1 00:00:11,080 --> 00:00:12,680 Speaker 1: And welcome in Lake Kick on the air. It is 2 00:00:12,720 --> 00:00:15,640 Speaker 1: Thursday night, April twenty ninth, the Ear of Our Lord, 3 00:00:15,720 --> 00:00:18,720 Speaker 1: twenty twenty one. Got the NFL Draft a little time 4 00:00:18,720 --> 00:00:19,880 Speaker 1: from now. I told you we were going to start 5 00:00:19,880 --> 00:00:22,200 Speaker 1: a little early tonight, and here we are a little 6 00:00:22,200 --> 00:00:24,440 Speaker 1: bit earlier than usual. We got a jam packed show, 7 00:00:24,480 --> 00:00:27,320 Speaker 1: got a lot of college football to talk about. Expanding 8 00:00:27,360 --> 00:00:29,840 Speaker 1: the college football playoff. It's out there again. Did it 9 00:00:29,880 --> 00:00:32,440 Speaker 1: ever go away? I want to address this tonight. I'm 10 00:00:32,479 --> 00:00:34,600 Speaker 1: not giving you my take on expansion out well, I 11 00:00:34,680 --> 00:00:37,240 Speaker 1: kind of will you know what I think about expansion. 12 00:00:37,240 --> 00:00:39,320 Speaker 1: But I just want to maybe talk to some of 13 00:00:39,360 --> 00:00:40,880 Speaker 1: you who are on the fence about that, because you 14 00:00:40,960 --> 00:00:43,320 Speaker 1: got a problem, but you don't know what the problem is. 15 00:00:43,360 --> 00:00:45,400 Speaker 1: A lot of folks think they've identified the problem and 16 00:00:45,440 --> 00:00:48,240 Speaker 1: it's the playoff, or it's the structure, or it's the system. 17 00:00:48,520 --> 00:00:50,479 Speaker 1: You got a problem. You got a big problem. It's 18 00:00:50,479 --> 00:00:52,120 Speaker 1: been here for a while. It's just not what you 19 00:00:52,159 --> 00:00:54,280 Speaker 1: think it is. So we'll talk about that tonight. Quarterback 20 00:00:54,360 --> 00:00:57,200 Speaker 1: updates from all across the country. A couple of places 21 00:00:57,200 --> 00:00:59,279 Speaker 1: in Texas, A and M and University of We got 22 00:00:59,320 --> 00:01:00,760 Speaker 1: to talk about ls you we got to talk about 23 00:01:00,760 --> 00:01:04,160 Speaker 1: Ohio State. We've got a lot of places to go, 24 00:01:04,240 --> 00:01:06,200 Speaker 1: a lot of really good quarterback battles out there right now, 25 00:01:06,640 --> 00:01:08,760 Speaker 1: Ohio State. I had a really good question about the 26 00:01:08,800 --> 00:01:12,400 Speaker 1: buck Eyes on the Late Kick Extra podcast on Tuesday, 27 00:01:12,440 --> 00:01:15,600 Speaker 1: I think it was, and it was about what the 28 00:01:15,720 --> 00:01:18,520 Speaker 1: Ohio State's success rate is doing to the Big Ten 29 00:01:18,560 --> 00:01:20,720 Speaker 1: and is it maybe going to do what Clemson did 30 00:01:20,760 --> 00:01:24,280 Speaker 1: to the ACC. I appreciate the question, so I'm certainly 31 00:01:24,360 --> 00:01:28,200 Speaker 1: not disparaging the listener for asking. I get so tired 32 00:01:28,440 --> 00:01:31,080 Speaker 1: of people just assuming that this is going to happen, though, 33 00:01:31,280 --> 00:01:34,240 Speaker 1: so we'll address that tonight. And also, I'm big on 34 00:01:34,280 --> 00:01:37,200 Speaker 1: North Carolina. I know some of you noticed. Actually I'm 35 00:01:37,200 --> 00:01:39,400 Speaker 1: going to address the fact that you noticed, because a 36 00:01:39,400 --> 00:01:41,120 Speaker 1: lot of you have been asking me, Hey, what are 37 00:01:41,160 --> 00:01:43,160 Speaker 1: you so bullish on North Carolina for? Come on? Now? 38 00:01:43,160 --> 00:01:45,880 Speaker 1: It's Clemson's yard over there. Well it is until further notice, 39 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:48,680 Speaker 1: but we shall discuss how maybe that's going to change, 40 00:01:48,760 --> 00:01:51,200 Speaker 1: or maybe there's room for more than one at the 41 00:01:51,240 --> 00:01:54,000 Speaker 1: head table in the ACC. So thank you so much 42 00:01:54,040 --> 00:01:55,880 Speaker 1: for joining us. Make sure you like the videos. If 43 00:01:55,880 --> 00:01:57,840 Speaker 1: you're listening, make sure you give us five star reviews. 44 00:01:58,080 --> 00:02:01,360 Speaker 1: If you're listening on podcasts and follow me on Twitter 45 00:02:01,400 --> 00:02:04,800 Speaker 1: and Instagram, especially at Late Kick Josh. That's it. That's all. 46 00:02:04,880 --> 00:02:09,360 Speaker 1: Let's dive in. The new college football playoff expansion talks 47 00:02:09,360 --> 00:02:11,079 Speaker 1: are out there, and by new, I mean it's the 48 00:02:11,120 --> 00:02:14,440 Speaker 1: same old stuff. It's just repackaged now because Bill Hancock 49 00:02:14,600 --> 00:02:16,720 Speaker 1: happened to go on record the other day and suggested, 50 00:02:17,360 --> 00:02:20,000 Speaker 1: you know, just a mere mention, a whisper of the 51 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:23,760 Speaker 1: fact that they're considering this format or that format now. 52 00:02:23,760 --> 00:02:27,920 Speaker 1: As some in the sports media industry have correctly pointed out, 53 00:02:28,480 --> 00:02:31,520 Speaker 1: Bill Hancock would deny that the sun's coming up five 54 00:02:31,560 --> 00:02:33,919 Speaker 1: minutes before it peaks over the horizon. So if he's 55 00:02:33,960 --> 00:02:38,079 Speaker 1: actually talking about it, is it's reasonable to assume it's 56 00:02:38,080 --> 00:02:41,400 Speaker 1: a foregone conclusion that playoff expansion of some kind is coming. 57 00:02:41,919 --> 00:02:44,000 Speaker 1: I don't like it, you know my stance on this, 58 00:02:44,440 --> 00:02:47,160 Speaker 1: But the usuals out there were gleeful and have been 59 00:02:47,160 --> 00:02:50,280 Speaker 1: gleeful at this news. And I just want to remind 60 00:02:50,320 --> 00:02:53,440 Speaker 1: you you are not solving any problem you think exists, 61 00:02:53,520 --> 00:02:55,880 Speaker 1: and if it exists, that's not the way to solve it. 62 00:02:56,160 --> 00:02:58,600 Speaker 1: And what you're doing in the process is you're ruining 63 00:02:58,639 --> 00:03:00,560 Speaker 1: one of the really good things. At least you're e 64 00:03:00,600 --> 00:03:02,160 Speaker 1: roading away and chipping away at one of the really 65 00:03:02,160 --> 00:03:05,000 Speaker 1: good things that exist in college football, that's the regular season. 66 00:03:05,280 --> 00:03:06,919 Speaker 1: I know what the arguments are, I know what the 67 00:03:06,919 --> 00:03:09,639 Speaker 1: pushbacks are. You're not telling me anything I haven't already heard, 68 00:03:09,800 --> 00:03:13,320 Speaker 1: haven't already processed, and haven't already dismissed. You think you 69 00:03:13,320 --> 00:03:14,880 Speaker 1: can have both of them. You can think you can 70 00:03:14,960 --> 00:03:17,120 Speaker 1: still make the regular season great. You think you can 71 00:03:17,160 --> 00:03:19,760 Speaker 1: still make it unique unto the American sporting landscape and 72 00:03:20,040 --> 00:03:22,959 Speaker 1: have your expanded playoff. You can't. You can't. I'm gonna 73 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:24,800 Speaker 1: tell you why. It may go over your head or 74 00:03:24,800 --> 00:03:26,399 Speaker 1: you may not care, but I'm gonna tell you why. 75 00:03:27,240 --> 00:03:28,880 Speaker 1: But I just want you to think about this. Okay. 76 00:03:28,919 --> 00:03:31,760 Speaker 1: So let's say you move into a new neighborhood, and 77 00:03:31,880 --> 00:03:34,800 Speaker 1: let's say you bought it side unseen. Not smart, But 78 00:03:34,920 --> 00:03:37,320 Speaker 1: let's say you bought a house side unseen, and you 79 00:03:37,360 --> 00:03:40,560 Speaker 1: move in the neighborhood and there's an industrial plant that 80 00:03:40,760 --> 00:03:45,240 Speaker 1: is right behind the picket fence where your house is. 81 00:03:45,240 --> 00:03:48,640 Speaker 1: The neighborhood property lies there, and there's huge industrial complex 82 00:03:48,800 --> 00:03:52,120 Speaker 1: and it's loud twenty four to seven, he low and 83 00:03:52,200 --> 00:03:54,840 Speaker 1: you don't like it. You don't like that sound, and 84 00:03:54,920 --> 00:03:59,880 Speaker 1: so you repave your driveway. Did it fix it? Drive 85 00:04:00,040 --> 00:04:02,600 Speaker 1: It looks a whole lot better. No, because there's still 86 00:04:02,600 --> 00:04:06,320 Speaker 1: the sound. Well, then the homeowners association gets together and 87 00:04:06,360 --> 00:04:09,240 Speaker 1: you guys decide that you're gonna add new sidewalks in 88 00:04:09,280 --> 00:04:13,640 Speaker 1: the neighborhood and you're gonna pay to have everyone's yard resided. 89 00:04:14,360 --> 00:04:16,080 Speaker 1: Director of Meritis Colin I would go for that. When 90 00:04:16,200 --> 00:04:19,400 Speaker 1: you go for that, great, is the problem fixed? No, 91 00:04:19,520 --> 00:04:22,280 Speaker 1: it's not, because the problem is still the industrial complex 92 00:04:22,320 --> 00:04:24,600 Speaker 1: and it's still really loud back there. So then guess 93 00:04:24,600 --> 00:04:28,000 Speaker 1: what we're gonna do. We're gonna have a big end 94 00:04:28,040 --> 00:04:31,880 Speaker 1: of the summer blowout neighborhood picnic and you can bring 95 00:04:31,920 --> 00:04:34,679 Speaker 1: two friends that don't live in the neighborhood. Now, surely 96 00:04:34,720 --> 00:04:37,360 Speaker 1: this is gonna solve the problem, right, We're getting everyone involved, 97 00:04:37,600 --> 00:04:39,840 Speaker 1: everyone's having fun, everyone's gonna have a seat at the 98 00:04:39,839 --> 00:04:43,560 Speaker 1: picnic table, so to speak literally, But it's not solving 99 00:04:43,600 --> 00:04:45,760 Speaker 1: the problem. You go home that night. 100 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:47,840 Speaker 2: And and you're picking the barbecue out of your teeth, 101 00:04:47,920 --> 00:04:50,000 Speaker 2: and you're full, and you're sitting there watching your TV 102 00:04:50,080 --> 00:04:53,479 Speaker 2: show and you realize there's that sound again, because the 103 00:04:53,560 --> 00:04:58,159 Speaker 2: problem was never lack of picnics or sidewalks or sod 104 00:04:58,560 --> 00:04:59,400 Speaker 2: or driveway. 105 00:04:59,560 --> 00:05:02,800 Speaker 1: It was always the industrial complex. And how loud that 106 00:05:02,839 --> 00:05:06,280 Speaker 1: thing is. You don't have a system problem in college 107 00:05:06,279 --> 00:05:10,400 Speaker 1: football that really needs fixing via an expanded playoff. Expanding 108 00:05:10,440 --> 00:05:13,720 Speaker 1: the playoff is not going to fix the college football problem. 109 00:05:14,120 --> 00:05:18,800 Speaker 1: You don't have a problem in terms of system in 110 00:05:18,839 --> 00:05:21,720 Speaker 1: college football. You got a person problem. The person is 111 00:05:21,839 --> 00:05:25,280 Speaker 1: Nick Saban. Nick Saban's the problem that college football has, 112 00:05:25,480 --> 00:05:27,800 Speaker 1: and no amount of expanded playoff is going to change that. 113 00:05:28,040 --> 00:05:30,120 Speaker 1: You're gonna reshuffle the deck and you're gonna draw the 114 00:05:30,120 --> 00:05:33,560 Speaker 1: same card every time. Now, the logical response to understanding 115 00:05:33,640 --> 00:05:36,360 Speaker 1: this would be, I guess we just got to wait 116 00:05:36,360 --> 00:05:38,640 Speaker 1: for him to retire. I mean, we're living right smack 117 00:05:38,720 --> 00:05:40,720 Speaker 1: dab in the middle of the greatest dynasty in the 118 00:05:40,760 --> 00:05:43,520 Speaker 1: history of college football, the greatest run in the history 119 00:05:43,520 --> 00:05:46,479 Speaker 1: of college football, led by the greatest man to lead 120 00:05:46,520 --> 00:05:49,200 Speaker 1: a college football program. We're not looking back normally you're 121 00:05:49,240 --> 00:05:51,360 Speaker 1: used to reading that in a history book, but we're 122 00:05:51,400 --> 00:05:55,080 Speaker 1: seeing it right now. So logic, maybe in generations gone by, 123 00:05:55,160 --> 00:05:57,839 Speaker 1: would be let's just have some patience. Let's just wait 124 00:05:57,920 --> 00:06:01,120 Speaker 1: it out and maybe occasionally LSU twenty nineteen, let's say 125 00:06:01,320 --> 00:06:03,839 Speaker 1: someone jumps up and beats him, but by and large, 126 00:06:04,120 --> 00:06:06,440 Speaker 1: we just got to wait it out. That would be logical. 127 00:06:07,160 --> 00:06:09,600 Speaker 1: That's not twenty twenty one. In twenty twenty one, we 128 00:06:09,720 --> 00:06:11,920 Speaker 1: have to burn the entire thing to the ground because 129 00:06:11,920 --> 00:06:14,520 Speaker 1: we have the collective patients of a Casaba melon. And 130 00:06:14,560 --> 00:06:17,440 Speaker 1: so instead of being logical about it, we're gonna upend 131 00:06:17,440 --> 00:06:19,600 Speaker 1: the entire system. Mind you, you're still gonna get the 132 00:06:19,600 --> 00:06:22,200 Speaker 1: same results as long as Nick Saban's around, but you're 133 00:06:22,240 --> 00:06:25,640 Speaker 1: going to erode away the most valuable commodity that this 134 00:06:25,680 --> 00:06:28,320 Speaker 1: sport has in the process, and that is the regular season. 135 00:06:28,720 --> 00:06:32,640 Speaker 1: I have heard your arguments on this. Our audience is 136 00:06:32,640 --> 00:06:34,920 Speaker 1: split on this. Some of you agree with me, and 137 00:06:34,920 --> 00:06:37,480 Speaker 1: you're in the hashtag for and no More camp. A 138 00:06:37,520 --> 00:06:39,480 Speaker 1: lot of you think we need to expand. A lot 139 00:06:39,480 --> 00:06:41,880 Speaker 1: of you even believe in auto bids for conference champs 140 00:06:41,920 --> 00:06:45,839 Speaker 1: because what that really really solidifies is the idea that 141 00:06:45,839 --> 00:06:49,440 Speaker 1: we're going to have equity across college football. Everyone's gonna 142 00:06:49,440 --> 00:06:51,680 Speaker 1: be included. We're gonna have teams from the West Coast, 143 00:06:51,760 --> 00:06:53,599 Speaker 1: We're gonna have teams from the East Coast. We're gonna 144 00:06:53,600 --> 00:06:55,760 Speaker 1: have teams from the South, the Midwest, the North, and 145 00:06:55,800 --> 00:06:58,600 Speaker 1: it's gonna be great, and it's gonna be evenly represented. 146 00:06:59,040 --> 00:07:03,680 Speaker 1: That to you is more a utopian playoff model. I've 147 00:07:03,720 --> 00:07:05,680 Speaker 1: never agreed with that. I couldn't care less if we 148 00:07:05,680 --> 00:07:07,880 Speaker 1: get four teams from the Pacific Northwest in the playoffs, 149 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:10,600 Speaker 1: if they're the best teams. I'm a big believer in 150 00:07:10,680 --> 00:07:14,960 Speaker 1: a more meritocracy based approach to the playoff. But either way, 151 00:07:15,120 --> 00:07:18,400 Speaker 1: wherever you fall on this, I just want to remind you, 152 00:07:18,920 --> 00:07:21,760 Speaker 1: I get it. This is not hard. Your reasons for 153 00:07:21,800 --> 00:07:24,760 Speaker 1: wanting an expanded playoff, they're not hard to understand, guys. 154 00:07:25,000 --> 00:07:28,520 Speaker 1: So sometimes what I'll get is I'll get someone asking me. 155 00:07:28,920 --> 00:07:31,480 Speaker 1: This is normally how it works. Someone will ask me 156 00:07:31,600 --> 00:07:33,920 Speaker 1: what's your opinion on the playoff, and I'll say, I 157 00:07:33,960 --> 00:07:37,240 Speaker 1: don't think you should expand, And that's about five seconds 158 00:07:37,240 --> 00:07:41,520 Speaker 1: of the conversation. And then the next five minutes is them, 159 00:07:41,640 --> 00:07:43,280 Speaker 1: mind you, the person who asked me what I think 160 00:07:43,480 --> 00:07:46,600 Speaker 1: didn't go the other way, that person explaining to me 161 00:07:46,880 --> 00:07:49,920 Speaker 1: why they think it should expand, and they talk to 162 00:07:49,960 --> 00:07:52,440 Speaker 1: you as if you don't get it, you don't really 163 00:07:52,480 --> 00:07:55,560 Speaker 1: it's okay, simpleton, let's patch you on the cheek. You're 164 00:07:55,680 --> 00:07:58,200 Speaker 1: the four and no mores, let's patch you on the cheek. Okay, 165 00:07:58,240 --> 00:07:59,880 Speaker 1: you may not have quite the degree on your wall 166 00:08:00,120 --> 00:08:03,200 Speaker 1: we have. So let's explain to you why expanding this 167 00:08:03,280 --> 00:08:06,160 Speaker 1: playoff is. It's so great and you'll understand. Don't worry. 168 00:08:06,200 --> 00:08:08,160 Speaker 1: Come on, maybe kicking and screaming, but come on, you'll 169 00:08:08,200 --> 00:08:11,680 Speaker 1: love it. No, I get all of it. I understand 170 00:08:11,720 --> 00:08:13,760 Speaker 1: the points. I just don't agree with them. There's a 171 00:08:13,760 --> 00:08:17,400 Speaker 1: big difference there, and so I actually think the opposite 172 00:08:17,400 --> 00:08:19,840 Speaker 1: may be true. I actually think there may be some 173 00:08:19,920 --> 00:08:22,400 Speaker 1: things that you don't understand that you're gonna have to 174 00:08:22,440 --> 00:08:25,560 Speaker 1: learn the hard way about your model. You're better shot 175 00:08:25,800 --> 00:08:29,640 Speaker 1: for teams, you're more spots for teams. Your more inclusive 176 00:08:29,760 --> 00:08:33,599 Speaker 1: environment where the entire country is represented via the autobid 177 00:08:33,640 --> 00:08:38,000 Speaker 1: process every year. It's a giant safety net under the 178 00:08:38,160 --> 00:08:41,720 Speaker 1: very teams that you're trying to counter with your new model. 179 00:08:42,080 --> 00:08:43,920 Speaker 1: You look at Clemson right now, some of you think 180 00:08:43,960 --> 00:08:45,960 Speaker 1: it's a bad thing that they dominate every year. You 181 00:08:46,000 --> 00:08:48,440 Speaker 1: look at Bama, you look at Ohio State, you think 182 00:08:48,520 --> 00:08:51,320 Speaker 1: that's a bad thing. I'm telling you the only thing 183 00:08:51,679 --> 00:08:55,880 Speaker 1: that's keeping them from truly dominating literally every year with 184 00:08:56,200 --> 00:09:00,520 Speaker 1: no rest is the four team playoff, because right now 185 00:09:01,000 --> 00:09:03,320 Speaker 1: they still understand they can't be losing in the regular 186 00:09:03,360 --> 00:09:05,840 Speaker 1: season more than once. They can't be losing and still 187 00:09:05,880 --> 00:09:08,720 Speaker 1: be making that playoff. You are now taking a giant 188 00:09:08,760 --> 00:09:11,560 Speaker 1: safety net via your expanded playoff, and you're building it 189 00:09:11,679 --> 00:09:13,560 Speaker 1: under all those teams. You know how hard it's gonna 190 00:09:13,559 --> 00:09:15,280 Speaker 1: be to beat Alabama three times in the season, or 191 00:09:15,320 --> 00:09:17,400 Speaker 1: Ohio State or Clemson. And then once you get them 192 00:09:17,440 --> 00:09:19,720 Speaker 1: in there, they're always gonna be more talented. They're always 193 00:09:19,720 --> 00:09:21,440 Speaker 1: going to be the most talented teams, at least for 194 00:09:21,480 --> 00:09:23,960 Speaker 1: the foreseeable future. Then you're gonna give themo or three 195 00:09:23,960 --> 00:09:26,000 Speaker 1: weeks to rest, and then you're gonna turn them loose 196 00:09:26,120 --> 00:09:28,760 Speaker 1: in a postseason format. You honestly don't think you're gonna 197 00:09:28,760 --> 00:09:30,440 Speaker 1: get the same teams at the top. So then you 198 00:09:30,480 --> 00:09:32,760 Speaker 1: come at me with this, Okay, Josh, but even if 199 00:09:32,760 --> 00:09:36,200 Speaker 1: that's true, even if we get the same result, well, hey, 200 00:09:36,520 --> 00:09:39,839 Speaker 1: at least that puts more teams in contention at the 201 00:09:39,920 --> 00:09:43,120 Speaker 1: end of the year, and it makes more games meaningful. No, 202 00:09:43,280 --> 00:09:46,960 Speaker 1: it doesn't. What makes more games meaningful is to cease 203 00:09:47,080 --> 00:09:50,040 Speaker 1: this foolishness of pretending that the entire sport of college 204 00:09:50,040 --> 00:09:52,960 Speaker 1: football should revolve around the playoff, because you see, it 205 00:09:53,040 --> 00:09:55,000 Speaker 1: used to be when you got to the latter portion 206 00:09:55,040 --> 00:09:57,520 Speaker 1: of the season. If you were headed for eight and 207 00:09:57,600 --> 00:10:00,160 Speaker 1: four and I was headed for six and six, you 208 00:10:00,160 --> 00:10:02,160 Speaker 1: and I were rivals. Well, then all of a sudden, 209 00:10:02,200 --> 00:10:04,280 Speaker 1: it didn't really matter what bowl game we were going to. 210 00:10:04,440 --> 00:10:06,679 Speaker 1: It didn't matter what playoff contention we weren't or weren't in. 211 00:10:06,920 --> 00:10:09,880 Speaker 1: All that mattered was that Saturday, Because the regular season 212 00:10:10,440 --> 00:10:13,120 Speaker 1: is what is supposed to be the pinnacle and the 213 00:10:13,200 --> 00:10:16,319 Speaker 1: very crux with which college football balances itself on. But then, 214 00:10:16,360 --> 00:10:19,920 Speaker 1: all of a sudden, when the same entity that controls 215 00:10:20,280 --> 00:10:22,720 Speaker 1: the college football narrative all of a sudden bought that 216 00:10:22,720 --> 00:10:25,920 Speaker 1: college football plaoff contract, that marketing machine got put behind 217 00:10:26,000 --> 00:10:29,120 Speaker 1: telling you that the sport revolves around the playoff. And 218 00:10:29,160 --> 00:10:31,000 Speaker 1: so then, all of a sudden, once you were no 219 00:10:31,080 --> 00:10:34,560 Speaker 1: longer in playoff contention, somewhere somewhere along the line, someone 220 00:10:34,559 --> 00:10:36,160 Speaker 1: got it in your head that well, that means your 221 00:10:36,160 --> 00:10:39,559 Speaker 1: season's irrelevant. That means your games don't matter anymore. It's 222 00:10:39,640 --> 00:10:41,880 Speaker 1: never been the case never should be the case, never 223 00:10:41,920 --> 00:10:45,320 Speaker 1: should be the case moving forward. And so your answer is, well, 224 00:10:45,400 --> 00:10:48,040 Speaker 1: let's just have more teams in the playoff. Therefore there 225 00:10:48,080 --> 00:10:53,160 Speaker 1: are more consequential games down the stretch. Therefore they mean something. 226 00:10:53,280 --> 00:10:56,959 Speaker 1: Therefore we get more meaningful football. The games mean something 227 00:10:57,400 --> 00:10:59,320 Speaker 1: as long as you have the proper definition of what 228 00:10:59,440 --> 00:11:02,440 Speaker 1: meaning is. When you expand the playoff, what you do 229 00:11:02,600 --> 00:11:05,600 Speaker 1: is you take away the real most precious commodities. The 230 00:11:05,600 --> 00:11:08,920 Speaker 1: most precious commodity in college football is not a game 231 00:11:08,960 --> 00:11:11,400 Speaker 1: between a two loss team and a three loss team 232 00:11:11,400 --> 00:11:13,559 Speaker 1: at the end of the year that could see one 233 00:11:13,559 --> 00:11:15,520 Speaker 1: of them if they win it, backdoor their way into 234 00:11:15,520 --> 00:11:18,360 Speaker 1: an eight seed. That's not meaningful, and that's not the 235 00:11:18,360 --> 00:11:21,600 Speaker 1: most precious commodity that this sport has. The most precious 236 00:11:21,640 --> 00:11:24,320 Speaker 1: commodity is when you turn on one of those games 237 00:11:25,240 --> 00:11:27,560 Speaker 1: when it's let's say three to twenty six on the 238 00:11:27,559 --> 00:11:30,360 Speaker 1: East Coast on a given Saturday, and the SEC game 239 00:11:30,360 --> 00:11:31,760 Speaker 1: of the week or the ABC game of the week's 240 00:11:31,760 --> 00:11:34,439 Speaker 1: about to come on, and you know you got some 241 00:11:34,480 --> 00:11:38,320 Speaker 1: big time, powerhouse contending teams playing each other. There's no 242 00:11:38,400 --> 00:11:41,080 Speaker 1: safety net under the game right now. Therefore, there is 243 00:11:41,120 --> 00:11:45,520 Speaker 1: an unmistakable and in the pro sports model, induplicable sense 244 00:11:45,600 --> 00:11:49,839 Speaker 1: of urgency with every play. It's why college football is 245 00:11:49,920 --> 00:11:53,160 Speaker 1: appointment must see TV because you know you don't have 246 00:11:53,200 --> 00:11:57,480 Speaker 1: a safety net. You cannot keep that factor which is 247 00:11:57,600 --> 00:12:00,320 Speaker 1: unique to college football, which gives college football all the 248 00:12:00,320 --> 00:12:03,200 Speaker 1: flavor in the environment that no other American sport has. 249 00:12:03,880 --> 00:12:06,480 Speaker 1: You can't keep all that when you expand a playoff. 250 00:12:06,559 --> 00:12:08,760 Speaker 1: You just can't. But here's what sucks for people like me. 251 00:12:09,240 --> 00:12:11,240 Speaker 1: I know all that, and I know you will end 252 00:12:11,320 --> 00:12:13,480 Speaker 1: up finding this out. You'll go on this quest into 253 00:12:13,520 --> 00:12:16,160 Speaker 1: your expanded playoff, and then you'll find out it's giving 254 00:12:16,200 --> 00:12:18,200 Speaker 1: you the same result and the same teams that would 255 00:12:18,200 --> 00:12:20,880 Speaker 1: have always dominated are dominating. Yeah, you get a few 256 00:12:20,880 --> 00:12:22,559 Speaker 1: teams that get a taste of it and get the 257 00:12:22,600 --> 00:12:24,680 Speaker 1: brains beat in that otherwise wouldn't have been in the playoff. 258 00:12:24,880 --> 00:12:28,360 Speaker 1: And then you'll realize, Wow, so it turns out expanding 259 00:12:28,360 --> 00:12:31,160 Speaker 1: the playoff hasn't really changed anything. And now all of 260 00:12:31,160 --> 00:12:32,720 Speaker 1: a sudden, it doesn't matter if I go to home 261 00:12:32,760 --> 00:12:35,080 Speaker 1: depot and miss that game in Week three, because I 262 00:12:35,120 --> 00:12:37,000 Speaker 1: know there's a big safety net built under that team 263 00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:38,920 Speaker 1: and they can afford to lose. And then you get 264 00:12:39,000 --> 00:12:40,839 Speaker 1: later in the year and some of the rivalry games, 265 00:12:40,920 --> 00:12:43,520 Speaker 1: even some of the conference championship games. Instead of playing 266 00:12:43,559 --> 00:12:46,760 Speaker 1: for access to the playoff, you're playing for seeding. You 267 00:12:46,840 --> 00:12:48,800 Speaker 1: think you can have that and you can keep what's 268 00:12:48,800 --> 00:12:51,920 Speaker 1: great about college football. You're kidding yourself. Now, I will 269 00:12:51,960 --> 00:12:54,200 Speaker 1: grant you this. If you have your eight team playoff 270 00:12:54,760 --> 00:12:57,120 Speaker 1: in and of itself, it'll be great to watch. It'll 271 00:12:57,160 --> 00:12:59,680 Speaker 1: be mussy. What will it have come at the expense 272 00:12:59,720 --> 00:13:02,640 Speaker 1: of what it will come at the expense of is 273 00:13:03,040 --> 00:13:06,640 Speaker 1: really invalidating a lot of what has made regular seasons 274 00:13:06,640 --> 00:13:10,800 Speaker 1: in college football great. But what sucks is it'll be 275 00:13:10,840 --> 00:13:14,160 Speaker 1: too late once everyone else realizes that. I know that, 276 00:13:14,520 --> 00:13:16,040 Speaker 1: some of us know that, A lot of us know that, 277 00:13:16,600 --> 00:13:18,880 Speaker 1: a lot more of you're gonna know it. The problem is, 278 00:13:18,880 --> 00:13:20,920 Speaker 1: by the time you realize it, it'll be too late. 279 00:13:21,000 --> 00:13:24,040 Speaker 1: These things don't go in reverse. Playoffs don't contract, They 280 00:13:24,080 --> 00:13:26,160 Speaker 1: only expand. It's like government, it only gets bigger. It 281 00:13:26,200 --> 00:13:28,000 Speaker 1: never contracts. No one ever says, let's do away with 282 00:13:28,040 --> 00:13:30,000 Speaker 1: this in that department. And so I'm gonna have to 283 00:13:30,000 --> 00:13:31,839 Speaker 1: sit there and I'm gonna have to say I told 284 00:13:31,840 --> 00:13:34,200 Speaker 1: you so. But it won't feel good because we're not 285 00:13:34,240 --> 00:13:36,120 Speaker 1: going back, so it's not really gonna matter. It won't 286 00:13:36,120 --> 00:13:40,600 Speaker 1: bring me any sense of moral superiority. I can promise 287 00:13:40,640 --> 00:13:44,320 Speaker 1: you that hashtag for and no more for what it's worth. 288 00:13:45,160 --> 00:13:47,720 Speaker 1: Let's talk about quarterback battles around the country right now. 289 00:13:47,800 --> 00:13:49,840 Speaker 1: We've got a lot of them, and these are big 290 00:13:49,840 --> 00:13:54,480 Speaker 1: programs too. The Texas quarterback situation is really interesting because 291 00:13:54,480 --> 00:13:56,679 Speaker 1: that's where a new staff is. You've got Steve Sarkies 292 00:13:56,720 --> 00:13:58,160 Speaker 1: and you got his staff coming in there. And so 293 00:13:58,240 --> 00:14:00,680 Speaker 1: you watched Casey Thompson in the bowl game, and this 294 00:14:00,760 --> 00:14:02,640 Speaker 1: is well documented by this point. We don't need to 295 00:14:02,640 --> 00:14:05,160 Speaker 1: go in reverse. But you watched him and you said, Okay, 296 00:14:05,160 --> 00:14:07,680 Speaker 1: that's definitely the guy. But then the new staff comes 297 00:14:07,720 --> 00:14:09,240 Speaker 1: in and you have to wonder, well, are they going 298 00:14:09,280 --> 00:14:11,120 Speaker 1: to see what I saw? Well, then we go into 299 00:14:11,120 --> 00:14:13,560 Speaker 1: the spring game and the entirety of Spring, and you 300 00:14:13,600 --> 00:14:16,880 Speaker 1: see Hudson card and you see Casey Thompson, and you wonder, 301 00:14:17,040 --> 00:14:19,720 Speaker 1: are we going to exit spring with the same pecking order? 302 00:14:20,560 --> 00:14:23,480 Speaker 1: And I think we did, But I don't know that 303 00:14:23,720 --> 00:14:27,320 Speaker 1: watching the spring game alone really proved any of that 304 00:14:27,360 --> 00:14:29,800 Speaker 1: to anyone, which is probably a good thing for Sarkegian 305 00:14:29,880 --> 00:14:32,040 Speaker 1: so he can keep his quarterback dynamic and he can 306 00:14:32,120 --> 00:14:35,600 Speaker 1: keep whatever he wants. But barring injury, like right now, 307 00:14:35,680 --> 00:14:38,520 Speaker 1: I'd be willing to bet pretty sizeable amounts of money 308 00:14:38,600 --> 00:14:40,560 Speaker 1: if you force me to that Casey Thompson is going 309 00:14:40,600 --> 00:14:42,640 Speaker 1: to be the starting quarterback there. But we have enough 310 00:14:42,720 --> 00:14:46,240 Speaker 1: of a valid quarterback competition that it certainly bears watching. 311 00:14:46,480 --> 00:14:49,560 Speaker 1: And then you also wonder this, we don't really have 312 00:14:49,920 --> 00:14:52,480 Speaker 1: a great way to know whether Hudson Card's a guy 313 00:14:52,560 --> 00:14:54,760 Speaker 1: in the perfect system at the perfect time that may 314 00:14:54,760 --> 00:14:58,200 Speaker 1: have some quantum leap over summer workouts and going into fall. 315 00:14:58,360 --> 00:15:00,920 Speaker 1: Who knows what happens those quarterback man when they get 316 00:15:00,920 --> 00:15:02,840 Speaker 1: in the summer. Some of them go to their own 317 00:15:02,880 --> 00:15:06,920 Speaker 1: private coaches, their own private psychiatrists. That happens a lot, 318 00:15:07,080 --> 00:15:10,480 Speaker 1: not just sports psychiatrists either, And so that stuff happens 319 00:15:10,520 --> 00:15:12,800 Speaker 1: a lot. You never know when a guy's thirty eight 320 00:15:12,880 --> 00:15:15,760 Speaker 1: years old and you say goodbye to him in April 321 00:15:15,840 --> 00:15:17,680 Speaker 1: and you see him again in August, he's still the 322 00:15:17,720 --> 00:15:20,000 Speaker 1: same guy. But when a guy's seventeen or eighteen or 323 00:15:20,040 --> 00:15:22,800 Speaker 1: nineteen years old, they could be totally different people by 324 00:15:22,840 --> 00:15:24,760 Speaker 1: the time you see him again in August. So let's 325 00:15:24,800 --> 00:15:27,480 Speaker 1: just that one bears watching the Texas quarterback situation. I 326 00:15:27,560 --> 00:15:30,120 Speaker 1: like Casey Thompson right now. Don't think huss some cards 327 00:15:30,120 --> 00:15:33,640 Speaker 1: out of that thing at Ohio State. This is, if 328 00:15:33,680 --> 00:15:36,960 Speaker 1: not for Oklahoma, the best quarterback situation in America right now. CJ. 329 00:15:37,160 --> 00:15:40,520 Speaker 1: Stroud is the favorite to win that job. I think 330 00:15:40,560 --> 00:15:42,880 Speaker 1: most people close to the program believe that. But here's 331 00:15:42,920 --> 00:15:45,360 Speaker 1: what else they believe that maybe you do or don't know. 332 00:15:45,600 --> 00:15:47,920 Speaker 1: They've got two other guys that if CJ. Stroud were 333 00:15:47,960 --> 00:15:49,560 Speaker 1: to just say, you know what, I don't like football 334 00:15:49,600 --> 00:15:53,160 Speaker 1: anymore deuces, they would be totally fine with Jack Miller. 335 00:15:53,480 --> 00:15:56,120 Speaker 1: They would be totally fine with Calu McCord. That is 336 00:15:56,120 --> 00:15:58,480 Speaker 1: what you call depth at the quarterback situation. It's not 337 00:15:58,560 --> 00:16:00,960 Speaker 1: guys they feel comfortable about two years down the road. 338 00:16:01,240 --> 00:16:03,160 Speaker 1: It's guys they feel like they could win with this year. 339 00:16:03,360 --> 00:16:04,480 Speaker 1: I don't know if all of them are gonna be 340 00:16:04,520 --> 00:16:06,520 Speaker 1: on campus this fall, but what I'm saying is CJ. 341 00:16:06,600 --> 00:16:08,960 Speaker 1: Stroud is a guy that I think doesn't have that 342 00:16:09,120 --> 00:16:11,840 Speaker 1: job locked down. Think he's got the inside track on 343 00:16:11,960 --> 00:16:16,120 Speaker 1: that job. To me, the subplot here is or all 344 00:16:16,160 --> 00:16:18,200 Speaker 1: those guys stay on campus. I know they gets old 345 00:16:18,440 --> 00:16:20,120 Speaker 1: and we don't even like talking about it a lot 346 00:16:20,160 --> 00:16:22,440 Speaker 1: on the show here. But as I said about Ohio State, 347 00:16:23,440 --> 00:16:25,880 Speaker 1: normally it's just who's gonna start, But with them, there 348 00:16:25,920 --> 00:16:28,440 Speaker 1: are two intriguing parts. One is who's gonna start. I 349 00:16:28,480 --> 00:16:31,200 Speaker 1: think it'll be CJ. Stroud. But then the second part is, 350 00:16:31,600 --> 00:16:34,360 Speaker 1: as I told you before, I think someone else, some 351 00:16:34,480 --> 00:16:37,080 Speaker 1: other program out there's best shot at winning a title 352 00:16:37,080 --> 00:16:39,920 Speaker 1: down the road, could be on Ohio State Troster, just 353 00:16:39,960 --> 00:16:42,080 Speaker 1: like Joe Burrow once upon a time was a buck 354 00:16:42,080 --> 00:16:45,240 Speaker 1: guy went to LSU. The rest is history. Who knows 355 00:16:45,280 --> 00:16:48,160 Speaker 1: where Jack Miller, for example, could end up Texas A 356 00:16:48,280 --> 00:16:52,680 Speaker 1: and M. Haines King, Zach Calzada. If you watched the 357 00:16:52,760 --> 00:16:56,960 Speaker 1: A and M Spring game, it was probably eye opening 358 00:16:57,040 --> 00:16:59,560 Speaker 1: in that it didn't look like the gap was nearly 359 00:16:59,600 --> 00:17:03,320 Speaker 1: as big to maybe the naked eye, as we had 360 00:17:03,400 --> 00:17:06,360 Speaker 1: been led to believe through practice reports and through whispers 361 00:17:06,359 --> 00:17:10,520 Speaker 1: and intel between King and Kalzato. Now I still think 362 00:17:10,560 --> 00:17:12,400 Speaker 1: that there is a gap. I don't know how large 363 00:17:12,440 --> 00:17:14,360 Speaker 1: the gap is, but I still think there's a gap. 364 00:17:14,400 --> 00:17:16,959 Speaker 1: I still think Haines King is the guy with if 365 00:17:17,000 --> 00:17:19,200 Speaker 1: you want to call it the inside track, probably the 366 00:17:19,240 --> 00:17:21,960 Speaker 1: guy with the inside track here. But here's what I 367 00:17:22,040 --> 00:17:25,760 Speaker 1: wonder kind of the same deal. It's like you would 368 00:17:25,840 --> 00:17:28,920 Speaker 1: think if a guy has a sizeable lead when he's 369 00:17:28,920 --> 00:17:31,879 Speaker 1: put in a competitive environment, it would show. And I 370 00:17:31,880 --> 00:17:34,680 Speaker 1: don't know if it totally showed in the spring game. 371 00:17:35,080 --> 00:17:37,480 Speaker 1: And it's hard to get that pick six down in 372 00:17:37,520 --> 00:17:38,960 Speaker 1: the red zone out of your mind. I know it's 373 00:17:39,040 --> 00:17:42,040 Speaker 1: one play. I know, for instance, Zach Calzata may have 374 00:17:42,080 --> 00:17:43,760 Speaker 1: done that five times for all I know in the 375 00:17:43,760 --> 00:17:46,480 Speaker 1: practice leading up to the scrimmage. That's not reality. I'm 376 00:17:46,520 --> 00:17:49,200 Speaker 1: just saying for arguments sake, he could have. This is 377 00:17:49,240 --> 00:17:51,960 Speaker 1: a good, healthy quarterback competition too, Jimbo when he's coming 378 00:17:52,000 --> 00:17:55,080 Speaker 1: out of spring ball. Some people thought this was window dressing, 379 00:17:55,160 --> 00:17:58,000 Speaker 1: but I thought it was valid. When he said I'm 380 00:17:58,000 --> 00:18:00,720 Speaker 1: not worried about quarterback, everyone kept asking him quarterback. He said, 381 00:18:00,720 --> 00:18:03,160 Speaker 1: I'm not worried about quarterback. Y'all want to talk about that. 382 00:18:03,600 --> 00:18:05,679 Speaker 1: I'm fine with quarterback. I feel good about where we 383 00:18:05,680 --> 00:18:08,199 Speaker 1: are right there. Translation, I think he believes he can 384 00:18:08,240 --> 00:18:10,800 Speaker 1: win with either one of them. If then, he continued, 385 00:18:11,160 --> 00:18:14,600 Speaker 1: we get offensive line figured out, offensive tackle more specifically, 386 00:18:14,640 --> 00:18:18,320 Speaker 1: and there's some concern around there that even even as 387 00:18:18,400 --> 00:18:20,679 Speaker 1: much as they could do in the off season in 388 00:18:20,760 --> 00:18:24,200 Speaker 1: terms of progressing and developing and whatnot, gelling coalescing, they 389 00:18:24,200 --> 00:18:26,399 Speaker 1: got a lot to replace, so it's to be expected 390 00:18:26,520 --> 00:18:29,040 Speaker 1: it's shaky in the spring. Some of the concern around 391 00:18:29,040 --> 00:18:32,800 Speaker 1: there is the ceiling at offensive tackle is maybe a 392 00:18:32,840 --> 00:18:34,359 Speaker 1: little bit lower than they want it to be because 393 00:18:34,359 --> 00:18:37,879 Speaker 1: they don't think they're quite athletic enough at tackle, which 394 00:18:37,920 --> 00:18:39,520 Speaker 1: is a problem when you face the kind of edge 395 00:18:39,560 --> 00:18:41,560 Speaker 1: rushers that you're going to face in the SEC and 396 00:18:41,600 --> 00:18:43,400 Speaker 1: beyond if you want to make a run in the playoff. 397 00:18:44,200 --> 00:18:46,320 Speaker 1: So that doesn't I don't know. Maybe it does tie 398 00:18:46,320 --> 00:18:52,199 Speaker 1: into the quarterback battle, but quarterback and wide receiver, offensive tackle, 399 00:18:52,800 --> 00:18:55,520 Speaker 1: those are things where there is a thin line that 400 00:18:55,600 --> 00:18:57,679 Speaker 1: could separate A and M from being nine to three 401 00:18:58,040 --> 00:19:00,440 Speaker 1: versus being a playoff contender. And that's maybe even if 402 00:19:00,440 --> 00:19:02,359 Speaker 1: they lose Tobama, that's a team that could be good 403 00:19:02,440 --> 00:19:05,200 Speaker 1: enough to where they could lose a competitive game to Alabama. 404 00:19:05,240 --> 00:19:07,040 Speaker 1: If they lose a game thirty four to twenty seven 405 00:19:07,040 --> 00:19:09,199 Speaker 1: to Alabama, A and M's right there in the playoff 406 00:19:09,200 --> 00:19:11,880 Speaker 1: conversation the rest of the year. How about Florida State, 407 00:19:11,880 --> 00:19:14,040 Speaker 1: I don't know about playoff this year for Florida State, 408 00:19:14,240 --> 00:19:16,239 Speaker 1: but I do know this is one. They wrapped up 409 00:19:16,240 --> 00:19:17,880 Speaker 1: their spring a couple of weeks ago, so we haven't 410 00:19:18,000 --> 00:19:19,959 Speaker 1: really spoken about him a lot since then. But when 411 00:19:20,040 --> 00:19:23,240 Speaker 1: Mackenzie Milton came in there to refresh everyone's memory, looked 412 00:19:23,280 --> 00:19:26,480 Speaker 1: at that situation, we had no clue, and maybe to 413 00:19:26,640 --> 00:19:28,880 Speaker 1: some degree we still don't. We got a lot better idea, 414 00:19:28,960 --> 00:19:31,280 Speaker 1: but we didn't have any clue what his knee was 415 00:19:31,320 --> 00:19:34,480 Speaker 1: going to look like, had surgery complications, it was already 416 00:19:34,480 --> 00:19:37,280 Speaker 1: a terrible injury, had surgery complications, had to get other surgeries. 417 00:19:37,920 --> 00:19:40,000 Speaker 1: So all I asked for was can we just see 418 00:19:40,040 --> 00:19:42,400 Speaker 1: him run? So he ran in the spring game, look good, 419 00:19:43,240 --> 00:19:44,520 Speaker 1: a lot better than I thought he'd looked, to be 420 00:19:44,560 --> 00:19:46,800 Speaker 1: honest with you, had that Steve Austin knee brace on, 421 00:19:46,840 --> 00:19:50,280 Speaker 1: but he looked Okay. If that's the case, I said 422 00:19:50,320 --> 00:19:52,120 Speaker 1: before the spring game, if that's the case, I think 423 00:19:52,160 --> 00:19:54,000 Speaker 1: he's going to win the job. Because what I'm thinking 424 00:19:54,080 --> 00:19:56,400 Speaker 1: is if he's already at that point in the spring game, 425 00:19:57,200 --> 00:20:00,680 Speaker 1: then we've got the rest of April, May, June, July, 426 00:20:00,760 --> 00:20:02,600 Speaker 1: and then we open camp in August. I mean, that's 427 00:20:02,600 --> 00:20:04,720 Speaker 1: what three or four months down the road that you 428 00:20:04,760 --> 00:20:08,560 Speaker 1: get to further rehabilitate the knee structurally, you get to 429 00:20:08,680 --> 00:20:11,840 Speaker 1: mentally rehabilitate yourself to where you need to be between 430 00:20:11,880 --> 00:20:15,359 Speaker 1: the years. And he hasn't lost arm talent, he hasn't 431 00:20:15,400 --> 00:20:18,040 Speaker 1: lost the acumen. None of that's been lost. And I 432 00:20:18,040 --> 00:20:21,280 Speaker 1: think Travis Hunter's job there, his role, if you've got 433 00:20:21,320 --> 00:20:23,960 Speaker 1: him penciled into that starting role, I think it's very vulnerable. 434 00:20:24,040 --> 00:20:26,080 Speaker 1: I think Mackenzie Milton's going to be their starting quarterback. 435 00:20:27,119 --> 00:20:29,360 Speaker 1: There's still some split opinion down there, but I think 436 00:20:29,400 --> 00:20:32,240 Speaker 1: Mackenzie Milton's ultimately going to be the guy. And listen, 437 00:20:32,240 --> 00:20:34,120 Speaker 1: if he's not, then that means Hunter beat him out, 438 00:20:34,240 --> 00:20:35,639 Speaker 1: which in and of itself is a good sign for 439 00:20:35,680 --> 00:20:40,160 Speaker 1: Florida State. LSU is where the most intriguing quarterback room 440 00:20:40,359 --> 00:20:42,159 Speaker 1: is to me, because I'm not quite sure what to 441 00:20:42,200 --> 00:20:43,480 Speaker 1: make of it. I think they got one of the 442 00:20:43,520 --> 00:20:46,840 Speaker 1: best quarterback rooms in the country, but that doesn't mean 443 00:20:47,320 --> 00:20:50,080 Speaker 1: that there is one elite candidate in there. It could 444 00:20:50,080 --> 00:20:53,200 Speaker 1: be that there's two. There's none right now. I think 445 00:20:53,240 --> 00:20:56,680 Speaker 1: this thing's open. I believe that coaching staff went into 446 00:20:56,720 --> 00:21:00,760 Speaker 1: Spring Edwards Ron namely went in a spring thought, Miles 447 00:21:00,760 --> 00:21:03,720 Speaker 1: Brennan will take control of this job, and I don't 448 00:21:03,760 --> 00:21:05,960 Speaker 1: think he did, and I don't think it's Miles Brennan's fault. 449 00:21:06,040 --> 00:21:08,119 Speaker 1: I just think Max Johnson's that much of a gamer. 450 00:21:08,200 --> 00:21:10,480 Speaker 1: Max Johnson is one of those guys. If you didn't 451 00:21:10,520 --> 00:21:13,359 Speaker 1: already know it before watching him play Florida, you certainly 452 00:21:13,400 --> 00:21:16,640 Speaker 1: knew it afterwards. He's one of those guys that does 453 00:21:16,720 --> 00:21:20,879 Speaker 1: not just blow you away with his measurables or blow 454 00:21:20,960 --> 00:21:23,679 Speaker 1: you away with all of his physical traits. I'm not 455 00:21:23,720 --> 00:21:26,840 Speaker 1: saying he's poor in any of those areas. I'm also 456 00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:29,479 Speaker 1: not telling you he's gonna test off the charts in 457 00:21:29,520 --> 00:21:31,800 Speaker 1: any of those areas. But what I think he's got 458 00:21:31,840 --> 00:21:33,840 Speaker 1: is that intangible stuff. If you were to try and 459 00:21:33,880 --> 00:21:38,240 Speaker 1: define quarterback moxie. Let's say never be crazy about the word, 460 00:21:38,280 --> 00:21:41,520 Speaker 1: but quarterback mox if you define that, if you quantified it, 461 00:21:41,680 --> 00:21:44,359 Speaker 1: he'd have it. And I'm not saying Brennan doesn't. I'm 462 00:21:44,359 --> 00:21:47,800 Speaker 1: saying Max Johnson does. I know it, And so that's 463 00:21:47,920 --> 00:21:50,040 Speaker 1: kind of like trying to nail the old Jello to 464 00:21:50,080 --> 00:21:52,879 Speaker 1: the wall to try and beat him out. So Miles 465 00:21:52,880 --> 00:21:55,240 Speaker 1: Brennan's putting forth a really good effort down there. I 466 00:21:55,320 --> 00:21:57,280 Speaker 1: just think it's hard to pull Max Johnson off the field, 467 00:21:57,520 --> 00:21:59,920 Speaker 1: and it makes it really tough in a good way. 468 00:22:00,160 --> 00:22:02,359 Speaker 1: It makes it really tough on that coaching staff because 469 00:22:02,400 --> 00:22:05,400 Speaker 1: eventually what's gonna happen is they're gonna get in fall 470 00:22:05,480 --> 00:22:08,480 Speaker 1: camp and they're gonna get down to two weeks to 471 00:22:08,520 --> 00:22:10,560 Speaker 1: go into Louisiana, and even if they're not going to 472 00:22:10,600 --> 00:22:13,320 Speaker 1: announce it publicly, they're gonna have to make some decisions 473 00:22:13,320 --> 00:22:16,760 Speaker 1: on who's going to start at quarterback because they start with, well, 474 00:22:17,000 --> 00:22:19,520 Speaker 1: if I got Texas's schedule in my mind for LSU, 475 00:22:19,720 --> 00:22:22,280 Speaker 1: so LSU, I don't have their schedule in my mind. 476 00:22:22,320 --> 00:22:23,400 Speaker 1: Off the top of my head, I think I got 477 00:22:23,400 --> 00:22:26,680 Speaker 1: the helmet grid schedule here. But whoever they play, yeah, 478 00:22:26,680 --> 00:22:28,879 Speaker 1: I got way too many windows open, Colin, what a shame. 479 00:22:29,040 --> 00:22:31,320 Speaker 1: So whoever they play, they got to make a decision 480 00:22:31,359 --> 00:22:33,879 Speaker 1: to me eventually, and what I think right now is 481 00:22:33,880 --> 00:22:36,120 Speaker 1: in the mind of a lot of those that's right. 482 00:22:36,160 --> 00:22:37,919 Speaker 1: They go to UCLA. Yeah, so they got to make 483 00:22:37,960 --> 00:22:40,840 Speaker 1: a trip way out west, thank you, director Ameritith Colin. 484 00:22:41,800 --> 00:22:43,760 Speaker 1: They got to decide who's going to start there, and 485 00:22:43,800 --> 00:22:45,879 Speaker 1: it may won't be maybybe maybe it'll be one of 486 00:22:45,880 --> 00:22:47,680 Speaker 1: those situations where they go into the season and they say, 487 00:22:47,680 --> 00:22:49,960 Speaker 1: we're gonna play both of them, but even then one 488 00:22:49,960 --> 00:22:51,359 Speaker 1: of them is gonna start, like one of them is 489 00:22:51,359 --> 00:22:54,240 Speaker 1: gonna take the field first. When they get to that conversation, 490 00:22:54,320 --> 00:22:58,359 Speaker 1: whenever it is, it's gonna be probably assumed by some 491 00:22:58,400 --> 00:23:03,560 Speaker 1: people on that staff in June, July, opening camp in August, 492 00:23:03,640 --> 00:23:06,040 Speaker 1: they're just gonna think to themselves, maybe, oh, eventually it'll 493 00:23:06,080 --> 00:23:09,560 Speaker 1: be Miles. But that moment never comes, that click moment, 494 00:23:09,880 --> 00:23:12,640 Speaker 1: that moment of clarity never comes, and that's a tough 495 00:23:12,640 --> 00:23:14,600 Speaker 1: decision to make. And you've got a new offensive staff 496 00:23:14,640 --> 00:23:17,040 Speaker 1: down there, you got a head coach trying to overturn things. 497 00:23:17,359 --> 00:23:20,760 Speaker 1: That'll be interesting to watch. All right, that's the quarterback 498 00:23:20,760 --> 00:23:22,760 Speaker 1: battle update. We'll certainly be talking about that a lot 499 00:23:22,800 --> 00:23:25,720 Speaker 1: more over the summer. It's a good thing though, because 500 00:23:25,760 --> 00:23:28,000 Speaker 1: you know, we didn't even bring up We didn't even 501 00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:31,920 Speaker 1: bring up Clemson. But it's not because they are untested 502 00:23:31,920 --> 00:23:34,600 Speaker 1: at quarterbacks, just because they don't have a competition there 503 00:23:34,600 --> 00:23:38,760 Speaker 1: per se. It's DJ's job at Alabama, Bryce Young, new quarterback, 504 00:23:38,840 --> 00:23:41,800 Speaker 1: new starter, it's just his job, So there's a lot 505 00:23:41,840 --> 00:23:44,320 Speaker 1: of overturn. There's a lot of quarterback churn. It's some 506 00:23:44,400 --> 00:23:47,600 Speaker 1: major programs. So if you guys are out there and 507 00:23:47,640 --> 00:23:50,119 Speaker 1: you're looking for parody, maybe that is one of the 508 00:23:50,160 --> 00:23:54,320 Speaker 1: keys to finding it. Speaking of parody, there's a precious 509 00:23:54,400 --> 00:23:56,480 Speaker 1: lack of it in the Big Ten right now. It's 510 00:23:56,480 --> 00:24:00,119 Speaker 1: Ohio State's yard every single year. Some of you in 511 00:24:00,160 --> 00:24:02,159 Speaker 1: and around Columbus, Ohio love it. The rest of you 512 00:24:02,200 --> 00:24:04,240 Speaker 1: don't like it so much up there. I was doing 513 00:24:04,240 --> 00:24:06,439 Speaker 1: the Late Cake Extra podcast the other day, and that 514 00:24:06,560 --> 00:24:08,960 Speaker 1: is a pure mail bag that we do on Tuesday 515 00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:12,119 Speaker 1: and Thursday. You submit the questions, I answer them rapid 516 00:24:12,160 --> 00:24:14,720 Speaker 1: fire style. It's one of our very favorite products that 517 00:24:14,760 --> 00:24:17,720 Speaker 1: we put out on a weekly basis. And Chris asked 518 00:24:17,720 --> 00:24:19,879 Speaker 1: me a question that I answered Tuesday, but I kind 519 00:24:19,880 --> 00:24:22,639 Speaker 1: of wanted to revisit it here. He said, do you 520 00:24:22,720 --> 00:24:24,640 Speaker 1: think the Big Ten is going to go the way 521 00:24:24,680 --> 00:24:28,639 Speaker 1: of the ACC in terms of one team just dominating 522 00:24:28,680 --> 00:24:31,960 Speaker 1: and completely choking off the lifeblood of every other program? 523 00:24:32,320 --> 00:24:34,560 Speaker 1: And I think right now the answer is yeah, that 524 00:24:34,640 --> 00:24:37,600 Speaker 1: seems to be the way it's trending. But see, I'm 525 00:24:37,680 --> 00:24:40,639 Speaker 1: not one to believe that it's Ohio State's fault that 526 00:24:40,720 --> 00:24:43,600 Speaker 1: everyone else has falling by the wayside. I think a 527 00:24:43,600 --> 00:24:47,040 Speaker 1: lot of those programs are complicit along with Ohio State 528 00:24:47,080 --> 00:24:49,680 Speaker 1: taking care of their business, because what is Ohio State 529 00:24:49,760 --> 00:24:52,480 Speaker 1: really doing well. They're taking football as seriously as you 530 00:24:52,480 --> 00:24:56,399 Speaker 1: can possibly take it. Everyone's invested, everyone's all in. It 531 00:24:56,520 --> 00:24:59,480 Speaker 1: is the proverbial freight train. Forty seven cars on the 532 00:24:59,480 --> 00:25:01,919 Speaker 1: track all go in the same direction at the same speed. 533 00:25:02,240 --> 00:25:03,919 Speaker 1: There's no one who wants to go this way and 534 00:25:03,920 --> 00:25:06,040 Speaker 1: someone else wants to go that way, and we want 535 00:25:06,040 --> 00:25:09,600 Speaker 1: to divert some resources here. It's all about Ohio State football. 536 00:25:09,840 --> 00:25:12,800 Speaker 1: They don't apologize for it, nor should they. But also 537 00:25:13,280 --> 00:25:16,199 Speaker 1: they are assassins on the recruiting trail. They don't care 538 00:25:16,240 --> 00:25:18,520 Speaker 1: how much talent they have. It's never enough. They don't 539 00:25:18,560 --> 00:25:20,760 Speaker 1: care how much they're beating you by. They want to 540 00:25:20,760 --> 00:25:22,760 Speaker 1: beat you by more. They're playing to that standard. It 541 00:25:22,760 --> 00:25:25,720 Speaker 1: operates the same way at Alabama, and so they're doing 542 00:25:25,760 --> 00:25:30,040 Speaker 1: all that. What has Clemson done. Clemson has built themselves 543 00:25:30,119 --> 00:25:32,160 Speaker 1: in a very unique way. They have a unique Clemson 544 00:25:32,240 --> 00:25:35,440 Speaker 1: culture there. They've gotten recruiting right, they've got the right 545 00:25:35,480 --> 00:25:37,560 Speaker 1: head coach like they've got the staff in place that 546 00:25:37,600 --> 00:25:41,360 Speaker 1: they want. They hardly ever have to replace any staff members. 547 00:25:41,600 --> 00:25:45,080 Speaker 1: So that's what those programs are guilty of. And some 548 00:25:45,119 --> 00:25:48,399 Speaker 1: of the haters out there would suggest to you, well, 549 00:25:48,440 --> 00:25:52,480 Speaker 1: the sport's just built to benefit them. False. The sport 550 00:25:52,600 --> 00:25:56,560 Speaker 1: is built to benefit them, not them alone. Any system 551 00:25:56,800 --> 00:25:59,760 Speaker 1: that is built to benefit Clemson is also built to 552 00:25:59,760 --> 00:26:03,960 Speaker 1: bend at Florida State in Miami. Any system that's built 553 00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:07,680 Speaker 1: to benefit Ohio State is also built to benefit Penn 554 00:26:07,680 --> 00:26:12,280 Speaker 1: State and Iowa and Wisconsin and Michigan. The difference is 555 00:26:12,600 --> 00:26:15,000 Speaker 1: they do it the right way, whereas you guys haven't 556 00:26:15,040 --> 00:26:16,720 Speaker 1: been able to keep up. Now, you can need to 557 00:26:16,760 --> 00:26:19,480 Speaker 1: be mad at them, mad at the system, or you 558 00:26:19,480 --> 00:26:21,480 Speaker 1: can look in the mirror. I would suggest looking in 559 00:26:21,480 --> 00:26:23,719 Speaker 1: the mirror, because Ohio State's not slowing down. It's kind 560 00:26:23,720 --> 00:26:27,800 Speaker 1: of like changing the playoff structure. It's nothing happens to 561 00:26:27,880 --> 00:26:30,959 Speaker 1: the big boys. You just further victimize yourself. So what 562 00:26:31,000 --> 00:26:33,680 Speaker 1: you should do is what North Carolina is doing right now. 563 00:26:33,880 --> 00:26:37,399 Speaker 1: North Carolina has never given a crap what Clemson's doing. 564 00:26:37,600 --> 00:26:41,439 Speaker 1: The second mac Brown walked in, he said, great, but 565 00:26:41,480 --> 00:26:42,840 Speaker 1: we're going to do it the way we want to 566 00:26:42,880 --> 00:26:45,439 Speaker 1: do it here and eventually watch and see what I 567 00:26:45,520 --> 00:26:48,000 Speaker 1: tell you, we'll be able to compete with them. Well, 568 00:26:48,040 --> 00:26:50,040 Speaker 1: what a shocker. Two or three years down the road. 569 00:26:50,280 --> 00:26:52,000 Speaker 1: We're going to talk about North Carolina in a second, 570 00:26:52,000 --> 00:26:53,840 Speaker 1: so I don't want to get to that. But any 571 00:26:53,960 --> 00:26:58,439 Speaker 1: system that is built to assist the big boys is 572 00:26:58,480 --> 00:27:01,720 Speaker 1: also built to assist you if you have comparable resources 573 00:27:01,720 --> 00:27:04,840 Speaker 1: to them, which you do at Michigan, which you do 574 00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:07,920 Speaker 1: at Texas A and m or what you do at Miami, 575 00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:10,040 Speaker 1: Florida State Man, and I could go on and on. 576 00:27:10,200 --> 00:27:12,439 Speaker 1: There are no less than a dozen other programs. You 577 00:27:12,440 --> 00:27:15,639 Speaker 1: think Tennessee and Texas have really been down because of 578 00:27:15,680 --> 00:27:19,359 Speaker 1: the system. Really, did the system not exist in five 579 00:27:19,560 --> 00:27:22,000 Speaker 1: or nineteen ninety eight? Did the system not exist? Then? 580 00:27:22,160 --> 00:27:24,840 Speaker 1: The system existed. You were just the beneficiary of it then, 581 00:27:24,920 --> 00:27:27,560 Speaker 1: so you didn't want to open your mouth. Clemson they 582 00:27:27,600 --> 00:27:30,520 Speaker 1: care a lot. Ohio State they care a lot. But 583 00:27:30,560 --> 00:27:33,600 Speaker 1: you know what else State did? They also got hiring right, 584 00:27:33,840 --> 00:27:36,440 Speaker 1: which a lot of you don't. You make poor hires, 585 00:27:36,720 --> 00:27:39,280 Speaker 1: and then you compound that with worse hires to replace 586 00:27:39,320 --> 00:27:42,040 Speaker 1: the poor hires, and then you get where bad hires 587 00:27:42,080 --> 00:27:44,440 Speaker 1: get you. And then you look around and you say, oh, 588 00:27:44,440 --> 00:27:46,960 Speaker 1: it's the complex's fault, it's the system's fault. It's not 589 00:27:47,000 --> 00:27:50,200 Speaker 1: the system's fault. It's just that in Columbus, Ohio, when 590 00:27:50,240 --> 00:27:51,960 Speaker 1: one of the best coaches in the history of the game, 591 00:27:52,080 --> 00:27:55,239 Speaker 1: Urban Meyers stepped down, which should crumble a program. By 592 00:27:55,280 --> 00:27:58,600 Speaker 1: the way, they made the right replacement, Ryan Day. And 593 00:27:58,640 --> 00:28:01,000 Speaker 1: not only is the program just is good, I think 594 00:28:01,040 --> 00:28:04,680 Speaker 1: it's better in several areas. Now at Clemson, they had 595 00:28:04,720 --> 00:28:07,199 Speaker 1: Tommy Bowden. Tommy Bowden was doing some things there that 596 00:28:07,200 --> 00:28:09,240 Speaker 1: hadn't been done in a while, and then it was 597 00:28:09,320 --> 00:28:13,040 Speaker 1: time to replace him, and they looked internally another theme here, 598 00:28:13,280 --> 00:28:15,800 Speaker 1: looking right inside your own four walls for the replacement. 599 00:28:15,960 --> 00:28:17,320 Speaker 1: And they take a guy who's never been a head 600 00:28:17,320 --> 00:28:20,400 Speaker 1: coach before, and his name's Davis Swinny. And it didn't 601 00:28:20,400 --> 00:28:23,840 Speaker 1: happen immediately there. But it turns out both programs made 602 00:28:23,840 --> 00:28:26,840 Speaker 1: the right hires. That's the whole secret here, guys. The 603 00:28:26,920 --> 00:28:29,199 Speaker 1: system is built to benefit a whole bunch of you. 604 00:28:29,600 --> 00:28:31,800 Speaker 1: A whole bunch of you do have the resources, a 605 00:28:31,800 --> 00:28:33,880 Speaker 1: whole bunch of you do have the facilities. And if 606 00:28:33,880 --> 00:28:35,840 Speaker 1: you don't have them, now you got enough people with 607 00:28:35,880 --> 00:28:38,320 Speaker 1: deep enough pockets to write a check to make it 608 00:28:38,360 --> 00:28:41,600 Speaker 1: happen tomorrow. You got to make the right hires. You 609 00:28:41,720 --> 00:28:44,880 Speaker 1: can't make the wrong hires, get the results that the 610 00:28:44,920 --> 00:28:47,680 Speaker 1: wrong hires produce, and then look out the window and say, well, 611 00:28:47,680 --> 00:28:50,040 Speaker 1: the problem's out there, the problems in the mirror. The 612 00:28:50,120 --> 00:28:52,520 Speaker 1: only difference in Ohio State and Clemson is they've made 613 00:28:52,520 --> 00:28:55,560 Speaker 1: the right hiring decisions. At Alabama, they were bad for 614 00:28:55,600 --> 00:28:58,080 Speaker 1: a long time, then they made the right hiring decision. 615 00:28:58,240 --> 00:29:00,320 Speaker 1: Now they've been really good. For a long time. It 616 00:29:00,400 --> 00:29:03,000 Speaker 1: was always Alabama. This stuff's not that hard to figure out. 617 00:29:03,400 --> 00:29:06,280 Speaker 1: The acc unlike the Big Ten, at the moment, has 618 00:29:06,320 --> 00:29:09,160 Speaker 1: started to get itself off the map, though led by 619 00:29:09,200 --> 00:29:11,880 Speaker 1: North Carolina. I would argue Florida State's doing some good things, 620 00:29:12,040 --> 00:29:13,920 Speaker 1: may take a couple more years to see it pay off. 621 00:29:14,080 --> 00:29:15,960 Speaker 1: I think Miami's doing some good things, may take a 622 00:29:16,040 --> 00:29:18,280 Speaker 1: year or two. Maybe this year we'll see to see 623 00:29:18,280 --> 00:29:20,720 Speaker 1: it pay off. North Carolina is ready to go now, though, 624 00:29:20,960 --> 00:29:24,320 Speaker 1: and so they have started to respond. It's kind of 625 00:29:24,320 --> 00:29:26,400 Speaker 1: like if you've ever watched a forest fire come through. 626 00:29:26,800 --> 00:29:30,120 Speaker 1: Everything's burned, everything's charred, But then if you come back 627 00:29:30,160 --> 00:29:32,120 Speaker 1: to that same spot a few years later, there's some 628 00:29:32,240 --> 00:29:36,320 Speaker 1: vegetation growing well in a lot the same way. Clemson 629 00:29:36,840 --> 00:29:40,080 Speaker 1: has totally torched the ACC, but there's some things now 630 00:29:40,120 --> 00:29:42,360 Speaker 1: starting to grow as a result of that. Not only that, 631 00:29:43,320 --> 00:29:46,080 Speaker 1: don't think for a second the ACC hasn't been looking 632 00:29:46,120 --> 00:29:49,880 Speaker 1: around and seeing Clemson, most recently in the semi final, 633 00:29:50,280 --> 00:29:52,480 Speaker 1: getting knocked around a little bit and saying, oh my, 634 00:29:53,040 --> 00:29:56,800 Speaker 1: so they are human after all. I like that there 635 00:29:56,840 --> 00:30:00,240 Speaker 1: are powerhouse programs. I don't like that some if you 636 00:30:00,280 --> 00:30:03,160 Speaker 1: look at the powerhouse programs and think, oh, they're the 637 00:30:03,200 --> 00:30:08,240 Speaker 1: problem with college football, I strongly dislike that. Too many 638 00:30:08,320 --> 00:30:10,960 Speaker 1: of you aren't willing to look your own administration in 639 00:30:11,000 --> 00:30:13,480 Speaker 1: the eye and say, why aren't we just like them, 640 00:30:14,440 --> 00:30:17,440 Speaker 1: and then call bs when those people give you the 641 00:30:17,520 --> 00:30:19,640 Speaker 1: run around and say, oh, we don't have this that 642 00:30:19,640 --> 00:30:22,160 Speaker 1: they have, We don't have that that they have. Yeah 643 00:30:22,240 --> 00:30:27,120 Speaker 1: you do, Yes, you do. Lastly, I wanted to circle 644 00:30:27,200 --> 00:30:29,040 Speaker 1: right back here to something we were just talking about 645 00:30:30,040 --> 00:30:32,320 Speaker 1: North Carolina's coming. I don't know how to put it 646 00:30:32,360 --> 00:30:34,240 Speaker 1: any more plainly than that I feel great about the 647 00:30:34,240 --> 00:30:36,800 Speaker 1: future of North Carolina football. Some of you have noticed 648 00:30:37,080 --> 00:30:38,959 Speaker 1: that I've been a little more animated, a little more 649 00:30:38,960 --> 00:30:41,160 Speaker 1: bullish when I'm talking about North Carolina, and I had 650 00:30:41,240 --> 00:30:42,920 Speaker 1: like five or six of you asked me about it 651 00:30:43,200 --> 00:30:46,320 Speaker 1: in my Instagram dms earlier this week at Late Kick 652 00:30:46,400 --> 00:30:49,000 Speaker 1: Josh by the way, and so I wanted to address 653 00:30:49,080 --> 00:30:51,680 Speaker 1: this tonight because I love what they're doing and I 654 00:30:51,680 --> 00:30:53,400 Speaker 1: think North Carolina is going to be a contender in 655 00:30:53,440 --> 00:30:55,840 Speaker 1: the ACC. Let me be very specific here. I think 656 00:30:55,880 --> 00:30:58,560 Speaker 1: North Carolina football in very short order is going to 657 00:30:58,600 --> 00:31:01,920 Speaker 1: be an ACC championship tender, even with Clemson in the house. 658 00:31:02,120 --> 00:31:04,200 Speaker 1: And I think they're going to be a national championship contender. 659 00:31:04,240 --> 00:31:06,560 Speaker 1: I think they're going to be in the playoff conversation. 660 00:31:06,920 --> 00:31:10,200 Speaker 1: And here's the reason or reasons I say that, unlike 661 00:31:10,280 --> 00:31:13,200 Speaker 1: everyone else in the ACC for a long time, this 662 00:31:13,400 --> 00:31:17,280 Speaker 1: squad here and this staff especially has never operated in 663 00:31:17,320 --> 00:31:20,240 Speaker 1: Clemson's shadow. Even though they're not the equal of Clemson 664 00:31:20,240 --> 00:31:22,880 Speaker 1: at the moment, haven't been. They have never operated in 665 00:31:22,920 --> 00:31:25,160 Speaker 1: their shadow. Need I remind you. I remember being in 666 00:31:25,160 --> 00:31:28,720 Speaker 1: the Auburn press box watching them play Clemson. You're one 667 00:31:28,840 --> 00:31:32,280 Speaker 1: under Mac Brown. I don't know how many touchdowns they 668 00:31:32,280 --> 00:31:35,360 Speaker 1: were an underdog buy, but there they are down inside 669 00:31:35,360 --> 00:31:37,680 Speaker 1: the red zone going for a two point conversion to 670 00:31:37,920 --> 00:31:41,160 Speaker 1: upset mighty Clemson. They missed it that day, But when 671 00:31:41,200 --> 00:31:43,640 Speaker 1: they walked off the field, did you notice when they 672 00:31:43,680 --> 00:31:46,400 Speaker 1: carried themselves afterwards, did you notice, in fact, the way 673 00:31:46,440 --> 00:31:48,600 Speaker 1: they carried themselves the day they walked in that building. 674 00:31:48,720 --> 00:31:51,880 Speaker 1: Did you notice they never really flinched when you mentioned 675 00:31:51,880 --> 00:31:54,400 Speaker 1: Clemson when they had to play Clemson. They never flinched. 676 00:31:54,480 --> 00:31:56,800 Speaker 1: They never have. They're not as good as them yet 677 00:31:57,160 --> 00:31:59,440 Speaker 1: they nor should they be. But they're building in the 678 00:31:59,480 --> 00:32:02,160 Speaker 1: right direction. But they, unlike the rest of this conference, 679 00:32:02,200 --> 00:32:04,360 Speaker 1: scared of its own shadow for an extended period of time. 680 00:32:04,800 --> 00:32:08,640 Speaker 1: North Carolina's never flinched when you mentioned the clubs and Tigers. 681 00:32:08,760 --> 00:32:10,960 Speaker 1: And that's a good thing. Calls that mental side of 682 00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:13,440 Speaker 1: It's over half the battle when it comes to eventually 683 00:32:13,520 --> 00:32:16,000 Speaker 1: being able to dethrone the top dog or tiger in 684 00:32:16,040 --> 00:32:19,200 Speaker 1: this case in your conference. They've made excellent hires. It 685 00:32:19,280 --> 00:32:22,440 Speaker 1: starts with head coach. Some people question Mack Brown, who 686 00:32:22,480 --> 00:32:24,560 Speaker 1: cares cause a lot of what you guys call the 687 00:32:24,560 --> 00:32:27,840 Speaker 1: Grand Slam hires flame out entirely. So I don't really 688 00:32:27,840 --> 00:32:30,240 Speaker 1: care what people think the day of the press conference. 689 00:32:30,520 --> 00:32:33,080 Speaker 1: I want to see subsequently what guys are doing well, 690 00:32:33,120 --> 00:32:35,440 Speaker 1: all mac Brown's done is he got guys like Jay 691 00:32:35,440 --> 00:32:37,760 Speaker 1: Bateman as his DC, He got guys like Phil Longo 692 00:32:37,840 --> 00:32:40,880 Speaker 1: as his offensive coordinator. He put together a dynamite staff 693 00:32:40,880 --> 00:32:43,240 Speaker 1: of recruiters. And when I say recruiters, I mean in 694 00:32:43,280 --> 00:32:45,960 Speaker 1: all caps. They take it very seriously. There. They just 695 00:32:46,040 --> 00:32:48,760 Speaker 1: virtually locked down one of the most talent rich states 696 00:32:48,760 --> 00:32:51,360 Speaker 1: in the Southeast, in North Carolina. They kept a lot 697 00:32:51,400 --> 00:32:55,280 Speaker 1: of their instate talent home. Evidence is that you look 698 00:32:55,320 --> 00:32:57,640 Speaker 1: at him now, you look at guys like Javari Ritzy, 699 00:32:57,760 --> 00:32:59,479 Speaker 1: just to pick a name out of a hat, that 700 00:32:59,520 --> 00:33:02,440 Speaker 1: guy looks like an SEC defensive lineman. He's in Chapel Hill, 701 00:33:02,680 --> 00:33:04,440 Speaker 1: North Carolina. And it w wasn't for a lack of 702 00:33:04,480 --> 00:33:06,440 Speaker 1: options either. By the way, they're beating some of the 703 00:33:06,440 --> 00:33:08,719 Speaker 1: big boys for this talent. And you look at him 704 00:33:08,720 --> 00:33:10,240 Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, Oh, I knew they could 705 00:33:10,240 --> 00:33:13,080 Speaker 1: play offense. I knew they had wide receivers out the wazoo. 706 00:33:13,320 --> 00:33:16,080 Speaker 1: Look at these defensive linemen. My goodness, this team could 707 00:33:16,080 --> 00:33:19,200 Speaker 1: almost pass for I don't know, a contender. Yeah, they 708 00:33:19,240 --> 00:33:21,720 Speaker 1: sure could. And not only do they have front liners, 709 00:33:21,920 --> 00:33:24,280 Speaker 1: they got some depth there. Now, defense should make a 710 00:33:24,360 --> 00:33:27,360 Speaker 1: quantum leap at North Carolina this fall. But the most 711 00:33:27,400 --> 00:33:30,680 Speaker 1: important part of this whole recruiting puzzle is very early on, 712 00:33:30,920 --> 00:33:33,080 Speaker 1: they got quarterback figured out now and in the future. 713 00:33:33,240 --> 00:33:35,360 Speaker 1: Sam Howell once upon a time committed to Florida State, 714 00:33:35,360 --> 00:33:37,280 Speaker 1: Well he is their starting quarterback. Now he's gonna be 715 00:33:37,280 --> 00:33:39,880 Speaker 1: a Heisman Trophy contender this year. But they also got 716 00:33:39,880 --> 00:33:41,960 Speaker 1: it figured out in the future. Drake May one time 717 00:33:42,000 --> 00:33:44,960 Speaker 1: Alabama commit, maybe you've heard of him, Well, he's not 718 00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:48,280 Speaker 1: committed and signed and on campus with North Carolina. And 719 00:33:48,360 --> 00:33:51,000 Speaker 1: so now when you get those quarterback dominoes figured out, 720 00:33:51,160 --> 00:33:52,920 Speaker 1: you remember another program that did that. Once upon a 721 00:33:52,960 --> 00:33:56,280 Speaker 1: time they were good, and then they were pretty good, 722 00:33:56,560 --> 00:33:58,640 Speaker 1: and then they got a guy named Shan Watson who 723 00:33:58,720 --> 00:34:00,880 Speaker 1: came after TODJ Boy. They got him on campus and 724 00:34:00,920 --> 00:34:03,080 Speaker 1: they won a national championship, played for two of them. 725 00:34:03,920 --> 00:34:06,880 Speaker 1: And then a kid named Trevor Lawrence saw that happen 726 00:34:07,240 --> 00:34:10,840 Speaker 1: and he committed. He won himself a national championship, and 727 00:34:10,880 --> 00:34:14,920 Speaker 1: then a kid named DJ Leanglilea was watching and he committed. 728 00:34:15,640 --> 00:34:18,239 Speaker 1: The way that modern day recruiting works is you get 729 00:34:18,280 --> 00:34:21,400 Speaker 1: the first quarterback and then it starts the domino effect 730 00:34:21,440 --> 00:34:25,359 Speaker 1: and it's already begun at North Carolina. Little bold prediction here. 731 00:34:25,719 --> 00:34:28,160 Speaker 1: You're not going to watch North Carolina over the next 732 00:34:28,160 --> 00:34:31,000 Speaker 1: decade to where they don't have a plus to elite 733 00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:34,120 Speaker 1: caliber quarterback, which means the wide receiver talent will take 734 00:34:34,160 --> 00:34:35,600 Speaker 1: care of itself because they want to play with the 735 00:34:35,600 --> 00:34:38,320 Speaker 1: good quarterbacks, which means the running backs and the offensive 736 00:34:38,360 --> 00:34:41,920 Speaker 1: lineman ditto. They all fit the same description. And then 737 00:34:41,920 --> 00:34:44,120 Speaker 1: they get defense figured out to the degree that you 738 00:34:44,160 --> 00:34:48,120 Speaker 1: need to get it figured out. They are headed very 739 00:34:48,200 --> 00:34:51,719 Speaker 1: quickly in the right direction. But here is the secret 740 00:34:51,880 --> 00:34:53,719 Speaker 1: at North Carolina that not a lot of people are 741 00:34:53,719 --> 00:34:57,680 Speaker 1: talking about right now. It's a destination that people always 742 00:34:57,760 --> 00:35:00,319 Speaker 1: wanted to become a destination. A lot of people have 743 00:35:00,320 --> 00:35:02,319 Speaker 1: wanted a reason to go play in North Carolina. They 744 00:35:02,320 --> 00:35:04,680 Speaker 1: didn't have it for a long time. They haven't now. 745 00:35:05,120 --> 00:35:07,719 Speaker 1: And it's not just a destination for recruits, as you 746 00:35:07,800 --> 00:35:09,440 Speaker 1: just saw in this last signing class and you will 747 00:35:09,480 --> 00:35:13,880 Speaker 1: continue to see, it's a destination for coaches. North Carolina 748 00:35:14,000 --> 00:35:16,080 Speaker 1: is a great place to coach when you can go 749 00:35:16,120 --> 00:35:19,160 Speaker 1: there and you have the prospect of winning, and you 750 00:35:19,160 --> 00:35:21,759 Speaker 1: can have the right profile and you can make the 751 00:35:21,840 --> 00:35:24,919 Speaker 1: right money. It's a wonderful place to live. A lot 752 00:35:24,920 --> 00:35:27,799 Speaker 1: of coaches have looked for decades for any excuse to 753 00:35:27,840 --> 00:35:29,839 Speaker 1: go to North Carolina. It's just for a long time, 754 00:35:29,880 --> 00:35:32,120 Speaker 1: the job didn't give them an excuse to go there, 755 00:35:32,120 --> 00:35:34,160 Speaker 1: so they had to go somewhere else where they could 756 00:35:34,200 --> 00:35:36,720 Speaker 1: fill all their needs. You can fill all your needs, 757 00:35:36,760 --> 00:35:39,480 Speaker 1: whether you're a player or you're a coach, you can 758 00:35:39,480 --> 00:35:41,279 Speaker 1: fill every single one of them. You can check all 759 00:35:41,280 --> 00:35:44,719 Speaker 1: those boxes at North Carolina. Right now, North Carolina football 760 00:35:45,080 --> 00:35:47,400 Speaker 1: is coming. They are going to be a contender. You 761 00:35:47,440 --> 00:35:49,680 Speaker 1: guys may think it's going to take some get used to, 762 00:35:49,719 --> 00:35:52,359 Speaker 1: and it will, but that's the team. You want to see. 763 00:35:52,400 --> 00:35:55,600 Speaker 1: Why all this system is built against us? Stuff is bs, 764 00:35:55,760 --> 00:35:58,000 Speaker 1: It says North Carolina. Don't care. When's the last time 765 00:35:58,000 --> 00:36:00,720 Speaker 1: you heard these people say, oh, we can't compete against Clemson. 766 00:36:00,760 --> 00:36:03,160 Speaker 1: Oh we could never be what they just wanted up. 767 00:36:03,280 --> 00:36:05,040 Speaker 1: They throw it in the garbage and they say, yeah, 768 00:36:05,080 --> 00:36:07,000 Speaker 1: we can if we make the right hires just like 769 00:36:07,040 --> 00:36:08,920 Speaker 1: they did, and we recruit like they do, and we 770 00:36:08,960 --> 00:36:10,960 Speaker 1: develop and we care and we're as passionate as they are. 771 00:36:11,080 --> 00:36:13,080 Speaker 1: We're gonna get the same results and we trust it. 772 00:36:13,080 --> 00:36:16,080 Speaker 1: It's a process, A little boring word process. Well, they 773 00:36:16,080 --> 00:36:18,480 Speaker 1: bought into it at Clemson, and they bought into it 774 00:36:18,520 --> 00:36:20,680 Speaker 1: at North Carolina too, and that's why I'm buying the 775 00:36:20,680 --> 00:36:23,440 Speaker 1: future of Tar Hill football. So give me all that stuff. 776 00:36:24,640 --> 00:36:26,800 Speaker 1: Thank you so much for watching. If you are watching, 777 00:36:26,960 --> 00:36:29,320 Speaker 1: please like the video, subscribe to the channel. If you're listening, 778 00:36:29,520 --> 00:36:32,439 Speaker 1: please share it everywhere. But more specifically, the five star 779 00:36:32,480 --> 00:36:36,160 Speaker 1: reviews are appreciated here. Enjoy the draft tonight for director 780 00:36:36,160 --> 00:36:39,400 Speaker 1: Emeritith Colin, for Jesse and our entire crew in Connecticut. 781 00:36:39,440 --> 00:36:41,560 Speaker 1: I'm Josh Baate. Have a great rest of your evening, 782 00:36:41,640 --> 00:36:53,360 Speaker 1: and God bless you.