Speaker 1: When people look back on June third in the history books, Jesse,
Speaker 1: they're gonna see two things. They're gonna see the rest
Speaker 1: of the free world plunged into chaos, arguing about super
Speaker 1: leagues and Senate bills and the SEC and the Big
Speaker 1: Ten and the playoffs. And then they're gonna see G
Speaker 1: five Josh cruising across the New Mexico desert window down
Speaker 1: shades on like Andy Dufrain post Shawshank headed to talk
Speaker 1: to Jason Eck at the University of New Mexico. That's
Speaker 1: how radicalized this entire process has made me. I've gone
Speaker 1: full on hood up, I've gone shades on, and I
Speaker 1: want nothing to do with it except that we're going
Speaker 1: to lead the show tonight with it. But other than that,
Speaker 1: I want nothing to do with all of this. It's Thursday,
Speaker 1: June fourth, now, the year of our Low, twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1: We are jam packed. We're high atop a glowing downtown Nashville,
Speaker 1: Tennessee lot going on tonight. So if you're watching live, especially,
Speaker 1: thank you guys, you're not wasting your time watching the show.
Speaker 1: I do have just a little bit about this Senate
Speaker 1: bill and a lot of the talk out there. Nick
Speaker 1: Saban was a witness yesterday, Pete Bavakua from Notre Dame
Speaker 1: said some things that got a lot of people up
Speaker 1: in arms. And there are harsh accusations being thrown my
Speaker 1: way that I've been wrong on all this, Jesse, and
Speaker 1: certainly I must have heard enough to change my mind
Speaker 1: about the legitimacy or the likelihood of this bill passing. Well,
Speaker 1: we'll talk about it in just a second. I also
Speaker 1: want to celebrate on the show tonight, and it doesn't
Speaker 1: really matter what the reasons behind the thing we're going
Speaker 1: to celebrate were. We're going to celebrate because one of
Speaker 1: our home campus games that we thought was lost is
Speaker 1: coming back home. Rarely do we get to celebrate a
Speaker 1: campus game that's been ripped away from college football coming
Speaker 1: back to a campus, but we will do that tonight.
Speaker 1: I got a question from you about SEC quarterback rankings,
Speaker 1: specifically the new guys, the guys that have not been
Speaker 1: the starters yet. We'll discuss that we've got bold predictions
Speaker 1: on the show tonight. There's an internal challenge to get
Speaker 1: the show in in under an hour, and we have
Speaker 1: fifty eight minutes left, so let's just see what we
Speaker 1: can do a lot of throat slashes, which would be
Speaker 1: a fifteen yard or Mitch if we were playing on Saturdays.
Speaker 1: But it's just disrespect. Since it's Thursday night, they're watching
Speaker 1: us in Fort Collins, Colorado, Athens, Georgia, Salinas Slash Salinas, California,
Speaker 1: and Clovis, New Mexico because we were there yesterday. Why
Speaker 1: not subscribe to the channel please if you have not
Speaker 1: already that Speaker series. Man, what a spring it's been.
Speaker 1: I'm going to talk about that and some behind the
Speaker 1: scenes stuff later in the show. Here we go. I
Speaker 1: didn't want to talk about the Senate bill on the
Speaker 1: show tonight at all. It was my instinct not to
Speaker 1: bring it up on the show, but a lot of
Speaker 1: you asked about it, so I'm going to get this
Speaker 1: out of the way. Troy from Plano Texts has hit
Speaker 1: me and said, you keep saying the Senate bill will
Speaker 1: easily pass, but everything I'm reading says that everyone is
Speaker 1: against it, including the big ten in the SEC. Do
Speaker 1: you want to double down? No, I don't want to
Speaker 1: double down at all. I want to maintain exactly what
Speaker 1: I've said. I think the bill is going to pass.
Speaker 1: The Senate. I think it's going to pass the House,
Speaker 1: and I think it's going to be signed in a law.
Speaker 1: That's what I think. Nothing about yesterday or anything that's
Speaker 1: been said this week changed my mind on that. Oh
Speaker 1: everyone's not against this bill. A lot of the loudest
Speaker 1: voices are against the bill, Troy, but then again, that's
Speaker 1: the nature of a bill. Now. Fortunately, I get to
Speaker 1: live my life ninety nine percent out of the political sphere,
Speaker 1: so I don't have to talk about this stuff a lot.
Speaker 1: But I have a bunch of friends who do, and
Speaker 1: I know this is the life they live. Okay, So
Speaker 1: here's what I'll say. I am very very confident in
Speaker 1: how red in I am on this process. But I'm
Speaker 1: not boring you with all that. I do want to
Speaker 1: address some of the stuff that was said yesterday that
Speaker 1: Troy was referencing there. But I encourage you, guys, again,
Speaker 1: this is the best approach you can have. Block out
Speaker 1: the noise and just think for yourself on this stuff.
Speaker 1: I said this a week ago, and some of you
Speaker 1: are starting to pick up what I was putting down,
Speaker 1: because if you go into this a little unsure of
Speaker 1: what you love about college football. Therefore, what you want
Speaker 1: to see in terms of actions and rules or maybe
Speaker 1: even laws, you're gonna allow other people to shape your
Speaker 1: opinion for you. And here's the thing. There are a
Speaker 1: lot of actors out there. I'm not even gonna call
Speaker 1: them bad actors. There are just a lot of people
Speaker 1: out there who have hidden agendas when it comes to
Speaker 1: this sort of thing. And they know that you don't know.
Speaker 1: They know you live a normal life. They know that
Speaker 1: you love college football called Saturday's Awesome. You love college
Speaker 1: football because you've rooted for that same jersey and that
Speaker 1: same logo since you were a child. But you don't
Speaker 1: want to get into the weeds of all this stuff,
Speaker 1: and therefore you don't even know what half this stuff means.
Speaker 1: Not because you're too you stupid to because you're too
Speaker 1: busy too. You don't keep up with it. And they
Speaker 1: know that, and that's why they understand a really really
Speaker 1: bad faith quote or SoundBite, if presented to you properly,
Speaker 1: can sway opinion. So don't let the late get money.
Speaker 1: Just block it all out. Twitter is a very toxic
Speaker 1: place when it comes to trying to learn about this
Speaker 1: sort of thing. Just block it out, decide for yourself.
Speaker 1: What you value, what you care about, and then take
Speaker 1: a look at what's in the body of this bill,
Speaker 1: and then ask yourself, would this give me more of
Speaker 1: what I like or less of what I like? There
Speaker 1: is no one right now talking with any kind of megaphone,
Speaker 1: at least without some kind of hidden agenda. Some of
Speaker 1: their agendas are out in the open. I at least
Speaker 1: respect that, and the others they may be hidden, but
Speaker 1: there are agendas everywhere. And here's how I know that.
Speaker 1: I have not noticed anyone take a stance on this
Speaker 1: Senate bill to date that would cost them money. Everyone's
Speaker 1: taking stances it would end up making them better off financially.
Speaker 1: That doesn't make you evil, It doesn't make you a
Speaker 1: bad person. In fact, it makes you a normal person.
Speaker 1: But just call it for what it is. There are
Speaker 1: a lot of people on this side of the fence
Speaker 1: yelling about the ulterior motives about the people on that
Speaker 1: side of the fence, And anyone who pays attention to this,
Speaker 1: knowing full well, both of you stand to gain financially
Speaker 1: off of the direction this goes. So. As a bystander,
Speaker 1: you know, as someone who's just over here a fan
Speaker 1: of college football, I look at it, and I say, well, okay,
Speaker 1: if both of you got agendas, then I'm gonna cancel
Speaker 1: you out and I'm just gonna root for what I want.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be selfish since everyone else is, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: be selfish. Nick Saban was a witness there for the
Speaker 1: Commerce Committee yesterday, and he was talking about all sorts
Speaker 1: of different things. He was sharing his viewpoint, and I
Speaker 1: was on the road when it was happening, but I
Speaker 1: knew it was happening. Obviously, it was scheduled. It's not
Speaker 1: like Saban's music hit and all of a sudden, here
Speaker 1: he comes out of nowhere. Everyone knew he was going
Speaker 1: to be there, he was scheduled to be there. There
Speaker 1: were a lot of questions about whether he was going
Speaker 1: to fly in the face of what the SEC has
Speaker 1: been preaching, maybe even fly in the face of what
Speaker 1: ESPN wants at the end of the day, and he
Speaker 1: did both of those things. To his credit, he endorsed
Speaker 1: this bill, presumably because he believes in the language of
Speaker 1: the bill. That's kind of my stance on it. And
Speaker 1: then everyone that spoke up seemed to have a big
Speaker 1: problem with what Nick Saban said. And since nuance is
Speaker 1: totally absent in these sorts of conversations. I ignored most
Speaker 1: of it because here's the bottom line, as best I
Speaker 1: could tell from what Nick Saban said. He made a
Speaker 1: lot of good points, and then a lot of people
Speaker 1: came at it from like thirty seven different angles. And
Speaker 1: I don't care what you think about Nick Saban. I
Speaker 1: don't care what you think he did at Alabama. I
Speaker 1: don't care about any of it. I grew up learning
Speaker 1: about like the mafia in school, and I remember when
Speaker 1: they taught us once upon a time about how John
Speaker 1: Gotti finally got taken down and about Sammy the Bull
Speaker 1: Gravano like turning state's evidence. And I remember as a child,
Speaker 1: Jesse thinking, hold up a second, you're telling me that
Speaker 1: they let a real life mobster in his own right
Speaker 1: take the stand and they valued his testimony. And yeah,
Speaker 1: that's basically the way it worked. And it turns out, hey,
Speaker 1: if you're telling the truth, you're telling the truth doesn't
Speaker 1: really matter who the source is. And a lot of
Speaker 1: people didn't seem to They didn't seem to get on
Speaker 1: board with that yesterday. So there was a lack of nuance.
Speaker 1: There was a lack of context. I didn't even traffic
Speaker 1: in it. I thought Sabin made a lot of good points.
Speaker 1: I understand how some people think it may be hypocritical.
Speaker 1: There are a lot of things people think they know
Speaker 1: that they could never prove about what Nick Saban or
Speaker 1: anyone else did in his time at Alabama or other
Speaker 1: coaches times elsewhere. But it's just accepted these universal facts.
Speaker 1: So why should I push back on it. Here is
Speaker 1: the pushback that I care about, because this is what
Speaker 1: I've seen a majority of in my inbox so far. Okay,
Speaker 1: the status of this thing right now is it is
Speaker 1: in commerce and it was getting marked up. It's still
Speaker 1: getting marked up, and eventually I do believe that this
Speaker 1: will go before the Senate. I still believe they're going
Speaker 1: to have plenty enough folks. I'm unchanged on that to
Speaker 1: pass the Senate. It will head to the House. I
Speaker 1: think it's going to pass the House. I am in
Speaker 1: the minority on this, Jesse. A lot of people think
Speaker 1: this thing's dead in the water. It's not. I don't
Speaker 1: think it is. But hey, my track record's flawless. I
Speaker 1: have never predicted a bill to be signed into law
Speaker 1: that didn't get signed into law. So I'm perfect on
Speaker 1: this show when it comes to bills. Picking Indiana football games,
Speaker 1: not so much bills. I'm fine so far so sterling
Speaker 1: reputation on the line here, Stop me if you've heard
Speaker 1: any of this. I wrote down some of the problems
Speaker 1: that people have had with this bill. It doesn't cap
Speaker 1: coaches salaries, it doesn't cap administrative salaries. You know, why
Speaker 1: are you targeting what player A can earn? But you're
Speaker 1: not targeting you know, the adults and the out of
Speaker 1: control spending elsewhere. I covered this the other day. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna tell you again, as much as I support this bill,
Speaker 1: I am on board with that line of thinking. So
Speaker 1: if you want to argue it should be added in,
Speaker 1: be my guest. It's not a perfect bill. It's bipartisan
Speaker 1: in nature. The very nature of bipartisanship is no one
Speaker 1: gets everything they want. So you guys aren't bringing that
Speaker 1: as some gotcha moment for me because I just turn
Speaker 1: around and agree with you. That's the first part. The
Speaker 1: second thing, this bill caps how much players can earn.
Speaker 1: That's not true. That is not true. Dive into it
Speaker 1: a little bit more. It does. It absolutely does advocate
Speaker 1: for salary caps. It does not define what the caps
Speaker 1: gotta be. That gets decided by decision makers at the
Speaker 1: college level, that gets decided in court. But that's not
Speaker 1: really what this is about. What it's about, basically, is
Speaker 1: a piece of paper saying, all right, you guys, decide
Speaker 1: whatever you want the cap to be get twenty million,
Speaker 1: forty million, sixty million, but there's got to be something. Okay,
Speaker 1: we got to have bookends that we're working with and
Speaker 1: that needs to be signed into law. So it's not
Speaker 1: limiting that, at least in the nature that people are
Speaker 1: suggesting it's limiting it. And that either comes from people
Speaker 1: who haven't read the bill or they just count on
Speaker 1: you having not read the bill so that they can
Speaker 1: lie about it. The third part, well, a lot of
Speaker 1: this is just going to get challenged in court. That's
Speaker 1: interesting because it sounds very familiar. It sounds like the
Speaker 1: life that everyone who follows college football on a day
Speaker 1: to day level has been living for a long time. Anyway,
Speaker 1: you're telling me one of your biggest fears is that
Speaker 1: stuff continues to happen that's already been happening. That's the
Speaker 1: worst case. Because if there's a best case that even
Speaker 1: partially absolves us or rids us of some of that,
Speaker 1: or puts in some rules that can be in forced.
Speaker 1: Pardon me if I'm more than willing to roll the
Speaker 1: dice there. But I'm trying to take a very measured
Speaker 1: approach here because what I don't want to do is
Speaker 1: I don't want to talk about people like they're bad people.
Speaker 1: This could be any of a number of people who
Speaker 1: have had problems with this bill. Okay, there's one possibility
Speaker 1: that someone just sees things differently than I do. That's
Speaker 1: possibility number one. Possibility number two could be Tony Petiti
Speaker 1: runs the Big Ten and therefore his motivations are different
Speaker 1: than mine. That could be a possibility as well. The
Speaker 1: point is pretty much everyone has an angle here. Pretty
Speaker 1: much everyone has a self interest that they're trying to serve.
Speaker 1: People with angles aren't necessarily bad people. They're just people
Speaker 1: coming at it from a different viewpoint. So I mean,
Speaker 1: for instance, I have had dislike up to maybe even
Speaker 1: distinct for how the SEC and the Big Ten have
Speaker 1: handled themselves and the viewpoints the stances that they've chosen
Speaker 1: to take. Mean I think negatively about Greg Sink. You're
Speaker 1: Tony Petiti, I understand it's a very very complex and
Speaker 1: nuanced position therein I just happened to see it a
Speaker 1: different way. I know that a lot of players' advocacy
Speaker 1: groups have come out against this bill. Well, look, let's
Speaker 1: not pretend that there aren't players advocacy groups that greatly
Speaker 1: stand to financially benefit if this thing crashes and burns
Speaker 1: and collective bargaining comes into play instead. I've got no
Speaker 1: problem with that. Okay, I'm friends with a lot of
Speaker 1: the you guys. Actually I'm not even talking to you.
Speaker 1: I'm starting to people outside who don't really understand the
Speaker 1: name of the game here. Or we don't have a
Speaker 1: player's union, for example, in college football right now? You
Speaker 1: don't think they're organizations that have been built specifically to
Speaker 1: serve as the player's union one day if slash, when
Speaker 1: collective bargaining is plugged into the wall socket of college football.
Speaker 1: Of course there are of course, there's major investment. Of course,
Speaker 1: there's big money to be made on that side. And
Speaker 1: so if I was sitting there, I'd probably want to
Speaker 1: torpedo this bill as well. So we all get it.
Speaker 1: A lot of people have differing viewpoints, different angles. But
Speaker 1: yesterday Jesse, it seems to me as I was on
Speaker 1: the road that the word I got texted the most
Speaker 1: and the word I saw trafficking the most was super league.
Speaker 1: Is that one word? Super Leagu's one word? I write
Speaker 1: it as one word. Boy, A lot of people got
Speaker 1: really worried about a super league yesterday, all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: out of nowhere, man a super League. So here's what
Speaker 1: triggered this, as best I can tell. Pete Bovaqua, whose
Speaker 1: name has been butchered nine ways from Sunday lately, and
Speaker 1: I've been a victim of it in the past. But
Speaker 1: while I still cannot pronounce the s and Clemson the
Speaker 1: right way, I have nailed down Pete Blevoqua's name, so
Speaker 1: I deserve a little bit of credit. He's the ad
Speaker 1: at Notre Dame. He is the guy who gets yelled
Speaker 1: at constantly to join a conference from people jealous that
Speaker 1: their situation is not as privileged as Notre Dames. So
Speaker 1: I've never been a Notre Dame needs to join a
Speaker 1: conference guy. So period. On the end of that sentence,
Speaker 1: But Pete Bovaqua was before the Senate Commerce Committee yesterday,
Speaker 1: and I'm going to pick up the SoundBite kind of
Speaker 1: in the middle of his testimony. Do we even call
Speaker 1: it testimony. We'll call it a testimony. It sounds really fancy.
Speaker 1: But they were talking about revenue. They were talking about,
Speaker 1: among other things, this bill providing a mechanism, in this case,
Speaker 1: amending the Sports Broadcasting Act and pooling college football media
Speaker 1: rights together to be negotiated as a block like the
Speaker 1: NFL does, a concept I happened to be fully on
Speaker 1: board with, and Pete Bovoqua was offering a different viewpoint
Speaker 1: on it, and I'm going to let him talk and
Speaker 1: then I'll react on the other side.
Speaker 2: My second concern is if you want to truly max
Speaker 2: the media value around the largest sport in terms of eyeballs,
Speaker 2: which is college football, I do think the best way
Speaker 2: to do that is a super league. And I certainly
Speaker 2: don't want a super league. And I'm not sure anybody
Speaker 2: necessarily wants a super league flooding the market, aggregating the market,
Speaker 2: bringing it to an aggregate form to major media companies.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure that's going to drive the value. Some
Speaker 2: say it will. If you wanted to maximize media value
Speaker 2: around college football, I think you would take twenty four
Speaker 2: to thirty teams create unbelievably competitive scheduling where a team
Speaker 2: like Notre Dame would play Alabama, Georgia, Penn State, Ohio State,
Speaker 2: Michigan and start to get a number that more closely
Speaker 2: resembles an NFL number. I could be right, I could
Speaker 2: be wrong, but that's why I was encouraged that it's
Speaker 2: a voluntary application and that a lot more work could
Speaker 2: be done over the course of the next series of
Speaker 2: years to see if the value could prove itself out.
Speaker 1: And Buddy, when he mentioned the words super League, everyone
Speaker 1: stopped listening. That's about as far as they got in
Speaker 1: that sound bite. I played the whole thing well. I
Speaker 1: played a lengthy part of it for a reason, So
Speaker 1: don't devolve into hysterics there. Let's break down what he said.
Speaker 1: First off, Pete Bavoc was a very very sharp guy.
Speaker 1: You don't normally rise to the level of ad at
Speaker 1: Notre Dame if you're not and he has worked in
Speaker 1: multiple sectors that sort of overlap with this situation. So
Speaker 1: he said he himself is not really interested in a
Speaker 1: Super League. Good he and I have that in common.
Speaker 1: Part two, he said he thinks the best way to
Speaker 1: accumulate the value that you're looking for here is not
Speaker 1: necessarily pooling all the media rights. It would be forming
Speaker 1: a super league. He's speaking hypothetically, you know, he's kind
Speaker 1: of saying, Now, this isn't what I would do, but
Speaker 1: if you really wanted to accomplish it, this is what
Speaker 1: you do. He said. It's the way I view it
Speaker 1: a little bit differently. I view it as a way
Speaker 1: that meaning there are other options that would accomplish the
Speaker 1: same end goal. But the entire point of the revenue
Speaker 1: mechanism in this whole equation is to fund college athletics. See,
Speaker 1: this is where you gotta zoom out sometimes. I'm not
Speaker 1: talking about Pete Bavaka. I'm talking about anybody listening to this,
Speaker 1: or anybody thinking about this. You get so far down
Speaker 1: the rabbit hole you forget what it's about to begin with.
Speaker 1: This is not about what's best for the University of Alabama.
Speaker 1: It's not about what's best for Ohio State. Presumably, it's
Speaker 1: about what's best for college athletics. The entire concept of
Speaker 1: pooling college football media rights into one block and negotiating
Speaker 1: those and bidding those out in the market is because
Speaker 1: it brings a several fold increase per year of money
Speaker 1: of revenue. Some would say it wouldn't. I think they're wrong.
Speaker 1: I think it would, and that wall helps to fund
Speaker 1: a whole lot of things that are cash strapped right now,
Speaker 1: football and beyond. I'm a supporter of that concept. I
Speaker 1: think it's one of the most insane things in the
Speaker 1: world that a swimmer at cal Poly could end up
Speaker 1: without a scholarship because football wasn't handled the right way.
Speaker 1: But that's the way I look at it. I also
Speaker 1: think that it's really unnecessary for Arkansas State football to
Speaker 1: get left out in the cold when they don't have
Speaker 1: to be. Then that brings in this whole political debate,
Speaker 1: and it brings in this whole worldview and like ideological
Speaker 1: clash of well, do you believe in free market capitalism
Speaker 1: or don't you? I do, I don't in sports, I
Speaker 1: don't at all in sports. It's the same thing that
Speaker 1: allows me to watch the National Football League and watch
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills have no problem whatsoever compete with the
Speaker 1: Los Angeles Rams. Does that occur in a free market? Like?
Speaker 1: Is that really if everything operates on true free market principle?
Speaker 1: Does that ever happen? Does the NFL happen no, it
Speaker 1: does not, and it's because a long time ago people
Speaker 1: looked at professional football and said, might we need to
Speaker 1: create special conditions so that this entertainment product can exist
Speaker 1: in its own bubble. I always use the national park
Speaker 1: corollary because I love national parks. I love nature preserves.
Speaker 1: We've got him in Nashville. Chances are, if you live
Speaker 1: in a city of any size, you've got him there.
Speaker 1: What if we took Radnor State Park just down the
Speaker 1: road here on I sixty five, and we said, you
Speaker 1: know what, We're going to govern that patch of land
Speaker 1: just like we do every other patch of land in
Speaker 1: Davidson County and Williamson County. Very very quickly, you see
Speaker 1: development signs there for sales sign and then you see
Speaker 1: bulldozers and dumb trucks, and you see yet another condominium
Speaker 1: go up, and the units are already sold before they
Speaker 1: even break ground. But we don't do that. Why Well,
Speaker 1: because the citizens of Nashville have decided we kind of
Speaker 1: like that, so we want to treat it differently. And
Speaker 1: I've always viewed sports the same way I view college
Speaker 1: football similarly, Probably college athletics requires an even more special
Speaker 1: bubble than the NFL does, but I think it serves
Speaker 1: a greater societal good to have it. So you don't
Speaker 1: have the whack a mole moment with me when you
Speaker 1: think I'm a free market capitalist. Well, if you're a
Speaker 1: free market capitalist, don't you support free market principles and
Speaker 1: college athletics. No, I don't, because they can exist as
Speaker 1: they should if we exercise that to its logical conclusion.
Speaker 1: So no, no, I don't believe in that. I also
Speaker 1: keep looking at this super league conversation and people who
Speaker 1: are taken aback by it, and I'm like, why is
Speaker 1: anyone surprised by this? But then it dawns on me
Speaker 1: not everyone follows this stuff day to day. So Pete
Speaker 1: Bavaka was speaking up there, and then a lot of
Speaker 1: people got attached to that, and they got so attached
Speaker 1: to it, Jesse that, as we were probably in the
Speaker 1: air coming home last night, Big Ten Commissioner Tony Petiti
Speaker 1: released a statement. Tony Pettiti does not talk a lot,
Speaker 1: but he released a statement and it said, and I quote,
Speaker 1: any statement that suggests the Big Ten is pursuing or
Speaker 1: wants a super league is a fabrication. At no point
Speaker 1: in time have we discussed such a concept with the
Speaker 1: SEC or anyone else. Any suggestion otherwise comes from people
Speaker 1: outside of our respective conferences. Well, let me assure you
Speaker 1: he's right. I am outside the Big Ten conference. I
Speaker 1: have no affiliation with the Big Ten, and I am
Speaker 1: one hundred percent telling you the Big Ten is very
Speaker 1: interested in the idea of a super League. Now, what
Speaker 1: it may not be is the SEC and the Big
Speaker 1: Ten locking arms symbolically out in a parking lot and
Speaker 1: slapping the name super League on the store. It may
Speaker 1: not be that. But if you don't think the SEC
Speaker 1: and the Big Ten have lobbied hard behind the scenes
Speaker 1: to crash this bill because they think they can do
Speaker 1: better out on their own by themselves, you either don't
Speaker 1: know the space very well or you haven't been following
Speaker 1: it very well. And if it's the latter, that's cool.
Speaker 1: You live your life. You're probably a lot happier than
Speaker 1: people following this right now. But if it's the former,
Speaker 1: you're blind. You're blind. They one thousand percent have explored,
Speaker 1: continue to explore and prefer that model. Not everyone. It's
Speaker 1: not a total consensus, but trust me on at least
Speaker 1: that facet of this. And I don't know anyone who
Speaker 1: I view as reputable or informed on this matter that
Speaker 1: disagrees with that, and I talk to a lot of them.
Speaker 1: I always want to cross reference because sometimes I like
Speaker 1: to remove myself from this, and when I check back in,
Speaker 1: I want to make sure I'm not missing anything. Everybody
Speaker 1: believes that that's the goal behind the scenes for those
Speaker 1: Big two. That's why I'm not on board with it.
Speaker 1: That's why I'm not an anti SEC or anti Big
Speaker 1: Ten guy. I'm just anti the idea that the only
Speaker 1: path for them to flourish requires choking off the rest
Speaker 1: of the sport. Why I was against conference expansion. That's
Speaker 1: why I hated the idea of Washington and Oregon and
Speaker 1: USC and UCLA joining the Big Ten. I didn't like
Speaker 1: it when Texas and OU joined the SEC, not because
Speaker 1: it wasn't great for those leagues, but because those leagues
Speaker 1: are fine regardless. I actually love the territorial nature and
Speaker 1: the regionality of college football. I love for there to
Speaker 1: be more than just two big names dominating the sport
Speaker 1: and choking every bit of oxygen out of the room.
Speaker 1: And likewise, when it comes to the concept of a
Speaker 1: super league, could they do it? Probably, although I would
Speaker 1: say probably some unforeseen consequences of that that they wouldn't love,
Speaker 1: But yeah, they could accomplish it. It's not necessary. There's
Speaker 1: several paths for the SEC and the Big Ten to flourish,
Speaker 1: and congrats to them for it. I grew up in
Speaker 1: the SEC footprint, I grew up on SEC football. I
Speaker 1: grew up watching the Big Ten from a distance. I
Speaker 1: revere those institutions, those programs, the names, the tradition, the pageantry.
Speaker 1: Nobody needs to sell me on that, nor do you
Speaker 1: need to educate me on who swings the biggest hammer
Speaker 1: in the sport, and which programs and which teams produce
Speaker 1: the most revenue, and which brands get watched the most.
Speaker 1: I know that. It doesn't convince me that Wake Forest
Speaker 1: Football has to fall off into the ocean in the process.
Speaker 1: There are several ways for them to flourish, simply. I
Speaker 1: simply prefer one that lets other program survive as well.
Speaker 1: Don't think we need to torch the barn and kill
Speaker 1: the rats here for the SEC and the Big Ten
Speaker 1: to get everything they want. One of the key takeaways
Speaker 1: that I noticed today or talking points I guess, was well,
Speaker 1: you can't get a bill passed you can't get a
Speaker 1: college football bill passed without the SEC and the Big
Speaker 1: Ten being on board. Yeah you can. Yeah, yeah, you
Speaker 1: absolutely can. You may not be able to negotiate playoff
Speaker 1: structure without the SEC and the Big Ten. But see
Speaker 1: when you leave grape Vine, Texas and you go to Washington,
Speaker 1: d C. Yeah, you inherit a whole lot of mess,
Speaker 1: but you're walking different hallways there. There's a reason they've
Speaker 1: spent a ton of money lobbying against this thing behind
Speaker 1: the scenes, and it's because they have to take it seriously.
Speaker 1: So you absolutely can get a bill passed without the
Speaker 1: SEC and the Big ten's consent. Some would argue that
Speaker 1: the fact the SEC and the Big Ten are so
Speaker 1: opposed to it is probably one of the biggest green
Speaker 1: light indicators this bill's on the right path. Some would
Speaker 1: say that Jesse, not me, but some would say that.
Speaker 1: So to answer the question that was posed to me
Speaker 1: twenty six minutes ago, No, I haven't changed my mind
Speaker 1: at all. Yes, I do think the bill is going
Speaker 1: to pass. Yes I do think it's an imperfect bill.
Speaker 1: Yes I do think there are still hurdles to clear.
Speaker 1: And yes, I revert back to statement number one, It
Speaker 1: still means I think that thing's going to pass. I'm
Speaker 1: unhappy only because I told someone it's not important who,
Speaker 1: but I told someone less than an hour ago that
Speaker 1: I was going to do that segment in less than
Speaker 1: ten minutes, and it was twenty five minutes long. We
Speaker 1: move on. It's June. I've got work to do before
Speaker 1: the season starts. We can't do this. We cannot do this.
Speaker 1: This will be a three and a half hours so
Speaker 1: if it were Sunday night, okay, let's move on. So
Speaker 1: the college football playoff schedule was released the other day
Speaker 1: to no fanfare whatsoever. Got a lot of reaction though,
Speaker 1: and in case you missed it, you may not even
Speaker 1: want me to share this information with you, but it's
Speaker 1: not exactly new. It was just a reminder, and that
Speaker 1: is that the playoff will start on December eighteenth, and
Speaker 1: the playoff will conclude well over a month later, on
Speaker 1: January twenty fifth. Yes, friends, with February on the horizon,
Speaker 1: we will crown a national champion. Now is that insane?
Speaker 1: Of course it is. And I don't know how you
Speaker 1: feel in January, so I'll just share how I feel
Speaker 1: that has led to January and the playoff feeling really
Speaker 1: weird to me over the last number of years. Now,
Speaker 1: I'm a regular season guy, so like that's not my
Speaker 1: north star. But I still I if we're gonna have
Speaker 1: a playoff in college football, I'd love for it to
Speaker 1: feel like this huge climax, like reaching the summit of
Speaker 1: the season. And instead there are these massive, massive gaps
Speaker 1: between round to round that just make you look around
Speaker 1: and say, what's happening? Like where's the juice? The playoff
Speaker 1: has not felt like it had a lot of juice
Speaker 1: to me. So for the visual learners, of which I
Speaker 1: am one, I had stats and info run some quick numbers,
Speaker 1: which just means I pulled out the eye Josh calculator,
Speaker 1: and I asked myself self, when does the season start? Well,
Speaker 1: the season this year, Week one of the season is
Speaker 1: like September fourth, I think it is, and if the
Speaker 1: National Championship game is on January twenty fifth, I wanted
Speaker 1: to know what the mathematical midpoint of the season is.
Speaker 1: And you probably saw me tweet this out the other day,
Speaker 1: but if you didn't, let me slap you with some reality.
Speaker 1: Saturday November fourteenth is week eleven this year. That marks
Speaker 1: the mathematical halfway point between Week one and the national
Speaker 1: Championship game. Now leave that up, Bradley. When I say
Speaker 1: November fourteenth, what do you think? Two things? You think
Speaker 1: that's my sister's birthday, which it is. And number two
Speaker 1: you think, well, i's like at the very end of
Speaker 1: the season, and you would be right. Cuse, up until
Speaker 1: five minutes ago, mid November was right towards the end
Speaker 1: of the season. I mean, we got rivalry week coming up,
Speaker 1: we got conference championship Saturday just around the corner, and
Speaker 1: now November fourteenth equals we're halfway to the National Championship game.
Speaker 1: So those are the problems. Now, this is not a
Speaker 1: show that prides itself. I'm just throwing a bunch of
Speaker 1: problems out there without a solution. But to this point,
Speaker 1: my solution has not been realized. People have crapped all
Speaker 1: over it. People have thrown water balloons at me or worse,
Speaker 1: and people have told me stop wishing. Your wish can
Speaker 1: come true. And if you're new to the program, you
Speaker 1: might be asking, well, what is this crazy person's wish.
Speaker 1: Here's my wish. My wish is that college football had
Speaker 1: a scheduling agreement with the NFL, because that's really all
Speaker 1: this is about. It's not about having a set number
Speaker 1: of days between games. The only reason the College Football
Speaker 1: Playoff calend or looks the way it does is because
Speaker 1: college football is terrified to go head to head with
Speaker 1: the National Football League, because the NFL is king, and
Speaker 1: it swallows anything that overlaps it or competes against it.
Speaker 1: And I simply wish that's all it is. I am
Speaker 1: simply wishing, not without logic, though, I wish that for once,
Speaker 1: someone in the decision making chair of college football actually
Speaker 1: had the gravitas, the respect in the industry, the stones,
Speaker 1: whatever you want to call it, to pick up the
Speaker 1: phone and maybe if you need a three way call,
Speaker 1: get the networks on one line and get the NFL
Speaker 1: league office on the other line, and just say, guys,
Speaker 1: we need help. We do everything for you. We develop
Speaker 1: the players for you. It's why you don't have a
Speaker 1: minor league. And we've never complained. We market the players. Okay,
Speaker 1: you know full well who Fernando Mendoza is before he
Speaker 1: ever plays a down for Las Vegas. You're welcome. We
Speaker 1: never complain, We never asked for anything. We just need help.
Speaker 1: We're not even asking you not to play on Saturdays
Speaker 1: in December. We just like you to take those early
Speaker 1: and mid afternoon windows so that we can have the
Speaker 1: primetime window for college football playoff games. That's what we love,
Speaker 1: so that we don't have to have ten days between
Speaker 1: rounds and we don't have to be playing on random
Speaker 1: Thursdays at noon because it's stupid. And just see what
Speaker 1: they say. Just the worst you can get told is no, now,
Speaker 1: stupid me. I thought for a long time, Jesse, that
Speaker 1: if it's that obvious, certainly the conversation was had a
Speaker 1: long time ago. And then Roger Goodell is having his
Speaker 1: pre Super Bowl press conference just this past year, just
Speaker 1: earlier this year, and he was asked about something unrelated
Speaker 1: to scheduling. I think it was about like quarterback development suffering,
Speaker 1: and someone asked him, have you ever considered working with
Speaker 1: college football or helping college football? He basically said, well, yeah,
Speaker 1: but our phone hasn't rung, which is the least shocking
Speaker 1: thing in the world, Just the least shocking thing in
Speaker 1: the world. This is also my issue with what they're
Speaker 1: calling the Kiffin rule in the Senate bill. You know,
Speaker 1: for all for the support I'm given that Senate Bill.
Speaker 1: One of the dumb parts of the Senate Bill, to
Speaker 1: me at least, is the Kiffen Rule, the good faith
Speaker 1: but poorly aimed effort to curtail coaches moving around before
Speaker 1: the season's over. But see, that's not a problem that
Speaker 1: has to do with lack of ethics in coaches or
Speaker 1: athletic directors, or the way job searchers are being conducted.
Speaker 1: The job searches are being conducted as a byproduct of
Speaker 1: the calendar, because the calendar is out of whack. So
Speaker 1: if you've got National Signing Day with the week of
Speaker 1: conference championship games right now, if you've got the transfer
Speaker 1: portal window happening during the playoffs, then of course you
Speaker 1: have no alternative. If we had a job opening at
Speaker 1: pet State, I wouldn't wait until after the season was over.
Speaker 1: There no coaches left. So if you want to take
Speaker 1: that high powered laser of the Senate or of Congress
Speaker 1: overall and pointed at something, don't point it at Lane
Speaker 1: Kiff and enough folks point their anger at Lane Kiffin,
Speaker 1: maybe just direct at thirty degrees over here and take
Speaker 1: a look at solving the college football calendar. You want
Speaker 1: bipartisan support, claim you're about to fix the college football calendar.
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Speaker 1: So we put it on a T shirt in there,
Speaker 1: paytstatematerial dot com. Let's move on. Wow, this has to
Speaker 1: do with actual football players. Are we sure we want
Speaker 1: to put this in the show? James from Norfolk, Virginia.
Speaker 1: There are a good amount of first year SEC quarterbacks
Speaker 1: via recruiting in the portal? Can you rank them in
Speaker 1: terms of the impact you expect from them this season? Hey,
Speaker 1: as someone who's never suffered the consequences of ranking SEC
Speaker 1: quarterbacks in the summer, why not? What could possibly go
Speaker 1: wrong with this? So yeah, what he's asking is take
Speaker 1: the new quarterbacks or quarterback situations and rank them. So
Speaker 1: we got eight of them, right, Jesse. It's gonna sound weird,
Speaker 1: but I think the Alabama quarterback situation I'm actually ranking
Speaker 1: number one because I'm pretty high on whoever comes out
Speaker 1: of this quarterback battle. So it could be Austin Mack,
Speaker 1: it could be Killing Russell, whoever it is. I expect
Speaker 1: Alabama to be plus at the quarterback position this year,
Speaker 1: which is why not all quarterback battles are created equally.
Speaker 1: As me Mom used to tell me a whole lot.
Speaker 1: I have tentatively picked Kielan Russell, but either one of
Speaker 1: them are going to greatly enhance Alabama's RPO game, and
Speaker 1: Alabama's RPO game missing last year pretty much threw a
Speaker 1: crowbar into the entire functionality of that offense. They weren't terrible,
Speaker 1: but not great, And when you can't run the ball.
Speaker 1: You can't be anything other than Mark generally good offensively,
Speaker 1: and so I think, no matter who it is starting there,
Speaker 1: Alabama's situation at quarterback is going to be a plus situation. Now,
Speaker 1: this is where it gets difficult. In fact, this whole
Speaker 1: thing's difficult to me. But the next one I'm going
Speaker 1: with is Byron Brown at Auburn. There's a lot of
Speaker 1: release point. There's a lot of arm angled propaganda out
Speaker 1: there about Byron Brown right now, and I have not
Speaker 1: bought into it, mainly because it's not an unknown commodity.
Speaker 1: Byron Brown has played like nine thousand games, So we
Speaker 1: know Byron Brown, and he knows his supporting cast because
Speaker 1: Alex Golish, who had him at USF, brought him with
Speaker 1: him to Auburn and brought a lot of his supporting cast,
Speaker 1: a lot of the receivers that were down there. There
Speaker 1: are a lot of guys he looks to his left
Speaker 1: and right and has familiarity with, so he's not having
Speaker 1: to learn a whole lot new He is playing at
Speaker 1: a higher level, but they played multiple high level opponents
Speaker 1: when he was at USF, So I don't think it's
Speaker 1: going to be cold water to the face necessarily, so
Speaker 1: I think he's going to be good. I think the
Speaker 1: experience level also matters here, because most of the time
Speaker 1: when we're talking about a new quarterback, a lot of
Speaker 1: the times we're talking about a guy with not a
Speaker 1: lot of experience. Byron Brown at Auburn's got more experience
Speaker 1: than probably everyone else on this list combined. If I
Speaker 1: had to say, so, yeah, I think they'll be okay
Speaker 1: at quarterback there. Now, what do we go to next?
Speaker 1: I flipped a coin. It landed on Aaron Filo. Imagine that.
Speaker 1: So now at Florida. Florida tried the whole import the
Speaker 1: quarterback and offensive coordinator in a combo package type situation.
Speaker 1: It worked for Vanderbilt, so it worked for Utah. Why
Speaker 1: not take a stab at it? So Aaron Philo came there.
Speaker 1: He was at Georgia tech Buster Faulkner was his offensive coordinator.
Speaker 1: He also came to Florida. The surrounding and supporting cast
Speaker 1: here matters a whole lot. So he's walking in there
Speaker 1: and he gets just one of the best wide receiver
Speaker 1: rooms in the country dropped in his lap. He's got
Speaker 1: Jaden bought Tail, They've got they've got issues that got
Speaker 1: Billy fired, but personnel was not atop the list. Let
Speaker 1: me just put it that way, and so Aaron Filo
Speaker 1: is not having to learn a new system either. In fact,
Speaker 1: the other guys are having to learn a new system
Speaker 1: in terms of range of outcome is high like his
Speaker 1: best in the range of outcome would equal them being
Speaker 1: a surprise playoff contender. No, I didn't say that's likely
Speaker 1: or that's my prediction, but they do have that upside
Speaker 1: if you get the best out of the range of outcomes. There.
Speaker 1: This is where I put Austin Simmons. I put him
Speaker 1: right behind Florida Slash Aaron Filo. Austin Simmons. Remember last
Speaker 1: year Lane picked him to start form at Old Miss
Speaker 1: and then he goes down and then Trinidad Shambliss happened,
Speaker 1: and that's the last year you heard about Austin Simmons. Well,
Speaker 1: he transferred to Missouri and he's, you know, theoretically still
Speaker 1: the player that Lane chose to start form at Old Miss.
Speaker 1: Last year, arm talent got some experience least, so I
Speaker 1: like that. I'm just betting on him realizing his talent
Speaker 1: this year. He's got a somewhat of an underrated pass
Speaker 1: catcher group, I would say, follow up question, what are
Speaker 1: they rated? I don't know what the public would rate
Speaker 1: Missouri's pass catchers, but I think they're good enough. Not
Speaker 1: a question at tailback, obviously, with the off the field
Speaker 1: stuff that's happened there with a Mott Hardy, but I'd
Speaker 1: put Austin Simmons there. I'd put Kenny Minshee next. So
Speaker 1: Kenny minschee, if you believe the reports, he pushed CJ.
Speaker 1: Carr to the limit in that battle for the Notre
Speaker 1: Dame starting quarterback job last year, and then CJ. Carr
Speaker 1: won it. And after the season, Kenny Minshee transferred to Nebraska.
Speaker 1: Wait a minute, No, he didn't. He just briefly said
Speaker 1: the name Nebraska, and then he said, never mind, going
Speaker 1: to Kentucky. Will Stein took the job at Kentucky. He
Speaker 1: got his quarterback, Kenny minsche will Stein has handled portal
Speaker 1: quarterbacks in the past couple of years ago, I think
Speaker 1: twenty twenty three, Jesse, that offense of Willson ninees number
Speaker 1: one passing offense in the country. And look again, if
Speaker 1: we accept as fact that Kenny Minshe was good enough
Speaker 1: to push CJ. Carr to the limit. It's kind of
Speaker 1: like that Lincoln Kindholtz theory, like if he was really
Speaker 1: good enough to push Julian Say into the limit, well
Speaker 1: maybe he's not half bad. So we're thinking the same
Speaker 1: thing with Kenny Minshee here. And look, I also just
Speaker 1: you keep getting these vibes about Kentucky. That's all they
Speaker 1: are is vibes. Vibes never won anyone a game, but
Speaker 1: vibes can get you excited, and they're vibes at least
Speaker 1: emanating out of Kentucky right now. Now, this is where
Speaker 1: we talk Tennessee. The Tennessee quarterback situation very uncertain here.
Speaker 1: There are two big battles going on right now. In
Speaker 1: the sec we talked about Alabama, Well there's a quarterback
Speaker 1: battle at Tennessee as well, George McIntyre and Faison Brandon.
Speaker 1: Faison Brandon is widely regarded as the future of the program,
Speaker 1: but he's a true freshman this year. Is he lockdown
Speaker 1: the job this year? Either way? The reason I put
Speaker 1: Tennessee's quarterback situation all the way down at sixth out
Speaker 1: of all the new situations at quarterback is I don't
Speaker 1: think the Tennessee quarterback position is going to be a
Speaker 1: high impact position for them this year. And if I'm wrong,
Speaker 1: I'm happy to be wrong. It should be a very,
Speaker 1: very run heavy approach. And you just cross your fingers
Speaker 1: that that Jim Noles defense takes rooting year one instead
Speaker 1: of the usual take two or three years to fully
Speaker 1: get implement him. And so that doesn't mean that they're
Speaker 1: going to be a weakness there. It just means I
Speaker 1: think a net amount of the workload is taking off
Speaker 1: the quarterback shoulders and they just try and run the
Speaker 1: ball even more than they already do. I mean, Tennessee's
Speaker 1: pretty run heavy already. What about Jared Curtis, that's the
Speaker 1: true freshman. He was committed to Georgia, decommitted because he
Speaker 1: pretty much realized I could start at Vanderbilt right away.
Speaker 1: And while this has not technically been decided, I am
Speaker 1: announcing it for Clark, and this is unofficial, but I
Speaker 1: am announcing that I think Jerry Curtis is going to
Speaker 1: be the starter there. They lost three of their four
Speaker 1: top pass catchers, they lost four or five starting offensive linemen. However,
Speaker 1: far be it for me to sit here and question
Speaker 1: Uncle Barton and the boys over there with their evaluations
Speaker 1: and their ability to backfill because they've done it. And
Speaker 1: so I'm not going as far as to say, boy,
Speaker 1: he's going to be without guys to throw the ball to. Boy,
Speaker 1: he's not gonna have any time. But what he is
Speaker 1: going to be is a true freshman starting at quarterback
Speaker 1: in the SEC or just a true freshman starting at
Speaker 1: quarterback in major college football. And that means I can't
Speaker 1: possibly know anything. So that's why I put him there.
Speaker 1: And then kJ Jackson at Arkansas. It's just a restart
Speaker 1: at Arkansas and I put kJ Jackson. It could be
Speaker 1: AJ Hill. We're guessing kJ Jackson, but this the year
Speaker 1: one turn of Silverfield coming in top three pass catchers,
Speaker 1: gone a ton of churn defensively, so they're going to
Speaker 1: have to score a lot, and it's it's just kind
Speaker 1: of a not a total total rebuild, but really close
Speaker 1: to that. At Arkansas. They're watching us in Hinesville, Georgia, Elizabethtown, PA, Miami, Florida.
Speaker 1: Thank you guys so much. If you're watching live, knowing
Speaker 1: all the options there are out there, I really really
Speaker 1: appreciate it. Make sure you are subscribed to the channel. Hey,
Speaker 1: by the way, you know I'll talk about it later
Speaker 1: in never mind, I was I was gonna plug the
Speaker 1: speaker series that we did with Joey maguire and Jason Eck.
Speaker 1: But we'll get to that later. We have to celebrate. No,
Speaker 1: it's not my birthday, truth be told, I don't even
Speaker 1: believe in celebrating my birthday. But I do believe in
Speaker 1: celebrating something far more important than my birthday, and that
Speaker 1: is college football games being played on campus. What. Yes,
Speaker 1: we still do that, but not only do we do that.
Speaker 1: Did you know that it's possible for us to lose
Speaker 1: a college football game on campus to one of these
Speaker 1: stupid international games and then get it back. Yes, it
Speaker 1: is breaking news yesterday from NC State Football the season
Speaker 1: opener versus Virginia will be relocated to Charlottesville. Now you
Speaker 1: may be thinking to yourself, well, what's happening. Is NC
Speaker 1: State Stadium under construction? No, this thing was happening in Brazil.
Speaker 1: If you need me to say it again, I'll say
Speaker 1: it again. Yeah, it's that dumb. They were going to
Speaker 1: play this game in Brazil. Was it a conference game? Jesse?
Speaker 1: Because just because their conference teams does not mean it's
Speaker 1: a conference game. Because we do that kind of stuff
Speaker 1: as well. So here's the story. Somebody had the bright
Speaker 1: idea to play Virginia and NC State in Brazil, and
Speaker 1: then people looked around and said, can we guarantee this
Speaker 1: is going to happen with everybody getting out safe? And
Speaker 1: apparently the answer was no, shocker, and so as the
Speaker 1: acc had looked and did the whole Hey, look, some
Speaker 1: of you may suffer, but it's a risk I'm willing
Speaker 1: to take. I cleaned up the language. It seems that
Speaker 1: that's not the way this is going to go. So
Speaker 1: we have to celebrate. We have to celebrate because we
Speaker 1: were going to lose a college football game that should
Speaker 1: be played on a campus on a Saturday to Brazil.
Speaker 1: This sounds very antiquated. I know, this sounds like I'm
Speaker 1: against progress, you know what. It sounds like. I'm against
Speaker 1: it sounds like I am against hashtag growing the game,
Speaker 1: and I'm not. This is not how you grow college football.
Speaker 1: I'm all for growing college football. This is not how
Speaker 1: you grow college football. Now, I figured to myself, told Jesse, yeah,
Speaker 1: we got one or two options here. I could just
Speaker 1: yell in the microphone for six and a half minutes tonight,
Speaker 1: hopefully get it to eight minutes. I could just talk
Speaker 1: about how I feel. But you know what I realized.
Speaker 1: I realized I've already done that in the past two weeks,
Speaker 1: and I thought I did a fairly good job of
Speaker 1: articulating my points. And we haven't even plugged this show,
Speaker 1: this podcast that I appeared on on this show, So
Speaker 1: this is a good time to do both. So John Crist,
Speaker 1: friend of the program, invites me onto his podcast a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago, which is just down the road
Speaker 1: from where I live, and so I go in there
Speaker 1: and we're talking about all sorts of different things, but
Speaker 1: we got on this point about people who don't get
Speaker 1: what makes college football great, handling scheduling and thinking they're
Speaker 1: growing the game when they send a game to Ireland
Speaker 1: or Brazil or whatever, and they're not. That's not how
Speaker 1: you grow college football. So I hop on the Net
Speaker 1: Positive podcast with John Christ, which can be found on
Speaker 1: his YouTube channel right now. I encourage you to watch
Speaker 1: this entire sit down. It's like an hour and a
Speaker 1: half long. And this this is what I had to say.
Speaker 1: This is where it's so backwards to me to play
Speaker 1: college football games overseas. What makes college football great extends
Speaker 1: well beyond the field. This is where it's different to me.
Speaker 1: If you take an NFL game to Germany, cool. An
Speaker 1: NFL game is an NFL game anywhere. It's the best
Speaker 1: football player is on the planet playing on a field.
Speaker 1: That's what it is. It doesn't matter where you play,
Speaker 1: it's essentially being played in a TV studio. Lambeau Field's
Speaker 1: an exception. The Chief Stadium, like, there are a few
Speaker 1: places where that dynamic Adsorganello Rip, Nissan Stadium, Nissan Stadium.
Speaker 1: I really wish we could have ten moments of silence
Speaker 1: for the Georgia Dall the place. The place was so special.
Speaker 1: But what you're saying, but a college football game, nine
Speaker 1: tenths of it is the campus and the game day
Speaker 1: environment and in the tailgating. Well, people who don't get
Speaker 1: it don't understand that. So they think we'll just take
Speaker 1: a game and put it in Ireland every year in Voila,
Speaker 1: we took college football to a foreign market. No you didn't.
Speaker 1: You took a bunch of college football players and had
Speaker 1: them play a game over there. The proper way to
Speaker 1: do it, the product. The proper way to do it
Speaker 1: is tell people in Dublin Ireland. Hey, if you guys
Speaker 1: are ever going to come to the United States, you
Speaker 1: ought to come to Knoxville, Tennessee on Saturday. That's what
Speaker 1: you ought to do. That's how you would experience college football.
Speaker 1: And you tell these people that and it just blows
Speaker 1: their mind, like we never thought about it that way.
Speaker 1: I know you didn't. You shouldn't have your hints on
Speaker 1: the wheel. It was a fun time. It's fun time.
Speaker 1: You should come Jesse. You weren't invited. John Christ net
Speaker 1: positive with John Chris, you can go find that whole
Speaker 1: thing is like an hour and a half, maybe two
Speaker 1: hours worth of a sitting. Now. We talked about all
Speaker 1: sorts of things, man, like all every topic under the
Speaker 1: sun we touched on. So there's the plug. College football
Speaker 1: grows just fine on its own. Okay, if you let
Speaker 1: college football live, if you let it exist as it
Speaker 1: naturally exists, it's just fine on its own. Now, I
Speaker 1: am a realist. I understand that when a corporate partner
Speaker 1: comes to you and says, we've got two things, a
Speaker 1: venue and a major city and a huge paycheck in
Speaker 1: these troubled economic times. Yes, I know it's hard to say. No,
Speaker 1: I know it's hard. And that's why Baylor and Auburn
Speaker 1: are playing in Atlanta instead of Auburn. That's why Louisville
Speaker 1: and ol Miss are playing in Nashville instead of Oxford.
Speaker 1: That's why Wisconsin in Notre Dame are playing in Lambeau
Speaker 1: instead of South Bend. But I don't have to like
Speaker 1: it with the one exception being right there, because all
Speaker 1: of these other places are man made, God created Cotton
Speaker 1: Bowl and so Texas and O you belong there, that
Speaker 1: game might as well be written in red. The rest
Speaker 1: of this stuff is up for debate and interpretation, and
Speaker 1: my interpretation is And forgive me for holding this radical
Speaker 1: opinion that Arizona State versus Kansas is better served to
Speaker 1: be played in a Lawrence than in London. Yes, that's
Speaker 1: a real thing that's happening this year. I don't even
Speaker 1: know if Kenny Dillingham has a passport. Imagine the watch
Speaker 1: list that guy could be on with how he carries
Speaker 1: himself sometimes, which is an entire side topic that we
Speaker 1: could explore. But I do want to do this. I
Speaker 1: do want to credit some programs out there, and you're
Speaker 1: going to remain nameless because I'm not at liberty to
Speaker 1: share the full story here, I probably am, but I'm
Speaker 1: gonna err on the side of caution. I know for
Speaker 1: a fact that there are some major programs in college
Speaker 1: football that have turned down huge paycheck games to be
Speaker 1: played at neutral sites that would blow your mind, Like
Speaker 1: if you think Brazil and Dublin is the totality of this, Doug,
Speaker 1: I had one of them that blew my mind. And
Speaker 1: I don't even know conceptually how they play a football
Speaker 1: game at this place. But Yoko Zuna once wrestled sid
Speaker 1: on the deck of an aircraft carrier. So really, if
Speaker 1: you want to go neutral site bad enough, you can
Speaker 1: go neutral site anywhere you want to. So credit those
Speaker 1: of you who have said no, even if you have
Speaker 1: to remain nameless until you share with me that I
Speaker 1: can share your name, I will give you credit. Next up,
Speaker 1: back to matters on the field. The other night, someone
Speaker 1: asked us, Hey, who are the best players? Who the
Speaker 1: players you're looking forward to watching the most in college
Speaker 1: football this year? And I listed four and then I
Speaker 1: realized I got like one hundred more, so I just
Speaker 1: wanted to share four more with you tonight. I didn't
Speaker 1: even mention Trinidad Chambliss, the other day, and Trinidad Chambliss
Speaker 1: may very well be the most dangerous player in college
Speaker 1: football in the best of ways. I thought he was
Speaker 1: the most dangerous player in the college Football Playoff last year.
Speaker 1: In fact, his performance against Georgia just lives basically rent
Speaker 1: free in my mind, the way he burst on the scene,
Speaker 1: and also the story. We all know the story, we
Speaker 1: all know the Fairest State, and he's the back up there.
Speaker 1: And we had Kirby on the show last month who
Speaker 1: ended up playing him twice during the season and said,
Speaker 1: I didn't even know who Trinidad Chamblass was at the
Speaker 1: start of the year. How would I have known who
Speaker 1: he was? He was just under four thousand passing yards
Speaker 1: last year, twenty two touchdowns, three picks, no multi interception games,
Speaker 1: and he's back this year. And I know that this
Speaker 1: upcoming draft, the twenty twenty what seven NFL Draft, it's
Speaker 1: going to be loaded. Man, it's going to be incredible.
Speaker 1: You know, it's okay to just enjoy a guy for
Speaker 1: how good a college football player he is. And that's
Speaker 1: how I'm going to choose to consume the play of
Speaker 1: Trinidad Chambliss this year. Same with Malachy Toni Malick Tony,
Speaker 1: out of all the submissions we got for who's the
Speaker 1: best player in college football this year, was number two,
Speaker 1: behind Jeremiah Smith. So it was a super consensus. Jeremiah
Speaker 1: Smith the best player in the country. Malachi Toni was
Speaker 1: a guy who got some traction though, and last year
Speaker 1: from game one, he was a stud man from the
Speaker 1: time they played Notre Dame. That was Week one, right, Jesse, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was the first game of the season. I mean,
Speaker 1: Miami knew they had a star on their hands before
Speaker 1: they played Game one. America knew they had to star
Speaker 1: on their hands after they played Game one. And he
Speaker 1: had one hundred and nine receptions last year, which I
Speaker 1: didn't realize this, but that led the country. And there's
Speaker 1: such a variety of way that they use him. Well, really,
Speaker 1: there are two ways. They throw the ball to him
Speaker 1: and hand the ball to him, but still there're a
Speaker 1: variety of different ways that you can do those two
Speaker 1: things with him. And he's not alone, is the other point.
Speaker 1: This is not one of those situations where Shannon Dawson
Speaker 1: has one playmaker and Mario's got one playmaker and though
Speaker 1: they know they just got to ride him into the ground. No,
Speaker 1: they can, they don't have to. And if all the
Speaker 1: attention goes his way, then you got several other guys
Speaker 1: that can break your heart. So Malachai Tony amazing player,
Speaker 1: looking forward to watching him. Colin Simmons much more of
Speaker 1: a household name. Well I don't know. Tony's a big
Speaker 1: household name now too, But Colin Simmons, i'd call him
Speaker 1: the best to edge, at least in preseason in college football.
Speaker 1: We got to wait and see what Dylan Stewart does
Speaker 1: this year. Hopefully more than four and a half sacks.
Speaker 1: That would be a and I start twelve sacks for
Speaker 1: Colin Simmons last year, so he didn't struggle in that department.
Speaker 1: He'll be the face of that defense. He and Arch Manning,
Speaker 1: you know, kind of the D and O face of
Speaker 1: what could be a national championship type run for Texas
Speaker 1: this year. He's playing for Will mush champ now, and
Speaker 1: I know that I've got to remain cognizant. There's a
Speaker 1: portion of the population that once the national title game happens,
Speaker 1: they check out, probably for your best when it comes
Speaker 1: to the mental health of what it takes to follow
Speaker 1: the sport. Right now, but those people will come back
Speaker 1: in August, Jesse, and you know there's a lot of
Speaker 1: people who are going to be surprised when they open
Speaker 1: their preview magazine and they see wait a second, Will
Speaker 1: mush Champ is the defensive coordinator at Texas, Yes he is,
Speaker 1: and he's got Colin Simmons, and he's got a loaded
Speaker 1: defensive front where Colin Simmons does not have to do
Speaker 1: it all, specifically that interior that allows them to do
Speaker 1: a lot with Colin Simmons. So I'm looking forward to
Speaker 1: watching him one more time around the Merry go Round.
Speaker 1: And kJ Bolden at Georgia looking forward to watching him.
Speaker 1: If I call Colin Simmons the best age, can I
Speaker 1: call kJ Bolden the best safety in the country coming
Speaker 1: into the year ten tackles in that college football playoff
Speaker 1: game against Old Miss. A lot of times, if you
Speaker 1: watch games on TV, you can watch the quarterback. I
Speaker 1: think most people just follow the ball. You can watch
Speaker 1: the offensive line, you can train your eyes on the
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage with I say that's the smartest way
Speaker 1: to watch the game. But there are very few safeties
Speaker 1: that like draw your attention or command your attention. And
Speaker 1: kJ Bolden's kind of that kind of player, and you
Speaker 1: won't say that a lot about the safety position. So yes,
Speaker 1: for obvious reasons. Georgia good defensively every year. kJ Bolden
Speaker 1: will be a reason again this year. Looking forward to that.
Speaker 1: Feel it psych a palette cleanse when we get to
Speaker 1: talk about that. We just need to do that in
Speaker 1: every show, and then when we get in the season,
Speaker 1: we'll do like four players. I am currently enjoying watching
Speaker 1: for players I wish would be doing more. That'd be
Speaker 1: a little negative, though, I'll tell you what was a positive. Man.
Speaker 1: We did a lot of traveling over the past couple
Speaker 1: of days, but for the best of reasons. The pay
Speaker 1: State Speakers series was in Lubbock, Texas two days ago.
Speaker 1: We were in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Yesterday we went and
Speaker 1: saw Joey Maguire. We went and saw Jason Eck. I
Speaker 1: always liked to give some behind the scenes tidbits for
Speaker 1: loyal viewers of the show, and of course we bury
Speaker 1: it way late in the show. So we flew to Lubbock,
Speaker 1: got in there. What Tuesday Night present, I think Tuesday Night, yeah,
Speaker 1: or Monday Night. Tuesday went, yeah, Monday Night, and we
Speaker 1: get in. Like when we landed, Texas Tech Softball had
Speaker 1: just come back and they had beaten Alabama and they
Speaker 1: forced a game too, And remember they needed to double
Speaker 1: dip Alabama to make the Women's College World Series final,
Speaker 1: so then they did. But like we're in Lubbock, as
Speaker 1: that's happening, and the people in the hotel lobby watching
Speaker 1: and half the creative staff is still over in the building,
Speaker 1: which is like right across from o hotel, So the
Speaker 1: city was alive. Like if the folks in Oklahoma City
Speaker 1: had any doubts that, like Lubbock, Texas was glued to
Speaker 1: Texas Tech Softball, they were, and lo and behold they
Speaker 1: beat Alabama double diptum and they are actually playing as
Speaker 1: we speak in the Women's College World Series facing elimination
Speaker 1: tonight themselves. But that's not what I want to talk
Speaker 1: to you about right now. What I want to talk
Speaker 1: to you about is we had a great time. Got
Speaker 1: to credit Dirks, which they catered for us Dirks. It's like,
Speaker 1: I'm not going to compare restaurants. I'm not going to
Speaker 1: do that. That would be irresponsible. But it reminds me
Speaker 1: of one of our favorite establishments here in Nashville, And
Speaker 1: by our I mean mine that I forced the staff
Speaker 1: to eat three times a week. But I think Dirks
Speaker 1: maybe has a leg up on our establishment, so I'm
Speaker 1: going to say that. But Joey maguire very open, very candid.
Speaker 1: He always is. I always appreciate it. And remember we
Speaker 1: went out there on the heels of him and Sark
Speaker 1: kind of sniping back and forth at each other. But
Speaker 1: also we're sitting in his office as the Brendan soresb
Speaker 1: thing is going on, as that court case is going on,
Speaker 1: So he was really open about that. But he was
Speaker 1: really open about a lot the full sit downs, like
Speaker 1: forty minutes it's on the YouTube channel. Let me give
Speaker 1: you just a little sneak peek of what it sounded
Speaker 1: like with us talking with Joey again.
Speaker 3: But you're twos and threes, right, There's got to be
Speaker 3: a there's a level of respect there that like you
Speaker 3: almost like, come on, man, like, I know you've got
Speaker 3: a really good football team, and he does have a
Speaker 3: great football team. I am really anxious to see them
Speaker 3: this year. And I know when you feel as a
Speaker 3: coach you have a really good football team, sometimes you
Speaker 3: say some stuff, you know, and then you got your
Speaker 3: players got to go back it up on the field.
Speaker 3: My deal was, if you're going to say that, man, one,
Speaker 3: come out and just say who you're talking about. Two,
Speaker 3: let's play like I feel great about my team, whoever
Speaker 3: the quarterback is, I feel really good about my team.
Speaker 3: So I would love to play them, man, for so
Speaker 3: many reasons. I'm hoping and we're working our tell off
Speaker 3: to make the playoffs again, but I hope that round
Speaker 3: one is against the University of Texas or whenever we play.
Speaker 3: I mean, I like, I want to play those games.
Speaker 1: I know most of you never been to love it.
Speaker 1: I have. Obviously, I'm lucky to go to a lot
Speaker 1: of these places. And look when we go to Miami
Speaker 1: or Athens, Georgia, a lot of people have been to
Speaker 1: those places, and a lot of people can see them
Speaker 1: loving those places. A lot of people who have never
Speaker 1: been to West Texas think they have this idea of
Speaker 1: what West Texas is like and they think they would
Speaker 1: hate it. And all I encourage you to do, if
Speaker 1: you can do it, is go out there, go to
Speaker 1: a game. And if you can go to a Texas
Speaker 1: Tech game, it'd be awesome. But there's like there's this vibe,
Speaker 1: there's this energy. It's really unique. There aren't places like
Speaker 1: West Texas that aren't West Texas. Now, I will say
Speaker 1: it's not for everyone, but if you're cut of a
Speaker 1: certain cloth, that place really appeals. And I told him,
Speaker 1: and I've run into this a few times. There are
Speaker 1: people out there who say, I straight up came to
Speaker 1: Texas Tech for the money. That's what got me here.
Speaker 1: Then when I got here, I realized, Wow, I actually
Speaker 1: loved this place. I thought I was going here because
Speaker 1: I was getting paid, and I did, but it turns
Speaker 1: out I could see living here. I've heard several of
Speaker 1: those kinds of testimonials and it tracks with me because
Speaker 1: I love going out there. But where we hadn't been
Speaker 1: that we went the next day is the University of
Speaker 1: New Mexico. In fact, I had never been to the
Speaker 1: state of New Mexico, so we didn't fly. We chose
Speaker 1: to drive from Lubbock to Albuquerque, and we loaded up
Speaker 1: in our Chevy Traverse via Enterprise and we headed right
Speaker 1: through Clovis and right through Vaughn and right through thunderstorms
Speaker 1: and all the way to Albuquerque and hung out with
Speaker 1: Jason Neck a little bit the night before. Hat tip
Speaker 1: Kimberly Eck and Fine the fine other members of the
Speaker 1: ex family. We appreciated meeting all of them and Gucci
Speaker 1: two weeks old. Jesse brand new English bulldog. I saw
Speaker 1: him all the time growing up in the state of Georgia,
Speaker 1: but they got him in New Mexico as well. A
Speaker 1: great collar on that dog. Great collar. But that's not
Speaker 1: what we put on camera. What we did put on
Speaker 1: camera was a guy that I talked about three years
Speaker 1: ago and then especially two years ago on this show
Speaker 1: as being a guy that we had circled in red
Speaker 1: SHARPI I think those were my exact words, and I said,
Speaker 1: look out for this guy. I get tons of really
Speaker 1: good feedback about him from people who don't know each other.
Speaker 1: They're independently giving me the same feedback. And that's Jason.
Speaker 1: That guy man, he knows his stuff. He's really good.
Speaker 1: And so I bought all the Jason X stock like
Speaker 1: two years ago, and we were trying to find a
Speaker 1: way to get out there to see them, and we
Speaker 1: finally did again. This whole sit down is on the
Speaker 1: YouTube channel. Here is a small peak at our conversation
Speaker 1: with him. I assume most people watching this right now
Speaker 1: can identify with having self doubt or at least uncertainty
Speaker 1: about self and someone you respect showing more belief in
Speaker 1: you than you have in yourself, or maybe claiming they
Speaker 1: see something in you that you don't see in yourself
Speaker 1: at that time, because you never forget those people, No,
Speaker 1: you never forget those moments, no question.
Speaker 4: And I've seen the power that the power of building
Speaker 4: belief in people, and I think that's maybe one of
Speaker 4: the best things I do as a head coach is
Speaker 4: get people to believe, even though you know it might
Speaker 4: not be a rational thought to say we can go
Speaker 4: compete with Oregon when you're an FCS school, or you
Speaker 4: can beat UCLA when you're you know, you've been playing
Speaker 4: football here one hundred years and you've never beat a
Speaker 4: Big ten team. But when you build that belief in
Speaker 4: getting them in that right mindset, special things can happen.
Speaker 1: Is not a teal pull over. That is a turquoise pullover.
Speaker 1: And anyone who says it's teal is an idiot. I
Speaker 1: found out because I labeled it teal, and it's not teal.
Speaker 1: It is turquoise. There's a very very special meaning behind
Speaker 1: the color turquoise as it relates to New Mexico football.
Speaker 1: That was really, really fun, okay, And I also want
Speaker 1: to remind everyone. You know, sometimes people who don't know
Speaker 1: our show very well, they say, oh, man, you just
Speaker 1: cover the big two leagues. No we don't, No, we don't.
Speaker 1: But here's what I will assume. Everybody who yells for
Speaker 1: us to talk about the G six more, everybody who
Speaker 1: demands more G six content, I'm going to safely assume
Speaker 1: that you and every member of your family has already
Speaker 1: clicked on that full sit down today. Right. Certainly, no
Speaker 1: one ran their mouth about our programming here but failed
Speaker 1: to watch it when we provided the programming you asked for.
Speaker 1: Surely that's not happening. So there was one negative from
Speaker 1: our trip to New Mexico. I got a speeding ticket
Speaker 1: for the first time in Speaker serious history. I got
Speaker 1: a speeding ticket, not a bad one, not a bad
Speaker 1: one at all. And I credit the cooperation, for lack
Speaker 1: of a better term, with the fine state patrolman there
Speaker 1: in the state of New Mexico. Very affordable ticket as
Speaker 1: tickets go, one of the more affordable in the modern era.
Speaker 1: But there is absolutely nothing for vast stretches of New Mexico,
Speaker 1: and I cannot tell you how much I loved it,
Speaker 1: because at the end of the day, people will let
Speaker 1: you down, okay, but scenery never will. And if you
Speaker 1: want some time to yourself, if you just want to
Speaker 1: sit in isolation and think, this right here is it
Speaker 1: for me. It's a long drive, so you probably need
Speaker 1: a helicopter, you know, if you're going to do business
Speaker 1: in a lot of places, you probably have to be
Speaker 1: able to get somewhere pretty quick. But I could see
Speaker 1: myself out here, Jesse, I could see it. Pres came
Speaker 1: with us and I told him several times, Pres, this
Speaker 1: may be it for me. If we're looking to move studios,
Speaker 1: if we're looking to relocate, if Nashville's just not doing
Speaker 1: it for us anymore. I could see it. I could
Speaker 1: see it. I loved it, man. I love Casey Musk
Speaker 1: Graves has got a new song, Middle of Nowhere, and
Speaker 1: it was just playing in my head on repeat as
Speaker 1: we were driving through vast stretches of New Mexico desert.
Speaker 1: I loved it. Would go again. We had a couple
Speaker 1: of questions recently that were submitted to the show via
Speaker 1: the Fandual discord, and because you submitted your questions via
Speaker 1: the fandul discord channel, you guys got what was it,
Speaker 1: one hundred dollars a piece, right, Jesse, one hundred dollars
Speaker 1: in bonus bets just dropped in your account for doing
Speaker 1: nothing more than asking questions to the show in the
Speaker 1: fandual discord. So if you don't believe me, well there's
Speaker 1: the QR code, or you can just go over to
Speaker 1: the fandual discord. Most of you guys know how to
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Speaker 1: All right, we wrapped the show tonight with none other
Speaker 1: than bold predictions. Bold prediction time on this show means
Speaker 1: me saying nothing except reacting to your bold predictions. And
Speaker 1: what you're trying to do here is be bold enough
Speaker 1: that it scores nine and a half or higher on
Speaker 1: the Boldness scale, Because if you're a nine point five
Speaker 1: or higher and the prediction hits, you get a chalice
Speaker 1: of supremacy at the end of the year. Prediction number
Speaker 1: one on tonight's show at least Joshua hits us up
Speaker 1: and says Ohio State and Oregon play each other three times,
Speaker 1: regular season, Big Ten Title Game, National Title Game. Hm.
Speaker 1: That gets a nine and a half from me. I
Speaker 1: don't know about you. That gets a nine and a
Speaker 1: half from me. So one of them is guaranteed they're
Speaker 1: gonna play in the regular season, then you gotta have
Speaker 1: them play in the Big Ten championship game obviously. So
Speaker 1: first question that comes to mind is where is Indiana?
Speaker 1: Did Penn State, via a softer schedule, screw it up
Speaker 1: and make it to Indianapolis? Did we keep Michigan out
Speaker 1: of the Big Ten Title game? So that has to
Speaker 1: go right. The loser of the regular season game can't
Speaker 1: really afford to be losing any more conference games, so
Speaker 1: we got to have that go right. That's happened before though,
Speaker 1: But then to play in the national title game, Okay,
Speaker 1: then we got to ask ourselves. First off, does the
Speaker 1: winner and the loser of the Big Ten Title Game
Speaker 1: both make it? Probably so, does the committee set them
Speaker 1: up on opposite sides of the bracket? And do they
Speaker 1: both make it all the way through the bracket? And
Speaker 1: those three things combined make it very difficult. So I'm
Speaker 1: going to say a nine and a half on the
Speaker 1: boldness scale. Next up, this one not as bold as
Speaker 1: it sounds. Someone I'm not going to say that full name.
Speaker 1: I don't even know how to pronounce it. But in
Speaker 1: Great Vine Texas said bring him Young. Undefeated in the
Speaker 1: regular season twelve and oh regular season. Well that's only
Speaker 1: a nine for me. I'm really high on bringing Young
Speaker 1: this year. They were eleven to one last year, and
Speaker 1: they don't have Texas Tech on the schedule this year. However,
Speaker 1: they do have Notre Dame on the schedule, but they
Speaker 1: get Notre Dame at home, so no Texas Tech, Notre
Speaker 1: Dame at home. They do go to Utah. They do
Speaker 1: have a bottom ten strength of schedule according to our
Speaker 1: in house metrics, and whether you agree with that or
Speaker 1: think they've got a bottom twenty five, they got a
Speaker 1: schedule that's workable. That's what they have. They got a
Speaker 1: very experienced team, bear Backmeyer back at quarterback. They have
Speaker 1: got a top twenty overall returning production. They got a
Speaker 1: really really solid defense here. I think that this is
Speaker 1: in the cards and so I'm only going to make
Speaker 1: it a nine. It's very hard to go undefeated, but
Speaker 1: this is not something that would just totally shock me
Speaker 1: if it happened next up this one would This is
Speaker 1: a good prediction here Chris from Crown Point, Indiana. Originally
Speaker 1: he's from Crown Point, now he's in Tombul, Texas. He
Speaker 1: says Arch Manning he's not going to finish the season
Speaker 1: as the starter at Texas, and not because of injury.
Speaker 1: So break that down now, process that Arch Manning's gonna
Speaker 1: get benched this year. It's what he's saying. And if
Speaker 1: that happens and it's not due to injury, if there's
Speaker 1: a point in this season where Steve Sarkejan just steps
Speaker 1: up and says, hey, everyone, we're making a change at quarterback.
Speaker 1: kJ Lacy is our starter. Now we want to thank
Speaker 1: Arch for his contributions. He's not hurt, he's just not
Speaker 1: good enough to be our quarterback. I got a real
Speaker 1: hard time seeing that because I expect a big jump
Speaker 1: in production from him this year. I thought the Michigan
Speaker 1: game was really big for him. Side note, the Michigan
Speaker 1: Texas Bowl game was better than most of the playoff
Speaker 1: games last year, says san Lot for a meaningless game there. Shocker, Yeah,
Speaker 1: so this is not gonna happen or at least, I
Speaker 1: don't think so. I'm gonna make it a nine point
Speaker 1: seventy five. That's how surprised I would be at that. Lastly,
Speaker 1: now I want you to pay close attention if you're
Speaker 1: thinking about submitting a bold prediction cautionary tale. Here biased
Speaker 1: Vall from Morristown, Tennessee. My boldest prediction is the national
Speaker 1: champion will be a program who has not won the
Speaker 1: title in the past fifteen years. This is what me
Speaker 1: ma would call fortune cookie stuff. This is bumper sticker stuff.
Speaker 1: This is stuff that sounds good but doesn't stand up
Speaker 1: under the weight of closer inspection. Because this sounds bold,
Speaker 1: someone who hadn't won the title in the last decade
Speaker 1: and a half is going to win the title. Well,
Speaker 1: that's a great now, except that Notre Dame in Texas
Speaker 1: and Oregon fit that description, and those are three of
Speaker 1: the top five teams and the odds to win it
Speaker 1: all this year. It gets even worse. Miami and an
Speaker 1: m and Ol miss also fit that description. Those teams
Speaker 1: are in the top ten in the odds to win
Speaker 1: it all. It gets worse. Texas, Tech, Oklahoma and USC
Speaker 1: fit that description, and they're all in the top fifteen
Speaker 1: in the odds to win it all. So this is
Speaker 1: not bold. It's a six. Is that a little bit
Speaker 1: of a punishment, Yes, it is. I appreciate the submission immunity.
Speaker 1: We appreciate submission. However, this is not bold. This is
Speaker 1: not bold. If Oregon wins the national title, if Notre Dame,
Speaker 1: my post spring number one team in the country wins
Speaker 1: the national title, is that shocking? Is it shocking if
Speaker 1: Miami wins the national title Texas? Of course not. In fact, Jesse,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't even be shocked if we had a national
Speaker 1: title game featuring two teams playing each other that haven't
Speaker 1: won the title in the past fifteen years. Let me
Speaker 1: take it a step further, irresponsibly, unnecessarily, I may end
Speaker 1: up predicting the national title game matchup that features teams
Speaker 1: that have been fifteen plus years since they've won it all. So, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a six. We don't even normally go below it eight.
Speaker 1: But I wanted that in the batch so that I
Speaker 1: can make sure you guys understand it can't just sound bold,
Speaker 1: It's gotta be bold. And with that we wrap up
Speaker 1: the show thirteen minutes behind schedule. Appreciate you so much.
Speaker 1: We'll be back Sunday night. Make sure you check out
Speaker 1: that Speaker series content. Those are two really good sitdowns
Speaker 1: we did with Joey MacGuire and Jason ec until Sunday
Speaker 1: Night for producer Jesse, for director Bradley, the entire crew,
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