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Speaker 2: Yuki, guys talked about this two months ago. Sure did.

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Speaker 1: I have confidence that we're very well sourced on a

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Speaker 1: what we're talking about on multiple fronts. We're well covered

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Speaker 1: We're jam packed, we're high a top, sort of a

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Speaker 1: discombobulated downtown Nashville, Tennessee. Late Kick, Thursday, February twenty second,

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Speaker 1: Hear of Our Lord twenty twenty four. There's no more hypothetical,

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Speaker 1: the future of the playoff. They've exposed themselves now. And

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Speaker 1: Notre Dame's been talked about a lot this week in

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Speaker 1: case you haven't noticed, and it is my opinion long

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Speaker 1: has been that Notre Dame football is the most misunderstood

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Speaker 1: brand in college football.

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Speaker 2: This week's no different.

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Speaker 1: So you've had several big names across the sports media

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Speaker 1: sphere calling them irrelevant and asking what have they done?

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Speaker 1: You know, you love that, what have they done? Calling

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Speaker 1: them overrated? And that's the age old go to with

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Speaker 1: Notre Dame. Well they're overrated, and like what are they rated?

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Speaker 1: Do you want to know what they're rated?

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Speaker 2: No? No, they're just overrated. Cool.

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Speaker 1: Okay, So let's just attack these one by one. I'm

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Speaker 1: not going to spend an hour on this, I promise

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Speaker 1: you irrelevant the claim that Notre Dame is irrelevant. I

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Speaker 1: mean people with even a basic understanding of search engine

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Speaker 1: optimization principles or the data that we ingest from this show,

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Speaker 1: or web traffic or just engagement period understands Notre Dame

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Speaker 1: could go oh to twelve this year. They would be

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Speaker 1: a monster. They are as relevant as relevant gets in

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Speaker 1: the college football space. Case in point, some of the

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Speaker 1: people calling them irrelevant are talking about them in February

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Speaker 1: when it pertains to college football. That's the definition of relevance.

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Speaker 1: So that one's the easiest one to shoot down. Part two.

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Speaker 1: What if they won, Well, they've been a double digit

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Speaker 1: game winner six of the past seven years. That's what

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Speaker 1: they've won. They've won football games. But Josh, they haven't

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Speaker 1: won championships. No, they haven't. I haven't said they did well. Josh,

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Speaker 1: they haven't won playoff games. They sure haven't. I'll get

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Speaker 1: to that in a second. You ask me what have

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Speaker 1: they won, I'm telling you they've won a ton of

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Speaker 1: football games. They've won more than almost anyone who plays

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Speaker 1: this sport. Well, Josh, that's easy cause they don't play anybody.

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Speaker 1: It's one of the biggest myths in college sports. Notre

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Speaker 1: Dame plays a week schedule. Notre Dame. I don't know

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Speaker 1: how many times consecutively. These folks have to play somewhere

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Speaker 1: between the top twenty and or top ten even strength

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Speaker 1: of schedule for folks to understand that's a myth.

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Speaker 2: That's a myth.

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Speaker 1: You don't have to have Florida's twenty twenty four schedule

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Speaker 1: to have a valid strength of schedule. Like, there are

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Speaker 1: degrees of this stuff. You're not great or trash. Your

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Speaker 1: schedule is not elite or cupcake city. There are degrees here.

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Speaker 1: I know it's not popular to speak like that, but

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Speaker 1: Notre Dame plays a very solid schedule every year, a

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Speaker 1: lot closer to the top of the heap than the

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Speaker 1: bottom of the heap. But Josh, they get beat when

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Speaker 1: they face elite teams. You're right most of the time

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Speaker 1: recently they have. So what are we talking about there,

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Speaker 1: because that just bleeds right back into that whole they're

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Speaker 1: overrated thing. How do you know they're overrated? Well, because

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Speaker 1: they get beat when they face elite teams. But what

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Speaker 1: are they rated?

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Speaker 2: So what are they?

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Speaker 1: They're not as good as Alabama recently, no one said

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Speaker 1: they are. They've been beaten by Clemson a few times.

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Speaker 1: No one said they're better than Clemson though, especially those

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Speaker 1: vintage mid twenty teen Clemson teams that beat by Ohio

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Speaker 1: State last year pushed them to the wire but got beat.

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Speaker 1: Who out there is touting Notre Dame's program as being

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Speaker 1: better than Ohio State. I've seen nobody. I don't see

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Speaker 1: Notre Dame fans do that. So we just listed what

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Speaker 1: three teams Georgia. No one would list Notre Dame above Georgia.

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Speaker 1: My point is I just ran down four names. You

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Speaker 1: notice how you start running out of programs you feel

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Speaker 1: are definitively better than Notre Dame after you get through

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Speaker 1: that first wave. That's the whole point. Notre Dame's not overrated.

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Speaker 1: Notre Dame would only be overrated if they were rated

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Speaker 1: above those teams and those programs they're not. So how

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Speaker 1: about this, I'm just gonna humbly offer this take. Notre

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Speaker 1: Dame is a pretty good program, better than most not elite.

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Speaker 1: There's a lot of very good about Notre Dame's program

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Speaker 1: and team. There's very little elite at the moment about

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Speaker 1: Notre Dame's program and team. They are rock solid, they

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Speaker 1: got good culture. It's a very strong brand. They've been

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Speaker 1: a top twelve recruiter on average the last five cycles.

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Speaker 1: I would say, while their relevance may be slightly down

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Speaker 1: a notch from the prior generation, it's still one of

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Speaker 1: the most relevant brands in our sport. That to me

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Speaker 1: is the Notre Dame take. I don't even think they're

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Speaker 1: hard to figure out. They do not stack up roster wise,

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Speaker 1: man for man with the elites in college football, but

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Speaker 1: whenever you start placing chairs at the second table, they're

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Speaker 1: one of the first ones there, and that's where they

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Speaker 1: are right now. And I don't get how in the

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Speaker 1: world this is so difficult. So I think probably the

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Speaker 1: number one bit of feedback that I expect to get

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Speaker 1: on this is, well, Josh, the media overhype them every year. Well,

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Speaker 1: then hate on the media, not them. Marcus Freeman doesn't

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Speaker 1: issue his own ratings. If he wants to, we can talk.

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Speaker 1: But I don't see Notre Dame rating themselves. Notre Dame

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Speaker 1: up there. Notre Dame didn't go to NBC and hold

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Speaker 1: them hostage, get that contract. You want to hate on them,

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Speaker 1: Hate on NBC for handing them the money, hate on

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Speaker 1: the media if we over hyping them. Best I can tell,

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Speaker 1: no one's really hyping Notre Dame and ranking Notre Dame

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Speaker 1: above the elites, I don't ever see them put in

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Speaker 1: the elite category. They don't belong in the elite category.

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Speaker 1: Perhaps their ceiling is that they could one day again

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Speaker 1: become elite. And there are far fewer rungs above Notre

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Speaker 1: Dame on the college football ladder than there are below them.

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Speaker 1: But there is no understanding of degrees in conversation, and

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Speaker 1: maybe it's just the internetization of everything college football included.

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Speaker 1: Like if you say Notre Dame's pretty good, that gets lost.

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Speaker 1: You either got to say Notre Dame goat status or

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Speaker 1: Notre Dame trash landfill vibes. It's not the way it

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Speaker 1: is for like ninety five percent by default, ninety five

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Speaker 1: percent falls in between the extremes, cause the extremes are

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Speaker 1: the two and a half percent either side, and yet

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Speaker 1: folks disproportionately traffic in the extremes.

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Speaker 2: The wildest thing.

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Speaker 1: They're watching us in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Montgomery, Texas, and Alabama

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Speaker 1: in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Thank you guys so much. We

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Speaker 1: have a metric ton of content still to get to.

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Speaker 1: Let me move my phone off this Kenny Dillingham quote

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Speaker 1: over here. We got to get to later. I was

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Speaker 1: walking through the office earlier today. Bradley, the associate was

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Speaker 1: building a graphic. It's a Kenny Dillingham quote where he's

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Speaker 1: roasting other coaches by the way for complaining about their workload.

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Speaker 1: And Bradley inexplicably had the Dillingham quote done but for

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Speaker 1: the picture of Kenny Dillingham supposedly next to the quote,

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Speaker 1: he had a picture of Mickey Mantle. So apparently, in

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Speaker 1: our system, Mickey Mantle is a placeholder image until we

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Speaker 1: place the image literal. Mickey Mantle played for the Yankees

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Speaker 1: seven hundred years ago, Mickey Mantle. I don't ever know

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Speaker 1: if we got it changed, but if we didn't, Kenny

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Speaker 1: Dillingham has been made aware that he doubles as Mickey

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Speaker 1: Mantle in the office right now. So we'll get to

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Speaker 1: that late because I think a lot of you are

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Speaker 1: gonna have a lot of fun with that segment, because

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Speaker 1: I've had fun with it, and a lot of you

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Speaker 1: have had fun bashing me about it. That's okay, that's

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Speaker 1: what God made February for. But in the meantime, Colin,

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Speaker 1: here's an endpoint for you. I need to tell you

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Speaker 1: something about Alabama. I need to tell you why I

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Speaker 1: love this time of year. I love this time of

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Speaker 1: year because so Nick Saban retires at Alabama and then

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Speaker 1: Kaylen Debor gets the job and everyone has an immediate

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Speaker 1: opinion on it. I have friends I went and counted

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Speaker 1: one the other day specifically, who have had four different

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Speaker 1: unique takes on Kaylin de Boor at Alabama, like whether

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Speaker 1: he will succeed or not. Four dudes changed his mind

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Speaker 1: four times, and it is right now February twenty second,

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Speaker 1: and his first spring practice is still several weeks away.

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Speaker 2: That's why I love this time of year. I encourage it.

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Speaker 1: Get as many takes out there as possible so that

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Speaker 1: you can go back and cherry pick whichever one's you

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Speaker 1: got right, because inevitably, if you throw every take out there,

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Speaker 1: you got to get one right. It's not the worst

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Speaker 1: strategy in the world. And so I wanted to remind

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Speaker 1: you guys of something because there has been so much

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Speaker 1: happening in this sport that a bombshell goes off, Saban retires,

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Speaker 1: and then Kaylin de Boor, fresh off of National Championship appearance,

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Speaker 1: gets the head job at Alabama. It's almost like that

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Speaker 1: feels like old news already, and it was like a

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Speaker 1: month ago.

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Speaker 2: It's just that so much has happened.

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Speaker 1: Well, let me tell you, because I was really kind

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Speaker 1: of marrying this with several of you over the course

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Speaker 1: of any given week. Ask what I'm thinking about this

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Speaker 1: Just a reminder before we open spring ball there, whether

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Speaker 1: it's great or a disaster. I think he upgraded his

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Speaker 1: coaching staff overall. Not talking about head coach for head coach,

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Speaker 1: I'm saying staff overall. I think he upgraded that coaching staff.

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Speaker 1: One of the great unspokens behind the scenes was down

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Speaker 1: the stretch, as it turns out, down the stretch of

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Speaker 1: Nick Saban's career last few years. He had had not

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Speaker 1: a hard time, but he had had a harder time

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Speaker 1: than he had years prior filling his staff with.

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Speaker 2: The names he wanted to fill him with.

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Speaker 1: And that was just because you cannot ignore age, and

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Speaker 1: you cannot ignore that Guys want to sign on to

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Speaker 1: a program where they know they'll be longevity. It's the

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Speaker 1: same reason why if you're on the hot seat, it's

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Speaker 1: really hard to go higher because guys look and say,

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Speaker 1: what am I going to move there? For nine months

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Speaker 1: and then I'm out the door with you. Well, it's

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Speaker 1: the same way if you're going to coach for a guy.

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Speaker 1: I mean, Saban was conducting coaching interviews five minutes before

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Speaker 1: he retired, so a lot of that was valid. So anyway,

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Speaker 1: I think Daboor upgraded his staff. Does he have sec chops?

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Speaker 1: Does the staff have SEC chops? Now that right, there

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Speaker 1: is a good question by SEC chops. Do you mean

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Speaker 1: are they familiar with the territory? A lot of them aren't.

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Speaker 1: A lot of them never lived in or coached in

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Speaker 1: the South. Not only one way to baptize yourself into that,

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Speaker 1: but the other part is a lot of you have noticed,

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Speaker 1: like he's taken guys from Washington, he's taking guys from Baylor,

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Speaker 1: And there's not a lot of that incestuous hiring in

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Speaker 1: the best of ways that you normally see in the South.

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Speaker 1: A lot of times when a guy gets a job

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Speaker 1: in the SEC, he just goes and takes some deuce

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Speaker 1: from Florida and LSU and now Texas and Oklahoma, And

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Speaker 1: sometimes it works out. Other times it just means that

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Speaker 1: you got a stale conference and it's right for a

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Speaker 1: guy from outside the block to move in.

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Speaker 2: Most notably guys like urban Meyer did this in the past.

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Speaker 2: Saban even did it.

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Speaker 1: Saban didn't get the staffers he wanted it first either,

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Speaker 1: but it's been done before. But at the same time,

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Speaker 1: it's an adjustment period. It's an adjustment period for everyone.

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Speaker 1: I think short term it was probably like drinking water

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Speaker 1: from a fire hose for them. I don't look two

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Speaker 1: things okay. So first I think they'll be fine on

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Speaker 1: that front. But secondly, there is a large contingent of

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Speaker 1: people I think that are waiting for them to lose

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Speaker 1: their first game this year, whether it's or whether it's

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Speaker 1: earlier than that. Maybe they go lose it Wisconsin earlier

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Speaker 1: in the season, and that will be like a referendum

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Speaker 1: on Kaylen Debor, and it'll be really really whacked out

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Speaker 1: and there won't be much logic behind it. But I

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Speaker 1: am personally deciding to think well beyond just twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: four with this hire. And it's not that he has

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Speaker 1: to rebuild the program or anything. It's a turnkey winner

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Speaker 1: if you got the right structure in place. But to

650
00:32:25,760 --> 00:32:28,760
Speaker 1: pretend like well, the best of all time stepped away,

651
00:32:28,800 --> 00:32:30,600
Speaker 1: you ought to just step right in here and I'll

652
00:32:30,680 --> 00:32:32,520
Speaker 1: not even be able to tell a difference from fifty

653
00:32:32,560 --> 00:32:35,800
Speaker 1: thousand feet it's crazy crazy. So I think they'll be

654
00:32:35,800 --> 00:32:38,920
Speaker 1: okay long term. But I was okay riding a bike

655
00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:41,719
Speaker 1: long term. The first time that meh maw took her

656
00:32:41,720 --> 00:32:44,280
Speaker 1: hand off my lower back and pushed me down the hill.

657
00:32:44,640 --> 00:32:45,320
Speaker 2: It was wobbly.

658
00:32:45,360 --> 00:32:48,800
Speaker 1: I didn't fall, I don't think, but it was wobbly.

659
00:32:49,320 --> 00:32:51,200
Speaker 1: So if it's wabbly out of the gate, it's wabbly

660
00:32:51,240 --> 00:32:52,640
Speaker 1: out of the gate. Long term, I'm telling you I

661
00:32:52,720 --> 00:32:55,560
Speaker 1: have very little doubt they'll be fine. I think that

662
00:32:55,600 --> 00:32:59,840
Speaker 1: they absorbed the unavoidable really well too. So the unavoidable

663
00:32:59,920 --> 00:33:03,880
Speaker 1: is you lose Nick Saban, you know, good and well.

664
00:33:03,880 --> 00:33:05,600
Speaker 1: A lot of those players were there to play for him,

665
00:33:05,680 --> 00:33:08,360
Speaker 1: the Caleb downs Is of the world, for example, So

666
00:33:08,720 --> 00:33:11,120
Speaker 1: there was a lot about losing guys to the portal.

667
00:33:11,120 --> 00:33:12,840
Speaker 1: That was gonna be unavoidable. And it didn't matter who

668
00:33:12,840 --> 00:33:16,760
Speaker 1: took the job, it was going to be unavoidable. They

669
00:33:16,800 --> 00:33:19,959
Speaker 1: controlled what they could control. I frankly, I don't even

670
00:33:20,000 --> 00:33:23,200
Speaker 1: think it was the mass exodus of game changers that

671
00:33:23,360 --> 00:33:25,280
Speaker 1: it was made out to be. I mean, you lose

672
00:33:25,320 --> 00:33:27,280
Speaker 1: Caleb Downs, now, that may be the best football player

673
00:33:27,280 --> 00:33:30,840
Speaker 1: on your team, So there's no sugarcoating that. But some

674
00:33:31,000 --> 00:33:33,560
Speaker 1: of the other big time names they kept there. And

675
00:33:34,160 --> 00:33:36,680
Speaker 1: I also think that post spring portal window will be

676
00:33:36,800 --> 00:33:40,360
Speaker 1: fascinating with Alabama. They also brought Austin mack in at quarterback,

677
00:33:40,520 --> 00:33:43,080
Speaker 1: who I know. I've seen a lot of folks who

678
00:33:43,120 --> 00:33:46,960
Speaker 1: cover Alabama just assuming Austin mack is a twenty twenty

679
00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:50,040
Speaker 1: five and beyond name and it's certain to be Milro's

680
00:33:50,040 --> 00:33:52,120
Speaker 1: team this year. And you guys may be right. I

681
00:33:52,160 --> 00:33:55,160
Speaker 1: just want to watch spring ball before I, you know,

682
00:33:55,240 --> 00:34:00,600
Speaker 1: write that in pen myself. Nick Saban came into the

683
00:34:00,640 --> 00:34:03,560
Speaker 1: SEC and redefined what it meant to win in the SEC,

684
00:34:03,640 --> 00:34:04,920
Speaker 1: and that's a generation to go.

685
00:34:05,400 --> 00:34:08,000
Speaker 2: So now you're gonna hear a lot.

686
00:34:07,920 --> 00:34:12,160
Speaker 1: Of folks springball media days getting into this upcoming season

687
00:34:12,160 --> 00:34:15,200
Speaker 1: where Obama won't be favored to win the SEC and

688
00:34:15,600 --> 00:34:17,719
Speaker 1: may not even be the second favorite to win the

689
00:34:17,760 --> 00:34:19,120
Speaker 1: SEC for the first time in a while, and they're

690
00:34:19,120 --> 00:34:21,680
Speaker 1: gonna say Kaylen de Boor does not know the SEC,

691
00:34:22,320 --> 00:34:22,919
Speaker 1: which is right.

692
00:34:24,360 --> 00:34:25,759
Speaker 2: I don't want you.

693
00:34:25,719 --> 00:34:29,120
Speaker 1: To forget that the SEC doesn't know kaylend Bor either.

694
00:34:29,640 --> 00:34:32,400
Speaker 1: And while it is really fun growing up where I

695
00:34:32,440 --> 00:34:35,279
Speaker 1: grew up, to pound your chest and talk about how

696
00:34:35,280 --> 00:34:37,240
Speaker 1: a newcomer is about to get a dose of reality,

697
00:34:37,520 --> 00:34:40,799
Speaker 1: and it does happen a fair amount. Quite notably, it's

698
00:34:40,800 --> 00:34:45,560
Speaker 1: happened recently, even in the state of Alabama. Sometimes it's

699
00:34:45,600 --> 00:34:48,520
Speaker 1: the end verse. Sometimes a new guy comes in and

700
00:34:48,560 --> 00:34:51,200
Speaker 1: you find out, well, he kind of knows what he's doing.

701
00:34:51,640 --> 00:34:54,279
Speaker 2: That stuff he was doing at Washington. Turns out it

702
00:34:54,320 --> 00:34:55,120
Speaker 2: does work here.

703
00:34:55,440 --> 00:34:58,160
Speaker 1: Turns out there's not a total different way to skin

704
00:34:58,239 --> 00:35:00,280
Speaker 1: the cat, or it turns out there's several different ways

705
00:35:00,320 --> 00:35:04,279
Speaker 1: to do it. And also the million dollar question around

706
00:35:04,320 --> 00:35:06,359
Speaker 1: Debor and his staff right now is are they going

707
00:35:06,400 --> 00:35:10,280
Speaker 1: to be able to acquire talent? And I'm a believer,

708
00:35:10,360 --> 00:35:12,080
Speaker 1: and I'll give you this equation. We'll move on. I'm

709
00:35:12,120 --> 00:35:14,440
Speaker 1: a believer that it takes two things to recruit in

710
00:35:14,480 --> 00:35:17,319
Speaker 1: the South. It takes a relentless pursuit. I mean, you've

711
00:35:17,320 --> 00:35:18,959
Speaker 1: got to be able to work twenty four about twenty

712
00:35:18,960 --> 00:35:21,399
Speaker 1: five hours a day. You know, you can't talk about man,

713
00:35:21,480 --> 00:35:24,319
Speaker 1: I work forty five hours this week. I'm drained. Those

714
00:35:24,360 --> 00:35:26,680
Speaker 1: folks burn out pretty quick. But if you want to

715
00:35:26,680 --> 00:35:29,960
Speaker 1: recruit the sec successfully, you got to be relentless, and

716
00:35:30,040 --> 00:35:32,560
Speaker 1: I think he absolutely is. And number two, you got

717
00:35:32,600 --> 00:35:36,560
Speaker 1: to know people. You've got to know people. The emphasis

718
00:35:36,600 --> 00:35:39,759
Speaker 1: is on people, not no no people. You got to

719
00:35:39,840 --> 00:35:42,919
Speaker 1: have ends here and ends there. You'll develop those relationships

720
00:35:43,000 --> 00:35:45,520
Speaker 1: if you're good with folks and you're relentless. How do

721
00:35:45,600 --> 00:35:47,960
Speaker 1: you think the ones who have the relationships, how do

722
00:35:48,000 --> 00:35:50,160
Speaker 1: you think the ones who do know the people found

723
00:35:50,160 --> 00:35:52,640
Speaker 1: ways to know the people. So that's again, that's a process.

724
00:35:52,800 --> 00:35:56,480
Speaker 1: I think they'll be okay there. But my question as

725
00:35:56,520 --> 00:35:59,960
Speaker 1: we move on to you is what is success for them?

726
00:36:01,120 --> 00:36:03,920
Speaker 1: In other words, what is the thing Alabama could accomplish

727
00:36:03,960 --> 00:36:07,479
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty four where you look and you say, hey,

728
00:36:07,520 --> 00:36:09,439
Speaker 1: I guess Dbor was the right guy for the job.

729
00:36:09,640 --> 00:36:11,200
Speaker 1: Is it an amount of wins? Is it a number

730
00:36:11,200 --> 00:36:13,960
Speaker 1: of wins? Is it a level of play on the field.

731
00:36:14,160 --> 00:36:16,799
Speaker 1: Do you care more about the recruiting class coming up?

732
00:36:17,360 --> 00:36:20,200
Speaker 1: Just out of curiosity? No right or wrong answers, just

733
00:36:20,239 --> 00:36:21,120
Speaker 1: out of curiosity.

734
00:36:21,960 --> 00:36:23,480
Speaker 2: Let's move on. I have.

735
00:36:25,000 --> 00:36:27,560
Speaker 1: I got some mystery teams talk about later. This coaching

736
00:36:27,600 --> 00:36:29,520
Speaker 1: debate is fun. I'm gonna get to that in just

737
00:36:29,560 --> 00:36:33,279
Speaker 1: a second. And yes, yes, children, if you are tuned in,

738
00:36:33,840 --> 00:36:35,600
Speaker 1: there will be a point towards the end of this

739
00:36:35,719 --> 00:36:39,759
Speaker 1: show where I have a thought or two on the

740
00:36:39,800 --> 00:36:43,439
Speaker 1: news about the college football video game today. Yes, yes,

741
00:36:43,480 --> 00:36:44,640
Speaker 1: I will do that. It's going to be at the

742
00:36:44,719 --> 00:36:48,200
Speaker 1: end of the show, but I will do that. So

743
00:36:48,360 --> 00:36:51,960
Speaker 1: college football is twenty twenty four schedule. It's out that

744
00:36:52,120 --> 00:36:54,920
Speaker 1: non conference slate. I had some of you ask me

745
00:36:54,960 --> 00:36:57,879
Speaker 1: about it. Bud In particular not Elliot Bud Royster said,

746
00:36:58,040 --> 00:37:01,280
Speaker 1: what's the best out of conference football game this season? Well,

747
00:37:01,640 --> 00:37:04,600
Speaker 1: I cannot narrow it down to one, So I've got

748
00:37:04,600 --> 00:37:06,640
Speaker 1: a list here. You guys can share the ones because

749
00:37:06,640 --> 00:37:08,400
Speaker 1: I couldn't fit them all on here. You guys can

750
00:37:08,480 --> 00:37:11,359
Speaker 1: share the ones you're excited about. Do you know in

751
00:37:11,440 --> 00:37:14,600
Speaker 1: week one, I've got three games on this list from

752
00:37:14,600 --> 00:37:18,279
Speaker 1: week one? You know Miami plays Florida at Florida in

753
00:37:18,360 --> 00:37:21,520
Speaker 1: Week one. You don't want to talk about pressure on

754
00:37:21,560 --> 00:37:24,600
Speaker 1: a football game again. One of the many reasons I

755
00:37:24,640 --> 00:37:27,440
Speaker 1: love college football is because you could have a game

756
00:37:27,680 --> 00:37:32,080
Speaker 1: in week one where both coaches are being doubted. I mean,

757
00:37:32,080 --> 00:37:34,000
Speaker 1: one coach is just straight up on the hot seat.

758
00:37:34,000 --> 00:37:36,320
Speaker 1: They're over under win total at Florida's five and a half.

759
00:37:36,520 --> 00:37:39,160
Speaker 1: They know they've got a murderer's row of a schedule

760
00:37:39,200 --> 00:37:42,640
Speaker 1: this year. And then conversely, you got Mario down at

761
00:37:42,719 --> 00:37:46,080
Speaker 1: Miami and the entire country's screaming, Yeah, he can recruit,

762
00:37:46,120 --> 00:37:46,920
Speaker 1: but can he coach?

763
00:37:47,000 --> 00:37:51,080
Speaker 2: Can he win? On Saturday? Someone's got to lose this game. Okay.

764
00:37:51,080 --> 00:37:54,600
Speaker 1: Can you imagine leaving this thing oho to one how

765
00:37:54,640 --> 00:37:57,920
Speaker 1: toxic it will already be by the second week in

766
00:37:57,960 --> 00:38:01,279
Speaker 1: September and convert Victually, you know, the winner's got a

767
00:38:01,360 --> 00:38:04,000
Speaker 1: leg up, at least theoretically he's got a leg up

768
00:38:04,000 --> 00:38:07,279
Speaker 1: perception wise. It's not a conference game. But I just

769
00:38:07,320 --> 00:38:09,800
Speaker 1: think about that. I think about the team that starts

770
00:38:09,880 --> 00:38:10,359
Speaker 1: zero to one.

771
00:38:10,440 --> 00:38:10,640
Speaker 2: There.

772
00:38:10,880 --> 00:38:14,480
Speaker 1: That's the kind of consequence that exists in this sport,

773
00:38:14,880 --> 00:38:17,920
Speaker 1: even early in the season. Texas is at Michigan the

774
00:38:18,080 --> 00:38:23,280
Speaker 1: very next week, Week two sec versus Big Ten. Texas

775
00:38:23,280 --> 00:38:25,440
Speaker 1: has got the third best odds to win the title

776
00:38:25,480 --> 00:38:28,440
Speaker 1: this year. Michigan's got the seventh best odds. Texas is

777
00:38:28,480 --> 00:38:32,120
Speaker 1: an early two and a half point favorite in this

778
00:38:32,239 --> 00:38:36,000
Speaker 1: game at Michigan. According to our buddies at FanDuel. What

779
00:38:36,080 --> 00:38:39,319
Speaker 1: a moment for Sharon Moore, Like, Yeah, it's a big

780
00:38:39,320 --> 00:38:42,839
Speaker 1: moment when you find out your head coach is suspended

781
00:38:43,120 --> 00:38:45,320
Speaker 1: and you're the interim head coach and you got to

782
00:38:45,360 --> 00:38:47,560
Speaker 1: face Penn State on the road. But it was almost

783
00:38:47,600 --> 00:38:50,200
Speaker 1: like it happened so fast you don't have time to

784
00:38:50,239 --> 00:38:51,200
Speaker 1: be worried or nervous.

785
00:38:51,239 --> 00:38:53,880
Speaker 2: Well, now you're the head coach permanently. Now you got.

786
00:38:53,719 --> 00:38:55,959
Speaker 1: Months and months and months to build up, and it's

787
00:38:56,040 --> 00:38:58,600
Speaker 1: your team, it's your program. You're not just holding the

788
00:38:58,600 --> 00:39:01,799
Speaker 1: wheel for someone else. And Texas comes to town in

789
00:39:01,800 --> 00:39:04,839
Speaker 1: week two, and then all of a sudden, you got

790
00:39:04,840 --> 00:39:08,359
Speaker 1: Texas in the same position they were last year. Last year,

791
00:39:08,400 --> 00:39:11,400
Speaker 1: they go to Alabama, they win in Week two, and

792
00:39:11,440 --> 00:39:13,200
Speaker 1: they're off to the races. Well, they could go to

793
00:39:13,239 --> 00:39:16,239
Speaker 1: Michigan win and sort of feel the same way, be

794
00:39:16,320 --> 00:39:19,680
Speaker 1: off to the race as this upcoming year. Oh what

795
00:39:19,760 --> 00:39:23,080
Speaker 1: a helmet game, by the way, the Longhorn and the

796
00:39:23,120 --> 00:39:26,600
Speaker 1: Maze and Blute. What a helmet game. That's one where

797
00:39:26,600 --> 00:39:28,799
Speaker 1: you don't need to know any of the names of

798
00:39:28,840 --> 00:39:29,880
Speaker 1: any of the players.

799
00:39:30,480 --> 00:39:32,439
Speaker 2: Just put the game on mute for all I care

800
00:39:32,800 --> 00:39:34,280
Speaker 2: and just watch the pretty image.

801
00:39:34,320 --> 00:39:36,560
Speaker 1: Just go back and forth. How about Georgia at Clemson.

802
00:39:36,600 --> 00:39:39,480
Speaker 1: That's not at Clemson. Georgia versus Clemson is in Atlanta

803
00:39:39,800 --> 00:39:43,239
Speaker 1: in week one. Georgia's actually before I give you the

804
00:39:43,280 --> 00:39:45,520
Speaker 1: points spread. For those of you who haven't checked fan duel,

805
00:39:46,200 --> 00:39:48,400
Speaker 1: anyone have a guess. Well, now that you see it

806
00:39:48,440 --> 00:39:50,640
Speaker 1: on the screen, you know, Georgia's minus twelve and a

807
00:39:50,680 --> 00:39:55,440
Speaker 1: half against Clemson. Garrett Riley the OC at Clemson K

808
00:39:55,640 --> 00:39:59,279
Speaker 1: Clubnit quarterback there at Clemson there year two together, now

809
00:40:01,000 --> 00:40:04,800
Speaker 1: I have spoken about Clemson at length. George is a mainstay.

810
00:40:04,840 --> 00:40:07,160
Speaker 1: They're in this position every year. It's a virtual home

811
00:40:07,160 --> 00:40:09,319
Speaker 1: game in their backyard, although Clemson is not much further

812
00:40:09,400 --> 00:40:14,120
Speaker 1: up the road. But here's a question. There are two

813
00:40:14,160 --> 00:40:16,880
Speaker 1: teams right now where if I talk about them not

814
00:40:17,080 --> 00:40:22,919
Speaker 1: being in Tier One, their fans very vehemently disagree. One

815
00:40:23,000 --> 00:40:26,560
Speaker 1: is Clemson, the other is USC. So I'm not talking

816
00:40:26,600 --> 00:40:30,239
Speaker 1: about USC right now with Clemson. If I'm wrong about that,

817
00:40:30,600 --> 00:40:33,000
Speaker 1: and Clemson is a Tier one program still and they're

818
00:40:33,000 --> 00:40:35,000
Speaker 1: a Tier one team, and I do not believe they

819
00:40:35,040 --> 00:40:39,719
Speaker 1: are right now, I'll know, will know because whether they

820
00:40:39,760 --> 00:40:43,839
Speaker 1: win or lose, this won't be lopsided. Now, if I'm right,

821
00:40:44,320 --> 00:40:46,799
Speaker 1: there is the opportunity for Georgia to pull away and

822
00:40:46,800 --> 00:40:50,360
Speaker 1: win by twenty twenty five points. But if I'm wrong,

823
00:40:51,080 --> 00:40:54,000
Speaker 1: or or if I have been right, but Clemson is

824
00:40:54,120 --> 00:40:57,399
Speaker 1: changing the narrative and they've they've shored up a lot

825
00:40:57,440 --> 00:41:00,200
Speaker 1: of their inefficiencies, well, then all of a sudden, this

826
00:41:00,280 --> 00:41:03,440
Speaker 1: is a dogfight of a game and everyone's watching it saying, wow,

827
00:41:03,600 --> 00:41:06,080
Speaker 1: Clemson's tied with Georgia, will five minutes to go. Remember

828
00:41:06,120 --> 00:41:09,759
Speaker 1: they lost to Duke last year they ugly lost to Duke.

829
00:41:09,840 --> 00:41:12,640
Speaker 1: Good for Dabo, So that's why we played the games, obviously.

830
00:41:12,960 --> 00:41:15,640
Speaker 1: But this is a very, very big, big important game

831
00:41:15,640 --> 00:41:19,080
Speaker 1: for the program. Like this is not important for Georgia's program,

832
00:41:19,360 --> 00:41:23,680
Speaker 1: it is very important for Clemsons program. Next up, same week,

833
00:41:25,040 --> 00:41:29,440
Speaker 1: USC plays LSU in Las Vegas. The building they just

834
00:41:29,480 --> 00:41:32,759
Speaker 1: played the Super Bowl. Limb the building the last PAC

835
00:41:32,800 --> 00:41:35,880
Speaker 1: twelve championship game was played in. Yeah, that's where LSU

836
00:41:35,920 --> 00:41:39,000
Speaker 1: is a six point favorite at FanDuel right now against USC.

837
00:41:40,040 --> 00:41:43,080
Speaker 2: Just show me the defenses. Just show me.

838
00:41:43,600 --> 00:41:46,319
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna say that that's a surefire immunity. Show

839
00:41:46,360 --> 00:41:50,839
Speaker 1: me the defenses. D'Anton Limb brand new defensive coordinator for USC,

840
00:41:51,040 --> 00:41:53,520
Speaker 1: one of the most important names in college football this year.

841
00:41:53,920 --> 00:41:56,839
Speaker 1: Blake Baker, new DC at LSU, one of the most

842
00:41:56,840 --> 00:41:59,480
Speaker 1: important names in college football this year. These were pinball

843
00:41:59,560 --> 00:42:03,120
Speaker 1: offenses at various times. Last year, LSU's quarterback won the

844
00:42:03,160 --> 00:42:06,840
Speaker 1: Heisman Trophy over under his sixty six I believe in

845
00:42:06,840 --> 00:42:10,520
Speaker 1: this game right now, show me the defenses, because the

846
00:42:10,600 --> 00:42:14,759
Speaker 1: ultimate hopes on both of these teams rests solely on

847
00:42:14,920 --> 00:42:18,520
Speaker 1: how much better those DC hires and those defensive staffs

848
00:42:18,680 --> 00:42:23,160
Speaker 1: can make those defenses those units in year one, because

849
00:42:23,560 --> 00:42:26,319
Speaker 1: either one of them last year, especially LSU, you give

850
00:42:26,360 --> 00:42:28,440
Speaker 1: them top thirty defense, they could have won the national

851
00:42:28,480 --> 00:42:31,319
Speaker 1: championship for all I know, but they didn't have one,

852
00:42:31,600 --> 00:42:35,160
Speaker 1: and so they got beat by the likes of Alabama

853
00:42:35,480 --> 00:42:39,160
Speaker 1: and FSU just running the score up on them. Lastly,

854
00:42:39,520 --> 00:42:43,200
Speaker 1: go all the way to Week ten, South Bend, Indiana.

855
00:42:43,239 --> 00:42:47,120
Speaker 1: Week ten, Florida State comes to town. Notre Dame's off

856
00:42:47,120 --> 00:42:50,719
Speaker 1: of bye. They welcome in Florida State. And here's what's

857
00:42:50,760 --> 00:42:54,319
Speaker 1: interesting from an FSU scheduling perspective or a Notre Dame

858
00:42:54,400 --> 00:42:59,360
Speaker 1: scheduling perspective. Notre Dame faces one opponent this year with

859
00:42:59,520 --> 00:43:03,120
Speaker 1: prec national title odds better than them, and it's Florida State.

860
00:43:04,440 --> 00:43:06,279
Speaker 1: So I'm not going as far as to tell you

861
00:43:06,280 --> 00:43:08,600
Speaker 1: Notre Dame will be favored in every game this year.

862
00:43:08,680 --> 00:43:12,080
Speaker 1: Maybe they will be, but this is the one team

863
00:43:12,120 --> 00:43:14,080
Speaker 1: that Vegas thinks more highly of than Notre Dame in

864
00:43:14,120 --> 00:43:17,879
Speaker 1: the preseason who they faced this year. Riley Leonard, who

865
00:43:17,920 --> 00:43:20,919
Speaker 1: is now the quarterback at Notre Dame. Remember he played

866
00:43:20,920 --> 00:43:23,680
Speaker 1: at Duke last year and when they played against Florida State,

867
00:43:23,719 --> 00:43:27,360
Speaker 1: he was banged up really bad, had under seventy yards passing,

868
00:43:27,719 --> 00:43:30,600
Speaker 1: and he gets another shot at them. But more importantly,

869
00:43:30,920 --> 00:43:32,879
Speaker 1: like I said, this is not week one, two or three.

870
00:43:33,120 --> 00:43:34,879
Speaker 1: And if you look at their schedule at Notre Dame

871
00:43:34,920 --> 00:43:36,920
Speaker 1: right now, they go to A and M in week one,

872
00:43:37,000 --> 00:43:38,960
Speaker 1: which also could have been on this list. I don't

873
00:43:39,000 --> 00:43:41,279
Speaker 1: want to just gloss over that Notre Dame opens in

874
00:43:41,360 --> 00:43:45,359
Speaker 1: College Station this year, Mike Elko's first game as head

875
00:43:45,400 --> 00:43:50,680
Speaker 1: coach there. So you got a bunch of like Northern Illinois, Perdue, Miami, Ohio,

876
00:43:50,760 --> 00:43:51,440
Speaker 1: Louisville stand for.

877
00:43:51,520 --> 00:43:52,400
Speaker 2: Georgia Tech, Navy.

878
00:43:52,400 --> 00:43:54,759
Speaker 1: They'll go off the national radar for a little while

879
00:43:54,840 --> 00:43:56,680
Speaker 1: and then everyone will be building up to that Florida

880
00:43:56,680 --> 00:44:00,000
Speaker 1: State game, and that'll be really good because obviously it's

881
00:44:00,120 --> 00:44:02,439
Speaker 1: all out of conference with Notre Dame. But for Florida State,

882
00:44:02,719 --> 00:44:05,520
Speaker 1: man they go up there in November. You have been

883
00:44:05,560 --> 00:44:08,400
Speaker 1: in Northern Indiana in November. It doesn't feel like Tallahassee.

884
00:44:08,600 --> 00:44:09,319
Speaker 2: I do know that.

885
00:44:09,760 --> 00:44:11,319
Speaker 1: So those are some games I'm looking forward to in

886
00:44:11,360 --> 00:44:15,239
Speaker 1: the out of conference we move on. I'm trying to

887
00:44:15,280 --> 00:44:20,160
Speaker 1: keep a brisk pace here tonight. Oh oh, I didn't

888
00:44:20,160 --> 00:44:20,879
Speaker 1: want to thank you.

889
00:44:21,239 --> 00:44:24,600
Speaker 2: So we we got a lot of got a lot of.

890
00:44:24,480 --> 00:44:26,279
Speaker 1: Thank yous the other day, or got a lot of

891
00:44:26,400 --> 00:44:29,279
Speaker 1: congratulations or pats on the back whatever. We got about

892
00:44:29,280 --> 00:44:31,759
Speaker 1: the Late Kick Extra podcast. So that drops in your

893
00:44:31,760 --> 00:44:35,120
Speaker 1: feed every Tuesday or Wednesday, depending on how quickly Bradley edits.

894
00:44:34,880 --> 00:44:36,600
Speaker 2: It, and he was quick this week.

895
00:44:37,520 --> 00:44:42,440
Speaker 1: But sometimes I'll have Colin recorded, even though it's a

896
00:44:42,440 --> 00:44:45,920
Speaker 1: podcast only, I'll have Colin record video and we'll upload

897
00:44:45,960 --> 00:44:49,280
Speaker 1: like some clips on the YouTube channel. Well, we work

898
00:44:49,320 --> 00:44:51,920
Speaker 1: in We work on like the fourteenth floor of this

899
00:44:52,120 --> 00:44:55,120
Speaker 1: massive building downtown in Nashville, and there are a lot

900
00:44:55,120 --> 00:44:58,640
Speaker 1: of studios around here that just go unused. So Jesse

901
00:44:58,760 --> 00:45:01,200
Speaker 1: and Colin and I I've had our eye on this

902
00:45:01,920 --> 00:45:05,239
Speaker 1: radio studio that CMT Radio used for a long time.

903
00:45:06,000 --> 00:45:08,600
Speaker 1: The thing looks really, really awesome. It just sits there.

904
00:45:09,080 --> 00:45:10,600
Speaker 1: So we said, you know what we ought to just

905
00:45:10,960 --> 00:45:13,440
Speaker 1: were just laughing. We ought to just record the extra

906
00:45:13,480 --> 00:45:15,440
Speaker 1: podcast in there. And then all of a sudden one

907
00:45:15,440 --> 00:45:18,160
Speaker 1: of us got a straight face and said, why don't

908
00:45:18,200 --> 00:45:20,000
Speaker 1: we record the extra pot in there? So we did,

909
00:45:20,239 --> 00:45:22,360
Speaker 1: and we took some of the trinkets, you know, Floyd

910
00:45:22,400 --> 00:45:25,719
Speaker 1: of Rosedale, for example, the Late Kick helmets and some

911
00:45:25,760 --> 00:45:27,920
Speaker 1: of the chow I and we put them behind the

912
00:45:28,000 --> 00:45:29,800
Speaker 1: set and we went in there and recorded it the

913
00:45:29,880 --> 00:45:33,480
Speaker 1: other day. Audio was great, first off. Secondly, had a

914
00:45:33,520 --> 00:45:35,960
Speaker 1: really homely vibe to it, didn't it, Colin? And so

915
00:45:37,239 --> 00:45:39,719
Speaker 1: we got asked, Hey, do you guys have a new set. No,

916
00:45:39,880 --> 00:45:42,120
Speaker 1: it's like we're still doing the show here. It's just

917
00:45:42,239 --> 00:45:45,319
Speaker 1: we wanted to try that out and probably we'll do

918
00:45:45,360 --> 00:45:48,719
Speaker 1: it again at some point. So we got the compliments

919
00:45:48,719 --> 00:45:54,719
Speaker 1: and we appreciate that. Okay, I don't know how else

920
00:45:54,760 --> 00:45:57,480
Speaker 1: to put this. Coaches make a lot of money and

921
00:45:57,520 --> 00:46:00,759
Speaker 1: their jobs are hard. With that in mind, Colin, could

922
00:46:00,840 --> 00:46:04,120
Speaker 1: you show me the Adam Schefter tweet from yesterday? Because

923
00:46:04,120 --> 00:46:06,040
Speaker 1: this had a lot of people up in arms. So

924
00:46:06,120 --> 00:46:09,919
Speaker 1: Adam Schefter followed. He covers the NFL for ESPN. He said,

925
00:46:09,960 --> 00:46:13,680
Speaker 1: a trend that has emerged this winter is many college

926
00:46:13,680 --> 00:46:16,920
Speaker 1: coaches are tired of the transfer portal, the NIL money,

927
00:46:16,920 --> 00:46:19,759
Speaker 1: and the new NCAA world and prefer to work in

928
00:46:19,800 --> 00:46:23,560
Speaker 1: the NFL. Many college coaches already have left, many more

929
00:46:23,640 --> 00:46:27,640
Speaker 1: want to. Now, if you know college football, that doesn't

930
00:46:27,640 --> 00:46:30,440
Speaker 1: come as a huge shock to you. And I've articulated

931
00:46:30,440 --> 00:46:32,280
Speaker 1: that to you many times. That a lot of coaches

932
00:46:32,280 --> 00:46:34,360
Speaker 1: have shared that with me as well, and I've shared

933
00:46:34,360 --> 00:46:37,680
Speaker 1: it on the show. So this conversation has totally gone

934
00:46:37,680 --> 00:46:41,880
Speaker 1: off the rails because the nature of this world is

935
00:46:41,960 --> 00:46:44,359
Speaker 1: now a lot of people talk college football year round.

936
00:46:44,400 --> 00:46:46,040
Speaker 1: That's a good thing. We didn't used to have a

937
00:46:46,040 --> 00:46:48,840
Speaker 1: lot of that. That's a good thing. The downside to

938
00:46:48,920 --> 00:46:52,800
Speaker 1: that is if they are not games happening, there tends

939
00:46:52,800 --> 00:46:55,120
Speaker 1: to be this massive echo chamber where at any given

940
00:46:55,160 --> 00:46:59,239
Speaker 1: point there are two or three relevant topics and everyone's

941
00:46:59,280 --> 00:47:03,600
Speaker 1: talking about the same topic. So we were talking about

942
00:47:03,600 --> 00:47:05,640
Speaker 1: this for a while on this show, and I'll reiterate

943
00:47:05,680 --> 00:47:08,319
Speaker 1: my thoughts in a second. But when I've spoken out

944
00:47:08,320 --> 00:47:11,759
Speaker 1: about this, I've said, Hey, the schedule such right now

945
00:47:12,239 --> 00:47:15,799
Speaker 1: and coaches are being stretched, really them, and they don't

946
00:47:15,800 --> 00:47:18,200
Speaker 1: get hardly any time to actually focus on ball and

947
00:47:18,280 --> 00:47:22,040
Speaker 1: to coach and sharpen and hone their craft, and burnout

948
00:47:22,080 --> 00:47:24,560
Speaker 1: is real. Those are the things I've said. I don't

949
00:47:24,600 --> 00:47:29,520
Speaker 1: think it's great for the sport. That's what I've said. Okay, period,

950
00:47:30,400 --> 00:47:35,200
Speaker 1: Then there is this other contrarian group of people who

951
00:47:35,960 --> 00:47:38,400
Speaker 1: doesn't matter what they hear said. If they hear a

952
00:47:38,520 --> 00:47:41,640
Speaker 1: chorus sung in unison. They are going to sing another

953
00:47:41,680 --> 00:47:44,279
Speaker 1: tune just for the sake of singing another tune, which

954
00:47:44,719 --> 00:47:46,359
Speaker 1: is not the worst thing in the world, because at

955
00:47:46,400 --> 00:47:51,399
Speaker 1: least it diversifies the library of thoughts out there. Well,

956
00:47:52,760 --> 00:47:56,600
Speaker 1: what they've done, the contrarian class over here, is they've

957
00:47:56,719 --> 00:47:59,480
Speaker 1: listened to people say things like I was saying there,

958
00:47:59,560 --> 00:48:02,600
Speaker 1: which is schedule is not good right now. I think

959
00:48:02,680 --> 00:48:05,480
Speaker 1: coaching burnout is real. I do think that guys at

960
00:48:05,480 --> 00:48:07,880
Speaker 1: our level are trying to get out to a higher

961
00:48:07,920 --> 00:48:10,520
Speaker 1: percentage degree than they have in the past. I don't

962
00:48:10,520 --> 00:48:12,520
Speaker 1: think there's enough time to be focused on ball right

963
00:48:12,560 --> 00:48:15,120
Speaker 1: now because of all the other mess that's around the

964
00:48:15,160 --> 00:48:15,840
Speaker 1: world of coaching.

965
00:48:15,920 --> 00:48:16,799
Speaker 2: And that's what I've said.

966
00:48:17,520 --> 00:48:21,040
Speaker 1: Then the contrarian class says, look at everyone freaking out

967
00:48:21,080 --> 00:48:23,440
Speaker 1: about this. I'm not freaking out about it. It's not

968
00:48:23,480 --> 00:48:26,200
Speaker 1: worth freaking out about. Oh, look at everyone presenting this

969
00:48:26,239 --> 00:48:28,000
Speaker 1: as a crisis. It's not a crisis.

970
00:48:28,560 --> 00:48:31,680
Speaker 2: Never use the word ever to discuss this. It's not

971
00:48:31,719 --> 00:48:32,520
Speaker 2: a crisis. Here.

972
00:48:32,520 --> 00:48:35,560
Speaker 1: On a scale of one to ten problems facing this sport,

973
00:48:35,840 --> 00:48:38,640
Speaker 1: it's probably about a four, if I'm being real with you,

974
00:48:38,640 --> 00:48:41,040
Speaker 1: probably about a four. Oh, look at him fear mongering.

975
00:48:41,160 --> 00:48:44,120
Speaker 1: I'm a guy driving to work in Des Moines, Iowa.

976
00:48:44,239 --> 00:48:47,040
Speaker 1: This does not impact his life. Maybe he's interested in it,

977
00:48:47,239 --> 00:48:49,640
Speaker 1: maybe he's not, but he's just a college football fan.

978
00:48:49,920 --> 00:48:51,840
Speaker 1: And I just happen to be talking about it because

979
00:48:51,840 --> 00:48:54,120
Speaker 1: our traffic shows enough of you care about this that

980
00:48:54,160 --> 00:48:55,560
Speaker 1: I'll touch on it every now and then.

981
00:48:55,640 --> 00:48:59,480
Speaker 2: There's no freak out. There's no freak out, there's no crisis.

982
00:49:00,040 --> 00:49:02,680
Speaker 1: It's just something that I think matters because I would

983
00:49:02,760 --> 00:49:08,120
Speaker 1: prefer not to see good people leave this game because

984
00:49:08,160 --> 00:49:09,800
Speaker 1: they don't recognize the game anymore.

985
00:49:09,920 --> 00:49:10,399
Speaker 2: That's it.

986
00:49:11,160 --> 00:49:15,440
Speaker 1: So there's been a loud enough chorus of people complaining

987
00:49:15,800 --> 00:49:19,520
Speaker 1: and some coaches complaining that some other coaches have started

988
00:49:19,560 --> 00:49:21,200
Speaker 1: to chime in on the other side. So it's no

989
00:49:21,280 --> 00:49:23,839
Speaker 1: different than in our world. In our world, you got

990
00:49:23,880 --> 00:49:26,200
Speaker 1: folks like me who say one thing. Then you got

991
00:49:26,239 --> 00:49:28,359
Speaker 1: other folks who come out and mock it, and they

992
00:49:28,400 --> 00:49:32,040
Speaker 1: say the other thing, oftentimes badly miscontextualizing what you said.

993
00:49:32,040 --> 00:49:35,400
Speaker 1: To begin with, Kenny Dillingham at Arizona State, friend of

994
00:49:35,440 --> 00:49:38,040
Speaker 1: the program, new head coach out there at Arizona State, Well,

995
00:49:38,040 --> 00:49:43,600
Speaker 1: he's been there a year. He was talking yesterday and said, quote,

996
00:49:44,120 --> 00:49:46,360
Speaker 1: I think you have to hire people that love coaching.

997
00:49:46,400 --> 00:49:48,200
Speaker 1: I joke around, but do you know how many people

998
00:49:48,280 --> 00:49:48,879
Speaker 1: want my job?

999
00:49:49,200 --> 00:49:49,279
Speaker 2: Like?

1000
00:49:49,320 --> 00:49:51,480
Speaker 1: Do you know how many people want my assistant jobs

1001
00:49:51,680 --> 00:49:54,400
Speaker 1: and my analyst jobs, and the quarterback and GA jobs.

1002
00:49:54,520 --> 00:49:56,800
Speaker 2: So don't complain about what we do. You're blessed.

1003
00:49:57,200 --> 00:49:59,360
Speaker 1: There's a lot of negative to it, yes, but do

1004
00:49:59,440 --> 00:50:01,120
Speaker 1: you know how many people want to be a college

1005
00:50:01,160 --> 00:50:03,879
Speaker 1: football coach? I literally spent nine years of my life

1006
00:50:03,880 --> 00:50:06,719
Speaker 1: doing anything to become a coffee boy. So don't give

1007
00:50:06,760 --> 00:50:08,719
Speaker 1: me the oh, it's hard to be a coach right now? Yeah,

1008
00:50:08,760 --> 00:50:11,440
Speaker 1: it's hard. Quit then, Like, that's.

1009
00:50:11,200 --> 00:50:13,640
Speaker 2: How I look at it. I got no problem with that.

1010
00:50:14,320 --> 00:50:17,280
Speaker 1: The reason I mentioned the Kenny Dillingham quote is because

1011
00:50:17,400 --> 00:50:19,880
Speaker 1: I looked in my inbox and a lot of you

1012
00:50:19,920 --> 00:50:22,040
Speaker 1: sent me that quote and said, wow, he disagrees with you.

1013
00:50:22,120 --> 00:50:25,160
Speaker 1: Kenny dillinghams not to disagreeing with me, because he didn't

1014
00:50:25,160 --> 00:50:29,000
Speaker 1: refute anything I've said. You are extremely privileged and blessed

1015
00:50:29,040 --> 00:50:31,399
Speaker 1: to be a college football coach. You're making a ton

1016
00:50:31,480 --> 00:50:37,160
Speaker 1: of money, and people who work extremely hard jobs in

1017
00:50:37,200 --> 00:50:39,640
Speaker 1: their own right making fractions of what you make tune

1018
00:50:39,640 --> 00:50:42,480
Speaker 1: in to watch you on saturdays. You live a dream

1019
00:50:42,560 --> 00:50:45,800
Speaker 1: life by some of their metrics. So yes, you're blessed

1020
00:50:46,080 --> 00:50:48,160
Speaker 1: you get to coach a game for a living, Absolutely

1021
00:50:48,200 --> 00:50:48,400
Speaker 1: you do.

1022
00:50:48,920 --> 00:50:50,600
Speaker 2: And if it does get too.

1023
00:50:50,480 --> 00:50:54,879
Speaker 1: Hard, quit is the best advice that you can give someone.

1024
00:50:54,160 --> 00:50:57,759
Speaker 1: I got no problem with that attitude, and I think

1025
00:50:57,760 --> 00:51:00,799
Speaker 1: it's a reactionary attitude instead of one Dillingham just wants

1026
00:51:00,840 --> 00:51:02,839
Speaker 1: to go around popping off at the mouth about. But

1027
00:51:02,920 --> 00:51:05,759
Speaker 1: I will say this, as much as Kenny Dilleyham made

1028
00:51:05,800 --> 00:51:09,280
Speaker 1: some good points there, I'll stand by everything I've said

1029
00:51:09,800 --> 00:51:13,320
Speaker 1: in that you can have that opinion but also be

1030
00:51:13,480 --> 00:51:16,480
Speaker 1: talking about something that is a problem. May not be

1031
00:51:16,520 --> 00:51:20,839
Speaker 1: a massive problem, but it is a problem. Circumstances are

1032
00:51:20,920 --> 00:51:25,160
Speaker 1: either good, bad, or indifferent. There are three options here.

1033
00:51:25,560 --> 00:51:27,759
Speaker 1: It's either a tent on the negative all the way

1034
00:51:27,800 --> 00:51:30,000
Speaker 1: to a zero to a tent on the positive, and

1035
00:51:30,080 --> 00:51:33,840
Speaker 1: somewhere on that scale is every circumstance. And right now

1036
00:51:34,200 --> 00:51:37,880
Speaker 1: I would say that the circumstance of the December schedule

1037
00:51:37,880 --> 00:51:40,359
Speaker 1: and calendar, which they're trying to address even today as

1038
00:51:40,360 --> 00:51:43,840
Speaker 1: we speak, and coaching burnout. I think it's an issue

1039
00:51:44,120 --> 00:51:47,880
Speaker 1: to a varying degree that's plaguing college football right now.

1040
00:51:47,920 --> 00:51:50,239
Speaker 1: And there is no reason for it to be. So

1041
00:51:50,800 --> 00:51:53,640
Speaker 1: a problem is a problem, and even if one person's

1042
00:51:53,680 --> 00:51:56,920
Speaker 1: pointing it out or ten thousand people are pointing it out,

1043
00:51:57,040 --> 00:51:59,160
Speaker 1: it doesn't change the fact that it's a problem. If

1044
00:51:59,200 --> 00:52:01,680
Speaker 1: it is, if it's your opinion, it's not a problem.

1045
00:52:02,120 --> 00:52:04,000
Speaker 1: Or if it's your opinion that, hey, all of them

1046
00:52:04,000 --> 00:52:06,600
Speaker 1: can quit for all you care. You do real work,

1047
00:52:06,880 --> 00:52:10,040
Speaker 1: and there'll be football coaches until the end of time.

1048
00:52:10,840 --> 00:52:13,120
Speaker 1: I've never disagreed with that either. I'll say this, though,

1049
00:52:14,440 --> 00:52:18,400
Speaker 1: you'd never have a problem filling coaching jobs. My question

1050
00:52:18,440 --> 00:52:21,680
Speaker 1: has always been are you filling those jobs with qualified

1051
00:52:21,760 --> 00:52:26,640
Speaker 1: candidates like you can? You can wipe out any highly

1052
00:52:26,680 --> 00:52:29,480
Speaker 1: competitive industry of the top names.

1053
00:52:29,480 --> 00:52:32,520
Speaker 2: And sure you'll backfill them, no problem. You can do

1054
00:52:32,560 --> 00:52:33,279
Speaker 2: it just like that.

1055
00:52:34,400 --> 00:52:37,719
Speaker 1: Is it quality across the board like you have? I mean,

1056
00:52:37,760 --> 00:52:40,120
Speaker 1: if I were to wipe out every Major League Baseball

1057
00:52:40,120 --> 00:52:42,680
Speaker 1: player right now, call it a strike. For example, you

1058
00:52:42,680 --> 00:52:46,240
Speaker 1: can get replacement players. They tried it before it sucked.

1059
00:52:46,440 --> 00:52:48,960
Speaker 1: You know why, the replacement players weren't as good as

1060
00:52:49,000 --> 00:52:51,759
Speaker 1: the real deal. It's only half things called triple double

1061
00:52:51,840 --> 00:52:53,760
Speaker 1: and single A in Major League Baseball.

1062
00:52:54,080 --> 00:52:55,839
Speaker 2: So I've never doubted that.

1063
00:52:56,680 --> 00:53:00,319
Speaker 1: I just is it the most sage approach to look

1064
00:53:00,320 --> 00:53:04,040
Speaker 1: at a problem and instead of trying to address the problem,

1065
00:53:04,560 --> 00:53:06,400
Speaker 1: just say, oh, screwed it. If they don't like it,

1066
00:53:06,440 --> 00:53:08,440
Speaker 1: they can leave and we'll get folks to take their place.

1067
00:53:08,560 --> 00:53:11,879
Speaker 1: Is that really the most logical approach? Now, I don't

1068
00:53:11,920 --> 00:53:14,960
Speaker 1: think that's what Kenny Dillingham saying. What Kenny Dillingham's saying

1069
00:53:15,080 --> 00:53:18,400
Speaker 1: is I have worked my tail off and now I

1070
00:53:18,440 --> 00:53:21,680
Speaker 1: get to this point and I'm not the one complaining,

1071
00:53:21,920 --> 00:53:24,400
Speaker 1: And a bunch of y'all fools who are already financially

1072
00:53:24,440 --> 00:53:27,239
Speaker 1: set ten times over are the ones complaining. And you're

1073
00:53:27,280 --> 00:53:29,960
Speaker 1: not even doing it yourselves. You're getting mouthpieces in the

1074
00:53:30,000 --> 00:53:32,719
Speaker 1: media to do it. And I'm doing the same thing.

1075
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Speaker 1: I'm only echoing what a lot of these guys have

1076
00:53:35,000 --> 00:53:37,680
Speaker 1: told me. So in a sense, I'm a mouthpiece right

1077
00:53:37,719 --> 00:53:39,799
Speaker 1: now for coaches when I talk about this, because I'm

1078
00:53:39,840 --> 00:53:42,040
Speaker 1: sure not coaching a team. I'm just the chancellor at

1079
00:53:42,040 --> 00:53:44,040
Speaker 1: pay State. I don't coach the team day to day.

1080
00:53:44,680 --> 00:53:46,600
Speaker 1: So I think that rubs a lot of coaches the

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00:53:46,640 --> 00:53:48,560
Speaker 1: wrong way, and if it does, it does not the

1082
00:53:48,560 --> 00:53:50,440
Speaker 1: worst thing in the world for guys to.

1083
00:53:50,400 --> 00:53:52,520
Speaker 2: Disagree on things in this sport. It's not the worst

1084
00:53:52,520 --> 00:53:53,920
Speaker 2: thing in the world. Let's move on.

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00:53:55,320 --> 00:53:57,920
Speaker 1: This is a diverse rundown tonight. We got a lot

1086
00:53:57,960 --> 00:54:01,200
Speaker 1: of different angles we're going at. And I also want

1087
00:54:01,239 --> 00:54:02,719
Speaker 1: to take time to thank you for watching the show.

1088
00:54:02,719 --> 00:54:04,960
Speaker 1: If you're watching it, just subscribe to the channel. That's

1089
00:54:05,000 --> 00:54:05,520
Speaker 1: all we ask.

1090
00:54:06,880 --> 00:54:08,680
Speaker 2: You want to talk about some mystery teams.

1091
00:54:08,719 --> 00:54:10,160
Speaker 1: I threw four at you the other night, and I

1092
00:54:10,200 --> 00:54:13,120
Speaker 1: decided that's not nearly enough because we didn't talk about Miami,

1093
00:54:13,200 --> 00:54:16,200
Speaker 1: for example. Miami is a huge mystery team in twenty

1094
00:54:16,280 --> 00:54:18,879
Speaker 1: twenty four. Twenty twenty four has been the circle year

1095
00:54:18,880 --> 00:54:21,680
Speaker 1: for them down there. We were down their last spring

1096
00:54:22,080 --> 00:54:24,840
Speaker 1: and behind the scenes, I didn't necessarily articulate this at

1097
00:54:24,880 --> 00:54:27,400
Speaker 1: the time, but I will now. Behind the scenes, the

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00:54:27,400 --> 00:54:30,800
Speaker 1: coaches all told me the same thing. They said twenty

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00:54:30,880 --> 00:54:33,680
Speaker 1: twenty three, we will be better this year, and they were.

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00:54:34,440 --> 00:54:36,680
Speaker 1: But He's all of them said, twenty twenty four is

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00:54:36,719 --> 00:54:39,160
Speaker 1: the year where we really feel like it'll be our team.

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00:54:39,560 --> 00:54:42,400
Speaker 1: We feel good about twenty twenty four and moving forward.

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00:54:42,400 --> 00:54:42,840
Speaker 2: Well, okay.

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00:54:44,040 --> 00:54:46,360
Speaker 1: The reason I never have problem with that kind of

1105
00:54:46,440 --> 00:54:49,360
Speaker 1: talk as long as it's in the future tents is

1106
00:54:49,400 --> 00:54:52,759
Speaker 1: because that day will come eventually, So that time is

1107
00:54:52,800 --> 00:54:55,640
Speaker 1: now for Miami. The win totals at nine and a half.

1108
00:54:55,719 --> 00:54:58,959
Speaker 1: Odds makers believe in them. Talent acquisition has been there.

1109
00:54:59,280 --> 00:55:01,920
Speaker 1: There are good and football players on that team to

1110
00:55:02,040 --> 00:55:05,000
Speaker 1: compete in the ACC. This year they got cam Ward

1111
00:55:05,000 --> 00:55:09,000
Speaker 1: from the transfer Portal, the Washington State quarterback. You have

1112
00:55:09,120 --> 00:55:13,000
Speaker 1: the questions around Mario Christobaul, not about talent acquisition, but

1113
00:55:13,080 --> 00:55:15,640
Speaker 1: about winning ultimately on the field, and I don't have

1114
00:55:15,680 --> 00:55:18,279
Speaker 1: a problem with him only because he's got a chance

1115
00:55:18,320 --> 00:55:20,640
Speaker 1: to answer them on the field. This thought is not

1116
00:55:20,680 --> 00:55:24,200
Speaker 1: a hypothetical. In other words, Miami's a mystery team. Because

1117
00:55:24,200 --> 00:55:26,880
Speaker 1: of that, they went from five and seven to seven

1118
00:55:26,920 --> 00:55:30,880
Speaker 1: and six. Oddsmakers expect another jump this year. The mystery

1119
00:55:30,960 --> 00:55:34,280
Speaker 1: is will you get it next up Tennessee. I believe

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Speaker 1: in Josh Hipel. We are believers here in Josh Hipel,

1121
00:55:38,360 --> 00:55:40,799
Speaker 1: and he's got Niko iam alia Ave at quarterback this year.

1122
00:55:40,880 --> 00:55:43,960
Speaker 1: So I think the plan all along was knowing you

1123
00:55:44,000 --> 00:55:46,640
Speaker 1: had Nico coming in. Joe Milton will be a bridge

1124
00:55:46,760 --> 00:55:50,439
Speaker 1: quarterback to Nico Iamaliava. Well that's where we are right

1125
00:55:50,480 --> 00:55:52,880
Speaker 1: now in February. A spring ball is about to open.

1126
00:55:53,600 --> 00:55:56,560
Speaker 1: The total, the win total for Tennessee's been BET up

1127
00:55:56,600 --> 00:55:58,680
Speaker 1: to nine and a half. That's not where it opened.

1128
00:55:59,120 --> 00:56:02,359
Speaker 1: It's been BET up to nine and a half. They're

1129
00:56:02,360 --> 00:56:05,839
Speaker 1: losing a lot of production. That's the quote unquote bad news.

1130
00:56:06,000 --> 00:56:09,920
Speaker 1: They're ninety fourth and returning production this year. I really

1131
00:56:09,960 --> 00:56:12,279
Speaker 1: believe in Josh Haipel. I believe what he can end,

1132
00:56:12,280 --> 00:56:15,400
Speaker 1: what he can do with elite quarterback skill set, and

1133
00:56:15,440 --> 00:56:18,080
Speaker 1: I think he's got that there. And while Nico Iamliava

1134
00:56:18,080 --> 00:56:20,759
Speaker 1: maybe a first year starter this upcoming year, he's not

1135
00:56:20,760 --> 00:56:22,520
Speaker 1: a first year guy. He's been in the program a

1136
00:56:22,560 --> 00:56:26,360
Speaker 1: whole year. I got zero doubt whatsoever that coaching staff

1137
00:56:26,400 --> 00:56:29,360
Speaker 1: will maximize his potential. And I think they're going to

1138
00:56:29,400 --> 00:56:31,919
Speaker 1: be a contender this year. That's what I think the

1139
00:56:31,960 --> 00:56:36,000
Speaker 1: mystery is is the overall top to bottom talent roster

1140
00:56:36,080 --> 00:56:38,200
Speaker 1: is it ready for the grind that will be the

1141
00:56:38,239 --> 00:56:39,560
Speaker 1: SEC regular season.

1142
00:56:40,440 --> 00:56:41,160
Speaker 2: I think yes.

1143
00:56:41,600 --> 00:56:44,520
Speaker 1: They go back to back at Oklahoma at Arkansas and

1144
00:56:44,560 --> 00:56:47,920
Speaker 1: then Florida and Alabama early in the year, and there

1145
00:56:47,960 --> 00:56:48,800
Speaker 1: is a bye week.

1146
00:56:48,560 --> 00:56:50,279
Speaker 2: Mixed in there, but you'll know pretty quick.

1147
00:56:50,440 --> 00:56:55,919
Speaker 1: With Tennessee Virginia Tech, yes, yes, yes, yes, Virginia Tech

1148
00:56:56,600 --> 00:56:57,880
Speaker 1: feels like they're in ascension.

1149
00:56:57,920 --> 00:56:58,200
Speaker 2: Mode.

1150
00:56:58,440 --> 00:57:00,720
Speaker 1: Normally, I don't talk about ascension mode till post spring.

1151
00:57:01,600 --> 00:57:04,360
Speaker 1: But ascension mode is just that. It's like when you

1152
00:57:04,400 --> 00:57:07,600
Speaker 1: take off from the airport and you're climbing. Maybe some turbulence,

1153
00:57:07,640 --> 00:57:11,960
Speaker 1: maybe smooth, but you're climbing. Programs do that too, and

1154
00:57:12,000 --> 00:57:14,120
Speaker 1: it feels like Virginia Tech's doing that. They got an

1155
00:57:14,120 --> 00:57:15,960
Speaker 1: over under win total of seven and a half this year.

1156
00:57:16,600 --> 00:57:18,800
Speaker 1: Said that fast. They've got an over under win total

1157
00:57:18,840 --> 00:57:22,080
Speaker 1: of seven and a half games this year. They are

1158
00:57:22,200 --> 00:57:24,920
Speaker 1: number one in the country in returning production. Now, the

1159
00:57:24,960 --> 00:57:27,600
Speaker 1: old catch twenty two in college football has always been

1160
00:57:28,000 --> 00:57:29,720
Speaker 1: do you really want to have a lot of players

1161
00:57:29,720 --> 00:57:32,880
Speaker 1: coming back if they're coming back from a bad team. Well,

1162
00:57:33,400 --> 00:57:35,880
Speaker 1: in Virginia Tech's case, yes, because they weren't a bad

1163
00:57:35,920 --> 00:57:38,720
Speaker 1: team last year and they got better as the year

1164
00:57:38,760 --> 00:57:42,080
Speaker 1: went on. Love the energy around the program. Okay, so

1165
00:57:42,880 --> 00:57:47,760
Speaker 1: they're a mystery because you still have games against rosters

1166
00:57:47,760 --> 00:57:51,360
Speaker 1: that are better than you, and so you can question

1167
00:57:51,440 --> 00:57:54,400
Speaker 1: whether recruiting continues to uptick because they still have to

1168
00:57:54,400 --> 00:57:58,880
Speaker 1: get better there. And you can also question could they

1169
00:57:58,960 --> 00:58:01,000
Speaker 1: end up being like Texas So you know how everyone

1170
00:58:01,040 --> 00:58:03,480
Speaker 1: was high on Texas Tech last year and they stumbled

1171
00:58:03,480 --> 00:58:04,760
Speaker 1: a couple of times out of the gate, and then

1172
00:58:04,760 --> 00:58:07,600
Speaker 1: they're off everyone's radar. Well, Virginia Tech could be that

1173
00:58:07,720 --> 00:58:11,600
Speaker 1: this year, like they open at Vanderbilt. Most people will

1174
00:58:11,920 --> 00:58:13,920
Speaker 1: pencil that in as a win for Virginia Tech. But

1175
00:58:13,960 --> 00:58:16,040
Speaker 1: it's not a given. It's not a given they beat

1176
00:58:16,120 --> 00:58:18,960
Speaker 1: Marshall in week two or beat Rutgers in Week four.

1177
00:58:19,040 --> 00:58:21,360
Speaker 1: Rutgers very underrated team this year, and then they go

1178
00:58:21,400 --> 00:58:23,280
Speaker 1: to Miami. So my point is, what if they have

1179
00:58:23,320 --> 00:58:27,520
Speaker 1: two losses by the end of September. That's why they're

1180
00:58:27,560 --> 00:58:29,640
Speaker 1: a mystery team, because they could also win every one

1181
00:58:29,680 --> 00:58:32,320
Speaker 1: of those games and the Stanford game and the Boston

1182
00:58:32,320 --> 00:58:35,240
Speaker 1: College game, and you start to look, it's not a

1183
00:58:35,320 --> 00:58:38,360
Speaker 1: murderer's row, is it? In fact, they get all the

1184
00:58:38,400 --> 00:58:42,280
Speaker 1: way Jesse worked with me here, So one, two, three, four,

1185
00:58:42,640 --> 00:58:48,240
Speaker 1: Miami would be ranked I think Clemson in week nine

1186
00:58:48,360 --> 00:58:50,920
Speaker 1: or ten. It's a very workable schedule. It's what I'm

1187
00:58:50,920 --> 00:58:52,880
Speaker 1: saying now. I wish you could see on podcast what

1188
00:58:52,920 --> 00:58:55,600
Speaker 1: I'm seeing right now. They have not had a double

1189
00:58:55,640 --> 00:58:58,400
Speaker 1: digit win season since twenty sixteen, had had a Bowl

1190
00:58:58,440 --> 00:59:00,920
Speaker 1: win up until last year, since sixteen. So they can

1191
00:59:00,960 --> 00:59:02,800
Speaker 1: go ten and two this year they go six and

1192
00:59:02,880 --> 00:59:07,040
Speaker 1: six classic mystery team. Also Nebraska, because we now get

1193
00:59:07,080 --> 00:59:09,640
Speaker 1: to we now get to press the Matt rule.

1194
00:59:09,720 --> 00:59:10,240
Speaker 2: Year two.

1195
00:59:10,320 --> 00:59:15,840
Speaker 1: Button been very profitable in the past defensive s and

1196
00:59:15,880 --> 00:59:19,760
Speaker 1: p plus they are sixth in the country offensively, one

1197
00:59:19,800 --> 00:59:25,080
Speaker 1: hundred and fifteenth translation save us Dylan Dylan Ryola decommitted

1198
00:59:25,120 --> 00:59:29,040
Speaker 1: from Georgia went to Nebraska, five star quarterback. We'll probably,

1199
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Speaker 1: I guess start for them this year. Defense will be

1200
00:59:31,840 --> 00:59:34,200
Speaker 1: good like Tony White and company. Defense will be good,

1201
00:59:34,640 --> 00:59:38,200
Speaker 1: have no doubt about that. How good will their offensive be.

1202
00:59:38,240 --> 00:59:41,200
Speaker 1: It's like the LSU, but the opposite LSU last year.

1203
00:59:41,240 --> 00:59:43,280
Speaker 1: I just I wish you could be a top forty

1204
00:59:43,400 --> 00:59:48,120
Speaker 1: unit defensively well. Can Nebraska offensively climb out of the

1205
00:59:48,120 --> 00:59:52,480
Speaker 1: one hundreds into respectability because that quite literally will be

1206
00:59:52,560 --> 00:59:55,760
Speaker 1: the difference in all those one possession games one possession

1207
00:59:55,840 --> 00:59:58,919
Speaker 1: U that's what you can call Nebraska for several years now,

1208
01:00:00,280 --> 01:00:04,920
Speaker 1: chronic issue with them winning or not winning one possession games.

1209
01:00:05,200 --> 01:00:08,720
Speaker 1: So they're the same as VATEC got a whole lineup

1210
01:00:08,720 --> 01:00:13,880
Speaker 1: of games early in the year, UTEP, Colorado, Northern Iowa, Illinois, Perdue, Rutgers,

1211
01:00:13,920 --> 01:00:17,240
Speaker 1: Indiana up through the Ohio State game. You look at

1212
01:00:17,280 --> 01:00:18,800
Speaker 1: every one of those and say, boy, if we play

1213
01:00:18,840 --> 01:00:21,760
Speaker 1: our a game, we can win. He yeah, that's right,

1214
01:00:21,960 --> 01:00:24,040
Speaker 1: that's right. If you play your C plus game, you

1215
01:00:24,040 --> 01:00:26,600
Speaker 1: can lose many of them as well. That's a mystery team.

1216
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Speaker 1: Mystery abounds. College football what a great sport. Oh no,

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Speaker 1: I did it. I made the BHLS. If you know,

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Speaker 1: I gotta wipe myself clean of it. You just saw

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Speaker 1: a lot of odds there, and I've given you a

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Speaker 1: lot of odds.

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Speaker 2: And our buddies.

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Speaker 1: I know I made a swipe at college basketball earlier

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Speaker 1: in the show, but I also I know a lot

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Speaker 1: of you are glued on Saturday's college basketball and I

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Speaker 1: just want to let you know. Man, you look at

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Speaker 2: I am not making this up. Jesse knows this story.

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Speaker 1: I think I used to go hard on the so

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Speaker 2: I mean I was sick. I was a really really

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Speaker 1: An angle and I did you think you think the

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Speaker 1: But that's behind me.

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Speaker 2: All right, with.

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Speaker 1: Baited breath, a world awaits my thoughts on the following topic.

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Speaker 1: Hit me up and said, Hey, how strong of an

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Speaker 1: impact do you think that new college football video game

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Speaker 1: will have on this season and in the future? Very big,

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Speaker 1: very big. First off, hat tip to EA Sports. They

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Speaker 1: have brilliantly marketed this release. Great job they had. I

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Speaker 1: promotion and saying we're in the game. And several players

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Speaker 1: today I saw Travis Hunter, Quinn, you Wers, several players

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Speaker 1: confirming we're in the game. And then simultaneous to that,

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Speaker 1: like Rhees, Davis Kirkirve Street, a lot of the broadcasters tweeting.

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Speaker 2: We're in the game.

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Speaker 1: That stuff doesn't happen by accident. I know, you guys

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Speaker 1: sit out there and you think to yourself, caped duh.

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Speaker 1: I mean that's common sense.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it is.

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Speaker 1: In precious it's in It's a precious commodity. Let me

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Speaker 1: just say it that way. It's precious commodity. When you

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Speaker 1: have synergy and you have alignment in releasing anything. It's

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Speaker 1: a lot harder than it looks. Let me just put

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Speaker 1: it that way.

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Speaker 2: Immunity. So I think it's gonna have a very big impact.

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Speaker 1: It is hard to believe for people who don't play

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Speaker 1: video games, me included, I don't ever play them. It's

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Speaker 1: hard to believe for people who don't play video games,

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Speaker 1: or especially are more seasoned portions of the audience. It

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Speaker 1: may be hard for you to believe this, but it's true.

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Speaker 1: There is a vast swath of the younger generation who

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Speaker 1: comes in the front door of a sport by first

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Speaker 1: playing the video game. Soccer is majorly like this. I've

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01:05:08,440 --> 01:05:12,240
Speaker 1: got many of my personal friends who either still don't

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Speaker 1: watch soccer or only started watching soccer because they played

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Speaker 1: the FIFA game.

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Speaker 2: Like.

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Speaker 1: That's not me. I've never done that, but I know

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Speaker 1: a lot of people do that. You've got an entire

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Speaker 1: generation that has not had this video game for a decade,

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Speaker 1: and they're about to have it again. So I mean,

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Speaker 1: I know a lot of your lapsed gamers. And you'll

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Speaker 1: jump back in at age thirty four and your kids

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Speaker 1: won't see you for a month, and your life will

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Speaker 1: fall completely off the rails, but it'll be worth it

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Speaker 1: because you won a national championship with Maryland. But there

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Speaker 1: are also twelve year olds out there who have never

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Speaker 1: played this game in their lives, and all of a sudden,

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Speaker 1: they're about to fire it up and say, wow, this

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Speaker 1: is pretty incredible.

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Speaker 2: What's this game? College football?

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Speaker 1: That's the one where the guys I watch in the

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Speaker 1: NFL Draft, that's where they come from. Right, maybe I'll

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Speaker 1: give it a try, and then all of a sudden, boom,

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Speaker 1: Ohio State and Michigan they're glued to it. Here's what

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Speaker 1: I want to avoid. I went to producer Jesse for

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Speaker 1: guidance on this. Here's what I think we have to avoid.

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Speaker 1: We have to avoid a couple of things. One is inevitable,

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Speaker 1: one's unavoidable.

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Speaker 2: This is going to.

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Speaker 1: Lead to a massive uptick in questioning play calling. You

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Speaker 1: know it's coming. I know it's coming. People never stopped

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Speaker 1: questioning play calling, but for a little while when we

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Speaker 1: didn't have this game and you didn't have folks thinking

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Speaker 1: they're calling a game multiple times per day. I haven't

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Speaker 1: noticed as much questioning of play calling over the last

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Speaker 1: several years.

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Speaker 2: But I will promise you friends.

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Speaker 1: Once a dude runs half back direct fifteen times and

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Speaker 1: beats Michigan with it in a video game, he will

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Speaker 1: begin to question why Rutgers is not doing it in

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Speaker 1: real life, like Schiano's an idiot run HB direct. I

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Speaker 1: saw Will Stein talking about it at Oregon earlier today.

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Speaker 1: I used to run half back direct. I played the

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Speaker 1: five game with Reggie on the cover. I ran a

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Speaker 1: half back direct offense. Drove my friends up the wall.

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Speaker 1: They tried to outlawed. It's like playing with Vic on

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Speaker 1: the early editions of Madden. You shouldn't be allowed to

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Speaker 1: run half back direct because I can't defend it.

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Speaker 2: It sounds like a U problem, not a ME problem.

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Speaker 1: And so there will be mass questioning of play calling

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Speaker 1: from people who think playing a video game is tenamount

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Speaker 1: to calling plays in real life. It's the same folks

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Speaker 1: who think they'd be good in combat because they play

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Speaker 1: Call of Duty, same crew, same group. Secondly, here's what

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Speaker 1: I talked to Jesse about. We got to avoid what

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Speaker 1: I call the Fox BCS disaster, and that is where

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Speaker 1: Fox once upon a time got the rights to the

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Speaker 1: BCS for a few years, but they didn't change the

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Speaker 1: NFL themes. They just plugged college football names and graphics

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Speaker 1: into their NFL themes, so they kept the same scoreboard,

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Speaker 1: they kept the same music, and you were watching like

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Speaker 1: Oklahoma versus Florida and you might as well be watching

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Speaker 1: Chiefs Bucks And it was stupid. It didn't feel authentically

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Speaker 1: college football. Well, a lot of folks worried about that

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Speaker 1: with this college football game. How's the gameplay? Are you

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Speaker 1: using the Madden Engine? I'm talking about uff I know

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Speaker 1: nothing about right now, but don't worry because Jesse has

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Speaker 1: equipped me with this knowledge. And rumor on the street,

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Speaker 1: rumor on the gaming streets is there's a lot of

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Speaker 1: concern is it going to be authentically college football? And

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Speaker 1: an anxious gaming world awaits And I await you guys

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Speaker 1: to tell me, because I probably won't be there at

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Speaker 1: the sticks with you.

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Speaker 2: Having said that, when.

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Speaker 1: It comes time to create a team, anyone who's not

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Speaker 1: playing with Peyton State is no friend.

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Speaker 2: Of this program.

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Speaker 1: So yes, we have got a big summer ahead of us,

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Speaker 1: and productivity will grind to a hulk when this thing

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Speaker 1: comes out. And I'm all for it because at least

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Speaker 1: you're focused on the greatest game in the world.

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Speaker 2: One way or the other.

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Speaker 1: That's our show for tonight. We will be back at

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Speaker 1: the same time Sunday night. Until then for producer Jesse

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Speaker 1: For direct colin, I'm Josh Bate. Take care, have a

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