,040 --> 00:53:32,600
Speaker 1: high level. Across the board if we're, worth our salt

1050
00:53:32,800 --> 00:53:34,760
Speaker 1: we ought to be able to put a. Winner around

1051
00:53:34,880 --> 00:53:38,280
Speaker 1: him that's kind of. How THEY feel so i thought

1052
00:53:38,280 --> 00:53:40,560
Speaker 1: they looked good. At running back they were not great,

1053
00:53:40,560 --> 00:53:44,120
Speaker 1: there LAST year and i. WATCHED him yesterday i watched the,

1054
00:53:44,160 --> 00:53:48,320
Speaker 1: replay of it and they've got like four guys that from,

1055
00:53:48,440 --> 00:53:51,279
Speaker 1: my eyes perspective they look like they could win with

1056
00:53:52,160 --> 00:53:55,160
Speaker 1: and that'd be a welcome change from what they didn't.

1057
00:53:55,160 --> 00:53:58,000
Speaker 1: Have Last year chauncey bowen's had a. Good DAY yesterday

1058
00:53:58,000 --> 00:54:01,839
Speaker 1: but i looked at four, guys and said. He looks good.

1059
00:54:01,960 --> 00:54:04,600
Speaker 1: He LOOKS good and i don't mean grading. ON a

1060
00:54:04,640 --> 00:54:06,719
Speaker 1: curve i mean that Looks like a. Georgia running back

1061
00:54:06,760 --> 00:54:09,239
Speaker 1: that's a guy they. Can WIN with but i will

1062
00:54:09,280 --> 00:54:12,600
Speaker 1: TELL you because i had a buddy from back home text,

1063
00:54:12,640 --> 00:54:14,920
Speaker 1: ME and say i guess we're not looking for a tailback.

1064
00:54:14,920 --> 00:54:17,040
Speaker 1: In the portal george is looking for running back. HELPING

1065
00:54:17,080 --> 00:54:19,560
Speaker 1: the portal i can PROMISE you that i can confirm

1066
00:54:19,600 --> 00:54:21,520
Speaker 1: that they're looking for running back. HELPING the portal i

1067
00:54:21,520 --> 00:54:23,200
Speaker 1: don't know if, they'll GET it and i don't know that,

1068
00:54:23,280 --> 00:54:25,479
Speaker 1: they NEED it but i do know that. They want,

1069
00:54:25,520 --> 00:54:30,440
Speaker 1: it offensive. Line defensive line when, you watched that at

1070
00:54:30,520 --> 00:54:34,040
Speaker 1: least from what, they did yesterday THE best way i

1071
00:54:34,040 --> 00:54:38,480
Speaker 1: could describe. That is flashes and it's. A WEIRD format

1072
00:54:38,600 --> 00:54:40,759
Speaker 1: and i don't even pretend to be drawn a whole.

1073
00:54:40,800 --> 00:54:42,960
Speaker 1: LOT from that i did not Get to watch, georgia

1074
00:54:43,000 --> 00:54:46,120
Speaker 1: PRACTICE offspring so i did. Not WATCH them what i

1075
00:54:46,160 --> 00:54:47,680
Speaker 1: got to see of them is what you got to see.

1076
00:54:47,680 --> 00:54:51,919
Speaker 1: Of THEM yesterday so i would label both of those

1077
00:54:52,000 --> 00:54:55,640
Speaker 1: units question, marks but understanding just like we Talk About,

1078
00:54:55,640 --> 00:54:57,719
Speaker 1: with ohio state and we will. In a second when

1079
00:54:57,760 --> 00:55:02,600
Speaker 1: you call a line of scrimmage unit a Question, mark

1080
00:55:02,640 --> 00:55:05,320
Speaker 1: for georgia it's, a question mark but it's a weird

1081
00:55:05,320 --> 00:55:09,280
Speaker 1: one because there's like infinitely higher Upside to a georgia

1082
00:55:09,360 --> 00:55:11,480
Speaker 1: question mark on the offensive a defensive line Than There.

1083
00:55:11,520 --> 00:55:16,040
Speaker 1: Is fresno state so it just means that over under

1084
00:55:16,040 --> 00:55:19,480
Speaker 1: of nine and a half wins is largely contingent on

1085
00:55:19,560 --> 00:55:22,120
Speaker 1: what the. Answer there is it's really hard to have

1086
00:55:22,160 --> 00:55:23,919
Speaker 1: a good feel for. Them RIGHT now and i don't

1087
00:55:23,920 --> 00:55:28,600
Speaker 1: think that that's. UNIQUE to me i think, that that's,

1088
00:55:28,680 --> 00:55:29,080
Speaker 1: you that's.

1089
00:55:29,120 --> 00:55:32,319
Speaker 2: Me that's them kirby is on your.

1090
00:55:32,400 --> 00:55:34,919
Speaker 1: Screen right now we were down there a few weeks

1091
00:55:34,960 --> 00:55:37,600
Speaker 1: ago and talked with a ton of people. In the,

1092
00:55:37,600 --> 00:55:42,760
Speaker 1: building there's optimism but none of them pretend like, they've wink,

1093
00:55:42,840 --> 00:55:46,000
Speaker 1: wink nod nod they've got this season figured out and they.

1094
00:55:46,040 --> 00:55:47,080
Speaker 2: Know what's coming they don't.

1095
00:55:47,080 --> 00:55:49,759
Speaker 1: Know what's coming they know what they're they know what

1096
00:55:49,800 --> 00:55:52,440
Speaker 1: they think, they're capable of they know what they hope

1097
00:55:52,440 --> 00:55:56,399
Speaker 1: they learned. From last year but you got the head

1098
00:55:56,440 --> 00:55:59,680
Speaker 1: coach talking about the most precious commodity around there being

1099
00:55:59,719 --> 00:56:03,240
Speaker 1: five and passion and, hunger and desire and he wants

1100
00:56:03,280 --> 00:56:06,480
Speaker 1: to find. That in, spring you know that's not whether

1101
00:56:06,560 --> 00:56:10,200
Speaker 1: a guy squares his en route right. At twelve yards

1102
00:56:10,200 --> 00:56:12,680
Speaker 1: like those aren't necessarily the things that, they're focused on

1103
00:56:13,000 --> 00:56:15,319
Speaker 1: although drops would be. Nice TO limit and i still

1104
00:56:15,320 --> 00:56:18,040
Speaker 1: saw some of those at the wide. Receiver Position yesterday

1105
00:56:18,080 --> 00:56:21,719
Speaker 1: but georgia is is so fascinating because they're all the.

1106
00:56:21,800 --> 00:56:24,920
Speaker 1: Same this year all the favorites feel like they're the.

1107
00:56:24,920 --> 00:56:26,640
Speaker 1: Same this year we got a question later in the

1108
00:56:26,640 --> 00:56:31,719
Speaker 1: show about that of, good athletes everywhere not a ton of,

1109
00:56:31,840 --> 00:56:36,319
Speaker 1: proven returning production but that, logo means something and so

1110
00:56:36,440 --> 00:56:36,960
Speaker 1: you're never.

1111
00:56:37,000 --> 00:56:39,080
Speaker 2: Gonna discount it but you have no clue what to.

1112
00:56:39,120 --> 00:56:41,040
Speaker 1: Expect week one AND that's how i feel coming out

1113
00:56:41,040 --> 00:56:44,239
Speaker 1: of spring with them got. ANOTHER one here i feel

1114
00:56:44,280 --> 00:56:47,120
Speaker 1: the Same Way about ohio state had their. Spring game

1115
00:56:47,239 --> 00:56:51,719
Speaker 1: yesterday doesn't sound like defensive line pleased a lot of.

1116
00:56:51,760 --> 00:56:55,440
Speaker 1: People up there it should not. Be a shot they,

1117
00:56:55,520 --> 00:56:59,399
Speaker 1: lost most everyone and those were. Multi year guys that

1118
00:56:59,520 --> 00:57:01,920
Speaker 1: was part of the nucleus of what ended up being a.

1119
00:57:02,000 --> 00:57:05,480
Speaker 1: National championship team so talking to some people. Around that

1120
00:57:05,520 --> 00:57:08,440
Speaker 1: program of course that's. Not a, shot but look they

1121
00:57:08,520 --> 00:57:13,400
Speaker 1: understand if we don't go and get some superstar difference

1122
00:57:13,400 --> 00:57:16,000
Speaker 1: maker out, of the portal we're going to be dealing

1123
00:57:16,040 --> 00:57:18,760
Speaker 1: with a limited hand on the defensive line. This upcoming

1124
00:57:18,840 --> 00:57:22,479
Speaker 1: year now here's. What could happen remember this, time last year,

1125
00:57:23,000 --> 00:57:27,560
Speaker 1: everyone including me was Very Skeptical that notre dame's offensive

1126
00:57:27,600 --> 00:57:30,640
Speaker 1: line could achieve at a high level because they. Were

1127
00:57:30,680 --> 00:57:33,880
Speaker 1: extremely inexperienced and THEY go INTO a and m And

1128
00:57:33,880 --> 00:57:35,920
Speaker 1: they win week one that was supposed to be a

1129
00:57:36,000 --> 00:57:39,280
Speaker 1: Huge Mismatch, against notre dame, and they win and then

1130
00:57:39,320 --> 00:57:41,200
Speaker 1: they got hurt, during the year and they still found

1131
00:57:41,200 --> 00:57:42,760
Speaker 1: a way for that to be a strength. Of Their

1132
00:57:42,800 --> 00:57:47,360
Speaker 1: Team so larry, johnson's STILL there that Dna Of that

1133
00:57:47,400 --> 00:57:48,520
Speaker 1: ohio state program.

1134
00:57:48,600 --> 00:57:50,440
Speaker 2: Is still there maybe.

1135
00:57:50,440 --> 00:57:53,720
Speaker 1: They Surprised everyone what i'm saying is that's what it's

1136
00:57:53,720 --> 00:57:56,880
Speaker 1: gonna take for defensive line to be a strength of that.

1137
00:57:56,960 --> 00:58:01,080
Speaker 1: Team this year but every team. Has A weakness ohio,

1138
00:58:01,120 --> 00:58:04,800
Speaker 1: State's got it oregon's, gonna Have it and state's, Gonna,

1139
00:58:04,800 --> 00:58:07,880
Speaker 1: Have it michigan's Everybody's In the big ten and beyond is,

1140
00:58:07,880 --> 00:58:10,160
Speaker 1: gonna have it so you've got a really good coaching.

1141
00:58:10,160 --> 00:58:12,760
Speaker 1: Staff up there that just means you've got to cover.

1142
00:58:12,840 --> 00:58:16,120
Speaker 1: IT up somehow i think they're capable. OF doing that

1143
00:58:16,480 --> 00:58:19,000
Speaker 1: i still think at the quarterback Position It'll be julian

1144
00:58:19,120 --> 00:58:21,720
Speaker 1: saying who, Starts for them but he wasn't the guy

1145
00:58:21,720 --> 00:58:23,720
Speaker 1: who tried it out. Their first Yesterday it Was. LINCOLN

1146
00:58:23,760 --> 00:58:26,480
Speaker 1: kin holes i thought it Was interesting that saying was

1147
00:58:26,480 --> 00:58:28,200
Speaker 1: the guy that they put in to run TWO minute

1148
00:58:28,720 --> 00:58:30,760
Speaker 1: and i think ultimately he's the one with the HIGHEST

1149
00:58:30,840 --> 00:58:33,920
Speaker 1: upside and i think he will, win THE job but

1150
00:58:33,960 --> 00:58:36,040
Speaker 1: i don't think he's won. The JOB yet and i

1151
00:58:36,080 --> 00:58:39,160
Speaker 1: know when they had public practice a couple, of weeks ago.

1152
00:58:39,080 --> 00:58:39,760
Speaker 2: He did not have the.

1153
00:58:39,760 --> 00:58:41,840
Speaker 1: Best of days and since you don't get to go to,

1154
00:58:41,880 --> 00:58:44,840
Speaker 1: practice every day that's kind of people's lasting. IMPRESSION of

1155
00:58:44,920 --> 00:58:47,520
Speaker 1: him i think he'll be the one who ends up winning.

1156
00:58:47,600 --> 00:58:49,280
Speaker 2: That starting job but.

1157
00:58:50,600 --> 00:58:51,320
Speaker 1: It's not the worst thing.

1158
00:58:51,320 --> 00:58:52,920
Speaker 2: In, the world competition not the worst thing. In the

1159
00:58:52,920 --> 00:58:55,520
Speaker 2: World picture, the texas game though here.

1160
00:58:57,560 --> 00:58:59,760
Speaker 1: It's obvious why people are paying attention to the quarterback

1161
00:58:59,720 --> 00:59:04,280
Speaker 1: back because it's the Quarterback Position. In ohio state but above,

1162
00:59:04,320 --> 00:59:07,120
Speaker 1: and beyond that if YOU picture what, i just said

1163
00:59:07,320 --> 00:59:10,479
Speaker 1: then you frame it within The context of texas because

1164
00:59:10,480 --> 00:59:12,960
Speaker 1: that's who they. Play week one, by The, way in

1165
00:59:13,000 --> 00:59:17,320
Speaker 1: columbus if your defensive line is not close to being

1166
00:59:17,360 --> 00:59:20,040
Speaker 1: what it, was last year therefore you can't affect the

1167
00:59:20,120 --> 00:59:22,640
Speaker 1: quarterback like you, could last year or you can't get

1168
00:59:22,640 --> 00:59:24,360
Speaker 1: off the field on third and fourth down like you.

1169
00:59:24,360 --> 00:59:28,280
Speaker 1: Could last, year you know you may need to score

1170
00:59:28,320 --> 00:59:31,640
Speaker 1: thirty five To win, in week one and if you have,

1171
00:59:31,760 --> 00:59:33,760
Speaker 1: to do that you got the wide receivers. To do

1172
00:59:33,800 --> 00:59:36,720
Speaker 1: it but if you have, to do that do you

1173
00:59:36,720 --> 00:59:40,440
Speaker 1: have the quarterback you trust. To do that that's why,

1174
00:59:40,520 --> 00:59:43,560
Speaker 1: That quarterback position that's why that battle. Is so important

1175
00:59:43,880 --> 00:59:44,640
Speaker 1: do you have one?

1176
00:59:44,880 --> 00:59:45,160
Speaker 2: You can?

1177
00:59:45,200 --> 00:59:46,360
Speaker 1: Trust by?

1178
00:59:46,440 --> 00:59:47,120
Speaker 2: Them not?

1179
00:59:47,160 --> 00:59:50,960
Speaker 1: NOW by Them I. TRUST quick trip i don't know

1180
00:59:50,960 --> 00:59:52,320
Speaker 1: how many years they've been, in the game but.

1181
00:59:52,360 --> 00:59:53,640
Speaker 2: They're NOT new But I.

1182
00:59:53,680 --> 00:59:57,080
Speaker 1: Trust quick trip they've made the. Spring Tour possible and

1183
00:59:57,120 --> 00:59:58,720
Speaker 1: i'm gonna be on the road. Again this, WEEK and

1184
00:59:59,280 --> 01:00:03,080
Speaker 1: oh i didn't tell. You, What Happened okay quick trip

1185
01:00:03,120 --> 01:00:06,080
Speaker 1: had nothing to, Do With this But I'm at iowa state.

1186
01:00:06,160 --> 01:00:09,240
Speaker 1: The other day this is. A sad, STORY i mean

1187
01:00:09,280 --> 01:00:10,880
Speaker 1: i may not even let. The kids listen that's how

1188
01:00:10,920 --> 01:00:13,760
Speaker 1: sad this story is no animals, will, Be Harmed though

1189
01:00:13,880 --> 01:00:17,480
Speaker 1: So I'm at iowa state the other day. Watching them

1190
01:00:17,520 --> 01:00:19,680
Speaker 1: practice had to leave a, little bit early had to.

1191
01:00:19,720 --> 01:00:21,960
Speaker 1: Catch a flight the good news is flight. Leaves On

1192
01:00:22,040 --> 01:00:26,200
Speaker 1: time so I'm Flying from Des moines To. Nashville through

1193
01:00:26,240 --> 01:00:31,920
Speaker 1: atlanta big complex of Storms. Moving through atlanta, we cannot

1194
01:00:32,000 --> 01:00:34,880
Speaker 1: land so they put us in. A holding pattern i.

1195
01:00:35,000 --> 01:00:39,200
Speaker 1: Kid you Not, We, circle columbus georgia my hometown, For

1196
01:00:39,240 --> 01:00:43,560
Speaker 1: an hour columbus being the emergency backup option if they

1197
01:00:43,560 --> 01:00:46,520
Speaker 1: need to, land and refuel and then the announcement comes

1198
01:00:46,520 --> 01:00:48,120
Speaker 1: we're kind of almost, out of fuel so we.

1199
01:00:48,200 --> 01:00:49,560
Speaker 2: Have to land the storms have.

1200
01:00:49,640 --> 01:00:52,680
Speaker 1: Not let, up in fact they're, moving TOWARDS us and

1201
01:00:52,960 --> 01:00:56,040
Speaker 1: i had several points of Contention with how delta and the,

1202
01:00:56,040 --> 01:00:57,640
Speaker 1: pilots handle this but that's between me.

1203
01:00:57,680 --> 01:00:59,640
Speaker 2: And the, pilots but anyway we have.

1204
01:00:59,680 --> 01:01:03,640
Speaker 1: To try land something called, an outflow boundary often accompanied,

1205
01:01:03,680 --> 01:01:07,400
Speaker 1: with approaching storms hits our plane with the force of

1206
01:01:07,480 --> 01:01:10,920
Speaker 1: like seventeen high pressure car washes, all at once and

1207
01:01:10,960 --> 01:01:14,120
Speaker 1: we have to abort The, landing in columbus, terrifying people

1208
01:01:14,120 --> 01:01:19,360
Speaker 1: screaming people, cry And terrifying, and i'm like are we,

1209
01:01:19,440 --> 01:01:22,800
Speaker 1: out of fuel. No quick trip they have not. Gone

1210
01:01:22,800 --> 01:01:26,320
Speaker 1: airborne yet so then, the announcement comes We're. Going TO

1211
01:01:26,440 --> 01:01:30,200
Speaker 1: dothan now I know. Where dothan is i've Spent, time

1212
01:01:30,240 --> 01:01:32,520
Speaker 1: in dothan but the rest of this Plane Is, From.

1213
01:01:32,600 --> 01:01:33,800
Speaker 2: Des moines iowa.

1214
01:01:33,720 --> 01:01:37,080
Speaker 1: These people have no Clue what. A dothan is it could,

1215
01:01:37,120 --> 01:01:39,960
Speaker 1: be a guy it could, be a statue it could.

1216
01:01:39,960 --> 01:01:41,440
Speaker 2: Be a town as, it turns out that's.

1217
01:01:41,480 --> 01:01:45,240
Speaker 1: What it was and you're, landing a jet, a Commercial, Jet,

1218
01:01:45,440 --> 01:01:48,920
Speaker 1: in dothan alabama in the middle. Of the night they power,

1219
01:01:48,960 --> 01:01:53,000
Speaker 1: That thing down the pilots throw, up the. Deuces they're

1220
01:01:53,040 --> 01:01:57,680
Speaker 1: gone flight attendant comes, over the, intercom clearly shaken saying

1221
01:01:57,760 --> 01:01:59,680
Speaker 1: they didn't. TELL me anything i don't know what's. Happening

1222
01:01:59,760 --> 01:02:05,680
Speaker 1: right now and then they Left. Us In dothan dothan,

1223
01:02:05,720 --> 01:02:09,200
Speaker 1: airport shut down as it does around, sundown every day

1224
01:02:09,800 --> 01:02:13,000
Speaker 1: and we're left on our own plane full Of, people

1225
01:02:13,040 --> 01:02:14,120
Speaker 1: from Iowa stranded.

1226
01:02:14,160 --> 01:02:15,480
Speaker 2: In DOTHAN overnight.

1227
01:02:15,560 --> 01:02:18,440
Speaker 1: So i get, the hotel booked get an uber twenty

1228
01:02:18,440 --> 01:02:20,640
Speaker 1: five minutes, to GET there but i was just happy.

1229
01:02:20,680 --> 01:02:21,880
Speaker 2: TO get one i don't know what the rest of the.

1230
01:02:21,880 --> 01:02:25,680
Speaker 1: Plane even did wake up the next morning Our friends

1231
01:02:25,680 --> 01:02:26,800
Speaker 1: at Hurts, DOWN.

1232
01:02:26,840 --> 01:02:28,360
Speaker 2: In dothan oh they came.

1233
01:02:28,360 --> 01:02:30,720
Speaker 1: Through for Me andy and john came, through for me

1234
01:02:31,360 --> 01:02:33,080
Speaker 1: and they hooked me up with a. ONE way rental

1235
01:02:33,120 --> 01:02:36,560
Speaker 1: i drive Six hours From dothan to nashville in Time

1236
01:02:36,600 --> 01:02:39,080
Speaker 1: to make friday night softball and Hit three. Bombs FRIDAY

1237
01:02:39,160 --> 01:02:41,040
Speaker 1: night but i don't want that to be the focal point.

1238
01:02:41,080 --> 01:02:43,240
Speaker 1: Of the story the focal point of the story is

1239
01:02:43,280 --> 01:02:45,960
Speaker 1: definitely not us getting a one in one double Hitder split.

1240
01:02:46,160 --> 01:02:48,360
Speaker 1: On friday night the focal point of THE story is

1241
01:02:49,080 --> 01:02:51,560
Speaker 1: i stopped two quick trips on. THE way home i

1242
01:02:51,600 --> 01:02:54,320
Speaker 1: told you that story. WAS going somewhere i DIDN'T know

1243
01:02:54,360 --> 01:02:56,960
Speaker 1: if i was going somewhere for. A little while those.

1244
01:02:57,000 --> 01:02:58,680
Speaker 1: ARE boarded landings i don't know how many of those

1245
01:02:58,680 --> 01:03:03,120
Speaker 1: you've been through on. A regional jet given recent news around,

1246
01:03:03,120 --> 01:03:07,880
Speaker 1: the aviation community not too fun, in your, hometown no less.

1247
01:03:07,920 --> 01:03:15,040
Speaker 1: Not too, fun all right. Let's move along we had

1248
01:03:15,200 --> 01:03:19,240
Speaker 1: a VERY interesting dare? I say? Tantalizing what if Presented

1249
01:03:19,320 --> 01:03:21,680
Speaker 1: To us jay bird hit us a good friend. Of the,

1250
01:03:21,720 --> 01:03:23,840
Speaker 1: program he said what if the top four favorites to

1251
01:03:23,880 --> 01:03:26,520
Speaker 1: win it all just truly take a step back this

1252
01:03:26,640 --> 01:03:30,200
Speaker 1: year because. Of roster attrition now he's hitting on something we've,

1253
01:03:30,240 --> 01:03:34,400
Speaker 1: been hitting on and that. Is at, FanDuel right now

1254
01:03:34,520 --> 01:03:36,680
Speaker 1: you got your favorites to win a national title. In

1255
01:03:36,720 --> 01:03:39,800
Speaker 1: Any Order, it's Ohio, state It's, oregon It's. Texas It's

1256
01:03:39,800 --> 01:03:44,320
Speaker 1: Georgia so jay, bird is saying none of them return

1257
01:03:44,400 --> 01:03:47,080
Speaker 1: more than, fifty percent production none of them have a.

1258
01:03:47,120 --> 01:03:50,640
Speaker 1: Starting quarterback returning what if not one or, two or

1259
01:03:50,680 --> 01:03:51,840
Speaker 1: three but all four.

1260
01:03:51,640 --> 01:03:54,320
Speaker 2: Of them take, A, step back well then you have a.

1261
01:03:54,360 --> 01:03:57,560
Speaker 1: Recipe for chaos you got a recipe for one of

1262
01:03:57,560 --> 01:04:02,760
Speaker 1: The most memorable november stretch runs in recent, college football

1263
01:04:02,760 --> 01:04:06,479
Speaker 1: memory because that's the stuff that seven seasons. Are MADE

1264
01:04:06,480 --> 01:04:08,960
Speaker 1: from so i think about the big. Ten Piece there

1265
01:04:09,400 --> 01:04:12,520
Speaker 1: If Oregon and ohio state are both, OFF the pace

1266
01:04:13,360 --> 01:04:15,040
Speaker 1: i guess they could still, win the, conference you know

1267
01:04:15,040 --> 01:04:20,360
Speaker 1: because them being off still just it basically includes them Falling.

1268
01:04:20,360 --> 01:04:23,120
Speaker 1: Back to earth they basically fall back to Being Level

1269
01:04:23,440 --> 01:04:26,160
Speaker 1: with Penn state or. Michigan OR whoever so i guess

1270
01:04:26,200 --> 01:04:28,160
Speaker 1: they could still. Win the conference but, at that point

1271
01:04:28,440 --> 01:04:31,760
Speaker 1: a Huge Beneficiary. Is penn State because If Oregon and

1272
01:04:31,920 --> 01:04:35,520
Speaker 1: ohio state are off the mark, A little bit i

1273
01:04:35,520 --> 01:04:39,240
Speaker 1: think most people would kind Of Frame the big ten

1274
01:04:39,400 --> 01:04:42,200
Speaker 1: is that's exactly what needs To Happen. For, Penn State

1275
01:04:42,320 --> 01:04:44,280
Speaker 1: now james franklin would say we can win the thing,

1276
01:04:44,320 --> 01:04:46,360
Speaker 1: no matter what and good he ought to. Have THAT

1277
01:04:46,400 --> 01:04:48,280
Speaker 1: mentality but i would look AT it and, i, would

1278
01:04:48,280 --> 01:04:48,920
Speaker 1: say yeah that.

1279
01:04:48,920 --> 01:04:49,800
Speaker 2: May be true but.

1280
01:04:49,880 --> 01:04:54,760
Speaker 1: It's Really True if Ohio state and oregon or off pace,

1281
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Speaker 1: biggest enemies according to some in the current landscape. OF

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Speaker 1: college football i do not, endorse THAT mentality because. I

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Speaker 1: but tonight i wanted to take some time and tell

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Speaker 1: the truth about something that most, of YOU hate and,

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Speaker 1: i don't hate. Maybe Even Love, Big noon kickoff fox's

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Speaker 1: premier college Football window Every Saturday Is, big noon kickoff

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Speaker 1: aptly titled because the game kicks Off at. Noon Eastern

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Speaker 1: Time so, PENN state folks i don't even expect you

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Speaker 1: to have a Level head when i'm, talking about this

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Speaker 1: and you SHOULDN'T because if I Was a, Penn state

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Speaker 1: fan fox has screwed me out of so many potential

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Speaker 1: white OUT games that i. Would BE irate and i

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Speaker 1: don't expect you to understand someone LIKE me, when, I

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Speaker 1: say Hey I Love, big NOON kickoff.

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Speaker 2: But i am, in The minority and i'm.

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Speaker 1: Selfish about this, you guys know if you've watched or

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Speaker 1: listened for, a long time you shouldn't even acknowledge. Me

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Speaker 1: on this if, You're a fan i'm thinking differently than you,

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Speaker 1: this ONE time because i always have to travel to

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Speaker 1: get back home to Do, the Show Sunday And big

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Speaker 1: noon kickoff often affords me the opportunity to go, to

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Speaker 1: the game get, to the airport and get. Home that

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Speaker 1: night that's all there. Is to IT that's why I

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Speaker 1: Started Loving. Big noon kickoff but most of you don't have,

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Speaker 1: to do that and so you want, the PRIMETIME game and.

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Speaker 1: I GET it but i have A plan when i'm commissioner.

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Speaker 1: TO solve this i have. LISTENED to you i. Have

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Speaker 1: A plan but fox made. The, proper decision really if you,

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Speaker 1: think about it if you Put yourself. In fox's shoes

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Speaker 1: they looked around, and they said. Wait A second so

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Speaker 1: cbs has their big game. AT three thirty abc puts

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Speaker 1: a big game, at three thirty like everyone puts a

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Speaker 1: big game, at three thirty and then everyone who HAS.

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Speaker 1: A GAME abc at espn mainly they. Backload their day

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Speaker 1: they put their most valuable. Games in primetime fox came,

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Speaker 1: along and said why is nobody properly leveraging the Noon

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Speaker 1: time slot because, in college football think about the pattern.

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Speaker 1: Of your day you wake up and you either go

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Speaker 1: to the gym or you get all your your family

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Speaker 1: obligations out.

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Speaker 2: Of the way, in the morning you go to home depot.

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Speaker 1: Or, the grocery store Or You're watching Game Day, or

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Speaker 1: Big noon the. Fox's pregame show but it's all bill

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Speaker 1: up to. The noon kickoffs it's not like people.

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Speaker 2: Are saying college football is an afterthought until three.

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Speaker 1: Thirty or four you're locked in from the time you

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Speaker 1: wake up till the time you, go To bed, and,

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Speaker 1: fox said well if that's going to, be the case

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Speaker 1: why try and put our most valuable game in between

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Speaker 1: ALL the.

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Speaker 2: Other a games why.

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Speaker 1: Don't we take. THIS noon window i thought. IT was

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Speaker 1: smart i still think. It was smart it's just that

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Speaker 1: the problem is the way college football media rights deals

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Speaker 1: work is networks signed, deals WITH conferences which i hate

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Speaker 1: BECAUSE the way i wish it WORKED is what i

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Speaker 1: lay out for you. In a second BUT the way

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Speaker 1: i wish it.

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Speaker 2: Worked is not the.

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Speaker 1: Way, it works, So for instance fox has a Deal With.

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Speaker 1: The big ten It's not like fox has a deal

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Speaker 1: with every other conference where they have this limitless supply

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Speaker 1: of games.

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Speaker 2: To choose from so pretty Much every week.

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Speaker 1: Fox is taking the biggest Game In, the big ten

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Speaker 1: and they're putting. It, at noon well The Problem is

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Speaker 1: penn state folks have a long story tradition of making

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Speaker 1: their big game a night game to make it the.

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Speaker 1: White out game but that does not supersede The rights

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Speaker 1: that fox has. Paid to acquire and so they come

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Speaker 1: Along And, Say, penn, State Michigan, Huh penn state ohio,

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Speaker 1: state this? Year Who Knows penn state, oregon noon, kickoff noon,

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Speaker 1: kickoff noon kickoff and it. Sucks for THEM the way i,

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Speaker 1: wish this worked, by The Way When i'm, college football

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Speaker 1: COMMISSIONER the way i hope this works is we burn all.

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Speaker 1: The rights agreements we, start from scratch and every network

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Speaker 1: has a piece, of college football but you have a,

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Speaker 1: draft every week and so there is. No EXCLUSIVE deal

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Speaker 1: like espn does not have an exclusive DEAL. With the

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Speaker 1: sec fox doesn't have an exclusive Deal With. A big

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Speaker 1: ten everybody has a college FOOTBALL deal IN nbc And

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Speaker 1: cbs And netflix And amazon and fox are at the

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Speaker 1: table every week and we're rotating depending on how much,

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Speaker 1: a penn state Fan Or an, ohio state fan is

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Speaker 1: get an opportunity for your games to. Happen in primetime

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Speaker 1: let me. Tell you something yes this, Matters for fans

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Speaker 1: yes it matters. For the viewer you know how hard

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Speaker 1: it is for those recruiting and personnel departments to take

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Speaker 1: kids who are playing high school Football games on friday

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Speaker 1: night and Get Them To state college pennsylvania in time

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Speaker 1: for a noon kickoff. The next day you ever tried

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Speaker 1: To Fly, Into, state college. No, You, Can't, harrisburg Johnstown, York, Wilkes,

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Speaker 1: Trying to, Drive and look i've been out in rural

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Speaker 1: and you can check out mentally for ten to fifteen minutes.

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Speaker 1: At the time it is white knuckle is it is

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Speaker 1: spaghetti plot Roadways, all over pennsylvania and so it's tough

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Speaker 1: to get guys there, for noon kickoffs and so it's a.

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Speaker 1: Disadvantage in, recruiting so look, when i'm commissioner. We'll solve

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Speaker 1: this but, in The meantime all I'M saying is i

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Speaker 2: Neon kickoff the worst thing.

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Speaker 1: In The world and i'm glad you're not in here with,

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