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Speaker 1: This is WSV the sOliver Bowls Friday News Broadcast. My

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Speaker 1: name is Ty Hildebrand. My co host is Dan Rubinstein.

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Speaker 1: Compete all season long against the entire verbaler hood for

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Speaker 1: a chance to sit on our Board of Trustees. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: The deadline to enter is this Saturday, September fourth, at

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Speaker 1: eleven fifty nine am Eastern Time before the first kickoff.

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Speaker 1: Get in now, it's a Pickham game. You pick ten

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Speaker 1: games a week. At the end of the year, we're

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Speaker 1: gonna pick the top five finishers and hand them seats

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Speaker 1: and are a vaunted board of trustees.

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Speaker 2: What does it mean? Unclear? Unclear. We are going to

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Speaker 2: be held to account by you, potential board of trustee member,

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Speaker 2: potential trustee, and there are weekly there's all sorts of

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Speaker 2: things happening. But it's going to be an incredible time

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Speaker 2: for you to compete against certified and premium verballers internationally. Right,

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Speaker 2: this is we're opening this up to international competition.

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Speaker 1: But at this hour. Three things to know, Dan, I'm

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Speaker 1: giving you a raise, Texas A and m has re

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Speaker 1: upped and recommitted to Jimbo Fisher, also player coach at

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Speaker 1: South Carolina, with Zeb Nolan going from graduate assistant to

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Speaker 1: now the starting quarterback of the Game Cocks, as well

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Speaker 1: as some other moves around college football. And finally, by

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Speaker 1: the numbers, we'll talk to Bill Connolly from ESPN dot com.

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Speaker 1: Bill c is on your side talking through the esp

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Speaker 1: plus and what's some key additions or subtractions from your

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Speaker 1: favorite college football teams might mean as we move forward

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Speaker 1: into this first full week of college football. But Dan,

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Speaker 1: we start at the top. Texas A and M has

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Speaker 1: re upped with Jimbo Fisher. They've extended his deal for

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Speaker 1: three additional years. This contract replaces the ten year, seventy

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Speaker 1: five million dollar contract he signed just a few short

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Speaker 1: years ago. This one is for a little bit more.

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Speaker 1: He'll be making on average about nine and a half

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Speaker 1: million dollars per season, so it's a full commitment to

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Speaker 1: Jimbo Fisher. They like where things stand under his tutelage.

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Speaker 1: Per our friends over at twenty four to seven sports,

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Speaker 1: Texas A and M has the eighth most talented roster

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Speaker 1: in all of America. Dan, good move bad move over

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Speaker 1: the top. Move for Texas. A and M. Where do

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Speaker 1: we stand on this?

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Speaker 2: Not my money, not my money, Do whatever you want

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Speaker 2: which is worth what somebody is willing to pay him

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Speaker 2: or her. So here my general thought is, we haven't

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Speaker 2: seen the fine print in this contract. And a lot

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Speaker 2: of times coaches will sign these extensions to guarantee a

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Speaker 2: raise for assistance or the assistant pool, or additions to

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Speaker 2: all of those things down on paper.

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Speaker 3: From A and M's.

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Speaker 2: Perspective, recruiting and winning and the general position of their program,

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Speaker 2: in large part due to the last couple of years

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Speaker 2: of Jimbo Fisher is in a great place. So I

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Speaker 2: don't fault somebody for being excited about their coach. It's

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Speaker 2: a much more justifiable extension given that A and M

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Speaker 2: was on the edge on the precipice of the college

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Speaker 2: a show of confidence. He was already making a ton

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Speaker 2: do need to sort of show recruits, show their families

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Speaker 2: the program, that it's ten years and what like ninety

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Speaker 2: that's pretty good NBA Center money. So I get it.

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Speaker 2: don't know that they were competing with anybody for Jimbo

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Speaker 2: It's show of confidence and it's not my money, so

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Speaker 1: Jimbo Fisher twenty six and ten in his short time

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Speaker 1: But I think a good move to retain his services,

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Speaker 2: And fascinating to see he will finally have his quarterback

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Speaker 2: name zeb can be short for Zebediah, Zebede or Zebulon.

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Speaker 1: I'm up here in the shopper Dan. Traffic already starting

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Speaker 1: Back to you in the studio, Dan, are you Are.

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Speaker 3: You dry where you are right there?

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Speaker 1: We're okay, We're okay. Yeah, we're good.

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Speaker 2: I think this is the point in which we say

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Speaker 2: it's time for Bill C on your side. We all

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Speaker 2: Bill Connolly is here because Bill C is on your side.

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Speaker 2: Bill CONNOLLYESPN dot Com, ESPN, just in general all over

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Speaker 3: Bill C. How you doing.

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Speaker 4: I'm pretty good. I'm ready. I've officially reached that mental state.

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Speaker 4: There a lot of things I'm not ready about over

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Speaker 3: I like it all right.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I wanted to go there next. Actually, Ucla, according

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Speaker 1: At time of recording. There have been some rumors that

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Speaker 1: perhaps Tyler Davis along that Clemson defensive line might be

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Speaker 1: out with COVID issues. Have not seen confirmation on that.

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Speaker 1: But I guess the two part question, First and foremost,

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Speaker 1: what does the sp plus see relative to that game?

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Speaker 1: Why does it like Clemson a little bit more? And secondly,

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Speaker 1: how much would the loss of a big player like

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Speaker 1: a Tyler Davis swing the outcome? Again per the sp

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Speaker 1: plus in either direction.

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Speaker 4: I mean, I can't even pretend to worry about the

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Speaker 4: Clemtant defensive line. I realized. I mean, he is one

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Speaker 4: of the more veteran players on that team. But they

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Speaker 4: just have, like of all the areas where you can

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Speaker 4: afford to lose a guy the Clemson defensive line is

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Speaker 4: pretty much said I think, so I'm not going to

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Speaker 4: take that too much into consideration. If I removed him

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Speaker 4: from the projections, it would maybe change the game by

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Speaker 4: like by point one or something like that. So I

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Speaker 4: think basically where Clemson has the advantage still on Georgia

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Speaker 4: is more than anything else, just recent offensive history. Right,

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Speaker 4: I'm looking at their projection like by unit that Clinston's

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Speaker 4: projected fifth on offense and fourth on defense. Georgia is

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Speaker 4: projected fifth on defense but sixteenth on offense. So, like

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Speaker 4: everything else, like every single piece I wrote this entire offseason,

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Speaker 4: it basically comes down to can you trust a four

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Speaker 4: game sample that we saw from J. T. Daniels last

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Speaker 4: year and if you can, and I mean Joe Burrow

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Speaker 4: hinted at what he was going to do in twenty nineteen,

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Speaker 4: he was phenomenal last four games in twenty eighteen, And

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Speaker 4: just like we were just discounted JK. Daniels numbers for

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Speaker 4: the fact that he only played really one good defense

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Speaker 4: in those four, Burrow only played one good defense in

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Speaker 4: those four as well, and it did end up being

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Speaker 4: kind of predictive sometimes it is, and obviously Daniels is

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Speaker 4: going to need healthy receivers to throw too. That seems

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Speaker 4: to be a little bit as you right now. But

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Speaker 4: if that was you know, what we saw from them

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Speaker 4: last year, being able to actually use the whole field

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Speaker 4: in the passing game. If that's real, then I mean

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Speaker 4: they could be artificially low and sp plus just because

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Speaker 4: it was such a small sample. So I am very

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Speaker 4: I'm excited that they're playing this game because I'm tired

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Speaker 4: of speculating about freaking Georgia. I've been doing it all

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Speaker 4: off season. I'm ready to find out if they're actually

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Speaker 4: going to be really good and they don't have to win,

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Speaker 4: but Clemson actually kind of needs to win this game

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Speaker 4: more I think. But you know, I'm just excited to find.

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Speaker 2: Out, as you sort of alluded to with Bryce Young that,

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Speaker 2: like you think he's eventually going to be really good,

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Speaker 2: he appears to be really good, but maybe he won't

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Speaker 2: be really good in his first start against.

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Speaker 3: What we believe to be at least a pretty good defense.

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Speaker 2: I'm curious if you have noticed anything early on in

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Speaker 2: seasons that certain sides of the ball, certain types of

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Speaker 2: plays is there anything that comes to define the first

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Speaker 2: couple weeks of a year before things sort of go

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Speaker 2: back to expectations or things become what they are. Is

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Speaker 2: there is there something weird about the first couple of

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Speaker 2: weeks that you're like, it's skewed with this, it's not

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Speaker 2: skewed with that kind of thing.

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Speaker 4: Well, I mean, if you think about things in terms

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Speaker 4: of a projection system, like as people us, I mean,

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Speaker 4: it's not going to know like within a three four

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Speaker 4: five games, we're gonna basically know what we need to know.

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Speaker 4: But right it's gonna be wrong out of the gates

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Speaker 4: about some teams. And you know, I just think back

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Speaker 4: to like J. T. Barrett Ohio State, his red shirt

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Speaker 4: freshman year where he had that horrific game against Virginia

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Speaker 4: Tech and then was fine, you know from that point

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Speaker 4: for already. But just you know, sometimes a new starter

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Speaker 4: gets fooled, gets overwhelmed, gets pressured. And I'm excited that

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Speaker 4: Alabama's playing Miami because I torch Miami for all we know,

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Speaker 4: But Miami's going to pressure him and hit him harder

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Speaker 4: and run after him harder than anybody else ever has

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Speaker 4: in a real live game before. And he's gonna have to.

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Speaker 4: We're going to find out exactly if he's got any flaws,

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Speaker 4: We're going to find out what they are. So it's

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Speaker 4: a good game for him in that regard. But I

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Speaker 4: do think, you know, I'm trying to will chaos to

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Speaker 4: happen this year. I'm ready for if not a two

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Speaker 4: thousand and seven, then at least like something like at

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Speaker 4: twenty thirteen or something, just because it'd be really super

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Speaker 4: fun to talk about again. But the fact that Ohio

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Speaker 4: State plays Minnesota and Oregon early, the fact that Alabama

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Speaker 4: plays Miami and Florida early, the fact that Comeston plays

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Speaker 4: like the Light plays Georgia right out of the gate. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: fun and could produce a couple of surprising results because

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Speaker 4: we assume over the course of a season Stroud and

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Speaker 4: young and are going to be awesome. It's just they

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Speaker 4: might not be quite as awesome right at the start.

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Speaker 2: You have an opportunity right now to plant your flag.

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Speaker 2: You are are deep in all of these teams, deep

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Speaker 2: in looking at how sp plus is looking at these

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Speaker 2: teams deep and seeing who teams do and don't have

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Speaker 2: with schedules, do and don't offer teams. So if you

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Speaker 2: have that opportunity right now, Bilsie on your side, final

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Speaker 2: question to plant your flag now and say this is

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Speaker 2: a talking point. This is a team, this is a

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Speaker 2: player that you might not be thinking about right now,

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Speaker 2: but come week eight or nine, you're gonna say, oh wow,

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Speaker 2: good for them.

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Speaker 4: Hmm man.

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Speaker 2: Like ties all in on NC stage. Why I don't know,

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Speaker 2: but like, is there is there that team? We're like, look,

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Speaker 2: the elements are there for them to have a not

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Speaker 2: out of nowhere, but like a really fun thing that

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Speaker 2: we're not anticipating right now.

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Speaker 4: I will say this. I wrote a piece earlier this

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Speaker 4: week about how to get the most out of the

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Speaker 4: college football season, how to enjoy it the most, and

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Speaker 4: part of that the one of the items on that

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Speaker 4: list was basically like follow the chaos teams. I was

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Speaker 4: talking about Arizona State as a chaos team. I basically

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Speaker 4: listed at like, here's my stab at who the chaos

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Speaker 4: teams might be, Arizona State, at Mississippi State. I think

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Speaker 4: Houston was on the list. Maryland. I didn't put a

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Speaker 4: whole miss on the list because I thought there was

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Speaker 4: a slight chance they might be too good to be

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Speaker 4: a chaos team, so maybe that's my answer. Maybe that

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Speaker 4: was kind of a subconscious thing, like maybe oh Miss

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Speaker 4: is actually going to be pretty not only fun. They're

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Speaker 4: definitely gonna be fun this year. Yeah yeah, But if

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Speaker 4: they have just a top fifty defense, am I not?

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Speaker 4: But if they do other than Alabama, Like what game

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Speaker 4: are they guaranteed to lose? They get A and M

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Speaker 4: at home, they get you know, Louisville is basically like

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Speaker 4: their mirror image in the ACC and so you know

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Speaker 4: they can probably handle that one. But there's not a

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Speaker 4: single like guaranteed loss besides the trip to Tuscaloosa on

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Speaker 4: the schedule.

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Speaker 2: Done all right, Bill c is on your side.

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Speaker 3: He is on Ole Miss society.

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Speaker 4: I didn't even know it until I was speaking.

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Speaker 2: Just now here we are we're talking things through. Please please,

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Speaker 2: Bill see on your side until next time.

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Speaker 4: Thank you.

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Speaker 1: In business, big news this week on the nil front.

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Speaker 1: Dan Quinn, yours oh stand out quarterback who decided to

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Speaker 1: reclassify so that he could get on campus sooner, the

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Speaker 1: incoming freshman for the Ohio State Buckeyes, has reportedly signed

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Speaker 1: a one point four million dollar deal with an autograph vendor. Dan,

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Speaker 1: that's a lot of cabbage for an incredible head of hair,

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Speaker 1: and Queen yours still going with the kind of frosted

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Speaker 1: tips slash mullet look which I approve of and enjoy.

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Speaker 1: The deal is with GT Sports Marketing, and it is

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Speaker 1: for a name, image and likeness deal. This is the

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Speaker 1: biggest deal that I've heard of, the biggest singular deal

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Speaker 1: that I've heard of. My guess is that it won't

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Speaker 1: be the last, but quin Yours was very much the

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Speaker 1: crown jewel of this past recruiting class, at least on

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Speaker 1: the quarterback side. Does this affect how you feel about

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Speaker 1: nil Dan? Does this affect anything whatsoever? Given the fact

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Speaker 1: that this kid is really just a backup at this

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Speaker 1: point in time.

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Speaker 2: I suspect this is not a deal in which he

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Speaker 2: has handed a novelty check for one point four million

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Speaker 2: dollars I suspect this is a deal that could be

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Speaker 2: worth up to one point four million dollars provided he

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Speaker 2: hit certain benchmarks, that he win the starting job at

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Speaker 2: Ohio State, that he excels, he's all Conference, he's all American,

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Speaker 2: he's Heisman caliber, like there is going to be I

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Speaker 2: imagine this is a deal that could be worth that

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Speaker 2: not novelty check for one point four but look, the

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Speaker 2: backup quarterback market is strong in Columbus, so there's that.

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Speaker 3: And he was signing deals.

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Speaker 2: He signed a deal with some sort of beverage company

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Speaker 2: doing commercials, but he signed a deal with beverage some

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Speaker 2: kind of iced tea or something beforehand. So cashing in

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Speaker 2: and big picture will be fascinating to see where he

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Speaker 2: does or doesn't end up, because I suspect he's not

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Speaker 2: going to be super keen on sitting for two or

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Speaker 2: more years. So if CJ. Stroud is not the answer,

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Speaker 2: it looks like quin you Wers could be. But that's

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Speaker 2: going to be a fascinating quarterback room. It's also a

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Speaker 2: bit of a risk totally for the group that is signing.

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Speaker 2: When you weres to this multi year potentially over a

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Speaker 2: million dollar deal could be a steal if he meets

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Speaker 2: expectations I suppose could.

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Speaker 1: Be a steal, could be a bust. We'll just have

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Speaker 1: to wait and see. But these are the types of

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Speaker 1: deals that I think are in effect testing the waters

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Speaker 1: for the NIL legislation. We still don't know where this

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Speaker 1: is going to go and how a big money deal

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Speaker 1: like this proves out in the long run for a

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Speaker 1: top flight talent like when yours, that I think is

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Speaker 1: going to help set some boundaries and set some ground

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Speaker 1: rules for how different entities play it moving forward. Fascinating

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Speaker 1: in the world of business. Totally elsewhere, Nebraska leaning on

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Speaker 1: donors to its sellout streak alive. Of course, Nebraska lost

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Speaker 1: to a game last week on the road against Illinois

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Speaker 1: by a thirty to twenty two score. Were tickets available

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Speaker 1: for this week's game against the Fordham Rams, New York's

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Speaker 1: one true team. Obviously, there is a streak has been

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Speaker 1: a streak of three hundred and seventy five consecutive sellouts

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Speaker 1: at Memorial Stadium, and that's a streak that they're very

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Speaker 1: proud of, which dates all the way back to nineteen

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Speaker 1: sixty two. Some donors with money decided that they wanted

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Speaker 1: to swoop in and get that number up to three

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Speaker 1: hundred and seventy six. The tickets that they are buying,

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Speaker 1: the freebies as they were, will be given out to

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Speaker 1: school age children and their families in a project called

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Speaker 1: the Red Carpet Experience DAN, which is actually a pretty

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Speaker 1: cool deal.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's not so bad. Nebraska did a better job

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Speaker 2: or whatever people reporting on this or you know, whatever

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Speaker 2: was the pr element to this, they did a better

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Speaker 2: job of like, yep, we're bringing in a bunch of

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Speaker 2: kids who otherwise wouldn't be going to games, rather than.

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Speaker 4: We need to keep the sellout streak alive.

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Speaker 1: It kind of undermines it, doesn't it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that is much cooler than the former part of

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Speaker 2: the story that the you know, kids are going to

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Speaker 2: see this game. Sell out streaks are something that I

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Speaker 2: can't imagine who that interests, but I apparently interest donors.

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Speaker 3: So a cool thing.

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Speaker 2: You see it across have seen it with the NBA,

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Speaker 2: you know, buying out large swaths of tickets, especially for

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Speaker 2: teams who aren't necessarily thriving, so that kids can go

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Speaker 2: see basketball game. So ultimately a cool thing.

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Speaker 1: Uh.

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Speaker 3: With a little bit of weird wrapping paper.

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Speaker 1: Nebraska will also provide a free hot dog popcorn Annesota

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Speaker 1: to those receiving Hell yeah tickets, So that's a pretty

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Speaker 1: good deal. They will give complimentary tickets out to any

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Speaker 1: students an eighth grade or younger and their parents for

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Speaker 1: the game against Fordham. Nebraska's athletic department has also acknowledged

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Speaker 1: that there are available tickets for some of the remaining homey.

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Speaker 2: Also a unique experience for these kids that they get

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Speaker 2: to see Nebraska likely win a football game that someday

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Speaker 2: they'll be able to tell their children, and they're great

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Speaker 2: and children yet that yes, they were in the stadium

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Speaker 2: for when the Huskers won a game.

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Speaker 1: Then, speaking on a more serious note, what's on the

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Speaker 1: DAN scanner at this hour?

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Speaker 2: I don't have any Dan scan about the Huskers, but

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Speaker 2: I do see that the SEC is taking a stance

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Speaker 2: against teams unable to field a team because of COVID

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Speaker 2: in that it's going to just end up in a forfeit.

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Speaker 2: And also the team who is able to field a

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Speaker 2: squad is going to be able to appeal to the

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Speaker 2: league if they suffer any sort of financial consequences because

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Speaker 2: of a game being forfeited and canceled. That the four

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Speaker 2: fit ters will have to play a part in reimbursing

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Speaker 2: the forfeitees if I'm using words correctly there. So that's

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Speaker 2: sort of been not the financial element everywhere, but that's

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Speaker 2: been the forfeitsure element has been pretty commonplace now in

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Speaker 2: the sport. As they look ahead, you know, if teams

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Speaker 2: are not able to meet protocols, so are not able

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Speaker 2: to minimums via protocols.

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Speaker 1: Teams have been forced into this box to some extent

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Speaker 1: by conferences. Now we saw the ACC. This is a

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Speaker 1: very similar policy to what the ACC had. There's now

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Speaker 1: such a thing as a double forfeiture where if neither

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Speaker 1: team can play, it goes as loss for both yep,

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Speaker 1: which is I think as ubiquitous as you can be

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Speaker 1: with the rule. You just make it as consistent as possible.

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Speaker 1: They've been very clear across the board that they don't

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Speaker 1: want there to be a similar situation as last year

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Speaker 1: where games are being canceled, and maybe last year, in

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Speaker 1: the height of things, they were willing to deal with

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Speaker 1: that as a conference. Those weird scheduling changes. I think

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Speaker 1: what conferences are saying now, the message that they are

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Speaker 1: sending that is no longer acceptable, that there is a

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Speaker 1: way that you can prevent against this from getting as

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Speaker 1: bad as did a year ago. And if you choose

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Speaker 1: as a team to not follow some of those precautions,

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Speaker 1: then it's on you love it or hate it. That's

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Speaker 1: just where we're at as a sport. Can ntinues on

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Speaker 1: now into twenty twenty one. We've talked all throughout this

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Speaker 1: episode about how the big money is essentially ruling the day.

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Speaker 1: So the SEC has followed suit with the ACC and

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Speaker 1: some others and they're just not going to take it.

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Speaker 1: They want to play football.

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Speaker 2: I can tell you this, It's not going to be

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Speaker 2: fun at the end of the year. If we are

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Speaker 2: comparing an eleven and one team to another eleven and

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Speaker 2: one team and that the first team lost a game

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Speaker 2: by fourteen and the second team went eleven and zero

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Speaker 2: on the field but has a forfeiture. Now do you

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Speaker 2: compare those two instances. I imagine that the committee is

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00:37:36,239 --> 00:37:39,640
Speaker 2: in at least internally if we're talking about a playoff situation,

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Speaker 2: is at least internally, or if you're looking at tie

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Speaker 2: breakers for conference championships and divisions whatever, Internally, there's going

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Speaker 2: to be some way to decide how they're going to

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00:37:51,840 --> 00:37:55,800
Speaker 2: weigh things like that, but there's not a clear right answer.

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Speaker 1: What else we got in the dance skin?

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Speaker 3: Otherwise?

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00:37:58,080 --> 00:38:01,400
Speaker 2: Loyal Crawford a running back out of Wisconsin. There's a

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Speaker 2: couple of different situations out of Wisconsin in the running

727
00:38:04,040 --> 00:38:06,439
Speaker 2: back room there. He has been dismissed from the team.

728
00:38:06,480 --> 00:38:09,200
Speaker 2: He brandished a knife during a dorm fight, which is

729
00:38:10,320 --> 00:38:13,440
Speaker 2: not great. Aggressive, not great. He was not the starter

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Speaker 2: or even the number two. It looks like that's Chez

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Speaker 2: mlucy and Jalen Berger. And speaking of running backs and

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Speaker 2: thinner rooms, Oklahoma is dealing with an extraordinarily thin running

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Speaker 2: back room now with Kennedy Brooks and Eric Gray the

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Speaker 2: two lone remaining guys in that room after guys have

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00:38:32,120 --> 00:38:35,239
Speaker 2: been dismissed, guys have transferred out. Now it's Trey Bradford,

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Speaker 2: the LSU transfer in is now back in the portal.

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Speaker 2: So two scholarship running backs. It appears at this time

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Speaker 2: on the Oklahoma roster heading into the air, which doesn't

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Speaker 2: seem like enough. And with that tie, what's the weather

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Speaker 2: looking live?

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Speaker 1: What a weekend for college football? Dan? Huh oh my god,

742
00:38:56,520 --> 00:39:02,439
Speaker 1: arnally ideal weather from seed to shining Sea. First big

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00:39:02,480 --> 00:39:06,279
Speaker 1: weekend of the season. Just a few patches of rain

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00:39:06,400 --> 00:39:08,960
Speaker 1: in the middle part of the country. Bring your sunscreen

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00:39:09,080 --> 00:39:10,919
Speaker 1: if you're gonna be out there at the Duke's Mayo

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Speaker 1: Classic in Charlotte. Dan boutiful sunshine eighty four degrees. If

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Speaker 1: you're gonna be tailgating outside that one, it will dip

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00:39:18,680 --> 00:39:22,960
Speaker 1: down into the low seventies. Nice comfortable weather for a

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Speaker 1: big game and for kickoff. Mostly clouding in the seventies

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00:39:26,760 --> 00:39:29,240
Speaker 1: up in Madison for the big matchup with Penn State.

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00:39:29,280 --> 00:39:33,840
Speaker 1: But nothing a few beers and brats can't cure ninety

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00:39:33,880 --> 00:39:36,120
Speaker 1: and sunny in the Pacific Northwest. The Ducks are gonna

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Speaker 1: kick it off against Fresno. It's hot for the Pacific Northwest,

754
00:39:39,800 --> 00:39:42,600
Speaker 1: but it's nothing for Fresno. They should be used to

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00:39:42,600 --> 00:39:44,720
Speaker 1: it by now. Their shoes were melting on the field

756
00:39:44,800 --> 00:39:48,239
Speaker 1: last week in one hundred and twenty degree heat for

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00:39:48,400 --> 00:39:51,920
Speaker 1: their big win over the Yukon Huskies. And finally, it's

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00:39:51,960 --> 00:39:55,759
Speaker 1: gonna feel like one oh nine for Steve Sarkusian's first

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00:39:55,760 --> 00:40:00,600
Speaker 1: game in Austin against Louisiana. But Dan, when you're coaching

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00:40:00,640 --> 00:40:02,879
Speaker 1: at Texas, you know you're always on the hot seat.

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Speaker 1: Back to you come of that shell. Good good tag there, Ty.

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Speaker 1: That's a pro move from you always on the hot seat. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's gonna do those some spicy temperatures. Eat anything in

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Speaker 1: Austin and you will be successful. It's a fantastic place

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Speaker 1: to eat if you're in Eugene, Oregon. I recommend the

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Speaker 1: glen Wood for an outstanding breakfast right next to campus.

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Speaker 3: Charlotte.

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Speaker 2: I've mentioned Futo Butta for ramen, but another I'd say underrated.

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Speaker 2: The more I investigate Charlotte, really good food options there.

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Speaker 2: Did you mention any other place so you mentioned?

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Speaker 1: No?

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Speaker 2: That was it Charlotte, Oh Madison find somewhere that serves

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Speaker 2: don't know.

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Speaker 3: Cheese, curds. It's always delicious.

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Speaker 1: That's it.

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Speaker 2: That's all I have food wise, in conjunction with your

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Speaker 2: rather report, and.

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Speaker 1: That does it for WSV News Radio. On this Friday,

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Speaker 1: September the third, the f's Friday before the first week

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Speaker 1: of college football action, Dan, we hope wherever this news

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Speaker 1: report finds you, that you're doing well, that you're ready

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Speaker 1: for this onslaught of college football that is in front

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Speaker 1: of us all Labor Day weekend long. Don't forget today's

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Speaker 1: is Saturday, September fourth, at eleven fifty nine am to

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Speaker 1: sign up Eastern, get your picks Eastern, Eastern, get those

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Speaker 1: picks in. Otherwise you're just going to have to wait

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Speaker 1: until next year, Dani, and you wouldn't want that now.

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Speaker 2: Basically, the minute before kickoff, that's when you got to

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Speaker 2: get your picks in by Saturday morning kickoff week one.

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Speaker 3: As you're listening to this, this is the only week

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Speaker 3: that matters.

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Speaker 2: Get him in playerundboard dot com.

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Speaker 1: For that guy over there, my good friend Dan Rubinstein,

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Speaker 1: for myself, Tie Hildenbrand. This has again been WSV News

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Speaker 1: you all in a few days in the meantimes day

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