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Speaker 1: The JP Pole returns tonight. Before the end of this broadcast,

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Speaker 1: over underwin totals. I'm going to make some people upset.

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Speaker 1: We got a couple of unders tonight, but that's the

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Speaker 1: price of doing business. Huge recruiting moves happening. I mean,

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Speaker 1: good day yesterday, I know that you can dress it

427
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Speaker 1: up and there were some positives to take away. This

428
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Speaker 1: was not a good scrimmage for Texas yesterday. Let me

429
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Speaker 1: start with the really really bad news out of Austin.

430
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Speaker 1: A couple of huge injuries. One along the offensive line,

431
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Speaker 1: Junior I always struggled with his last name, Junior Angulo.

432
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Speaker 1: There you go, interior offensive lineman reportedly out for the

433
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Speaker 1: year with a knee injury. Isaiah and Nayer, a very

434
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Speaker 1: high profile wide receiver transfer out for the year, reportedly

435
00:20:50,080 --> 00:20:54,480
Speaker 1: knee injury. Those both happened yesterday. Those are I'm not

436
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Speaker 1: going to say crippling blows. They are huge blows to

437
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Speaker 1: this offense. Those are especially offensive. Those are positions they

438
00:21:01,160 --> 00:21:03,879
Speaker 1: can't afford to be losing anyone at Rushawn Johnson got

439
00:21:03,960 --> 00:21:07,000
Speaker 1: hurt yesterday running back. Sounds like he'll be okay. So

440
00:21:08,440 --> 00:21:11,600
Speaker 1: that's the really really bad news. That wasn't the most

441
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Speaker 1: interesting piece of news from the actual scrimmage itself. The

442
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Speaker 1: most interesting piece of news is Hudson Card ran with

443
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Speaker 1: the ones at quarterback, and it was Hudson Card who

444
00:21:23,800 --> 00:21:27,520
Speaker 1: looked like the better player yesterday. Now, for those of

445
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Speaker 1: you who have kind of been checked out, I know

446
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Speaker 1: a lot of you are coming back to the watering

447
00:21:31,119 --> 00:21:33,960
Speaker 1: hole this time of year. The last thing you heard

448
00:21:34,600 --> 00:21:37,720
Speaker 1: was Quinn Eewers has transferred to Texas several months ago, right,

449
00:21:38,000 --> 00:21:41,639
Speaker 1: and you figured, like many of us, by this time,

450
00:21:42,280 --> 00:21:44,920
Speaker 1: that quarterback battle would have already been decided and Quinn

451
00:21:44,920 --> 00:21:47,040
Speaker 1: viewers would have it locked down and it would just

452
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Speaker 1: be a formality. I am being dead honest with you

453
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Speaker 1: when I say me too, I thought that's where we'd

454
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Speaker 1: be right now. We're not there. That doesn't mean we

455
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Speaker 1: won't eventually get there, but we're not there right now.

456
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Speaker 1: So it's one of those if they played game today

457
00:22:00,640 --> 00:22:03,240
Speaker 1: thinks if they played a game today when yours would

458
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Speaker 1: be holding the clipboard, did have a headset on on

459
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Speaker 1: the sideline, and that surprises me, doesn't shot me, It

460
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Speaker 1: surprises me. So even having said that about the quarterback position,

461
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Speaker 1: that is not the end of the story for Texas.

462
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Speaker 1: Whoever or Whompstabber is at quarterback, they are going to

463
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Speaker 1: be playing, in all likelihood behind an offensive line that

464
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Speaker 1: ends up featuring multiple true freshmen. Good true freshman Kelvin

465
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Speaker 1: Banks is a great It could end up being a

466
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Speaker 1: great player. I'm not gonna call a true freshman a

467
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Speaker 1: great player, but could end up being a great player.

468
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Speaker 1: It's just that you know, typically you have to take

469
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Speaker 1: some lumps when you're starting young guys on the offensive line,

470
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Speaker 1: especially multiple so that is part of the picture for

471
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Speaker 1: any quarterback they start there. The next thing to keep

472
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Speaker 1: in mind is the expectation level out there, which is

473
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Speaker 1: something we have to talk about with Texas. It was

474
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Speaker 1: assumed coming out of last year that all of this

475
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Speaker 1: was gonna fall into place. More the over underwind total,

476
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Speaker 1: there's nine, and they're one of the two or three

477
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Speaker 1: favorites to win the conference this year in terms of

478
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Speaker 1: odds right now. And there needed to be a culture change,

479
00:23:13,720 --> 00:23:15,360
Speaker 1: and there was, and we went and got a really

480
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Speaker 1: highly rated recruiting class, and we needed to and we did,

481
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Speaker 1: and we got some guys out of the portal. So

482
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Speaker 1: much of that was hinged and does still hinge on

483
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Speaker 1: the upside that is perceived to be quin yours and

484
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Speaker 1: what he brings you a quarterback, So I don't know

485
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Speaker 1: how much it sort of grabs the expectations by the

486
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Speaker 1: shoulders and proverbially shakes them back to a more grounded

487
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Speaker 1: reality if he's not the guy. But I'll tell you what,

488
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Speaker 1: I got a lot yesterday. I looked at the eye Josh,

489
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Speaker 1: maybe even up to an including right now. And I

490
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Speaker 1: had a lot of my Texas buddies saying, if Sark

491
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Speaker 1: starts Huts and Card, we're in trouble. If Sark starts

492
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Speaker 1: hutsing Card, this and that. If he starts huts and Card,

493
00:23:56,119 --> 00:23:58,440
Speaker 1: it means one thing and one thing only, Hudson Cars,

494
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Speaker 1: the best quarterback on the team, gives them best chance

495
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Speaker 1: to win the game. That's all it means. It's not Xbox,

496
00:24:03,359 --> 00:24:06,120
Speaker 1: it's not how that works. You don't take someone's recruiting

497
00:24:06,160 --> 00:24:10,080
Speaker 1: profile and have that start. The actual person has to start.

498
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Speaker 1: So I know this sounds like we're going overboard after

499
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Speaker 1: one scrimmage. It's a college football show. That's kind of

500
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Speaker 1: what we do. But I don't think we're going overboard

501
00:24:17,840 --> 00:24:21,119
Speaker 1: because I'm speaking hypothetically. But if Quinn Ewers does not

502
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Speaker 1: grab this thing, whose fault is that? It's not hudson

503
00:24:24,160 --> 00:24:28,479
Speaker 1: Cards faults, not Sark's fault, that's quinn yours. So you know,

504
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Speaker 1: I think for many reasons, those chief among them this

505
00:24:32,520 --> 00:24:35,240
Speaker 1: next scrimmage coming up. I think they have it next Saturday.

506
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Speaker 1: Whenever their next scrimmage is, it's going to be probably

507
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Speaker 1: more scrutinized and more watched than most of the Week

508
00:24:44,640 --> 00:24:48,960
Speaker 1: zero games will be watched, Like I truly believe, outside

509
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Speaker 1: of maybe Nebraska and Northwestern take these other Week zero games,

510
00:24:52,800 --> 00:24:55,520
Speaker 1: there'll be more attention on the Texas scrimmage the week

511
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Speaker 1: before those. And I don't think that's crazy to say.

512
00:25:00,240 --> 00:25:02,680
Speaker 1: I don't even think that speculation. That's just reality. Next up,

513
00:25:02,800 --> 00:25:05,879
Speaker 1: let's go to Tallahassee. They did not feel the need

514
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Speaker 1: to scrimmage j Jordan Travistown here at quarterback. Now, that

515
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Speaker 1: does not mean, or it should not be concluded from

516
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Speaker 1: that statement that well pencil him in for a trip

517
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Speaker 1: to New York City for the Heisman. Not that there

518
00:25:20,280 --> 00:25:23,640
Speaker 1: were well documented struggles in the FSU passing game last year.

519
00:25:24,200 --> 00:25:28,400
Speaker 1: They have not been rectified overnight. However, I think they

520
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Speaker 1: know what they have with Jordan Travis, and Mike Norvela

521
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Speaker 1: and his staff also know another thing about Jordan Travis,

522
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Speaker 1: and that is we need to mix and match a

523
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Speaker 1: lot along this offensive line. And they did that. I

524
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Speaker 1: think they scrimmaged today or yesterday, They scrimmage this weekend.

525
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Speaker 1: They did that. They don't need him playing behind that

526
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Speaker 1: because that is a recipe for a potential disaster. They

527
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Speaker 1: are comfortable with where he is. They need to figure

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Speaker 1: out the rest of the team. I think they've been

529
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Speaker 1: dealing with some injury concerns along the interior of their

530
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Speaker 1: offensive line. It doesn't exactly bode well. They've got Duquine

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Speaker 1: in Week zero. So this is a team that has

532
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Speaker 1: one of those games this next weekend, not the one

533
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Speaker 1: this coming weekend, but the next weekend, and then they

534
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Speaker 1: play LSU in the Superdome in Week one. Wide receiver

535
00:26:13,760 --> 00:26:16,359
Speaker 1: is an interesting position for Florida State. Wide receiver is

536
00:26:16,359 --> 00:26:18,760
Speaker 1: a position I would encourage you to pay close attention to.

537
00:26:18,760 --> 00:26:23,280
Speaker 1: If you're looking for any excuse to bet Florida State

538
00:26:23,400 --> 00:26:27,760
Speaker 1: against LSU and you're looking for matchups, one potential matchup

539
00:26:27,840 --> 00:26:31,639
Speaker 1: to keep in mind is they have incredible size at receiver.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it seems like they got an army full

541
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Speaker 1: of guys six three, six, four to sixty five. LSU meanwhile,

542
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Speaker 1: had to retool a lot of their secondary One of

543
00:26:40,240 --> 00:26:42,600
Speaker 1: the key takeaways from this Florida State scrimmage over the

544
00:26:42,600 --> 00:26:45,200
Speaker 1: weekend was, Wow, you know, there's a lot to be

545
00:26:45,320 --> 00:26:48,560
Speaker 1: desired along the offensive line, but our receivers are winning

546
00:26:48,640 --> 00:26:51,200
Speaker 1: a lot of contested fifty to fifty balls. They're turning

547
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Speaker 1: fifty fifties into seventy thirties. That's what Clemson used to do.

548
00:26:54,359 --> 00:26:55,919
Speaker 1: Clemson when they're at their best, that's what they do.

549
00:26:56,280 --> 00:26:58,480
Speaker 1: If Florida State can do that, if that's a hallmarker

550
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Speaker 1: trademark of their team and it's not just one random

551
00:27:00,960 --> 00:27:05,960
Speaker 1: throwaway scrimmage, who knows games turn on that kind of stuff.

552
00:27:05,680 --> 00:27:07,600
Speaker 1: You know, you've got a couple of third and longs

553
00:27:07,600 --> 00:27:10,359
Speaker 1: and you're able to just toss balls up, and you've

554
00:27:10,359 --> 00:27:13,400
Speaker 1: got receivers that can win those. Those are chain movers,

555
00:27:13,720 --> 00:27:16,919
Speaker 1: you know, those are drive extenders. Those end up with

556
00:27:17,040 --> 00:27:19,000
Speaker 1: a three or a seven on your side instead of

557
00:27:19,040 --> 00:27:21,720
Speaker 1: poor field position and the ball in the other team's hands.

558
00:27:21,720 --> 00:27:24,440
Speaker 1: So let's just keep that in mind as you're trying

559
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Speaker 1: to look for a potential matchup edge. Unless she is

560
00:27:26,960 --> 00:27:28,840
Speaker 1: going to be a short favorite in that game, So

561
00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:30,920
Speaker 1: let's keep that in mind. Also, I wanted to talk

562
00:27:30,960 --> 00:27:34,440
Speaker 1: about Notre Dame. They announced this weekend that Tyler Butner

563
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Speaker 1: will start at quarterback for him. It's not a big shot,

564
00:27:38,000 --> 00:27:40,200
Speaker 1: but there was bad news out of South Bend too.

565
00:27:40,960 --> 00:27:45,600
Speaker 1: This is really just sucked. So Avery Davis, who came

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Speaker 1: all the way back from an ACL injury on one knee,

567
00:27:49,200 --> 00:27:51,720
Speaker 1: tore his other ACL and his other knee, so he's

568
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Speaker 1: out for the year. I mean it was a gut punch.

569
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Speaker 1: You could tell by the way they speak about him

570
00:27:58,760 --> 00:28:01,680
Speaker 1: and spoke about him. It wasn't just an integral part

571
00:28:01,720 --> 00:28:04,440
Speaker 1: of their wide receiver depth. He's a locker room guy.

572
00:28:04,520 --> 00:28:06,960
Speaker 1: He's kind of a coach on the field, and I

573
00:28:06,960 --> 00:28:09,760
Speaker 1: mean to an extent. He can still serve in that capacity,

574
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Speaker 1: but it's different when you don't have him on the field.

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Speaker 1: There is one silver lining here and it's a guy

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Speaker 1: by the name of Joe Wilkins. Joe Wilkins had Liz

577
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Speaker 1: Frank surgery on his foot on April first. I think

578
00:28:23,600 --> 00:28:27,040
Speaker 1: normally when you hear Liz Frank, unless it's an aunt

579
00:28:27,080 --> 00:28:28,720
Speaker 1: of yours, she needs to change her name. If that

580
00:28:28,800 --> 00:28:31,360
Speaker 1: is her name, it normally means, even if I'm talking

581
00:28:31,400 --> 00:28:33,720
Speaker 1: about it in spring, you're very questionable to come back

582
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Speaker 1: this season at all. Well, Joe Wilkins has been sipping

583
00:28:37,720 --> 00:28:39,840
Speaker 1: on something different than the rest of us because he

584
00:28:40,040 --> 00:28:43,520
Speaker 1: is on pace to return wait for it, for the

585
00:28:43,560 --> 00:28:47,280
Speaker 1: Ohio State game, which is Week one. So they cut

586
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Speaker 1: his foot open in April and he probably good to

587
00:28:50,920 --> 00:28:52,440
Speaker 1: go by the time they headed the horse Shoe in

588
00:28:52,480 --> 00:28:55,000
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks. So that doesn't totally make up

589
00:28:55,040 --> 00:28:59,400
Speaker 1: for the loss of Davis. But man's that's unexpected. I

590
00:28:59,440 --> 00:29:01,920
Speaker 1: didn't I thought someone had it wrong when I saw

591
00:29:01,960 --> 00:29:04,160
Speaker 1: that headline, so I had to double and triple check

592
00:29:04,200 --> 00:29:06,719
Speaker 1: that one myself. So you see Notre Dame schedule there

593
00:29:06,760 --> 00:29:09,520
Speaker 1: they go to Ohio State, and then you know it's

594
00:29:10,680 --> 00:29:13,800
Speaker 1: it's an interesting time at Notre Dame. They're recruiting very well,

595
00:29:14,080 --> 00:29:16,920
Speaker 1: and they are almost these parallel universes to me as

596
00:29:16,960 --> 00:29:20,000
Speaker 1: an outsider looking at him. You got the recruiting universe,

597
00:29:20,360 --> 00:29:22,520
Speaker 1: where man, are they about to land a top five class?

598
00:29:22,680 --> 00:29:26,200
Speaker 1: Probably so? And then you've got the actual season and

599
00:29:26,240 --> 00:29:28,680
Speaker 1: they're over under I thinks at nine. So you know what,

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Speaker 1: if they win eight games, how am I supposed to

601
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Speaker 1: interpret that? If they win ten games, hallelujah. If they

602
00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:36,000
Speaker 1: win nine, great year. But it's just I kind of

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00:29:36,360 --> 00:29:39,960
Speaker 1: will observe them in a couple of different ways. That's

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Speaker 1: how I'll choose to watch Notre Dame this fall. You know,

605
00:29:43,760 --> 00:29:45,720
Speaker 1: to pop the paper there again, I don't mean to

606
00:29:45,720 --> 00:29:48,040
Speaker 1: pop the paper, so often Colin loves what it does

607
00:29:48,040 --> 00:29:51,160
Speaker 1: to the audio. But we've got to get serious here.

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Speaker 1: I've got something very serious to talk to you about,

609
00:29:53,760 --> 00:29:56,040
Speaker 1: and I appreciate you guys being tuned in. Hey, we're

610
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Speaker 1: almost at a thousand likes, so let's just go ahead

611
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Speaker 1: and push it over the clip and feel free not

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Speaker 1: to stop at a thousand, by the way, we just

613
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Speaker 1: want to get to at least a thousand. There is

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Speaker 1: some major momentum building for the recruiting efforts in twenty

615
00:30:11,520 --> 00:30:15,320
Speaker 1: twenty three of several programs, but there is none that

616
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Speaker 1: I need to speak to you about tonight more hastily

617
00:30:19,560 --> 00:30:24,040
Speaker 1: than Billy Napier, blue Chip Billy as he's known on

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Speaker 1: the streets and the University of Florida. Look at me, smile?

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00:30:29,640 --> 00:30:31,920
Speaker 1: Why am I smiling? Well, you know what I think.

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Speaker 1: It's been a great week for us, and by us,

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Speaker 1: I mean Florida and Lake Kit. Can you really get

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Speaker 1: one without the other. I want to take you back

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Speaker 1: to June twenty fifth. It's not that long ago. Right

624
00:30:42,600 --> 00:30:47,240
Speaker 1: June twenty fifth, things weren't going so great for Florida recruiting.

625
00:30:47,280 --> 00:30:51,440
Speaker 1: They had missed out on prospects, they were going nowhere fast,

626
00:30:51,440 --> 00:30:53,760
Speaker 1: it felt like. And so some of the intel that

627
00:30:53,840 --> 00:30:56,360
Speaker 1: I was getting I don't really care whether it was

628
00:30:56,400 --> 00:30:57,720
Speaker 1: true or not at this point, I'm going to take

629
00:30:57,720 --> 00:31:00,160
Speaker 1: credit anyway. Some of the intel that we were get

630
00:31:00,720 --> 00:31:03,560
Speaker 1: led me to believe that they needed to kick it

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00:31:03,600 --> 00:31:06,880
Speaker 1: into a different gear. On the nil front. I thought

632
00:31:06,920 --> 00:31:08,920
Speaker 1: that there were some mechanisms that needed to be in

633
00:31:08,960 --> 00:31:11,400
Speaker 1: place for Billy Napier behind the scenes that just weren't

634
00:31:11,440 --> 00:31:13,960
Speaker 1: exactly in place. There was some stuff written in pencil

635
00:31:14,280 --> 00:31:17,520
Speaker 1: that needed to be written in sharpy, and so I

636
00:31:17,760 --> 00:31:20,880
Speaker 1: decided to take a stand because that's just the kind

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Speaker 1: of guy I am, and that's just the kind of

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00:31:22,480 --> 00:31:25,280
Speaker 1: show we are. You see how bright and colorful the

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00:31:25,320 --> 00:31:27,240
Speaker 1: show is. But as you know, when we go back

640
00:31:27,240 --> 00:31:29,800
Speaker 1: in time, if you're watching on YouTube, things get really

641
00:31:29,840 --> 00:31:32,960
Speaker 1: gray and really hazy. But I need you to listen

642
00:31:33,000 --> 00:31:36,120
Speaker 1: to this forty or so seconds from June twenty fifth

643
00:31:36,200 --> 00:31:39,200
Speaker 1: roll at Colin And if you're not putting your coaching

644
00:31:39,240 --> 00:31:42,000
Speaker 1: staff in the best position to go out and acquire talent,

645
00:31:42,600 --> 00:31:44,160
Speaker 1: then you can either do one of two things. You

646
00:31:44,160 --> 00:31:48,160
Speaker 1: can either recalibrate your expectation level and lower it and say, good,

647
00:31:48,160 --> 00:31:50,680
Speaker 1: solid seven win season that's what we want, Billy, or

648
00:31:50,720 --> 00:31:52,760
Speaker 1: you can give him the resources he needs to go

649
00:31:52,760 --> 00:31:55,560
Speaker 1: out and compete, and right now he's never going to

650
00:31:55,600 --> 00:31:57,680
Speaker 1: come out publicly and say it. I don't think he's

651
00:31:57,760 --> 00:32:00,200
Speaker 1: operating on a level playing field with some of the

652
00:32:00,240 --> 00:32:02,560
Speaker 1: other staff you're asking them to compete against. I don't

653
00:32:02,560 --> 00:32:04,800
Speaker 1: think he's operating on a level playing field as Georgia.

654
00:32:05,080 --> 00:32:07,040
Speaker 1: I don't think he's operating on a level playing field

655
00:32:07,040 --> 00:32:10,000
Speaker 1: as Miami. And that's got to change. I think Florida

656
00:32:10,040 --> 00:32:11,360
Speaker 1: is gonna have to take one on the chin in

657
00:32:11,360 --> 00:32:13,760
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty three recruiting cycle. What are they doing

658
00:32:13,840 --> 00:32:16,520
Speaker 1: moving forward and what position is the staff put in

659
00:32:16,600 --> 00:32:22,360
Speaker 1: moving forward? I wanted to get a manneq in hand

660
00:32:22,680 --> 00:32:25,480
Speaker 1: from Party City downtown so I could pat myself on

661
00:32:25,480 --> 00:32:29,640
Speaker 1: the back because of me, really, let's be honest and

662
00:32:29,760 --> 00:32:32,440
Speaker 1: solely me, maybe a little bit of Katie Turner and

663
00:32:32,440 --> 00:32:34,320
Speaker 1: the folks behind the scenes down there at Florida too.

664
00:32:34,840 --> 00:32:37,640
Speaker 1: They have turned things around. I've got to post it

665
00:32:37,720 --> 00:32:41,880
Speaker 1: myham and it says since that day they have landed

666
00:32:41,960 --> 00:32:45,360
Speaker 1: fifteen four star commitments, They've got the number ten class

667
00:32:45,360 --> 00:32:49,240
Speaker 1: in the country. Kelby Collins top one hundred defensive lineman

668
00:32:49,280 --> 00:32:53,120
Speaker 1: who Alabama badly wanted from the state of Alabama, no less,

669
00:32:53,520 --> 00:32:56,440
Speaker 1: recently committed to Florida over this weekend. Actually will Norman

670
00:32:56,480 --> 00:32:59,000
Speaker 1: another top one hundred and fifty defensive lineman. They got

671
00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:02,840
Speaker 1: Cameron Jones our defensive linemen. They are on fire. I

672
00:33:03,000 --> 00:33:06,200
Speaker 1: never ever thought in my wildest dreams, I would see

673
00:33:06,240 --> 00:33:08,520
Speaker 1: them at any point in this cycle in the top ten.

674
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Speaker 1: And now not only are they at number ten, they're

675
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Speaker 1: looking to climb inside the top ten. And you want

676
00:33:14,720 --> 00:33:19,880
Speaker 1: to know another fascinating stat here, just fascinating stat As

677
00:33:19,920 --> 00:33:21,960
Speaker 1: we have spoken about you and I many times on

678
00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:24,840
Speaker 1: this show, I don't believe so much that you need

679
00:33:24,880 --> 00:33:28,959
Speaker 1: to reshape the college football playoff to get more competitive balance.

680
00:33:29,120 --> 00:33:31,560
Speaker 1: I am a believer that if someone would take hold

681
00:33:31,840 --> 00:33:34,680
Speaker 1: of recruiting the state of Florida in state, and ditto

682
00:33:34,760 --> 00:33:37,160
Speaker 1: for Texas and Dido for California, it would divide the

683
00:33:37,160 --> 00:33:39,520
Speaker 1: talent up a whole lot more, and it would therefore

684
00:33:40,800 --> 00:33:43,000
Speaker 1: divide maybe that competitive balance a little bit more in

685
00:33:43,000 --> 00:33:45,479
Speaker 1: the sport. Because Alabama's gotten fat on kids from Florida,

686
00:33:45,520 --> 00:33:47,480
Speaker 1: Ohio state, It's gotten fat on kids from Texas and

687
00:33:47,520 --> 00:33:51,160
Speaker 1: Florida that's where they've gotten fat. And that leads me

688
00:33:51,200 --> 00:33:55,200
Speaker 1: to this stat. Sixteen of twenty kids they have committed

689
00:33:55,240 --> 00:33:57,600
Speaker 1: right now are from the state of Florida. In stat,

690
00:33:57,960 --> 00:34:00,520
Speaker 1: good for BILLI Napier, good for his staff. If we

691
00:34:00,600 --> 00:34:03,760
Speaker 1: even played a modicum, just an ounce of a part

692
00:34:03,760 --> 00:34:06,640
Speaker 1: in that, then good for us too. Next up LSU

693
00:34:07,640 --> 00:34:10,560
Speaker 1: as highly as Florida's rated. Brian Kelly looks at him

694
00:34:10,600 --> 00:34:14,360
Speaker 1: and says, uh, cool, look at us up here. LSU's

695
00:34:14,440 --> 00:34:16,719
Speaker 1: rated number six right now. LSU's kind of on a

696
00:34:16,800 --> 00:34:19,319
Speaker 1: roll too. They landed several kids this past week. We

697
00:34:19,520 --> 00:34:22,319
Speaker 1: just spoke about him like three days ago, but they

698
00:34:22,440 --> 00:34:25,680
Speaker 1: landed Kylon Jackson, who's a four star defensive back. Since

699
00:34:25,719 --> 00:34:29,520
Speaker 1: the last time we spoke. And look at the SEC

700
00:34:29,680 --> 00:34:34,520
Speaker 1: recruiting rankings right now, LSU up there at third they

701
00:34:34,600 --> 00:34:39,040
Speaker 1: had I think since July fourth, they've had six Louisiana

702
00:34:39,120 --> 00:34:43,840
Speaker 1: kids commit. So I come to you tonight humbly but arrogantly,

703
00:34:44,400 --> 00:34:48,160
Speaker 1: and I ask you, is Brian Kelly fitting yet? Because

704
00:34:48,160 --> 00:34:50,120
Speaker 1: I don't have a good feel on this, because I

705
00:34:50,200 --> 00:34:51,759
Speaker 1: never ran my mouth about whether he was going to

706
00:34:51,800 --> 00:34:53,960
Speaker 1: fit down there. Is he fitting? Does he need to

707
00:34:54,000 --> 00:34:57,080
Speaker 1: be top five before we know that he fits, do

708
00:34:57,200 --> 00:35:00,640
Speaker 1: we need to see him on signing day land the

709
00:35:00,680 --> 00:35:04,920
Speaker 1: top five class before we know that his style works

710
00:35:04,960 --> 00:35:10,839
Speaker 1: in Louisiana. I will probably sometime in January run a

711
00:35:10,920 --> 00:35:15,440
Speaker 1: montage of all of the foolishness that we spoke about

712
00:35:15,440 --> 00:35:17,279
Speaker 1: at the time. We called it out at the time

713
00:35:17,719 --> 00:35:21,000
Speaker 1: about folks, you know, making fun of dance videos, making

714
00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:23,560
Speaker 1: fun of an accent, saying this is not gonna work

715
00:35:23,600 --> 00:35:28,720
Speaker 1: down here. Those people, predictably, I don't know what swamp

716
00:35:28,760 --> 00:35:31,440
Speaker 1: they got tossed into down there, but they have disappeared

717
00:35:32,360 --> 00:35:34,719
Speaker 1: as foolish people tend to do in and around the

718
00:35:34,719 --> 00:35:38,680
Speaker 1: state of Louisiana. I know, you know, let's move on

719
00:35:39,200 --> 00:35:42,760
Speaker 1: Penn State. They made a move here. The fighting producer Jesse's,

720
00:35:42,800 --> 00:35:46,000
Speaker 1: as expected, have landed Jackson Smollick. This is a kid

721
00:35:46,040 --> 00:35:48,160
Speaker 1: that we got to see up close at the Elite eleven.

722
00:35:48,280 --> 00:35:50,320
Speaker 1: It's an interesting story. I don't think a lot of

723
00:35:50,320 --> 00:35:52,920
Speaker 1: you know about him. He just decommitted from Tulane. He

724
00:35:52,960 --> 00:35:57,240
Speaker 1: has committed Penn State and he got a last minute

725
00:35:57,320 --> 00:36:00,279
Speaker 1: Elite eleven invite. We were out there and they were

726
00:36:00,280 --> 00:36:03,560
Speaker 1: bringing us all the kids, and they brought Jackson Smollick

727
00:36:04,160 --> 00:36:06,279
Speaker 1: and I didn't tell him at the time, but I'll

728
00:36:06,280 --> 00:36:08,480
Speaker 1: tell you now. I had to whisper in one of

729
00:36:08,480 --> 00:36:11,080
Speaker 1: our guys ear, hey, hey, get me a profile on him, please,

730
00:36:11,120 --> 00:36:13,160
Speaker 1: because I didn't have a profile on him, because I

731
00:36:13,200 --> 00:36:15,160
Speaker 1: think they had a spot to fill. So they called him.

732
00:36:15,160 --> 00:36:18,319
Speaker 1: He's from Iowa, and they got him out there last minute,

733
00:36:18,360 --> 00:36:20,400
Speaker 1: and he came out there. Man, he was so loose.

734
00:36:20,560 --> 00:36:22,480
Speaker 1: I don't think he had time to be nervous, and

735
00:36:22,520 --> 00:36:24,439
Speaker 1: he was ready to compete, and he held his own

736
00:36:24,880 --> 00:36:26,399
Speaker 1: I think as a result, you're probably going to see

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Speaker 1: his recruiting ranking climb a whole lot more than where

738
00:36:28,680 --> 00:36:31,040
Speaker 1: he is even right now. But he committed to Penn State.

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00:36:31,600 --> 00:36:33,120
Speaker 1: I think he's got, like I said, an excellent shot

740
00:36:33,120 --> 00:36:35,480
Speaker 1: to climb up in the rankings. Penn State is now

741
00:36:35,520 --> 00:36:39,080
Speaker 1: sitting at number eleven, so I think quietly that Penn

742
00:36:39,080 --> 00:36:42,399
Speaker 1: State class now sits just outside the top ten. Oklahoma,

743
00:36:42,600 --> 00:36:46,200
Speaker 1: we will probably never do a show again without talking

744
00:36:46,239 --> 00:36:50,560
Speaker 1: about at least one verbal commit for Oklahoma. Jacoby Johnson

745
00:36:50,719 --> 00:36:52,640
Speaker 1: is a really good player, and he's from a really

746
00:36:52,680 --> 00:36:56,879
Speaker 1: good city, Mustang, Oklahoma. Where else would you rather be from?

747
00:36:57,239 --> 00:36:59,319
Speaker 1: No one from California? Answer that, please? I don't want

748
00:36:59,320 --> 00:37:02,359
Speaker 1: to deal with that tonight. But four star athlete, six

749
00:37:02,520 --> 00:37:04,160
Speaker 1: three one eighty five. Do you know how many things

750
00:37:04,200 --> 00:37:06,520
Speaker 1: you can do in life if you're six three one

751
00:37:06,640 --> 00:37:09,000
Speaker 1: eighty five in high school? So he's got the world

752
00:37:09,080 --> 00:37:11,719
Speaker 1: at his fingertips. He's going to play for Brent Venables

753
00:37:11,719 --> 00:37:14,560
Speaker 1: in Oklahoma. I think he could play either way. I'm

754
00:37:14,560 --> 00:37:16,360
Speaker 1: not sure what they plan on doing with him, but

755
00:37:16,440 --> 00:37:19,000
Speaker 1: I think he could play either way. Oklahoma number seven

756
00:37:19,040 --> 00:37:21,960
Speaker 1: class in the country, got to cross that ninety two

757
00:37:22,000 --> 00:37:26,480
Speaker 1: average player threshold, so they're rolling. Ohio State just landed

758
00:37:26,480 --> 00:37:30,480
Speaker 1: a four star safety today, Jaden Banzu, one of my

759
00:37:30,520 --> 00:37:33,680
Speaker 1: more favored names in this recruiting cycle is from New Jersey.

760
00:37:33,880 --> 00:37:37,759
Speaker 1: Ohio State's always they've always recruited that entire I would

761
00:37:37,760 --> 00:37:40,359
Speaker 1: call it a corridor. Pretty well. New Jersey's been kind

762
00:37:40,360 --> 00:37:42,759
Speaker 1: to them. It's been kind of Michigan too, the entire

763
00:37:42,880 --> 00:37:46,200
Speaker 1: DMV area as well. I know folks in the northeast

764
00:37:46,239 --> 00:37:49,040
Speaker 1: love when you just group all that together. But I'm

765
00:37:49,040 --> 00:37:51,360
Speaker 1: from Columbus, Georgia. Man, what else am I supposed to do?

766
00:37:51,520 --> 00:37:53,120
Speaker 1: So we got a lot of movement. I know Clemson

767
00:37:53,160 --> 00:37:56,560
Speaker 1: made a move today. It was past it was past deadline.

768
00:37:56,600 --> 00:38:01,120
Speaker 1: It was past cutoff, so Florida, though, LSU, Penn State, Oklahoma,

769
00:38:01,120 --> 00:38:03,680
Speaker 1: a lot of big movers be paying attention to recruiting.

770
00:38:03,760 --> 00:38:06,759
Speaker 1: If you wait until December, it's already passed you by.

771
00:38:06,960 --> 00:38:09,120
Speaker 1: That's the new cycle. That is the way of the world. Now.

772
00:38:09,239 --> 00:38:12,560
Speaker 1: They're watching us tonight in East Lansing, Michigan. They're tuned

773
00:38:12,560 --> 00:38:16,239
Speaker 1: in Chatsworth, Georgia, and two below, Mississippi. You were all

774
00:38:16,239 --> 00:38:18,399
Speaker 1: tuned in. I thank you so much for that. This

775
00:38:18,520 --> 00:38:21,000
Speaker 1: is a monumental occurrence for US. It is a big

776
00:38:21,040 --> 00:38:24,600
Speaker 1: moment for us. At long last, and ahead of the

777
00:38:24,640 --> 00:38:28,279
Speaker 1: AP Pole, the JP Pole is back the JP Pole.

778
00:38:28,800 --> 00:38:31,960
Speaker 1: It's debut for twenty twenty two, our preseason edition. This

779
00:38:32,080 --> 00:38:34,440
Speaker 1: is the only one we'll put out until the season starts.

780
00:38:34,680 --> 00:38:37,919
Speaker 1: What is this? These are power ratings, That's what these are.

781
00:38:38,280 --> 00:38:41,800
Speaker 1: So this is what our model, our proprietary model, spits

782
00:38:41,840 --> 00:38:44,400
Speaker 1: out for us. I have it every day for me.

783
00:38:44,640 --> 00:38:48,640
Speaker 1: It ingests, real time injury updates. It's a lot of minutia.

784
00:38:48,880 --> 00:38:51,360
Speaker 1: You think you'd want to see it. In reality, it

785
00:38:51,360 --> 00:38:53,760
Speaker 1: would just give you a headache. But every so often

786
00:38:54,160 --> 00:38:57,239
Speaker 1: I'll hit boom crunch and it will spit out our

787
00:38:57,280 --> 00:39:00,719
Speaker 1: power ratings. Thus, the JP Pole peep pole does not

788
00:39:00,760 --> 00:39:03,279
Speaker 1: care about what your record is. It only cares about

789
00:39:03,320 --> 00:39:06,080
Speaker 1: who it would favor against who or hoops it would

790
00:39:06,080 --> 00:39:08,960
Speaker 1: favor against hoops on a neutral field tomorrow. That's all.

791
00:39:09,280 --> 00:39:10,800
Speaker 1: We don't run a sports book. I'm not going to

792
00:39:10,840 --> 00:39:13,000
Speaker 1: take any bets on this stuff, So don't get sarcastic

793
00:39:13,160 --> 00:39:15,799
Speaker 1: and ask me unless you're Brad Powers, in which case

794
00:39:15,840 --> 00:39:18,480
Speaker 1: I will take action from Bred. So with that in mind,

795
00:39:18,680 --> 00:39:20,400
Speaker 1: I'm not going to start at twenty five. I'm going

796
00:39:20,480 --> 00:39:22,160
Speaker 1: to start at the top, and I'm going to show

797
00:39:22,200 --> 00:39:24,640
Speaker 1: you what we have. And also, I think producer Jesse's

798
00:39:24,640 --> 00:39:26,759
Speaker 1: gotten a little fancy and so what he's going to

799
00:39:26,800 --> 00:39:28,160
Speaker 1: show you, or what I'm going to tell you if

800
00:39:28,160 --> 00:39:30,160
Speaker 1: you're listening on podcast is I'm going to show you

801
00:39:30,239 --> 00:39:34,279
Speaker 1: what we have teams rated. And then we did sort

802
00:39:34,280 --> 00:39:37,040
Speaker 1: of an aggregation of the entire industry. So we took

803
00:39:37,040 --> 00:39:39,239
Speaker 1: about five or six public polls out there. I think

804
00:39:39,239 --> 00:39:41,880
Speaker 1: we took the Coach's Poll, a couple of preview magazines,

805
00:39:41,880 --> 00:39:44,919
Speaker 1: we got Phil Steele in there, the CBS Top twenty five,

806
00:39:45,320 --> 00:39:47,239
Speaker 1: and we just combined them all to get a good

807
00:39:47,280 --> 00:39:50,920
Speaker 1: idea of what the average industry preseason ranking for a

808
00:39:50,920 --> 00:39:52,960
Speaker 1: team is. So we're not only going to look at

809
00:39:52,960 --> 00:39:56,279
Speaker 1: the JP pole. We'll know how high or how low

810
00:39:56,320 --> 00:39:59,520
Speaker 1: we are on teams relative to what the general public thinks,

811
00:39:59,560 --> 00:40:02,680
Speaker 1: not the cat usual public, but the general public. Let's

812
00:40:02,680 --> 00:40:04,279
Speaker 1: start at the top, because this is where the least

813
00:40:04,280 --> 00:40:07,680
Speaker 1: amount of drama is. Alabama We've got number one, as

814
00:40:07,719 --> 00:40:10,239
Speaker 1: does the rest of the industry. Ditto for Ohio State

815
00:40:10,239 --> 00:40:13,200
Speaker 1: at two, ditto for Georgia at three. Where we start

816
00:40:13,200 --> 00:40:16,080
Speaker 1: to differ a little bit. We're high on Michigan. Let

817
00:40:16,080 --> 00:40:18,520
Speaker 1: me ruin the ending for you there, really high on Michigan.

818
00:40:19,160 --> 00:40:23,800
Speaker 1: Our model would favor this Michigan team over last year's

819
00:40:23,800 --> 00:40:27,080
Speaker 1: Michigan team, even with a jabo and even with Hutchinson

820
00:40:27,120 --> 00:40:29,879
Speaker 1: lost to the NFL. We think they're a very, very

821
00:40:29,880 --> 00:40:32,040
Speaker 1: solid team. So we got them at four. The industry

822
00:40:32,040 --> 00:40:34,560
Speaker 1: would have them around six plumbs in at five. That's

823
00:40:34,560 --> 00:40:38,479
Speaker 1: about where the industry has them. Okay, now it's discrepancy time.

824
00:40:38,880 --> 00:40:41,000
Speaker 1: I'm going to make sure I screenshot a lot of this.

825
00:40:41,760 --> 00:40:43,680
Speaker 1: I know you will too, because one way or the other,

826
00:40:43,719 --> 00:40:45,160
Speaker 1: one of us is going to end up eating this.

827
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Speaker 1: Starting at number six. We got Texas A and M,

828
00:40:49,680 --> 00:40:52,799
Speaker 1: even though there's not wide discrepancy with Texas A and M.

829
00:40:52,880 --> 00:40:55,200
Speaker 1: The industry average for them at seven, so we're only

830
00:40:55,280 --> 00:40:57,880
Speaker 1: one higher. I'm going to get a lot of pushback

831
00:40:57,920 --> 00:41:00,080
Speaker 1: on that. I guarantee you I will get more push

832
00:41:00,120 --> 00:41:01,839
Speaker 1: back on that than a lot of these teams where

833
00:41:01,880 --> 00:41:05,600
Speaker 1: we have wider discrepancy. Oklahoma we've got seven, just ahead

834
00:41:05,640 --> 00:41:08,960
Speaker 1: of the industry average. Utah we've got number eight. That's

835
00:41:09,000 --> 00:41:11,799
Speaker 1: a little bit lower than the industry average. Not enough

836
00:41:11,800 --> 00:41:16,120
Speaker 1: to make a big deal about. Your podcast didn't cut off.

837
00:41:16,120 --> 00:41:18,200
Speaker 1: I'm just giving a little moment of silence here before

838
00:41:18,239 --> 00:41:21,040
Speaker 1: I talk about number nine. Our number nine team in

839
00:41:21,040 --> 00:41:24,719
Speaker 1: the country is the Arkansas Razorbacks. The industry disrespectfully has

840
00:41:24,760 --> 00:41:27,640
Speaker 1: them at twenty, egregiously has them at twenty. I would

841
00:41:27,760 --> 00:41:30,040
Speaker 1: argue to you if I did nothing more than put

842
00:41:30,080 --> 00:41:32,200
Speaker 1: them in the ACC where they had a lighter schedule

843
00:41:32,239 --> 00:41:36,560
Speaker 1: therefore had higher post season expectations, that be ranked higher. Well,

844
00:41:36,560 --> 00:41:38,279
Speaker 1: we don't care about that. I don't care if they

845
00:41:38,280 --> 00:41:41,040
Speaker 1: play in the NFC West. Their team is their team,

846
00:41:41,320 --> 00:41:44,840
Speaker 1: and their team's really good. I think also at wide

847
00:41:44,880 --> 00:41:50,080
Speaker 1: receiver stable is day by day rounding into even better

848
00:41:50,160 --> 00:41:54,200
Speaker 1: form than they thought they had in spring. Matt Landers

849
00:41:54,400 --> 00:41:56,759
Speaker 1: looks really good for Arkansas right now. They got a

850
00:41:56,760 --> 00:41:59,160
Speaker 1: couple other guys out there look really good. Jaydon Hazwood

851
00:41:59,320 --> 00:42:01,680
Speaker 1: really good as well. I think they're going to be

852
00:42:01,719 --> 00:42:03,840
Speaker 1: good this year. We think they're top ten good to

853
00:42:03,840 --> 00:42:06,560
Speaker 1: start the year. So Arkansas at nine, I do not want.

854
00:42:06,560 --> 00:42:08,879
Speaker 1: Here's what I don't want. I don't want fucks coming

855
00:42:08,920 --> 00:42:11,480
Speaker 1: back to me if they go nine and three or

856
00:42:11,520 --> 00:42:14,520
Speaker 1: even eight and four this year. Because if you'll notice,

857
00:42:14,560 --> 00:42:16,239
Speaker 1: several of the teams that are ahead of them are

858
00:42:16,280 --> 00:42:19,960
Speaker 1: also teams in their schedule. I'm not interested in someone saying, see,

859
00:42:20,000 --> 00:42:22,200
Speaker 1: there's proof you were wrong because they lost three games.

860
00:42:22,400 --> 00:42:24,399
Speaker 1: That has nothing to do with what we're talking about here.

861
00:42:24,480 --> 00:42:27,960
Speaker 1: We're power rating teams not based on schedule, but just

862
00:42:27,960 --> 00:42:31,839
Speaker 1: based on roster. Next up, Penn State also wide discrepancy here.

863
00:42:32,040 --> 00:42:35,400
Speaker 1: We've got Penn State at ten. The industry average is

864
00:42:35,520 --> 00:42:38,480
Speaker 1: twenty three. I think that may be the widest discrepancy

865
00:42:38,520 --> 00:42:41,760
Speaker 1: we had in terms of being higher rated than the industry.

866
00:42:41,840 --> 00:42:45,520
Speaker 1: So Arkansas and Penn State don't embarrass me this year.

867
00:42:45,640 --> 00:42:49,560
Speaker 1: Please don't embarrass me. Next up, number eleven, a little

868
00:42:49,560 --> 00:42:53,080
Speaker 1: bit higher on Wisconsin, as it turns out, and therefore

869
00:42:53,120 --> 00:42:56,120
Speaker 1: a lot of that smoke out of Madison right now

870
00:42:56,480 --> 00:42:59,319
Speaker 1: about how much better their passing game looks. Even though

871
00:42:59,360 --> 00:43:02,160
Speaker 1: I'm skeptical of our own model, and I'm skeptical a

872
00:43:02,200 --> 00:43:04,040
Speaker 1: lot of the a lot of the reporting out of

873
00:43:04,040 --> 00:43:07,760
Speaker 1: there right now, I hope selfishly that you're right, because

874
00:43:07,760 --> 00:43:11,080
Speaker 1: we got Wisconsin about what's six point eight spots higher,

875
00:43:11,160 --> 00:43:13,840
Speaker 1: about seven spots higher than the industry. We're higher on

876
00:43:14,000 --> 00:43:17,040
Speaker 1: Miami by several spots. We got them at twelve. The

877
00:43:17,080 --> 00:43:22,840
Speaker 1: industry has them around sixteen. Baylor, somehow, some way, I,

878
00:43:23,040 --> 00:43:26,759
Speaker 1: of all people, am slightly lower on Baylor or the

879
00:43:26,800 --> 00:43:29,239
Speaker 1: model is because when the model's wrong, it was the

880
00:43:29,239 --> 00:43:32,040
Speaker 1: model's fault. It's only on me when it's right. I

881
00:43:32,200 --> 00:43:34,640
Speaker 1: just want the credit. I don't want to blame. Baylor

882
00:43:34,680 --> 00:43:37,040
Speaker 1: is at thirteen, a little bit lower than the industry

883
00:43:37,080 --> 00:43:41,120
Speaker 1: has them. Notre Dame we've got so significantly different than

884
00:43:41,120 --> 00:43:43,919
Speaker 1: the industry. The industry has Notre Dame at number six

885
00:43:44,560 --> 00:43:46,759
Speaker 1: or thereabouts. We got them at fourteen, so we're a

886
00:43:46,800 --> 00:43:48,839
Speaker 1: little bit lower there. Still think they're a very good team.

887
00:43:49,320 --> 00:43:52,839
Speaker 1: It's just there's you know, I could say this about

888
00:43:52,880 --> 00:43:56,080
Speaker 1: Wisconsin too, though, So there's some elements that you probably

889
00:43:56,120 --> 00:43:58,160
Speaker 1: are going to need at quarterback where if you don't

890
00:43:58,200 --> 00:44:00,960
Speaker 1: have a quarterback, you're going to need an extremely strong

891
00:44:01,040 --> 00:44:03,200
Speaker 1: roster to crack that top ten and to be at

892
00:44:03,280 --> 00:44:06,200
Speaker 1: number six. You know, Texas A and M, for example,

893
00:44:06,520 --> 00:44:10,120
Speaker 1: does not have quarterback solved, but they got a really

894
00:44:10,160 --> 00:44:13,560
Speaker 1: strong roster, too strong for the model to ignore. Notre

895
00:44:13,680 --> 00:44:18,080
Speaker 1: Dame strong roster, not that level strong, and I don't

896
00:44:18,120 --> 00:44:21,160
Speaker 1: know that Tyler Buttner at quarterback. Plus the stable of

897
00:44:21,160 --> 00:44:24,600
Speaker 1: wide receivers they had, especially with the injury, lends itself

898
00:44:24,640 --> 00:44:27,200
Speaker 1: to us putting them in the top ten. Tennessee, we

899
00:44:27,239 --> 00:44:29,560
Speaker 1: are much higher on. And I got to tell you something.

900
00:44:29,560 --> 00:44:31,960
Speaker 1: There was a little manual adjustment today which I'm not

901
00:44:31,960 --> 00:44:34,000
Speaker 1: supposed to tell you about, but there was a manual

902
00:44:34,040 --> 00:44:38,440
Speaker 1: adjustment today. Tennessee's at fifteen, they were higher than that earlier. Today.

903
00:44:38,680 --> 00:44:41,040
Speaker 1: I did a little what I thought was necessary course correction,

904
00:44:41,520 --> 00:44:45,040
Speaker 1: and so Tennessee we are nine spots higher on than

905
00:44:45,080 --> 00:44:47,880
Speaker 1: the industry is. And that's even after I said, come

906
00:44:47,920 --> 00:44:49,640
Speaker 1: here to Tennessee, let me pull you back a little bit.

907
00:44:50,000 --> 00:44:54,280
Speaker 1: So the model is drunk on Tennessee next up sixteen

908
00:44:54,840 --> 00:44:59,120
Speaker 1: in c State. That's slightly lower than the industry, Oklahoma

909
00:44:59,160 --> 00:45:02,560
Speaker 1: State seven, slightly lower than the industry, both of them

910
00:45:02,560 --> 00:45:05,520
Speaker 1: by about four spots. Michigan State, we could not agree

911
00:45:05,680 --> 00:45:08,560
Speaker 1: more with the industry. We've got them at eighteen, just

912
00:45:08,640 --> 00:45:11,200
Speaker 1: like the industry does. USC were a little bit lower

913
00:45:11,239 --> 00:45:14,560
Speaker 1: on at nineteen. Industry average would be about fifteen. Hey,

914
00:45:14,680 --> 00:45:17,560
Speaker 1: check out number twenty. How about that? Out of nowhere?

915
00:45:17,640 --> 00:45:22,680
Speaker 1: Like sting from the rafters, Mississippi State is ranked excuse me, rated,

916
00:45:22,840 --> 00:45:26,040
Speaker 1: and Mississippi State is rated in DJP pole top twenty

917
00:45:27,200 --> 00:45:30,480
Speaker 1: ahead of Old Miss. Did anyone catch that? I was

918
00:45:30,520 --> 00:45:33,920
Speaker 1: surprised by it, but the model said, believe it, sir,

919
00:45:34,000 --> 00:45:36,480
Speaker 1: believe it now. For the record, I think Old Miss

920
00:45:36,600 --> 00:45:40,880
Speaker 1: is they're twenty first. So that's just I mean, they're

921
00:45:41,000 --> 00:45:45,240
Speaker 1: like fractions of points different. For the record, the gap

922
00:45:45,719 --> 00:45:49,000
Speaker 1: I'm not showing you the numbers, but the gap between

923
00:45:49,239 --> 00:45:54,640
Speaker 1: the number one and number three team so Bama and

924
00:45:55,080 --> 00:45:58,480
Speaker 1: Georgia is you know, four or five points six points

925
00:45:58,560 --> 00:46:03,959
Speaker 1: something like that. The gap between Georgia and I want

926
00:46:03,960 --> 00:46:07,560
Speaker 1: to say A and m Oklahoma somewhere around there is

927
00:46:08,000 --> 00:46:12,120
Speaker 1: a another good chunk, but the gap between like Utah

928
00:46:12,200 --> 00:46:15,840
Speaker 1: and Mississippi State is less than a touchdown. So there

929
00:46:15,880 --> 00:46:17,880
Speaker 1: are a couple of tiers that have set themselves up

930
00:46:17,880 --> 00:46:20,480
Speaker 1: here in our power ratings in the preseason. And I'm

931
00:46:20,480 --> 00:46:23,040
Speaker 1: telling you, once you get to seven, it does no

932
00:46:23,120 --> 00:46:25,759
Speaker 1: good to argue about this because I can't push back

933
00:46:25,800 --> 00:46:28,520
Speaker 1: on it very strongly because if you say that Oklahoma

934
00:46:28,560 --> 00:46:31,200
Speaker 1: shouldn't be seven, they should be ten, I'll say, Okay,

935
00:46:31,200 --> 00:46:34,920
Speaker 1: that's a difference in zero point six points, so like

936
00:46:35,120 --> 00:46:38,160
Speaker 1: six tenths of a point. Okay, great, make the change

937
00:46:38,239 --> 00:46:41,560
Speaker 1: manually if you want to. There are just percentage points

938
00:46:41,600 --> 00:46:45,560
Speaker 1: difference between that seven spot and that nineteen twenty spot.

939
00:46:45,920 --> 00:46:47,759
Speaker 1: So I did want to point these out though, because

940
00:46:47,760 --> 00:46:51,320
Speaker 1: there are some notable omissions. For example, the University of

941
00:46:51,360 --> 00:46:54,440
Speaker 1: Oregon model does not have them in the preseason top twenty.

942
00:46:54,760 --> 00:46:58,759
Speaker 1: The industry has them as the overall number eleven team

943
00:46:58,960 --> 00:47:02,839
Speaker 1: or thereabouts. Likewise, Wake Forest, we don't have them power

944
00:47:02,920 --> 00:47:06,200
Speaker 1: rated at all. The injury to quarterback Sam Hartman also

945
00:47:06,280 --> 00:47:08,000
Speaker 1: has a lot to do with that, but we would

946
00:47:08,000 --> 00:47:12,040
Speaker 1: have been lower on Wake either way. Cincinnati industry average

947
00:47:12,120 --> 00:47:15,680
Speaker 1: number twenty. We've got Cincinnati at twenty six in the

948
00:47:15,719 --> 00:47:19,200
Speaker 1: preseason Pitt. I'm going to talk about the Panthers more

949
00:47:19,200 --> 00:47:22,040
Speaker 1: in a little while. Industry average for Pitt is twenty.

950
00:47:22,520 --> 00:47:25,560
Speaker 1: We've got them at thirty two. So the model differs

951
00:47:25,640 --> 00:47:29,760
Speaker 1: strongly with the industry on Pitt. Texas not a huge difference.

952
00:47:29,800 --> 00:47:34,040
Speaker 1: Texas is averaging about a twenty two in ranking preseason

953
00:47:34,160 --> 00:47:37,120
Speaker 1: in the industry, we've got him at twenty four. Kentucky

954
00:47:37,480 --> 00:47:39,799
Speaker 1: average twenty three. We've got him at twenty two, so

955
00:47:39,800 --> 00:47:42,200
Speaker 1: we're pretty much arm in arm with the industry on

956
00:47:42,239 --> 00:47:45,560
Speaker 1: Kentucky and Ole Miss. The industry has him at twenty three.

957
00:47:45,560 --> 00:47:47,520
Speaker 1: We've got him at twenty one. So actually we've got

958
00:47:47,520 --> 00:47:50,160
Speaker 1: ole Miss rated higher. It's just that we've got Mississippi

959
00:47:50,160 --> 00:47:53,880
Speaker 1: State and no one had Mississippi State rated in the preseason,

960
00:47:53,960 --> 00:47:57,920
Speaker 1: so that's the big difference. Send all your hate mail

961
00:47:58,280 --> 00:48:01,440
Speaker 1: instead of to the office, to the comment section. You

962
00:48:01,520 --> 00:48:04,839
Speaker 1: say paper, and I can delete it if I don't

963
00:48:04,880 --> 00:48:07,120
Speaker 1: like it. That's really the beauty of the comment section.

964
00:48:07,320 --> 00:48:09,840
Speaker 1: Appreciate you guys being tuned in. Now I get to

965
00:48:09,880 --> 00:48:12,440
Speaker 1: go over to the live comment section and I get

966
00:48:12,480 --> 00:48:14,880
Speaker 1: to look at the dumbest word that is ever uttered

967
00:48:15,200 --> 00:48:18,720
Speaker 1: in power rating world, and that is disrespect. I don't

968
00:48:18,800 --> 00:48:21,960
Speaker 1: care about pretty much any of these teams. I didn't

969
00:48:22,000 --> 00:48:24,080
Speaker 1: go to any of these schools. I don't have family

970
00:48:24,120 --> 00:48:26,040
Speaker 1: at any of these schools. I don't well, I know

971
00:48:26,120 --> 00:48:28,360
Speaker 1: a lot of the players at a lot of the schools.

972
00:48:28,800 --> 00:48:33,840
Speaker 1: I just glanced over and saw BYU disrespect. Could anyone

973
00:48:33,880 --> 00:48:37,160
Speaker 1: this is a challenge, It's open ended. Could anyone, for

974
00:48:37,239 --> 00:48:42,040
Speaker 1: any reason find the slightest bit of evidence that some

975
00:48:42,160 --> 00:48:45,120
Speaker 1: kid who grew up in west central Georgia would have

976
00:48:45,239 --> 00:48:48,440
Speaker 1: it out for a team that is in provo Utah?

977
00:48:48,640 --> 00:48:51,440
Speaker 1: If anyone can present the evidence, I'm all ears. Do

978
00:48:51,520 --> 00:48:54,680
Speaker 1: I have trouble pronouncing the name? Sure I do, but

979
00:48:54,800 --> 00:48:58,040
Speaker 1: that does not equal bias. Friends, I'm halfway having fun

980
00:48:58,080 --> 00:49:00,360
Speaker 1: with you. But seriously, it's not disrespect. That's what the

981
00:49:00,360 --> 00:49:02,840
Speaker 1: model says. This model has been very profitable for us

982
00:49:02,880 --> 00:49:04,759
Speaker 1: in the past. I'm about to make you some more

983
00:49:04,800 --> 00:49:08,439
Speaker 1: money off of it in about two minutes. So I'm

984
00:49:08,520 --> 00:49:10,920
Speaker 1: here in December, It's what I'm saying. So we'll be

985
00:49:11,000 --> 00:49:12,840
Speaker 1: wrong about some of these teams. I'll be here to

986
00:49:12,880 --> 00:49:15,800
Speaker 1: eat it in December. The folks who claim disrespect and

987
00:49:15,880 --> 00:49:17,759
Speaker 1: hay and then you end up exactly right. They don't

988
00:49:17,840 --> 00:49:20,840
Speaker 1: show up in December. I've noticed that very few and

989
00:49:20,840 --> 00:49:22,200
Speaker 1: far between you are the folks who come to me

990
00:49:22,200 --> 00:49:24,239
Speaker 1: in December and say I called you an idiot and

991
00:49:24,280 --> 00:49:27,399
Speaker 1: said you disrespected me in August. Ah, you were right,

992
00:49:27,520 --> 00:49:30,759
Speaker 1: I was wrong. You know. That's the way it is

993
00:49:30,800 --> 00:49:34,919
Speaker 1: sometimes though. But I'm not here to just bring bad news.

994
00:49:34,960 --> 00:49:37,440
Speaker 1: I'm here to bring some good news. Here's your end, Colin.

995
00:49:38,400 --> 00:49:40,759
Speaker 1: The Rama Noodle Express is back tonight. I didn't want

996
00:49:40,760 --> 00:49:42,880
Speaker 1: to wait again until week zero. I think you and

997
00:49:42,920 --> 00:49:45,440
Speaker 1: I need to take another trip aboard the Rama Noodle Express.

998
00:49:45,680 --> 00:49:48,319
Speaker 1: These are our best bets. We're going to get four

999
00:49:48,360 --> 00:49:50,399
Speaker 1: more of them out tonight. For those of you aren't

1000
00:49:50,400 --> 00:49:52,759
Speaker 1: familiar with the Ramen Noodle Express, well, it's just that

1001
00:49:53,360 --> 00:49:55,160
Speaker 1: we do it weekly. So in the season, you'll be

1002
00:49:55,160 --> 00:49:58,040
Speaker 1: getting best bets weekly courtesy of the Rama Noudle Express.

1003
00:49:58,239 --> 00:49:59,839
Speaker 1: There's a reason why we call it this. I don't

1004
00:49:59,880 --> 00:50:01,880
Speaker 1: have time to get into it. The backstory has been

1005
00:50:01,920 --> 00:50:04,120
Speaker 1: told on the show before. I'll probably tell it again

1006
00:50:04,120 --> 00:50:08,640
Speaker 1: at some point. Follow it blindly and make money off

1007
00:50:08,680 --> 00:50:11,440
Speaker 1: of it. But follow it blindly or don't follow it

1008
00:50:11,480 --> 00:50:12,759
Speaker 1: at all. The last thing you want to do is

1009
00:50:12,840 --> 00:50:15,399
Speaker 1: cherry pick here. I've already given four best bets out,

1010
00:50:15,600 --> 00:50:17,719
Speaker 1: So if you didn't jump on these already, I can't

1011
00:50:17,719 --> 00:50:19,719
Speaker 1: promise you the numbers are still around. But we took

1012
00:50:19,760 --> 00:50:23,000
Speaker 1: West Virginia over five and a half wins, Iowa State

1013
00:50:23,080 --> 00:50:26,120
Speaker 1: over six and a half wins, Ole miss under seven

1014
00:50:26,200 --> 00:50:29,920
Speaker 1: and a half wins, and Auburn over six wins. That's

1015
00:50:29,960 --> 00:50:32,440
Speaker 1: what we have so far. Now that you've seen the

1016
00:50:32,520 --> 00:50:36,280
Speaker 1: japee pole and you see that we differ pretty significantly

1017
00:50:36,320 --> 00:50:39,279
Speaker 1: with the public and the overall industry average rankings. In

1018
00:50:39,320 --> 00:50:41,680
Speaker 1: some cases you get a pretty good idea of where

1019
00:50:41,680 --> 00:50:44,040
Speaker 1: I'm about to head, But I guarantee you don't know

1020
00:50:44,080 --> 00:50:46,640
Speaker 1: where I'm going to start. I am starting at the

1021
00:50:46,719 --> 00:50:53,279
Speaker 1: University of Arizona. That's where we're going. Jedfish shockingly still

1022
00:50:53,320 --> 00:50:55,360
Speaker 1: has his team with a number of two and a

1023
00:50:55,440 --> 00:50:57,640
Speaker 1: half hanging out there. Now I know the over is

1024
00:50:57,680 --> 00:51:00,000
Speaker 1: heavily juiced. I thought this thing would have hit three.

1025
00:51:00,200 --> 00:51:02,640
Speaker 1: Now you may ask yourself, Josh, what do you know

1026
00:51:02,719 --> 00:51:06,120
Speaker 1: about Arizona? Well, probably more than you unless you're actually

1027
00:51:06,120 --> 00:51:09,680
Speaker 1: out in Arizona. But I kid you not this number shit.

1028
00:51:10,160 --> 00:51:11,799
Speaker 1: We think we've got it at three point nine. I

1029
00:51:11,800 --> 00:51:14,040
Speaker 1: think that's what our model has Arizona at, which is

1030
00:51:14,080 --> 00:51:17,680
Speaker 1: a huge discrepancy. It's a number I should have moved

1031
00:51:17,680 --> 00:51:21,560
Speaker 1: on earlier, but I had my attention shifted further east,

1032
00:51:21,800 --> 00:51:23,920
Speaker 1: so I thought the time had passed for us to

1033
00:51:23,920 --> 00:51:26,640
Speaker 1: get this Arizona number. We are taking over two and

1034
00:51:26,680 --> 00:51:29,600
Speaker 1: a half, to be clear, Arizona over two and a half.

1035
00:51:30,120 --> 00:51:32,600
Speaker 1: Stunned it still there, happy to take it even with

1036
00:51:32,680 --> 00:51:35,040
Speaker 1: the decrease in value because of the increase in juice.

1037
00:51:35,360 --> 00:51:38,479
Speaker 1: Jaden DeLaura is the quarterback there. Now. I know most

1038
00:51:38,480 --> 00:51:40,520
Speaker 1: of you who bet on this stuff know that, but

1039
00:51:40,640 --> 00:51:43,200
Speaker 1: I need you to understand how big a disaster the

1040
00:51:43,239 --> 00:51:45,440
Speaker 1: Arizona quarterback room was last year. They played like four

1041
00:51:45,520 --> 00:51:50,120
Speaker 1: or five different guys. They They stand a chance to

1042
00:51:50,200 --> 00:51:53,040
Speaker 1: be one of the most improved teams at multiple areas,

1043
00:51:53,120 --> 00:51:55,719
Speaker 1: multiple facets as any team in America this year. We

1044
00:51:55,800 --> 00:51:58,120
Speaker 1: will not talk about them a lot because they probably

1045
00:51:58,120 --> 00:52:00,399
Speaker 1: still won't make a bowl game and they just won't

1046
00:52:00,400 --> 00:52:04,960
Speaker 1: be on the national radar. But I big time love

1047
00:52:05,000 --> 00:52:07,640
Speaker 1: the over with Arizona at two and a half. If

1048
00:52:07,680 --> 00:52:10,839
Speaker 1: you pop a three out there, I probably love over

1049
00:52:10,880 --> 00:52:13,080
Speaker 1: three even more because I think they're gonna win four games,

1050
00:52:13,400 --> 00:52:17,080
Speaker 1: and you'll probably get better moneyline value there, but definitely

1051
00:52:17,080 --> 00:52:19,040
Speaker 1: Arizona over two and a half. That's what Caesars has

1052
00:52:19,120 --> 00:52:20,879
Speaker 1: right now, So that's what we have to roll with.

1053
00:52:21,160 --> 00:52:24,600
Speaker 1: Next up. This number is out there still Texas, we're

1054
00:52:24,600 --> 00:52:28,520
Speaker 1: taking the under at nine. I planned on doing this already.

1055
00:52:29,239 --> 00:52:31,640
Speaker 1: I know we lost some value because I saw this

1056
00:52:31,719 --> 00:52:35,160
Speaker 1: move a little bit. Even today, the juice heavily towards

1057
00:52:35,200 --> 00:52:39,359
Speaker 1: the under NOWT minus one forty five. With the injuries yesterday, yes,

1058
00:52:39,480 --> 00:52:41,560
Speaker 1: that probably I don't want to I want to say

1059
00:52:41,600 --> 00:52:45,520
Speaker 1: this delicately because you never get happy over injury. It

1060
00:52:45,680 --> 00:52:48,880
Speaker 1: bolsters my feel on where I'm gonna go here, But

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00:52:48,960 --> 00:52:52,520
Speaker 1: really I was already gonna go there if if they

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00:52:52,560 --> 00:52:54,560
Speaker 1: are to be a nine plus win team, it is

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00:52:54,640 --> 00:52:57,319
Speaker 1: my belief Quinn Ewers is their quarterback. If that's not

1064
00:52:57,480 --> 00:53:00,360
Speaker 1: panning out, and especially if you lose a guy like

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00:53:00,400 --> 00:53:03,480
Speaker 1: Isaiah and Nayer at that wide receiver position, and we've

1066
00:53:03,520 --> 00:53:06,960
Speaker 1: got injury concerns already along the offensive line, and I

1067
00:53:07,000 --> 00:53:09,280
Speaker 1: don't know if I'm going to improve that pass rush dramatically.

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00:53:09,320 --> 00:53:12,280
Speaker 1: There's just too much uncertainty for me to be latching

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00:53:12,320 --> 00:53:17,040
Speaker 1: onto nine, that that's a little bit too lofty. And

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00:53:17,120 --> 00:53:19,600
Speaker 1: also when I know that you've got Bama out of

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00:53:19,640 --> 00:53:24,120
Speaker 1: conference and then you've got the wild West perception of

1072
00:53:24,160 --> 00:53:27,440
Speaker 1: the Big twelve, anybody can literally win in that conference

1073
00:53:27,480 --> 00:53:31,439
Speaker 1: any given week, literally anybody. I got to go under nine.

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00:53:31,640 --> 00:53:34,680
Speaker 1: So we're going under nine with Texas, and we are

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00:53:35,000 --> 00:53:39,839
Speaker 1: moving on to happier phrasing here, namely an over Arkansas's

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00:53:39,880 --> 00:53:43,520
Speaker 1: at seven. Arkansas's over under win total is seven. This

1077
00:53:43,680 --> 00:53:46,319
Speaker 1: is very basic, very straightforward. If I'm telling you, I

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00:53:46,360 --> 00:53:50,000
Speaker 1: got Arkansas power rated inside my top ten and they're

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00:53:50,040 --> 00:53:52,960
Speaker 1: over underwent total is seven. And I know that that

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00:53:53,080 --> 00:53:56,800
Speaker 1: is due in some part to the overall industry perception

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00:53:56,880 --> 00:53:59,719
Speaker 1: of them being ranked around twenty. This is just a

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00:53:59,760 --> 00:54:04,720
Speaker 1: tre ratings situation. They play an extremely tough schedule. That's fine.

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00:54:05,000 --> 00:54:07,120
Speaker 1: The over under seven's not eight and a half or nine.

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00:54:07,280 --> 00:54:09,800
Speaker 1: So we're going to take the over on Arkansas. I

1085
00:54:09,880 --> 00:54:11,960
Speaker 1: want to again, I didn't do a great big breakdown

1086
00:54:11,960 --> 00:54:16,040
Speaker 1: of Arkansas. Arkansas had a scrimmage yesterday too, and Arkansas,

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00:54:16,280 --> 00:54:18,719
Speaker 1: I think you're going to be pleasantly surprised with what

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00:54:18,840 --> 00:54:23,160
Speaker 1: they have at receiver, especially you know, I think there

1089
00:54:23,200 --> 00:54:26,160
Speaker 1: are some guys who have come in there, and as

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00:54:26,160 --> 00:54:29,840
Speaker 1: a group, I think it's shifted. Sam Pittman said this yesterday.

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00:54:29,840 --> 00:54:33,080
Speaker 1: Actually it is shifted from a position of I wonder

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00:54:33,080 --> 00:54:35,480
Speaker 1: if that's going to pan out to This is one

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00:54:35,480 --> 00:54:37,480
Speaker 1: of the strengths of this team, and I think that's

1094
00:54:37,520 --> 00:54:40,640
Speaker 1: been a little unexpected there. So I already know what

1095
00:54:40,680 --> 00:54:42,799
Speaker 1: I've got on the ground with them. It may be

1096
00:54:42,840 --> 00:54:44,279
Speaker 1: one of, if not the best ground games in the

1097
00:54:44,280 --> 00:54:47,239
Speaker 1: country again this year. But I think that they are

1098
00:54:47,280 --> 00:54:51,160
Speaker 1: going to be right where they were last year, if

1099
00:54:51,160 --> 00:54:52,919
Speaker 1: not a better team. I think they're a better team

1100
00:54:53,160 --> 00:54:55,960
Speaker 1: than they were last year. It's a tough schedule. It's

1101
00:54:56,000 --> 00:54:58,359
Speaker 1: a tough schedule. That's why the total is solow. We're

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00:54:58,360 --> 00:55:01,520
Speaker 1: going to trust our ratings here, so over seven the

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00:55:01,600 --> 00:55:04,000
Speaker 1: last one I want to hand out Tonight, we're going

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00:55:04,040 --> 00:55:07,280
Speaker 1: to the ACC. I'm going under eight and a half

1105
00:55:07,360 --> 00:55:09,919
Speaker 1: with pitt I think this number is about a half

1106
00:55:09,920 --> 00:55:12,799
Speaker 1: a game too high. This is slightly juiced towards the under,

1107
00:55:13,200 --> 00:55:15,879
Speaker 1: but we're gonna trust our ratings again here. I think

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00:55:15,920 --> 00:55:19,319
Speaker 1: the industry, what was it, Jesse, The industry had pit Oh,

1109
00:55:19,360 --> 00:55:23,760
Speaker 1: I got it right here. Industry has pit around twenty.

1110
00:55:23,800 --> 00:55:26,960
Speaker 1: We've got them in the thirties, so we're off pretty

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00:55:26,960 --> 00:55:29,759
Speaker 1: big time. We just trust our ratings. So the under

1112
00:55:29,800 --> 00:55:32,319
Speaker 1: eight and a half also has to take into consideration.

1113
00:55:32,680 --> 00:55:34,880
Speaker 1: They are a couple of tough out of conference games here.

1114
00:55:34,920 --> 00:55:37,160
Speaker 1: They play West Virginia to start the year, they play

1115
00:55:37,239 --> 00:55:40,719
Speaker 1: Tennessee and so it's not the easiest slate there. There

1116
00:55:40,719 --> 00:55:45,080
Speaker 1: are not four gimme games. And also I look at

1117
00:55:45,120 --> 00:55:48,400
Speaker 1: their schedule and I look at you know, going to Louisville.

1118
00:55:48,440 --> 00:55:50,920
Speaker 1: We think Louisville's an underrated team. By the way, almost

1119
00:55:50,960 --> 00:55:53,160
Speaker 1: moved on them. May end up betting them week one

1120
00:55:53,520 --> 00:55:55,719
Speaker 1: at North Carolina at Virginia. I know a lot of

1121
00:55:55,760 --> 00:55:57,799
Speaker 1: these games you look at individually and you say pitch

1122
00:55:57,800 --> 00:56:01,360
Speaker 1: should win, that pitch should win, that this is not

1123
00:56:01,480 --> 00:56:04,920
Speaker 1: a team where you just watch a first round caliber

1124
00:56:05,000 --> 00:56:07,680
Speaker 1: quarterback leave and you say, oh, that's all right, though

1125
00:56:08,000 --> 00:56:10,759
Speaker 1: that team is bigger than any one in person. Well

1126
00:56:10,800 --> 00:56:13,320
Speaker 1: yeah they are. I'm just telling you that impact is

1127
00:56:13,360 --> 00:56:17,000
Speaker 1: disproportionate on rosters where they never recruit top twenty classes.

1128
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Speaker 1: So I'm gonna trust our ratings. There's no more breakdown

1129
00:56:21,360 --> 00:56:22,759
Speaker 1: that needs to be given than that this is all

1130
00:56:22,840 --> 00:56:25,600
Speaker 1: numbers anyway, I'm really filibustering a little bit more than

1131
00:56:25,640 --> 00:56:28,399
Speaker 1: I should. Our number says take the under, So we're

1132
00:56:28,400 --> 00:56:32,680
Speaker 1: gonna take the under because I trust our model. Last up,

1133
00:56:34,200 --> 00:56:39,960
Speaker 1: I questioned what you got, Collin? Okay, Oh yeah, you

1134
00:56:40,000 --> 00:56:42,160
Speaker 1: know what Colin said. No, you're not moving on yet. Okay.

1135
00:56:42,200 --> 00:56:44,839
Speaker 1: So here's our recap, especially for those of you listening

1136
00:56:44,920 --> 00:56:48,759
Speaker 1: on pod as I told you, Arizona over to Arkansas

1137
00:56:48,920 --> 00:56:53,480
Speaker 1: over seven, Auburn over six, Iowa State over six and

1138
00:56:53,520 --> 00:56:56,280
Speaker 1: a half. Those are the overs, along with West Virginia

1139
00:56:56,360 --> 00:56:58,200
Speaker 1: over five and a half. And then now we've got

1140
00:56:58,200 --> 00:57:00,600
Speaker 1: three unders, Ole miss unders set one and a half,

1141
00:57:00,719 --> 00:57:04,000
Speaker 1: pit under eight and a half, and Texas under nine. Colin,

1142
00:57:04,040 --> 00:57:06,880
Speaker 1: we're done now, and we're done. Okay, we can move

1143
00:57:06,880 --> 00:57:09,000
Speaker 1: on now. So I did not know if I was

1144
00:57:09,040 --> 00:57:10,680
Speaker 1: going to touch on this. I was gonna wait to

1145
00:57:10,719 --> 00:57:12,920
Speaker 1: see if one of you asked about it, and one

1146
00:57:12,960 --> 00:57:15,040
Speaker 1: of you asked about it till we're going to touch

1147
00:57:15,040 --> 00:57:18,440
Speaker 1: on it. Do you know what it is? Quickly? No? No?

1148
00:57:18,680 --> 00:57:22,800
Speaker 1: All right. So a lot of excitement around Kentucky right

1149
00:57:22,840 --> 00:57:27,640
Speaker 1: now because well they're the second favorite in the East.

1150
00:57:28,120 --> 00:57:31,600
Speaker 1: But I want to get to Kirsten's question. Kirsten asked,

1151
00:57:31,680 --> 00:57:34,680
Speaker 1: if I have any thoughts on John Calipari and Mark

1152
00:57:34,720 --> 00:57:37,919
Speaker 1: Stoop's going at each other. I got thoughts on it. Yeah.

1153
00:57:38,160 --> 00:57:39,560
Speaker 1: I was gonna wait to see if anyone brought it

1154
00:57:39,640 --> 00:57:41,800
Speaker 1: up because I normally don't traffic in this sort of thing,

1155
00:57:41,800 --> 00:57:43,919
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna be responsible with what I say right now.

1156
00:57:44,320 --> 00:57:47,720
Speaker 1: But what's happened here For those of you unfamiliar, John

1157
00:57:47,800 --> 00:57:51,080
Speaker 1: Calipari made some statements. He's trying to get funding for

1158
00:57:51,120 --> 00:57:54,120
Speaker 1: facilities up there, and he talked about he went public

1159
00:57:54,160 --> 00:57:56,120
Speaker 1: with an interview and said, this is a basketball school.

1160
00:57:56,200 --> 00:57:58,040
Speaker 1: You know Bama, Georgia, those football schools, this is a

1161
00:57:58,040 --> 00:58:03,080
Speaker 1: basketball school. Well, Mark Stoops, yeah, yeah. He took umbradge

1162
00:58:03,200 --> 00:58:05,120
Speaker 1: with that, as me Mal would say. And here's what

1163
00:58:05,160 --> 00:58:07,240
Speaker 1: Mark Stoops said. He went on Twitter first and he

1164
00:58:07,280 --> 00:58:10,200
Speaker 1: said basketball school. I thought we competed in the SEC

1165
00:58:10,360 --> 00:58:13,520
Speaker 1: hashtag four straight postseason wins. Well, he was not done.

1166
00:58:14,000 --> 00:58:16,320
Speaker 1: He was not done. This was at his press conference.

1167
00:58:16,440 --> 00:58:20,040
Speaker 1: This was the thirteenth, so yesterday he said, quote some

1168
00:58:20,120 --> 00:58:23,480
Speaker 1: may but this program did not wake up on third base.

1169
00:58:23,800 --> 00:58:26,000
Speaker 1: That's in defense of my players, in defense of the

1170
00:58:26,040 --> 00:58:29,919
Speaker 1: work that we've done. Mark Stoops did not have any

1171
00:58:29,960 --> 00:58:32,320
Speaker 1: time to be told that he coaches football at a

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00:58:32,320 --> 00:58:36,000
Speaker 1: basketball school. I think you saw everything you need to

1173
00:58:36,000 --> 00:58:39,200
Speaker 1: see about Mark Stoops in those couple of quotes and

1174
00:58:39,280 --> 00:58:43,640
Speaker 1: graphics there. I could not care less about the soap

1175
00:58:43,680 --> 00:58:47,040
Speaker 1: opera drama aspect of this. They'll hug and make up

1176
00:58:47,120 --> 00:58:49,120
Speaker 1: and they'll be fine in a couple of days. What

1177
00:58:49,200 --> 00:58:51,959
Speaker 1: I care about is why it was even a big deal.

1178
00:58:52,320 --> 00:58:54,960
Speaker 1: This would never have been a big deal before John Calipari.

1179
00:58:55,080 --> 00:58:58,360
Speaker 1: What he said has been reality at Kentucky for decades

1180
00:58:58,480 --> 00:59:00,800
Speaker 1: and decades and decades. He could have said that in

1181
00:59:00,840 --> 00:59:03,080
Speaker 1: any other era and no one would have bad at

1182
00:59:03,120 --> 00:59:07,120
Speaker 1: an eye. The fact that it can have exception taken

1183
00:59:07,160 --> 00:59:09,120
Speaker 1: to it now tells you everything you need to know

1184
00:59:09,120 --> 00:59:12,360
Speaker 1: about Mark Stoops. He's not confrontational. Mark Stoops is a

1185
00:59:12,400 --> 00:59:16,120
Speaker 1: guy who is fiercely loyal as he appears to be.

1186
00:59:16,360 --> 00:59:18,760
Speaker 1: He is a guy who's very territorial. He doesn't get

1187
00:59:18,760 --> 00:59:21,000
Speaker 1: out of his lane, but if you kind of come

1188
00:59:21,040 --> 00:59:23,360
Speaker 1: over into his yard, he's going to tell you get

1189
00:59:23,400 --> 00:59:25,160
Speaker 1: out of here, or at very least you better have

1190
00:59:25,160 --> 00:59:28,320
Speaker 1: a good reason for being here. He is also he's

1191
00:59:28,440 --> 00:59:31,160
Speaker 1: dead on the money because of what he's saying. There

1192
00:59:31,680 --> 00:59:34,280
Speaker 1: is hold on a second, now, hold on, it has

1193
00:59:34,360 --> 00:59:36,600
Speaker 1: been and it still has a basketball school. Kentucky's more

1194
00:59:36,640 --> 00:59:39,920
Speaker 1: known for basketball always will be. So Cal's not wrong.

1195
00:59:40,040 --> 00:59:42,320
Speaker 1: Neither of them are wrong. Cal saying what he needs

1196
00:59:42,360 --> 00:59:45,919
Speaker 1: to do to get facilities that he wants. But Mark

1197
00:59:45,920 --> 00:59:48,760
Speaker 1: Stoops has made this relevant. He's actually made it a

1198
00:59:48,760 --> 00:59:53,240
Speaker 1: conversation because Kentucky football is actually known now. Kentucky football

1199
00:59:53,320 --> 00:59:56,760
Speaker 1: is expected to do more in Vegas Odds terminology this

1200
00:59:56,880 --> 00:59:59,720
Speaker 1: year than the University of Florida is and University of

1201
00:59:59,760 --> 01:00:02,880
Speaker 1: ten He is in the University of South Carolina, and

1202
01:00:02,960 --> 01:00:07,000
Speaker 1: so that is where Kentucky football is now. And that's

1203
01:00:07,040 --> 01:00:09,320
Speaker 1: everything you need to know about Mark Stoops. He's done

1204
01:00:09,400 --> 01:00:12,360
Speaker 1: one of the quietest great jobs in all of college football.

1205
01:00:12,560 --> 01:00:15,000
Speaker 1: He's got one of the quietest great jobs in all

1206
01:00:15,040 --> 01:00:17,680
Speaker 1: of college football. I have had more than one person

1207
01:00:18,040 --> 01:00:21,920
Speaker 1: on the representation side of the fence who you know,

1208
01:00:22,200 --> 01:00:24,560
Speaker 1: represent a lot of these big coaches. They'll tell you

1209
01:00:24,640 --> 01:00:27,640
Speaker 1: right up front. Stoops has got the best job because

1210
01:00:27,640 --> 01:00:30,960
Speaker 1: he gets SEC money, He's got a completely realistic fan

1211
01:00:31,000 --> 01:00:33,880
Speaker 1: base up there, got a great quality of life. He's

1212
01:00:33,920 --> 01:00:37,200
Speaker 1: able to fulfill some of his off field passions too.

1213
01:00:37,320 --> 01:00:39,560
Speaker 1: You know, people aren't breathing down his neck eight days

1214
01:00:39,600 --> 01:00:41,840
Speaker 1: a week and asking why you didn't go forward on

1215
01:00:41,920 --> 01:00:44,520
Speaker 1: fourth and two against Louisville a couple of weeks ago.

1216
01:00:45,120 --> 01:00:49,000
Speaker 1: And yet still he's delivering very process oriented everything about

1217
01:00:49,080 --> 01:00:51,680
Speaker 1: Kentucky is you know what's right about college football too.

1218
01:00:51,720 --> 01:00:55,400
Speaker 1: It's a great program to watch, but I've watched it

1219
01:00:55,400 --> 01:00:58,280
Speaker 1: from afar. I'm commented on it publicly. I don't think

1220
01:00:58,280 --> 01:01:01,280
Speaker 1: anyone's wrong. Cal's staying probably what needs to be said

1221
01:01:01,360 --> 01:01:04,120
Speaker 1: up there. He's saying what he feels, and Mark Stoops

1222
01:01:04,160 --> 01:01:06,600
Speaker 1: is saying exactly what the head football coach, who has

1223
01:01:06,600 --> 01:01:10,320
Speaker 1: been more successful than anyone before him, should be saying

1224
01:01:10,480 --> 01:01:13,120
Speaker 1: about his program, especially when big things are expected of

1225
01:01:13,160 --> 01:01:16,360
Speaker 1: them this year. Oh here's another hunch. I think that

1226
01:01:16,440 --> 01:01:20,360
Speaker 1: probably went over pretty darn well in the Kentucky locker room.

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